The 2024 Cancer-Kicking! Summit
Southern California Summit Information
Empowerment Starts Now
This year, the Cancer-Kicking! Summit is taking place at the incredible Chateau Dumont in beautiful Rancho Mirage, California. From October 18-20, world-renowned breast cancer surgeon and bestselling author Dr. Kristi Funk will rock your weekend with information that will change your life. This high-energy gathering promises to inform and empower women of all ages who care about living their healthiest lives and want to maximally reduce their chances of disease. Whether you are one of the 133 million Americans living with a chronic disease, or you simply want to take the first step to truly elevate your health, this summit summons you!
Arm yourself with scientifically-backed facts and the tools you need to kick cancer as far from you as possible, while also radically reducing the risk of other chronic illnesses, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, obesity, depression, arthritis, asthma, autoimmune disease and more. Learn to intelligently navigate the conflicts and contradictions that compete for your attention everywhere you look. Let Dr. Funk share her 25 years of medical wisdom as she provides a clear and actionable roadmap for healthy living and wellbeing.
Evidence-based and backed by rigorous research, Dr. Funk’s approachable and often hilarious speaking style distills scientific wisdom into simple, actionable, take-it-home and start-right-now power. This is NOT a boring medical conference with monotonous research reports and studies – quite the contrary. Dr. Funk’s degree in psychology and TV celebrity background amp the entertainment value above and beyond any mundane medical discourse. Prepare yourself for an action-packed experience that will unshackle you from mental chains, energize you with achievable goals, and empower you with lasting friends.
What they had to say!
See what our prior attendees had to say about Dr. Kristi Funk and the Summit.
The Backstory
How did it all start? Dr. Funk explains how the idea of the Summit came to be.
2024 Summit Event Schedule (Preliminary)
Rancho Mirage, California
All workshops are approximately 2-3 hours in length and take place on Friday and Saturday from 2pm to 5pm. You can secure your workshop placement in advance. RSVP links will be sent out to all attendees a few weeks before the Summit.
The Truth about Hormone Replacement
Achieve Weight Loss that Lasts (2-in-1 Workshop!)
Dr. Kristi Funk runs this workshop covering important topics that have many women hot and bothered (and confused)!
Part 1: She will focus on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and the many controversies surrounding it. What does the science say about what HRT does to your brain, your breast, your heart, your colon, your blood, your bones? Do you have to avoid it completely if you’ve had breast cancer? What about testosterone and DHEA or hybrid drugs like Duavee? Dr. Funk also gets specific about symptom management, offering effective solutions to hot flashes, mood swings, dry and/or tight vaginas, decreased libido, joint pain, and more. Don’t sweat it out alone, join the conversation today!
Part 2: Unlock the secrets to permanent weight loss. Dr. Funk shares what you need to know about Wegovy, Ozempic, Mounjaro, and Friends. Learn how to shed pounds without sacrifice. Break through weight loss plateaus. Achieve your ideal body weight and stay there forever!
Dr. Kristi Funk
Mind & Body Escape
Soundbath Meditation
In this workshop, we look at the soothing sound from traditional wind and percussion instruments, also known as a “sound bath,” and how this type of therapy may help with stress, depression, fatigue and other symptoms. As we learn in the primary Summit curriculum, stress is a known contributor to disease. Therefore, engaging in activities like sound bath meditation will add to your arsenal of preventive strategies to create balance and harmony while reducing the risk of chronic conditions and disease.
Plant-Based Cooking
Whether you’re just curious, dabbling, or all-in vegan, we got you! Join Chrissy Roth, holistic nutritionist and co-host of Cook Live with Chrissy and Dr. Kristi, and see what’s cookin’ in the Chateau Kitchen. Learn the secrets of meal prep, and tricks of the WFPB trade such as how best to season, marinate, sauté, roast, and bake __________ (fill-in the blank! Tofu, veggies, grains, beans…). You will receive a written comprehensive list of must-have staples to stock your fridge, freezer, counter, pantry and spice rack so that you can whip up a delicious, satisfying meal for yourself or your entire gang – any day, any time.
Chrissy is a physical therapist also certified in Plant-Based Nutrition. She has worked most of her life helping people meet their health goals. Her focus has always been on prevention, whether it be through her work as a physical therapist and ergonomics specialist, or as a nutrition consultant.
