SPEAKERS
Dr. Kimberly Thor-Adams

Dr. Kimberly Thor-Adams owns and operates two successful cash practices in her home state of Nebraska. She has been practicing chiropractic for over 15 years. and in 2017, she became certified in the Webster Technique. 

In 2023, she published her second book GROWING UP FEARLESS, a non-fiction tale of how bravery was needed in a time of mandates to stand up for freedoms.

As a coach, she empowers other chiropractors to be authentic in their every moment, to light the world on fire.

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Dr. Kim speaks at chiropractic events all over the country and is so honored to present The Brave Practice  event. Her goal is to make bravery contagious with every opporrunity she is given.

 

She is married with three beautiful daughters who light up her life and inspire her to live with meaningful purpose. She strives to take great care of each patient, like she would her own child.

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Dr. Jenna Davis

Dr. Jenna Davis owns a highly successful family wellness multidisciplinary clinic, Acorn Family Health and Wellness Centre, in Oakville, Ontario. She is a family chiropractor focusing on preconception, infertility, pre- and postnatal care, pediatrics, intraoral function (including tongue-tie, lip-tie, pediatric TMJD), developmental delay and women’s health. Dr. Davis loves working with families in all stages and has a unique ability to educate her practice members so they feel heard, honoured and understand how chiropractic can improve their function and life. She has a passion for educating and is an avid lecturer both in and out of her office. Dr. Jenna Davis is an author, educator and travels around the world sharing information on the power of communication, infertility, team approach to health and wellness, secrets to adjusting pediatrics and prenatal patients, women’s health, niche marketing, finding your true passion and work/life balance. Dr. Davis has been a featured speaker on many stages in Canada, the United States, the UK and Australia.  She prides herself on her continual quest for the newest information and research and is a life long learner. Dr. Davis has done extensive postgraduate work and continues to expand and grow her knowledge base and resource team to give the best care possible to her practice members and the audiences she has the honour to present to. 

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Dr. Davis is the founder of the P.I.P.S. (Pediatric Intraoral Palate Specific) Technique which has been instrumental in assisting with infant TMJD, Tongue-Tie, Lip-Tie Nursing and tension challenges and cranial work.  She has created a certification program for understanding and implementing assessment and care for retained primitive reflexes for all ages (infant to adult).  

Dr. Davis utilizes her life and work experiences and challenges to help others learn and grow and, in turn, help chiropractic and chiropractors grow and flourish.

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Dr. Aura Tovar

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Dr. Aura came from Venezuela at 14 and set her sights on becoming a chiropractor after having her health restored through chiropractic.  She went on to graduate from Life University in 1997 and has created her successful practice in Miami. For nearly 2 decades, Dr. Aura Tovar has served as the owner and family chiropractor of Dynamic Chiropractic Center.

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She also serves as Vice President of ChiroMission, a not-for-profit organization assisting the less fortunate in this world and which has impacted over 100,000 people through annual mission trips.

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Dr. Aura is an international speaker focusing on health, personal growth and empowerment topics and has shared the stage with Brian Tracy, Tucker Max, Thomas Bilyeu, Devon Michaels, JP Sears and many others.

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From her own life experiences she has developed the,  “GET NAKED SERIES”, a program which focuses on advancing and improving lives through personal discovery and growth. This program has been featured on the CW Network, PBS, as well as Think magazine. You can also catch her on “The Get Naked Show with Dr. Aura” podcast, where she gets raw and real with successful entrepreneurs about life, business and relationships.

 

Dr. Aura continues to help others as a chiropractor, a humanitarian, a speaker and a personal coach.

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Dr. Mel Krug

 

​Dr. Mel Krug  turned her own health crisis into a revolutionary methodology that's changing the wellness industry. After conquering personal health battles that conventional medicine couldn't solve, Dr. Mel created the INSPIRE Method™ – the exact system that's helped thousands overcome chronic health challenges, mental-emotional turbulence and business breakthroughs when nothing else worked. 

 

As founder of Inspire Life Chiropractic and Inspire Co., Dr. Mel doesn't just talk transformation – she's built thriving businesses that prove her methods deliver results. She's the secret weapon behind countless practitioners who've broken through plateaus to create deeper client breakthroughs and scaled their businesses without burnout. 

 

If you're ready to stop playing small and start creating the profound impact you know you're capable of – you won't want to miss a single word she has to say!

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Dr. Billy DeMoss

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Dr. Billy DeMoss is the owner and lead chiropractor at DeMoss Chiropractic. His goal as a chiropractor is to educate and empower people with an understanding of how the human body functions so that wise decisions can be made about their health and well-being. Dr. Billy lives and works to encourage people to lead healthier and happier lives. He believes the greatest wealth of all is health.

