BostonTalks: Fit and Fresh

Edgar Herwick is the guy behind WGBH’s Curiosity Desk, where the quest is to dig a little deeper into (and sometimes look a little askew at) topics in the news, and search for answers to questions posed by the world around us. His features can be seen on WGBH’s Greater Boston and heard on 89.7 WGBH’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He also appears regularly with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on Boston Public Radio. Follow him on Twitter @ebherwick3.

Skylar Griggs is a registered dietitian specializing in pediatric and family nutrition as well as weight management and cardiology nutrition. Skylar is presently the lead dietitian for the preventive cardiology division at Boston Children’s Hospital and the owner of Newbury Street Nutrition, a concierge nutrition practice in Boston’s Back Bay. In addition to working with clients Skylar is a lecturer, consultant, spokesperson, and media contributor. Skylar has been a nutrition news contributor for Fox25 News Boston, Boston Magazine Online, Boston Globe and your own WGBH! Skylar received her undergraduate degree in Dietetics from Syracuse University and her Masters of Science in Clinical Nutrition from New York University.

Avid cyclist and believer that VR is the new frontier of fitness; Co-Founder & CEO VirZOOM; former VC and active angel investor; macro-economy and markets forecaster; Systems software hacker, product management director, VP Sales, and CEO of VC-backed start-ups; Portfolio Penguin economics book author; Harvard Business Review and Harper’s Magazine cover article author; Keynote speaker; Inventor: Audio cues process patent Aug. 2017.

Neely Steinberg is a dating coach, image consultant, and founder of her multi-service dating coaching company The Love TREP (www.thelovetrep.com). She is author of Skin In the Game: Unleashing Your Inner Entrepreneur to Find Love and the accompanying workbook, both available for purchase on Amazon. She has been featured in hundreds of media outlets, given seminars for Match.com, and hosted fashion shows for Macy’s and Neiman Marcus. Neely has a Masters degree in Counseling from Boston University. She lives outside Boston with her loving husband Dave and their two children.