Health Coach Radio

In this episode, we sit down with Marcus Farris, the Post Traumatic Growth Director for Mission 22, an organization dedicated to supporting veterans and their families.    Marcus, a former engineering officer in Alaska, shares his journey from military service to becoming a catalyst for change in the lives of veterans. In this conversation, Marcus delves into the world of post-traumatic growth, exploring the incredible work Mission 22 is doing through health coaches and digital content creation to help veterans overcome trauma and thrive. Marcus also discusses the importance of self-care, reclaiming agency, and uncovering new possibilities.   This is a fascinating conversation with many insights from an organization using health coaches to make an important difference in the lives of veterans. Get ready for a compelling conversation on resilience and transformation. Episode Overview: 0:00:00 Introduction to Marcus Ferris and Mission 22 0:03:37 Combining Health Coaching and Clinical Mental Health Counseling fo

Rebecca Tracey is a marketing coach who works with health and life coaches and in this conversation, we scale all the way back to the brass tacks of marketing yourself.    Rebecca says that the good news is - the basics still work! So stop trying to go viral on TikTok and instead spend time getting extremely clear on exactly what kind of expert you are and exactly what kind of problem you solve for whom and how. The tools have changed but the foundational elements of marketing are still true. You must put a clear message in front of your audience.    Rebecca shares her expertise and emphasizes the need for clarity in marketing and engaging beyond social media. She also touches upon niche markets, creating impactful programs, and debunking the misconception of passive income.    We know you will take a lot away from this frank and filterless conversation with reassuring Rebecca Tracey.   Episode Overview: 0:00:00 Getting Clear on Your Expertise and Target Audience 0:01:21 Starting the journey as a health coach

Join us in this enlightening episode as we sit down with Katie Bramlett, co-founder of WeShape, a groundbreaking wellness program that centers on the profound concept of self-worth by offering tailored resources, emphasizing foundational movement patterns, and aiming to shift cultural value systems.   Katie takes us through her journey, sharing her remarkable transformation from running a highly successful body transformation business to her courageous pivot into the self-worth arena.    In the conversation, she covers why this shift was a moral imperative for her, the challenges she faced along the way, and the invaluable insights she's gained as a veteran of the wellness industry. She also discusses the importance of addressing emotional and societal aspects of self-worth, creating a supportive community, and prioritizing coaching over training.    This episode is truly a transformative exploration of self-worth that we know you will enjoy. And don’t forget to get your special offer at https://www.weshape.c

Our guest today is Laurie Olivier, the CEO and co-founder of LifeQ, a health platform that integrates with all manner of consumer wearables, helping to spot chronic disease early and encouraging lifestyle changes before it's too late. Their platform can aggregate and collate over 200 different biometrics.    Let’s face it, Health gadgets are here to stay, so our conversation centers around what we can meaningfully do with all of this data. Laurie explains his background in corporate and venture capital, and why he decided to focus on preventative health and chronic diseases. He also discusses the challenges of making lasting lifestyle changes and the importance of empowering individuals to manage their health.   Laurie shares with us how simple wearable devices can assist both health coaches and their clients in achieving greater health and wellness. He also gets into how can coaches of end-user health consumers can then take personalized action, based on the readings they are getting from their wearables.

In this episode, we are trying something new! This is a recording of a Q&A session that Erin held with the PHCI student body with questions submitted by coaches - just like you. Questions about business, coaching, and making the move to building and growing a health coaching practice in an ever-evolving health landscape.    During the episode, Erin answers questions like "How can I do this when I'm not super high-tech and really don't want to be?" "How can I coach my client to start drinking less alcohol?" "Am I allowed to market myself to type 2 diabetics?" and a question about Erin’s own personal points of view on why it's so great to be a health coach today and what advice she gives herself if she could go back in time - and a whole lot more.   We think you will get a lot out of listening in on this wide-ranging Q&A session. Please enjoy and let us know if it sparks any questions that you would like us to answer!   Welcome to Health Coach Radio, the podcast that dives deep into the world of health

