Summer brings an abundance of delicious fruit, but many people don't realize how quickly certain fruits can raise blood sugar levels. Awareness is the first step toward making choices that support long-term health.

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You have permission to start the next quarter of the 21st century with new vital science behind transformation. Download the challenges, tracker and habit stacker all to make your 2026 your best year ever.

Let's Get Wild Challenge 2026

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How to Stay Wild Forever (The Art of Habit Stacking) is about permission to let go of the challenges that didn't fit, and doubling down on the ones that did.

[Part 1: The Stack] The New Habit I want to keep: __________________ The Old Habit I do every day without thinking: __________________ My New Formula: "After I ____________, I will ____________." [

Part 2: The Tracker] A simple grid for 7 days. [ ] Mon [ ] Tue [ ] Wed [ ] Thu [ ] Fri [ ] Sat [ ] Sun [Part 3: The Identity Shift] I am not just "trying" this. I am a person who prioritizes nature. 

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: Discover the power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace
• Personalized Health: Discover practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.

Are you ready to unlock your full potential and embark on a journey of conscious living? Join us for this transformative presentation where you'll discover practical strategies to enhance your well-being and thrive naturally. Whether you're a seasoned natural health expert seeking to expand your impact or a curious individual on your own wellness journey, this presentation offers valuable insights for everyone. This presentation will equip you with practical, actionable tools and knowledge you need to empower yourself and live a more vibrant, fulfilling life.

Over a hundred years ago, before food plants were all hybrids, seed saving was part of farming and gardening. It offers so many gifts: nourishment, flavor, biodiversity, and climate resiliency. Saving seeds connects people and builds healthy communities. Over the decades, we’ve lost many of the techniques and knowledge about how to collect, share and keep viable seeds. Empowered Gardening is bringing this vital practice back into use. I pick before I eat them. To me, the point of having a garden is freshness. Lettuce is likely healthier than you realize. It provides Vitamin A, Vitamin K, and small amounts of many other healthy nutrients. It is low in fiber with high water content. Really, the perfect diet food. Once the temperature gets to about 75-80 degrees and sunny, lettuce doesn’t like it. It starts to grow tall branches or stalks, which is bolting. Then it develops flower heads and eventually produces seed. Once your lettuce bolts, leave a few plants in your garden bed, allow the flowers to bloom, and go to seed. Then dry out completely on the stalk. One lettuce plant can produce hundreds, if not thousands of seeds – you only need a few plants to save lots of free seeds. When your lettuce heads are completely dry and fluffy (like a white dandelion seed head), the seeds are ready to harvest. You can handpick individual seed heads. Once the pappuses, which are the scales or featherlike hairs, have emerged, but before they have fulfilled their seed dispersal function, a gardener can simply take hold of the pappuses to gather the seeds from each mature head. Shake the individual mature flowers onto a plate or even into another pot. More seeds can be collected easily as other heads on the plant mature. Another technique is to bend the flowering branches or stalks into a bag and gently shake them to dislodge mature seeds. This process is more efficient than hand-picking seeds from separate flowers. You can start when about one-third of the seed heads are mature. Repeat every week or two or until the desired quantity of seeds is collected. The bagging-it-up method, which I prefer, is that you can bag all the flowers and wait. Cover the whole plant or fruiting branches with a bag and gently shake them to dislodge mature seeds. This process is more efficient than hand-picking or bagging seeds from the separate flowers. Cleaning and Processing Cleaning methods vary depending on how the seeds were collected and how much chaff (dry, scaly protective casing of the seeds) is present. If seeds are gathered by hand-harvesting or shaking plants, there should be relatively little chaff. Cleaning techniques can focus on separating the seed from the pappus. Lightly rubbing the gathered material together between one’s hands or against a screen should detach the seeds from their pappuses without damaging them. On a larger scale, entire plants can be shaken or threshed, loosening the seeds from the chaff by rubbing the seed heads, or just shaking the plants over a large container, or moving the seed heads on a tarp. It can be challenging to get rid of all the chaff with your lettuce seeds. But don’t worry, the chaff won’t affect your lettuce seeds’ ability to germinate.                                                                            Key Takeaways:

• Holistic Wellness: Explore the interconnectedness of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health.
• Mindful Living: Discover the power of mindfulness for reducing stress, improving focus, and cultivating inner peace.
• Sustainable Practices: Learn how to incorporate sustainable living into your daily life, from eco-friendly choices to ethical consumption.
• Community and Connection: Explore the importance of building supportive relationships and fostering a sense of belonging.
• Personalized Health: Discover practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.

