Join us for the 3rd Annual Beneath the Surface Summit on Saturday, September 26, 2026 in Chattanooga, TN.
Signature events for women ready to feel whole, powerful, and unapologetically seen.
Women's Wellness Summit
Our Amazing Sponsors
These partners make the 3rd Annual Women’s Summit possible.
Sponsorship space still available.
Speaker Sponsors
Leaders and practitioners sharing their expertise at the summit.
The Summit Experience
Join us for an immersive journey of growth, connection, and empowerment.
We are dedicated to creating a sanctuary where women can peel back the layers of their journey. Beneath the Surface isn't just an event. It's a transformative experience designed to nourish your whole self. Through powerful conversations and interactive workshops we create experiences where women feel safe to have the conversations that are often swept under the surface, deepen their self-understanding, and step into lives of confidence, alignment, and self-advocacy. Beneath the Surface is where you can come and fully be yourself!
Our Mission
Voice & Self-Advocacy
We empower women to trust themselves and confidently advocate for their health, needs, and boundaries.
Connection & Safe Community
We foster a supportive, judgment-free environment where women feel seen, heard, and not alone.
Our Commitment to Integrity
As founders, we lead with honesty, transparency, and intention in everything we create. We are committed to building trust, holding safe space, and ensuring that every experience reflects the values we stand for.
Our commitment is to the depth of your journey, maintaining the highest ethical standards in every conversation.
Meet Your Founders
Lindsey Lang
Certified Life Coach
Catie Whiting
LCSW, PMH-C
Lindsey Lang is a Certified Life Coach with over 17 years of experience helping women build unshakable self-confidence, positive body image, and lasting personal empowerment. Her work is rooted in a holistic approach that honors the mental, emotional, and physical layers of a woman’s well-being. Through a compassionate yet empowering coaching style, Lindsey creates safe spaces for women to reconnect with their inner wisdom, set healthy boundaries, and step into their most authentic selves. Passionate about helping women create lives they genuinely love, Lindsey embraces the real, raw conversations believing true transformation happens when women feel seen, heard, and supported beneath the surface.
Catie is the founder of Mpowered - an organization dedicated to empowering women to embrace their mental health and providing support throughout their journey. As a licensed clinical social worker and perinatal mental health specialist, Catie has a wealth of knowledge in women's mental health, self-worth, stress, and feminine boundaries. Catie's private practice specializes in anxiety disorders and the debilitating effects it has on the journey hood of women. Catie is passionate about educating women on the impact of stress on their bodies, minds, relationships, and sexuality. Her goal is to shine a light on women's health and tackle the taboo topics head-on.
Why We Created Beneath the Surface
Lindsey Lang and Catie Whiting connected through a shared vision. Both of them have a deep desire to elevate the conversation around women’s health.
They recognized what was missing: honest dialogue around the topics too often left unspoken, and a space where women no longer had to navigate those experiences alone.
Beneath the Surface was created as that space. An environment where trusted voices speak with depth and integrity, and where women are invited to listen, learn, and reconnect with themselves on a deeper level.
At its core, it is more than a gathering. They are creating a cultivated community rooted in connection, discretion, and empowerment.
Because when conversations are brought into the light, women rise with clarity, confidence, and the power to advocate for their lives.
The 2026 Summit Agenda
The Many Faces of Burnout
Agenda subject to change
9:00 AM
Doors Open and Registration Begins
Check in, settle in, and start your experience by exploring our local vendors and sponsors while enjoying coffee, tea, and light snacks before the summit begins.
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Welcome and Opening Keynote
The Many Faces of Burnout: When Carrying Replaces Connecting
Catie Whiting and Lindsey Lang will kickstart the day energizing everyone and covering all housekeeping that will make a successful day.
10:45 AM- 11:00 AM
Networking and Sponsor Break
Refreshment Break, Vendor Engagement, and Connection
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Breakout Session 1
Room A
Rebellion Health - Laura Chastain
"Burnout, Hormones, and Ovarian Health:What Every Woman Should Know"
Chronic stress doesn’t just drain your energy, it ages your ovaries. In this talk, we explain how burnout disrupts the hormonal axis that governs ovulation, accelerate follicle loss, and shift a woman’s hormonal timeline years before symptoms appear. You’ll also discover why “ovarian age” matters outside fertility: the ovary is the fastest-aging organ in the body, and its decline is directly linked to systemic aging — driving risk for heart disease, bone loss, and cognitive decline. Learn how MenoTime, the new ovarian age and time-to-menopause predictor, reveals where you stand, and the practical, evidence-based steps that protect both your ovaries and your long-term healthspan.
Room B
Dr. Erin Westner
"The Burnout You Feel in Your Body: Rebuilding Capacity Through Pelvic Health"
A strong, capable body is one of the foundations of resilience. Movement supports stress regulation, circulation, energy, focus, and our ability to meet the physical and emotional demands of everyday life. At the center of that foundation is the pelvic floor which is a vital part of posture, core stability, bladder and bowel function, reproductive and sexual health, and our connection to our bodies. When pelvic health concerns go unaddressed, they can drain energy, limit capacity, and contribute to the cycle of burnout. This talk explores the powerful connection between pelvic health and overall resilience, offering practical tools to help women build strength, improve body awareness, and create a stronger physical foundation for navigating life’s demands.
