Hi, I’m Elyse!

For nearly a decade, I co-founded and helped build a health coach training company and trained more than 5,000 health coaches.

And then I walked away from the company I had spent years helping build.

Because I realized certification was only solving half the problem.

I kept seeing incredibly trained coaches graduate and still have no clue how to:

• actually get clients

• get hired

• build a real career

• get healthcare to take what I do seriously

I knew that more certifications, more information, and more training weren’t the answer.

Because I had also built businesses into the 6-, 7- and 8-figure range myself, so I knew something else:

Health coaches don’t just need to know how to coach. They need to know how to lead.

So I shifted my work.

I started helping health coaches build the leadership, business, behavior-change + collaborative care skills that actually get their work into the world.

And coaches were suddenly selling $5k packages, landing dream jobs and creating collaborations 'out of thin air'.

Because real health care doesn't happen in silos, real health care happens when doctors, nurses, health coaches, and patients are all working together as one collaborative unit, with patients/clients at the center. 

Today, my mission is bigger than training more health coaches.

It’s helping health coaches become the leaders who make collaborative care the future of healthcare.

I look forward to serving you!

Making changes to your health can be difficult. Health and wellness coaching provides dedicated time and support to help you move from wanting to make a change to actually making it happen.

One-on-one health coaching offers:

• time and space for you to talk about your health goals

• personalized guidance from me to you

• genuine, positive support 

• no gimmicks or other products for you to buy

• help for a lot of different health goals: improving sleep habits, physical activity, nutrition, and even things like procrastination 

Just like there's no single path to ill health, there is no single path to better health. Together, we'll find a path to better health for you that fits your unique circumstances, strengths, and goals.

I empower women to cut through the conflicting information to decide how they will journey through menopause with clarity and confidence so they can feel energized and excited again.

As a Certified Functional Medicine Coach, I will work side-by-side with you to make your Menopause Journey easier so you can regain your energy and confidence and chart your course for the next chapter of your life. I do not provide medical advise and will, when necessary, refer you to your personal medical practitioner.

I’m Regina, a certified Health & Wellness Coach with training through the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (FMCA, training completed February). My style is grounded, compassionate, and designed for real life.

I support people in navigating change across many areas of life — health, habits, stress, transitions, and life direction — by helping them reconnect with what grounds them, clarifies their priorities, and supports meaningful, sustainable change.

My work is rooted in whole-person health and well-being coaching. I’m a certified Health & Wellness Coach with training in nutrition, fitness, and holistic health, integrating holistic health, and I integrate evidence-informed wellness principles with compassionate, client-centered coaching. 

From the time I was a kid, I knew I wanted to be a teacher. Back then, I’d line up my dolls and teddy bears on the steps of our front porch to let them know about subjects I was learning in school. Since then, no matter what I’ve undertaken, I find myself in the role of a teacher or mentor.

I’ve taught masters level university classes, workshops, podcasts, webinars and seminars. Subjects have ranged from behavioral change to fitness to spiritual counseling.

In 1996 I discovered coaching and began my coaching business alongside separate roles as therapist and a spiritual counselor. Then in 2000, I felt a familiar tug to teach — this time, to teach the unique coaching method that had swirled together from my own studies and experience. The Mindful Coach Certification was born out of that calling. Over 25 years, hundreds of heart-centered professionals completed our course and now connect with their clients using mindful coaching methodology and mindset.

My mission to teach and serve has transformed from training coaches to providing awareness and growth as a mentor for both new and seasoned coaches. Coaches don't usually come to mentoring because something is broken. They come because they care about doing this work well and want warm, spacious reflection and personalized support.

As always, my work rests on my intention to be of service as coaches deepen their capacity to be present, effective and compassionate conduits for meaningful change.

I know firsthand how overwhelming life can feel when you’re juggling a demanding career, family, and everything else because I’ve been there myself. After experiencing burnout, I realized that wellness isn’t just about nutrition. To restore balance, I also needed to address sleep, hydration, stress management, and intentional movement. Self-care couldn’t just be a buzzword;  it had to become a reality. By focusing on one goal at a time, I regained my energy and clarity, which inspired me to train as a health coach and culinary nutrition expert so I could help others do the same.

Hello, I'm Sonja! Your houseplant-obsessed, pastry-loving, super organized online BFF.

I'm a board certified health and wellness coach (NBC-HWC) who brings 15 years of experience in coaching, behavior change, and project management systems to people who want to finish the one meaningful thing they don't want to leave undone in life. My professional experience includes:

→ Building products that apply behavior change science

→ Leading learning and development initiatives for large coaching teams

→ Teaching coaching skills to over 200 new health coaches

→ Setting up project management systems for teams of 1-1,000

→ Consulting with CEOs and executive teams

→ Over 5,500 hours of 1:1 and group coaching experience across private practice, small business, and corporate wellness

I’ve spent the last decade studying how humans change, how habits truly stick, how identity evolves, and how people can ditch self-limiting beliefs and finally make their dreams a reality. I’ve invested tens of thousands of hours in becoming exceptional at helping people change their lives through the power of coaching, and the depth of that experience allows me to tailor every layer of my coaching framework to your specific story, goal, and life.

When I'm not coaching, consulting, or teaching, you can find me:

→ Hiking in the mountains (The High Line in Glacier is my favorite trail)

→ Snapping photos of everyday moments (You should see how many snaps of sunlight are in my camera roll)

→ Listening to a podcast while walking my dogs (I've got 2 tiny rescue pups - Maggie and Zoey)

→ Advocating for environmental policy changes that protect people and the planet (Hell yeah to the recent block to mining in the Boundary Waters of MN)

→ Watering my houseplants and replacing my lawn with native plants (The number of native bees and butterflies in my yard makes me so happy)

→ Searching for the best pastries all over the world (if you know of a good bakery, please tell me about it!)

Want to know more? Here's where you can find me hanging out online: Website | LinkedIn | Instagram | Pinterest | YouTube

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