Cynthia Garcia: Coaches do not have all the answers. Okay. Let me repeat that again, because this is the biggest misconception I hear from people who want to be a coach. They say, “Oh gosh, Cynthia, I’d love to do this work, but what if some asks me a question and I don’t know the answer to it.”

Introduction: Welcome back to The Transformational Nutrition podcast, the podcast that is redefining nutrition as anything that feeds you physically, mentally and spiritually. I’m your host, Cynthia Garcia, the founder and CEO of ITN. And in today’s episode, we’re talking about what health coaching is and what. Is it, they get asked this question a lot.

What is nutrition coaching? What is health coaching? So I’m gonna dive in and dispel some of the myths and we’ll get clear today. 

So when I was in high school, I had a track coach. You see, I loved running. It allowed me to escape all of the things that were going on at home. It allowed me to feel free, like, you know, just being able to have this open space and enjoy.

And this coach that I mentioned, he changed so much for me. He had such a big impact. His name was Mr. McMillan, and I’ll never forget him. He always looked out for me in that very coachy very positive way. He never did me any favor. Instead, it was just the opposite. He really pushed me beyond what I thought I was capable of doing, because you see, I had this story that I told myself, like many of us do, I thought because of how I grew up, which was very poor.

If you haven’t listened to episode one, go back and check it out. I talk about that there. I had no running water. It didn’t have nice clothes to wear. Sometimes my clothes weren’t even clean. And I felt like there was something wrong with me. Like I just wasn’t as good as other people. I wasn’t as worthy.

I wasn’t important. I felt like good things were available for others, but not for me. But Mr. McMillan, he didn’t see things that way. He didn’t care where you came from, where you had been or what you had been through. He would push you to the limit of what he knew you could do. I mean, I could count on one hand the number of times that I saw him smile.

And I liked that because you knew if you did get a smile, it deserved it, right?! You really made an impact on him if he took the time to smile, but it felt nice. It felt really nice. Having someone see things in me that I couldn’t see to find value and ability and capability in me that I didn’t see. To support me and hold me accountable for the things that I was doing and for the results that I was getting.

Because when I thought I couldn’t take one more step, I had someone there to tell me that I could you see that’s what a coach does. That’s who a coach is now. Mr. McMillan was a track coach. Sure. but nutrition and health coaches lay a similar foundation. You see, when somebody works with a health or a nutrition coach, they get personalized solutions and support for whatever they’re going through.

The coach is hearing where they’re getting stuck. They’re supporting them in finding solutions and then they’re holding them accountable so they meet their goals. Coaching isn’t a one size fits all approach. And there are a lot of people who don’t really understand coaching, which is why I wanted to do this episode, which is to hopefully get as all clear on that.

And it’s interesting when I first started coaching, people would ask me, you know, ” Hey, what do you do?” Like that typical question of like, what do you do when you’d be at a dinner party or whatever? And I would say, well, ” I’m a coach.” And they would think that I don’t know, I was a soccer coach or something.

And so often they would respond with, “Oh, yeah? What sport?” We’ve definitely come a long way since then, but I do still hear questions around what a coach is, what a coach does and who should have one or become one. So let’s dive into that a little bit now, and let’s start with the misconceptions of coaching because even still today, there are a lot of untrained people becoming coaches.

They are mistakenly thinking that a coach simply gives others advice. And that is just not true, like at all! So let’s address what coaching isn’t first, so that we’re all on the same page. 

So first of all, coaching is not therapy. Lot of people confuse coaching and therapy. The difference is that coaching is focused on attaining goals and helping people become their best.

It’s helping them overcome areas where they self sabotage, where they put up their own roadblocks. It’s helping them to move forward, to become aware of the things that they do so that when they do them, they can immediately acknowledge them and shift their actions to do something different that takes them closer to their goals instead of farther.

Now, therapy is focused on solving serious mental health issues though. Therapy is not always intense and you don’t have to have a serious illness to seek a therapist. It is a very different approach from coaching. I mean, let me remind you, Mr. McMillan was not giving me any sort of therapy or trying to resolve my past trauma during those hundred meters.

He was just pushing me to run faster and set a better time. Right? Again, he didn’t care where it came from or what I had gone through. He challenged me to use those things to move me forward. Right? He’s like, “You’ve got this. You can do hard things.” He used to tell me that all the time. So what I tell people is if they have a serious medical health concern or a disorder, see a therapist.

