Watched by millions as the co-host of Dancing with the Stars and Entertainment Tonight, Samantha Harris is an Emmy Award-winning TV host and journalist, a bestselling author, Certified Health Coach and fitness trainer, nutrition advocate, and advocate for healthy living. Her 2014 stage II invasive breast cancer diagnosis at age 40 inspired a quest for answers about how we can all improve our overall health, prevent chronic diseases, and understand their underlying causes. The resulting book (which debuted as a Bestseller on Amazon), Your Healthiest Healthy: 8 Easy Ways to Take Control, Help Prevent and Fight Cancer, and Live a Longer, Cleaner, Happier Life, translates comprehensive, research-backed knowledge into an easy-to-follow action plan for maximizing health, energy, and happiness for life. Queen of the Kardashian empire, Kris Jenner, says, “This book will change your life!" Dr. Drew Pinsky proclaims, “This well-researched book features so much great practical advice.” To say she is passionate about health, fitness, and overall well-being would be an understatement. She lives and champions it every day.
Ten years after her initial diagnosis, breast cancer reared its ugly head again, slamming Samantha with a second breast cancer diagnosis. A local regional recurrence from her primary cancer, turning 2024 from a year of elation and celebration into one of more surgeries and recoveries. Albeit shaken, and navigating it this time with two now-teenage daughters to break the news to, she and her husband held their girls tight as the family rode the tumultuous wave together. Samantha’s spirit and resiliency were challenged, but pushing through yet again. As a highly motivational speaker, Samantha shares her personal journey from cancer diagnosis to her “healthiest healthy” with genuine warmth and unflappable positivity. She also blends almost encyclopedic knowledge with insights from doctors and scientists, offering advice, practical tips, and healthy recipes. And as actress-producer and breast cancer survivor Rita Wilson has said, “If knowledge is power, then Samantha Harris is Wonder Woman.”
Samantha co-hosted Dancing with the Stars for eight seasons, garnering two Emmy nominations. She also served for many years as a correspondent and weekend anchor on Entertainment Tonight, where she earned two more Emmy nominations and a win. Samantha’s first primetime show that she hosted was FOX’s The Next Joe Millionaire. After DWTS, she hosted NBC’s Stars Earn Stripes. She has also hosted dozens of other national network and syndicated programs, including Gordon Ramsay’s Culinary Genius (FOX stations), The Insider, E! News, and Extra, and appeared as a guest host on Access Hollywood Live, The View, Daily Blast Live, Hollywood Today Live, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and Good Morning America (guest correspondent), among others. She co-hosted the official live red carpet show for the 80th Academy Awards and for the Critics’ Choice Awards, as well as made her Broadway debut in 2009, starring as Roxie Heart in the musical Chicago.
A certified personal trainer and recognized fitness expert, Samantha has appeared on the cover of numerous health and fitness magazines, including Shape, First for Women, Fit Parent, Muscle & Fitness HERS (a record four times), Pilates Style, Wellness, and Women’s Running. She has also appeared in the pages of many more, including People, USA Today magazine, SELF, Closer Weekly, InTouch, Star, and US Weekly. Dedicated to advancing breast cancer research, Samantha was named Survivor of the Year by Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Los Angeles 2017 and led its 2018 Parade of Promise. She also serves as an ambassador for both Susan G. Komen and the American Cancer Society and as a member of the Entertainment Council for Feeding America.
Along with her husband, Michael, Samantha founded the online community Gotta Make Lemonade to inspire positivity in the face of adversity. The name of the organization stems from Michael’s hopeful reminder when they were going through her breast cancer treatment: “When life gives you lemons, you gotta make lemonade!” Samantha is the proud mother of two daughters and an honors graduate from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She leads many on her in-person wellness retreats in Utah, Santa Monica, and Mexico, as well as online in her Your Healthiest Healthy community. Her podcast, YOUR HEALTHIEST HEALTHY: PODCAST, is often in the Top 20 in Alternative Health on Apple iTunes.
With an uplifting, vibrant personality, Samantha consistently wins hearts, minds, and rave reviews. She shows how to achieve your healthiest, overcome adversity, and find balance as a professional woman. Facing challenges with humor, strength, perseverance, and passion, she empowers people to take control of their health and live their best and healthiest lives.
"We had our big event with Samantha Harris and I want to thank you so much for singing her praises so well. First and foremost, she is really a remarkable individual. She is intelligent, relatable and so down to earth. Everyone loved her, from the CEO to the community participants who attended the event. Her keynote was so well done and her message was right on point, echoing our organizational philosophies about knowing your own body, advocating for yourself and empowering yourself to be the best version. She was so patient and interactive with each of the participants in the Meet and Greet and book signing and did a wonderful job on both on-air television appearances (not surprising!)."
"We had our big event with Samantha Harris and I want to thank you so much for singing her praises so well. First and foremost, she is really a remarkable individual. She is intelligent, relatable and so down to earth. Everyone loved her, from the CEO to the community participants who attended the event. Her keynote was so well done and her message was right on point, echoing our organizational philosophies about knowing your own body, advocating for yourself and empowering yourself to be the best version. She was so patient and interactive with each of the participants in the Meet and Greet and book signing and did a wonderful job on both on-air television appearances (not surprising!)."