Mike‘s Search For Meaning #41 - Katie Emory Zenger on Disordered Eating, Unlearning, & Healing Through Public Speaking
Katie Zenger is the founder and lead consultant of Zenger Strategies, LLC, and has over eight years of professional experience managing and evaluating public health interventions and grant programs.
Katie’s expertise lies primarily in public health program development and adolescent health promotion, as well as equitable healthcare access, community engagement, and nonprofit leadership. She is a skilled facilitator, strategic planner, and grant-writer, with experience in coalition-building and coordinating stakeholders for impact.
Katie served as a program officer and Director of Grants for a private SC foundation for over five years, where she expanded and refined the organization’s multimillion-dollar contraceptive access and teen pregnancy prevention programs. Most recently, she managed a pediatric concussion project for the Brain Injury Association of South Carolina and a healthcare workforce taskforce for the SC Institute of Medicine and Public Health.
Katie also serves as a Senior Associate with The Weathers Group, where she provides qualitative research analysis services, develops detailed implementation plans, and provides custom reports as needed for special projects.
She has also provided strategic planning for numerous nonprofits, including Darkness to Light, Fact Forward, and the Women’s Rights and Empowerment Network. Katie graduated from Clemson University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Science degree, and in 2011, she earned her Master’s degree in Public Health and a Graduate Certificate in Women's and Gender Studies from the University of South Carolina's Arnold School of Public Health.
Additionally, I’ll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest’s choice with each episode now. This episode, the charity is The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, or The AFTD. Any and all donations make a difference!
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Resources/People Mentioned:
- The Gifts of Imperfection - Brené Brown
- Girl, Wash Your Face - Rachel Hollis
- The Desire Map - Danielle LaPorte
- The Four Tendencies - Gretchen Rubin
- Atomic Habits - James Clear
- Maintenance Phase Podcast - Aubrey Gordon & Michael Hobbes
- Headspace App
- Loving What Is - Byron Katie
- Psychic Pain - Pujol (Song)
- Shannon Ivey
- Public Speaking Center of NY
- Gallup Strengths Finder
- Yotam Schachter
- Ikigai