Welcome to Real Fuel with SLS! Here’s more about me and why I’m stoked to have you “join” the conversations to make endurance sports and sports nutrition a better place.

Danielle has a unique background for which she has become known as a unicorn in the women’s health space. After ten years practicing conventional medicine she shifted her focus + pursued certification as a FDN-P where she now helps women (+ some men) optimize their health through lifestyle + deep dives into their health.

She is also a certified fertility educator, masters level mental health therapist, PNL1 certified nutrition coach + in a prior life spent five years as a personal trainer. You can see where the unicorn term comes from. She specializes in helping women understand where they are + helps guide them to see the steps they need to take to get where they want to be + feel the way they want to feel.

She is the founder of her company, Empowered Mind + Body as well as co-founder of Unconventional Collaborative, a virtual mastermind to help anyone in the health + wellness space elevate their practice.

She is a human of authentic chaos, lover of dogs, all things outdoors, movement, an enneagram 8w7 + avid trip planner. She is perpetually in search of the optimal health. And what she can tell you is that definition will continually change through seasons of life, but will likely continually include regulating your nervous system, quality connection, play, movement + good sleep.

In this episode we chat about:

• Who Danielle is and her jump from conventional medicine to functional medicine
• Her background as an athlete and how it helps her support her clients
• Common misconceptions about birth control in female athletes
• Importance of regular periods for long-term health going beyond bone health
• Her work in the Unconventional Collaborative and creating a space for practitioners to continue to learn and grown
• Coach/practitioner red and green flags
• And more!

Follow Danielle: https://www.instagram.com/danielle.kepics/

Follow Stevie: https://www.instagram.com/stevielynlyn/
Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/

Emma loves all things cats, cows, and chocolate milk. Her passion for dairy and animals for dairy started while growing up on EL-Vi Farms in Newark, NY. She stays involved to this day at the farm by helping with community relations works like running the social media page and being the race director for the Dairy Discovery 5k that the farm and 3 other local farms host. When she is not working her day job in milk promotion at American Dairy Association North East, she can be found competing for Team Milk in Full distance Ironman triathlons and half & full marathons. Her training and racing allows her to reach the triathlon community online with the benefits of refueling with chocolate milk and make a beautiful community of friends.

In this episode we chat about:

• Food systems, misconceptions about cows/dairy farming, stress is stress even for cows– just like us!
• Getting into sports as an adult from dancing to racing ironman
• Finding euphoria in an Ironman marathon
• Learning about give and take during training for big goals/life– still having fun with the why behind sport
• Learning that your value is not tied to the outcome of sport, work, etc.
• Racing with your period; what’s normal what’s not
• You can still achieve with your period– how can we adapt and overcome and train to be ready
• Health over everything in longevity in sport
• How to respect the training adaptation process and adjusting expectations and goals
• And more!

Follow Emma: https://www.instagram.com/emmaluvcow/ + https://www.instagram.com/elvifarmsllc/

Follow Stevie: https://www.instagram.com/stevielynlyn/
Learn More About Stevie: https://stevielynrd.com/