SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

MEET THE SPEAKERS

  • Layne Vanlieshout

    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.

  • Kearsley Tate

    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.

  • Sarah Bilger

    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.

  • Courtney Chandler

    Courtney Chandler

    Courtney is a Somatic Art Therapist, Trauma-Conscious Yoga Teacher, and owner of Hearts for Hope Art Therapy based in Greenville, South Carolina. Her passion lies in guiding others toward healing through creative expression, embodiment, and meaningful connection. With over a decade of experience blending mindfulness and expressive arts, she is deeply committed to supporting women, teens, and young adults who are ready to embrace their courageous, creative spirit and break free from anxiety, trauma, grief, and limiting beliefs.

  • Emily Swann

    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. 

  • Dr. Andrew Baranski, DC

    Dr. Andrew Baranski, DC

    Dr. Baranski was initially enticed by chiropractic after suffering from debilitating back pain in high school before starting his senior football season. After becoming a patient in an office in Elkton, Maryland, he experienced not only a relief from pain but increased athletic performance that led to all-state honors in football and wrestling. He speaks and performs health education classes throughout Greenville and is passionate about forging an optimal functioning community and exposing the super-human potential within every human being. In his free time away from learning more about health and human sciences, he can be found trail running, mountain biking, hiking with his dogs, playing with his son, paddle boarding, camping, roasting coffee, cooking healthy organic meals with his wife, or skiing.

  • Dr. Ashley Gonzales, DC

    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.

  • Taylor Kirkbride

    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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    To Be Announced Soon!!! She’s FABULOUS.