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Life Coach – Leslie Gail – Email
Leslie Gail is a lifestyle expert, author, MomTV host and radio host of the show Life Simplified. She has helped countless people transform their lives in positive ways. Leslie is passionate about helping moms get back in touch with their authentic selves, so they can create a life they love. She can be seen every Tuesday on her LIVE MomTV show where women all across the country can connect and get support and advice. Leslie also sends out a weekly ezine offering tips to jumpstart your week. You can visit Leslie’s website at www.newlifefocus.com in order to access free articles, sign up for her Monday Morning Tip, or simply get more information on her and her services. Leslie currently resides in Denver with her husband and two children.
Financial Advisor – Cathy Schwartz
Catherine is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ practitioner and a Certified Divorce Financial Analyst™, and works as a Financial Advisor with Waddell & Reed, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. She has a special interest and experience in helping clients through financial transitions such as retirement, divorce, birth of a child, or death of a loved one. Her approach to planning is centered around clients’ financial goals and objectives. She helps clients identify, clarify, and prioritize their financial goals, and helps them effectively weigh short-term needs and long-term objectives so they can make educated decisions with their money to allow them the best possible chance for financial success in the long-run.
Catherine is President of the Women’s Estate Planning Council, a Patron Member (a non-lawyer) of the Colorado Bar Association, and is actively involved with the Financial Planning Association. She is a member of the Denver Art Museum, CultureHaus, and Colorado Business Committee for the Arts. She is an active member of the Denver area alumni association of Kappa Kappa Gamma. Catherine has recently appeared on CBS 4 News in Denver as part of their “Money Makeover” segment.
Catherine Schwartz, CFP®, CDFA
Financial Advisor
Waddell & Reed, Inc.
4582 South Ulster Street
Denver, CO 80237
PH: 303-770-5511 x105
Website: www.schwartz.wradvisors.com
General Internist - Dr. Karen Chacko – Email
Karen Chacko, MD was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. After attending both undergraduate and medical school in sunny San Diego she headed West to Denver. She is a physician who practices Internal Medicine and also helps direct a residency training program for generations of future primary care physicians. Now having lived in Denver for nearly 15 years, she calls the mile high city home where she is busy raising two beautiful little daughters – Adele and Isabel. Karen is familiar with the challenges of a full family and career life – the juggling act we all know and live! Look for her monthly wellness tips on the website.
Karen M. Chacko, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Program Director, Primary Care Track
University of Colorado Internal Medicine Residency Program
Pediatrician – Dr. Michael Milobsky – Email
Dr Michael Milobsky moved to Denver from Baltimore with his family in January, 2000. For the past 7 years, Dr. Milobsky has been practicing pediatric emergency and pediatric hospital medicine and is currently a full time pediatric hospitalist. Dr. Milobsky is board certified in general pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992, Dr. Milobsky completed his medical degree from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, graduating cum laude and AOA (national honor medical society) in 1996. He completed his residency in general Pediatrics at the University of Maryland Medical Center in 1999.
Living in south Denver with his wife and 6 children, Dr. Milobsky is active in coaching youth basketball, mountain biking, and keeping up with his kids ages 11 to 1 year. He a former college basketball player at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Milobsky can often be found trying to recapture his former glory on basketball courts all over south metro Denver.
Nutritionist & Family Wellness Expert -Julie Hammerstein, CN – Email
Julie Hammerstein is one of the country’s leading health experts. As a Certified Nutritionist, she works with families, companies, and individuals helping them breakthrough the myths around diet and exercise and create a whole new and empowering “Culture of Healthy Living”.
She has helped thousands of people take back their health through her philosophy “Small Change, Big Impact”™. With this simple, yet profound message, Julie dispels the negative beliefs about weight loss and eradicates the mindset that being healthy is hard.
She was recruited to be the Nutritional Coach for the TV documentary, “Fitting In” which aired on ABC Family in June 2008. The show, currently being considered for national cable, is designed to educate viewers on the cause, effects and possible solutions for the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. This is just one example of Julie’s commitment to transforming one of our country’s leading health issues.
Her educational DVD series Max’s Minutes: The A-Z’s of Healthy Living, which she produced with 6-year-old Max, gives parents and kids a fun and unique look at how to create a healthy home. Her new book, Fat is Not a Four Letter Word: 14 Daily Lessons to Break Through Your ‘Fat Kid Mentality’, debuts in 2010 and will transform how people approach dieting and weight loss by giving daily lessons for creating a healthier life.
Trainer RMTV & President A-List Fit– Dulcinea Lee Hellings Email
I have been actively involved in the fitness industry for about 14 years. I started teaching Group Fitness classes in College at Penn State: Hi/Lo Impact, Step Aerobics, Power Training, Freestyle Jump-rope, Kickboxing, and more. When I moved to Los Angeles in 2000 I started Personal Training as a second job at Bally Total Fitness. I graduated on top of the Bally’s PT Fundamentals class, but quickly outgrew the gym trainer atmosphere. I continued to work for Bally’s in their Group Exercise department leading fitness classes, but decided to take my Personal Training outside of the gym and start my own business. My training company, A-List Fit, was born in 2002 with the slogan “You are a star, fit the part!” As my reputation for quality training grew so did my client base; and I gave up my “regular” day time office job to focus on the world of fitness. I got truly immersed in the exercise culture by attending Fitness Conventions, Trainer Workshops, studying exercise DVD’s, working with my own Personal Trainer, reading Trainer Handbooks, and researching exercises online just so that I could be the best Trainer possible.
In July of 2003 I entered and took fourth place in Ms. Fitness Hollywood competition, about the same time A-List Fit started booming with business. To fill the demand of A-List clients I reached out to other trainers I had worked with at Bally’s or knew otherwise and started sub-contracting business through my network of “Quality Personal Trainers.” In July of 2004 I attended the IDEA Fit World Trainer Conference in San Diego and learned about Fitness Boot Camps. I was so intrigued by the idea of taking group fitness outside with little to no equipment that I decided to launch my own Boot Camp in Los Angeles as soon as I returned from the seminar. In September of 2004 Boot Camp “Morning Crunch” was born in Hollywood with just one class time that I led from 6-7am on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Word of the program spread quickly through LA and sooner than later I called upon my Quality Trainers to open other locations around the LA Metro. Today we have 12 locations around Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, and SoCal beach areas with multiple morning class times at each location, evening Boot Camps, Monday-Friday classes, Weekend Warrior Boot Camp Special events, Boot Camp fitness retreats, and free group hiking events. We have been the #1 rated Los Angeles Boot Camp for the last 4 years.
Today I am working on a number of other fitness related projects. Of course I am doing the Real Hollywood Trainer show for you on Mondays at 9am PST. In addition, I am working on an exercise DVD compilation with a number of my trainers and I have also have been working on my exercise book, the 102 Exercises Guide. As always, I manage all the business affairs and PR for Boot Camp “Morning Crunch.”
Make Up Artist – Mary Wolfgang – Email
I have been a makeup artist in the Denver area for 18 years, for national cosmetic companies including 3 years as a National Makeup Artist for Trish McEvoy. I have done work for several local fashion shows including the Forever Darling Fashion show for the past 3 years, Charles Nolan Fashion Show 2008. In 2007 I was invited to the Bobbi Brown Studio in So Ho for the “boot-camp” training with Bobbi Brown.
I currently work at Saks Fifth Avenue with Bobbi Brown Cosmetics.