Now, I like to also compare therapists and coaches to a physician and a personal trainer. So, if you have a serious health issue, you’re going to consult a physician. If you don’t have serious health issues, but you just want to make improvements in your health and your body, you’re going to seek out a trainer.

Right? So in this example, a therapist is equivalent to a doctor where a coach shows up as the trainer. Okay. So that’s the difference. Now, another thing that coaching isn’t, is consulting. Coaches are not consultants. So a consultant is someone that you bring in who has all of the answers. And it’s usually based on their experience and things that they’ve done.

And here is where the difference lies. Coaches do not have all the answers. Let me repeat that again, because this is the biggest misconception I hear from people who want to be a coach. They say, “oh gosh, Cynthia, I’d love to do this work. But what if some asks me a question and I don’t know the answer to it.”

And maybe if you’re listening to this, you have that fear too. So let me say this again. Coaches do not have all the answers that is not their job. Their job is to guide their clients, to finding their own answers through listening and questioning skills. Okay. Coaching is not about knowing how to fix everything in someone else’s life.

Seriously, that would be exhausting. I don’t know. I don’t know how you would ever do that. It’s about supporting clients and finding their own solutions. And we’ll talk more about this in just a moment, but I can still hear Mr. McMillan sometimes if I close my eyes and I flashed back to that asphalt, that my little track shorts, my shoes pounding the pavement.

I can still hear him saying things like go faster, push harder! Yelling at me as I would go by what he was standing on the sidelines. And sometimes I would get so frustrated because I thought I’m doing everything I can though. This is all I got, and sometimes I would say how? And he would always respond.

“Yes. How, how will you go faster? What’s weighing you down. What’s holding you back?” Right. He was a very smart man. This guy, he never told me how to go faster. He just asked me the questions that he knew I needed to hear so that I could find my own answer. This is what coaches do in a way. He knew that I just needed to get out of my own way.

He knew that I had all the answers. He knew I could do the things that I wanted to do, but it was going to be up to me. To actually do them and define the things that were holding me back. 

 

Victoria Kliensman: Eating disorders, poor body image, low self esteem has been a theme throughout my life growing up. So I started dieting when I was nine years. I remember using my mom’s a Weight Watchers, cardboard calculator. It wasn’t all about the iPhones then. 

 

Cynthia Garcia: That’s Victoria Kleinsmen, an ITN graduate. And the incredible story she sharing is that of her own transformation. 

 

Victoria Kliensman: I’ve learned since nine years old, you control your food because that manipulates the size of your body.

So I just took that too far. So, I started over achieving in not just food. And when I say overachieving, we’re given set points on Weight Watchers, I would go under that on purpose. Then if it was Slimming World, I’d be following. You’d have so many sins that you’d be allowed a day and I’d go onto that on purpose.

So whether I was following a calorie count, or whatever it was, I would do it to the extreme to try and do it the best that I could, which actually was in detriment to myself. I just developed anorexia nervosa. I was diagnosed when I was 13 years old. My mom noticed it very early on. So I, owe my life to my mom, really, she saved my life.

It was a really difficult time for the whole family, as well as myself, because of course. It has a massive effect, not just on yourself. Now, I’ve been able to reflect back on that time. It really did affect my family in such a huge way.

 

Cynthia Garcia: We’ll hear more from Victoria later in the episode until then let’s get back to today’s topic. So the third thing that coaches are not is that they are not medical professionals. This point really does have to be stressed, highlighted, and underlined as a coach, you can’t give medical advice. Coaches are not considered medical professionals, and indeed there are actually very strict rules around this.

So understand that as a coach, you should never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever at any point claim to treat, cure or diagnose. That’s what a medical professional does. Now you can share information, you can educate your clients, but you can not diagnose them with a condition or tell them that you can treat it or treat them for that.

And the other thing, coaching is not cheerleading. Trust me. When I tell you that Mr. McMillan was not standing on the sidelines at practice every day with pom-poms telling me to give him a ‘T’ give him an ‘R’ give him an ‘A’. Like that’s not what happened. It would have been a really funny sight. I mean, let’s, be honest.

I would have paid some really good money to see that if I had any back in the day, but that never happened. So. Listen, the nutrition and health coaching industry is a $7 billion market and growing more and more people are hiring coaches to give them a plan, to feel better and live better. However, most health and nutrition coaches, aren’t coaches they’re cheerleaders.

There’s a huge difference between a coach and a cheerleader. That’s why you don’t have cheerleaders on football teams, you know, trying to put together gameplays, right? That’s not what they do. Everyone has their role a cheerleader, and you can have those in your life. You should have them in your life. They provide encouragement, they provide hype, right?

