Articles by Melissa Schmidt

Melissa Schmidt is our Director of Education. She comes to Whole30 with nearly 20 years of experience in project and product management in medical research publications, and she holds a Master of Education degree with focus on adult education for health professionals. Melissa is a wife to Adam, a mom to Henry, and a daughter to Becki, all of whom reside with her currently in Florida. Melissa has a passion for developing efficient, streamlined programs that deliver meaningful content in an accessible format. She believes deeply in the human work of self knowledge and value alignment, both of which were a big part of her first journey through the Whole30 in 2013 – and she believes that work should be available to everyone. She’s a voracious reader, a joyful writer, a big dreamer, an intersectional feminist, an empathic friend, and a recovering perfectionist.