Natural Health Heroes
Before she came to Endeavour in Adelaide, Irene Schonberg studied nutrition online. It started from a personal desire to understand what healthy eating meant. It evolved into helping others with complex chronic health conditions, inspired by her husband’s fight for life.
Endeavour graduate and former employee Jennifer (Jen) Osborne loves to support the natural health industry because, as she says, it has served her well.
Naturopathy graduate Tristan Carter admits that he didn’t have a great understanding of what naturopathy was when he started studying it. He just knew he wanted to be eating better, feeling better and living better – all of which he has achieved and more!
As a child, Laura Wilson was dead set sure she was going to become a doctor. Everything she did was geared towards medicine. But life stepped in, and it was about 20 years before Laura started her natural health degree.
In the third year of her Naturopathy degree, Brooke Klower discovered she was pregnant. Rather than stop, she persevered with her studies, going into labour during an exam later that year. Two years on, despite some obstacles, Brooke has graduated with high distinctions, set up her own business and recently welcomed her second healthy child.
Around the same time Tahlia Harvey started a business degree in Adelaide, she was delving into nutrition and creating raw food recipes. Her passion for this area grew, so much that she switched her degree to nutrition at the same university, only to find out the course was more about food technology and science.
Last time we caught up with Endeavour graduate Hayley Richards, she had a plant-based dessert business and was starting a plant-based grazing platters business. She was creating beautiful content for Instagram, developing recipes and running nutrition workshops. These days, Hayley’s young son is her top priority, but her career also continues to flourish.
Like many people changing their career, Angelica-Hazel Toutounji tested the waters first, dipping her toes into some online subjects before feeling the pull and diving headfirst into a natural health degree.
On the way to a family beach holiday as a teenager, Meg Yonson picked up a book about molecular medicine. It completely changed how she thought about food.