Health Interrupted

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer, Gina Lombardi, and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Today's guest is Cory Smith. Cory is a 25-year-old NBA, WNBA, and Collegiate Basketball Development Trainer who also trains high school students. Originally from League City, Texas, near Houston, Texas, Cory grew up playing football, basketball, and track as a child. Once he...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer, Gina Lombardi, and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Today's guest is Dr. Jamil Aboulhosn. Dr Aboulhosn is an adult congenital heart disease specialist and is the current Director of the Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center.  He earned his medical degree from UCLA, he did his residency and fellowship at UCLA fol...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer, Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Our guest today is Bryan Anderson. Bryan enlisted in the United States Army in April 2001. His deployment date was on September 11, 2001. He served two tours of duty in Iraq as a Sergeant in the Military Police.  On October 23, 2005 while stationed in Baghdad , he was taking...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer, Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Our guest today is David Mariani. He is a Strength & Conditioning Coach for ATG (Athletic Truth Group). David has had a host of health interruptions which in turn taught him how to help others with similar interruptions. David has trained over 1,000 people in-person in the Ch...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer, Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Today's guest is Nick Hardwick. Nick is a former NFL Pro Bowl Center for the San Diego Chargers. He started in 146 games, earned distinction as one of the 50 Greatest Chargers of All-Time as a member of the 50th Anniversary team, won the Ed Block Courage award, and earned Pro...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer, Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Today, we welcome Anthony Griffith and Brigitte Travis-Griffin.  Anthony, a successful stand-up comedian for more than thirty years, made his way from Chicago's South Side to the city's comedy clubs and out to Los Angeles, where he performed multiple times on The Tonight Show...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Fitness Trainer, Gina Lombardi, and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Our guest today is Dr. Kelly Donohoe. Dr. Kelly is a licensed psychologist. She earned a Masters in Applied Development Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh, a Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology at Boston College, and her doctorate of counseling psychology at Ch...

  Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Fitness Trainer, Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Clint Malarchuk was born in Grand Prairie, Alberta and played junior hockey in the Western Hockey League. He went on to play professionally in the NHL for the Quebec Nordiques, the Washington Capitals, and the Buffalo Sabres, and in the IHL for the Las Vegas Thunder. After l...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America Laura Kaeppeler.  Today's guest is Sharron Melton. Sharron is an Emmy nominated and Award Winning Journalist with years of Anchoring, Reporting, and Producing experience.  Sharron has over two decades of experience working in television and is currently the Morning Anchor for CW39 in Houston. S...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer, Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Today's guests are Meridith Alexander & Schuyler Arakawa. A powerhouse mother and daughter duo – Schuyler has achieved the impossible by surviving a traumatic brain injury while on a river rafting excursion in Colombia. 00:49 Gina & Laura introduce Meridith Alexander & Schuyl...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer, Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Today's guest is Eric Tozer. Eric Tozer is a TYPE 1 diabetes ambassador who inspires the community through sports and utilizes his athletic accomplishments as a platform to be a role model in the diabetes community. Eric was diagnosed with T1D in 2006, while traveling in Euro...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer, Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler. Today's guests are Dr. Payam Hakimi and Shiva Hakimi. A Board Certified, award winning, Family Physician, Dr. Payam Hakimi has had diverse medical training and has combined his knowledge of medicine with specialized alternative medical modalities to create an integrative and...

Welcome to Health Interrupted hosted by Celebrity Personal Trainer, Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America, Laura Kaeppeler.  :40 Our special guest today is Jordan Doww. Jordan   is an actor, comedian, vocalist, host, and YouTube personality. He's originally from Detroit Michigan and moved to Los Angeles in 2014 to pursue his dreams of acting, improv work, and theatre. Jordan can be spotted either...

