Meet the Leadership Team

Kristin is the Founding Director of LETS and the CEO of Essentials First. She is the international leader, educator, speaker and trainer in innovative approaches to wellbeing and has helped tens of thousands experience insights, understanding and remarkable results.

Her genius is in strategizing solutions for some of the worlds most challenging problems – such as human trafficking, poverty and abuse as well as creating models for physical, emotional and financial self-reliance. She has a visionary, intuitive and synergistic approach to solutions whether it be for individuals, communities or global challenges and is a fierce advocate for liberation. Her humanitarian efforts through LETS have brought hope and empowerment to numerous global communities in crisis and she’s dedicated to partnering with the world’s most intelligent and authentic thought leaders and influencers to rewrite systems that no longer work or serve humanity. Kristin’s most important passions center around her spiritual relationship with the divine and her family. She has been blessed with an incredibly supportive husband Shane for 31 years, seven children and five grandchildren.

kristin@letsempower.org

Lee leads the accounting division of Eddleman & Eddleman, LLC, an accounting, investment advisory, and venture capital firm owned by her and her husband. Together they and their team serve clients throughout the United States. She has comprehensive experience with consumer, manufacturing, and corporate accounting and tax. Lee also teaches as an adjunct professor of accounting for the University of Memphis at Lambuth.

lee@letsempower.org

The Founder and Chief Investment Officer for Eddleman & Eddleman, LLC, Adrian also heads Eddleman Venture Capital and advises numerous high profile businesses.. An adjunct professor for over a decade, he currently also serves on the Boards of Winsome Truth, Inc., and Regenerative Health Management Inc., in addition to LETS. He’s occasionally sought by media for both his political and economic commentary with clients featured in Kiplinger’s Magazine and elsewhere.

adrian@letsempower.org

Becky Tilton is a humanitarian, writer, and fierce advocate for children and refugees. She has assisted refugee communities through service in displacement camps and facilitation of refugee integration within the US. Her international service includes teaching ESL, refurbishing homes and distributing feminine hygiene supplies. After experiencing many different humanitarian initiatives, Becky felt drawn to the LETS program and firmly believes that reproductive education is one of the keys to forging thriving families and communities. Becky’s talents as a professional ghostwriter have resulted in best-selling books and publications picked up by major journals such as Forbes Magazine. As a teenager, her time living in Asia instilled in her a deep love for eastern cultures, as well as a keen awareness of the plight of the world’s most vulnerable people. She feels called to share their stories and their light. She loves the music of foreign languages and holds a BA degree in International Studies from Brigham Young University. In real life Becky is mostly a mom, raising five children in partnership with her husband, David.

becky@letsempower.org

McKynna Van Wey is responsible for advising and partnering with our Operations, Education and Board of Directors in how to appropriately and mindfully integrate LETS into different communities and cultures around the world. Being well versed in the educational materials as well as the many stories of individuals she documents, McKynna’s role is to speak and teach internationally bringing awareness to the cause. McKynna has a Bachelor’s degree in History and has years of experience traveling abroad with LETS. She has a deep love, reverence, and respect for people, culture, religion, and world history and is able to provide the LETS team with valuable insights and important data. McKynna is passionate about empowering others through education, joy, and presence. She feels a strong bond with the LETS program because she has seen first-hand the difference it makes in her own life and in the lives of women, men and young people globally.

mckynna@letsempower.org

Shannon Leach has been a registered nurse since 2008, working in family practice, cardiology/medical telemetry, and maternity care, and as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP) since 2011, working with pre-surgery patients and also as a school nurse. Recently, Shannon began working as a Nurse Practitioner for a women’s health clinic in Everett, WA, and immersed herself in continuing medical education, podcasts, and research articles to learn all about fertility awareness-based methods, cycle tracking, and body literacy. In the process, she discovered a podcast featuring Kristin Van Wey, LETS’ CEO.

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