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He graduated from Los Angeles College of Chiropractic in 1985 and is certified in Chiropractic Spinal Trauma and BioPhysics. He has worked hard to keep doors open for the community of Newport Beach for 26 years because he truly cares about his practice and is confident that chiropractic care is right for everyone.

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Dr. Amanda Apfelblat

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Dr. Amanda Apfelblat is a leader in the chiropractic profession. She is an international coach, speaker, and entrepreneur! Dr. Apfelblat has owned and operated a million dollar+ practice for many years! She has a gift for detail and would love to help you take your practice to its next level!

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Dr. Shara Downey

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Dr Shara is passionate about helping more Wellness Warriors to get their message out and create more naturally healthy families.

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Since 1998, she has had the honour of helping people achieve positive results in their health and promote natural healthy living. Founder of Asia Chiropractic Health Services, she was awarded Singapore Quality Brands Award for 2013-2014. As a contributing author to “You Can Expect a Miracle With Chiropractic” 2013 edition, I’ve had the pleasure of working with Dr. David Jackson and Dr John Hinwood. Being featured on Top Chiropractic Podcasts; Chiro Hustle, Rockstar Doctor Life(#108), The Chiropractic Philanthropist (TCP, #334), and the Chiro Insired Life(# 78).                                                                                                       

As an international speaker, she's had the privilege of working with prominent global companies such as; Citibank, Standard Charter Bank, Lucas Films, Knowledge To Action-London, Success Resources, Dasani, Body Shop Corp. and Singapore Ministry of Defence to name a few. In 2020, she had the pleasure and honor of hosting the first ever, Female Minority Leader Roundtable in Chiropractic.

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With the new podcast The Confident Chiropractor, her intention is to create a community of amazing healers and practitioners, to support each other during struggles and celebrate in successes in family and practice.

 

Her wish is to combine knowledge, experience, and success in the areas of Chiropractic, speaking and business principles to deliver practical and concise “know-how” to all doctors so that they can experience massive levels of success.

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Dr. Rosemary Batanjski & Dr. Jennifer Bonde

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Dr. Rosemary Batanjski and Dr. Jennifer Bonde are the co-founders of the Chiro Freedom Formula™, the premier business mastery system for chiropractors who want to step out of daily operations and step into true CEO-level freedom. With more than 15 years of combined consulting and practice-growth expertise — and uniquely, 15 years spent not practicing as chiropractors but exclusively leading as CEO’s they have built, scaled, and optimized their own 7-figure+ practices while also owning and operating multiple successful businesses outside the chiropractic profession.
 

Together, they created the Chiropractic Freedom Formula™, the CEO H.A.B.I.T.S.™ Framework, and The Profit Lab™ to provide chiropractors with a proven, structured path to scalable systems, stronger leadership, financial independence & a business that supports both their income and their next extraordinary chapter.

 

Dr. Peter Kevorkian

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Their work is a powerful blend of operational mastery, team leadership, strategic planning, and financial intelligence elevated through their proprietary AI-driven practice tools that make chiropractic businesses more efficient, more productive, and more profitable. Their mission is simple: to give chiropractors a smarter, faster, easier path to true freedom,  one that is genuinely sustainable and one they have successfully mastered in their own clinics as well as in hundreds of clinics they’ve guided across the country.

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​I’m so excited to be the President of Life West! Thank you for all the love and support you’ve shown me as I’ve stepped into this role. I’m creating a special connection with my immediate circles, and I’d love for you to be part of it. If you’re interested in a more personal connection with me as I take on this new place of leadership, click the link below. There’s no cost, I will not sell your email or cell number, and I promise not to fill your inbox or phone with spam. Instead, you’ll receive timely updates about: Exciting initiatives I’m creating at Life West The latest in chiropractic education Opportunities to engage with students Ways to share your input for the next generation of chiropractors Click here to join my “Connections” opportunity: https://lifewest.edu/president

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Dr. Andrea Lamont Nazarenko

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​Dr. Andrea Lamont Nazarenko, MA, MA, MAS, PhD Dr. Andrea Nazarenko is a quantitative and community psychologist dedicated to driving system-level change and advancing societal well-being. Her work focuses on the social and environmental determinants of health, with a particular emphasis on understanding “for whom” contextual and environmental risks matter. She has published extensively in top-tier journals, with a program of research that addresses both the methodological and systemic approaches to understanding the transmission of risk. Her primary focus is in heterogeneity of contextual or treatment effects and individual response to intervention. We are not the average. We are individuals. Science and medicine should honor that—treating people as humans, not datapoints. Precision without personhood is just another form of control. As a global consultant and thought leader in implementation science, Dr. Lamont Nazarenko has advised governments, nonprofits, and private-sector organizations on using evaluation and data to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes. She brings a unique blend of rigorous statistical expertise and deep community insight to everything she does—from early childhood mental health reform to large-scale system transformation.
 

