Health Coach Radio

Sarah Hagstrom is the founder and CEO of the Coach and Grow Co (a name we love) which is a business that helps health coaches grow their businesses online. Sarah came to the business coaching world after having her own incredible success as a health coach.    Sarah’s goal is to empower health coaches to embrace their passion, show up for themselves and celebrate their success. She has been through the process of launching a health coaching business and can leverage that expertise to help increase your success. Her aim is to provide all of her clients with an authentic, refreshing and engaging experience that doesn’t really feel like work.    One of the best ways for new and aspiring coaches to learn the business side of things is to learn it from someone who put in the arduous reps to achieve success for themselves. Sarah takes us through her journey, what she learned, and what she teaches now.    During the conversation, Sarah shares how important the “know like and trust” factor is, how to be intentional ab

Dallas Travers is a business coach who helps health coaches identify their niche. She can help you figure out the unique solution you can bring to the health coaching world, and then eventually scale. She focuses on using what she calls the Ripple Effect System to find more clients, build a big list, and launch a course without compromising your values. Her business mentorship for health coaches is called The Hive. It offers to hold you accountable to all those unsexy and simple habits you need to have in place for a legit coaching business. During the conversation, Dallas teaches us a lot. Erin and Laura had a lot of fun covering topics such as doubling down on a niche, why people hire a specific coach, and - closely related - what the superpower of the health coach really is. Dallas also explains how using a low-price / high-volume product can really work, how to scale your business (and what that word really means), how the ripple effect system works and how long it takes. Dallas has a very positive an

Robin Switzer of KetoCon is gearing up for their annual conference and she tells us that this year it is not just about keto. The people who attend and the conference itself has evolved to a more experiential health optimization event - which we think sounds super cool. Spoiler: Laura and Erin will be there too, talking to health coaches (just like you) about how to launch your health coaching practice.   Robin believes that there is no one-size-fits-all version of wellness. We all have unique needs and preferences. So the goal of KetoCon is to be the absolute best place to meet like-minded people, learn strategies for success, and gather all of the tools you need to support your own health goals.   We'd love to see you from April 21st to 23rd at the Palmer Event Center in Austin, Texas. Use the code PRIMAL to get $50 off your admission (valid until April 1, 2023).    In the meantime, check out this information-packed episode with Robin Switzer to find out what you can expect from KetoCon (including a special

Clark Lagemann is an entrepreneur, executive, and three-time Ironman who is changing lives by fixing the biggest problems in healthcare. He is the leader at the helm of Avidon Health, an all-in-one health coaching technology platform that automates personalized health and wellbeing experiences to create behavior change at scale. Avidon Health provides an innovative behavior change solution that uses human-centered and data-driven cognitive training methods to create sustainable healthy habits and produce outcomes for real people. We all love to learn about the technology and platforms that already exist and have been iterated and optimized to meet the demand of the rapidly growing health coaching industry. The Avidon Health platform has hundreds of existing health programs and templates that users can leverage or use to create your own fully branded program on top of Avataan’s platform. During this episode, Clark digs into how the healthcare industry is changing (for the better), explains how “pay for perfo

Dr. William Davis is a guest we've had on the show many times before. This time we invited Dr. Davis back to explain why he feels that Health Coaches are the perfect healthcare practitioners to help unwell humans get to the root cause of their health issues. As he sees it, it is in large part by focusing on relatively simple diet and lifestyle changes that affect the incredibly diverse and important human intestinal microbiome.    In this episode, Dr. Davis shares with us why he (a cardiologist) moved away from surgery for heart issues and focused instead on lifestyle. He also dives deep into how to get the cardiac help you need, the new and unconventional approaches to heart disease prevention, and how the intestinal microbiome is tied to so many health outcomes. Erin and Laura also ask Dr. Davis a handful of the questions you, the listener, had about the intestinal microbiome.     To you, health coaches out there: do yourself a favor and get a copy of Dr. Davis's book Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogra

Get ready to learn a lot about trademark law during this conversation with Maria Spear Ollis, a Nashville-based lawyer bringing peace of mind to coaches and thought leaders.  If you've ever wondered how content can be protected during this current climate of content sharing, this is the episode for you. You don't have to work yourself up into a lather worrying about copywriting your material because we know that as health entrepreneurs, you already have enough on your plate, but it's always good to seek to understand how it works.  In this conversation, Maria shares with us how having a registered copyright applies to our work as coaches, how to choose which content to protect, and what type of content is protectable. She also covers actionable topics such as how to find out if your content has been stolen, what coaches should have in place from the beginning, what a contract is for,   and how to use the TM and R symbols.  Maria Spear Ollis brings some real clarity to the difference between liability waivers

