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

Jackie Cochenour is the best in the world at doing everything in a way that honors her desire to think, create, learn and move people forward on their path to personal freedom. By trade, she’s been placed in guardian-led positions as a counselor, behavioral science professor, leadership development facilitator, higher education administrator, and executive operations director. For the past 15 years, she has been a bold leader in her region serving populations most at-risk in her significant work as an advocate and now her expertise is going global with LETS. Within her influence, she has earned multi-million dollar grants to provide services for our most vulnerable populations. By chance, she found her fire passion in victim and child advocacy. In her work, Jackie has paved the way for critical conversations and essential actions to occur that has saved countless lives in her region and across the world. By choice, Jackie is a warrior for personal freedom. She intertwines her talents and passions each day with LETS as she pioneers and advocates for key initiatives across the globe. As the Executive Director of Operations, she collaborates with fellow champions choosing to use their influence to fight against and prevent crimes against children, women and communities. Jackie and her family proudly reside in rural Northwest Missouri. As a unit you can find them most often outside on their farm, fishing, hiking, and spending quality time in fellowship with their local community.

jackie@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

Kaylia has had over 20 years experience in marketing, communications and project management including management of national marketing initiatives for non-profits, education and government bodies and private industry. Her projects have won international awards and she’s been responsible for major industry rollouts that have changed the face of industries and environments. She’s also a qualified teacher and uses her background to support the development of LETS education. She’s passionate about communication and education as a force for change and is excited to see lives changed through LETS every day.

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

Robin Aleksevitch has been a registered nurse for over 30 years in various specialties. Over the past 15 years, she has been teaching human growth and development to elementary school children as part of her outreach. Her experience had made her very aware of the importance of educating young girls and boys about the reproductive changes occurring in their bodies. This journey led Robin to complete the LETS instructor training course in January 2019. Robin then brought the LETS flip charts and lunar tracker bracelets to Oyugis, Kenya where she presented the course to over 600 young girls and boys. The experience was truly empowering, especially for many young girls to hear they had choices over their own body. Robin has witnessed first-hand the incredible impact of the LETS Training Program on communities in need and is passionate about growing the program in developed and developing countries.

robin@letsempower.org