About

Hi! I'm Elise Gilliam, founder of Erst. I left a career in consulting and finance to work in the childbirth space full time, beginning by training as a childbirth educator through Carriage House Birth in Brooklyn. When speaking with clients and other birth workers, I realized that people were moving through one of the most physically demanding experiences of their lives with almost no preparation for the unique and specific stresses it would place on their minds and bodies.

I expanded my scope to include prenatal and postpartum fitness and nutrition to help close that gap, combining my own commitment to and love of strength training and nutrition with evidence-based methods for supporting clients through pregnancy, birth, and everything beyond.