Sharing her journey in health coaching, Ali Shapiro reflects on pioneering a babysitting camp and rethinking health and entrepreneurship. She weaves together themes of personal growth, resilience, and redefining success — with insights for entrepreneurs on listening to your business’s needs.

Making It! explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it.

“If you don’t have a model of what success is, you default to the cultural conditioning.”— 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 has 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
Ali’s website: AliShapiro.com
Ali’s Podcast: Insatiable Podcast

Credits:

Producer: Michi Lantz
Audio Editor: Marvin del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny
Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

Music credits:

Track Title: The Sunniest Kids
Artist Name: Rhythm Scott
Writer Name: Scott Roush
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Track Title: Sweet Loving Waltz
Artist Name(s): Sounds Like Sander
Writer Name: S.L.J. Kalmeijer
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Track Title: Electrify
Artist Name: Lunareh
Writer Name: Wiriyapa Chansuwong
Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Special effects credits:

24990513_birds-chirping_by_promission used with permission of the author and under license by AudioJungle/Envato Market.

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Episode transcript: Transforming Pain into Purpose — An Inspiring Path (Ali Shapiro).