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Networking and Sponsor Break
Refreshment Break, Vendor, Engagement, Sponsor Highlights, and Connection
12:00 PM -
12:45 PM
Breakout Session 2
Room A
Jennifer Maklan
"The Inflamed Mind: Healing Brain Fog and Burnout with Ayurveda"
Jennifer will take us beneath the surface of chronic stress to explore the relationship between stress, inflammation, mental clarity, and our overall vitality all through the lens of Ayurveda, India’s ancient system of holistic healing. You’ll walk away with practical, holistic strategies including dietary adjustments, cooling lifestyle practices, and nervous-system-supportive approaches designed to help calm the body, clear the mind, and restore energy.
Room B
Jenni Morris
"The Hidden Capacity Drain of Being Unfelt"
Jenni will explore a form of exhaustion that rest, better time management, and even stronger boundaries may not fully fix: the experience of carrying so much while rarely feeling truly met in return. Drawing from her work in nervous system regulation, somatic coaching, mindfulness, communication, and relational healing, Jenni will help us understand the difference between being seen and being felt, how chronic self-reliance can quietly drain our capacity, and why meaningful connection directly impacts our resilience and well-being.
12:45 PM -
2:00 PM
Lunch Break
Sponsor Engagement, Delicious Food, Community and Connection
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Breakout Session 3
Room A
Karisa Kaye
"The Burned-Out Brain: The neuroscience behind burnout and how to restore motivation, joy, and resilience."
Burnout isn’t just feeling tired. It can change the way our brains respond to stress, motivation, connection, and even the things that once brought us joy. Karisa will take us inside the burned-out brain to understand what is actually happening neurologically when we’ve been under stress for too long. She’ll help us recognize why motivation can disappear, why we may feel disconnected from ourselves and others, and why simply telling ourselves to “push through” often doesn’t work. Most importantly, this conversation won’t stop at why burnout happens. Karisa will help us understand how we can begin working with our brains, not against them, to restore motivation, reconnect with joy, and build resilience.
Room B
Phaedra Roberts
"Nature as Nervous System Medicine"
As part of The Many Faces of Burnout, Phaedra will invite us to explore something many of us have become increasingly disconnected from in our busy lives: the restorative power of time in nature. In this experiential session, women will learn about the mental, emotional, and physical benefits associated with intentional time in nature, including nervous-system regulation, concentration and memory, cardiovascular and metabolic health, and greater awareness of breath and body. But you won’t just hear about it. Phaedra will guide women through sensory practices designed to help them slow down, become present, and reconnect with themselves and nature in a judgment-free space. She’ll also share simple ways to make these practices part of everyday life because restoration doesn’t always require a major life overhaul.
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Networking and Sponsorship Break
Refreshment Break, Vendor, Engagement, Sponsor Highlights, and Connection
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Breakout Session 4
Room A
Judy Herman
"Why High-Functioning Women Burn Out Quietly: A Licensed Therapist's C.A.L.M. Method for Coming Back to Yourself"
Judy is bringing a clinical lens to a form of burnout that can be incredibly easy to miss: the high-functioning woman who continues to show up while quietly becoming more and more depleted. In this interactive session, Judy will introduce her C.A.L.M. Method - Clarify, Awaken, Lift, Master - a four-step framework designed to help women recognize and interrupt the hidden patterns driving burnout and begin finding their way back to themselves.
Room B
Dr. Ashley Odom-Rodriques
"Evolution, Not Decline: What Women Over 60 Can Teach Us About Burnout, Reinvention, and Living Authentically"
Dr. Rodrigues is bringing something unique to the conversation: findings from her doctoral research exploring the intimate experiences of women over 60. And what she found challenges the idea that aging is simply about decline. Instead, these women’s stories reveal an evolution toward greater authenticity, self-trust, freedom, connection, and fulfillment. Drawing from her research and clinical work across women’s reproductive and hormonal health from fertility and postpartum through perimenopause, menopause, and healthy aging, Dr. Rodrigues will explore how burnout can be rooted in a disconnection from our own values, identity, and desires.
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Sponsor Showcase
Business Spotlight for our Presenting and Gold Sponsors
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Expert Panel
"The Many Faces of Burnout: Why No Single Solution Works"
Moderated by Lindsey Lang and Catie Whiting
Open panel with all of our experts!
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing Reflection
Led by Lindsey Lang and Catie Whiting
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Giving Back
At Beneath the Surface, we believe true wellness and empowerment create ripple effects far beyond the room. Each year, we intentionally select a charitable organization whose mission aligns with our values of healing, connection, and transformation.
Through this partnership, we are honored to use our platform to give back, raise awareness, and support meaningful change within our community.
We are currently in the process of selecting the organization we will support for this year’s summit. If you know of a deserving organization making a meaningful impact, we would love to hear from you.
Please email us at info@beneaththesurfacewomen.com to share your recommendation and help us continue creating change together.