The Alpha Female Podcast

Adri Kyser is an international wellness expert who has spent the past 15 years helping highly-driven women stop feeling stressed and overwhelmed and start living a happier, healthier and more fulfilling life. Using her Enlightened Alchemy method, she has helped thousands of women worldwide achieve everything from reduced pain and stress to increased confidence and productivity. Rather than drawing from only one modality, her extensive list of certifications (including mindfulness, yoga, and Ayurveda) allow her to create a customized wellness experience for clients. As a brand ambassador, she has worked with Athleta and Larabar. When she’s not busy hosting retreats around the globe in exotic locations like Bali, Greece, and Peru, she’s being featured on iHeart Radio, Amazon Prime’s “The Focus”, and Authority Magazine. She’s the co-author of the forthcoming book “Overcoming Adversity in Entrepreneurship” due out at the end of 2019.

Devinder Kaur is the owner & director of PranaShanti Yoga Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. Attend a Kundalini class with Devinder, and you’ll experience why students have studied and practiced with her for well over 15 years. Her strong interpersonal approach to teaching helps people reach their individual goals and empower themselves through yoga.  While talented and practiced, Devinder is also a 500 Hour Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher in the Hatha and Kundalini Yoga traditions. She is a Hatha Yoga Teacher Trainer and is a KRI Kundalini Yoga Lead Trainer. With over 25 years of experience as a self-employed business owner and business / IT consultant, she is a much-requested presenter on television programs, at local and national Yoga and Women’s conferences, and travels extensively as a guest trainer for Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training programs.

In this episode, I talk about the other eight limbs of yoga and more specifically utilizing Themes in yoga classes.

Aleysha Derksen is a hands-on yoga teacher who loves to lead a strong and intentional flow. She is a full-time teacher, with firm roots in the Ottawa yoga community and a connection to her students. Aleysha’s classes are fun, dynamic and progressive, weaving the physical practice with spiritual teachings and inspiration centered around a focus or theme. Aleysha loves to teach inversion workshops, host international retreats and connect with the global community of yogis. She is the co-founder of Yoga Adventure Retreats and the In Alignment School of Yoga which hosts a yearly 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training program in beautiful Bali!

Alex Ure is a yoga and meditation teacher in Ottawa, Canada. With over 500 hours of training, she is passionate about teaching in ways that bridge gaps between ancient wisdom and modern-day. In 2018, she completed her 200-hour meditation teacher training in Sedona at Mclean Meditation Institute. She focuses on teaching meditation tools that can be used in your everyday life.

Dr. Joe Vomvas is a Chiropractor, Acupuncture provider and Strength and Conditioning specialist located in Toronto, Ontario. Dr. Vomvas also has pursued Continuing Education opportunities in Active Release Techniques, Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Acupuncture, a Certified Functional Capacity Evaluator through Metriks Education and he is also a Certified Kinesio Tape Provider. A lifetime athlete and strength trainer, Dr. Vomvas is also Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

Meet Dr. Rachel, she’s a board-certified Naturopath. She was my Naturopath after my MS diagnosis and has been instrumental in my healing journey.

She studied at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon and the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto, Ontario. She is licensed through the College of Naturopaths of Ontario, and am a professional member of the Canadian and Ontario Associations of Naturopathic Doctors, as well as the Endocrinology Association of Naturopathic Physicians.

Chantale Michaud is the Registered Holistic Nutritionist behind Eat Heal Love. She was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2001 and has been health-conscious and relapse-free since 2007!

On her website, she writes “These days, I don’t feel as though I’m simply living with the illness — I’m thriving.”

Taylor Lou is a lifestyle design coach and business mentor who specializes in helping multi-passionate millennial women connect deeply to self, curate a dreamy life, and sustainably launch their brand and biz online. She has been an entrepreneur for six years and is certified in Life and Success Coaching, Image Consulting, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Clinical Hypnotherapy.

Genecia Alluora is former Miss Singapore and Southeast Asia Woman of Excellence in 2010.

She is the Founder of Soul Rich Woman, the #1 female entrepreneur network in Southeast Asia that connects more than 12,000 women across
the region, with presence in 7 countries including Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Indonesia.

Prior to this, she was an owner of a cafe retail chain with a presence in 3 countries and successfully exited to a public listed company.

Profiled in CNBC and China Daily, Genecia is also an expert public speaker and has spoken in recent major events, including the RISE
Conference in Hong Kong, Success Conference and Expo Asia 2018 in Hanoi, and National Achievers’ Congress in Manila.

Lisa Hyde epitomizes today’s woman. She is the author of BE StrongHER, a guide to building confidence, an entrepreneur, beauty, health & wellness expert, retail trend spotter, sought-after public speaker, and advisor to the next generation of entrepreneurs with The Confidence Crown podcast. Lisa offers hard-won wisdom gleaned from working as a Talent Agent and Manager for 12 years, as well as more than seven years’ experience as an Independent Consultant with North America’s #1 skincare brand: Rodan + Fields.

Maddy Moon is a walking permission slip, soul igniter and devoted teacher. Her mission is to see into the truth of those who are a full-body yes to releasing societal expectations, feel all the feels, soften into their being and acknowledge their deepest truth. Little excites her as much as helping “take charge” women with a black-and-white mentality (who of course are always on the go) learn how to soften into their Feminine Flow.

