The ability to cook has become a lost skill in our current age, which is a big factor in deteriorating health. Today’s guest, Deborah Kennedy, shares why cooking is the only way you can own your health.

In this episode, we talk about:

• How our physical health is connected to our ability to cook
• Letting children play with food so they can get familiar with it
• Defining what it means to cook
• Using culinary techniques to starting liking the taste of certain foods
• Starting small with incremental healthier changes
• Deborah’s book and her modular approach to healthy cooking
• What to expect from Deborah’s Food Coach Academy
• The growing health coach industry and the positive impacts it will have

 

Memorable Quotes

• “Any opportunity you have to create something yourself is adding health to your body.”
• “There is and never will be this magic food that you can eat that will get rid of all the negative consequences that an ultra processed diet brings you.”
• “Even the smallest changes can have a biochemical effect in your body, which can lead towards health.”

 

Deborah Kennedy PhD is the CEO of The Food Coach AcademyTM, Build Healthy Kids®, and Culinary Rehab®, which establishes nutrition and culinary competencies, modular learning opportunities, prescriptive delivery methods and outreach programs for various populations. She received her PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from Tufts University, Friedman School of Nutrition, Science and Policy. Dr. Kennedy has studied food from an early age - learning to cook at age 4, worked as a chef in Canada, obtained her doctorate in nutrition, authored three books on children and nutrition and five in Culinary Medicine, and developed a prescriptive algorithm for dietary changes. She served as the first Chair for Best Practices in the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative (a Harvard and CIA initiative) and serves on the board of Chefs for Humanity.

Mentioned In This Episode:The Culinary Medicine Textbook: The Basics 

 

Links to resources:Health Coach Group Websitehttps://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/

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Many people will wait until the “right time” or “next year” or “next month” to begin making good changes in their lives. What we have to realize is that motivation is created. It is created when we decide to make small steps towards improvement.

In this episode, we talk about:

• Creating motivation instead of waiting for the right time to start
• How the same exact mind that creates bad habits is the same mind that can make better decisions
• Being vulnerable opens up opportunities to connect with others and be inspired by them
• Comparing self development to cleaning a whole house - you can’t clean it up all at once
• Helping people through their podcast, The Fit Mess
• Recognizing and being grateful for your present circumstances when you are doing well

 

Memorable Quotes

• “Give up on the idea of waiting for the right time because the right time doesn’t exist.”
• “We are human; there is always gonna be a mess.”
• “As long as you are alive, you should be growing.”

 

Zach Tucker and Jeremy Grater are the founders and hosts of The Fit Mess. For nearly adecade, they have pushed themselves to learn more about their own physical, emotional, andmental health. This has created a passion for using their acquired knowledge to help others. As hosts of the show since 2017, they have had the opportunity to speak to a wide range ofguests, including some of the biggest names in health and wellness.

Mentioned In This Episode:The Fit Mess Podcast

 

Links to resources:Health Coach Group Websitehttps://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/

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Knowing how and where to offer your services and products is an overwhelming job for business owners. Thankfully the Kajabi platform can help you publish, market, and sell your content. Sean Kim, president of Kajabi, explains how this platform has helped businesses generate over $3.5 billion.

 

In this episode, Cathy and Sean talk about:

• The vast amount of tools Kajabi offers on the platform
• The supportive community and customer service you get 
• Why Sean decided to quit his role at TikTok to work for Kajabi
• Focusing on customers means truly solving their biggest problems
• Having a risk-taking mindset
• Getting started even when your product is not perfect

 

Memorable Quotes

• “We're giving people the tools and services to really build their business from start to finish, and for them to actually own that entire business end to end.”
• “Risk taking is where you see some of the innovation happen. You're going out of your way to try something new, not knowing if it's going to work out or not.”
• “Don't stress or spend too much time trying to make the product perfect. Just put it out there and get that feedback early on and iterate on it.”

 

Sean Kim is the president and chief product officer at Kajabi, the leading platform for knowledge entrepreneurs and creators to build, market, and sell their content, products, and services. He was previously the head of product at TikTok, where he set the strategic direction and led teams responsible for developing and growing the company's products. Prior to TikTok, he was the global head of product at Amazon Prime, where he played an instrumental role in driving customer retention for the Prime Membership.

