Meet the Summit Speakers

Meet the Mama's Wellness Matters Summit Speakers

Adriana Watt, BSN, RN

Adriana Watt is a Registered Nurse, Whole Health Coach, Author, and Speaker. She equips Caregivers to rest and prioritize their whole health to serve others well. Her teachings lead the Caregiver to create tangible tools to transform their life from exhausted to rested and refreshed. She brings over two decades of pediatric critical nursing experience and she is a momma of four as well.

Summit Speaking Topic: Momma Triage: As easy as ABC, a Gentle Approach to Tackling Overwhelm in the Moment

Allegra Gast

Allegra Gast is a functional registered dietitian and international board-certified lactation consultant passionate about helping families navigate both their postpartum health and their breastfeeding journeys. Allegra offers virtual consults for families all around the country and world. She started her business, Aloha Nutrition, when she lived in Hawaii but currently resides in Texas with her husband, and 4 children including twins

Summit Speaking Topic: Postpartum Nutrition

Amanda Stout

Amanda is a wife, homemaker, homeschooling mom to her three living children, and a certified Christian life coach who helps women develop a peaceful lifestyle of faith and relationship with God that is unshakeable and crisis-proof. Through facing challenges such as anxiety, overwhelm, the death of a child, financial struggles, and family issues, Amanda has learned that it is possible to face all circumstances with joy and peace in Christ. She offers coaching, speaking, and content creation to help women break free from the overwhelm, lies, pain, and burdens of their past and live the abundant, joyful, Christ-centered life that God intended for them.

Summit Speaking Topic: Sustainable Systems for Moms

Amy Deitemeyer

Amy Deitemeyer is the founder of Bloom Clarity Coaching and co-founder of Be Still and Know Women's Retreats. After 18 years of building her business in the direct-sales industry while raising her family, Amy recognized the deep need for true self-care among the women she encounters daily. Combining her love of empowering women and her superpower of empathy, Amy guides women to root themselves in rest and bloom with courage. Through breathwork and transformative retreats, she guides women to cultivate calm, confidence, and wholeness in every step of their journey.

Summit Speaking Topic: Calm in Hand: Quick Breathing Hacks for Moms

Angela, The Christian Sexpert

A challenger of the status quo and a disruptor of what has always been, Angela Griffith is known as The Christian Sexpert to over 100,000 social media followers. She has dedicated over 20 years to the study of human sexuality and God's design for sex. Her passion is coaching women to discover a healthier relationship with their God-given sexuality.

Angela's relationship with Jesus started at age 19 and while she wasn't raised in purity culture, she did get a heaping helping of it at college after her salvation experience. She has a unique perspective on how purity culture impacts marriages.

She uses social media as a way to change the narrative from inside the house. She sees the damage of purity culture but knows that God tells us He wants us to have abundance in all areas of our lives – including sex. She is a sex and intimacy coach and uses her social media platform to provide the sex education you wish you had received. She has created multiple products designed to improve the sexual and non-sexual intimacies in your marriage.

She will have you reaching for pearls to clutch, make you laugh, make you blush, and make you search your Bible, asking, “Is she serious? It really says THAT?”

She and her husband have one child. She is a leader for the international women’s ministry Natural Christian Mommas, a homeschool mom, a lover of all things glitter, and ready to set you on a new path with your husband, telling you to, “Go have good sex!”

Summit Speaking Topic: Build a Stronger Marriage with the 12 Types of Intimacy

Brittany Fagan

Brittany is a dynamic duo Licensed Therapist and Certified Mindset Coach with over a decade of experience. She is the proud owner of EPIC Woman, a counseling and coaching sisterhood empowering everyday women to breakthrough their mindset traps to create a new abundant legacy of womanhood with purpose, passion and profit. Using her powerful EPIC Woman Framework, she taps into their authentic ambition with deep healing, mindset mastery and conscious manifestation to light their hello highest self pathway. Brittany truly believes everything starts with an empowered woman - AND YOU ARE HER!

Summit Speaking Topic: Creating Burnout Free Moments

Catherine Wilde

Catherine Wilde is a mom of three, Founder of Soul Care Mom, and Best Selling Author of Reclaiming Your Inner Sparkle. She is a life coach for moms, a yoga & meditation teacher, and the creator of the transformational membership Vibrant Mom Life. She is passionate about helping women get out of survival mode and release mom guilt so they can truly enjoy motherhood. She believes you can feel calm and find your unshakable confidence as a mom when you first care for yourself.