Our guest today is Michelle Leotta, a longtime friend and colleague and a business coach who supports practicing and aspiring health coaches through her enormous Facebook community, the Health Coach Power community, her podcast, the Health Coach Power podcast, and her coach business training platform, Healthy Profit University.    Michelle's expertise and experience working with health coaches make her an invaluable resource for understanding the struggles and successes of this field. Because Michelle is in contact always with so many health coaches across so many platforms, she sees every day what struggles and successes folks are having and how that seems to evolve over time.    During this episode, Michelle shares her journey from advertising to becoming a certified health coach and mentoring others. She also discusses common challenges for health coaches and the importance of action and revenue-focused activities. She emphasizes the value of diversifying your marketing beyond social media and also shares

This episode is super important for all you coaches out there because our guest is Darrell Rogers from the Council of Holistic Health Educators. Darrell is an experienced Government Relations Director with a history of successfully implementing dynamic campaigns that promote and protect industries, organizations, and companies. He is skilled in government relations, policy creation, coalition management, and business development. The Council of Holistic Health Educators protects and promotes holistic health professionals, just like us. They defeat legislation that restricts our community, and they lobby to pass laws protecting and growing the ability of our diverse profession to practice. They educate policymakers, build grassroots support, and train holistic health practitioners to become involved in the policy process and win.  During this conversation, Darrell discusses the council's role in protecting and promoting holistic health professionals, advocating against restrictive legislation, and educating po

Meet Joanna Lindenbaum, a master facilitator, and coach extraordinaire! Joanna is the creator of the Applied Depth Practitioner Institute and the Sacred Depths Transformational Practitioner Certification.    Joanna believes that health coaches spend perhaps too much time fussing about their marketing and business development and not enough time perfecting the craft of coaching. And that actually becoming an effective coach is one of the most important business development efforts you can make. And we completely agree.    Having successfully shared her training with medical professionals, eating disorder specialists, and therapists, Joanna's impact spans far and wide. She has led numerous retreats, circles, and workshops, touching the lives of thousands in the US and abroad. She honed her skills in Rituals and life cycles throughout her journey, discovering their profound application to goals, dreams, and daily existence.   You found your way to the Health Coach Radio podcast because you're a practicing or asp

Welcome to Health Coach Radio, the podcast that dives deep into the world of health and fitness coaching, brought to you by Primal Health Coach Institute, founded by the renowned Mark Sisson. Join your hosts, Erin and Laura, both proud graduates of Primal Health Coach Institute, as they share inspiring stories and expert insights on elevating your coaching practice.   If you're curious about transforming your life through the power of health and/or fitness coaching, visit primalhealthcoach.com. Discover the transformative journey of Primal living and explore how Primal Health Coach Institute can empower you to make a real impact on people's lives. In this episode, we have the honour of hosting Julie Hamilton, a distinguished health coach with profound expertise in the complex realm of fibromyalgia. Julie also has a corporate background in human resources and made a move to combine these two aspects of her background. Julie now consults with organizations and corporations to coach them to support their employe

Welcome to Health Coach Radio, the podcast that dives deep into the world of health and fitness coaching, brought to you by Primal Health Coach Institute, founded by the renowned Mark Sisson. Join your hosts, Erin and Laura, both proud graduates of Primal Health Coach Institute, as they share inspiring stories and expert insights on elevating your coaching practice.   If you're curious about transforming your life through the power of health and/or fitness coaching, visit primalhealthcoach.com. Discover the transformative journey of Primal living and explore how Primal Health Coach Institute can empower you to make a real impact on people's lives.   Pauline Cox BSc MSc heads up sowandarrow.com an online repository for health products and health information. She's a functional nutritionist, entrepreneur, and mother with a vast depth of knowledge and experience in women's health, hormonal balance, and nutrition.     Pauline is a regular columnist for both national and international publications and currently

