Institute for Integrative Nutrition

And then years later, well not even years later, within the next year- This influencer, I've talked about this before, but this influencer came into my awareness, and I was, like, drawn to her energy.

And then over time, I, I heard her talking about the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, and then I ended up signing up for that training and became a holistic health coach.

Again, never even knew that health coaching was a thing at the time, but that's how I showed up [laughs] in that come as you may be party, and I pretended that I was a health coach.

I was acting as if, and that's why it is so freaking powerful.

And then also always very interested in holistic health and because of my own health problems.

And, um, I decided to enroll at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and get certified as a health coach.

And now a few years later, I am helping women navigate their health, their health, chronic health issues.

Yeah.

And that moment completely changed my life.

And from there, I ended up going to the Institute for Integrative Nutrition to start to learn some other things.

And it just snowballed because at that moment, and it took me several years to actually understand that that was my first moment of peace.

I didn't even know.

Yeah.

And at what point did you make the switch going into consciousness studies?

It was, so after I was homeless in 2009, and then I started working in first the physical, I went to IIN, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and started working in health coaching.

And I got certified in health coaching and holistic hormone therapy.

Then I went to work for a company called Health Central, which we created documentaries around health.

And then I ran a company called the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, which trained health coaches.

During this time building businesses, I was dealing with my own health illness.

I was dealing with my own optimization of mindset, becoming a coach.

In 2006, I graduated from a health coaching program in New York City.

It was called the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, which is now a global virtual health coaching program.

But at the time, It was a small group of in-person classes.

And at the end, I remember being handed what was essentially a business plan.

Mm.

And so when I would find an obstacle, I'd say, "What's happening, and what do I need to change?" And so whether that was changing my career from working as an entrepreneur in companies like WebMD and Everyday Health and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and I felt resistance.

I listened to my body when I started to feel sick, and I said, "Something needs to change in my life." And I always had the curiosity and the will to actually take that step beyond fear-

Mm

Right.

I was a trader on Wall Street, and then I, I helped, went to help launch WebMD, what became WebMD, and then Everyday Health, and then Health Central, and Remedy Health Media, and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, so I had all these venture cap or, or p- public companies that I was an executive at.

Right.

And then finally I was like, "It's, 25 years later, it's not for me."

And in that time, I studied nutrition.

I did it with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, which is New York based.

It was just an online kind of podcast.

Sorry, they'd send you modules and you'd complete them online.