If you’re not already health coaching along with the fitness, I suggest you start. The two major areas to focus on for fitness in midlife:  Exercise  Every hour outside of Exercise  In the exercise itself:  Type of exercise and time it’s done Length of the exercise  Intensity of the exercise Sequence of exercises  Frequency of exercise Rest between exercise  Purpose of every exercise and every session …. Each of these has to be related to endocrine status, musculoskeletal  status and conditions or injury history.  Outside of ex ..read more

This list of why serving midlife women, the why to be a Menopause Fitness Specialist encompasses it all. #1 Reason to be a Menopause Fitness Specialist  Legacy. How do you think most women drawn to doing this are midlife or approaching it themselves? Or they're slightly younger and they're working with older women, but a little bit wiser maybe beyond their years and want to really leave a legacy. Really. I mean, women in menopause, in early stages, specifically Perimenopause, are also many of them in the workforce. And they're struggling to get support in the workforce. They're struggling ..read more

No doubt you too are trying to help clients combine intermittent fasting and exercise. I’m sure it’s come up. You may be attempting to do it. You may know their doctor is suggesting it.  But here’s the incongruence for midlife women. Low Energy Availability (LEA) and exercising while fasting are one and the same. If you’ve been involved in fitness or nutrition for a minute, you know of the Female Athlete Triad. Generally, young active women essentially become menopausal when they should be having regular cycles because of energy insufficiency. LEA is right back to that and yet more detrim ..read more

The difference between social media success and a lot of time on social media without success is having a social media marketing strategy.  How often do you post?  How many hashtags do you use? How do you know which hashtags to use? Where do you put hashtags? Which metrics/insights are most important to you?  If you have a strategy, you know the answers to these!  My guest today provides insight at the perfect time. Start the New Year with information that is going to help you knock it out of the park in the coming year.  Make a change for 3 months, assess ..read more

This episode may be a little tough love. The way to start making money as a health professional is to stop making excuses. It’s the same thing I’d say to a woman who wants to start getting stronger or more toned or lose weight. She’s got to stop making excuses for what she can’t do. Look, we’re all busy. Busy isn’t the problem. Busy doing the wrong things is the problem.  You have to admit, that it is much safer to say you aren’t ready, you need a certification, you need more time… but the truth is all of us who’ve done big things have done it not in spite of things that could have gotten ..read more

Let’s be super clear. Better productivity is about getting more done in less time. THAT last little detail is very important!   Ever finish a busy day feeling like you’ve not really gotten anything knocked off your list that was important? You’re 3 questions away from better productivity! There are plenty of reasons why this happens.  I could lose 2 hours easily on Canva creating a single elaborate post for Instagram. I love to play with graphics and words and I’m good at it. That doesn’t mean I should be doing it before other things.  There are certain things we love to do ..read more

If you’re a wellness professional or aspiring to be one, then you can take inspiration from other wellness professionals creative application of their skillset, their passions, and problem solving.  In the WellPro Mastermind (details below) we use the L.I.F.T. method to leverage your uniqueness so we can solve that problem of how you stand out when there are so many newly certified or at least calling themselves, coaches trying to do the same as you.  This is one of our community members, so say a virtual warm welcome to her, and you may potentially see her inside our mastermind on o ..read more

I’m going to hand you the health professionals launch checklist right inside this episode. As we round the corner on the 4th quarter and enter the holiday season this is one thing on every health and fitness professional’s mind.  Having a great next year begins the last quarter of this year. You have to put things in place. And whether it’s your spring break bootcamp or your summer shape up or fall back on track program, if you don’t have the right steps in place before you open the cart, during the cart, and after the cart, you’re not going to be as successful as you could.  First ..read more

Who doesn’t want a million dollar wellness business? Yet, here’s the truth: few health and wellness professionals allow themselves to dream that big or are willing to do what it takes.  There is also a little magic in deciding what kind of lifestyle you want to create. A million dollar wellness business with what percent profit? How do you want your day-to-day life to be? If you’re willing to do anything or whatever it takes to grow your business, you may be sorry that you have the business you’ve grown with hours you can’t sustain.  So let’s imagine your ideal business with what you ..read more

FaceBook Ad Strategies may be something you’re burying your head in the sand about, something you’re trying to do yourself or something you just have to farm out due to time restrictions, but regardless, you need to know!  My Facebook ad strategies have swung from me doing to me hiring poorly to me hiring wisely and that brings me to today’s episode. Full disclosure, I don’t share anything I don’t know like and trust with any community members. That’s whether we’re talking skincare, whole body vibration, or Facebook ad strategies. Today’s guest is my ads strategist or media buyer as you w ..read more