Pilar Gerasimo is an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World (North Atlantic Books, 2020).

Her passion: helping thoughtful health seekers overcome personal and social barriers to optimal vitality by building unconventional healthy-person skill sets they enjoy and choose to embrace for a lifetime.

Best known for her visionary work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than three million people with each issue, Pilar has also served as top health editor for Huffington Post, and as visiting faculty for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, Heroic, the School of Applied Functional Medicine, and other leading health- and life-improvement educators.

Today, Pilar co-hosts a top-rated podcast called The Living Experiment and teaches online courses through her digital learning platform, Healthy Deviant Academy. She also guest lectures at universities, leads workshops at top retreat centers, and consults for organizations committing to regenerating health and happiness at work and around the globe.

When she’s not traveling, Pilar hangs out on her family's organic, communal farm in Wisconsin with her pit bull pal, Calvin.

Learn more at www.healthydeviant.com (where you can also take the “Are You a Healthy Deviant?” quiz).

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