Mindd Ambassadors

Mindd Foundation Ambassadors

Mindd Foundation Ambassadors are a distinguished group of authors, chefs, building biologists, entrepreneurs, foodies, bloggers, nutritionists and educators who are passionately sharing their knowledge on healthy living with millions of people eager for advice on how to manage their chronic illness. With their help, Mindd is reaching tens of thousands of families in need of Integrative healthcare solutions.

Jo Whitton

Jo Whitton lives in country Far North Queensland, Australia, with her family, where she runs her business from home and home schools her four children. She has always loved to cook, and grew up in a family where wholefood cooking was the norm. Because of food intolerances, Jo began experimenting with allergy friendly cooking when her children were very young. She began her blog, Quirky Cooking, in December 2008, as a place to share her recipes and tips for healthy cooking, especially for those with diet challenges.

Alexx Stuart

Alexx Stuart is a mum, an entrepreneur, a blogger, and a chef of real, natural food. Alexx was always passionate about making tasty food, but as a new mother suffering auto-immune issues, fatigue, and migraines, she realised that chemicals and processed foods were impacting her health. She researched studies and counter studies and she drew the links between the things we put in ourselves and the degenerative health situation we and our children find ourselves in. She made a determination to do better, and to bring the whole world with her.

Carla Oates

Carla Oates is a naturalist who has spent the last 15 years researching, writing, and teaching about organic beauty, health, and food. After a career as a beauty editor, she decided to follow her passion for health and food to set up The Beauty Chef, a Bondi Beach-based Living skincare range. She is the author of Feeding your Skin, as well as a regular column for Wellbeing Magazine. She also runs regular Beauty Chef workshops in Sydney and serves as the Goodwill Ambassador for Australian Organic.

Costa Georgiadis

Costa Georgiadis is a landscape architect and celebrity gardener who has an all-consuming passion for plants and people – he knows how to bring out the best in both of them, and takes great pleasure in bringing them together. Costa believes in embracing and celebrating mother nature’s cycles and seasons and nurturing her balance, beauty and bounty organically. His holistic approach is all about gardening the soil and the soul.

Chris Bohan

Chris Bohan is a designer, jeweller, and fulltime mother in Victoria. In 2005, her normal, happy toddler Jade started to lose her language skills and developed challenging behaviours almost overnight. She took Jade to a speech therapist, only to learn her daughter had Regressive Autism. She was heartbroken and devastated, and cried herself to sleep for months.

Helen Padarin

Naturopath, nutritionist and medical herbalist Helen Padarin has been in clinical practice since 2001. She works from 2 clinics in Sydney, Australia, and was recently asked to take part in Chef Pete Evans upcoming production called The Paleo Chef, filming recipes for the new TV show. Helen has been called on to write articles for popular health magazines, and to write a chapter for a clinical textbook published by Elsevier in 2011. Since 2011 Helen has been a regular presenter and ambassador for the Mindd Foundation, and has presented for Health Masters Live and ACNEM, providing post-graduate education for GP’s, naturopaths, nutritionists and other health care professionals. While living in NZ for over 4 years, Helen also lectured anatomy and physiology for the NZ College of Massage at the NZ Institute of Sport.

Jessica Lee Sepel

Jess is a qualified international nutritionist, health blogger, and the author of The Clean Life. As a teenager and young adult food was her enemy: she fad-dietted, she was anxious about her appearance, scared of scales, and filled with self-doubt. But when she decided to study nutrition, she realised she was coming at her body the wrong way. Her extreme, restrictive diet meant she wasn’t listening to her body’s demands. Instead of hating on herself and feeling guilty, she decided to see food as a source of nourishment. Once she made a commitment to put more good things into her life and to take the bad things she felt an immediate improvement. Her body healed itself.

Kitsa Yanniotis

Kitsa spent her 20s and 30s as a lawyer, constantly under stress and eating poorly. She suffered allergies and nutritional difficulties, along with irregular or substandard meals. The birth of her son motivated her to press reset: to search for the best possible start in life she could give her son, and the healthiest way to raise him. In the process, she rediscovered the gift of fermented foods, which have been in most cultures for centuries. Her research led her to nutrient-dense, enzyme-rich, organic wholefoods – Foods that not only taste great, but work like medicine to create a happier, healthier you.