Mentioned In This Episode:Kajabi Website

 

Links to resources:Health Coach Group Websitehttps://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/

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Have you found that traditional sales methods do not work for you? Sales expert, Nikki Rausch, shares her effective sales method that has helped many business owners close on their discovery calls. 

In this episode, Cathy and Nikki talk about:

• The role rapport plays in a relationship sales method 
• Nikki’s 5 step sales process - The Selling Staircase 
• Not being pushy when a prospect gives an objection
• Helping the prospect by making their decision easier - Structure matters
• Identifying “buying signals” and how to react to these signals
• The importance of asking questions and taking the lead
• Having the next part of the sales conversation scheduled

Memorable Quotes

• “Sales is something that you do with somebody, not to them. And so you have to learn how to talk with instead of at.”
• “When I come into contact with anybody I meet, and definitely in a sales conversation, I think I have a rapport bank account with absolutely everybody…And my goal is to always make deposits.”
• “The easier you make it for somebody, the more likely they are to buy from you.”

 

CEO of Sales Maven, Nikki Rausch has the unique ability to transform the misunderstood process of “selling.” With 25+ years of selling experience, entrepreneurs and small business owners now hire Nikki to show them how to sell successfully and authentically. Nikki has written 3 books, all available on Amazon. And she has a podcast called Sales Maven which you can find on your favorite podcast platform.

Mentioned In This Episode:Nikki’s Website and Free EbookNikki’s Podcast -  Sales Maven PodcastNikki’s Book - The Selling Staircase

Links to resources:Health Coach Group Websitehttps://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/

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Entrepreneurs often feel they “are” their business which can lead to lots of emotions, especially when sales don’t go as planned. Sarah Walton explains why business owners need to learn how to control and use their emotions to their advantage.

In this episode, Cathy and Sarah talk about:

• How Sarah’s poor upbringing was the catalyst that lead her to what she does today
• Her mission to empower women with the skills to make the money they need to be free
• Learning to attach pleasure to a painful situation
• Showing up for the people you serve in your business - even if your sales are low
• Checking email click-through rates after a launch to understand the numbers
• Separating oneself from one’s business in order to move forward and succeed

Memorable Quotes

• “I was so upset all the time, my stomach always hurt. I wasn't sleeping, I was always sick. I was making a boatload of money. But I was miserable.”
• “And that's why if we just allow the moment to moment, emotions we're feeling…to dictate what we're doing…we're gonna end up in a world of hurt.”
• “Thinking of the business as its own entity, and asking on the daily, What does my business need me to do today?”

 

Sarah Walton is a business mentor who’s been featured on The Today Show, speaks at women’s conferences all over the world, and has helped hundreds of women start and grow businesses they LOVE. She honed her business-building skills working with startups and large corporations where she managed a P & L worth hundreds of millions of dollars. She’s also the host of the Game On Girlfriend Podcast, and she's known for her weekly "Coffee With Coach" streaming video conversations on Monday mornings.

 

Mentioned In This Episode:Sarah’s Website - https://sarahwalton.com/ Freedom Calculator (FREE) - https://sarahwalton.com/freedom/

Links to resources:Health Coach Group Websitehttps://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/

  

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Running a successful coaching business can seem like a difficult endeavor, especially for solopreneurs who have limited time. Stephanie Redcross West offers practical advice for health coaches, so they can grow a business they are passionate about…without getting overwhelmed in the process!

In this episode, Cathy and Stephanie talk about:

• Scaling a coaching business with two main objectives - Diversify Offers & Services for Repeat Customers
• Managing coaching fatigue with a “replenish routine”
• A simple thing coaches should do between meetings with their clients - This helps the client stay on track
• Examples of what to say to a client, when checking in on them 
• Why it is okay to be a unique coach and not go the traditional route
• How the pandemic brought about some positive changes to Stephanie’s coaching business

Memorable Quotes

• “Think about how to diversify your offering….You may do some one-on-one coaching, you may do those items, but what else can you do that's an extension of it.” 
• “What I've been realizing is that I needed to find ways to kind of pulse my client in between my meetings. I needed to find a way for them to do check-ins with me that aren't a heavy lift.” 
• “I want to make sure people realize that they can coach people in what they love and what they're passionate in. They can coach in niches. They don't have to be like, the plain, vanilla, generic or general coach…You can coach people or train people or help people in all different types of industries.”

