good morning and welcome to healthy inspirations i'm your host lindsey smith thank you for tuning in to our first monthly series the purpose of this show is to encourage and inspire you to take action of your life and your health each month we'll feature a different topic on health and happiness we will also invite different community members and business owners from peter's township to share their stories and advice our goal is to provide you with valuable health tips that you can use every day to create positive changes in your current health situation maybe you want to lose weight reduce stress increased energy or just learn some basics that's what we're here to teach you as a certified health coach i am also here to provide you with the most current information on nutrition and healthy living today we are going to talk to you about health coaching i'll tell you a little bit about myself and we'll discuss why everyone needs a coach of some sort at different times in their life i also have a special guest ted civic ted is the owner of a complete wellness facility called inner strength ted just opened a new location in peter's township on january twenty fifth he'll have a chance to tell you more about that later so help coaching what is it exactly well let's start by looking at the definition of a coach a coach is someone who leads through collaborating more than or so than directing a coach is someone who instructs or trains they're also called coordinators facilitators mentors i'm sure we've all heard these terms before coaching however professionally is the practice of supporting an individual through the process of achieving a specific personal or professional result so you may ask yourself well then what is a health coach and why do we need them well a health coach really helps encourage and support you to make healthier lifestyle choices as a coach i work with my clients one on one to help guide them and support them along the way i have also studied all the major dietary theories and help people discover what approach works best for them at this point in their life almost fats proteins restrictions the list of what's good and what's bad i work with my clients to create a happy healthy life that is flexible fun and free of deny our discipline so why do people need coaches well most people know what to do but they just need that extra nudge they need the extra encouragement and support and help guiding them to make better choices in our fast paced a crazy world that we live in we sometimes forget what's good for us we want that quick fix now but health coaches help support you and what's best for your body as a health coach myself i had mentors and coach coaches growing up that helped change my life when i was a child i was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder i was overweight stressed out and had very very low self esteem i just felt overall unhappy i tried therapist psychologist new name it but nothing seemed to be working for me as a desperate plea i decided to try a wellness center in my hometown that focused on physical exercise nutrition and mindfulness rather than dwelling on my anxiety i instead had someone encouraging me and inspiring me to make healthier lifestyle choices within about six months my anxiety was nearly gone i lost weight i had more energy i was healthier and for the first time in a long time i was truly happy happy with myself so that's where my passion for health coaching comes in my life was truly changed by the support and guidance i received as a kid so my goal is to encourage and inspire others to make healthier lifestyle choices that's where the idea of healthy inspiration stems from we are aiming to leave you with quick and easy tips that you can implement in your daily routine we are hoping that these small changes will lead to big results for more strength there are moments when you think about what the find you mind of the moment when the doctor said oh because as a parent 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foundation of america so excited for you to be here too and in case you don't know ted actually was my mentor growing up and it's very very special to me that he's here because he was the transformation i was talking about earlier so thank facility and peter's well i've been working with a psychotherapist for the last fifteen years she's actually been a client of mine of help her with some different things and she has an office here and she said you know what there's a lot of people that could really benefit from your services why don't you come down and they started out me going down like once every other month and then it came to be every month and then pretty much every couple weeks and so but there was a lot of people that could benefit from a lot of the different types of philosophy that i have and the philosophy of course is based on asian philosophy with my training in the martial arts and meditation in those kinds of different things so it was almost adjunct because everybody's talking about mind body and spirit now that's those are the new buzzwords and so we can join that idea of just all parity plus you know this whole mind body spirit thing put it together had two different viewpoints it was really beneficial for a lot of the  really caught on like wildfire if you look in the fitness magazines or in the nutritional that's the buzz word now mind body spirit or you know a mind body an energy or energy medicine is another word that's tossed around a in food is energy and all these kinds of different ways of marketing the same concepts but they've been around for a thousand years and they're probably longer and you know it's nothing really new but i think we're rediscovering this as we look for different ways to stay healthy stay out of the medical system and take more responsibility for ourselves yes definitely so what type of clients you know it's usually come to you what you know what what are the main symptoms that people are dealing with i know me personally i had a side in you helped tremendously with that and i can't thank you enough or you're a lot of fun to work you know and i really enjoyed our time together  it's it's very diverse now i mean what i see is when nobody else can help you i'm the guy to come to so i have people coming in from europe i have people coming in from california from canada south america those kind of different things but you would imagine if somebody's going to travel that's far it's very severe these are people that you know i've seen everything from face for cancer to people that are paralyzed people that are fighting multiple sclerosis a last people that really have severe depression sometimes because of another illness or underlying symptom that they haven't yet discovered or haven't been working on so we really see a lot of very difficult cases but we also see you know the high school person who comes in and they think they just