That’s what they do. But a coach does so much more. A coach provides a real plan, a real strategy, a real model that transforms their clients. Listen, clients, they’re looking for more. They’re looking for a proven system that they can trust to deliver results. One that redefines nutrition for the modern world that we live in real coaches, don’t just show up and say to their clients.

So what do you want to work on today? Did you meet your goals last week? Okay. What do you want to do instead? All right. I’ll hold you accountable. Off you go. They don’t do that. They have a clear step-by-step coaching model that they follow every single time with every single one so that they help the client get results.

Mr. McMillan. When I would say to him, ” What do I do today?” I would show up for practice and say, what do I do? He didn’t say, “oh, I don’t know. What do you want to work on? You know, go out and run around till you get tired.” He didn’t, do that. He had a clear plan on how long, how far and how fast I had to run every day that I saw him.

He had a model that moved me closer to my goals on a daily basis. And that’s what coaching is. Now that you know what coaching isn’t, let’s discuss what coaching is. I’ve kind of alluded to that as we go through. It’s like the opposite of everything I just shared. So what is a good coach and what makes a good coach?

So health and nutrition coaching in its most basic form is having a conversation around one’s motivation habits and health goals in an effort to explore ways that they can improve their quality. Right. It’s about supporting people through their health journey. Co-creating a plan that’s personalized to their needs and then holding them accountable so that they reach their goals.

People need. They want, and they are actively searching for others to guide and support them to hold their hand and to educate them, to involve them in creating a plan that’s personalized. And that works for their unique needs. And this is where health and nutrition coaches come into play. So what makes a good coach?

Well at ITN, we believe that health and nutrition coaching goes beyond simply providing clients with cookie cutter diets and nutrition plans while having them focus on food and lifestyle, habit changes only. We believe we know that a successful health and nutrition coach is able to use transformational nutrition and a personalized approach to co-create a plan with their clients that ends in them getting results that last.

We also believe that you have to move beyond food and nutritional science and focus on psychological and spiritual factors as well. In other words, it’s critical that health and nutrition coaches understand how to help people discover what they’re really hungry for. Now, you know what coaching is, and isn’t, let’s talk about what makes a really great coach, whether you want to become a coach or hire a coach.

These things are important. There’s a lot of things, that make a coach. Great. So we’ll talk about three of them and by the way, as we do, let’s see if Mr. McMillan would pass the test. Let’s see if he would be considered a good coach. 

So a great coach offers support and guidance toward their client’s goals, achieving goals, we all know is not easy. If you don’t have any support. And according to a study done at the University of Scranton and overwhelming 92% of people don’t ever achieve their goals. 92%. Basic math tells us that that’s only 8% of people who do achieve their goals.

What. And one of those differentiating factors that was measured and done by these eight percenters is they built a support system around them to reach the goals that they want. So to achieve the goal, any goal, it’s important that you have an objective person fill this role of a coach. And again, this is where coaches come into play, right?

It should be someone who has an outside perspective. I do want to say that because people with an outside perspective can give you unbiased feedback. Typically, if we go to our friends and family with a problem, They’re really not objective. Have you ever done this? They often have difficulty giving you objective feedback because they love you and they care about you.

They are always going to take your side. You get into a fight with your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your significant other, and you go to your friends and they’re like, oh, you were too good for them. Anyway. You’ll find someone better instead of saying, well, this is, you know, seven people and just as many months seems like there’s a common denominator here.

And it’s you, your friends are not going to say those things. They won’t always help. You see the gaps and again, they want to protect you. They want to preserve their relationship with you. And that’s great that’s why we have them. They can be your cheerleaders. Coaches, they bring a needed objectivity to the equation.

So for example, my parents never really came to my track meets, but if they had, I would imagine they would say something like good job, no matter what my results were, because they wouldn’t have wanted to hurt my feelings. Plus, let’s be honest. They wouldn’t have had any real practical advice to help me get better.

Anyway, that’s not what they did. Mr. McMillan on the other hand had plenty to tell me about what I could have done better because he was unbiased and he was knowledgeable and he was a coach. So that he did a great job with we’ll be back in just a moment, right after we hear a bit more from ITN student Victoria, Kleinsmen about her incredible journey of transformation, in her own words.

 

Victoria Kliensman: So when I was a teenager, that happened to two to three years. I would say I was fully recovered from a medical standpoint. And then life kind of just happened as normal. I left school at 16 years old, got all my qualifications, but wanted to work with horses. So I started my job, a real job in the horse world.

