Pilar Gerasimo is the founding editor of "Experience Life," an award-winning, whole-life health and fitness magazine that reaches more than 2.5 million people nationwide. She is also the author of "Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act: A Manifesto for Thriving in a Mixed Up World," a work that provided the philosophical basis for RevolutionaryAct.com, and for her Huffington Post blog.

The concepts all these efforts were sparked by Pilar’s own desire for resources that offered more substance, balance and authenticity than conventional health and fitness magazines, many of which seemed characterized by six-pack-ab promises and bikini-body obsessions.

Over its nine-year history, Experience Life (published by Life Time Fitness, The Healthy Way of Life Company) has earned a reputation as one of the most credible, practical and forward-thinking health magazines on the market. It has garnered kudos from internationally respected healthy-lifestyle experts like Dr. Mehmet Oz and top life coach Cheryl Richardson, and earned a coveted place on Whole Foods and Barnes & Noble newsstands.

Today Experience Life has a vibrant fan base, a robust Web presence (experiencelife.com), and an ABC-audited circulation of more than 600,000.

Pilar speaks and presents widely on topics related to healthy, happy, authentic living. In addition to her widely read “Thoughts from the Editor” column in Experience Life magazine, she appears as a regular guest on a variety of local and regional radio shows. For more than three years, Pilar also hosted her own live weekly talk-radio program, "Get a Whole Life," on myTalk 107.1 FM in the Twin Cities.

Pilar has been a guest on Dr. Oz’s "Oprah & Friends" radio program and has partnered with Functional Medicine pioneer Dr. Mark Hyman to create and copresent the UltraSmart Weight Loss Workshop at the Omega Institute. She sits on the advisory board of the University of Minnesota’s Health Journalism & Communication program. She has served as a judge for the National Magazine Awards and the Beard Foundation Awards.

Pilar’s central passion is empowering people to live their healthiest, most authentic lives so that they can give their best gifts -- and thereby help change the world for the better. A Fulbright Scholar, she holds a B.A. with honors in Comparative Literature from Mills College. She lives with her husband Zack and their three-legged pitbull on an organic cooperative family farm in western Wisconsin.

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