Power to Pursue shows such strength in its message. Rachel DesRochers expresses her business through such gratitude. She helps local businesses and is an advocate for women. Through her podcast, she sat with Deb Belfatto to talk about, Lets Talk and Power to Pursue; conversing between similarities within both. They discuss mental wellness as well as community building activities.

The podcast disruptHER talks about the struggles women face when it comes to healthcare. In this episode, Deb Belfatto, founder of Lets Talk Women’s Health & Wellness expresses her journey and recovery while experiencing breast cancer, twice. In this episode, she goes on to give advice and aid her support towards all women.

Cooperate leader, and single mom of two, finally began to reach her breaking point. After being apart of many wellness journey’s, there was a framework created that integrates emotional intelligence with ancient haling modalities; to help with the mind, body, and spiritual wellness. She worked with Reiki, sound therapy, Qigong, to help regulate anxiety and self wellness.

Raised in Lebanon, her life was structured where clean and home cooked meals were given. She was in utter disbelief when she realized how normalized processed foods and obscure portion sizes are in the United States. As a mother, and a teacher she was passionate on influencing the importance of clean and healthy food intake. She started making clean simple date bars at home to give to her kids and students; which were a hit. During COVID, a cafe in Montclair, New Jersey, began selling these date bars, which sold out immediately.

When Casey Arias came home from the conclusion of her spring semester at Yale, she was told her mother had an intense form of breast cancer. They weren’t provided with health insurance, so Casey began to take matters into her own hands. She reached out to friends of friends, when finally Deb Belfatto, founder of Let’s Talk Women’s Health & Wellness, helped her secure health insurance and a reliant medical team to take care of Caseys’ mom.

Dr. Sheila Sahni explains that everyone misses the number one medical threat for women’s health; heart disease. These symptoms aren’t comparable to men, as male symptoms are much more rapid rather female symptoms. Dr. Sahni, suggests that women shouldn’t wait for symptoms to see a cardiologist, trust yourself and see one sooner than you think.

Deb Belfatto had received devastating news twice, in the span of a decade. Deb was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 33, feeling alone with no one to lean on. Those emotions, has led Deb to begin her fight and advocacy for women’s heath, from co founding a Susan G. Komen affiliate. As time passed, her second diagnosis of breast cancer followed, where she launched her Lets Talk Women’s Health & Wellness campaign. Now, in it’s third year at NJPAC Lets Talk has empowered women to feel heard and seen.

Sheryl Swoopes; WNBA inspiration has consistently encountered competitive competition her entire life. Here, she talks about her passion through a different lens of her life that has touched her heart even more. Swoopes joined Newark leaders to cut the ribbon on a new diagnostic imaging center which has brought developed and high tech breast cancer screenings to a community that really needs it. Swoope, has expresses that she has lost many important people in her life due to breast cancer; her partnership with Radnet, the parent Company of New Jersey Imaging Network will help people get the certain screenings they need.

Dr. Karen Mann, who is now a Medical Director at Noom and a Menopause Society certified practitioner has gone into depth about the particular truths centered around weight loss. Mann expresses that losing weight isn’t focused on appearance; it’s about self worth. At Let’s Talk Mann attends a panel where she will discuss and elaborate on the GLP - 1 medications, health, and nutrition.

Dr. Lucky Sekhon, reproductive endocrinologist has spent most of her career closing the fertility knowledge gap. Trying to help women understand the concept of infertility; which isn’t by stress. Dr. Lucky goes on to explain when the appropriate time is for a woman to freeze their eggs, and how infertility can significantly take a toll on women’s health. Dr. Lucky, will speak on this subject at the Let’s Talk Women’s Health & Wellness.