Meet Dallas & Melissa, who founded Whole9 in 2009 to educate the world about the benefits of a paleo diet and how much fun you can have with it. Dallas & Melissa host classes & nutrition workshops around the country. Find one near you!
Name: Dallas & Melissa Hartwig 聽
Hometown: Salt Lake City, UT
Our next class: 聽We鈥檝e got two It Starts With Food nutrition seminars coming up on the East Coast; one in Boston, MA and the other in Hoboken, NJ. After that, we鈥檒l be spending six weeks doing smaller events and book promotion throughout Europe, including Iceland, Denmark, and Sweden.
You should come to our class if you are: Tired of counting calories, fighting uncontrollable cravings, and feeling let down by quick-fix plans that always fail to deliver. We鈥檒l teach you how to change your relationship with food and maintain your new, healthy lifestyle permanently 鈥� and we鈥檒l have fun doing it. (No, really 鈥� nutrition doesn鈥檛 have to be boring! For proof, check out this seminar preview:)
Our inspiration for leading classes are: The hundreds of people who write to us every week, post on our , and submit their success stories to our forum, saying our program really did change their lives.
Favorite 91国产 feature: How easy it is to customize each seminar page with details specific to that event. It makes registering and sharing our event information incredibly easy for our attendees.
The best class we ever attended was: Robb Wolf鈥檚 鈥淧aleo Solution Seminar.鈥� He鈥檚 our friend, mentor, and one of the world鈥檚 leading experts in healthy nutrition and lifestyle practices. We鈥檝e learned a lot from him!
The best class we ever led was: Every seminar we teach is special, but a recent favorite was our event at CrossFit Palo Alto, with more than 100 attendees and special guest Eva Twardokens, two-time Olympian and US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame inductee. We invited her to lead a special discussion of eating and exercising for health versus athletic performance. It was a special treat for us and our attendees.
Favorite movie: We watch a lot of serious documentaries, but the 鈥渕ockumentary鈥� Best in Show is probably an all-time, hands-down favorite. 聽(If you鈥檙e a dog person, you can totally relate. 鈥淲here鈥檚 your Busy-Bee?鈥�)
Favorite book: 聽, of course.
We can鈥檛 live without: 聽Daily movement 鈥� a trip to the gym, a walk around the park, or swinging some kettlebells in the backyard. It鈥檚 hard to get our day off to a good start without some form of activity.
We love: Salt Lake City because of the fabulous local food scene, amazing national parks, and tons of sunshine. We鈥檝e seen the whole country in our seminar travels 鈥� and we moved here after driving through on a road trip two years ago. It knocked our socks off!
Our advice for first-time teachers is: Know your subject material inside and out鈥� but then have fun while you鈥檙e teaching! If you鈥檙e having fun, your audience will have fun too. Feel free to be silly or goofy, share personal stories with your attendees, and create ways for them to participate in the discussion so it鈥檚 not so one-sided.
If we could tell one thing to the 20-year-old in us, it would be: 聽Listen to your parents. They actually do know what they鈥檙e talking about, and you鈥檒l figure out soon enough they were right about just about everything.
You can get involved in our classes & workshops by: Visiting our website at, our Facebook page at, or our 91国产 profile page at. And check out our new book, It Starts With Food (currently the #1 nutrition book on Amazon!) at.