Marina Borukhovich is the CEO of YourCoach.Health which is a practice management software solution for health, fitness and nutrition coaches. This is a unique piece of software that helps you expand the reach of your programming. They call it the only operating system for behavior change which is powered by health coaches. It is so refreshing to hear from someone who is putting coaches first. Marina started her career as a developer at Lockheed Martin, followed by several entrepreneurial ventures. After moving to Amsterdam, being diagnosed with cancer and battling the disease, her passion turned to helping other women feel in control and beautiful through by starting the Future of Health Foundation. During the conversation with Marina, Erin and Laura ask her about her cancer treatment, how it could be more targeted for her, specifically. They also dig into how she went about developing the YourCoach app, why she focussed so much on making it about the coaches, and how they use feedback and incentives from a

Unique Hammond is a Holistic Nutrition Practitioner, an Integrative Health Coach, Bean Protocol Specialist, and the Author of Your Tastebuds are A**holes. Her approach to health coaching came after years of feeling unwell. She eventually healed herself using food and respecting her body.    After years and years of struggle with Crohn’s and other health issues, Unique came across the Bean Protocol. With nothing else to lose, she gave it a try - with astounding results. The soluble fibre in beans, it turns out, can do things that some people might call magical.    In this episode, Erin and Laura talk beans with the bean queen herself. They also dive into topics such as how it took a drastic medical diagnosis to encourage Unique to “go home,” and how living out of touch with her body actually helped her develop her coaching business. They also cover how a food (beans) which are considered inflammatory can help to heal your body, how to properly prepare beans, and how fibre has been unfairly demonized in the pas

This episode is such a good conversation with Monica Reinagel, a coach who is an absolute pro at nutrition and lifestyle behavior change. If you don't take pages and pages and pages of notes from this one, well, go back and replay it again from the beginning and take notes. You'll put a lot of what Monica shares into practice with your clients - right away. Monica is a licensed board-certified nutritionist with a Master's of Science and Human Nutrition. She's the host of the Change Academy and Nutrition Diva Podcasts. She writes for medium.com, Scientific American, Food and Nutrition Magazine, and she's a frequent health expert guest on shows like The Today Show, CBS News, and NPRs Morning Edition. During the conversation, Monica dives into the idea that people know what to do but they don’t know how to make it happen, and how she expanded her nutrition coaching to behavior change. Monica also shares with us the 5 Key Principals that a coach can use to ensure their clients are ready and able to achieve thei

Joseph and Rachel Stauffer are ketogenic YouTubers who go by the handle 2KrazyKetos. Their journey into coaching, thought leadership, and community building started in a familiar way - through a life-changing health improvement spurred by a ketogenic diet. These two are an absolute joy to hang out with,  listen to, and learn from. In learning from them, you will see how they hold a supportive, non-judgmental, and curious space for their fans and followers. They also have a “know, like and trust” factor that has helped them earn a living helping and coaching people. This is a fun conversation that covers a lot of ground. Topics we dive into range from how they got their YouTube channel started on a bet, how they came to terms with charging their clients for their services, how they used a video to explain how they became the “amazing shrinking couple,” and how Rachel forced her mom into a Keto lifestyle after finding blockages in her heart. They also share how they come up with the plentitude of content the

Jackie Fletcher is a health coach getting her business up and off the ground and she decided to double down on content creation by starting her own podcast. She has interviewed quite a few big names in the ketogenic space and is having a lot of fun and success in the podcasting world. The problem is that her podcast has distracted her a bit from focussing on building her health coaching practice. Laura and Erin dig into her plans to build her health coaching business and give her some actionable tips to get things moving. This is a super helpful episode, where you get to hear two seasoned pros coach an entrepreneur on the best way to get started. In their conversation, they cover topics such as dieting as a child (and why dieting doesn’t work), how Jackie transitioned from blogging to podcasting, and why learning how to do something for yourself is so important. They also get into how Jackie approaches her podcast guests, why tenacity is so important when building momentum, how she created and published her

Danika Brysha is an incredibly successful wellness entrepreneur, body-positive fashion model, and self-care plus lifestyle design expert. While growing and leading these three businesses - Self-Care Society, Model Meal, and Danika Brysha inc (and modelling for big brands like Bare Minerals and Old Navy) she guided others to find the wellness routines to lead the life they dream of. In 2018, she hit the road for a 66-event self-care tour which was a massive undertaking that we pressed her to share the logistical details of. Danika has coached thousands of people, spreading wellness and cultivating self-care routines and systems that stick. She is passionate about teaching people to come home to themselves. Through her journey of recovery from disordered eating, food addiction, body issues, and an overall lack of confidence, Danika uses her experience to help others transform and thrive. This is a conversation with a very successful health coach that we know you get a lot out of. During the conversation, we t

