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Stephanie Palmer Turns Struggles Into a Movement of Radical Transparency and Patient Advocacy

Stephanie Palmer is a leader in one-on-one support, guidance, patient advocacy, and skilled nursing for the Bariatrics, Plastics, Spine, Neuro, and Chronic Illness communities. She is an award-winning member, speaker, and presenter in the Bariatric community. Her mission is to ensure that patients are seen, heard, and never alone. Her lived and professional experiences over the last eleven years gave her not just personal insight, but also a deeper passion for helping others navigate and advocate for themselves at every stage of their bariatric, plastics, and health journeys. Through her compassionate, personalized approach—both virtually and in person across compact states—she has helped countless people feel supported, empowered, and understood.


Stephanie Palmer’s story is one of resilience and transformation. What began as a deeply personal struggle with her own bariatric surgery has grown into a movement that blends radical transparency, advocacy, and compassion. Through her work with Bariatric Warrior Support and her podcast, Palmer is challenging stigma and offering patients something many never find in the healthcare system: true community and advocacy.

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Poonam Mandalia is a visionary Life Coach, Teacher, and Artist, internationally renowned as The Jaguar Shaman for her mastery in advanced Shamanism. She works one-to-one with coaches, high-impact individuals, thought leaders, and entrepreneurs to expand, optimise, and magnetise their auric field. Blending shamanic mediumship and light frequency energetics with life coaching, she facilitates high-level life transformation. Her clients learn to elevate their frequencies from the fifth to the twelfth and thirteenth-dimensional fields, working on their relationship with Self and every other aspect of life. Together, they co-create new realities and engage with source intelligence to manifest authentically. Clients often work through deep-rooted issues carried through their bloodline, enabling them to rewrite their life story.


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