Lee Holmes

Lee is the mastermind behind Supercharged Foods, a website and community that promotes easy-to-prepare recipes that are gluten, wheat, dairy, yeast, and sugar-free. The website stemmed from a need to share easy and simple recipes after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. Lee turned her back on conventional medicine to use food as medicine to heal herself. She is a certified holistic health and wellness coach with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in New York, as well as a qualified wholefoods chef with a certificate in food and nutrition.

Libby Weaver

Dr Libby is a rock star of the health and nutrition world. Her speaking tours regularly attract sell-out audiences of thousands of people coming for advice on better health and well-being, and they rarely walk away unsatisfied.

Marcus C Blackmore AM (D Univ)

Marcus Blackmore was born in Queensland in 1945, received his high school education at Church of England Grammar School in Brisbane, and later gained a Naturopathic Diploma from the NSW College of Naturopathic Sciences. He served from 1969-1971 in the Australian Army with service in Vietnam. Marcus is also a member of Harvard Business School Alumni. His recreational interests are yacht racing and flying and he holds a private helicopter licence.

Marcus is currently the Chairman of Blackmores Ltd, a public company employing over 900 people in Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The company markets the premium brand of vitamin and herbal products under the ‘Blackmores’ and ‘BioCeuticals’ labels and is widely recognised for its ethical practices and its treatment of staff.

Maria Hunt

Maria is a health practitioner, educator, and media spokesperson who shares her passion for health through television, print, and online media. Working alongside a trained doctor in her Sydney and Armidale practices, she uses Body Ecology principles, the Pfeiffer protocol and DAN techniques to help individuals with autism. She regularly presents her expertise at the Australian Gluten Free Expo, the International Pfeiffer Conference, the Sydney Biomedical Group and the International MINDD Conference; and as an ongoing guest lecturer in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and rural NSW.

Natasha Campbell McBride

Dr Campbell-McBride is one of the most important people in integrative medicine for her GAPS diagnosis of the interrelationship between ADHD, Autism, Asthma, allergies, and Dyslexia. Her book “Gut and Psychology Syndrome” described the problems in microflora, the immune system, and the danger of consuming proteins like gluten and casein if your gut is already compromised. Her explanation was based in solid, evidence-backed science, but was still written to be accessible to the average person, and the diet and recipes she described have led to relief for tens of thousands of suffering children and their families.

Nicole Bijlsma

Nicole Bijlsma practices her love of environmental medicine in a rather unusual way: she is a building biologist, and has been in clinical practice since 1989. Nicole is an incredibly accomplished naturopath and environmental medicine practitioner. She has been featured on every major television network to comment on the health hazards associated with people’s homes, she has released a bestselling book, Healthy Home, Healthy Family, and in 1999 she founded the Australian College of Environmental Studies to educate people about the health hazards of the built environment.

Nora Gedgauda

Nora is a widely-recognised expert on what is commonly known as the “Paleo diet” and the author of Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and A Longer Life. She is also a highly successful and experienced nutritional consultant, speaker, educator, and international television and radio personality.

Pete Evans

Pete Evans has been a health food chef since the age of 18, as well as a restaurateur, a health coach, a paleo diet ambassador, an author, father, and most notably, a television star. He recently toured the country for a series of speeches entitled ‘The Paleo Way’, in which he explained the health food benefits of the diet of our ancestors. Pete is unapologetically enthusiastic about paleo – a diet that cuts out carbohydrate-rich grains, wheat, gluten, and artificial processes, and focuses on the nutritious foods we’ve eaten for millions of years, like fruit, nuts, vegetables, and meat.

Sally Fallon

Sally Fallon Morell, MA, is a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. She is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. This traditional foods guide teaches that animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels.

Simon Borg Olivier

Simon is a physiotherapist, a university lecturer, and one of Australia’s foremost Yoga teachers. His studio, Yoga Synergy, is based on a deep understanding of yoga anatomy, yoga physiology and traditional Hatha Yoga – combined with the latest in Western knowledge of anatomy and science. Simon has been teaching since 1982 as a registered physiotherapist, a research scientist and a university lecturer. He is regularly invited to teach at special workshops and conferences interstate and overseas.

Teresa Cutter

Teresa Cutter is CEO of The Healthy Chef, a company that creates delicious wholefoods and quality recipes to optimise your health and wellbeing. Terese has been a qualified chef for 25 years, has worked with some of the top chefs and restaurants in Australia, and has supplemented this knowledge with a degree in nutrition from Deakin university.

