WLM19Reclaim Your Body Summit

Event Experts

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  Samantha Skelly

  Anatomy of an Eating Disorder

  What You'll Learn +

  • What are your emotions telling you?
  • Causes of eating disorders
  • Breathing to resolve painful emotions
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  Carter Good

  Are You Using Food or Is It Using You?

  What You'll Learn +

  • Planning for success 
  • Overcoming inadequacy 
  • Repairing your relationship with the scale
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  Chef AJ

  Chef Overcomes Food Addiction

  What You'll Learn +

  • Understanding moderation vs. abstinence
  • Symptoms of food addiction
  • Impact of hormones on your weight
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  Marc David, MA

  Create a Healthy Friendship with Food

  What You'll Learn +

  • Effects of emotions on body weight
  • Why restrictive diets cause weight gain
  • Meaning of food cravings
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  Ronny Turiaf ML

  Developing Perseverance

  What You'll Learn +

  • Achieve the unfathomable
  • Why beliefs and words rule your destiny 
  • Truth about setbacks and negativity
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  Max Lugavere

  Digesting the Genius in Food

  What You'll Learn +

  • Brain-body-food connection
  • How foods affect our behavior
  • Power foods that helps us heal
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  Jessica Beniquez

  Facing Fear with Resilience and Grace

  What You'll Learn +

  • My journey to lose 170 pounds

  • Staying on track when life throws curveballs

  • Healing from cancer with a healthy lifestyle
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  David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM

  Food Today vs. Disease Tomorrow

  What You'll Learn +

  • How gut bacteria affects decisions and empathy 
  • Impact of gluten and grains on your health 
  • Importance of sleep
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  Dean Ornish, MD

  Freedom to Control Your Life

  What You'll Learn +

  • Reverse obesity and other diseases
  • Why fear-based changes don’t last
  • Impact of loneliness on your health
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  Tim and Heather Kaufman

  From Couch to Marathon

  What You'll Learn +

  • Lifestyle changes that eliminated 290 lbs
  • Getting off the couch to walk
  • Abstaining for success
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  Anthony Balduzzi, NMD

  Helping Men Lose over 75,000 Pounds

  What You'll Learn +

  • Secrets to long-term success 
  • Restrictive diets can cause more problems
  • Changing your relationship with food
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  James Clear

  How Habits Control Your Life

  What You'll Learn +

  • Setting health goals 

  • Tips to make habit-changing easier

  • How to resist peer pressure for unhealthy habits​
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  Tinier Tim Bauer

  How I Lost 1 Pound, 225 times

  What You'll Learn +

  • Is hypocrisy worse than death?
  • Emotional healing that melted the fat
  • Healthy habits: Fake ‘em ‘til you make ‘em
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  Tom O'Bryan, DC, CCN, DACBN

  How to Thrive in a Toxic World

  What You'll Learn +

  • Effect of chemicals on your weight
  • Is your brain functioning at capacity? 
  • How plastic causes inflammation and brain fog
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  Lexi & Danny Reed

  How We Lost Over 400 lbs. Together

  What You'll Learn +

  • Creative ways to stay motivated
  • Embracing your body image (and liberation!)
  • Focusing on life gained vs. weight lost
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  Hannah Janish

  Journey into Self-Love

  What You'll Learn +

  • Public accountability to stay on track
  • Harmful effects of “scale obsession”
  • Finding patience and trust for weight loss
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  Joe Cross

  Juicy Option to Heal Chronic Pain and Illness

  What You'll Learn +

  • Re-energize and cleanse your cells 
  • Will power and food connection
  • How to beat cravings while fasting
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  Lauren Handel Zander

  Keeping Promises Can Set You Free

  What You'll Learn +

  • Price of having secrets and being sneaky
  • How epigenetics and inner dialog affect your life
  • Manage your brain to live your dreams
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  Fred Bisci, PhD

  Keys to Graceful Aging

  What You'll Learn +

  • Benefits of eating raw plants
  • How fasting changed Fred’s life perspective
  • Where food and consciousness meet
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  Gay Hendricks, PhD

  Maintaining Weight for Almost 50 Years

  What You'll Learn +

  • How Gay lost and kept off 140 lbs 
  • Using conscious breathing to set yourself free
  • What causes cravings?
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  Jonathan Landsman

  Manmade Cause of Chronic Disease

  What You'll Learn +

  • How chronic inflammation ruins your body
  • Is gut imbalance causing weight loss resistance?
  • Root canals, gut health and what dentists won’t say
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  Jon Gabriel

  Mind-Body-Weight Connection

  What You'll Learn +

  • Empower your body and mind to feel thin
  • How trauma can cause obesity
  • 220lbs transformation, addressing stress
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  Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS

  Nutrition Myth Buster

  What You'll Learn +

  • How food marketers manipulate your brain
  • Food that’s designed to be addictive 
  • Gradual changes to create a new life
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  Joe De Sena

  Spartan Race Endurance Game

  What You'll Learn +

  • Trick yourself into unimaginable goals
  • Manage your brain for insane endurance
  • Playfully enjoy the ride for great results
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  Stephen Sokoler

  Transformation with Meditation

  What You'll Learn +

  • Daily routines that helped Stephen lose 90 lbs
  • Keys to balancing health and entrepreneurship 
  • Overcoming sugar addiction
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  Mary O'Malley

  Understanding Compulsions

  What You'll Learn +

  • Dealing with compulsive binges​
  • How Mary overcame suicidal feelings 
  • Manage diet while listening to your inner self
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  Sarah Anne Stewart, AADP

  What Are You Really Craving?

  What You'll Learn +

  • Stop being ruled by shame
  • Practice forgiveness to set yourself free
  • How mindfulness saved Sarah’s life
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  Mark Hyman, MD

  What Should I Eat?

  What You'll Learn +

  • Role of genetics in food addiction
  • Gluten and sugar sensitivities
  • 
Fat-free vs. healthy fat vs. saturated fat
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  T. Colin Campbell, PhD

  What’s the Source of Your Protein?

  What You'll Learn +

  • Findings on animal protein 
  • Plant-based vs. animal-based diet
  • What to eat to live a long life
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  Amy Pershing, LMSW, ACSW

  What’s Your Body Trying to Say?

  What You'll Learn +

  • Restriction vs. allowing
  • Honoring your body (and losing shame!)
  • Transform your relationship with food
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  Andrew Shanahan

  When Losers Become Winners

  What You'll Learn +

  • How isolation turns into fat 
  • Track what you eat to keep score 
  • Fun + sports + support = success
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  Mordechai Wiener

  Your “Why” Beats “What” You Eat!

  What You'll Learn +

  • Solutions for sustained weight loss
  • Self-love was the only diet that worked
  • What’s the reverse approach?

Meet Your Host

Mordechai Wiener

Mordechai Wiener is a weight loss and health advocate and knows what it’s like to be deep in the struggle of feeling out of control around food. This had been his struggle since he was eight years old, and in 2011, he hit rock bottom. He was 26 years old and had so many things going for him. His wildly successful business life was in stark contrast to his out of control relationship with food, and the self-esteem he felt in business simply did not translate into his personal life. He weighed over 330 pounds and,despite his successes, felt like a failure.

In his desperation, he realized that yo-yo dieting would never work. He came upon an epiphany: He had to get healthy for himself. This is not just where he started his weight loss journey, it is also where he discovered his passion to empower others. Now, over 130 pounds lighter and having sold his business, Mordechai Wiener is on a mission to help others to gain control over their relationship with food.