{"id":9004111223101597,"date":"2016-06-24T20:43:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T20:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.healthcoachinstitute.com\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2023-06-16T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T12:46:29","slug":"hmba-grad-spotlight-meet-lauren-strangio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthcoachinstitute.com\/articles\/hmba-grad-spotlight-meet-lauren-strangio\/","title":{"rendered":"HMBA Grad Spotlight: Meet Lauren Strangio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lauren Strangio is a mother to two boys and works a full-time corporate job. She lives in Ukiah, CA. One year ago she discovered Health Coach Institute<\/span> and signed up for the “Become A Health Coach<\/span>” (BHC) 6-month health coach certification<\/span> training, while pregnant with her second child. After giving birth and completing BHC, she invested in the HMBA Grad Intensive program. Lauren now has nine paying clients and says she\u2019s already made back her investment in just two months.<\/p>\n

Lauren works with busy moms to help them double their energy and make themselves a priority again after having kids \u201cwithout having to yo-yo diet and count calories\u201d. As a mother herself, she tells us that she chose this niche because she knows firsthand how hard it is to make yourself a priority again after giving all you\u2019ve got to your children.<\/p>\n

We are proud to feature Lauren today in our new Spotlight category as living proof that anything is possible as long as you make the commitment to yourself first and follow a plan of action.
\nWe asked Lauren how she did it? Here\u2019s her inspirational story.<\/p>\n

What made you choose to become a Health Coach<\/span>?<\/b>
\nIn my early twenties I had a binge eating disorder and bulimia, and before that, from age 12 to 20, a drug habit. Once I kicked the drug habit I started hanging out with my mom, who is into fitness, and that was when I fell into food addiction, which led to bulimia. I hadn\u2019t dealt with why I had addictive behaviors in the first place, so the addiction just found a different channel to go through, which was food.<\/p>\n

Two years later, when I hit a breaking point again, I talked to a counselor and really got into the reasons why I had addictions, and I realized that weight loss was not just about \u00a0counting calories and working out, that there was a mental aspect to weight loss. But it wasn\u2019t until a year ago that I found Health Coach Institute<\/span> (HCI) that I even knew Health Coaching<\/span> existed.<\/p>\n

People were always asking me what they should do with their health and I felt like I was giving them golden information but they weren\u2019t doing anything with it. I like to geek out on health info\u00a0but other people don\u2019t care about the information, they just want the change. But until I discovered HCI and went through BHC, I didn\u2019t know how to facilitate that habit change. HCI encompassed everything that I knew would be helpful to people. When I first heard Carey talk about it, I thought \u201cthat\u2019s exactly how I would put it!\u201d So that\u2019s what drew me to Health Coaching<\/span>.<\/p>\n

What was your biggest takeaway from Become A Health Coach<\/span> (BHC)?<\/b>
\nWhen I signed up for BHC I\u00a0was pregnant with my second son, and I had my son while going through Pillar 2. It was divine timing because I \u00a0had to go through the 90-day intensive and was dealing with baby-weight and postpartum depression so it helped me discover things I didn\u2019t know about myself\u2014like what was missing beyond the food and calorie counting.<\/p>\n

I learned how powerful certain exercises are to break you out of your own beliefs. That brought to light what was missing and needed my attention. Once I saw it in black and white, I realized I hadn\u2019t been tapping into my creativity and it was being suppressed and came out in another area\u2014 so that helped me get through the postpartum depression.<\/p>\n

After I graduated, I stopped pushing my professional dream away anymore and decided to go full force, and I did exactly as we were taught and listened again and again to the video trainings to keep my motivation going because every time I listened, I heard something new and it hit home for me on that day and brought power to my sessions.<\/p>\n

How does life look now that you\u2019re an HMBA Grad Spotlight student?<\/b>
\nI now have nine paying clients and got nine more people just yesterday from a talk I gave to sign up for a closing-the-deal conversation. I don\u2019t know how many will become paying clients but I have a 75% rate of closing. Other Health Coaches<\/span> in my area, who went to different schools, don\u2019t really have clients.\u00a0HMBA is a super well planned out training and I knew that it was giving me a huge leg up.<\/p>\n

Last month, from Health Coaching<\/span> alone, (I\u2019m still working my corporate job too) I brought in $8k and in the month before that I brought in $6k so I really went full force and I\u2019m just starting out! The difference (between HCI and other schools) is in the skills we are taught. This is only one year later (after investing in HMBA Grad) and I\u2019m already making this kind of money. So, professionally, I couldn\u2019t ask for more.<\/p>\n