Welcome to Health Coach Radio, the podcast that dives deep into the world of health and fitness coaching, brought to you by Primal Health Coach Institute, founded by the renowned Mark Sisson. Join your hosts, Erin and Laura, both proud graduates of Primal Health Coach Institute, as they share inspiring stories and expert insights on elevating your coaching practice.   If you're curious about transforming your life through the power of health and/or fitness coaching, visit primalhealthcoach.com. Discover the transformative journey of Primal living and explore how Primal Health Coach Institute can empower you to make a real impact on people's lives. Chris Mirabile is the founder and CEO of Novos, the first human longevity company to simultaneously address the 12 mechanisms of aging - the biological causes of aging which Chris explains very well - through its innovative patent-pending over-the-counter formulations.  With that in mind, during the conversation around aging, they also covered what aging has histori

Chris Wilson is the VP of content and the head strength coach at Critical Bench, possibly one of the first and most tenured online fitness video repositories which has been going strong since 1999. It is wild (especially for us oldtimers) to consider that online fitness content's been around for a quarter of a century and Critical Bench is a great example of playing the long game in this industry, which is a topic Erin and Lara dig into.   At the end of this episode, Chris get’s into a really remarkable idea about functional aging so make sure to listen all the way through! They also cover how the fitness industry has changed in the last 30 years. Chris walks us through how they iterated not just their sales pages and marketing but their entire programs. One of the most important points of this conversation is how long and how many iterations (or repackaging and rethinking) it takes to create a successful business or product.   We are certain you are going to enjoy this conversation with an online fitness vet

This is a super fun and very specific episode with Wayne Altman, a military veteran who suffered hearing damage from his time in service. In dealing with chronic debilitating tinnitus, Wayne discovered the healing properties of sound frequencies. Now he now owns and runs a company called Melody Clouds that offers subscription-based binaural beats and Solfeggio frequency healing soundtracks.    Wayne shares with us his story of coming from his background in the army (serving in Desert Storm) to being a complete convert to the healing power of audio. He also gets into how he was convinced that audio was actually the solution for him and not just a placebo.    Wayne describes Tinnitus as a manifestation of nerve damage in your ears. Sometimes it is simply an annoying condition but it can also be quite debilitating and cause fatigue, stress, sleep problems, trouble concentrating, memory problems, depression, anxiety and irritability, headaches, problems with work and family life, and even suicide. So you can see

If you take nothing else away from this episode with our guest Christina Frei, remember the generosity practice that asks the question “Pretend that you have all the resources you could ever need and want - what would you want to give through some fascinating research?” Such a fun question. Christina believes that when you contemplate what can happen in a real human connection, then your marketing sparkles with possibilities. This matters particularly for service-based professionals who need to market their humanity AND their expertise.  Sounds familiar doesn’t it, health coaches? Christina talks about how we are all going through a transition of letting go of martyrdom and moving into a place of service. This is particularly important when you are struggling with pricing your services. Christina also teaches us ways to decide what a client really needs not what they think they want,  and what we can gain from doing some type of “business journalling.” Most interestingly, Christina uncovered five entrepren

Dr. Benjamin Ritter is a leadership and career coach, leadership and development director, values geek, international speaker, podcaster, author, mentor, and passionate about guiding others in finding, creating, and sustaining a career they love. During his time as a healthcare executive and side-hustling entrepreneur, he was overworked and underutilized, and despite his professional success, he didn't feel successful.   After much introspection, he pivoted professionally and launched himself into the field of leadership development and personal empowerment. The culmination of these events and his previous personal, professional and educational experiences led him to create Live for Yourself Consulting, a coaching consulting company that is focused on leading and empowering entrepreneurs - and entrepreneurs that feel overwhelmed, overworked, or underutilized - so they can create a career that they love.   Among many other things, Ben defined for us his three Cs of self-leadership: clarity, confidence and cont