Dr. Lamont Nazarenko is deeply invested in the optimization of the freedom social movement. While individual groups and organizations focus on what should be done to protect freedom, she focuses on how we coordinate these actions to maximal impact. Her work is rooted in the science of social change, and broadly aims to scale the collective impact of the movement and build lasting infrastructure for change. She is the co-founder of The Inspired Network, a global collective impact initiative launched in 2023 to optimize the operations of the health and freedom movement.
 

Dr. Nazarenko is also a founding board member and Vice President of Global Health Project, and serves on the Board of Directors for Origins Reclaimed, advancing aligned missions in global health, sovereignty, and wellness. She played a pivotal role as an organizer of The Road to Geneva: A Worldwide Call to Freedom and as Chair of Rescue the Republic in Washington, D.C.—two high-profile events in 2024 mobilizing international resistance to medical tyranny. An international best-selling author, Dr. Nazarenko writes on topics related to the gut microbiome, health sovereignty, and maternal empowerment. She is also a devoted mother of three, the wife of a principled chiropractor, and an unapologetic advocate for pharma-free, conscious parenting. Her personal and professional lives are deeply intertwined in a holistic vision for a healthier, freer world.​​

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Drs. Seth & Brea Ryan 

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Dr. Neil Cohen

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Graduating from Life Chiropractic College in 1986 under the presidency of Dr. Sid Williams, the life purpose and direction of Dr. Cohen’s life was set.

 

He went on to have a successful family practice for nearly 30 years. Always by his side is his Rock Star “Life Wife” Randi who has been the best kept secret to their success.

 

In 2014 Dr. Cohen was honored to be chosen as the Executive Vice President to expand the vision of Sherman College of Chiropractic.

 

Dr. Cohen is now leading chiropractors to success in life and in practice with Above Down Success Coaching, a philosophically sound and biblically based coaching program which is specifically tailored to each individual client’s needs.

 

Dr. Cohen is an inspirational speaker and writer and is the author of a new book “A Hope Without End”​​​​​​

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Dr. James Chester 

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James Chester is a highly sought-after speaker, podcast host, documentary filmmaker and marketing specialist within the chiropractic profession. 

 

As the host of Chiro Hustle, the #1 podcast in chiropractic, he has conducted nearly 1,400 interviews and ranks in the top 2.5% of over 3 million podcasts globally. 

 

With over 11,581 new patients scheduled since 2016 through his innovative public screening events, James has revolutionized patient acquisition strategies in chiropractic practices across the world. 

 

His dynamic and inspiring presentations cover essential topics such as marketing tactics for patient acquisition utilizing digital and in person events, chiropractic philosophy and utilizing AI technology. He’s a practice growth specialist, 

making him an impactful speaker for any chiropractic event.​​​​

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Dr. Angie Pufahl

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​Dr. Angie Pufahl has been a chiropractor for over 20 years and has been recognized for her unique ability to merge her grounded hands-on experience with intuitive energetic wisdom. She has a way of saying what most practitioners only think — and doing it with a down-to-earth confidence that leaves people feeling both seen and challenged in the best way. With extensive study in the biofield, quantum health, and energy alignment, Angie brings a deeper meaning to the nervous system—one that reveals what’s actually driving stress, burnout, and misalignment in the body. Her multidimensional mentorship helps people break through the patterns they’ve carried for years and reconnects them to a level of coherence and personal power they didn’t realize they were missing.

 

Angie’s truth-telling, no-nonsense approach has earned her a strong following from clients and practitioners alike. When she speaks, she will catch your attention — and sometimes, she admits, it might even sting a bit. She’s not flashy or fake…she’s real. Her presence activates people, her message cuts through the noise, and her energy sticks with you long after she’s finished.

 

She is deeply honored to be asked to speak at The Brave Practice, where she’ll share the perspective, experience, and fierce alignment that have shaped her two decades of work. If you’ve ever crossed paths with her online or in person, you already know: this is not a session you want to miss. Angie continues to explore new dimensions of healing, always guided by one core belief — when you align your truth with your energy, transformation becomes inevitable.

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Drs. Daniel & Richelle Knowles​
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Dr. Daniel “Danny” Knowles is a leading chiropractor, speaker, and founder of the Mile High Chiro Movement. A Sherman College graduate and former Board of Trustees member, he’s published in multiple peer-reviewed journals and leads global NetworkSpinal trainings through EpiEnergetics. Based in Boulder, CO, he’s served in practice since 1997 and is known for his visionary leadership and commitment to chiropractic philosophy

 

Dr. Richelle Knowles is a seasoned chiropractor with over 25 years of experience in private practice in Boulder, Colorado. A graduate of Sherman College, she specializes in NetworkSpinal and has taught thousands of chiropractors and students worldwide. She is the co-creator of both the Mile High Chiropractic Event and Lifetime Wellness Practice, a coaching organization that empowers chiropractors to build thriving, purpose-driven practices.

