Our Experts
Edwina Griffin- Health, Happiness & Performance Expert
Edwina Griffin is the Managing Director of Real Body Management which includes a number of companies, FitWomenTM, Fitmen, FitmumTM, FitExecutives, Adventurewomen, Adventuremen and The Sanctuary of Light.
Edwina Griffin won the Australian Health and Fitness Industry 2010 NSW Exercise Professional of the Year Award. This award recognises Edwina’s leadership in terms of quality service, her industry innovation, community connection and commitment to industry standards.
Edwina has more than 17 years experience in the health and fitness industry, developing the “original” concept of Fitwomen after identifying a market need for a service beyond just fitness. Fitwomen provides an alternative approach – health is not just about exercise it is about balancing the mind and body.
Real Body Management aims to educate and inspire people by encouraging them to think holistically about their health and well-being. Edwina writes for several fitness magazines, including Nature and Health magazine and she is the fitness expert for Women's Health's Bump magazine. She recently featured in, "Switched on health and well-being professionals" a book on leading health experts in Australia. She also often leads motivational warm-ups at charity events such as Gear Up Girl and the MS Walk in Hyde Park, Sydney.
She is currently writing a book on energy choices and has regularly featured on Sydney radio on a range of fitness and health subjects. For nearly a decade, Edwina has presented for Fitness NSW and runs regular seminars and workshops for a range of clients on high energy and performance. As a former elite athlete who went on to suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome , Edwina’s personal and client experiences have inspired her to learn more about the link between the mind and body, particular how to balance them. Her kundalini awakening in 2005 extended her awareness into the spiritual connection. She is considered an expert on energy and life choices, training the body and mind for high performance and happiness. Speaking around the world, from London, to LA to the Caribbean, Edwina is a happiness and high performance strategist who is passionate about educating and inspiring others. She hosts her radio show, The Health & Happiness Show" on
Untangled FM
every week interviewing experts and inspiring leaders from around the world.
Edwina lives by the beach and spends her spare time hiking in the mountains, paragliding, skiing, swimming and doing any sport on offer in the outdoors.
Real Body Management
www.edwinagriffin.com
Dr Joanna McMillan-Nutritionist & Dietitian
Dr Joanna McMillan has checked over our Fitspace nutrition system for us and if you require any nutritional advice you can join some of her programs or book in for a consult via her website.
Dr Joanna is a Registered Nutritionist and Accredited Practising Dietitian with a PhD in nutritional science from the University of Sydney. She is also a trained ?tness leader and taught group exercise classes for almost 15 years.
Her philosophy on diet is pretty simple - eat more fresh wholesome foods and fewer processed, packaged foods. In essence this means cooking more meals yourself from raw ingredients. But she tempers this with realistic advice on which modern food products and processing/preserving techniques can be useful in helping you achieve a healthy diet in today’s time-poor, results- orientated environment.
Joanna is an accomplished presenter and lecturer and was awarded the 2006 Presenter of the Year award by the Australian Fitness Network. She is a sought after speaker at both public and industry events in Australian and the UK. She is a committee member of the Australian Lifestyle Medicine Association, a member of Dietitians Association of Australia, The Nutrition Society and the Public Health Association of Australia.
Joanna is a popular media spokesperson and is a Nine Network regular - principally as the resident nutrition expert for Today, with frequent appearances on A Current Affair and Nine News. She writes a weekly column for Sunday Life, is the nutrition expert for several magazines, and is a regular guest on Australian radio. Joanna has authored a number of books including the internationally published The Low GI Diet and The Low GI Diet Cookbook (Hachette Livre), Star Foods (ABC Books) and Inner Health Outer Beauty (Random House). The latter book won ‘Best Health, Nutrition or Diet-Related Book’ at the 2010 Food Media Awards.
Joanna operates a nutrition consultancy in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs.
www.drjoanna.com.au
E: jo@drjoanna.com.au
Jules Clancy-Food and Cooking Expert
Jules is first and foremost a food lover who adores her veggies. The type of girl who plans her holidays around restaurant reservations. Jules is equally happy spending 6 hours dining at the (former) best restaurant in the world as she is sitting on stools in a Brooklyn alleyway wolfing down Texas-style BBQ brisket.
She loves cooking and simplicity. So she am constantly on the lookout for ways to make her cooking less complicated and time consuming without sacrificing flavour or wholesomeness.
Jules has degrees in both food and wine science and in January 2010, she packed in her day job as a chocolate biscuit designer for Australia’s largest biscuit company to become a full time blogger.
Jules recently founded the Stonesoup Virtual Cookery School because she believes that the ability to cook simple, healthy, delicious food is a basic skill, like reading, that everyone should and can have.
When she's not cooking, writing about food or taking photographs [of food], she can be found indulging her passions for long boozy lunches, travel, running, cookbooks, growing her own veggies, cheese, red shoes and Irishmen.
www.thestonesoup.com