Kathy Smart lives up to her reputation as a triple threat in the health, wellness and fitness space.
She is a registered holistic nutritionist who wrote the best-selling cookbook Live The Smart Way – a Cordon Blue approved cookbook, as well as Canada’s 2015 Fitness Presenter of the Year (along side her American Counterpart Jillian Michaels).
Best known as North America’s Gluten-Free Expert, she is a popular speaker, health and fitness presenter and the go-to media expert in all things health and wellness.
She has been a guest on the Dr. Oz Show, CTV News, Breakfast TV, Global News, The Social, CH Morning Live, Canada AM and countless shows across North America. She was recently named one of the Top 50 Most Influential Social Media Tweeters according to the Huffington Post and is a Huffington Post writer.
She was recently awarded the Leading Women Award by the Canadian Government for raising health awareness across the country and was also named a 2015 Winner of the Top 40 Under 40 Business Achievement Award (Ottawa Business Journal).
Kathy has been featured around the world as the leading expert in Healthy Gluten-Free living and is a Chatelaine Magazine recipe developer.
In 2015, Kathy launched the much-anticipated Live The Smart Way Expo, her personally branded Canada-wide consumer Expo to a rousing success.
Active in the community, Kathy has also been a fitness trainer for Special Olympics Canada, and works as a healthy women’s body image advocate working with National Initiative for Eating Disorders and Hopewell Eating Disorder Clinic to bring more awareness regarding health beyond the scale.
Kathy has also worked with Developing World Connections teaching cooking classes and helping to build homes in rural Guatemala.