Episode 61

How to be a Wellness Ally

Published on: 30th September, 2020

Outline:

  • Welcome Sarah & Sarah's experience working with Jenn
  • How Sarah's balancing going back to work with her health goals
  • Talking about our health/weight loss goals: Jenn didn't share with roommates in college, Sarah did share with her current roommate
  • Doing this alone is hard & a study about having support on this journey 
  • Talking to the wellness ally:
    • Has anyone share their health goals with you? Initial responses matter.
    • It can be confronting for the ally
    • Let the person on the health path drive the conversation
    • Grace & compassion - in meals, social plans, etc.
    • Make plans that don't have food as the focus, experiences and activities instead or in addition 
    • Choose restaurants with healthful options
    • For dessert...offer once.
    • Compliments & how to notice results
    • Avoid being the subtle saboteur
    • Be indifferent to the details
  • When we feel others around us need to focus on their health
    • How to be silently supportive
    • Let your example be the invitation
    • Be balanced, your extreme doesn't compensate for their decisions
  • When you're on the wellness journey
    • Enlist the support of a coach
    • Find wellness and activity friends
    • Choose carefully who you share this with and tell them what to do to support you
  • A final note to the ally, what kind of friend do you want to be?

Quotes:
"Compliment the energy...or the clothes...instead of the weight loss." - Jenn Trepeck
"Be indifferent to the details and supportive of the effort, energy and commitment." - Jenn Trepeck
"Let your example be the invitation." - Jenn Trepeck

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About the Podcast

Salad With a Side of Fries Nutrition, Wellness & Weight Loss
What to eat and when to cheat! Let's decipher between all the “diets” out there. You know what to do but it itsn't working. In fact, your diet could be making you fatter.

Ever wondered if cryo-freezing your fat cells would really work? Should you try acupuncture? A hypnotist? If you do, how do you know if someone’s good?

Salad with a Side of Fries is the podcast that will answer all these questions and more! Talking wellness and weight loss for real life, because most of us are going to drink, eat out, skip the grocery store and who wants a life without fries or dessert?! Host Jenn Trepeck’s expertise as an optimal health coach, in practice for over a decade, along with experts in various modalities will clear up the myths, mis-information, bad science and marketing to reveal the truth of HOW TO EAT and HOW TO CHEAT!*



*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This podcast, its content and guests are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

About your host

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Jennifer Trepeck

“My passion for nutrition and helping others stems from “kicking my food issues” with my own weight management saga.” ~ Jenn

I believe that the greatest accountability is paying it forward! That’s why I teach the nutrition education we are all supposed to know but no one ever taught us, along with the science behind food, fitness, and health.

After I graduated from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, I founded Better Life Now LLC while working full-time in hedge funds. In 2019, I took my practice from side-hustle to full-time self-employment and launched my podcast, Salad With a Side of Fries. On the show, we offer science-based tips and tricks for how to achieve wellness and weight loss for real life – because who wants a life without fries or dessert?!

Topics we tackle on the podcast include debunking fad diets, food myths, misinformation in marketing, bad science, and general nutrition. I encourage guests whose expertise is different from my own focus on weight management to bring their unique, fact-based perspectives to talk about subjects they are educated in and passionate about.

Due to my decade-long experience of working with clients, I have gained insight into the health and food industry and the how-tos of building a business.

Some specific health and wellness topics I can speak to include debunking fad diets, exposing the BS we are fed by the food and diet industry, how the people around us can positively and negatively impact our health journey, and shifting mindsets in order to overcome inappropriate barometers of success to instead achieve happy, healthy, and meaningful change.

On the subject of business, I can help you by teaching my critical pieces every entrepreneur should know, how to make your side-hustle into your full-time job, ways to sustainably achieve success without burning out, contemporary networking, and how to prioritize wellness while pursuing your projects.

When I find some free time, I’m typically working out at Physique57, discovering hidden gem restaurants in NYC, or traveling to spend time with friends and family.

I’d love to have an in-depth conversation with you, whether it’s leveling up in business or debunking food myths!