A health coach on a mission, Ali Shapiro empowers clients to redefine their values and embrace adaptability. Through her innovative “adaptive coaching” approach, she guides individuals to tackle their deepest challenges, face their fears, and cultivate a profound sense of self-trust and resilience.

Ali Shapiro is a holistic nutritionist, integrated health coach, and the host of the top-ranked podcast Insatiable.

In this episode Melinda and Ali talk about:

• Changing and expanding core values to adapt to current needs
• Prioritizing rest and imperfection over productivity for well-being
• Helping clients discover and value new priorities
• Redefining productivity as a state of being rather than constant doing
• Adaptive coaching: leaning into curiosity, research, and client empowerment
• Trusting the client and providing structure in the change process
• Experiencing adaptive processes firsthand before coaching others
• Developing the “Truths with Food” methodology based on Ali’s personal healing journey
• Addressing root causes and adaptability for deep transformation in coaching
• Focusing on non-food rewards, pleasure in exercise, and evidence-based frameworks

“Transformational change is: How do we get the survivor self to be in that healthy adult self? How do we help it evolve?” — Ali Shapiro

Guest Bio:

Ali Shapiro is the host of the top-ranked podcast Insatiable, a holistic nutritionist, integrated health coach, and rebel with a serious cause. She’s academically, practically, and empathetically aware of how the medical system, diet culture, and body positivity movements all have their own flavor of crazy. Ali developed TRUCE while in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, where she drew from her 17+ years of working with real-life clients and her own personal healing journey from emotional eating and having cancer as a teenager.

Ali’s work and clients’ unique success have been featured in well + Good, mindbodygreen, Prevention, Women’s Health, and Forbes, as well as industry leading podcasts Being Boss, Tell Me Something True, and Food Heaven.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

Mirasee
Coaches Console
Melinda’s book: The Confident Coach
Ali’s website: AliShapiro.com
Ali’s free “Monthly Change Agent Disruption Hour”: AliShapiro.com/disruptor

Credits:

Host: Melinda Cohan
Producer and Editor: Michi Lantz
Executive Producer: Danny Iny
Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

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Episode transcript: Adaptive Coaching: Embracing Change (Ali Shapiro).