As a physical therapist in Sports Medicine and Rehab at UCLA, she helped patients rebound from injury and quickly realized that patients’ lack of knowledge of posture and body mechanics exacerbated many of the injuries. She therefore expanded her expertise to include being an ergonomics consultant where she used her skills to prevent and avoid injuries in a multitude of occupations. Chrissy worked with UCLA surgeons, the School of Dentistry, the custodial staff, and professors teaching them how to avoid and/or heal injuries due to performing work in suboptimal ways.
Her lifelong love of nutrition (and her own struggle with genetically high cholesterol) led her to become a plant-based nutritionist. She blogged about her family’s diet transition on her website plantbasedluv.com, recounting the victories and failures as she took her meat-loving family to a plant-based diet 14 years ago. She’s never looked back, thanks to boundless energy, overall well being, and the knowledge that they are helping the planet and animals (and her cholesterol problems were solved!).
If she’s not out running, teaching a spin class, or recipe testing for the Cook Lives she does with Dr. Kristi Funk, she’s most likely trying to keep up with her husband and 2 sons on a hike. Chrissy loves animals and her family has 3 adopted parrots, 3 rescue cats, and 6 chickens. And yes, amazingly, they all get along.
Learn Something New: Pickleball
In furtherance of the Summits “Learning Tree”, we have added the ‘Learn Something New’ workshop. This workshop is for anyone who has never played Pickleball before but is ready for the challenge and some good fun in the process. Attendees will walk away with a good understanding of this up and coming sport, how to navigate the court and use the paddle.
Dr. Kristi Funk is a board-certified breast cancer surgeon, bestselling author and international presenter. With over 25 years of medical experience, she is an expert in minimally invasive diagnostic and treatment methods for all types of breast disease and has helped thousands of women through breast treatment, including well-known celebrities, like Angelina Jolie and Sheryl Crow, who have turned to her for her surgical expertise.
Dr. Funk authored the bestseller, Breasts: The Owner’s Manual, and after a deep dive into nutritional science literature (that has yet to stop), she uncovered an abundance of evidence-based research that dramatically shifted her perspective from a predominantly surgical focus while treating disease, to one that individualizes care and empowers millions of women all over the world to dramatically reduce their risk of cancer and many of life’s major killers. Dr. Funk has merged her medical knowledge and background in psychology with her own life experiences and those of her 40,000+ patients to create the life-empowering Cancer-Kicking! program that teaches women (and men) how to maximally reduce the chances of facing a killer disease.
After graduating in Psychology with distinction from Stanford University in 1991, Dr. Funk received her medical degree from the UC Davis, School of Medicine. She completed her surgical residency in Seattle, WA, followed by a surgical breast fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where she then excelled as a surgeon and Director of their Breast Center until 2009. That year, Dr. Funk, alongside her entrepreneurial husband, opened the Pink Lotus Breast Center in Beverly Hills, which became the first center of its kind in the United States, fusing state-of-the art screening, genetic testing, diagnosis and treatment with preventive strategies and holistic, compassionate care – all under one roof.
A sought-after speaker and TV personality, Dr. Funk has been the go-to breast expert for Good Morning America and The Doctors, and has appeared on Today, The Dr. Oz Show, CNN, Rachael Ray, The View, and more, as well as countless radio and podcast interviews. Dr. Funk has received dozens of honors and awards and uses her appearances to educate and give back to the community. She resides in Los Angeles, CA, with her husband and triplet sons.
View Dr. Funk’s full biography including awards and honors.
Chateau Dumont
Lodging for the Southern California Summit completely optional, and you are free to make your own arrangements. The Summit takes place at Chateau Dumont, with 15 bedrooms available for lodging. Alternatively, guests can stay at our designated host hotel, the Omni Las Palmas Resort & Spa, only a short distance from the Chateau. Chateau Dumont is a 5-acre resort-like sanctuary featuring 15 bedrooms and sleeps 30.
Chateau Dumont
1 St Petersburg Ct
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
Thursday Check-in: 3 pm or later
Sunday Check-out: 6 pm or earlier
Booking Options: Due to the exclusivity and limited availability of Chateau bedrooms, all Chateau lodging is offered for 3 nights (Thursday, Friday and Saturday). Special requests for guests wanting to stay 4 nights (Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday) will be approved on a first-come first-serve basis. Please contact [email protected] if you would like to add a 4th night to your registration.
Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa
The 2024 Southern California Summit takes place at Chateau Dumont in Rancho Mirage, CA, offering a limited amount of 15 exclusive bedrooms onsite. Discounted rate lodging options are also available at our Host Hotel, the Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa. The Omni is located just a short drive from the event location, and shuttle service will be provided from the Omni hotel to Chateau Dumont on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa
41000 Bob Hope Drive
Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
Distance from event venue: 3 miles (5-7 mins)
Check-in: 3 pm or later
Check-out: 12 pm or earlier
Booking Options: We have discounted resort room rates available for purchase for all Summit guests. Please select the room of your choice below on this page.
Travel Information
By Car: Rancho Mirage is easily accessible from Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego via the major freeway systems in Souther California.
By Plane: Chateau Dumonth and the Host Hotel are within a 20-30 min drive from Palm Springs International Airport. Alternatively, guests can fly into Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), Long Beach Airport (LGB), John Wayne International Airport (SNA) in Orange County or San Diego International Airport (SAN) in San Diego. Driving distances from all these airports are fairly similar, with John Wayne and Long Beach being the closest ones, respectively.
The following event rules policy is designed to explain in simple terms the general rules, purchasing and refund guidelines of the Cancer-Kicking! Summit, both in-person and virtual events. If you have any questions about the information below, please reach out to us at [email protected]. The Cancer-Kicking! Summit (“CKS”) and the Virtual Cancer-Kicking! Summit (“VCKS”) with host Dr. Kristi Funk are owned and operated by Pink Lotus Power Up, LLC (“PLPU”). Each CKS and VCKS event is subject to this event policy. By completing a purchase for the VCKS or any type of CKS tickets, you confirm and agree to the following:
Payments
Your registration for CKS or VCKS must be submitted on the Pink Lotus Power Up website and must be paid in full via credit card before your registration or video access will be confirmed. Payments by phone or mail are not accepted. For the in-person CKS, you may register and submit only one registration at a time. If you purchase event tickets for someone else, you must submit a separate registration and are required to provide the names of the attendee you are registering during checkout. Failure to provide the correct name may result in your attendee not getting access or getting delayed access to the CKS event upon check-in. All ticket prices are stated in U.S. Dollars.
Event Dates & VCKS Video Access
Your CKS ticket entitles you to attend and is only valid for the event dates and location listed at the time of purchase and in your e-mail reservation confirmation. Registrations may not be exchanged or redeemed for a future event. Video access to the VCKS is provided immediately upon completing your purchase. To view the VCKS videos, you must be logged into your user account, where you may view all videos on the Virtual Summit page. A VCKS purchase entitles you to one viewing license for your user account. VCKS videos may not be shared, downloaded, screen-recorded or screen-shared, nor may VCKS videos be viewed by giving another person access to your user account. To protect PLPU from unauthorized access, our systems continuously monitor IP traffic to detect if users are accessing the VCKS page from different geographic regions with the same user account.
Cancellations and Transfers
All in-person CKS tickets have a $150 non-refundable processing fee that will be subtracted from any refund you may request pursuant to the following timetable: Refunds requested 90 days prior to the first day of your CKS event will be issued in full, less the $150 processing fee. Refunds requested 60 days to 89 days prior to the first day of your CKS event will be issued at 75% of your ticket value, less the $150 processing fee. Refunds requested 30 days to 59 days prior to the first day of your CKS event will be issued at 50% of your ticket value, less the $150 processing fee. No refunds will be issued for any requests received within less than 30 days prior to the first day of your CKS event.
VCKS purchases are not refundable. All in-person CKS tickets are non-transferable without the prior consent of PLPU.
To request a refund, please contact PLPU at [email protected]. We have a small team so it may take 3-5 days before receiving a response. If you are unable to e-mail, please contact us and send your refund request by mail to Pink Lotus Power Up, 3110 Main Street, The Annex, Santa Monica, CA 90405.
Cancelled Events
In the unlikely event of a cancelled or postponed CKS event, we will attempt to contact you to inform you of refund, rescheduling or exchange procedures. If an event is completely cancelled, we will automatically issue you a full refund to the credit card that you used to purchase that ticket.
