Introduction

Welcome to the Coaching Hive Podcast! For the last few weeks, we have been discussing the importance of mindset in making changes and in our daily life. Today I have a special treat for you. We are sitting down with Brianna Wilkerson and she is going to share some of her insights and expertise on the concept of mindset.

I had the chance to meet Brianna through the Female Entrepreneur Association when we realized that we are both health coaches. Brianna is a holistic health and life coach, a wife, a mama, a chai tea lover, and at-home cross-fitter.

She helps women find peace with food, feel confident in their bodies again, and develop a healthy lifestyle that’s more than just about their weight. In her sessions, Brianna supports and empowers her clients to make simple, sustainable changes that work and fit into their life.

So, let’s get started, jump in, and chat with Brianna!

Interview

Moira: Welcome Brianna! I am just so excited to have you here with me today, and I'm really looking forward to our time together. I know we've been chatting for just a few minutes kind of catching up, and I am glad to have connected with you through the Female Entrepreneur Association.

Brianna: Me too.

Moira: So today, as you know, I've been talking with my listeners about mindset this month, and I know that's something that's also important to you and you really see the value in. I thought it would be really great to just kind of hear a little bit about what you're doing. You are a health coach, so I'd love to know a little bit more about what you're doing in your coaching practice right now. And then maybe we can talk a little bit more about mindset.

Brianna: Yeah. Well, thanks for having me. Yeah. I think mindset, no matter what coaching sphere, or actually what business you're in, is so huge. And particularly with my clients I've kind of niched down and focus on that in regard to mindset around food, their bodies and themselves, because I think when it comes to whether it's sustainable weight loss or any health goal, many of us women have emotionally and mentally charged goals that are connected to how we view food, our body and ourselves. And so right now, I'm kind of really supporting women in finding peace with food. You know, try not to see food as like an enemy or something that's just for comfort, but something to fuel us, but also finding peace with their bodies. Just, you know, I just had a nine-month-old, so our bodies are going to change, all the time. And how do we start to love our bodies now versus when it is a certain size or a certain shape, and really honor it, because if we don't take care of our bodies, we cannot show up well in the world. And then ultimately, I want to help them develop a healthy lifestyle, beyond just their weight. I do think weight loss is something we can go towards, but weight isn't the only measurement of our health. And so, I really just want to help women see that our is not in our weight, but also our health is not necessarily in our weight either.

So yeah, so through one-on-one coaching, through my own podcasts, through challenges, different free resources, I'm just trying to kind of help women see that they're more than their weight.

Moira: So you're really helping women view health and wellness more holistically, not just that number on the scale when we step on. That, it's so much more than any number can ever tell us. That it's truly about that whole body, that whole wellbeing, everything, including mindset and how we view ourselves and our weight and food and everything combined. I think that's so important and so needed in our culture where we do tend to get very number focused, right? We step on the scale and look at the number. Is it the number we want? No. Oh my gosh. But instead, really