How To Become A Health Coach

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 28 June 2014

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

I'm often asked how somebody actually gets to the point where they can help people have better health - particularly when it comes to the eating part. After all, even if you don't have the resources to attend medical school and become a physician, we still live in an era where you can become a personal trainer, nutritionist, dietitian, or health coach and still be able to help lots of people achieve better health. So in today's podcast, I interview Maria Marlowe (pictured right), who is certified through the "Institute for Integrative Nutrition", which is the world's largest nutrition school. Maria graduated at the top of her class, summa cum laude, from Fordham University with a BS in Finance and Marketing. After landing a coveted finance position after graduation, she quickly decided that industry wasn’t for her, and pursued her passion for the healing power of food. She attended the Natural Gourmet Institute to learn raw food preparation, and became a Certified Health Coach through Integrative Nutrition. She is a regular contributor to The Daily Love, Wellness Today, and Mind Body Green, and has been featured in Shape, Well & Good NYC, and New York Press. She is currently working towards her Masters in Human Nutrition and resides in New York. In this interview, you'll learn: -What a health coach is... -How to become a health coach... -How being a health coach is different than being a nutritionist or an RD... -What a typical day in the life of a health coach looks like (including the video below)... -How much it costs to become a health coach... -How much money a health coach makes... -And much more! Do you have questions, comments or feedback about how to become a health coach? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com, and be sure to check out the Institute for Integrative Nutrition!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ben Greenfield Fitness.com Podcast.
0:07.1	We provide you with free exercise, nutrition, weight loss, triathlon and wellness advice
0:13.0	from the top fitness experts in the nation.
0:15.9	So whether you're an Iron Man triathlete or you're just trying to shed a few pounds,
0:20.7	get ready for non-runner-of-the-mill, conniage content from Ben Greenfield Fitness.com.
0:30.0	Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield here and I get asked a lot by you guys writing into the
0:44.7	show and calling in about how you can actually get to the point where you're in a position,
0:51.1	kind of like I'm doing, where you can help people to have better health.
0:56.0	And probably the number one most common question I get when it comes to that line of questioning
1:03.2	is how you can help people when it comes to the eating part, the nutrition part.
1:08.6	And really even if you don't have the resources to say attend medical school and become a physician,
1:15.2	we still live in this era where you could become a personal trainer and nutritionist,
1:19.3	a dietitian, a health coach and still be able to help lots of people achieve better health.
1:26.3	So rather than me just sitting in front of the microphone and droning on to you about
1:32.4	about how to get health certifications or how to become a nutritionist or something along those lines,
1:38.8	I actually decided to bring somebody on who is living a life right now as a health coach
1:44.8	and who's really a wealth of information when it comes to this stuff. Her name is Maria Marlowe
1:51.2	from MariaMarlowe.com and she is certified through something called the Institute for
1:57.7	Integrative Nutrition, which is the world's largest nutrition school. She graduated at the top of
2:04.7	her class from Fordham University with a degree in finance and marketing and after she landed a
2:12.7	position in finance when she graduated, she moved on pretty quickly and started instead kind of
2:19.3	pursuing a passion for the healing power of food. So she attended the National Gourmet Institute
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