Summit Speaking Topic: Self Care Secrets For Busy Moms: How To Find Time For Yourself So You Can Thrive As A Toddler Mom

Chiara B. Townley

Chiara B. Townley was born in Italy and lives in the United States. Motherhood was the catalyst for her spiritual awakening. She had a difficult pregnancy, a traumatic birth, and postpartum depression and anxiety. She healed by processing her emotions in the body with the guidance of the chakras. After healing, she felt called to help moms-to-be and moms. She worked to embody more than ten years of studies in spirituality and self-development and also trained with world-renowned author and healer Cyndi Dale. Her unique approach combines energy and chakra work, emotional release through color, elemental healing, and soul astrology. Her objective is to bring back the attention to the mental, emotional, and spiritual health of the mother. She helps moms-to-be and moms activate their confidence, power, and intuition so they make the best decisions for their families and create new legacies.

Summit Speaking Topic: The chakras and energetic self-care in motherhood

Dr. Claudia Perolini

With over a decade of experience in the field of psychology, Dr. Claudia Perolini empowers women to overcome emotional eating through insightful coaching. She is deeply passionate about helping women reclaim control over their relationship with food, breaking free from disempowerment and shame. Dr. Perolini guides women to explore alternative ways of regulating emotions, fostering mindfulness and self-awareness. Her mission is to enable women to live more fulfilling lives by tapping into their own potential and taking charge of their eating habits.

Summit Speaking Topic: Intentionality as a way to offset emotional eating

Danelle Kessler

Danelle, is a Nurse Practitioner, Functional Medicine Health Consultant, and Gut Health Expert dedicated to helping moms take charge of their family's health. As the founder of Restore to Thrive, she focuses on natural, root-cause approaches to common challenges like eczema, allergies, and ADHD. Danelle’s passion comes from her own journey—she’s overcome significant health struggles and has successfully improved her son’s health. As a mom of three, she understands the daily balancing act of parenting, work, and wellness. Danelle offers practical, relatable guidance to help moms support their families so they can thrive.

Summit Speaking Topic: Healing from the Inside Out: Proven Strategies to Improve Your Child’s Gut Health

Elisabeth van der Wilt

Elisabeth van der Wilt has loved pregnancy and birth since she was 11 years old. When she was told that being a doula was a career, she dropped everything to become one - at the age of 18. To this day she lives to support women from seed to harvest ensuring they get the compassionate love and care that all women should have for one another. When she isn't doing her passion work you'll find her on her homestead spending time with her animals and family.

Summit Speaking Topic: The Basics of Yoni Steaming

Gill Sealey

Gill Sealey is a passionate advocate for early childhood development and neurodivergent families. Based in Malvern, UK, Gill combines her extensive professional experience with her personal insights as a mother of a neurodivergent daughter. She has over 20 years of experience as a Primary school teacher, ran a nursery for 5 years, and was one of the first trained Forest School leaders in the UK. Gill is the founder of Neurospicy Parenting, a community dedicated to helping parents understand and nurture their children's unique needs. With her warm, relatable approach, Gill empowers parents to create supportive, thriving environments for their children.

Summit Speaking Topic: Tiny Steps to School: Helping Your Toddler Shine

Heather Erickson

As a Mom, business owner and Sleep Consultant, Heather takes what she's learned from her lived experience as a Mom and school counsellor, her post secondary degree, and the experience gained from supporting families of all ages & stages to offer knowledge and compassion to moms. Sleep is so foundational it is not uncommon for her to hear she helped "turn their lives around" when the family gets sleeping.

Understanding that sleep isn't the be all & end all, Heather offers virtual groups where moms feel further support, connection and validation within her Sleep and Beyond Programs. Heather encourages you to use your own intuition, be good to yourself and understand that nobody's perfect, nor do we need to be. Self-compassion, regulation and connection are important topics at Sleep and Beyond Consulting.

No stranger to learning from mistakes herself, Heather shares what she so wishes she'd known ahead of having kids, instead of years later, that will make your parenthood journey easier the rest of the way through. This practice also happens to be one that will get you through the meltdowns! And who doesn't want to manage those more easily?!

Valuing connection, she's interested in getting to know you. When Heather’s not at work, you can find her enjoying time outdoors on her own or with her family whether it’s tobogganing, biking or kayaking. (None of it too seriously.)

Summit Speaking Topic: Managing Meltdowns- theirs or mine 🥴🥹? The secret to improving patience & calm while decreasing those meltdowns!

