Pilar Gerasimo has been one of the great connectors and leaders in the world of health in Minnesota for a generation—founding Experience Life magazine (nor reaching 3 million people nationwide), co-hosting the podcast The Living Experiment with Whole30 co-founder Dallas Hartwig, and serving as chief creative officer for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. There’s a reason Dan Buettner calls her ‘the most enlightened health expert in America’ and Frank Lipman calls her ‘a Rockstar in healthy living and a true revolutionary.’ Her first book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World (North Atlantic Books, January 2020,) has been a decade in the making, and she’s chosen to launch it at the Lynhall with a conversation with one of her real-life friends, award-winning author and radio host Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl, of Mpls.St.Paul Magazine. Join the two for a real-life intimate conversation about the challenges of leading a healthy life in an unhealthy world—and learn how to become a healthy, happy, deviant too.
About Pilar
Pilar Gerasimo is an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of the forthcoming book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World (North Atlantic Books, January 2020).
Best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than 3 million people nationwide, Pilar has also served as chief creative officer for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and as top health editor for The Huffington Post.
Today, Pilar co-hosts a five-star rated podcast called The Living Experiment with Whole30 co-founder Dallas Hartwig. She speaks at universities and leads workshops at retreat centers like Kripalu, Sundance, and 1440 Multiversity. She also consults for organizations committing to transforming health and happiness around the globe.
When she’s not traveling, Pilar hangs out on her family’s organic, communal farm in Wisconsin with a bunch of cows, chickens, and her goofy pit bull pal, Calvin.
Learn more at www.pilargerasimo.com and www.healthydeviant.com.
Connect with Pilar Instagram (@pgerasimo), Facebook (@PilarGerasimo), Pinterest (@pgerasimo), and Twitter (@pgerasimo).
About Dara
5-time James Beard award winner Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl writes about people, food, and places for Mpls.St.Paul Magazine and Delta Sky Magazine. Her book Drink This: Wine Made Simple actually does make wine simple. Her 7-year-old radio show Off the Menu on WCCO actually goes off the menu. When she’s not raising two children in south Minneapolis this New York City native is walking in circles around Lake of the Isles or Lake Harriet, looking for foxes and eagles. Connect with Dara at mspmag.com, deardara.com, or on Instagram (@dearlydara), Facebook (@Dara.Grumdahl), and Twitter (@deardara).