How are you finding HMBA Grad to be different than BHC?<\/b>
\nWhat stands out for me in HMBA Grad is taking everything that we learned in BHC and going deeper with it. It\u2019s similar material we hit on in BHC but now it\u2019s about implementing it. Because knowing it and taking action on it are two different things. When you take action, that\u2019s when beauty happens. Yes I was scared but I just did it. I just kept on going and it has gotten easier every time. Like doing cold calls to yoga studios, for example. Carey taught me to always come from a place of \u201cHow can I serve you first\u201d and when you do that, people have open arms and want you to do talks or to become a referral partner. I went from BHC to implementing it all in HMBA Grad and now I just can\u2019t wait to dig into the Transformational Coaching Method.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the greatest thing about being an HMBA Grad student?<\/b>
\nThe best thing is the constant motivation from knowing I have a community (of coaches) around me. As a coach, It\u2019s good to have other coaches in your community because that\u2019s what keeps you accountable to your actions. I love sharing how I\u2019m doing with my community because it helps me to keep upleveling myself.<\/p>\n

Another thing that\u2019s great about the HMBA Grad community is because I still have my corporate job, I\u2019ve been reaching out to other students who have left their corporate jobs to become full-time Health Coaches<\/span> to ask them how they did it and if it really is awesome. Instead of focusing on when this change is going to happen for me, I just focus on how it\u2019s going to happen. So part of that how is that right now, in HMBA Grad, I\u2019m in phase one so my focus is on getting paying clients and mastering the closing-the-deal conversation. Once I get my momentum going, it\u2019s only up from there. Personally, I really need that help from my community of coaches to focus on the overview of my vision. It helps to have someone else looking at the overview of my professional life with me.<\/p>\n

Of all the health coaching<\/span> schools out there, why did you choose HCI?\u00a0<\/b>
\nI chose HCI most definitely because of the curriculum and the fact that it included business and marketing skills, done-for-you checklists, done-for-your programs, and every kind of tool I would need for success. What I love and appreciate the most about Stacey and Carey is their realness, their humor, and the feeling that it doesn\u2019t need to be formal or stuffy. I loved that the curriculum was easy to learn and that I could do it in my own time, which I absolutely needed. I listened to the videos on the treadmill or while pushing the kids in the stroller and did skills labs with my partner in my own time and recorded it so I could listen to it again and again. That piece was huge. Carey always made me feel like it was okay for\u00a0the beginning to feel\u00a0clunky and hard and then she\u2019d say to keep going and get over it. She pre-framed that everything new is going to feel different in the beginning. Now that I\u2019ve given the done-for-you talks four times, it\u2019s way more comfortable.<\/p>\n

What would you tell someone considering HMBA?<\/b>
\nI couldn\u2019t be happier. I never went to college because I got hired at my corporate job at nineteen and I\u2019ve always worried that if I lost it, I\u2019d have nothing to fall back on. And now I\u2019m making more money than at my corporate job and I know I will always have this skill and I can be my own boss and even take my kids to school! \u00a0So for me, it gave me freedom, the ability to be creative in my own work and it\u2019s given me the best things in life, which are\u00a0time with my family\u2026and freedom\u2026and abundance.<\/p>\n

What were your greatest fears that you had to\u00a0overcome on your journey?<\/b>
\nMy biggest fear was that I thought my husband wouldn\u2019t be okay with me leaving the corporate job. But once I let go of that fear, he\u2019s been very supportive. I had to break the fear of just going after my dream. And I had to know I was good enough without a college education. I had to trust in the process and that it would take me down whatever avenue it needed to. We get stuck in a place where we think we have to be a certain way and go to a certain job and save for retirement and pray for the weekend and go on vacation once every five years. And now I know that the world doesn\u2019t need to be that way. And I\u2019ve been shown that this past year.<\/p>\n

Any last words of advice to people reading your story?<\/b>
\nHMBA Grad is 100 % worth it. You can make the money you invested in it back in two months. I did. Once you step past that fear of making the investment, you are doing the best thing you can do, which is to invest in yourself. The biggest thing you can do is to push through the fears because so many people need our help, and if \u00a0you already know inside that you have that to give, then let it unleash and give it.<\/p>\n

