SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
MEET THE SPEAKERS
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Layne Vanlieshout
Layne is a Certified Functional Practitioner dedicated to helping women achieve total-body health by optimizing their gut and hormones. After overcoming her own health challenges through root-cause healing, she founded LV Wellness Consulting to empower high-performing women to restore harmony within their body using a holistic approach. By combining detailed lab testing, customized wellness plans, and high-impact mentorship, Layne guides her clients toward lasting transformation through her comprehensive health programs and services.
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Kearsley Tate
Kearsley (She/Her) is a private & postpartum chef + educator of Kearsley's Kitchen. She has served hundreds of families in the WNC area and teaches an online cohort every year for postpartum nourishment called Mother Mammal. Kearsley describes her way of life as a "slow simmer" - a delicate balance between engaging meaningful work and savoring the simple joys of life like wandering the woods, baking sourdough, carving woodblock art, & exploring the symbolic realms through dreams, color, & earth-based ritual. Kearsley lives with her partner & kitties at the base of the Black Mountains. It is a humble place filled with extraordinary people & hemlocks that give her reason to believe in hope.
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Sarah Bilger
Sarah Marie Bilger, founder of Entering Motherhood, is a birth and postpartum doula, podcast host, and childbirth educator dedicated to supporting women through pregnancy, birth, and beyond. After her own challenging experiences and healing journey through motherhood, she created a platform to share resources, stories, and support for mothers. Through her podcast, doula work, and community involvement she empowers women to embrace their unique motherhood journeys with confidence and connection.
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Courtney Chandler
Courtney is a Somatic Art Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist, Trauma-Conscious Yoga Teacher, and the owner of HeARTS for Hope Therapy in Greenville, South Carolina. With over a decade of experience supporting women and teens, she blends the expressive arts with body-based healing practices to help her clients navigate the path of healing from trauma, anxiety, and grief. While she deeply values one-on-one work with her clients, she also loves facilitating therapeutic groups, workshops, and trainings that foster creative expression and meaningful connection. Courtney holds space with warmth, a love of learning, and a deep belief in the transformative power of creativity and community.
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Emily Swann
Emily is a Registered Nurse, IBCLC with a Masters in Public Health Nutrition. She is a mother to two and lives with her husband, kids and many farm animals in a small town outside Charlotte, NC. Her passion for working with women and infants is long standing. She has been in maternal health for over a decade— first as a NICU and Labor nurse followed by a transition to holistic wellness and infant care as a lactation consultant and infant bodyworker. Her practice centers around foundational beliefs that the body is innately designed to heal and that mothers and babies can breastfeed easily in a supportive environment. She loves working with new families and supporting them in meeting their breastfeeding and infant health goals.
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Dr. Andrew Baranski, DC
Dr. Andrew Baranski is a chiropractor and human potential advocate whose journey from a pain-ridden high school athlete to a leader in holistic health care informs his mission to unlock the body's innate healing power. After debilitating back pain nearly sidelined his athletic career, he discovered the profound impact of chiropractic care, not only alleviating his pain but enhancing his performance to achieve all-state honors. Today, he helps others optimize their health through a unique integration of advanced spinal correction, nutrition, and functional fitness, empowering them to transcend their perceived limitations and discover their own "super-human" potential.
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Dr. Ashley Gonzales, DC
Dr. Ashley is a holistic chiropractor in Greenville, SC specializing in pregnancy, postpartum, and pediatric care. She’s passionate about helping mothers navigate motherhood with less pain, optimized healing, and a village of support. In co-creating her private practice, Dr. Ashley envisioned a space for families and individuals to come as they are— that when they walk through the door they feel connected, welcomed, and heard. When she’s not adjusting clients, she’s spending every minute with her husband and sweet baby girl, Cecilia.
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Taylor Kirkbride
Taylor Kirkbride is the owner of Let It Grow Doula, a full spectrum doula, postpartum chef and private chef. Her tagline is, “like a warm bowl of soup” and it’s something she weaves through all her work, making sure clients are nourished not just by the food they eat but by the experience they get to have. As a single mom and someone who went through a deep experience of grief during pregnancy, it’s become a deep love to ensure mothers and birthers feel loved, held, seen and cared for.
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Katelyn Fusco
Katelyn Fusco is a podcaster, speaker and storyteller in the cracks of a full family life as a wife and mother to 3. She loves educating families on their birthing options, facilitating healing through her story, and encouraging mothers to grow in their God-given identities. You can find her weekly on her podcast, Happy Homebirth.
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Bailey & Kelli Desormeaux
Bailey and Kelli are a husband and wife living in the Upstate, raising their three boys with a deep passion for living abundantly—in health, marriage, parenting, and meaningful connection. Kelli holds a Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, and together, she and Bailey share a love for heart-to-heart conversations—often from the comfort of their couch—centered on healing, empowerment, parenting, and the pursuit of purity and peace in their lives. Their family has walked through a journey with chronic illness, including Lyme disease and eczema, and along the way, they’ve discovered gentle, life-giving paths that have brought them peace and restoration. Through it all, they’ve come to believe in the beauty of vulnerability and the power of truth to bring clarity and connection. You can follow along with their family’s journey and reflections on their Instagram, linked below.
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KEYNOTE: HEHE STEWART
HeHe is an experienced Doula, Childbirth consultant and Infant Feeding Specialist. She is the founder of a Maternity Concierge, Doula and Birthing Service in Boston, MA. Through evidence based education and concierge support she helps women navigate pregnancy, prepare for birth, and avoid birth trauma. She is also the creator of The Birth Lounge and the host of The Birth Lounge Podcast which has 20,000+ listeners in over 26 countries. Her experience and background include:
Founder and creator of Tranquility By HeHe, LLC and The Birth Lounge
Online Childbirth Educator
Birth/postpartum Doula
Infant Feeding Specialist
Masters in Human Development & Family Studies
HeHe is the leading Childbirth and Postpartum expert on Family Education. She specializes in helping expecting parents understand their birth options, develop a birth plan and understand their rights as a birthing person or new parent.