We recently connected with Mariangel Franco and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Mariangel thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. So let’s jump to your mission – what’s the backstory behind how you developed the mission that drives your brand?

I’m on a mission to build up smart, curious women by turning their focus away from food rules, diets, and superfood splurges.

Instead?

Turn their focus inwards so they can start winning at their own game and feel freedom, trust and joy in their body.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers

After seeing how small changes can make such a big difference in myself, I wanted to help others striving to live healthier and happier lives. I received my Health Coach Certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (INN) where I was trained in more than one hundred dietary theories and studied a variety of practical lifestyle coaching methods. And become a certified NASM Personal Trainer because I believe health and fitness are achieved through a combination of nutritional, exercise, and lifestyle changes. Incorporating these into a set of new healthy habits is the best way to attain and maintain your goals.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

I was a nutrition “freak” I was a sugar quitter, a paleo follower, a “superfood promoter” with the goal to be thinner and healthier. I felt like I had to be perfect with my food every day or I would gain weight and be “fat” again.

I spent SO much of my life restricting food, dieting, and obsessing about food and my body.

And then something happened that changed my life and the way I helps my clients : I learned how to eat intuitively and practice body respect and food became a source of pleasure & nourishment, not stress and an obsesion.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I have to unlearn all the things that I thought the make a person healthy.

Old dieting patterns can be unlearned, and intuition, trust, and self-kindness can be rebuilt.

I have learned how to become more in tune with my body and become more trusting of myself.

And as I became more compassionate to myself, I became who I wanted to be both personally and professionally.

Contact Info:

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