Terese Kerr

Mother of internationally famous supermodel Miranda Kerr, Terese is an expert on natural beauty, natural food, and good, healthy living. She was General Manager of Miranda Kerr’s natural skin care brand KORA Organics until 2013, when she moved into Public Speaking and Event Management. Therese believes in eating healthy food, using organic skin care, and living a natural life to the absolute fullest.

Trudy Scott

Trudy Scott is a Food Mood expert and nutritionist, focused on educating successful women about a healthy and balanced lifestyle, and dietary choices based on a whole-foods approach. From her mid-30s onwards, Trudy dealt with daily anxiety concerns. Dealing with stress and overwork, her ‘healthy’ diet wasn’t doing her any good – her tendencies for blood sugar issues and food intolerances, as well as shortages of Vitamin B6 and Zinc, meant she had to deal with daily heart palpitations, feelings of doom for no reason, and excessive unfounded worry and concern.

Simone Lanham Sewell

Simone Lanham Sewell is a former TV journalist, PR account director, communications specialist who has over 14 years of experience in artist management. In 2000 she created, and co-owns, entertainment company Incognito Artists in the UK, USA and down under with her husband, professional tenor and entrepreneur, Geoff Sewell. Incognito Artists employs stars from the West End, Broadway and the world of opera to perform at a wide range of events doing bespoke Acts. Simone and Geoff also created the world’s first opera band Amici Forever, in 2002. Simone was co-manager and Geoff was a tenor in the group which sold over 3.5 million albums worldwide, had two No.1 albums in NZ, made No.2 twice on the main ARIA charts in Australia and #5 on the Billboard chart in America. Simone and Geoff collaborate on Geoff’s solo albums, working together on the creative process to source, write and produce tracks and do the marketing, management and release of material through their record label in NZ, Sewell Music, and with Sony in Australia.

Due to their own experience, Simone and Geoff set up The Sewell Foundation in NZ to offer information and assistance regarding biomedical, ABA and early intervention to families and practitioners treating autism. Simone wrote ‘Sienna’s Song’ on Geoff’s debut solo album, Believe, in 2008 and co-wrote ‘Heal Me’ on Geoff’s 2014 album, Live Love Sing! to raise awareness of treating autism, with all publishing going to The Sewell Foundation. Simone is now a passionate ‘wellness’ coach, trained through IIN, specialising in helping busy women be well and find a balance, and families to treat autism and autoimmune conditions. She’s a New Zealander, living in London since 1997, and is mum to two beautiful girls.

Geoff Sewell

Based in London, New Zealander Geoff Sewell is a multi-platinum-selling international recording artist, accomplished tenor, impresario, qualified chartered accountant, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and creator, with his wife Simone, of Incognito Artists and the world’s first ‘pop-opera’, classical crossover band, Amici forever.

With his entertainment company Incognito Artists, who created the first singing waiters act in the UK, he has sung for the Queen, Princes Charles, William and Harry and other royalty at The Royal Albert Hall, Windsor Castle, and the Grimaldi Palace to name a few; Nelson Mandela and numerous celebrities such as Sir Elton John, Leonardo Di Caprio, Victoria and David Beckham at exotic locations around the globe.

He’s had two No.1 albums, for Amici’s ‘The Opera Band’ and ‘Defined’, a No.1 DVD for ‘Geoff Sewell live in concert in NZ’, and has released five albums, including his own solo albums Believe and Live, Love, Sing! which in total he’s reached over 3.5 million album sales worldwide. Amici made the Billboard chart top #5 in the US and No.2 twice on the main ARIA charts in Australia. Geoff has enjoyed chart and tour success in the United Kingdom, America, Japan, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

With Amici he was nominated for a Classical Brit Award in the UK for best album and he’s won numerous accolades for his performance, business acumen and philanthropic activities during his 15 year career.

Geoff is passionate about sport and is honoured to have performed the national anthems at the FA Cup Final, the Champions League Final, the Rugby World Cup, the Rugby League World Cup Final, The Six Nations, various rugby fixtures at Twickenham, and on centre court at Wimbledon.

Geoff loves to perform solo, with Incognito Artists and his concert Act ‘Bravo Amici’, around the world and feels his mission is ‘to touch, move and inspire people so they’re present to the magic of being alive’.

Through personal experience, Geoff is passionate about raising awareness for epilepsy and treating autism, and set up The Sewell Foundation to treat autism, with Simone, in 2008.

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