Health Coach Radio

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

In this episode, we’re thrilled to have registered dietician and certified health coach Martha Tettenborn. Martha opted into a health coaching certification after three decades as a dietician because she felt she could make more meaningful changes in the health of her clients as a health coach. Martha’s private health coach practice, The Cancer Doula, promotes a low-carb, whole-foods-based approach to disease prevention and cancer symptom management. She has been a featured speaker at the Low Carb Long Weekend Summit and on numerous podcasts. Martha also instructs courses for the Nutrition Network and Udemy on the ketogenic approach to cancer treatment. Martha authored the latest specialty course for Primal Health Coach Institute, our Functional Therapeutic Diet Specialty certification. So, in this conversation, Martha, Erin and Laura talk through several functional nutritional methodologies and explain how health coaches can use them. Martha also shares how she used keto and fasting during her cancer trea

Ethan Schiff is a health coach who launched himself into the realm of coaching after his own life-changing health transformation. Sound familiar?  Ethan was 312 lbs and had been dieting for the majority of his life. So, he went on a quest to unlearn everything he had been taught about nutrition, weight loss and health, to create a new approach. He lost 130 lbs and transformed his entire life by basically experimenting first on himself. Ethan is the founder of Optimized Health, a health coaching company that has coaches on staff to help facilitate lifestyle transformations for clients all over the world. This is pretty much the dream for most of us, we’d say. And Ethan has created it expertly.  During this episode, Ethan tells us about his frustration with trying to educate the public about health coaching. He also explains how he left his successful business to start coaching and how he handled imposter syndrome (he has some pretty cool insights). He also explains how you can start on a Friday and have a busi

This is a super cool episode with Phil Wagner, a Biomechanics & Digital Health Expert and the Founder & CEO of Sparta Science. The Sparta Movement Health Platform can analyze broken biomechanical chains in the human body just by analyzing a foot strike, jump, or balance. Then the app designs a workout program based on the feedback from the measurement device. Are you kidding me? How cool is that? Impaired movement impacts more people than any other condition, yet most actionable insights lag behind other health barometers. Phil believes that movement health is the ability to move freely without pain, limitations, or uncontrolled movement. The definition is simple to understand. The complex systems that make us move are harder to fathom. So Phil is using software and data to create awareness. This episode covers a wide range of topics, not just injuries (but that is covered as well). Phil shares his perspective on “no pain, no gain” and how we should be focussed on moving better and that we need to

Oliver (Olly) Wood got started in the business world after seven years as an independent personal trainer. And as he started online, he rapidly built a company up to over 15 staff members, helping thousands of clients upgrade their bodies, energy and productivity. Using a four-step system - which he shares with us - his ability to take complicated topics and simplify them down into actionable steps (which you can integrate into your busy lifestyle) is what makes him a world-class coach. Olly coaches busy professionals over 40 to upgrade their gut health to transform their bodies and energy. By stepping back and realizing this game isn’t simply just about doing more and working harder, he removes the restrictions of dieting and coaches them through a proven framework. This framework allows his clients to feel stronger, more energetic and more capable. During the conversation, Olly shares with us how he approaches clients who are new to exercise vs clients who have been exercising for years. He also gets into

Kasey Goins is a functional nutritionist who works with ambitious women to rebalance their hormones so they can win their power back. We think you will agree that this is a particularly powerful niche.    Kasey considers herself a health detective. She takes a root-cause, metabolism-first approach to hormone havoc, skin issues, and period problems to help her clients go from haywire to harmony, hormonally speaking.    Kasey’s other specialty is business - and we know all of you health coaches love talking business. So in this episode, Kasey shares with us why she thinks that the health and wellness industry needs to be bigger. She also digs into how to create your messaging and how to be clear about what you do and what you can help your clients with.    Kasey explains why she left a career as a medical assistant and how it actually helped her cred as a health coach. This spurred some really deep conversations about transitioning to, growing, and maintaining a successful health coaching business. Including, h