Heather Plant

Heather Plant is a clinical herbalist and stress & wellness strategist with over 20 years of experience. She's the owner of Magical Plants, an herbal wellness center aimed at helping women feel calm, empowered, and in control of their health while infusing blissful magic into their daily lives. When she's not meeting with clients or creating new offerings, you can find her getting her hands dirty on her medicinal herb farm and sipping her latest favorite tea blend.

Summit Speaking Topic: Nourishing Self Love With Herbal Oils

Jill Howell

Jill Marie Howell is an emotional health coach, speaker, and somatic practitioner who has overcome C-PTSD, chronic pain, IBS, chronic fatigue, anxiety, depression, + complex trauma.

She guides women to transform the relationship they have with themselves + embody peace and joy again. Her coaching equips women to rewire their nervous systems, eliminate mind-body symptoms, + transform their stress response with somatic awareness, physiological release, movement, brain retraining, and self-acceptance.

Jill empowers women to live soft, open, + free...to release stored stress, tension, + trauma from the body...and dance in the mess of being human!

Summit Speaking Topic: Calm Your Anxiety + Overwhelm with a Guided Somatic Experience

Jill Lerman

Jill Lerman is a play and parenting coach, early childhood educator, play expert, and a mom to a toddler. She empowers overwhelmed parents & caretakers to connect & engage with their little ones through simple invitations to play and create to help make parenting feel more joyful and manageable. She also serves as a play expert and consultant for brands, where she teaches classes, runs workshops, consults on product development, and provides play ideas.

A mom herself, Jill knows how difficult getting through the day can be, which is why, above all else, her approach makes it easy for parents to facilitate interaction and play that supports development. She loves helping families create an environment and culture that sees children as capable from their earliest days, that values creativity, playfulness, bonding, and connection. You can learn more about working with Jill 1:1, her monthly membership, her podcast, and more on her website www.jillybeansnyc.com or her Instagram @jillybeansnyc.

Summit Speaking Topic: Independent Play: How It Can Support Your Child's Development and Your Mental Health as a Mom

Dr. Kayla Borchers

Dr. Kayla Borchers is a Holistic Orthopedic and Pelvic Health Physical Therapist, Prenatal and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist and mama of three. She owns and operates a Physical Therapy and Holistic Wellness private practice specializing in root-cause care before, during and after pregnancy. Dr. Kayla is the founder of the Holistically Well Method, with self-paced preconception, pregnancy and postpartum online programs that take the guesswork out how to exercise specific to your life season and programs it all out for you!

Summit Speaking Topic: Pelvic Health in Motherhood: How to be an Active, Present Mother without Peeing your Pants!

Kelisa Volson

Kelisa Volson is a Licensed Professional Counselor, motivational speaker and coach. She started her speaking at churches, community organizations in person and virtually as a teen. With a goal of providing education, inspiration and call to action, her messages focus on healing, providing inspiration and empowerment.

Kelisa serves clients primarily virtually working with all age ranges from children to adults in the states of Georgia, Texas, Louisiana and Florida. She has her own private practice, Rising Heights Counseling Center, LLC since 2016. She has over 17 years of clinical experience assisting clients who are challenged with anxiety, ADHD, depression/mood disorders, self-confidence, stress disorders, life transitions, grief, narcissistic abuse recovery, and autism where she also provides coaching and support for families.

Kelisa attended Louisiana Tech University where she graduated Cum Laude with of Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Arts in General Counseling and Guidance.

In her leisure time, Kelisa enjoys spending time vegging out on the couch watching movies, traveling, trying new foods, bargain shopping and with family and friends especially her husband and son.

Summit Speaking Topic: Parenting Children with Autism 101

Larissa Hazell

Larissa is a mum of one and a qualified nanny with 14 years’ experience. Her vast experience includes working with over 50 children in a diverse range of families in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. From sprawling country estates to small London flats, she has supported families in many different nanny roles.

Throughout her engagement with families, she has always been passionate about ensuring that every family has the ideal childcare provider for them – even if that is not her. She truly believes that it is such an important and layered decision that all families deserve to get right the first time.

Childcare is about choosing the right professional, someone (or a team) who is going to be part of your team, who you will work seamlessly together with and support your family now and in the future.

She founded Childcare Navigator because there simply wasn’t one ‘go to’ place for parent’s questions and concerns regarding childcare, or somewhere to guide them on different childcare options and what they need to consider in order to choose the right childcare, the first time.

Childcare Navigator is just that resource.

Summit Speaking Topic: Why choosing the right childcare matters

Lauren Gray

Lauren is a dynamic fitness and life coach who’s on a mission to help busy moms rediscover their health and happiness. As a mom of four boys in different stages of life and armed with a master’s degree in Education, and years of hands-on experience coaching women, Lauren knows firsthand the juggling act that comes with motherhood.

