TEDxRedDeer 2014 Entertainer Profile - Kristin Fraser

Join Kristin Fraser as she brings you “Something To Chew On: A Taste of Life Outside the Box” at this year’s #TEDxRedDeer Event!

A former Mechanical Engineer, Kristin took the leap of faith to pursue a passion in holistic nutrition and the culinary arts and left to New York City to become a Natural Foods Chef. Learn how food has changed her life and can change yours too... from traveling around the world to places like Dubai, inspiring change in her own backyard, to life as an entrepreneur. Learn how to make health delicious again by sampling her famous raw vanilla cream cakes. Kristin will be providing a demo and sampling! #PushingBoundaries #Notyourbelly
 
Join Kristin and other local talent to hear how they broke out of their comfort zone and pursued their dreams. See you November 22nd 2014, downtown at City Centre Stage. Ticket information can be found @ www.tedxreddeer.com

TEDxRedDeer 2014 Speaker Profile - Cabel McElderry

At 15 years old, Cabel McElderry was a skinny kid with crooked teeth and a funny name Cabel, like many kids he struggled with self-esteem and a lack of confidence. Weight training and fitness became his vehicle to overcome these personal challenges and influences a career choice that would change many lives through empowerment and self-improvement.

By 18 he was managing a local gym, by 23 he was considered to be one of Canada’s top amateur bodybuilders. This sparked his personal training career which over the next 15 years he would personally train thousands of people to dramatic physical transformation. He’s eliminated prescription medications, helped individuals avoid surgeries and even had a few people insist he, “saved their lives!”

In 2007 he opened Red Deer’s award winning One-to-1 Fitness, hiring and educating trainers to impact even more local lives and recently opened a new location in Edmonton, Alberta. He’s been the Red Deer Advocate/Life’s longest standing columnist writing on health and fitness for more than 13 years and for the last three, added Personal Fitness Professional Magazine to his career portfolio.

In recent years Cabel was a nominee for “Canada’s Top Trainer” and added to the list of “North America’s Top 100 Fitness Entrepreneurs,” and even produced his first documentary about overcoming physical limitations aptly named “CHANGE the Movie.”

We look forward to seeing Cabel and YOU downtown @ City Centre Stage, November 22nd for a #PushingBoundaries talk provided by Cabel and numerous other local speakers that will peak your interest!

TEDxRedDeer 2014 Entertainer Profile - Shelly Prosko

TEDxRedDeer 2014 Entertainer Profile - Shelly Prosko

Shelly Prosko is a Physical Therapist and a Professional Yoga Therapist, dedicated to bridging the gap between Eastern and Western healthcare philosophies. She believes it is essential in order to achieve optimal health.

Since 1998, Shelly has been integrating yoga into her physical therapy treatments. Currently, Shelly travels across Canada and the United States offering specialty PhysioYoga Therapy workshops, lecturing at Medical College programs, instructing at Yoga Teacher Trainings and actively promoting the integration of medical therapeutic yoga into our current healthcare system. Shelly is committed to her mission of inspiring, educating and empowering people to create health and wellness in their lives

We look forward to her sharing her expertise with us November 22nd at City Centre Stage in Downtown Red Deer! #PushingBoundaries

TEDxRedDeer 2014 Speaker Profiles - Dr. Cartledge and Michelle Salt

TEDxRedDeer 2014 Speaker Profiles!

Over the next few weeks we're going to introduce you to the eight speakers and three entertainers that will take the stage on November 22. We can't wait to hear their stories at the City Centre Stage in Downtown Red Deer. You can get your tickets NOW at the Black Knight Ticket Centre!

Dr. Dave Cartledge has been a Companion Animal Veterinarian in Toronto, Brooklyn and Edmonton for many years. In his early work Dr. Cartledge did not have many veterinary pain medications, and he often used off-label human medications.

Nowadays, we have effective veterinary pain specific medications and surgical procedures to alleviate pain for our beloved animals. Wanting to find alternative therapies through his work with animals, Dr. Cartledge has many years of experience in #pushingboundaries 

Michelle Salt has always been a strong person but in June, 2011, she faced her most challenging test of strength when she was in a life threatening Motorcycle accident that left her an above knee amputee.

Within 8 months, Michelle got back on her snowboard and in March, 2014, Michelle became the first ever Female Canadian Paralympic Snowboarder.

#PushingBoundaries is something that Michelle does on and off the slopes.