Dr. Barrie Tan is extremely excited about vitamin E and is actually hailed as a trailblazer and the world’s foremost expert on vitamin E. A scientist first and foremost, Dr. Tan earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry/Biochemistry from the University of Otago, New Zealand and spent several years as a professor at UMass. Dr. Tan has committed himself to researching and developing phytonutrients that reduce and slow chronic disorders. Dr. Tan is credited with discovering a form of vitamin E called tocotrienol from three major sources – Palm, Rice and Annatto. Editor of two prestigious books on tocotrienol and the International Tocotrienol Conference founder. He is currently the President of American River Nutrition and his mission is simple — improve the everyday health of people’s lives.  In our conversation, we learn what vitamin E is, why we need it and if we need to supplement with it. We also get into what an antioxidant really is and what it really does in the body (hint: it is important).  Dr. Tan also explains

Cory Sterling is a lawyer. But not any lawyer. Cory is a cool lawyer. A holistic health nut himself, Cory left the shiny and very corporate white-collar world of law to help health professionals set up their businesses in a way that keeps them protected.  Your number one protection is going to be watching your language and staying within your scope of practice but a very close second on the list is to have your terms and conditions, waiver, privacy policy, and client agreement all buttoned up (from a legal perspective). Good news - Cory walks us through this in a way that (believe it or not) is kind of fun! Cory’s business, Conscious Counsel, provides legal counsel for creative, ambitious and heart-leading business owners who build communities and make the world a better and healthier place.  During our conversation, we get into topics such as the biggest problems coaches have getting started with the legal aspects of the business, how to navigate the law when there is no definition for health coaching, wh

It’s time for our annual check-in with Mark Sisson. Mark is our personal health and fitness guru, a leader in the space of the ancestral health movement, and an inadvertent hero of the anti-ageing & longevity space. Everyone wants to be like Mark when they grow up.    During this check-in with Mark, we find out how his 2022 went, and what’s in store for him (and the world of health and wellness in general) in 2023. We also get into some specific fitness topics like why you want to sprint with your arms, the importance of grip strength, and how Mark focuses on making every day the best day. Mark also explains how his dream is for everyone to let go of attachment to overthinking every bite of food.    We also get into how the Primal Blueprint isn’t just about fitness and nutrition but also about enjoying life to its fullest - right now.  Mark believes that you can indeed have a life, fun and enjoyment while you build a business or a family. As you can see, this conversation is as much about wellness as it i

At the end of each year, we (Erin and Laura) get together to recap what happened in the health coaching world and on our health coaching podcast in the last 12 months.  During this conversation, we review the past year of guests and share some of our favorite topics and episodes.  We also get into our own individual coaching practices - so you can peek into how we do it and how it is going for us. And finally, we dive into the trends that we see coming for the year ahead.  To see the entire back catalog of Health Coach Radio, check out https://www.primalhealthcoach.com/health-coach-radio/ 

Our guest in this episode is Risa Groux. Risa is a functional nutritionist and certified autoimmune coach who has been in the health coaching industry forever! Risa serves her clients with the firm belief that optimal health comes from looking at root causes -- typically systemic inflammation and gut health. She utilizes functional nutrition guidelines and comprehensive testing such as blood and stool to determine the road map of root issues. So, this episode is for lab value lovers and those who love to geek out on data. Risa has seen it all and has a lot of coaching wisdom to share. So listen in to learn from a seasoned pro.  In our conversation with Risa, we get into topics like rejecting a diagnosis to get to a deeper reason, how Risa orders and uses blood tests for her clients, and she shares her journey of how she got to where she is today. We also dig into why you should know what your body is doing at all times, why Risa wrote her book, which toxins we should be looking out for, and how she structur

The guest on this episode is Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer started her own podcast agency called Deiti - a business that gets guests booked on podcasts. She teaches us about taking a bold leap into a niche market and podcasting.    This episode is for you podcast-obsessed folks out there. Whether you want to start your own podcast or are interested in using an agency to get yourself on other podcasts, this episode will click if audio content feels like the right place for you!   Jenny just loves listening to people talk, which is what drove her to start a business in podcasting.  In our conversation, Jenny tells us why she learned more and more about podcasting (and took action), how she got her first client, and how she scaled her business by continually learning and executing. We also get into the whole monetization issue (whether it is a podcast, blog or video channel), how to start a solo podcast, why you should repurpose content, and of course, the basic podcast best practices. 

Our guest on this episode is Dr. Libby Wilson. This is another exciting conversation with a doctor who turned away from a conventional medical practice to pursue a functional, patient-centred, medical practice.  Early in her career, Dr. Libby realized that conventional medicine effectively served patients in many ways, but fell short in others. She loves establishing long-term relationships with her patients and enjoys collaborating with them to achieve the best possible outcomes. Her passion lies in helping people achieve optimal health as naturally as possible. She believes strongly in identifying the root cause of illness. There is so much to take away from this episode including how to take a bold leap but do it in a way that is pragmatic and sensible, how to use health coaching in a medical practice (or how to be a health coach in a medical practice), and also how to make the right investments of time, money and energy to grow your business. We also dig deep into why people are looking to people like