Using a powerhouse of tools to teach the art of acceptance, Maddy will expose you to your Divine Feminine and Masculine, your light and dark sides, and your own unique pathway to inner healing.

No one way of living, thinking and feeling is off limits, and Maddy’s desire is to help you to feel this truth to the core through transformational experiences such as spiritual healing, business coaching, dream building, relationship creating, toxic thought detoxing and human design learnings.

Her work and story have been featured in hundreds of podcasts as well as various publications such as The Huffington Post, Teen Vogue, Thought Catalog, Nylon Magazine, The Daily Mail, Vice, Greatist, Men’s Health, PEOPLE and ABC News Nightline.

Betsy Milne is a transformational business and branding coach, speaker and podcast host, on a mission to empower women with the tools and motivation they need to turn a spark of an idea into full-fledged businesses and sought after brands.

After silently suffering for years with serious health problems, burnout and major stress from her corporate career, Betsy embarked on a healing journey to reconnect with her Divine self. In early 2018 co-founded Luscious Hustle, a coaching practice, and podcast, dedicated to redefining what it means to “hustle” as an online entrepreneur. With a focus on blending spiritual practices and savvy business strategies, Betsy now helps women heal their feminine energy so they can build 6-figure businesses with ease and in alignment with what their heart truly desires.

Katie Wilken is someone who is deeply passionate about the empowerment of Women. Through her brand WildHER she aims to teach, share, move & hold space for Women to discover that they each have what it takes within themselves to create their best lives using the power of Women’s Circles as the main vehicle for our Liberation.

You can find her on stages sharing her own journey, teaching Kundalini Yoga, Facilitating WildHer Movement Classes, Holding Red Tent circles &
frolicking in the forest with her 3 boys & husband.

Sachi Doctor is the founder of Elemental Alchemy, offering personalized wellness services and handmade self-care products to support those navigating their way towards sustainable health. She is an Ayurvedic practitioner, holistic health educator and tea maker from a lineage of Indian healers and doctors and has been imbued in both Eastern tradition and Western medicine since childhood. Marrying the wisdom of these two worlds, Sachi blends Ayurvedic principles and yogic philosophy with physiology and functional nutrition to help individuals better understand their mind-body composition, empowering them with the information and tools necessary to reclaim agency for their health and live life on their own terms.

Kelli Tennant is the host of Ceremony Wellness Podcast + creator of The Journey Within healing series. As an autoimmune warrior herself, Kelli helps women heal their physical and emotional pain through Functional Medicine, Ayurveda, and spiritual development. She has authentic conversations with the leading voices in wellness, alternative medicine, and spiritual growth to give women the tools to heal and create the life they’ve been longing for. Kelli’s natural ability to hold space and guide women to become their best selves has changed thousands of lives across the country.

Erica Stanford is co-founder of Cryptocurrency Simplified, a learning resource that aims to make cryptocurrency, blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and their many use cases easily understandable to both individuals and businesses. She is a regular international speaker and commentator on cryptocurrency, blockchain, and other emerging technologies and their potential to challenge traditional beliefs, systems and markets.

After completing her Master’s degree in Economics and Politics at the University of Edinburgh, Erica did some volunteering internationally and worked in sales and marketing strategy for 8 years. On learning about the potential of blockchain technology and digital currency, she spent 18 months studying cryptocurrencies, blockchain and decentralisation and achieved a 150x return on her initial investment at the peak of the market.
She is currently working on a number of blockchain projects and events, including an educational course on cryptocurrencies and blockchain, a networking event for industry leaders – the Crypto Curry Club, and two charity projects.

Our mindset is a key component to our overall health. With this belief in mind, Dr. Heather Bartos  practices what she calls MindSHIFT Medicine, the integration of one’s mental, physical, and emotional health to care for the whole person. It’s a practice that she uses to treat patients, but it’s also a practice she lives by.

Heather Bartos, M.D. is a leading voice in the field of women’s health and wellness, combining care for the mind, body, emotions, and spirit to help women live healthier, more fulfilling lives. Fascinated by how what we think about affects how we feel, Dr. Bartos teaches women—and women’s families—how to thrive, no matter what stage of life they’re in.

A board-certified OB/GYN, Dr. Bartos graduated from the University of Texas at Houston Medical School and completed her residency at Baylor College of Medicine, also in Houston. She served as an assistant clinical professor of OB/GYN at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USUHS) for several years and was a physician in the US Navy for eight years.  She is currently chief of obstetrics & gynecology at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Denton, Texas.

Bridgit is a Confidence & Empowerment Coach. I am the creator of the Powerhouse Method, a Rebel-preneur & Fiercely Unapologetic. She helps women end the mind drama, unleash clarity and confidence so they can take bold action in their life and business to finally create the impact and income they desire.