And I don’t know if you know about horses, but it was a very active job. So I was riding nine horses a day, mucking, stables out. I was on my feet all the time. So in regards to my relationship with my body and food at that time, I could pretty much eat what I wanted because I was so active and my body didn’t really change.

So I was happy with that. So this is, a theme that if my body was how I wanted it, then that means I was okay. So then therefore I could be happy. And then moving on from that time when I was 19, I felt, well, I thought I fell in love with a man who was 15 years older than me. It happened very gradually what I found myself in a physically, mentally abusive relationship.

And in that time there was six years that we were together. I turned to food because that’s all I ever had that was there for me. I distanced myself from my family, from my friends, my mom was doing everything she could to reach out to me, but it’s kind of like you’re in this little world, not in the real world.

And I was hidden from the real world by him. I turned to food and because of the extreme dieting I’d done in my past with anorexia as well, my body was still craving all the things I’d always craved. And that was the first time in my life that I allowed myself. Eat, whatever it was, I wanted to eat and more so because it was just comforting me when I did manage to leave, I rebuilt my life.

So I did leave that. I rebuilt my life. I, he had unknowingly left me in thousands of pounds worth of debt that was put in my name with his daughter’s signature, pretending to be me. We went to the police, we did all the legal things, but because there was no proof, it was my word against his. I had to pay the debt or I’d be blacklisted.

So then I got a job with horses. Again, just worked really hard, paid all the debts off, rebuilt my life again, because I was working with horses. The weight kind of naturally came off. I was so overly active and I could more or less eat what I wanted again. However, I definitely noticed this time, I wasn’t nourishing myself.

I noticed it was, it was more processed foods. It wasn’t. Nourishing myself from a place of self care, like, well, actually, maybe you should have some proteins and fats and it was just, I’m going to eat the foods. I never allowed myself to have, I’m going to eat the foods that when I was in, when you boost a relationship, caused me to gain all this weight, but now I can eat them, but then also not gain the weight.

So even though I was happy with my body image at that time, because I was smaller again, my relationship with food was not in. Not in a good place. And then not long after that, I started the gym and this is another chapter of my life that opened me up to developing bulimia because I would ride horses all day and be really active all day.

And then after that, I would go to the gym and my body changed quite quickly. I got muscles very quickly. And the amount of external validation that I got from the outside world of , “oh my gosh, you look incredible. How do you do it?” My obsession took pain from the gym. I was doing fitness model land on in the background though behind closed doors, I was like starving myself all day till I literally physically couldn’t eat anymore.

And then I would go to the supermarket on the way home from the gym and buy the whole of the chocolate section and the ice cream section and just go home and binge in secret. And then repeat over and over again. I remember one time I was going on a girl’s holiday. And I got up at three in the morning to fit in a 10 K run before the flight, because I would’ve been sitting down for an hour on the plane.

So it was, very, very, very unhealthy mindset. I looked like a picture of health from the outside. I was in the fitness magazines and behind closed doors, I was starving, purging bingeing, and just basically hating on myself. So just that’s why comparison. Isn’t helpful because you just don’t know what’s going on.

 

Cynthia Garcia: So how does Victoria’s story lead her to ITN and the path that she’s on today? We’ll find out a bit more later. 

Now, great coaches also use powerful questioning. This is another trait of a great coach. They use these questioning techniques to help a client identify solutions and actions that they can take to solve their problems.

It’s really pretty simple. You, as a coach are offering powerful insights to their problems just by asking questions. And you do this by asking deep questions, going below that surface level questioning is about assisting the clients to find their own solution to their issues, and then challenging them on their decisions and behaviors.

Okay. Now, like I mentioned before, Mr. McMillan, he never wanted to just tell me how to be better. He made me think for myself so that I could truly understand how to reach my. He would ask me the questions when he said go faster. And I said, how he said, yes, how, how can you go faster? What is holding you back?

 He didn’t say, well, hold your arms in tighter or make your stride longer. He didn’t say any of those things. He asked me what I can do. Another essential trait of an excellent coach is having amazing listening skills, amazing listening skills. Most people in our culture know way more about talking than they do about listening.

And you’ll find that really listening to your clients and what they say is what differentiates an okay coach from an, “oh…, okay, coach! Right. So most of the time let’s be honest. Seriously, do you do this? I I’m guilty of doing this sometimes. And I am a coach. I’ve been one for gosh, what almost 20 years now.

