I've been a nurse for more than twenty years, and have cared for patients in settings from the hospital to the home. Though it certainly isn't easy to help patients manage chronic diseases, I find that the challenges of doing so endlessly interesting, and a great learning process for me. Diabetes management is a special interest of mine, as this is a disease with complications that can manifest themselves in virtually any part of the body. I believe that a holistic approach to managing diabetes is necessary to preventing complications. While there are excellent medications and skilled healthcare professionals, the patients who takes an active role in his/her own care plays an equally important part in preventing and delaying complications of the disease. Searching the internet for information about diabetes can yield thousands of links with instructions for patients, and not all of this is correct. Providing accurate knowledge about diabetes management is needed for patients to understand more about how to care for themselves. My goal as a healthcare professional is to help in disseminating evidence-based information from credible sources to the patients who need to hear, and hopefully benefit, from the knowledge. I earned a DNP from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, where I am a member of the faculty for the College of Nursing. I maintain a private practice in Decatur, Alabama, and am certified in Advanced Diabetes Management.

I am a certified Personal Trainer and Precision Nutrition Coach with 13 years of experience in the health and fitness industry. I discovered my passion for health and fitness in my early college days when I started working out at a local gym. I was fascinated by how the body can change through exercise and nutrition and how much control we have over that. After a few years of working on my own fitness and changing my own lifestyle, I was inspired to help other people do the same so I became certified as a personal trainer and later on as a Precision Nutrition coach. Since then I have created a career that started at a local gym and has evolved in to my own mobile training business that has helped hundreds of people live healthier and happier lives. My role as a trainer and nutrition coach is to help you transform your life through effective training and nutrition programs as well as discovering and helping you to overcome anything that is holding you back from being the best version of you. A balance of mind, body, and spirit is my approach to health and well-being.

After losing weight, reversing her own pre-diabetes and battling insulin dependent gestational diabetes, Dina Garcia has developed a true passion for helping others live the healthy, happy, energetic lives they deserve. As a registered dietitian-nutritionist and mindful eating coach, she is anti-diet and pro empowered eating. She can help you create balance in your life and diet so you don't have to over think what you should eat. She believes a healthy lifestyle should alleviate stress not create more. Dina has been a Registered Dietitian since 2005. She completed an undergraduate B.S. in Dietetics from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana and then went on to complete her supervised practice at California State University, Fresno in Fresno, California. She founded Vida Nutrition, LLC in 2012, after 7 years of working as a clinical dietitian. Her favorite part about being a self-employed nutritionist is that she has the flexibility to create her own systems to better serve the needs of her clients.

Caroline Baker, MSc. HEALTHY LIFESTYLE COACHING Caroline is a UK based, Health promotion expert with over 25 years experience of helping clients with their lifestyle goals. For the last 17 years she has specialised in coaching exercise, healthy eating and behaviour change to clients referred to her by medical practitioners. These novice clients need expert guidance to improve their health because of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, arthritis, bad backs, etc. Caroline has a Masters degree in Health promotion from Brunel University (UK) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education and Sports Science from Loughborough University (UK). In addition she has accumulated numerous specialist exercise instructor qualifications (including Obesity and Diabetes management and Cardiac rehabilitation), along with nutrition and behaviour change coaching qualifications. Caroline lives in Wokingham, Royal Berkshire, England with her husband and 2 young sons. She herself has suffered for 20 years with Fibromyalgia / Chronic Fatigue so she understands what it's like to have a chronic medical condition to contend with. Her online coaching business, HEALTHY LIFESTYLE COACHING (www.healthylifestylecoaching.co.uk) helps people struggling with metabolic diseases (diabetes, hypertension and obesity) to take back control of their health, weight and future through online behaviour change coaching.

