School Nutrition Dietitian

Cordialis Msora-Kasago, MA, RD has a unique understanding of both the science of improving health through changing diets and lifestyles as well as improving health on the African continent. Cordialis believes in the power of good nutrition and healthy lifestyles for both prevention and management of medical conditions and works to help consumers cut through all the conflicting diet and lifestyle information circulating in both main...

Whitney Bateson, MPH RD has spent nearly a decade in the child nutrition industry, developing menus, training, and marketing programs for districts across the country during her time in contract foodservice management. Seeing a need for more focused marketing services for the nutrition industry, two years ago Whitney founded Whitney Bateson Digital Strategy to deliver marketing services specifically for nutrition professionals and ...

Registered Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator Author and Chef Marlisa Brown has been supporting patients managing nutrition related illnesses in Manhattan and on Long Island since the start of the COVID pandemic.  Today's she shares what is working for individuals living with diabetes, high blood pressure, and celiac disease as they navigate special diets during COVID. 

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Ervin Watson has been training teams for over 20 years and been an inspirational speaker and motivator for 15 years. This decorated veteran of the US Air Force is an entrepreneur, and author, a loving father and husband. Ervin has been studying bias and researching ways that it clouds our decision-making and weakens our teams.

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Defining and identifying bias

What real diversity and inclusion looks like

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In today's chat with Amanda Venezia and Marlon Gordon we get to sneak peek behind the curtains of First Taste TV,  an innovative new platform especially for food service professionals showcasing cutting edge products, services, technologies and equipment. 

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Mindfulness trainer Josta Kolkman from Simply Unplug explains how mindfulness can help us through difficult times.  Josta offers us a simple guided meditation in the later part of this week's interview.  Right now we all need moments of calm to ground and center us so that we can continue walking our individual paths and working on the things that we find meaningful.  

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As a public health advocate Stephanie is passionate about supporting schools. Kids spend over 1,000 hours at school per year. Nourishing Principles see the school environment as a perfect place to boost student health and happiness for life. Stephanie believes that incorporating more physical activity into the school day, especially in the classroom, allows students to release energy and focus so that they are ready to learn. This,...

Kathleen Gage has owned and operated her business for over 26 years. An expert in changing with the times, Kathleen is known as the “no-nonsense, common sense” marketing strategist, speaker, author, and visibility expert. Her clients are driven by making a difference through their own unique voice.As a result of discovering the life-changing power of plant-based eating in her sixties, Kathleen has proactively shifter her focus to w...

Former Child Nutrition Director and founder of Lunch Assist Jennifer McNeil answers pressing questions about running compliant menu service during COVID19.

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As a Dietitian, Certified Yoga Instructor and Certified Personal Trainer, Limore Kurtz Dooley, MA, RDN, CPT, CYI founded a nutrition and holistic health education practice, for Head Start sites in New York City, teaching toddlers, teachers and parents the fundamentals of meditation, yoga and optimal nutrition. This episode Limore shares her experience and insights from serving children and their families at the epicenter of the US ...

This week we are joined by Fallon Bader of the Sprouting Kitchen, an innovative nutrition and group cooking class that prior to the pandemic could easily sprout (or pop-up) on any local farm. Fallon has continued on her mission to provide experiences that connect people to nourishing foods and a sense of community through e-learning. 

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As a digital media strategist and Youtube mogul, Jessica Stansberry is an expert on developing the mental toughness it takes to consistently get in front of the camera and leverage social media for marketing. 

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This week urban food gardening guru John McBain comes on the show to help us celebrate earth day remotely this year. John is the Western Australian representative of the Australian City Farm and Community Gardens Network and the mind behind Sustainable Urban Nutrition (SUN).  He believes that that urban spaces are ideal for food production and that food is the perfect starting point to understanding why protecting the planet is cru...

Old approaches to networking can feel salesy and inauthentic.  This episode networking mastermind La'Darius C. Madison, MPH, RDN, LD, explains how to take all the ickiness out of networking and grow a network full of people that you feel truly connected to.

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-How to adopt a mindset that makes networking easy

-Using online platforms to foster new relationships

-How to manage fear of rejection when cold co...

We are always looking for ways to effectively deliver our messaging to our customers and the community at large.  Thanks to social media we can all play a role in telling the real school nutrition story and showing examples of the attractive and nutritious food we serve our students every day. Because most of us aren’t professional photographers though, we may find that our photos don’t always do the food justice.  If you’d like to...

Chelsey Brooke is The Pathfinder! She specializes in helping introverted women discover their true and authentic path to a successful and meaningful life. Her mission is to inspire introverted women to live connected to their true purpose and to share the most real version of themselves with the world.

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Chef Brenda Wattles' experience as a both a chef and a registered dietitian made her uniquely qualified to publish several USDA child nutrition standardized recipe cookbooks. In this episode she graciously shares her tips for positioning yourself for dramatic professional growth, explaining the time and strategic effort she put into developing herself into the well rounded professional that she is today. 

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