She’s a Pisces and a lover of the sea. She believes that health/fitness is a key component to longevity – She doesn’t miss her gym time! She has 2 golden retrievers and would have a herd if she could. She is super down to earth but an ALPHA when she needs to be. She’s a rebel and always paves her own way. She has an addiction to Caramel Macchiato’s and her Sunday morning Target run is her private time. She LOVES college football and she’s pretty sure she swears too much. Her mission is to help women and girls learn to own their confidence, find their self-worth and to empower them to change the world!

Kelly Resendez is a mom, business executive, best selling author and influencer. She loves helping others with strategies to overcome self-sabotage and find more joy. Author of the new and already popular book Big Voices, is also founder of the movement the book is named for, Big Voices a women- empowered network.

Kelly is passionate about helping people increase joy, reduce suffering, and learn to think differently. Her own journey has helped her create the strategies and tools that she shares throughout her books.

Currently Kelly is the Executive Vice President of Paramount Partners Group, which is a division of Loan Pal. She uses the same concepts of mindfulness, self-discovery, and goal setting to help those in the mortgage and real estate industries create a successful business.

Rachel Fackoury is a vibrant and energetic trainer, whose vision is to lead women on a path of self-discovery through fitness. Her passion for personal fitness, health and wellness is rooted in a love of field hockey, which ultimately led her to pursue an undergraduate degree in Kinesiology.

In the past five years, Rachel has pursued her passions by teaching group fitness classes, and serving as a personal fitness instructor in local communities throughout Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo.

From a young age, Rachel was involved in a variety of sports. Dance, gymnastics, cross country and track, soccer, volleyball and field hockey – you name it, she played it. When it came time to select a field of study, kinesiology was an obvious choice.  Originally having her sights set on becoming a dentist, fitness instructing and personal training began only as a summer job.

As Rachel developed and grew her own fitness classes, she quickly realized that she not only saw remarkable improvements in people’s physical strength, but their mental health and well-being too! Having a career that allowed her to be involved in igniting positive change in another person’s life is something she never knew could have existed. From then on, Rachel has been devoted to helping people lead their best lives and become their best self.

Colette, a native of Ireland, immigrated to the US in her early 20’s where she
worked in corporate America for over a decade. Wanting to hop off the corporate hamster wheel, she pursued her passion for health and fitness and began a full-time career in this field.

In 2008 she moved to Nice, France and opened a fitness and yoga studio. She was also an avid competitor, taking part in many sporting events, however, even with all her ‘healthy’ efforts, her health was not in a good place. In 2014, Colette took some time out to cleanse and reset her body. She underwent a 21 day Ayurvedic cleanse program in Bali and this is what changed her life personally and professionally.

After the cleanse, she stayed in Bali, working with the Ayurvedic Doctor for a year. Colette also completed her studies to become an Ayurveda Wellness Counselor and began her online business, Elements Healing and Wellbeing and her podcast Elements of Ayurveda. Elements Healing & Wellbeing takes a natural, holistic approach to healing, incorporating the body, mind, and soul. Using the ancient teachings of Ayurveda (the Wisdom of Life) to connect people to their ‘true nature’ (unique mind/body type), to Mother Nature and to each other. “I believe that life is a journey of self-realization and this journey begins with a self-study and understanding our own ‘true nature’ or unique mind/body type. We can then understand how to keep our body and mind in balance by eating the correct foods for our constitution and having some simple daily habits and living the right lifestyle for our ‘true nature’. When we are in balance, we are more
conscious and able to access our intuition to lead us on our Soul’s journey. The key to optimal health and contentment are in our own hands”

A self-proclaimed reformed Corporate Burnout, Michelle Gomez managed to find a slower pace of career that allowed her time and space to address the Impostor Syndrome in her own life. Michelle then turned her attention to helping other high achievers recognize and overcome their own Imposter Syndrome struggles, writing a book about her own journey, Own Your Brilliance.

An accomplished business executive with nearly 2 decades worth of experience in the male-dominated transportation and logistics industry, Michelle is also a strong advocate for women in the workforce; mentoring dozens of women to personal and professional success.

Betsy Milne is a Business Strategist, Holistic Health Coach and co-creator of the Luscious Hustle Podcast & Luscious Hustle Academy.  After years of never-ending migraines and watching her health and personal life deteriorate while living a “successful” career, Betsy knew something profound had to change.  So she embraced a new journey; one that allowed her to reclaim her health and achieve personal, versus corporate, success.

She is now on a mission to empower women with the tools & motivation they need to propel their side hustle from a spark of an idea to a full-fledged lucrative business.  Blending spiritual practices with savvy business strategies, she helps entrepreneurs scale and grow their businesses with ease.

Chartered Professional Accountant by day, Super Mom by night, and Alpha Female year-round. For more than 17 years, Annik Blanchard has proudly served not-for-profit organizations, municipalities and private owner-managed businesses to keep their accounting in order, and in 2017, she was admitted to the partnership at BDO Canada LLP. Due to her passion of accounting and auditing, she currently volunteers as an Audit Committee member for the Ottawa Carleton District School Board, as a member of the Audit and Finance Committee for the Girl Guides of Canada and with CPA Canada’s Financial Literacy program. To top it off, she was recognized as one of the 2018 Forty Under 40 recipients organized by the Ottawa Business Journal and Ottawa Chamber of Commerce.