Inspiring and supporting vegans in business is all part of a day’s work for Stephanie Redcross West, Founder and Managing Director of Vegan Mainstream. 

Since she started Vegan Mainstream in 2009, Stephanie has been blazing a trail as a leader in the vegan business world. As a result, Vegan Mainstream is known today as an invaluable resource for vegan entrepreneurs and business owners, providing results-oriented business coaching, marketing strategy training and unique online courses with live support. 

Stephanie and Vegan Mainstream have established an impressive track record of helping numerous vegan professionals launch, scale and maintain successful businesses and organizations.

 

Mentioned In This Episode:Stephanie’s Website - Vegan MainstreamCourse for Coaches - The Profitable CoachFREE & LIVE Webinars - Join us once a month!Paid Podcast - Going Solo! A Business Podcast For Vegan SolopreneursPaid Podcast - Fix It! The Vegan Business Solution Podcast You Need

Links to resources:Health Coach Group Websitehttps://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/

  

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There is a health epidemic that is going unrecognized by health professionals, leaving many people to needlessly suffer. Doctor Neil Nathan wants to educate medical professionals and patients on the effects of mold toxicity and how it is a major culprit to a variety of health problems.

In this episode, Cathy and Neil discuss:

• The wide array of symptoms that mold toxicity can cause
• Inaccurate, standard air testing for mold and better options to test one’s home
• Using urine mycotoxin test to evaluate a patient for mold toxicity 
• The sad truth about why mold toxicity often goes untreated
• Three main components of treating mold toxicity 
• How mold toxicity can affect hormones and the nervous system
• The mentorship program Dr. Nathan runs to teach other practitioners how to treat patients experiencing effects of mold toxicity
• Dr. Nathan’s books, such as Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Chronic Environmental Illness

Memorable Quotes

• “It's a tragedy, in my experience, that so many medical professionals have no knowledge about mold toxicity whatsoever…And my hope is to help my colleagues understand that this is very real, it's very common, and it's treatable.”
• “So these folks are really suffering, and often not getting diagnosed. A health care provider needs to understand not only mold toxicity, but the things that mold toxicity can trigger in order to really help them understand the comprehensive approach that we need to take in order to help them get well.”

Neil Nathan, MD has been practicing medicine for 50 years, and has been Board Certified in Family Practice and Pain Management and is a Founding Diplomat of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and a Founding Diplomat of ISEAI. He has written several books, including Healing is Possible: New Hope for Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Persistent Pain, and Other Chronic Illnesses and On Hope and Healing: For Those Who Have Fallen Through the Medical Cracks. 

He has hosted an internationally syndicated radio program/podcast on Voice America called The Cutting Edge of Health and Wellness Today.

He has been working to bring awareness that mold toxicity is a major contributing factor for patients with chronic illness and lectures internationally on this subject. 

Dr. Nathan has been treating chronic complex medical illnesses for 25 years now, and Lyme disease for the past 15 years. As his practice has evolved, he finds himself increasingly treating the patients who have become so sensitive and toxic that they can no longer tolerate their usual treatments, and his major current interest is in finding unique ways of helping them to recover.

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Mentioned In This Episode:Dr.Neil Nathan’s website

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Book - Toxic: Heal Your Body from Mold Toxicity, Lyme Disease, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities and Chronic Environmental Illness

eBook - Mold and Mycotoxins: Current Evaluation and Treatment 2022 

Book - Energetic Diagnosis

 

Links to resources:Health Coach Group Websitehttps://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/

  

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People have been programmed to think about fashion in a way that has them disconnected from the deeper truth of fashion. The deeper truth is that fashion is a tool that can offer multi-dimensional healing to humans. Alyssa Couture, fashion industry expert, explains a new modern approach to the industry - fashion for healing.

In this episode, Cathy and Alyssa discuss:

• Alyssa’s book, Healthy Fashion, The Deeper Truths.
• The concept of how fashion can be used for improving our overall wellness
• Cosmetic fabrics as a health treatment - Manufacturing fabrics with herbs and botanicals
• Ergonomic VS Non-ergonomic clothing - how certain clothing supports our well-being and other clothing does not
• Therapeutic fashion and how it’s designed to help with particular health problems
• The relation of fashion to health - physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, & energetic
• How our fashion plays a big role on our mindset

Memorable Quotes:

• “Because really what we're going through right now, in this day, and age is a fashion process, we've moved from mainstream conventional fashion into more of the Eco sustainable fashion, which is the trend. And the future trend, which I pose in the book is fashion for wellness, fashion for health, fashion for mind, body, and spirit and soul.”
• “If you put something on your body,… you're picking clothes to really help your day and help your consciousness and help your mind in regards to achievements and trying to express personal self. So yes, I believe, absolutely. Fashion is a direct connection to our mindset.”

