Speakers from NYC Event in Spring 2024
Michaela Horvathova
Co-Founder of Sober City Summit
Health Coach + Host of 2 Sober Girls Podcast
Michaela Horvathova is a mom, health coach, and the host of the "2 Sober Girls Podcast." She leads programs and masterminds centered on wellness, sobriety, and business. In 2022, after ten years of being sober curious, Michaela spontaneously embraced it. Realizing how alcohol held her back, she decided to live without it. She's a firm believer that you don't need to hit rock bottom to live alcohol-free; removing alcohol can lead to healing and living your best life.
The Sober City Summit was inspired by the necessity for fun, alcohol-free events where people could come together for a good time, deep conversations, and refreshing mocktails.
Michaela envisions an event where you can dress up and immerse yourself in discussions centered around wellness, healing, self-development, sobriety, fun, beauty, and chasing your dreams. More than just a summit, it's a space to create new friendships. It's also a way to show that you don't need alcohol to have fun.
Katrina Turner
Co-Founder of Sober City Summit
Sobriety Mentor + Host of Sober Shockingly Podcast
Trina is a mom, coach, podcast host, author and sobriety advocate. Her self proclaimed sober enthusiast lifestyle has led her to host events, volunteer at recovery and addiction centers, and promote an up leveled sense of self thru honest, raw, and intentional guided workshops.
When she’s not at her corporate job or creating content on social media she performs spoken word, volunteers for foster organizations, cries a lot, dreams even more and tries to incorporate cheetah print in as much as possible.
Trina’s a best selling author her debut book; This Diamond Mind, and her latest publication a self-guided journal The Retired Party Girl Journal: A 45 Day Reset are both available on Amazon. Her podcast Sober Shockingly is available on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Rachel Hechtman
Sober Content Creator + Founder of Sober in Central Park
Rachel Hechtman is a sober content creator and the Founder of Sober in Central Park, LLC. Her personal journey to sobriety, which began on January 3, 2021, has transformed her into a dedicated advocate for living a vibrant, alcohol-free life.
Rachel harnesses the power of storytelling and social media to inspire and connect with her audience. She is a certified life coach and leverages her expertise to help individuals manifest the life they desire, free from the limitations of alcohol.
Rachel’s mission is to push the sober movement forward in every way possible and demonstrate that you don’t need alcohol to have fun. She consults for non-alcoholic beverage brands and facilitates sober events throughout NYC and The Hamptons.
Rachel has a degree in Cultural Anthropology from Dartmouth College and is currently working on her first book that explores the intersection of ADHD and addiction. She resides in New York City with her four-legged companion, George.
Erinn O'Neill
Health Coach + 2 Sober Girls Podcast Host
Erinn H. O’Neill is a mama of two who is madly in love with her children and sobriety. As an active member of the recovery community since 7.23.19, Erinn brings her personal journey and triumphs to the forefront as the co-host of the 2 Sober Girls Podcast. Embracing her passion for wellness and lifestyle, Erinn pursued certification as a Health and Lifestyle Coach through IIN, NYC, returning to her roots with a renewed sense of purpose.
She is also a former collegiate hoops player who is passionate about daily sweat sessions and always curious about new workouts and modalities. Erinn is a lover of lean muscles and strength training as she believes this is vital to maintaining not only sobriety but also feeling and looking strong and sexy as we journey through life. Her deep passion for helping humans achieve and maintain sobriety focuses primarily on her CORE: Spirituality, Mental Health, Gut Health, Stress Management, Movement - Strength Training, Optimal Nutrition and Fun.
Erinn believes sobriety is for everyone and that everyone is worthy of living a sober, glorious, abundant, wild, and free life!
Gillian Tietz, MS, CAMS-I
Anger Management Specialist
+ Host of Sober Powered Podcast
Gillian Tietz, MS, CAMS-I is the host of the Sober Powered Podcast and runs programs for anger management and quitting drinking. Getting sober in 2019 inspired her to start her podcast where she utilizes her biochemistry background to teach others how alcohol affects the brain and why it’s so hard to stop drinking. She is a chemistry professor at a university in Boston.
Dr. Brooke Scheller, DCN, CNS
Author of How to Eat to Change How You Drink
Dr. Brooke Scheller, Doctor of Clinical Nutrition, stands at the forefront of a transformative movement in health and wellness. As the esteemed founder of Functional Sobriety and the author of "How to Eat to Change How You Drink," Dr. Scheller has dedicated her career to revolutionizing the approach to alcohol recovery and holistic well-being.
Inspired by her journey to sobriety in 2021, Dr. Scheller embarked on a mission to empower others to reclaim their lives through nutrition and functional medicine. Drawing upon her extensive expertise, she crafted an innovative approach that not only liberates individuals from the grips of alcohol but also fosters profound improvements in brain health, mood regulation, energy levels, focus, gut health, and hormone balance.
Gabrielle Brick
Holistic Nutrition Specialist
Gabrielle Brick, Holistic Nutritionist Specialist, Transformation, and Executive Coach, has led the way in the holistic health & wellness movement since 2003 and has 30 years of experience.helping women reclaim their lives so they can look and feel their absolute best at any age.
Gabrielle’s personal journey of healing chronic health issues,
depression, and choosing sobriety in 2001 is what led her to her career in Holistic Wellness with a unique training that gave her an unparalleled advantage in her knowledge and skillset having studied in traditional apprenticeship methods with masters in Nutrition, Longevity, Superfoods, and Herbalism. She went on to study Medical Qi Gong, NLP, Life Coaching, and Landmark Forum.
Gabrielle's passion for helping women overcome and transform their lives is deeply rooted in her understanding of our emotional attachments and relationship with food.
Megan Wilcox is the Creator of SobahSistahs Sobriety and Host of the SobahSistahs Podcast. She is a Certified Professional Recovery Coach, Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Mindset Coach.
She also has 12+ years working in a Level One Trauma Hospital in Boston and witnessed the astounding increase in alcohol-related illness in women, first hand. Causing her to take a closer look at her own relationship with alcohol. Megan is also the Community Manager for the SoberBuddy App. Megan created SobahSistahs back in June of 2021 after getting Sober at the end of 2020.
She has since launched The SobahSistahs Empowerment Club for both women new to sobriety and those already sober and looking for connection. She is passionate about empowering women to see living alcohol-free as aPower Move and not a punishment.
Tawny Lara
The Sober Sexpert + Author of Dry Humping
Tawny Lara is a NYC-based millennial, also known as The Sober Sexpert.
She is the author of “Dry Humping: A Guide to Dating, Relating, and Hooking up Without Booze”.
Her work is featured in Playboy, Men’s Health, Huffington Post, and two essay collections “Sex and the Single Woman” and “The Addiction Diaries”.
She is the co-host of the Signal Award-winning “Best Buddy” podcast, Recovery Rocks, and mom to a one-eyed cat named Meg White.
Alix Hayes
Founder of Sober City Movement + SoberNSeattle
Alix Hays is three years sober and the founder of @sobercitymovement and @sobernseattle a nonprofit that helps set up sober events and spaces for those who are sober and sober curious.
Alix has been sober three years and enjoys reading, gardening and fostering animals in her spare time. She is the director of @sobercitymovement a non profit that helps to host sober events and meetups.