When the clock strikes 5, she returns home to her husband and tackles her duties as supermom to three kids (aged 12, 11 and 8) and a furry mom to 3 dogs. When not working or volunteering, Annik likes to spend time with her family, read (which she recently started doing again), work out, play board games, listen to podcasts (The Alpha Female Podcast is one of them!) and go camping.

The fine balance between all her hobbies and responsibilities means she emphasizes self-care to ensure sanity is maintained. Motivating the family to eat well and working out together is one of her key pillars of self-care.

Lauryn Evarts is an influencer & the creative director behind The Skinny Confidential. It represents the movers, the shakers, and the ones who without a doubt want to be the best damn version of themselves. The Skinny Confidential has been featured in SHAPE, Women’s Health Magazine, The Huffington Post, SELF Magazine, & Who What Wear. Since the launch of the brand, it’s evolved into a book, fitness & nutrition eBook, podcast, YouTube channel, & App. She lives in California with her husband, Michael & their two chihuahuas, Pixy and T. Boone Pickens.

Nadya Pecherskaya is a nutritionist and a passionate wellness entrepreneur. Years of overworking and burning out, she realized that diet and exercise alone weren’t enough to reduce her stress levels. In search of better work/life balance, she discovered CBD oil which had a profound effect on her life. Since then Nadya made it her mission to share the health benefits of this compound by starting a CBD oil company Icaria which makes oil for busy female professionals.

Natalie Dick is a Holistic Health, Life, and Biz Coach, Leadership Mentor + Educator with doTERRA Essential Oils, Mama, Yoga Teacher, and Personal Trainer. She has helped thousands of women regain their personal power & purpose through natural holistic living. From natural fertility, digestive issues, to hormonal imbalances. She guides those to bring their body, mind, and spirit back into its natural state of balance and alignment with life.

Emily Pereira had a life that looked really good… on paper (this was before Instagram was a thing!) Continually ranked #1 at a top Fortune 100 company, living on the beach with her Myspace founder boyfriend, with a closet full of designer clothes she wore to endless parties events and vacations, she admits it still sounds good. But caught in an endless cycle of never enough, she was anything but genuinely happy. Just when she thought she’d be getting the ring, she found out her man was cheating on her and her whole life crumbled before her. Down to 93 pounds, needing pills to sleep and on the cliff’s edge of depression, a chance encounter with a powerful spiritual teacher with a knack for out-of-body adventures turned the breakdown into a spectacular breakthrough. And so began an unlikely journey to the far ends of the earth and deep within herself that showed her a unique way of being in the world that blows the roof off what we’ve been taught it means to be successful and happy.

More than a decade later, Emily now helps other women discover the magic of their radiant selves, so they too can magnetize soul-affirming love into their lives. An international retreat leader, certified yoga teacher, Gateless trained writing teacher, and life coach specializing in helping women discover their inner brightness, Emily shares the same radical insights she used to transform her despair into her dream life. She’s also the author of the forthcoming inspirational memoir, The Beginner. She lives in Santa Teresa, a dusty little surf town along Pacific side of Costa Rica with her beloved Frenchman, Manex and their baby, Saïa Moon, enjoying joy and vitality she honestly didn’t know existed before (especially not at 40!). Together, they are building a spiritual retreat + wellness center nestled deep in the jungle.

Joy McCarthy is a Holistic Nutritionist and founder of JoyousHealth.com, an award-winning blog focused on healthy living. She is a two-time bestselling author of Joyous Health and Joyous Detox. A trusted nutrition expert, Joy has been featured in hundreds of publications both online and in print; and is a regular health expert on TV. Joy lives in Toronto with her husband Walker and their daughter Vienna. Joy loves social media and shares her passion for food, family, and fun as a way to channel positive energy into the lives of others. You can find her @joyoushealth on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest and on Facebook.

Dr. Stephanie Gray is the author of the bestselling book Your Longevity Blueprint and the owner of the Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic in Hiawatha, Iowa where she practices. She is arguably one of the Midwest’s most credentialed female healthcare providers combining many certifications and trainings.

In her book Your Longevity Blueprint, Stephanie shares the most progressive functional medicine testing options currently available, as well as Your Longevity Blueprint (LB) nutraceutical products. From gut to hormone health, optimizing your nutritional status to your genetics, and even detoxing the body, Stephanie is excited to share her expertise with the world.

Lana Dingwall is a business coach, podcast host, and a best selling author, who is hell-bent on helping other women build and grow their businesses. She specializes in helping female entrepreneurs fill their client rosters so that they can ditch the stress and overwhelm associated with growing a business and instead focus more of their time and energy on serving their clients.

Carley once worked in the intense corporate fashion world of New York City, spending her workdays people pleasing, and her nights and weekends shopping and drinking to fill the void she felt within. Almost daily, she struggled with low self-worth, poor relationships, and constant anxiety. Worn down and tired, she finally decided it was time to make a change and she began setting aside an hour a day just for herself.

Over the next two and a half years, she went through a process of personal transformation. She realized her issues arose from being afraid to say No —whether out of reluctance to hurt others’ feelings or due to her own crippling anxiety and guilt.