But most of the time when we’re in conversation where we’re chatting it up, we aren’t really listening. Instead. We’re formulating our own response in our head to what’s already been said. And then we’re just waiting for the other person to stop talking so we can speak, right. So we can get out that response that we’ve been formulating.

Cause you can’t do that and listen at the same time, not deeply anyway, but when you do listen deeply and you allow pauses and white space and you’re not. Formulating your response and you’re allowing silence even sometimes without feeling the need to hop in and fill it. It allows your client a chance to go deeper without being told to do.

And it allows them to share fully and deeply. So for example, if I were to say to my clients, or if my client came in and said something like, you know, I really want to lose weight. I’m tired of being, too heavy. And I’m ready to get this weight off. I’ve done everything, but just tell me what to do.

 I might say, you know, tell me more about. And the client might say something like, well, it’s just, it’s too much. I’m too much. And then I might say, okay, tell me about what too much means. Tell me what that means to you. And my client might say something like, well, it’s just, you know, I, I don’t fit into my clothes. I don’t feel good about myself. I just wanna lose weight.

 And I might just sit. And I might just give them some space and time, just some white space without me feeling like I need to hop in and say something that’s often uncomfortable, right? If somebody says something and we want them to go deeper, but they’re not responding.

Oftentimes we’ll just jump in. We’ll feel that gap. But instead of doing that good coaches allow their clients time to just sit, to just be, to just feel and then to express, what’s really coming up. All right now, I’m going to be honest with you here. Mr. McMillan was not a great listener. 

He really wasn’t. I would tell him something sometimes five times, but that’s okay because at the end of the day, he was my high school track coach, not my personal nutrition or health coach. And of course, great coaches must be trained in these things. They don’t naturally. Or they don’t come naturally to everyone, which is why people seek out coaches instead of just talking to each other, these things have to be developed.

Okay. So now you know what coaching is and what it isn’t and what makes a great coach. How do you know if coaching is right for you? Well, there’s a few questions that you should take the time to reflect on. First of all, ask why do you want to become a health or nutrition coach? Have you navigated your own health struggles and you want to help others not have to do the same?

Are you passionate about nutrition and wellness? You’re always following the latest trends. You’re always reading the latest and greatest, and you want to turn this passion into a job, a career. Maybe you’ve seen your family members struggle in different ways. You know, I’ve shared my struggles in some previous episodes, and maybe you want to gain the knowledge to educate them to.

Help them to support them right. The way my coaches have supported me, whatever the reason I’m sure that it ignites a passion in you, or at least it should, it should ignite a passion. It should be something that really excites you. Think about what you do now as a career. And are you lit up by it? Do you feel like you’re making an impact?

Does it have meaning for you? Do you experience fulfillment when you do. Or are you just questioning how you’re spending your time and what your overall contribution is? And you’re just not feeling like you’re you matter that what you’re doing matters, right? So if that’s the case, what are you willing to do about it?

Right? What are you willing to do about it? So get really clear on these things, when you think about being a coach. And again, are you sharing information already with people you’re just not getting paid for it, do all of your friends and your family ask you about nutrition and health topics. And then you, you tell them, do you love helping other people?

And by the way, let me just say this because it comes up a lot, helping people doesn’t mean you have to be extroverted. I am not. I might seem like. I am not an extrovert. I’m very much an introvert. I like to go into the closet at the end of the day and decompressed. That’s my safe place. It doesn’t give me energy being out and about, and we have lot of introverts here at ITN who are still changing people’s lives and their own.

You don’t have to be over the top or flamboyant to be a coach. You don’t have to be an extrovert. Introverts do really well in this. Let me ask you this. Do you like having the idea of running your own business or having flexibility in your career? Do you enjoy the thought of making great money with a time and freedom to actually enjoy it?

Deciding when you get to take time off being your own boss, remember only you can make the ultimate decision on whether or not coaching is right for you. And you might’ve heard something here today that made you say either. Nope. It’s not, or, yeah, I think it is. The one thing that you shouldn’t do is allow fear to drive the decision for you.

Part of what I do as a coach is I help people to focus on their fear of doing what they know that they want to do, because fear can hold us back. Like Mr. McMillan, he did this for me. I encourage people to find their own solutions and I encourage them to be the best versions of themselves. So they make the most of this one wild and precious life that they’ve been given.

 You can do that. All right. So what have we learned today? We’ve learned what coaching is and what it isn’t. We’ve learned what to look for in a great coach and how, you know, if becoming a coach is right for you. I will be totally honest here. Coaching is close to my heart. It is my heart. It literally quite literally saved my life.