No Medical Advice
The information and content provided by Dr. Kristi Funk during CKS and VCKS are exclusively for informational purposes and are not intended to create a physician-patient relationship. Furthermore, the information and content are not a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Our host, Dr. Kristi Funk, is not providing you with a medical consultation nor is Dr. Funk directly addressing any of your personal medical or health concerns. If you are currently under the care of Dr. Kristi Funk as a patient and need to discuss your personal medical condition or how any information you learned during CKS or VCKS may affect your personal medical condition, you must make an appointment with Dr. Kristi Funk in her capacity as your physician at her current place of business and during regular business hours.
Always seek the advice of your own physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding any medical condition you may be facing. Do not disregard professional medical advice you have received or delay seeking such advice because of something you have heard or read during the CKS or VCKS. If you think you may have a medical emergency, you should call your doctor, go to the emergency room, or call 911 immediately. Reliance on any information or content provided during the CKS or VCKS is solely at your own risk. By purchasing CKS tickets or VCKS access, you understand that you release and discharge PLPU and its owners, directors, officers, members, employees, contractors, speakers or agents from any and all liabilities, claims, or demands arising out of or in connection with the program, and you assert that you have the right to enter into this agreement on behalf of yourself and/or anyone for whom you may purchase a registration.
Release of Liability
By purchasing CKS tickets or VCKS video access, you understand that you release and discharge PLPU and its owners, directors, officers, members, employees, contractors, speakers, or agents from any and all liabilities, claims, or demands arising out of or in connection with the event and you further understand that the aforementioned released parties accept no liability of any kind for the acts of any attendees during the in-person CKS, or for the safety of any attendee during and/or while in transit to or from the CKS. PLPU reserves the right to cancel any CKS events without liability. PLPU further reserves the right to admit and the right to exclude any person from its events, or refuse service to any attendee, at the sole discretion of PLPU. Furthermore, PLPU is under no obligation to provide an explanation for its actions, but may do so at its own discretion.
Image and Audio Release
By registering for the in-person CKS, you hereby grant PLPU the right and permission to use, publish and republish photographs, video and/or audio of the CKS event you attended, which may include you in whole or in part, and to use, publish or republish them in any printed or electronic matter or media as PLPU sees fit. By registering for an in-person CKS event, you forever discharge PLPU from any and all claims and liability arising out of or in connection with the use of any photographs, videos or audio recorded at any CKS event.
Failed Orders & Errors
If you do not receive a confirmation number (in the form of a confirmation page or email) after submitting your payment information, or if you experience an error message, power outage, or any kind of Internet service interruption during or while submitting your payment information, it is your responsibility to confirm with PLPU whether or not your order has actually been placed. Only you may be aware of any problems that may occur during the purchase process. PLPU will not be responsible for losses (monetary or otherwise) if you assume that a CKS registration order was not placed because you failed to receive confirmation. For a receipt confirmation, please reach out to us.
Potentially Explicit Content
With the focus of CKS and the VCKS being on women’s health, visual content shown at CKS or in the VCKS videos may contain certain images that could potentially be interpreted as sexually explicit. If you find these materials offensive, you may not want to attend a CKS event or view the VCKS.
Chateau Dumont Lodging Options
15 Bedroom Capacity
Chateau Dumont, the Summit venue location, is a 5-acre resort-like sanctuary featuring 15 bedrooms that sleeps up to 30 guests. All Chateau rooms are offered as a 3-night stay (Thu/Fri/Sat). You may bring an additional guest (3 additional guests for the Petit Maison Bungalow only) to share your room with. Your guests are not required to attend the Summit. If they plan to attend, please submit a separate registration for their Summit ticket(s).
Chateau guests may use all of the facilities offered, including the pool, tennis court, pickleball court, lounge areas, fitness center, laundry facilities, etc. Chateau may also attend movie night in the private screening room on Friday and Saturday evening. Guests wishing to stay at the Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa, please review the Host Hotel options instead.
Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa
80 Discounted Resort Rooms
Located just a few minutes from Chateau Dumont, the Summit venue location, the Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa is an idyllic resort in Palm Springs — a setting for countless activities and memorable moments in the Coachella Valley. Guest rooms and suites are bright and welcoming, thoughtfully inspired by Spanish Colonial design with French doors that open out to patios or balconies. Shuttle service to the Summit venue will be provided on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Discounted Omni lodging will be made available below in the coming few days, either as a 3-night (Thu/Fri/Sat) package or a 2-night (Fri/Sat) package.
All ticket purchases are subject to our Terms and Conditions and to the Event Rules posted on this page, which you must accept during checkout. We look forward to seeing you!