Amanda Joyce is the #1 Best-Selling Amazon author of Marshalling Beats of Your Heart: How to Lead With Your Heart and Rediscover the Rhythm of Joy and Meaning. She's a certified ACE health and wellness coach at Profile where she helps transform lives through smart science. She finds healing in...
The Choice of Living Consciously
We have a choice, to live in a state of awareness, or to avoid our true self. When we choose to live consciously, we can experience life fully. We may feel hope or despair, joy or fear but we will be connected to our internal world, to other people and to...
Does the Fitness Industry Serve Clients Over 65?
In 2021, 17% of the US population was over 65, up almost 5%, from the previous decade. Our population is aging and more people are spending as many years out of retirement as they did working. Staying active and being able to enjoy retirement...
Impacting Client Well BE-ing
The COVID pandemic has made more people increasingly aware of their sense of wellbeing or lack of it. In the fitness industry our training defines the scope of our work with clients. The idea of wellbeing or wellness has many facets and as health and fitness...
Achieving Goals With the Terrific Trio: Clarity, Motivation, and Commitment
By Janessa Hall
“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” –Fitzhugh Dodson
Intentional living requires setting and achieving goals. But as...
Janessa Hall holds a master’s degree in psychology and is an ACE certified health coach. Her business, No Shame Health, is geared towards people with bigger bodies, those with chronic illness, and those with disabilities. Her focus is on making small, sustainable behavior changes to improve...
Karen’s passion about self-improvement through fitness, community and education shines through in her diverse talks addressing single-motherhood, addiction, depression, and menopause.
These subjects are no laughing matter but Karen feels through sharing her trials and tribulations with...
On Episode 55 of WIFA Waves, Lisa Greenbaum (co-creator of the WIFA Writer's Academy) and Lori Patterson (co-creator of the WIFA Speaker's Academy), talk with the June 2023 Speaker's Academy and Writer's Academy scholars. Karen Dougherty, Janessa Hall, Amanda Joyce (AJ) Jensen and Nikki...
By Joyce Mitchell, ACE-Certified CPT and GFI
Achieving great health and wellness reaches far beyond losing a few pounds or inches. It involves running after a lifestyle that allows us to accomplish goals, care for others, and thrive rather than survive. Behavior change is foundational to...
Inspired by her son’s journey with Leukemia and a strong desire to help others on their health journeys, Stacey has been certified by multiple professional organizations, including CETI’s Advanced Qualified Cancer Exercise Specialist. Channeling her creativity and knowledge of how the...
Rachel Lavin is a Published author of The Doughnut Diaries, Certified Personal Trainer and a Certified Health Coach. She grew up in Northern California and has lived in Hawaii, Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon. She currently lives in Greenville, South Carolina with her Boyfriend.
Rachel...
Change Your Goal or Improve Your Focus?
By Stacey Mann, CES, CPT
With the start of each new year, most people set goals. Declaring on social media that you will lose ten pounds and live a healthier lifestyle. You feel energized by setting a goal and telling peers to hold you accountable, but...