I feel like everyone should have a coach and I feel like everyone should be a coach because you don’t just have to be a coach running a business. You can be a coach with your children. You can be a coach in your community, in your church, in your work. You’re just great at supporting people and helping them reach their goals.

Let’s hear from Victoria and allow her to answer the questions about what led her to enroll in ITN and how ITN’s program helped her to get through the past problems she’s faced to truly create a life that finally feeds her.

 

Victoria Kliensman: So, I can’t remember having a normal relationship with foods in my adult life, to be honest until recently. Four years ago, I went to Egypt on holiday with a girlfriend and met a Dutch man, Valter, who I’m now with and that’s why I live in the Netherlands. And he introduced me to personal development.

Well, I didn’t know that that was the start of my spiritual awakening or my personal development journey. I had no idea. Now I’ ve explored all of this. It’s 100% my path, my intuition that led me here. Because when I moved in with him, I could no longer hide my food behaviors. He cared about me. So he would see that I wouldn’t eat all day.

He was trying to encourage me to like nourish myself from a place of love. Now I know what intuition is and how we’re so guided in this lifetime. I didn’t know at that time. So after that night of me just collapsing the floor and just being like, I don’t, I don’t know what to do. I remember thinking to myself, I’m scared of my own thoughts.

I’m scared of myself. I’m scared of being in my own head. And at one point I literally thought I needed to go to a psychiatric hospital because I’ve never felt that way before. And I was at rock bottom and at that time, actually in the Netherlands, and I’ve got a job cleaning student toilets and showers because of the language barrier.

We’re in the middle of nowhere. We’re not near the city. When I did move here, I just kind of jumped in with both feet and was like, “oh, I’ll learn the language. It will be fine.” It’s not easy to speak. So at that time I was cleaning toilets. So the next day I went to work, cause obviously I had to have to work, to pay the bills and to share my part at the house.

And I was listening to a podcast and that was the model health show, which is Shawn Stevenson. And he had Cynthia Garcia on as a guest. And I mean, if this wasn’t aligned, I didn’t know what was, of course it was aligned and I was cleaning the toilet. I remember it so vividly. And Cynthia shared her story. And something inside me just stopped and was like, “oh my God, there’s another way.” I can actually use what I’ve been through all the pain to help other people.

And that hadn’t even been, I thought that of mine before. It just, all of a sudden dawned on me. So, Cynthia sharing her story. I went home after my shift at work and said to my fiancé, I know what I want to do. I want to be a health coach. I mean, at this point I wasn’t better myself. I haven’t even started my healing journey.

So not only did I think, okay, well, I can help all those with theirs. I could also help myself going through this. So hearing Cynthia’s story made me realize that, okay, if she can do that, maybe I can do that. I was not full of self-confidence in any way, shape or form. It was like a little, it was like how I was saying adopt and then Cynthia had bought a torch and it just shined it very, very, and have this big, long tunnel.

So that was the feeling that I had. Like, maybe this could be something so more so when I signed off, I thought, right, I can get myself healed first and then be a health coach and then do it that way. 

So I didn’t realize that my niche would have been, ironically exactly what I struggled with most of my life. I just knew I wanted to first heal myself and then I just want to help other people.

So I found out my me through the ITN program. And through Cynthia’s… the amount of self belief, Cynthia gives to you throughout the program of promising that it will just all work itself out. If you’re exploring ITN and your heart is saying, yes, fear is going to be there. Let’s not pretend it’s going to be a 100% yes, and everything aligns up to make it work. That’s not how life happens. If you feel like it’s a right thing to do, allow your fear to be in the backseat or the passenger seat, not in the driving seat, because what I’m thinking of as I’m describing this, and this is a quote, I’m not sure who it’s from. What’s the worst thing that can happen?

And what’s the best thing that can happen? Because you only regret the choices that you do make and the chances that you don’t take. So just go for it. You could be here sharing your story. Like I have. My name is Victoria client. And I’m a food freedom and body image coach. So what that means is, I help women to feel normal around food, actually like their bodies and fall madly in love themselves.

 

Cynthia Garcia: So if the possibility of doing something meaningful, helping others and creating a life of freedom with a time and money to enjoy. Interests you, and you want to find out more then head over to our website, transformationalnutrition.com/dreamcareer and watch the dream career mini series that I put together for you.

You can also find notes on this episode and more resources over at transformationalnutrition.com/episode003. Thank you so much for tuning in. Thank you so much for listening and I’ll be back here again next week with another new episode.