Mary’s roller-coaster life began with being abandoned at a young age and tragically losing her first child. But Mary was able to overcome life’s hurdles and turn tragedy to triumph by building an 8 figure business empire at age 24.

Mary is an expert in personal development but is not a life coach; she’s a businesswoman who discovered a road map of how to get in control of your life. She truly walks her talk by generating pragmatic solutions for people who are freaking out. Mary blends personal experience with her extensive knowledge of neuroscience and human behavior to guide businesses and individuals to defeat the freak-out and create their ideal life.

She’s a Shark Tank style CEO who cuts through the chaos so you can change your mind, your choices, and your life.

Pamela Gold grew up on her family’s apple farm in upstate New York, graduated from Yale University, and then entered the business world in NYC where she was the point person on an IPO at the age of 24. Leaving the workforce to start a family, she co-founded West Village Parents and went on to pursue her passion for fitness and wellness. It was through this pursuit that she discovered yoga, which connected her love of philosophy, science, psychology, and wellness and eventually led her to discover
her life’s work: teaching inner peace as the key to our greatest evolution and ultimately, world peace. Her book, Find More Strength: 5 Pillars to Unlock Unlimited Power and Happiness is full of tragedy to triumph personal stories, along with actionable tools to help increase power and happiness in life.

Alyssa Labrecque is a Nutritionist and the owner of Soul Food Nutritionista. With a strong family history of irritable bowel disease and years of thinking workaholism, fatigue, constipation, and her extra weight were “normal”, Alyssa went on a mission to stop dragging herself through the day and to transform her body and mind. One simple step at a time, she broke free from her IBS and self-sabotage and today teaches people how to end the gas and bloating, banish diarrhea and constipation so they can fit in their clothes, feel normal and start living their life again by learning how to love AND trust their guts.

Alice Nicholls is a Nutritionist, Podcast Host and Natural Health Educator with a heart-full of fast-talkin’ Sass. She believes that when women remember how powerful and potential-filled they’ve always been, the world will shift for the better, so she designs her work and life to inspire that.

Jessie-Lynn MacDonald is a mental health and well-being consultant, educator, and facilitator. She helps her clients uncover and embrace their potential for living a life well-lived both personally and professionally. She works with individuals who are hiding behind a mask of fear, self-judgment or doubt, feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or in search for more out of themselves, their relationships or their lives.

Through workshops, webinars and one-to-one coaching, either online or in person, Jessie-Lynn guides students, teachers, parents, individuals and business leaders how to access and be inspired by their own wellbeing and wisdom. She has a passion for helping children and youth uncover their innate resilience and wellbeing. She is currently working on a special project – Be You (soon to be released). Be You is a multi-dimensional project to empower and inspire women and children to understand and embrace the root cause of their mental health and wellbeing.

Jessica Stopard is an award-winning, smoothie lovin’ Holistic Nutritionist with a decade of experience in the health food industry. Jessica’s focus is helping women uncover their hidden food sensitivities using smoothies and an elimination diet. She is the creator of Reset to Real Food Method and loves maximizing nutrition for minimum effort to inspire women to eat more real foods so that they get out of pain.

Mary Hyatt is on a quest to feel alive and to live a life full of gratitude, joy, authenticity, and abundance in body, mind, and soul. Mary believes that every person has the ability to embrace a life and body they love. She lives in the heart of Nashville and her days are spent juggling the rolls of holistic lifestyle advocate as a Presidential Diamond wellness advocate with doTERRA essential oils, and personal life and business coach. She helps her clients wake up, find their voice and become fully alive. You can join Mary every Wednesday at 1 PM CST on her Facebook LIVE show where she dives into raw topics and helps her audience fall back in love with themselves and believe in their potential.

Taylor Simpson is a leading expert in the fields of Confidence Building, Self-Love, Transformational Work and Online Business Building Strategies. She is the Founder of The Confidence Academy and The Mind and Body Empowerment Tribe, along with building two six-figure businesses. As a Motivational Speaker, Social Media Influencer and Women’s-Empowerment Junkie, she utilizes her platforms to spread her messages of “The importance of speaking your truth” and how to “Live intentionally so you can create the abundant life you deserve to live!” Taylor’s YouTube and Podcast Channels are filled with raw and vulnerable real-life personal stories (Divorce, Anger-Management, etc to give a taste) in hopes that the women they reach won’t feel so alone, if they’re too facing a challenge. “We are all in this together!” Her ability to connect with women around the world and help them raise their vibrations so they can attract everything they want in life, has made her an epic Alpha Female along with the thousands of other women she’s coached.

Toronto native, Marlie Cohen is dedicated to helping her clients and community become their healthiest selves. After struggling to stay active and eat well in her corporate job, Marlie found ways to keep healthy in the workplace and began sharing these tips on her social media channels under the alias, Kale & Krunches. From clean recipes and healthy food hotspots to new workouts and the latest activewear, Marlie loves sharing her favourite products and routines with her audience. Now a full-time blogger, fitness instructor and personal trainer, Marlie continues to offer her tips to achieving balance and wellness through her website, YouTube and social media channels.

