The Cancer Survivor's Course for Thriving through Cancer

Alyssa is a certified holistic Nutrition Consultant, 21DSD coach, personal trainer, and safer skincare advocate by day and head chicken tender, weightlifter, and watercolor painter by night. She also has her bachelors degree in Environmental Science and geology, and competed nationally in olympic weightlifting until she was diagnosed with cancer in late 2018 at 26 years old. Her favorite food is avocados and tacos and she loves visiting little farm towns all over the world. Alyssa was born and raised in the Bay Area, California, where she currently resides with her feathered and furbabies, 20 (all named) chickens, morky Jake, great Pyrenees George, and a few humans.

Katie is holistic Nutrition Consultant who specializes in helping folks find health through nourishing foods, lifestyle behaviors, safer skincare, and reducing toxins. By day, she is an Elementary Math Coach, having taught in the classroom for 8 years, she now supports teachers and works on Math Intervention. Katie was diagnosed with stage 2b Invasive Ductal Carcinoma Breast Cancer in 2014. Her treatment included chemotherapy, radiation, and a bilateral mastectomy. She also has the BRCA1 mutation. She has been in remission for six years. She, and her husband Jim, live in the Bay Area, California with their Pit Bulls Molly and Kora.