Lauren\u2019s final words:\u00a0<\/b>\u201cHolistic MBA is a beautiful way of delivering an absolutely genius program.\u201d
\n<\/em>
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She lives in Ukiah, CA. One year ago she discovered <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-9x6xveev9ptmediduxqdinv8so3z74xr\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-organization\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/entity\/health_coach_institute\">Health Coach Institute<\/span> and signed up for the \"Become A <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-vxftqhgt45ffdnfzgfv633x4ikvop1yd\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach\">Health Coach<\/span>\" (BHC) 6-month <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-7pf2y4lmkhcmoewuox5bes62y2zkllsj\" class=\"textannotation disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach_certification\">health coach certification<\/span> training, while pregnant with her second child. After giving birth and completing BHC, she invested in the HMBA Grad Intensive program. Lauren now has nine paying clients and says she\u2019s already made back her investment in just two months.\n\nLauren works with busy moms to help them double their energy and make themselves a priority again after having kids \u201cwithout having to yo-yo diet and count calories\u201d. As a mother herself, she tells us that she chose this niche because she knows firsthand how hard it is to make yourself a priority again after giving all you\u2019ve got to your children.\n\nWe are proud to feature Lauren today in our new Spotlight category as living proof that anything is possible as long as you make the commitment to yourself first and follow a plan of action.\nWe asked Lauren how she did it? Here\u2019s her inspirational story.\n\n<b>What made you choose to become a <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-bj1qbe3266h1cv3gzmk96r0q63xc30nz\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach\">Health Coach<\/span>?<\/b>\nIn my early twenties I had a binge eating disorder and bulimia, and before that, from age 12 to 20, a drug habit. Once I kicked the drug habit I started hanging out with my mom, who is into fitness, and that was when I fell into food addiction, which led to bulimia. I hadn\u2019t dealt with why I had addictive behaviors in the first place, so the addiction just found a different channel to go through, which was food.\n\nTwo years later, when I hit a breaking point again, I talked to a counselor and really got into the reasons why I had addictions, and I realized that weight loss was not just about \u00a0counting calories and working out, that there was a mental aspect to weight loss. But it wasn\u2019t until a year ago that I found <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-d1rvcf3iwp5exquf5ag9annz6x9bpf7q\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-organization\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/entity\/health_coach_institute\">Health Coach Institute<\/span> (HCI) that I even knew <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-7z9hfz1b69bhhisrwwa5kkta5sm2v02h\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach\">Health Coaching<\/span> existed.\n\nPeople were always asking me what they should do with their health and I felt like I was giving them golden information but they weren\u2019t doing anything with it. I like to geek out on health info\u00a0but other people don\u2019t care about the information, they just want the change. But until I discovered HCI and went through BHC, I didn\u2019t know how to facilitate that habit change. HCI encompassed everything that I knew would be helpful to people. When I first heard Carey talk about it, I thought \u201cthat\u2019s exactly how I would put it!\u201d So that\u2019s what drew me to <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-e6pj2ounzncnoeqobj16qbswh7wqcck6\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach\">Health Coaching<\/span>.\n\n<b>What was your biggest takeaway from Become A <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-perhwe4hjci8yyxy898u8qaei6z6cfmy\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach\">Health Coach<\/span> (BHC)?<\/b>\nWhen I signed up for BHC I\u00a0was pregnant with my second son, and I had my son while going through Pillar 2. It was divine timing because I \u00a0had to go through the 90-day intensive and was dealing with baby-weight and postpartum depression so it helped me discover things I didn\u2019t know about myself\u2014like what was missing beyond the food and calorie counting.\n\nI learned how powerful certain exercises are to break you out of your own beliefs. That brought to light what was missing and needed my attention. Once I saw it in black and white, I realized I hadn\u2019t been tapping into my creativity and it was being suppressed and came out in another area\u2014 so that helped me get through the postpartum depression.\n\nAfter I graduated, I stopped pushing my professional dream away anymore and decided to go full force, and I did exactly as we were taught and listened again and again to the video trainings to keep my motivation going because every time I listened, I heard something new and it hit home for me on that day and brought power to my sessions.\n\n<b>How does life look now that you\u2019re an HMBA Grad Spotlight student?<\/b>\nI now have nine paying clients and got nine more people just yesterday from a talk I gave to sign up for a closing-the-deal conversation. I don\u2019t know how many will become paying clients but I have a 75% rate of closing. Other <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-fa7eo75c0h74riwbr832pmf0h9nycqbm\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach\">Health Coaches<\/span> in my area, who went to different schools, don\u2019t really have clients.\u00a0HMBA is a super well planned out training and I knew that it was giving me a huge leg up.\n\nLast month, from <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-6c84hf0ybn46vefbq18zbvfsdiod54ft\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach\">Health Coaching<\/span> alone, (I\u2019m still working my corporate job too) I brought in $8k and in the month before that I brought in $6k so I really went full force and I\u2019m just starting out! The difference (between HCI and other schools) is in the skills we are taught. This is only one year later (after investing in HMBA Grad) and I\u2019m already making this kind of money. So, professionally, I couldn\u2019t ask for more.