Dr. Gala Gorman has one of the most robust bios we've ever seen on Health Coach Radio, so let's see if we can scratch the surface in this episode. Dr. Gorman holds advanced degrees in human development, is a holistic life coach, minister, and published author of the Spiritual Approach series of books focused on practical spirituality. As a student of Eastern and Western philosophy, she works to infuse a blend of the best of both worlds into her work and life. You will regularly hear Dr. Gorman say, “It’s the business of your life… and you’re the CEO.” Dr. Gorman focuses on creating tools and techniques that make recovery primarily from addiction and traumatic life experiences, quick, easy, and maybe even fun. She takes a significantly different holistic approach in her work, whether she's dealing with someone in active addiction or well down the road to recovery. Truly, be prepared to be awed and inspired by this wide-ranging conversation about stress, exercise, mental health, sleep and energy with Dr. Gal

Diana Bishop (with her incredible wisdom) is back on the podcast to share her story with you practicing health coaches who want to understand how to best support your clients in a way that is nurturing, supportive, affirming, and client-led. We consider Diana to be a health coaching industry expert, and we are sure you will get as much out of this conversation as we did.   Diana Bishop specializes in how coaching can be used effectively in a corporate wellness setting - and now private practice. In this episode, she shares with us what she is calling post-pandemic reality and what we can do about this new type of collective/societal trauma. Make sure you are ready to take notes on the 10 questions Diana has for making sure you are aware, as a coach, of how to best present yourself to clients with trauma.     She also digs into how she attracts and identifies clients who are dealing with trauma. Not everyone identifies as having trauma (even post-pandemic) and that can be a scary subject to broach.    If your

Rena Vokoun, founder and CEO of Passion Fit is a writer, TEDx speaker, media spokesperson, and proven and successful health and wellness expert who serves companies, nonprofits, universities, schools, and the media through passion fit products, services, and content on fitness, nutrition, mindfulness, and work-life balance. The mission of her company is to empower women to flourish both personally and professionally through wellness. Reena has so much insight into starting and growing a successful health and wellness business. During this episode, Reena shares with us how she made the leap from working at Google to being an entrepreneur and health coach (hint: she wasn’t an overnight success). She also explains how she determined what problem she was going to solve for her clients, why she focuses on body function and not weight loss, and how she helps overworked and overextended women. She also gives us a deep look into group coaching versus one-on-one which is an area many of us struggle with. Finally, R

Adrien Paczosa is a Registered and Licensed Dietitian practicing in Austin, Texas and the surrounding counties. She is the chief clinical officer & Founder of usenourish.com, the founder of I Live Well Nutrition and is also the founder of Fearless Practitioners, a business that offers training to dietitians and wellness professionals.   Adrien says, "I LOVE helping practitioners like you grow a reliable and sustainable income with their practice." And in this conversation, Adrien shares with us why she is happy she was naive enough to even try working in this space when she first started. She also gives us some good advice about how to partner with technology companies.    Working with people with eating disorders is one of Adrien’s specialties and she explains why she enjoys that work and how a dietician can really help people in that situation. She also digs into how collaborating with a health coach can be so helpful. She says “It takes a village to help a patient.” We couldn’t agree more.

Mason Bendewald directed the video production of some of the biggest at-home workouts of all time, and he has a lot to teach about how to be compelling on camera. This is such a timely topic since many of us, for better or for worse, find ourselves needing to be on camera a lot these days.    Mason Bendewald founded his company, Mega Mace, in 1995. Operating out of Philadelphia, they produced: commercials, corporate videos, and promos – even creating the popular Reject Film Festival in 1997. But after shooting an infomercial for Beachbody.com, Mason moved the company to Los Angeles and shifted his focus to fitness production which was a defining moment for his growing company.   In this episode, we learn that people connect to people. So in order to make meaningful connections, your audience needs to know you and like you. Mason tells us how to do just that. He also fills us in on how to communicate as a knowledge expert, why we need to get vulnerable when telling our own stories, and how to engage our audien