She’s the powerhouse behind Jumpstart With LG and the creator of The BRINK, The BRINK-flex and The SHIFT, all game-changing coaching programs that empower moms over 35 to take charge of their fitness and well-being. With her down-to-earth advice and infectious energy, Lauren inspires moms to make self-care a priority, showing them that it’s possible to thrive amidst the chaos of daily life.

At the Mama's Wellness Matters Summit, she’ll be sharing her favorite tips and tricks for keeping fitness and nutrition simple and doable—even for moms with toddlers in tow. Get ready to feel motivated, uplifted, and ready to take on your wellness journey with Lauren leading the way!

Summit Speaking Topic: Fit & Full: Practical Fitness and Nutrition Tips for Moms of Young Kids

Leslie Urbas

Leslie Urbas has been a dietitian for 15+ years and a personal trainer for 10+ years. She is passionate about truthfully teaching women how to wholly embody and love and accept themselves. As a previous selfless overachiever she understands wellness is not about the destination but about fully having the life, the body, the health you want without shame, guilt or sacrifice. You can have it all

Summit Speaking Topic: Digestion Codes: Finally have the life, the body, and the health without sacrifice, shame or guilt.

Leticia Rios

Leticia is a dedicated children's occupational therapist and holistic sleep coach with a passion for empowering parents. Through her practice, she specializes in helping parents gain confidence in managing their baby's sleep by providing evidence-based information and gentle, practical tips (no sleep training involved). Leticia's approach emphasizes the importance of attachment and bonding, ensuring that families feel supported throughout their journey. She offers personalized 1:1 email consultations, comprehensive guides, and a free blog, all designed to equip parents with the tools they need to foster healthy sleep habits and a strong parent-child connection.

Summit Speaking Topic: Taming the Tiny Tornado: Surviving Toddler Bedtime

Lindsey Renteria

Lindsey is a Nurse Practitioner and women's gut health consultant. After going through her own personal gut healing journey, she was led to serve others. Lindsey specializes in helping busy, motivated women in their 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s who are looking to improve their digestive issues including bloating, diarrhea, constipation, food sensitivities, Irritable bowel syndrome, and inflammatory bowel disease. Through a detailed consultation and comprehensive testing, she identifies the root cause of their current symptoms and develops an individualized protocol that focuses on healing the gut through sustainable nutrition and lifestyle changes.

Summit Speaking Topic: Why Stress is Wrecking your Gut

Lynn Turcotte-Schuh

As an Intuitive Mentor, Speaker & Lightworker, Lynn supports overwhelmed, work-from-home Moms in getting out of survival mode and connecting with their kids so they can parent with calm and confidence and feel so full of joy they leave the dishes in the sink and bust a move in their kitchen. Lynn is on a mission to release Moms from the unrealistic expectations of Supermom so they can love motherhood as much as they love their kids.

When she’s not working with Moms you can find Lynn with her wife and daughter on their 14-acre homestead; probably hanging out with her chickens, getting dirty in the garden or leading a wicked awesome, break from homeschool, epic kitchen dance party...and you know the song she’s dancing to is by NKOTB.

Summit Speaking Topic: Escaping Supermom: Three Ways to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed by Mom Guilt

Martha Brown

Martha is an integrative business and lifestyle coach dedicated to empowering busy moms in business. As a mom of three, she understands the challenges of balancing a thriving business with a fulfilling family life. With a mission to help mompreneurs master business and life with innovative simplicity, Martha provides tailored strategies for productivity, growth, and well-being. Her services include one-on-one coaching, group programs, and courses designed to fit the unique lifestyles of her clients. Specializing in time management, overcoming burnout, and enhancing productivity, Martha leverages tools like AI and Canva to streamline operations, ensuring moms achieve more in less time. Her approach emphasizes self-care, ensuring that moms not only succeed in business but also enjoy quality time with their families. Passionate and relatable, Martha is redefining the hustle for mompreneurs, making it possible for them to achieve success on their own terms.

Summit Speaking Topic: Harnessing Chaos: Turning Mom Burnout Into Empowered Productivity

Melissa Brander

Melissa Brander is the founder of Pocket Homeschool and the SMART Homeschool Society. She focuses on helping homeschool moms feel enough, recognize their strengths, and equip themselves with lifelong learning in order to homeschool successfully by providing SMART resources that are simple to implement, meaningful family experiences, academically oriented, reasonably priced, tools for explorative learning. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and their two boys who have been homeschooled their entire lives. Find her at PocketHomeschool.com and on Facebook and Instagram.

