A major part of launching my new business as a health counselor is marketing myself. I am REALLY bad at that. I know that the service I am providing to people is unbelievably valuable but I am still just not good at promoting myself – it feels so vain and self-serving. Which I guess is the point.

But I have realized that in order to be a successful health coach, I will need more than just an arsenal of amazing, healthy recipes and answers for clients on how to lose weight, destress and have more energy. First, I have to get them to become clients.

So I have changed my ‘don’t talk about myself or how awesome I am’ tune. My good friend Marisa is also a health coach – she is awesome! – and she is really good at getting out there and giving talks and meeting people. She has a health talk schedule for November 13 and may not be able to give it so she asked me to take her place, or join her in speaking if she is able to go. It was such a perfect opportunity, just 2 days after I launched my website and my business. Of course I said YES! And I am not even nervous. I know that what I have to say is interesting and can help lots of people change their lives and be so much healthier.

About an hour after Marisa gave me that awesome news, I went to my gynocologist. She has a yoga instructor come to her office once a month to lead classes for women. I was feeling very confident so I asked her if I could give her a health talk and introduce myself to her patients before or after one of these monthly yoga classes. And she said yes!!!

I have also linked up with my chiropractor, Dr. Friedman (getpainfree.com) and am going to start giving health consultations to his clients. He administers the HCG diet in his office and wants me to help him devise a diet plan for people finishing up the program. We are also going to put together a cookbook with easy, natural meals for people to make. He also does endermologie and has an infared sauna (which I am obsessed with!) in his office, so I know there will be a great synergy between our businesses.

I am also still working on getting my Yoga Teacher Training certificate at YogaFox in Delray Beach. I had to travel a lot this year (as always) so I missed a lot of sessions. But I am ready and willing to do whatever it takes to get my certification and start to bring yoga into my clients’ lives. It will be such a perfect complement to my healthy diet plans and will really help clients get balanced and more centered. It really worked for me. I may not be here right now if it wasn’t for my dedication to my practice.

I feel like I have some momentum going and I am determined to keep it that way. I feel like I need to pinch myself. Am I really running my own company doing exactly what I love? But it wasn’t easy to get here. I had to take giant leaps of faith, thankfully with a lot of support from my amazing friends and family.

I am going confidently in the direction of my dream, and living the life I have always imagined.