We are excited to bring you today's episode with Joya Santarelli. Born and raised in Kenosha Wisconsin, Joya served as Miss Wisconsin 2000 and competed in the 80th Annual Miss America Pageant. Joya attended Villanova University School of Law and practiced litigation in Milwaukee and taught legal courses at Marquette University. She is married to Dr Greg Santarelli and has two sons, Rocky and Tino....

We are excited to bring you today's episode with Dave Lopez. For fifty years if there was a story in Los Angeles, reporter Dave Lopez covered it. Fires, floods, serial killers, OJ, crooked politicians…Dave brought the stories that mattered into LA living rooms. He retired in 2020 after an unprecedented 43 years on the air as a reporter at KCBS Channel 2, Los Angeles. A talented journalist and dieh...

We are really excited to bring you today's episode with Chelsea McCarthy, an entrepreneur, artist and Co-Creator of ON&ON who has survived two bouts of cancer, under the age of 30. Chelsea is an artist, facilitator and entrepreneur. Most recently she co-founded ON & ON where she is primarily the creative director but wears many other hats. She is part of an artist run collective where she facilita...

Welcome to Health Interrupted, we're your hosts Gina Lombardi and Laura Kaeppeler. We're ecstatic to bring you today's episode with Stunt Girl, Ninja Warrior and Modern Day Wonder Woman - that's right, she is a superstar in the blockbuster films Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman 1984. Jessie is KNOWN for smashing stereotypes, and defying the impossible. She routinely ranks among the top MEN on the str...

Welcome to Health Interrupted! We're your hosts, Gina Lombardi and Laura Kaeppeler. We are really excited to bring you today's episode with Drs. Bita & Shawn Nasseri. That's right, they are married and both doctors – a true powerhouse couple. Dr. Bita is a medical innovator and a transplant and cardiac trained anesthesiologist. She is highly decorated – she graduated summa cum laude with a medical...

Welcome to Health Interrupted, we're your hosts Gina Lombardi and Laura Kaeppeler. We're beyond excited to bring you today's episode with Liz Svatek. She is our friend, our mentor and all-around Warrior Woman. She's the founder of The Warrior Moms, an online community that inspires moms to put themselves back on the list. She's a speaker, writer and hosts the top-rated Conversations With Warrior W...

Welcome to Health Interrupted with Celebrity Personal Trainer Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America Laura Kaeppeler. Our guest on this episode is Dr. Arash Hakhamian. He's an innovator and pioneer in the field of mobile dentistry. Dr. Hakhamian is a 3rd generation dentist who graduated from UCLA with a degree in Anthropology and then attended USC SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY to earn his degree in DOCTOR OF...

Welcome to Health Interrupted with Celebrity Personal Trainer Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America Laura Kaeppeler. Our guest on this episode is Paralympic Gold Medalist in Skiing, Stephani Victor. Stephani grew up wanting to be an actress with the hopes of making it on the big screen. Her life was forever changed when she was pinned between two cars in a tragic car accident that took both of her...

Welcome to Health Interrupted with Celebrity Personal Trainer Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America Laura Kaeppeler. Our guest on this episode is Comedian/Actor John Mendoza. He's hilarious, he's a friend and seasoned comedian who has performed thousands of standup shows on all major comedy stages around the world. He's graced the big and small screens with his memorable roles in shows such as The...

Welcome to Health Interrupted with Celebrity Personal Trainer Gina Lombardi and Former Miss America Laura Kaeppeler. Our guest on this episode is Stacey Beaman. A full-figured trainer and a plus size woman. She is 42 and exudes confidence, happiness and inspiration. She served 8 years as a public-school educator, all the while having an entrepreneurial spirit and a zest for helping others. When St...

Welcome to the Health Interrupted Podcast. Life is full of interruptions. Sometimes a health issue can stop you in your tracks. The road to optimal health is a bumpy one – complete with children, partners, work, life. Even if you have the best intentions to take back your health, something inevitably gets in the way. You've decided, this is it! You're getting your health plan back on track. You me...