want to lose weight and we really realize that they have some really negative self talk about themselves and so we begin to talk with them work with them and we come to use the physical exercise or the personal training if you want to use that as a front and that leads into that person becoming more comfortable with you as the coach or the mentor and then that way they feel comfortable talking about what's going to believe work with that person as a person not as seeing him as a patient or client or anything like that they're just a person who really needs someone to kind of be their buddy for a while and to kind of like be really brutally honest with them because like your best friend you know they'll be brutally honest with you but they'll still love you and that's to me what a coach or a mentor does you know they're going to help you and be candid with you when everyone else is oh you're fine and meanwhile you know in your mind that you're not fine and you need someone to help you i kind of said that but i myself you know even myself working with clients one of the things that i see is there's always an underlying issue just like you said and it's important that we get to that underlying issue of that person and just be real right real with them because sometimes you have to dig a little deeper a lot of times yeah and that takes time with people doesn't it i mean you just can't say well tell me all your deep dark intimate secrets on that first visit and what's really going on behind your behind the shadow you know kind of like the great aws you know it's behind the curtain and a lot of people just aren't comfortable with that right away and you know sometimes it really takes a lot of digging because a lot of people don't really think about that themselves they're busy with their lives so the mentor the coach you me all the other people that are out there trying to assist people we have to be patient and we have to let them kind of be ready to divulge yes kind of different things because you're very personal very personal you know what i mean someone has an eating disorder what you specialize in and doing those kinds of different things those are very personal issues please exactly be very careful yes i know the speaking of mentors and coaches you know you were my mentor growing up and now it's awesome because you inspired me so i get to coach people and the cycle discontinued exactly and it's just a really great feeling and what did you have a mentor growing up and if so can you tell us a little bit about your experience i have a couple i mean as you know the my story you know i was diagnosed with terminal asthma and allergies and just really messed with the auto immune system so one of the things that i found the only thing i ever really wanted to do and i was really locked on was martial arts the whole bruce lee influence that kind of different thing and i found a gentleman who actually was trained in japan he was trained in zen buddhism he was a child buddhist and so he taught me how to meditate but he also taught me martial arts and then started when i was five he was my first mentor he was with me until i was almost eighteen when he passed and you know it was a matter of time of finding someone else who could be that inspirational which was really hard and that was also a lesson that there's not always a fix right away just because someone's a mentor or coach they have to be comfortable with you the person you know and that's why you can try several coaches before you really find the one and i look for a long time before i found another coach and this person was an eighty ninth generation that was priest and physician and so i followed in his lineage and now the eighty ninth generation that was priest and physician in chinese medicine so i've had several really powerful coaches at different times in my life to different things so it doesn't matter if you're younger old or if you're struggling with something that is very ingrained or something that maybe you just want to change your life or coach can be wonderful and any time any time of your life you answer all my question you already had me how do we go on that great ok yes so so if you could give the audience in the viewers one tip i guess i know you said looking for a coach making sure they're comfortable with you is there any other advice that you can leave them with or offer them you know i think everyone needs a coach i really do it's some point you know whether you're your jurist you think of yourself as just a mom or you think of yourself  as a career woman or you think of yourself as a businessman or you know someone who's on wall street and a high powered shaker and mover everyone needs a coach and maybe if you're real high energy maybe you need a coast to teach you how to calm down if you're someone who is really introspective maybe you need someone to to show you how to eat better or how to move or whatever knowing your personality and no know how to find balance in your life i think is one of the best things that a coach can do they can give you that other side that maybe you're not wired for you know or you haven't had experience with because of maybe your family dynamics or you never been exposed to that kind of thinking you know einstein said it best you can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it so a coach helps you to think outside the box and i know that's what you do with your clients that's all i continue to do with my clients it's perpetual awesome could not have said it better myself so if people want to find more information out about you in the programs that you haven't peter's township by now can you give us a website or do you have an upcoming events or anything going on we have ongoing programs we train people for weekend retreats and so forth probably the best thing to do the easiest thing where you can read a little bit about me and and some of my students now  is to go to w w w dot enter hyphen strength dot com all the information is there the phone numbers there my email is there you can send me an email i'm very approachable you can call you can do whatever you need to do to get in touch with me and you know or some of my students which are around the country now so if you're in california you can train with one of my students or whatever but you can kind of get this this method that we're developing on coaching creating a revolution i love  and you're probably one of the most grounded easygoing fun loving people that i know so you know i know you're a great coach i know that in fact people that come to you are going to feel that while she's genuine and i think that's one of the things that you have to be as a coach you have to be genuine  today and also for being my inspiration and i'm so glad that you were able to join me for my first show yeah so it warms my heart a little bit so i was really excited so thank you again thank you for coming and thank