In December 2022, at the age of 41, Sarah was diagnosed with aggressive early-stage triple-negative breast cancer after finding a lump in her breast a couple of weeks earlier during a routine self-exam. With no family history and no genetic link, this certainly came as a shock, but she credits her early detection to the wonderful breast cancer risk education she acquired while serving on the board of Brilliantly.co, a tech/device company in the breast cancer space for the last 6 years.

She and her husband assembled a fantastic medical team at Magee Women's Hospital and enlisted several integrative cancer practitioners from around the country to support her need to bring these two oftentimes conflicting worlds into harmony for a treatment plan that was congruent with Sarah's passion, lifestyle, education, and career in the health and wellness space.

***With her medical and integrative teams' guidance and blessing, Sarah chose to delay surgery by opting to shrink her tumor first with chemotherapy while combining it with several intensive targeted holistic therapies to keep her strong and thriving. This proved to be a successful approach, as she ended her chemo treatment with no detectable cancer. This afforded her the ability to have a smaller lumpectomy, which removed tissue surrounding the tumor site, followed by 20 rounds of radiation.

Sarah has made it her mission to help educate women of all ages, especially young women, about their risks of breast cancer and coaches many women on how best to advocate for themselves, especially while incorporating holistic modalities.

Professionally, Sarah also brings immense first-hand knowledge and insight from her career that spans over two decades in sales, business development, operations, and executive performance and development. She spent nearly 10 years of her career in Hedge Funds and Private Equity in New York City before becoming a full-time entrepreneur in 2012 where she has since founded, advised, invested in and sold businesses.

Sarah is a seasoned business development strategist to entrepreneurs and small to mid-size companies and serves on the board of directors for start-ups and philanthropic organizations. In 2015, she founded a consulting firm focused on nurturing successful businesses through growth and scaling by bringing together the best strategic plans, talent, resources, and financing.

Sarah also has an extensive holistic health background. In 2011, she founded a successful national corporate wellness business that ran for 7 years where she brought executive performance coaching and wellness programming to companies focused on retaining talent and creating a happy and healthy workplace environment. In 2014, she opened a wellness center in Summit, NJ, which served as headquarters for her corporate wellness office and provided the community with access to integrative doctors and holistic health practitioners all in one place.

Sarah resides in the South Hills of Pittsburgh with her Husband Sean, four step-children, and a three-legged dog named Maci. In her spare time, she enjoys being with her family, being physically active, diving into health and personal development concepts, and acquiring certifications. Some highlights include: Optimize Mental Performance Coach, Board Certified Holistic Health & Nutrition Coach, 300 hr RYT, Personal Trainer, Positive Psychology, Meditation, Hypnosis, Holistic Hormone Balancing, strategic marketing, and many spiritual practices from around the world.

Sarah is incredibly grateful to call Pittsburgh home and is blessed to be on this journey here with this incredible organization, and thrilled to make an impact in any way she can.