Alyssa is a fashion industry expert, with over 15 years of fashion industry experience in a number of roles. Some of these include fashion business, fashion designing, creative directing, styling, merchandising, journalism, fashion retailing, and fashion show production.

Apart from fashion, she has a spiritually driven lifestyle, having previously lived in several ashrams and monasteries. She is a professional fine artist/illustrator with published and sold works to follow.

Naturally being an optimistic person, she noticed an emptiness and lack of spirit and health in fashion in general. She was then inspired to write a book that would be attributed as modern, fresh, and high-fashion for the New Age. She considers herself a fashion intuitive, and over the years she has created interesting, new concepts for fashion both through artistic, philosophical channels.

 

Mentioned In This Episode:

Alyssa’s Website with free resources on Healthy FashionAlyssa’s Book - Healthy Fashion, The Deeper TruthsEarth Therapeutics - Aloe Infused Gloves and SocksAyurvastra - Ancient Dye Method from India for Healing

Links to resources:Health Coach Group Websitehttps://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/

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Happy 200th Episode! Cathy and Ashlie share the journey of the Health Coach Group since it first started in 2011.   

 

In this episode, Cathy and Ashlie discuss

• Changes in the health coaching industry since Health Coach Conversations launched
• Recognizing the human side of health coaching and letting go of imposter syndrome 
• What’s remained the same and where Health Coach Group programs are most used
• How stress and lack of sleep has impacted the health coaching industry  
• Why getting outside is encouraged in almost every Health Coach Group program
• Recognizing the growing number of health professionals becoming health coaches 
• Advice for health coaches to gain confidence through experience
• Why building your email list is crucial to building your health coaching business 

 

     

Memorable Quotes:

• “As a culture we’re moving more into a space where we’re going to see more and more resources that are available in terms of preventive healthcare and focusing on wellness vs. managing illness.”  

 

 

Mentioned In This Episode:

Building Abundance - https://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/store/store-learning/building-abundance-a-12-week-business-course-for-health-coaches/

The Inner Circle Membership Program

https://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/store/the-inner-circle-membership/

 

 

Links to resources:

Health Coach Group Website

http://thehealthcoachgroup.com/

 

Living in a van is a new trend that has emerged in the last couple of years. It is a way of living that is becoming more and more popular. Ling Wong shares how she manages her freelance career with a sustainable lifestyle as a digital nomad. 

 

In this episode, Cathy and Ling discuss: 

• Reasons why Ling chose van life and how she got started with it
• Turning a school bus into a motorhome
• Building a career as a writer while being on the road
• The impact of Ling's lifestyle on her work
• Her experience of being on the road 80% of the time
• Furnishing the bus with furniture, beds, etc.
• What Ling learned about being free as a copywriter and a van dweller
• The flexibility van life provides in terms of balancing work and life

 

Memorable Quotes:

• "Learning to travel light is a work in progress. We all have a lot of things, the packages that we carry with us, figure, figurative, etc."
• "I don't want to be in a cubicle… So it turns out that focusing on writing and not having to deal with a lot of office work really well with my personality… I produce good work. I do good work, but I also really enjoy the choice and the flexibility."

Ling is an avid cyclist crazy enough to get into the Everesting Hall of Fame (3 entries, so far) and climbed 1 million feet//10,000 miles in 2021.

 

She is a freelance marketing writer who loves to tackle obscure sh*t topics and is booked at 128% capacity for eight working days a week.

 

She is also an Ivy grad who spent years in design, architecture, and digital marketing. Then said fuxk it and quit it all for good and has never been happier.

 

Mentioned In This Episode:

 

Ling Wong on Instagram - @wordsandwatts.

 

Hackabus - https://www.hackabus.com/ 

 

 

Links to resources:

Health Coach Group Website

https://www.thehealthcoachgroup.com/