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A respected leader, Dr. Knowles served on the Colorado Board of Chiropractic Examiners and currently holds positions as Vice Chair of the Sherman College Board of Trustees and as a member of the Clinical Advisory Board of the Australian Spinal Research Foundation. Her research has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals, and she remains deeply committed to service, education, and the advancement of chiropractic care globally.

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Outside of her professional work, she enjoys life in Colorado with her husband, Dr. Daniel Knowles III, and their two children, Daniel and Anika.

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Drs. David & Lauren Kolowski

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Drs. David and Lauren Kolowski were let down by the medical system when they were confronted with their own health challenges. This fueled a deep desire to explore natural healthcare, where they found their calling as chiropractors and nutrition experts. After converting Inside Healthy (www.insidehealth.com) to a virtual practice in 2023 along with an online membership community, they now see clients all across the country while also maintaining a local presence worthy of prestigious "Best of Northern Colorado" award in 2024. ​​​​​​

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Dr. Todd Defayette

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Dr. Todd “Dr. D” Defayette is a highly respected pediatric and family chiropractor, mentor, and founder of Kiro Kids Connect (KKC). For more than 26 years, he has been in active practice, seeing hundreds of people every week — including over 100 children — across his two New York offices located in Saratoga and Schenectady. Married to his beautiful wife, Lauren, for 33 years, they share three amazing children — Jake, Jack, and Mia — who inspire his mission to elevate the health and future of all families.

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After decades of hands-on experience in a thriving, low-overhead, high-impact practice, Dr. D saw a growing need in chiropractic: helping doctors connect with and empower moms, the true decision-makers in family health. Out of this calling, he created Kiro Kids Connect, a comprehensive system and app designed to help chiropractors acquire, educate, retain, and inspire moms and their children — solving the biggest growth challenges practices face today.

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KKC is his signature framework, built from real success in the trenches. It equips chiropractors to grow with less stress, stronger retention, deeper connection, and consistent monthly marketing that showcases the doctor’s mission, services, and heart for families.

A faith-driven leader whose purpose is woven deeply into his work, Dr. D is passionate about helping doctors grow their mission, amplify their voice, and build transformational pediatric and family practices that change entire communities. His message is simple: Empower, connect, and educate moms so THEY can TRANSFORM the health of their children with chiropractic.

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Dr. Roberto Monaco

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Roberto Monaco, a dedicated full-time speaker, coach, and trainer since 2002, has delivered over 5,000 presentations across the United States, Canada, Mexico, England, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Australia. 

 

With a passion for serving the chiropractic community, Roberto has spent the last 12 years as the go-to speaking and influence coach for top chiropractors and chiropractic advocates in the industry.

 

Throughout his career, Roberto has graced hundreds of chiropractic stages, from state associations to seminars. In recognition of his outstanding contributions, he was honored with the prestigious Chiropractic Advocate Award from Sherman College in 2022.

 

As the founder of InfluenceOlogy and The Chiro Speaking Company, Roberto's mission is to empower doctors to communicate ethically and powerfully in various settings, including patient orientation classes, group doctor reports, dinner with the doctor events, corporate lectures, and videos. 

 

He has developed the premiere public speaking and communication training programs for chiropractors, such as Influencing From the Front and the Chiro Speaking Club, which equip participants with the skills needed to effectively convey their message and inspire their audience.

 

Born and raised in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Roberto brings a unique multicultural perspective to his workshops and training sessions, which he conducts fluently in both English and Portuguese. His diverse background and extensive experience enable him to connect with audiences from various cultures and walks of life.

 

When he's not empowering chiropractors to become influential communicators, Roberto enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife Katie and their two children, Sofia and Phoenix, in their home in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.​​​​

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Dr. Lauryn Brunclik

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Dr. Travis Corcoran​

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​Dr. Travis Corcoran is a bestselling author whose influential work Restoring Reason has reshaped conversations around principled chiropractic leadership and critical thinking in healthcare.

 

As President of the International Federation of Chiropractors and Organizations (IFCO), he champions global chiropractic integrity and serves as a leading voice for protecting vitalistic, patient-centered practice. A graduate of the inaugural DACP cohort at Sherman College—where his commitment to chiropractic philosophy and excellence was first formally recognized—Dr. Corcoran has continued to expand his impact as the founder and CEO of TOPCHIRO, one of the world’s fastest-growing chiropractic brands.

 

Known for his clarity, conviction, and ability to distill complex ideas into actionable insights, Dr. Corcoran brings a rare combination of scholarly depth, entrepreneurial success, and frontline leadership. His work empowers chiropractors, professionals, and communities to think better, serve better, and lead with purpose—making him a voice worth listening to for anyone seeking wisdom at the intersection of philosophy, business, and human potential.

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