Megan Seibel , Holistic Nutritionist

Over the last 27 years, we’ve licensed over 130,000 well being, vitamin, and health professionals. Every month, we acknowledge one in every of our distinguished graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve realized to encourage others and make a distinction. 

Meet our featured graduate for the month of October, Megan Seibel, a AFPA Licensed Holistic Nutritionist.

How did you initially turn out to be fascinated about well being and health?

I grew to become fascinated about well being and health in faculty after I was finding out performing. We had a yoga class to assist us get into our our bodies as actors, and I fell in love! I used to be a dancer rising up, and so motion is second nature to me. I like the way in which it makes me really feel! So, I began working towards yoga day by day at 22 and have become an authorized yoga instructor at 25. I went on to do totally different modalities like pilates, barre, and dance health lessons. At 26 years previous, I had a well being scare with most cancers, and I began studying the whole lot I might about vitamin, wellness, and therapeutic. I grew to become vegan in a single day and continued to show and take yoga repeatedly. After I grew to become a mother, I discovered it tough to attend lessons, so I began utilizing residence health packages to work out and get again into form as a busy mother. I fell in love with the web accountability teams that I used to be part of and determined to begin on-line health teaching. It felt like a pure development in my journey, and I’ve been doing that for the previous seven years. 

What certification did you select, and why did you select AFPA?

I have a couple of totally different certifications from AFPA, however my first was the Holistic Vitamin certification. As a health coach, I needed to additional my information about how one can assist purchasers and enhance my information of vitamin. I LOVED this system a lot and realized rather a lot. I even have my Autoimmune and Intestine Well being Vitamin Certification, Plant-based Sports activities Vitamin Certification, and The Science of Consuming the Rainbow Certification. I selected AFPA as a result of it was reasonably priced and credible and previous college students had an ideal expertise! I additionally love that it’s on-line and straightforward to entry, study, and full as a really busy mother!

What was your profession like previous to changing into licensed?

Previous to getting licensed in Vitamin, I used to be solely capable of assist folks as a health coach nearly, and whereas that was nice, I needed to diversify my experience and expertise and be capable to assist folks with vitamin! I knew from expertise that vitamin is the important thing to therapeutic the physique and to dwelling a totally wholesome life, and I needed to have the ability to assist folks in that means. Getting licensed gave me the instruments and confidence to develop my enterprise and assist extra folks.

What’s your profession like now?

Now my profession is flourishing as a web-based health coach and holistic nutritionist. I like what I do, and I really feel like every year I’m able to construct my teaching enterprise and wellness model and assist extra folks. I like studying and sharing information and inspiring folks to reside wholesome existence. As a busy mother of two boys, staying wholesome and serving to others turn out to be wholesome is essential to me! The way forward for my profession as a nutritionist and wellness coach feels very vivid and busy!

What are your favourite components of your profession?

My favourite components of my profession are teaching and serving to folks determine how one can eat higher, find time for motion, and really feel higher! I like operating my on-line wellness boot camps, making meal plans, and creating content material for social media that educates and entertains! I like seeing my purchasers have success and shine vivid of their well being and life.

How has changing into licensed with AFPA impacted your life?

Turning into licensed with AFPA has impacted my life in so some ways. It gave me one other option to earn cash as a wellness skilled. I used to be capable of go from educating yoga lessons to main digital wellness boot camps and training folks 1-1 and in a bunch setting. I really feel like AFPA makes studying about vitamin and changing into one of the best health and well being skilled extra accessible to busy folks. It gave me the arrogance to construct my dream enterprise!

Do you’ve any shopper success tales you want to share?

I had a shopper come to me throughout the pandemic who was struggling together with her vitamin and mindset and was desirous to get pregnant. We labored collectively for a month with 1-1 calls and meal plans and wellness teaching, and in a couple of months, she received pregnant and now has a child lady!! That was a memorable success!

What recommendation do you give others desirous about changing into licensed?

The time and cash you’ll make investments into your personal information and expertise will probably be invaluable! Don’t let the worry of constructing a training enterprise cease you from taking step one and changing into a scholar of well being and health first! I promise you that you’ll make a constructive distinction in somebody’s life together with your certification—even when it’s simply you or your member of the family! Information is energy! I extremely advocate getting licensed!

Observe your dream of changing into a yoga teacher and enroll in AFPA’s complete coaching program at this time.

To attach with Megan, observe her on Instagram for extra info or go to her web site to study extra.