As a former professional athlete, Jason Burns knows what it takes to set and achieve challenging goals. He was a former running back at the University of Wisconsin and with the Cincinnati Bengals. The desire to live his own life to the fullest led Jason to realize that true wellness was not a result of fitness training alone, but a well-considered balance of nutrition, exercise and lifestyle. Jason's holistic pedagogy has evolved through not only extensive research and professional mentorship but also years of personal trial and error. His relentless pursuit of excellence is rooted in the philosophy that failure is simply feedback. An early quest for knowledge about how to maximize the body's performance has turned into a lifelong passion for competitive excellence. Through the founding of his gym, Mettle Fitness, Jason has been able to provide a much needed resource for every age and fitness level. By combining nutrition with elements of strength development, conditioning and speed training he has created a dynamic program designed to get his clients to a level of fitness they'd never dreamed was possible. The gym provides CrossFit for adults, and sports performance training for teens. Jason is a certified personal trainer, and also has credentials as Level 1&2 CrossFit certified. Jason is a frequent lecturer to student groups, coaching professionals and members of the high intensity training fitness community. He is sought after for his expert opinion, appearing in a variety of television and print stories, including: Fox News' Fox&Friends, ABC7 Chicago, WGN TV as well as the Chicago Tribun, LA Times and TimeOut Magazine. Jason recently launched Mettle Minds Foundation, a non-profit that aims to extend his impact and potential of fitness to transform the realities of young people in under-served communities.

Leslie Anne Wood, M.A., H.H.C.P. is an Intuitive Counselor who uses her real life experiences, a formal education in Holistic Wellness techniques, and a lifelong ability as a Clairsentient to help you manage grief, loss, depression or physical pain. During her ten years of private practice, Leslie continues to observe the often dramatic curative effects that Holistic Wellness techniques offer her clients. Although Leslie has received formal training in modalities that range from Western Herbalism, Energy Medicine and Foot Reflexology to Aromatherapy, The Bach Flower Essences and Crystal Healing, she is quick to combine treatment techniques to help her clients heal in Mind, Body and Spirit. In many cases she recommends the use of these modalities to increase the efficacy of traditional Western Medicine. Leslie is an award winning Inspirational Speaker and the author of the book: Bullied But Not Beaten - Years of Torment and Threats of Murder Reveal Ways to Combat Bullying Leslie shares lessons learned as she guided her teenaged daughter through six years of bullying that resulted in fear, theft and actual threats of murder. Her book is available at Amazon.com and for Kindle and Nook.

Birgit Witherspoon, MS, HHC, is trained in all the dietary theories and qualified to advise people on improving their health through diet and lifestyle modifications including many programs for personal growth and self-development. The foundation for her work is the blood type diet. Yet, everybody is an individual and a one-size-fits-all approach does not work. She creates a unique plan for each client to help them achieve peak performance physically, mentally and emotionally. Inspired by her mom, who was very sick but couldn't be helped much by traditional medicine, Birgit embarked on a journey into alternative health, earning her Master's Degree in Domestic Science/Health in 1989. In 2006, Birgit completed a Somatic Intuitive Training Practitioner Program and is certified to practice SIT, a powerful method to reduce stress and emotional. In 2007, Birgit graduated with honors from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and holds certifications as a Holistic Health Counselor from the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and Teachers College of Columbia University. She continues to learn and grow to provide the best service possible.

Daniele Hargenrader, founder of Diabetes Dominator Coaching, is the bestselling author of Unleash Your Inner Diabetes Dominator. She is a nutritionist with her Bachelor's degree in Nutrition Science, a Diabetes and Health Coach, and a Certified Personal Trainer. Daniele is an international speaker, has presented at Fortune 100 companies, top ranked hospitals and diabetes camps, and has dedicated herself to teaching people how to live the life they imagined through taking control of their powers of choice and self-love. She has been living with type 1 diabetes since 1991. Daniele founded Diabetes Dominator in 2009 with the intention of serving those who are looking for a path to turn a perceived adversity into an advantage through the Diabetes Dominator system and the Six Pillars of Total Health. She helps individuals from all walks of life to think, eat, and move in ways that allow them to achieve a quality of health and life that they previously thought unattainable.