In this presentation, Cynthia Terrell explores how summer sunlight can support energy, mood, and natural body rhythms, while true recovery helps the body fully receive those benefits. This brief, practical talk is designed for high-performing women who are ready to stop pushing through fatigue and start restoring themselves more intentionally.

Participants will learn the difference between simply stopping and true recovery, why the nervous system needs both light and restoration, and how small daily practices can help create more balance, clarity, and vitality. The message is simple: sunlight can brighten your day, but recovery is what helps you sustain that light.

This is a fast, practical talk about how to "cool the fire" in your body. I will show you how timing and meal choices, exercise, and how to stabilize your blood sugar with a one-week experiment that you can start immediately to lower inflammation easily without gimmicks or being perfect.

Are you ready to unlock your full potential and embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day?

Join us for this transformative presentation where you'll discover a practical strategy to enhance your well-being. will share a quick reset to help you thrive naturally. In these times, you need to empower yourself and live a more vibrant, fulfilling life.

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: Discover the power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace.
• Community and Connection: Explore the importance of building supportive relationships and fostering a sense of belonging by participating on camera.
• Personalized Health: Discover practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.

Your full potential when you embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day

Deep Sleep Is Where Healing Happens. Maricel Rocha, a health extension specialist, provides valuable sleep tips and explains how to sleep better by focusing on restorative sleep. She emphasizes that deep sleep is a key pillar of age reversal and discusses sleep science with a focus on rejuvenation. This video is a great resource for sleep optimization, offering practical advice to improve your overall well-being. You can build small habits one evening at a time to improve your sleep. Maricel Rocha created a "5-day sleep challenge" to guide you through small, science-based changes to support deep and REM sleep. Join the challenge for more energy, clear thinking, a better mood, and stronger health. Restorative sleep is an incredibly powerful tool for rejuvenation that you have access to every night. The most powerful anti-aging treatment is not a supplement, skincare, or food; it is quality sleep. When sleep is consistently high quality, we age more slowly from the inside out. Sleep is not the absence of activity; it is when your body does its most important work. Poor sleep can lead to feeling moody, irritable, foggy, and off balance. When you sabotage sleep, you lose critical stages of repair. So learn how to sleep better. #sleepscience, #deepsleep, #sleeptips, #sleepoptimization, #howtosleepbetter

Herbs that help cool the body, herbs for repelling various summer pests and herbal receipes for the summer heat.

In Unleash Your Inner Champion, Karen Bonnett-Natraj shares her journey from surviving an abusive marriage to embracing a life bigger than she ever imagined possible. She opens in raw honesty—speeding toward a restraining order, bleeding in an ER, living on autopilot. Then comes the turning point: a single whisper of "What if you can?" that opened the door to everything she thought was out of reach. Saying yes carried her to 46 ultra-races and 35,000 miles cycled. Through her "Triple A" blueprint—Awareness, Acceptance, and Action—she shows audiences that the life they long for is still possible, starting now.

What if the life you truly want is only one decision away? Many people feel stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their purpose, yet lasting transformation begins with small, intentional daily actions. In this inspiring and practical session, Kuti Mack shares the BYBD™ (Build Your Best Day) methodology, a proven framework for navigating change, building resilience, and creating a life aligned with your highest potential. Participants will discover how to break free from limiting patterns, embrace new possibilities, and cultivate greater energy, purpose, and fulfillment. Attendees will leave empowered with simple tools they can immediately apply to create meaningful change and build a healthier, more abundant future.

Life doesn't always unfold the way we expect. Whether you've experienced the loss of a loved one, a major life transition, or an unexpected setback, your story isn't over. In this inspiring session, Dr. Lynn Banis shares practical strategies to help you move beyond surviving and begin creating a life filled with renewed purpose, hope, and possibility. Drawing from both her personal journey and decades of coaching experience, she will explore how to release what's holding you back, embrace meaningful change, and take intentional steps toward your next chapter. Attendees will leave with a fresh perspective on resilience, the confidence to move forward without leaving their past behind, and simple, actionable tools to begin building a future that honors where they've been while embracing all that is still possible.

GLP-1 medications have changed the conversation around weight loss and metabolic health, but many people feel confused about when to start, how to use them effectively, or how to transition off without losing progress.

In this session, Maricel brings clarity to the GLP-1 journey through a whole-health lens. Whether you are considering these medications, currently using them, or thinking about stopping, you will learn how to support your body at every stage.

Maricel will break down what GLP-1s do in the body in simple terms and share the essential lifestyle foundations that must be in place to protect metabolism, maintain muscle, regulate appetite, and support long-term results.