\n\n<b>How are you finding HMBA Grad to be different than BHC?<\/b>\nWhat stands out for me in HMBA Grad is taking everything that we learned in BHC and going deeper with it. It\u2019s similar material we hit on in BHC but now it\u2019s about implementing it. Because knowing it and taking action on it are two different things. When you take action, that\u2019s when beauty happens. Yes I was scared but I just did it. I just kept on going and it has gotten easier every time. Like doing cold calls to yoga studios, for example. Carey taught me to always come from a place of \u201cHow can I serve you first\u201d and when you do that, people have open arms and want you to do talks or to become a referral partner. I went from BHC to implementing it all in HMBA Grad and now I just can\u2019t wait to dig into the Transformational Coaching Method.\n\n<b>What\u2019s the greatest thing about being an HMBA Grad student?<\/b>\nThe best thing is the constant motivation from knowing I have a community (of coaches) around me. As a coach, It\u2019s good to have other coaches in your community because that\u2019s what keeps you accountable to your actions. I love sharing how I\u2019m doing with my community because it helps me to keep upleveling myself.\n\nAnother thing that\u2019s great about the HMBA Grad community is because I still have my corporate job, I\u2019ve been reaching out to other students who have left their corporate jobs to become full-time <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-1b9sx1w4pehbmaq5kau3wuc4fby34ox0\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach\">Health Coaches<\/span> to ask them how they did it and if it really is awesome. Instead of focusing on when this change is going to happen for me, I just focus on how it\u2019s going to happen. So part of that how is that right now, in HMBA Grad, I\u2019m in phase one so my focus is on getting paying clients and mastering the closing-the-deal conversation. Once I get my momentum going, it\u2019s only up from there. Personally, I really need that help from my community of coaches to focus on the overview of my vision. It helps to have someone else looking at the overview of my professional life with me.\n\n<b>Of all the <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-2xevaq56yiosd3la21o6ziypsahc8jnd\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach\">health coaching<\/span> schools out there, why did you choose HCI?\u00a0<\/b>\nI chose HCI most definitely because of the curriculum and the fact that it included business and marketing skills, done-for-you checklists, done-for-your programs, and every kind of tool I would need for success. What I love and appreciate the most about Stacey and Carey is their realness, their humor, and the feeling that it doesn\u2019t need to be formal or stuffy. I loved that the curriculum was easy to learn and that I could do it in my own time, which I absolutely needed. I listened to the videos on the treadmill or while pushing the kids in the stroller and did skills labs with my partner in my own time and recorded it so I could listen to it again and again. That piece was huge. Carey always made me feel like it was okay for\u00a0the beginning to feel\u00a0clunky and hard and then she\u2019d say to keep going and get over it. She pre-framed that everything new is going to feel different in the beginning. Now that I\u2019ve given the done-for-you talks four times, it\u2019s way more comfortable.\n\n<b>What would you tell someone considering HMBA?<\/b>\nI couldn\u2019t be happier. I never went to college because I got hired at my corporate job at nineteen and I\u2019ve always worried that if I lost it, I\u2019d have nothing to fall back on. And now I\u2019m making more money than at my corporate job and I know I will always have this skill and I can be my own boss and even take my kids to school! \u00a0So for me, it gave me freedom, the ability to be creative in my own work and it\u2019s given me the best things in life, which are\u00a0time with my family\u2026and freedom\u2026and abundance.\n\n<b>What were your greatest fears that you had to\u00a0overcome on your journey?<\/b>\nMy biggest fear was that I thought my husband wouldn\u2019t be okay with me leaving the corporate job. But once I let go of that fear, he\u2019s been very supportive. I had to break the fear of just going after my dream. And I had to know I was good enough without a college education. I had to trust in the process and that it would take me down whatever avenue it needed to. We get stuck in a place where we think we have to be a certain way and go to a certain job and save for retirement and pray for the weekend and go on vacation once every five years. And now I know that the world doesn\u2019t need to be that way. And I\u2019ve been shown that this past year.\n\n<b>Any last words of advice to people reading your story?<\/b>\nHMBA Grad is 100 % worth it. You can make the money you invested in it back in two months. I did. Once you step past that fear of making the investment, you are doing the best thing you can do, which is to invest in yourself. The biggest thing you can do is to push through the fears because so many people need our help, and if \u00a0you already know inside that you have that to give, then let it unleash and give it.\n\n<b>Lauren\u2019s final words:\u00a0<\/b><em>\u201cHolistic MBA is a beautiful way of delivering an absolutely genius program.\u201d\n<\/em>\nEager to learn more about <span id=\"urn:local-text-annotation-2s5n8j2xr9zqk5e3nfmbwpa0gyaibh3b\" class=\"textannotation wl-link disambiguated wl-thing\" itemid=\"http:\/\/what-is.healthcoachinstitute.com\/hci\/enhancedcategory\/health_coach\">Health Coaching<\/span>?\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Start Your Health and Wellness Coaching Career with HCI<\/span><\/h2>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coaching is a great career that you can help others, while also learning how to help your own personal growth. 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