Sarah Small is the founder of Autoimmune Tribe. She is a certified bioenergetic practitioner, yoga teacher, meditation teacher, health & mindset coach for women with autoimmune disease, certified vibrational crystal healer, and tarot card reader. She helps empower women to go beyond food and heal on a soul level.

Danielle Pascente is an established personal trainer/sports model in Los Angeles and is the creator of the Kick-Ass Training Guides, online workout programs for women.  She can be found as the lead trainer for the 30 Day Fat Burn series on BeFit. Danielle was recently named as a trending fitness star by Shape Magazine. She’s been training clients for over 10 years and has a passion for helping people reach their health/fitness goals.  She’s a firm believer that consistency is key when it comes to your health.  Even the smallest positive daily habits can have a lasting effect!

Andrea Nordling is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Online Business Strategist who helps others become the CEO of their own damn bods and blaze their own trail in life and business. She emphasizes harmony in all areas of life, which for most can mean less “rules” and restrictions and more space and grace. As a recovering perfectionist and super achievement-oriented mama, she laughs at that last statement because if it was easy for us to turn off our drive and ambition, we wouldn’t be Alpha Females! #selfawareness

Cheryl Leitschuh is a mentor, guide, and influencer. Many of Cheryl’s clients describe her as the “Yoda” for small woman-owned small businesses and solopreneurs.

Cheryl has had the pleasure of owning a successful, sustainable small business for over twenty-five years. She has stumbled, regrouped, learned, succeeded and failed BUT remained committed to being an entrepreneur. Cheryl has also coached other women-owned small businesses to enjoy the opportunities of being an entrepreneur. Her mission is to help women-owned small businesses to start, build and grow their own successful enterprise.

Laura Milne business strategist, loving wife, mother & master manifestor. Laura completely overhauled her life at age 28 (32 weeks pregnant no less!), leaving a ‘safe and stable’ full-time pediatric nursing position to build a business and consciously design a new – more luscious – life.

She started her solopreneur journey at what seemed like the WORST time ever: Eight months pregnant, burnt out from working 12 hours night shifts, crippled with money worries and financially insecure due to a local economy spiraling into a recession…

But a voice inside Laura whispered:

“If you don’t do this thing now, you never will.”

So she said YES.
YES to a different way of living and earning money.
YES to abundance that flows to me with ease.
YES to building and supporting an incredible tribe of women who are ready to say YES to their own side hustle dreams.

Laura has built a wellness business, The Luscious Hustle Podcast and Luscious Hustler community all aligned with her passion and purpose to serve other women and show them how start side hustles that fuel your soul, give you options and turn your purpose into profit. She cultivated powerful money manifesting practices and heart-centered tribe and thus built a soulful side hustle that’s grown into a full-fledged business. She’s a Luscious Hustler.

Amber Lilyestrom is a transformational branding & business strategist, writer, and speaker. She has been featured in Entrepreneur and Working Mother Magazine and is the host of The Amber Lilyestrom Show podcast and helps entrepreneurs turn their passions into heart-centered brands and thriving businesses.

From idea conception to the construction of the business and its digital landscape, Amber supports visionaries, leaders, and disruptivators in changing the world and their lives.

Amber spent 10 years working in collegiate athletics marketing, managing the University of New Hampshire Wildcats brand, as well as teaching sports marketing and mentoring student interns. She was recognized as one of the top sports marketing professionals in the nation.

Jessica Smith is a writer, career coach and podcast host of the podcast(s), Career Coaching with Jessness and That Valley Vibe. She shares with people how to explore a path to success with inspired action, empowered self-care and mind body spirit wellness. She helps people uncover and express their authentic self and discover the natural skills and talents they were born with so they can lead with love and live a heart-centered, fulfilled life. One of the main ingredients she writes about it how to tap into your inner wisdom, your -ness for guidance. Every day she reminds people that we’re not here to find out what to do, but rather, who we are.

Kris Britton is a spiritual life coach & success coach who helps women dissolve their blocks so they can make big money and a big impact!

Kris is also the founder of Team Goddess Bosses, a global community sharing the benefits of reclaiming your true power, health and living your dreams with complete freedom!

Over the last few years, Kris has helped over 100 people reach five and six-figure incomes working from home and has been featured in Success Magazine + Women’s Health & Fitness Magazine.

As a Feminine Energy Activator, Life Coach, Mama of Boys & Motivational Speaker- Katie Considers it her life’s mission to raise the vibrations of the planet. Through teaching with tangible tools for getting in touch with your gifts- you were meant to share with the world. She wants you to get EXCITED ABOUT LIFE & have MORE FUN.

You can find her loving on her social media circles, facilitating workshops, teaching Kundalini Yoga & sharing her love of Essential Oils!

Natalie Matushenko is an internationally acclaimed leadership coach, speaker, writer, adventurer, and creator of the Passion & Purpose Life Course®, which since 2001, has helped soulful go-getters figure out what they were put on this Earth to do and turn their many ideas, talents, and passions into successful purpose-driven businesses and creative projects while creating lives they love. Natalie has reinvented her life several times: from debilitating childhood trauma and addiction to Ivy League University, top business school and high flying job to living her dream life, splitting her time between South America and the US and spending a couple months a year traveling the world with her husband and three daughters.

