Tick Boot Camp

Emily Strauss is a 28-year-old native of New York City, New York. At the time Ms. Strauss began to exhibit the symptoms of Lyme disease, she founded a nationally recognized company: Mural Painter, Inc. Ms. Strauss’ Lyme disease symptoms began as small aches and pains and then developed into seizures and fatigue rendering her bedridden for over one year. Despite the challenges presented by her developing Lyme symptoms, Ms. Strauss found the internal resources to build a business that was recently featured on the network television program Shark Tank. If you would like to learn more about how Emily Strauss became a nationally recognized female entrepreneur while battling chronic Lyme disease, then tune in now!

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Alexis Najarian. Ms. Najarian is a fitness trainer, Ms. Nebraska USA ’19 and Lyme advocate with the Twin Cities Lyme Foundation. Ms. Najarian, her brother, and her mother became extremely sick when they moved to Tick endemic Connecticut. Ms Najarian is the granddaughter of one of the country’s top medical doctors and the daughter for former NFL linebacker, entrepreneur, and television personality. Despite the resources available to the Najarian family, their collective diagnostic journey was painful and lengthy. Fast forward to the 2019 Ms. Nebraska USA pageant, Ms. Najarian dedicated her pageant platform to Lyme disease awareness and advocacy in collaboration with her family and the Twin Cities Lyme Foundation. If you would like to learn more about how Ms. Najarian is humbly advocating for the Lyme community, then tune in now!

Leeann Escobar is a lifelong resident of tick-endemic New Jersey. She began to exhibit the symptoms of Lyme disease during her early childhood but was not diagnosed until one year after developing “mysterious symptoms” as an adult. Despite a lengthy diagnostic journey, Ms. Escobar maintained a positive mindset. Utilizing her grit and IV treatment, Ms. Escobar achieved symptom relief and recently celebrated the birth of her second child. If you would like to know how Leeann Escobar utilized a positive mindset and IV treatments to gain Lyme disease symptom relief, then tune in now!

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is the uber talented Carly Taylor. Ms. Taylor grew up in tick-endemic Connecticut and left her home community with Lyme disease. Ms. Taylor learned a great deal about herself and life in general while traveling on her Lyme disease journey. If you would like to learn more about Carly Taylor’s greatest life lesson, then tune in now!

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Heather Glovack. Ms. Glovack is a lending officer residing in paradise, aka Hermosa Beach California. Ms. Glovack exhibited classic Lyme Disease Symptoms since she was a teenager, but was not diagnosed with Lyme disease for approximately 14 years. Ms. Glovack’s Lyme-related fatigue caused her to mentally bully herself in her head, which she overcame to become a more compassionate patient young woman. If you would like to learn more about Heather Glovack’s transformative Lyme disease journey, then tune in now!

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Dr. Susan Eisen of Tick Tock Naturals. Dr. Eisen is a holistic chiropractor from Jersey City, New Jersey. After suffering Neurological Lyme and symptoms that included excessive sleep, short term memory loss, aphasia and word retrieval loss, she also began to suffer “out of control” anxiety over the thought of reinfection from a tick bite. To manage her anxiety and protect herself from reinfection, she developed an organic mosquito and tick repellent. If you would like to learn more about how Dr. Eisen used anxiety to fuel the creation of Tick Tock Naturals, a natural organic tick repellent, then tune in now!

Tick Boot Camp’s guests today are Josh Kreifels and Kristina Biggs. Ms. Biggs is a Registered Nurse (RN) and Mr. Kreifels is a Registered Dietician (RD) both residing in Seattle, Washington. Ms. Biggs and Mr. Kreifels went on a COVID weekend getaway in a mountain area in the Pacific North West and Mr. Biggs discovered a tick biting him on his arm. Ms. Biggs’ training made her aware that Lyme disease can be very dangerous and chronic. Knowing she had a short window to act, Ms. Biggs turned to social media for resources and located Tick Boot Camp’s Instagram page and Tick Bite Blueprint. If you would like to learn more about Kristina Biggs’ and Josh Kreifels’ tick bite journey and how you can use the Tick Boot Camp Tick Bite Blueprint to help you prevent a Lyme disease infection or reinfection, then tune in now!

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is a 20-year-old Irish/Danish Lyme disease warrior named Monica. Monica’s (Instagram page id_monica123xx) Lyme disease journey began at the age of 10 when she visited her father for a summer holiday in rural Denmark. Despite a Danish public awareness campaign that warned Monica and her family to the dangers of ticks and Lyme disease in her father’s community, a rash on her leg was written off. Shortly thereafter, Monica returned to her native Ireland and was vaccinated, triggering severe and then chronic Lyme disease symptoms. If you would like to learn more about Monica and her Lyme disease journey, then tune in now!

Dorothy Leland is an author and Lyme Disease activist from California. Ms. Leland’s Lyme disease journey began when her 15-year-old daughter Rachel began to suffer the symptoms of Lyme disease. Rachel’s long and often painful Lyme journey led Ms. Leland to work as a research assistant on a Lyme documentary, blog for LymeDisease.org and co-author “When Your Child Has Lyme Disease, A Parent’s Survival Guide.” If you would like to learn more about how the Leland family survived childhood Lyme disease and transformed into Lyme disease activists, then tune in now!

Tick Boot Camp’s guest today is Vicki Novinsky. Ms. Novinsky is a spoonie blogger and cartoonist from Brooklyn, New York. Ms. Novinsky was only five years old when she became extremely sick at her parents’ vacation house in Massachusetts. Her mom was frustrated with their family care physician and took Ms. Novinsky to an alternative pediatrician where she was treated with antibiotics. At that time, Ms. Novinsky also developed an autoimmune thyroid disease. Fast forward to graduate school, and Ms. Novinsky became extremely sick again. She had severe brain fog and allergic reactions to almost everything. She also had several misdiagnoses before finally being diagnosed with Lyme by an LLMD. If you would like to learn more about how Ms. Novinsky is bringing light to the Lyme community, then tune in now!