Did you know health coaching is becoming one of the hottest professions right now?
Every day, more and more people begin to understand how crucial their health and wellbeing is
as the foundational elements to having a wealthy, fulfilled, and happy life.
Thus the demand for experienced and passionate health coaches keeps rising exponentially.
So, if you’ve been thinking about entering the health coaching business
or just understanding health coaching to deliver more holistic results for your clients,
this is the perfect time to get started.
Hi, this is Ajit Nawalkha, and today I’m going to share with you 5 successful career
opportunities you can pursue as part of the health coaching business.
Let’s look at some facts first on why now is the perfect time to explore health coaching.
23.5 million Americans suffer from an autoimmune disease.
Unhealthy eating and lack of activity kill 13 times more people than guns every year.
The average lifetime risk of cancer for American males is 40.8% and the risk for women is 37.5%
The trends are both disturbing and worrying.
What’s even more concerning is that most of these issues are direct consequences to
stress, unhappiness, poor eating habits, and lack of proper sleep.
They affect not only our health, but our happiness, relationships, and performance.
But the great news is that we can avoid them.
And we can help other people avoid them too.
Yourself, your loved ones, family, friends, colleagues, and clients.
And we’ve never before needed this support more than now.
The growing demand for health and wellbeing has opened many new opportunities for all
of us who want to serve people in this field and help them regain control of their lives.
Now, this doesn’t mean you need to go back to college and study to be a nutritionist
or become a personal trainer.
There are plenty of other benefits and thriving opportunities when you understand and pursue
health coaching.
The first opportunity is pretty obvious.
Starting your own business as a coach.
Now, you may or may not have noticed I said start your business as a coach instead of
as a health and wellbeing coach, and there’s a reason why.
If you want to become a truly extraordinary master coach, you must understand all the
elements that influence and impact your client’s life, and that includes their health and wellbeing.
Thus, gaining this knowledge can help you create even more transformational results
and continue your journey to mastery, as a life coach, business coach, spiritual coach,
or whatever you choose your focus to be.
Understanding health coaching is not only about taking care of your client’s nutrition
and exercise.
It also includes understanding how to work on your client’s beliefs, behaviors, and
mindset - all necessary elements to create transformation as a coach.
The second opportunity in this industry is to become a specialist in health coaching
and transformational nutrition.
Now you may ask, what’s the difference between becoming a coach that understands health coaching
and a health coach?
Fair question.
As we mentioned earlier, a coach that understands health coaching can use some of its elements
to support a client’s journey.
For example, you can be a business coach looking to increase a team’s performance so, as
one of the strategies, you help them implement a wellness program that will support achieving
this goal.
In short, you’re applying your knowledge but the result you are expected to deliver
is not necessarily in this field.
On the other hand, a coach that is specialized on health and wellness does have a health
and wellness-related objective.
They help their clients feel and be their best through food and lifestyle changes and
by tailoring wellness programs that meet their needs and strengths.
Great health coaching is also about mastering transformational nutrition.
And no, this doesn’t mean creating crazy diets for your clients.
Transformational nutrition is the scientific study of human health and wellness on multiple
levels including the biological, psychological, and spiritual areas of life.
This concept was created by renowned health coach and expert, Cynthia Garcia, and is now
a wildly popular health coaching method.
When you understand these 3 levels of transformational nutrition and how to navigate through them
with your client, the results you create for your clients will not only be higher but they
will last longer as your client will learn how to maintain their new, healthy self.
And that is your role as a health and wellness coach.
To work on your client’s biological, psychological, and spiritual levels for them to increase
their happiness, confidence, relationships, work performance, and any other area of their
life that they want to improve.
How do you think understanding the elements of health coaching can level-up your coaching
game?
Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below.
The third opportunity that opens up with this knowledge is working as a health and wellbeing
consultant, whether it’s employed in a business or as a freelancer.
Nowadays, there’s a huge trend in businesses of all sizes to offer their workforce better
working conditions that will increase their happiness and, therefore, their performance.
As a health and wellbeing consultant, you are the professional in charge of supporting
employees in reaching optimum wellness through health and lifestyle education, wellness coaching,
advice on healthy diets, guidance on exercises, and methods to cope with stress.
There are all kinds of wellness programs you can create an offer, but make sure you customize
them to your client to fit their needs, their employee’s needs, and the overall work and
office conditions.
The fourth opportunity is working in a doctor’s office or medical facility.
And no, I’m not saying you need to study to become a doctor or nurse, or that you’re
going to fake being one.
Patients that visit the doctor’s office regularly most likely means they have some
kind of health challenge or concern, it could be anything more stress-induced migraines,
to being overweight, to suffering from a disease.
All health conditions are directly affected by our lifestyle and what we eat.
Which is why understanding health coaching and transformational nutrition makes you the
perfect candidate to work as a health coach and consultant to these patients and offer
them the knowledge, tools, and confidence they need to take a more active approach in
their own care and improve their lifestyle to ultimately improve their health.
Now, what if you’re totally into the topic of health coaching but none of the first four
career paths sounded like something you might do?
Then this last one might do the trick for you.
Maybe you’re a health and wellbeing junkie but you’re not considering becoming a coach
yet and/or you don’t want to work in an office for someone else.
Then you can use this knowledge and passion and channel it into becoming a health and
lifestyle blogger or influencer.
There are so many influencers today focused on personal training and many others that
talk about healthy eating and dieting.
But there aren’t many that understand both plus the other levels of health coaching needed
to provide consistent and holistic advice on how to improve their lifestyle.
As a blogger or influencer, you have the opportunity to share your expertise and serve others to
help them live better lives.
Whether that means having your own blog, freelancing, becoming a social media influencer, public
speaking, or writing a book.
Whatever platform you feel most comfortable with will be the right one for you and serve
your purpose.
The health coaching business is on an upward trend and, in a few years from now, every
coach will need to know the basic elements of health coaching if they want to create
holistic change in their clients’ lives.
What other opportunities do you see arising for you from understanding health coaching?
Share your thoughts with us in the comment section below.
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