Summit Speaking Topic: How to Get Started Homeschooling

Melissa Burris

Melissa is a wife, mom, and marriage blogger. She helps couples strengthen their marriage after kids. She knows firsthand how difficult it can be to connect with your spouse when you have young children (who demand all of your attention!). She and her husband have discovered sustainable tips that they use every single day to stay connected. And she's excited to share that knowledge with other couples!

Summit Speaking Topic: Peaceful Parenting Disagreements: A Unique Approach to Parenting Conflicts That Strengthens Your Marriage

Michelle Landrum, CNHP

Michelle is a Certified Natural Health Professional, Consultant, and dedicated homeschooling mom of five. Her journey into holistic health began with her own physical health challenges, which the conventional medical community couldn't resolve. Turning to natural remedies, Michelle discovered a path to feeling her best and was inspired to help others achieve similar transformations.

For over ten years, Michelle has assisted numerous individuals facing a variety of health challenges, offering personalized support and guidance. Initially focusing on physical health, Michelle soon realized that true wellness encompasses mental and spiritual well-being as well. Guided by her faith, she embraced a more holistic approach, addressing the root causes of health issues to support clients in achieving comprehensive wellness.

Michelle is about to launch her new class, Whole-Hearted Health Journey: An Integrative Approach to Wellness, where participants can learn more about healing physically, mentally, and spiritually. She is passionate about empowering others to take charge of their health through natural, holistic methods that honor the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit.

Connect with Michelle on Facebook and Instagram @loves7grace to stay updated and learn more about her work.

Summit Speaking Topic: Empower Your Family's Health: Natural Remedies that Work

Rachael

Rachael, a dedicated mother of two energetic boys, is a passionate advocate for holistic wellness throughout the pregnancy journey and beyond. As a certified birth doula and licensed massage therapist specializing in prenatal and postpartum care, she brings nurturing support and expertise to expectant mothers. Drawing on her background in osteopathy, Rachael offers personalized care that includes tailored exercises, birth preparation, and postpartum healing. She utilizes osteopathic principles and specialized techniques like ELDOA to alleviate discomfort and promote well-being. With years of experience, Rachael empowers her clients to embrace pregnancy and motherhood with confidence and vitality.

Summit Speaking Topic: The Posture & Pelvic Floor Connection

Sara Hall

Sara Hall is a professional home organizer and mom of 2, specializing in creating family-friendly spaces tailored to busy moms. Her expertise lies in developing practical and efficient organization systems that tackle the 3 pillars of an organized life; Organizing Style, Habits & Mindset. Sara focuses on crafting solutions that are both functional and aesthetically pleasing, ensuring that every corner of the home—from toy storage to meal planning stations—supports the family's dynamic lifestyle. Her customized approach takes into account the unique needs and preferences of each family, helping them manage clutter and maintain a harmonious living environment.

Sara’s warm and empathetic approach makes her a trusted partner for moms seeking to reclaim their space. She is dedicated to implementing organizing solutions that offer practical relief and lasting benefits, making her a valued resource for any mom looking to enhance their home’s functionality and comfort.

Summit Speaking Topic: Mess Mastery: Playful Solutions for an Organized Family Home

Sarah Levy

Sarah Levy is a Licensed Therapist, Somatic Experiencing™ Practitioner, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Mind-Body Educator. Sarah is the founder of Embodied Education & Practice, home to The Full Cup Collective, a monthly membership space and online support community for millennials who are on the edge of burnout and seeking simple ways to decompress so that they can show up feeling grounded and present for their work, their families and themselves.

Sarah is on a mission to bring nervous system healing and connection to career-oriented millennial parents navigating this season of life. She offers simple and effective tools so that you can prioritize filling your own cup!

Summit Speaking Topic: Filling Your Cup When The Well Has Run Dry : Accessing the Nervous System for Greater Emotional & Physical Well-Being

Sharon McCaskill

Sharon McCaskill is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who helps individuals achieve their health goals through personalized nutrition counseling and evidence-based guidance. Inspired by her husband's journey with celiac disease and type 1 diabetes, Sharon combines her professional expertise with personal experience to provide compassionate care. She is also a dedicated mother of two daughters. Through her private practice and her website, The Helpful GF, Sharon empowers her clients to transform their well-being and develop a positive relationship with food.

Summit Speaking Topic: Mindful Eating for Families: Building a Positive Relationship with Food Together