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  12/16/2015      11:00 am

The Dr. Pat Show: Talk Radio to Thrive By!: Co-host Tonya Winders - Advocates for Allergy & Asthma

Co-Host Profile

Tonya Winders


Breathe Better Together with Allergy & Asthma Network!
Has asthma or allergies got you singing the blues? Allergy & asthma network is here to help your family breathe better together! Allergy & asthma network is a patient-centered network of patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals who are dedicated to ending needless death & suffering due to asthma, allergies and related conditions. To learn more, visit www.allergyasthmanetwork.org or call 1-800-878-4403 to speak with a health educator today!

About Tonya -

Tonya Winders, MBA is currently the President and Chief Executive ... Read more

Breathe Better Together with Allergy & Asthma Network!
Has asthma or allergies got you singing the blues? Allergy & asthma network is here to help your family breathe better together! Allergy & asthma network is a patient-centered network of patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals who are dedicated to ending needless death & suffering due to asthma, allergies and related conditions. To learn more, visit www.allergyasthmanetwork.org or call 1-800-878-4403 to speak with a health educator today!

About Tonya -

Tonya Winders, MBA is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Allergy & Asthma Network, the leading patient advocacy organization dedicated to ending the needless death and suffering due to asthma, allergies and related conditions.

Tonya has over 17 years experience in leadership roles within the allergy and asthma industry. From sales and marketing leadership to managed markets access, she has worked tirelessly to ensure patients have access to effective diagnostic and treatment tools.

Tonya joined Allergy & Asthma Network in 2013 as the successor to founder Nancy Sander who led for 28 years. Tonya has worked closely with the leadership of the ACAAI & AAAAI to address challenges currently facing the integrity of allergy and asthma care throughout the US while spreading awareness and preparedness messages to patients and caregivers.

Personally, Tonya is the mother of five children, four of whom have asthma and/or allergies, ranging in age from 10-17 years old. She enjoys spending time with her husband of 20 years Brian Winders and cheering on her children in various sports.

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Testimonials

  • "I'm so honored to be here and it's such a great pleasure to any degree at all part of your wonderful healing process and your evolutionary process here. A great inspiration to so many people and your whole approach, your whole style, you're so energized, so full of life we've talked about energy and life force. Your words and your intentions are filled with life force and you heal so many people just by being present on the radio everyday like you are. So we thank you for the wonderful work that you do."
    Mark Mincolla, Ph.D

  • "Oh I LOVE DR. PAT! I am a prime example why astrology works. I was very quietly doing astrology about 15 maybe even 20 years at that point. And I knew from the moment I was born the animals were speaking with me and listening intently. That I was receiving messages from what most people call spirit that I had intuition about people. I had a woman come to me in my dreams when I was a little little girl from the time I was 3 on, I think she was there before that but 3 was when I had the language to speak about it. And she taught me she literally taught me to be an intuitive. She didn't teach me to shut up about it so I said many things that taught me to be quiet about it. I learned as I moved along with the education I was receiving to be quiet and then I learned to be very, very quiet except that astrology seemed to encompass so many deeper understandings. Well Dr. Pat, I love you Pat so much was a pivotal point in that for me. Because I wasn't going to tell anybody what I was doing. My friends knew my clients knew it was so quiet. And Dr. Pat had her first spiritual makeover. I knew I didn't want a spiritual makeover, I knew that I wanted a spiritual outing. I knew that inside of me I understood that it was the point to spiritually come out and Dr. Pat got it. And she had me as part of that first one. And one of the first things that was so much fun for me was she had me on her radio show which was back in Seattle. She got caught in traffic, so the producer being a good producer, I was already on air but we hadn't gone live yet. The producer was very worried for me. I was not worried for me. I kept saying to this producer, 'it's okay, it's fine, it's fine.' And I simply got on air and started talking because that point it was fine and then Pat came in through the traffic and she was fine and we just kept going. It was a blast! I knew I would be comfortable on air. I knew it was time to speak about the spiritual things out loud and definitively. But it went much further than that and Pat literally was an opening for me. I had been listening to her show every day that I could. I was at home with the kids and I would talk back to her. Which is why getting on air was so easy to me. She would be saying something to her guests or saying something insightful, chewy, and delicious. And I simply would be having this conversation with her except she wasn't there. So being on air with her was like oh yeah of course we're a snap. I've been doing this for months, you didn't know. And she knew that point of change in me had happen. And I felt it but she KNEW IT. And it is so beautiful when other people know."
    Aleta McClelland

  • "So first of all congratulations for all of the things that you have created and for all the differences that you have made in so many peoples' lives. I love hearing your story because I know the impact you have in the world. So Mazel tov to you." 
    Wendy Capland

  • Hi, Dr. Pat, Thank you so very much for a most insightful, profound and amazing interview this am. You made me think about things that have never come to mind about myself and my book. We have oddly so much in common: Bronx CCHS Girls!, Italian-Americans, a Papa who grew veggies who acknowledged and appreciated us, Lyme Disease, the arts, radio (I was on WPLJ (ABC-FM) in the 70’s as part of the morning show as “Mary The Exercise Lady" and did morning drive in Tulsa for a while on KMOD, Jazz, etc. You are a gift to the air waves, to the world. Your questions were so thoughtful, so pointed in the best sense of the word. Thank you, your team and your listeners for your time and interest.  With love and gratitude,  Mary Crescenzo
    Interview with Mary Crescenzo

  • "Dear Pat, I recently found your website and was so intrigued by all the wonderful speakers you have had on your show and the ones who were to be aired in the future. And more than that, you offer your services to everyone for free and I am so thankful to you for doing that. I had called today and had spoken to Doreen Virtue about my misfortunes in love, finances, losing custody of my children, etc. To receive divine guidance from Doreen about clearing my anger and releasing it gave me so much hope that things could get better. I did what she said and cried in pain and released and forgave myself....in addition, I saw that my anger was keeping me stuck where I was and that I was keeping my children from coming home, which they so want to be with me and I with them. After realizing that anger only hurts me and affects other, I will continue to release and allow love and ask my angels for continous help with this. I will share with my children tomorrow when I see them for a few hours what I have learned and teach them what I have learned about how anger has impacted my life, and will express my new desires and beginnings with them on a new journey of love (and I'm sure they'll join my journey)."
    Listener