Hilary Spires is a former corporate sales manger turned entrepreneur. She’s combined her passion for business and fitness and jumped into her own venture full time. She is currently splitting her time between her online running coach business Rugged Conditioning and as a personal trainer in a local studio in Western Canada.

She strives to spread her love of movement to as many people as possible. Her specialty lies in helping people achieve bucket list goals they didn’t they could. She loves every aspect of coaching people to conquer their first race, but specifically the physical and mental toughness needed to get through the big endurance events. Her athletic career includes playing hockey for for the NWHL and the NCAA. Since leaving the competitive hockey world she discovered running and racing and has participated in countless road and trail races including a 100 mile run and the Ironman triathlon. In 2017 she also created a charity event and raised over $11 000 for Kidsport in a few months by committing to run 160km over a mountain in under 24 hours. She’s also regained the childlike wonder of trying new sports and has competed in a few kickboxing fights and jiu jitsu tournaments.

As Co-Founder and Owner of Pure Yoga and Pure Kitchen Amber has successfully built a brand that is known to Ottawa as not just a yoga studio and restaurant, but a lifestyle. Pure Yoga first opened their doors in 2012. In just 5 1/2 years Pure has grown into four studios, and soon to be three, Pure Kitchen Vegetarian Restaurants. Pure Yoga has recently expanded to Liberty Village in Toronto and has built a successful Online Yoga Studio, Pure Online. Ambers newest ventures include Ottawa’s hottest new bar and lounge, Charlotte and opening this past December a women’s clothing store called Tallow.

As a Yoga Teacher Amber is in her 11th year of teaching has over 1000hrs of training hours in classical hatha yoga and vinyasa yoga. She has been the lead on Pure Yoga Ottawa’s 200hr Teacher Training since 2015. Amber started leading yoga retreats in 2016 and has 4 retreats this upcoming year with destinations including Costa Rica and Italy.

Amber was named one of Ottawa’s Top Forty under 40 in 2014, she has been named top yoga instructor in Ottawa 3 times and has been a brand ambassador for Lululemon since 2007. Amber was a keynote speaker in 2015 at The Queen’s University Women in Leadership Conference as an expert on branding, a keynote speaker at The Ottawa Business Journal’s 2016 CEO talks and this year at Ottawa University’s Womens Aspire conference.  Pure Yoga has been named “Best Yoga Studio” 4 times and in 2016 Pure Kitchen won the BOB Award for “Best New Business of the Year”.

There are upcoming yoga retreats in Costa Rica March 11-18th and Italy April 28- May 4th

Heather Dominick is the founder and leader of the Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur movement. Her teachings demonstrate how highly sensitive traits when used as strengths, rather than shadows, can create effective entrepreneurial success. Her deep wisdom reaches over 100,000 Highly Sensitive Entrepreneurs around the globe via her website www.businessmiracles.com and various social media channels.

An exceptional facilitator and teacher Heather is known for creating a safe, sacred community for true transformation whether she is teaching a Business Miracles Class, delivering training online or in-person or mentoring members of her Business Miracles Community in her various Mentoring Programs. She has helped thousands of HSE’s release life-long limiting beliefs, overcome fears and learn how to build their business in a way that actually feels so good that they can’t help but create solid, sustainable, high-level financial success.

Jocelyn Freeman is the co-author of The New Power Couple, a speaker, marriage mentor and social entrepreneur with her husband, Aaron. They have shared the stage with Tony Robbins, were nominated as Arizona’s 40 Under 40 Influencers, and have been featured in national media for mentoring couples on ‘Empowered Partnership’ and thriving physically, financially & spiritually. They host one of the top relationship podcasts, Empowered Couples on iTunes and lead two thriving companies. Jocelyn is passionate about mentoring women in Attracting Your Mate so they approach dating from a new place, they never settle and they are completely fulfilled as individuals and in their partnership.

Anna Lozano is a mom and serial entrepreneur! After graduating from the Richard Ivey School of Business and embarking on my career in Marketing/Sales she quickly realized she was overworked, underpaid and unfulfilled so she started looking for a solution. In 2010 she said yes to network marketing as a part-time project that turned into a million dollar empire. In 2016, she became a mom and her life took on a whole new meaning! She realized she could create something that would power the next generation, our children, and with her friend & business partner launched Love Powered Co. in August 2017 with an Affirmation Card set for kid’s on Kickstarter, reaching 214% of their Campaign Goal in 30 days! She’s obsessed with living in alignment with her core values, spending time with my family and exploring the world!

Tara Thorne is a Clinical Nutritionist, has training from the Institute for Functional Medicine, specifically in hormones and is currently studying to become a Certified Functional Nutrition Coach in 2017. Tara’s practice focuses on helping busy mums navigate the overwhelm and confusion surrounding how to live healthfully in a hectic world by providing evidenced-based functional nutrition and lifestyle strategies. She runs her business online in order to help as many women as possible live the lives they deserve, not one fraught with hormonal imbalances and all the problems that come along with them. Her own struggles with hormone imbalance were what lead her on this path and are why she’s able to understand and empathize with the struggles of the modern day mum.

