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#367: Gabrielle Fundaro, PhD – Mindful Eating, Facilitating Health Behaviour Change & Client-centred Coaching

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Danny Lennon

Sigma, Dietetics, Evidencebased, Nutrition, Training, Health & Fitness, Science, Diet, Fitness, Evidence, Bodybuilding, Health

4.8626 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Gabrielle Fundaro is a nutrition/health coach who focuses on facilitating behavior change, embodying a positive relationship with food, cultivating positive body image, and improving sport performance. 
 
Dr. Fundaro is a former Assistant Professor of Exercise Science at Georgia Gwinnett College and holds a PhD in Human Nutrition and Exercise. She is currently a board member of both the Nutrition Coaching Global Mastermind (NCGM) and the Sports Nutrition Association (SNA). 
 
In collaboration with Shannon Beer, she has developed a coaching framework that applies motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral coaching, and acceptance and commitment therapy-aligned processes in a client-centered alliance toward their own values-based goals. This 'Comprehensive Coaching' model facilitates long-term behavior change and flourishing health in clients. 
 
LINK: sigmanutrition.com/episode367

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigma Nutrition Radio.

0:18.5

I am your host, Danny Lennon.

0:20.2

This is episode 367 of the podcast. And I'm delighted to be

0:26.2

joined today by Dr. Gabrielle Fondaro, who is a nutrition and health coaching consultant offering

0:32.9

her services via telehealth coaching and consulting with various clients.

0:38.4

She is currently a board member of the nutrition coaching global mastermind,

0:42.5

as well as the Sports Nutrition Association,

0:45.7

and is a former assistant professor of exercise science at Georgia Gwinnett College.

0:51.0

She also has a PhD in human nutrition, which was focused around probiotic

0:57.7

supplementation as part of her research dissertation. And so in the years since, has done a lot of

1:03.9

science communication on the topic of gut health and the gut microbiome and its interactions

1:08.8

with human diet. And that was the topic of a

1:12.9

previous episode in which Gab joined me on the podcast back in episode 291 of the podcast, which

1:19.2

you can go and check out if you think that topic sounds interesting. In recent times, Gab has

1:25.7

collaborated with Shannon Beer to develop a coaching framework that tries to

1:31.6

integrate a number of important concepts such as motivational interviewing, cognitive

1:37.1

behavioral coaching, and a values-based goal-setting system, much of which we will hopefully

1:43.4

dive into the details of today.

1:46.0

And this model, or this comprehensive coaching model, as they termed it, is an aim to try and bring together some of the most evidence-based practices that create behavior change and allow people to be able to achieve health in the broadest sense

2:03.8

of the term.

2:05.3

And this episode in conjunction with our next episode with Shannon is going to be centered

2:12.8

at looking at some of this model, some of how that applies to coaching and how to develop health in the long

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