This session focuses on helping you make informed, personalized decisions by integrating metabolism, nutrition, nervous system regulation, and mindset.

You will leave with a clear framework to approach GLP-1s with confidence, while building sustainable habits that extend your healthpsan.

Presenting Garden to Table: Inspiring Ways to Grow and Cook Your Groceries with Chef Mary Lummerding. Get gardening tips and recipes to use the bounty from your garden. You don't even need a farm!

Most people don't fail at nutrition because they lack a good plan. They fail because of the story they carry about food and about themselves. Every skipped workout becomes proof they're undisciplined. Every unplanned meal becomes evidence they can't be trusted. Shame feels like accountability, but it produces avoidance, and avoidance produces more of exactly what they were ashamed of. Max Barnes breaks down why willpower and punishment were never the real problem, and introduces the shift that actually sticks: you're not here to lose weight, you're here to become someone who lives differently, and the weight follows. You'll learn how to rewrite the way you talk to yourself about food, why a bad meal doesn't have to become a bad day, and the one question that replaces guilt with forward motion. You'll leave with a new relationship with food, not another rule to break by Friday.

Simple ways to start healing yourself now. Why loving yourself changes everything. Embark on a journey of self-love and discover the transformative power of emotional healing. Collaborative members offer self-help insights and inspiration for managing stress relief, fostering spiritual growth, and enhancing overall wellness. Embrace these practices to live a more fulfilling life. This discussion emphasizes the profound impact of self-love as the cornerstone for personal growth and emotional healing. We explore daily practices to cultivate self-esteem and how loving yourself can positively impact all aspects of your life and relationships. Learn how to embark on a journey of self-healing. 

Back to Nature, Forward to Abundance Panel 3 & 4, Conclusion

What if better health didn’t start with another quick fix… but with reconnecting to the foundations that truly nourish us?

In this practical and inspiring session, Patrice Porter, The Gardening Grandma, explores how food, nature, and simple lifestyle practices can support whole-person wellness in sustainable, meaningful ways.

 In this session, you’ll discover:

• How reconnecting with real, nourishing food supports long-term wellness
• Why gardening changes our relationship with nutrition and health
• Simple ways to incorporate nature into everyday healing practices
• The Gardening Grandma’s “3 P’s” framework for creating healthier lifestyle patterns
• Gentle, practical tools to support energy, vitality, and overall wellbeing

Attendees will leave with actionable steps they can begin using immediately to create a more grounded, nourishing, and sustainable approach to health.

Many people think of healing as something we receive from the outside — a treatment, a technique, or a solution we have to search for. But one of the most immediate and accessible healing tools we have is already within us: the voice.

This session offers a powerful reset: a reconnection to presence, embodied awareness, and the grounding power of your own voice. Ruth Ratliff will guide participants to explore sound and voice as pathways to presence, self-care, and embodied healing. Through simple practices such as grounding, conscious listening, breath and vocal sounding, attendees will discover how their own voice can help them support their body's own innate healing abilities.

This session invites participants to experience their voice as a living instrument of healing, inner awareness, and self-connection. Participants will leave with practical tools for self-care, presence, and healing—and a renewed connection to the power of their own voice.

Your full potential when you embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day

This transformative wrap-up of this celebration it is where you decide on your a practical strategy to enhance your well-being to thrive naturally. In these times, you need to empower yourself and live a more vibrant, fulfilling life. 

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: The power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace.
• Community and Connection: Build supportive relationships and foster a sense of belonging. 
• Personalized Health: Implement practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.

What if the second half of the year could be your healthiest, happiest, and most energized yet?

Join Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Terri Rahman, for an uplifting and practical session designed to help you reset and reconnect with what matters most. In this inspiring talk, Terri will introduce her Four Pillars of Possibility—Nourishment, Movement, Restoration, and Connection—and show how these foundational habits can help support energy, mood, digestion, mental clarity, resilience, and overall well-being.

Whether you're feeling stuck, stressed, exhausted, or simply ready for a fresh start, you'll leave with simple, actionable strategies you can begin using immediately to create positive momentum in your health and life.

This midsummer reset is your invitation to embrace new possibilities, honor your well-being, and take the next step toward becoming the healthiest, most vibrant version of yourself.

Are you ready to unlock your full potential and embark on a journey of conscious living & celebrating International Women's Day?

Key Takeaways:

• Mindful Living: Discover the power of mindfulness to reduce stress, improve focus, and cultivate inner peace.
• Community and Connection: Explore the importance of building supportive relationships and fostering a sense of belonging by participating on camera. 
• Personalized Health: Discover practical tools and techniques to empower your personal healing and transformation.