Savannah Peck has been a personal trainer, solution focused coach and nutrition consultant for eight years. She started a career in fitness because of her passion for dance and kickboxing. She wants to travel the world and retire her mom from a job that is unfulfilling. After five years of working at different gyms in Ottawa, Savannah invested $20K of savings to start her own (traditional style) business. Her vision is to help rewire your mind, recharge your body and rejuvenate your soul. She had the coaching, training and sales skills but lacked business skills and a business model that could help her grow financially.  After she gained 30 lbs from stress in the first year, she grew resentful and believed the traditional style business system and education system was outdated. As her resentment grew, she decided to enroll in two spiritual courses with the Algonquin Medicine Man. She worked to heal the resentment and unconscious limiting beliefs. After a year of healing, she still felt in her heart that she didn’t want to trade time for money. A woman introduced her to a health and wellness company that offers solutions to health and wealth. Savannah was skeptical but tried the products and released 18 lbs. The nutrition systems became her lifestyle. She started to learn the business model and she started to learn about network marketing. Within her first year, she earned an extra $20K online. She had her “Aha moment” when she realized her starting investment was only $350 and it was how she released 18 lbs.  The extra money from no overhead costs allowed her more time and money to travel. Her passion for business was sparked again at a much deeper level. She is packing her things to work and travel around the world very soon to introduce solutions to prevent and heal mental, emotional, physical, spiritual and financial stress. She is living life for the thrills, not the bills.

Ashley Srokosz is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist, essential oil educator, and Holistic Business Coach who is also a mom to an energetic 4-year-old. She shares super transparent lessons from business and everyday life that helps busy women achieve more of their mission with less struggle – because being a mom and an entrepreneur doesn’t have to be so hard!

Theresa Jenn Lopetrone is Fitness Cover Model, Elementary School Teacher, Sponsored Athlete, Transformation Success Story, Cross-Fitter, Wife and Adventurer committed to making an impact on as many lives as possible one day at a time.

Nagina Abdullah is a management consultant, mom and is the founder of MasalaBody.com which helps ambitious women take control of their health and weight. She created Spice Yourself Skinny, an 8-week program in which women describe their weight loss as “effortless.” She has been featured in Business Insider, Huffington Post and on Fox News for her weight-loss expertise.

Nagina shares the “Sweet Spice Cheat Sheet” with the spice that is is in your kitchen cabinet! It helps to lower blood sugar and curb sugar cravings. The cheat sheet includes:

Plus the bonus recipe ebook with 7 spicy recipes to spice off your first 7 lbs.!

Kelly Trach teaches people how to heal themselves. After struggling with chronic illness, pain, and inflammation for over a decade, she solved her own problems. With 10,000+ hours of conducting trial and error experiments on herself, she uncovered a simple, non-invasive methodology to heal her autoimmune condition, IBS, and leaky gut. Now she lives a functional, rad life.

Natalie, the Curvy Confidence Coach is a top Eating Psychology Coach who empowers women to be their own intuitive guides in health and life through reconnecting to their bodies. She works with women holistically to end the struggle with weight and stress so they can embody the self-love and confidence they need to live soul-aligned lives that light them up without burning them out.

Veronica is a Love-Life Coach, host of the Love-Life Connection Podcast, and creator of the Dating Mindset Bootcamp. She helps smart, ambitious women who feel like they have it all except love, find it.

On the surface, Veronica helps women enjoy the process of dating + meet higher quality men. But what she REALLY does is teach women how to create a life they love so they can attract the relationship they dream of into their life.

Sophie Coulthard is the founder of V is for Values and works within her family’s business, The Judgment Index. She was inspired to launch her business whilst working with a corporate client who commented that the assessment tool being used “The Judgment Index” should be made available to the individual as well as within the corporate world. The tool is used by businesses to measure capacity for good, but crucially it also spots barriers, including stress, energy, self-esteem, self-criticism, and self-care. Having witnessed first-hand how these areas can impact on the working world, and with a little encouragement from the Alpha Female Podcast, she changed her life in 2016, quit her corporate sales job and began working with the Judgment Index and now V is for Values, striving for that all important work/life harmony.

Kelly Sullens is a renowned personal trainer and the owner of Arrowhead Fit Body Boot Camp in Arizona. She has a love for fitness that inspires her to change lives daily. As a female entrepreneur, she’s a role model for women, both in fitness and personal achievement. Kelly loves that women are the largest chunk of Fit Body Boot Camp’s audience, and she continues to inspire women to take action to make positive changes in their lives.

Lindsay Webster is an elite Obstacle Course Racer, former marketing manager, mountain bike racer, adventurer, wife and husky dog mom.

Jessica Bartram is a hypnotherapist and mindset coach at JessicaBartram.com. She helps women break through limiting beliefs and reprogram their minds for success. She also offers meditation for kids at KidsWhoMeditate.com

Em Haas is a fitness freak, baby bikini competitor, day planner junkie and apparel designer at Underarmour. She believes that social media is a tool to inspire and help other people and that leggings are real pants. You can find her training with her boyfriend, studying for her next certification or helping people truly “em”body fitness.