Sarah Wilson - Health - Bestselling author and founder of the I Quit Sugar ...

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How To Run a Business and a Life Based on Values

Sarah has studied the best wellness, productivity and simple living advice. She draws on lessons learned from meeting the Dalai Lama, Oprahs life coach, Brene Brown, Sir Richard Branson and many more to guide corporates and entrepreneurs wishing to foster an impactful and meaningful career. She parlays the advice she has learned in her experience running Australias largest digital wellness business and then shutting it, donating all profits to charity. Read less

Making The Beast Beautiful

A nuanced and deep conversation that recasts anxiety as a philosophical and creative experience. In this presentation, Sarah draws on her own experience living with bipolar disorder, and the research and experiences she encountered over 7 years creating her New York Times bestseller, First, we make the beast beautiful. Read less

The Future of Wellness

Sarah shows audiences trends and developments backed by legitimate science and personally explored over 10 years of extensive research into obesity, the role of sugar, and mental health, drawing on her work with the National Geographics Blue Zones longevity project. Read less

Sarah Wilson

Bestselling author and founder of the I Quit Sugar movement

Sarah Wilson is a multi-New York Times and Amazon best-selling author, podcaster, thought leader, minimalist, philanthropist and climate advisor. She founded the international I Quit Sugar movement and wrote the international bestsellers I Quit Sugar and First, We Make the Beast Beautiful, which Mark Manson described as “the best book on living with anxiety that I’ve ever read” and has been ranked in the top 200 most influential authors in the world.

Sarah is the author of another 11 cookbooks that sell in 52 countries, and her most recent book This One Wild & Precious Life won the 2021 US Gold Nautilus Award.

In a “previous life” Sarah was a News Corp journalist and opinion columnist, editor of Cosmopolitan Australia and host of Masterchef Australia before founding the largest wellness website in Australia.

In February 2022, Sarah sold the business and gave all proceeds to charity. She now builds and enables charity projects that “engage humans with each other”.

Sarah now dedicates all her resources to driving a global conversation on sustainability and climate change, as well as resilience, living a life of value and change leadership.

In her most recent book, ‘This One Wild & Precious Life: The Path Back to Connection in a Fractured World’ Sarah takes readers on a soul’s journey through the complexities of climate change, coronavirus, racial inequalities and our disconnection from what matters…back to what matters.

Sarah hikes around the world with a day pack, meeting His Holiness The Dalai Lama, poets, philosophers, two nuns and a goat herder (!) to provide the hopeful wisdoms.

Sarah continues this conversation via her podcast Wild by Sarah Wilson, featuring interviews with Sia, marketing icon Seth Godin, Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind, Peter Singer and other philosophers, big thinkers, wild livers from around the world.

Sarah is also an experienced keynote speaker who has presented to the New York Times, Microsoft USA, Google, Apple, the National Press Club in Canberra, National Australia Bank, IKEA, Monash University, RMIT and many more, solidifying her as one of the most influential and forward-thinking assets to like-minded brands globally.

She is a global commentator and has presented on conspiratory theories for the New York Times, The Guardian’s Full Story and ABC’s This Much is True podcast. She has appeared on ABC’s QnA to talk about the anxiety epidemic, was a guest presenter on ABC’s Compass for a special on minimalism, and gave an address to the National Press Club in Canberra on children’s lack of resilience epidemic. She also guest lectured for the University of Cambridge’s Sustainability and Leadership master’s course.

Sarah released an Audible Originals series in 2021, titled Make Anxiety Your Superpower.

Most recently Sarah has launched the #Votegiveashit project ahead of the next election, geared at connecting caring Australians to candidates who will fight to put climate change, integrity, First Nations People’s voice to Parliament and gender equality on the agenda.

Testimonial

“She has been variously described as “the climate queen” “an expert on misinformation” and “f*cking wild”.

Russell Brand

“Sarah Wilson is a force of nature – quite literally. She has taken her pain and grief about our sick and troubled world and alchemized it into action, advocacy, adventure, poetry, and true love. She’s a great teacher and a great leader, and I admire her with all my soul.”

Elizabeth Gilbert, Author of Eat, Pray, Love

“Sarah shows us how possible a better world is if we’re willing to roll up our sleeves and get to work building it. By starting with ourselves, heeding the call to inner work and growth, we can build the future we yearn for.”

David Pocock, former Australian Wallabies Player

“Sarah Wilson has an uncanny ability to look over the horizon and see where the wold is going. Her “I Quit Sugar” book and ensuring movement was the first large scale solution to help get the sweet menace out of our diet. She is a true pioneer.”

Dan Buettner, National Geographic Explorer and #1 New York Times Bestselling author of the Blue Zone

“Sarah is full of expert advice while remaining grounded and incredibly human. Her vulnerability is her strength.”

Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck