We recently connected with Jan Bloom and have shared our conversation below.

Jan , appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear the story behind how you got your first job in field that you currently practice in.

In 1994, when my daughters were 6 and 8 years old, our pediatrician felt it was necessary to perform a lab test on both of them to determine if they had inherited the strong family history of cardiovascular disease from my husbands side of the family.

Their frightening family history was so strong we wanted to know if this was anything we needed to be concerned with. Unfortunately the results were devastating and both of the girls DID inherit the seriously elevated cholesterol, making it worse that it even was showing up at that young age!

This sent me into action and went on a complete “mom mission” to address this from eating healthier – to everything I could think of knowing that medications were not an option and I would never even consider them knowing the devastating side effects of statin drugs for lowering cholesterol … and managing that cholesterol condition with just food changes was not enough – let alone trying to deprive a kid from a bag of Frito’s!

I migrate into a direction I was unfamilar with and began to investigate the “nutritional world” which back then was quite limited and even frowned upon as being somewhat in the “voo-doo” category.

Even my husband … a classically trained MD specializing in General Medicine looked at me as if I landed from Mars when I discussed this direction with him. He skeptically stated…”There’s never been anything nutritional proven to lower cholesterol or stabilize blood sugar … and my reply back was “may be you were absent the day they taught Nutrition in Medical School … he replied and basically said he was probably in the bathroom as he confirmed there was very little discussion of nutrition in their classes.

My head was down and nothing was stopping me …. I pursued relentlessly and amazingly discovered a company that had been doing some research studies on a non pharmaceutical strategy to lower cholesterol at Stanford University that had received two US Patents stating ….”For The Method and Composition of Reducing Serum Cholesterol” … the studies were published in Peer reviewed medical Journals – Published in the Prestigious Physicians Desk Reference and after learning all of these credentials … I called… asked if it was safe for children – and the reply was … “It will either help them or do nothing”.

At that point… I felt I had nothing to lose… and was determined to try this for the girls! I am delighted to say the results were profound – and it was that experience that sent me on a relentless journey to help others and educate physicians about non pharmaceuticals for their patients as an option to statin drugs and probably had over 100 physicians hang up not interested! It was like confronting my husbands attitude over and over again!!

The more negativity I received, the more relentless I became. FINALLY… I met a physician who was referred to me personally because he suffered from elevated cholesterol – and was on the statin drugs which were giving him terrible side effects and he was desperate to try anything else that could help him! He requested that I send him a supply of the Supplement called “Balance” and he too had amazing results!

All of a sudden he referred a colleague – who referred another colleague and here I was developing an integrative medicine program for Physician Practices that I never had any experience in doing before and basically constructed a system using common sense, knowing the mindset of a classical physician and established practices across the country which even led to global expansion!

I developed my company HeathPracticeAdvisors which was solely focused on working in the healthcare community and years later evolved into taking things to another level as I felt the same relentlessness come upon me again as I observed a new breed of healthcare professionals coming on my radar screen called ‘Health Coaches”. I worked for years with Doctors and Nurses and Dieticians – but never heard of Health Coaches – so I did some research… learned about many health coaching programs… went on a deep dive to personally speak with these health coaches to understand their mindset more .. find out “why” they became a health coach …( because nobody was a little girl and said… when i grow up I want to be a health coach”) … Usually they wanted to be a nurse!

I found their stories fascinating and observed a common thread amongst ALL OF THEM! Nobody could monetize themselves! These women were not prepared for the business side of Healthcare and had no clue where to begin therefore they coached a few friends and family (For free) and went back to their jobs! They dreamed of having a business of their own, yet were never prepared for what was involved!

This now began to feel like another “calling” for me. I was determined exactly the same way I was when I began to reach out to physicians all those years ago … except now I had years of experience and i KNEW I could help these women become enterprising in their field of health coaching …
I had what they were missing… The “Integrative Health Strategy” … The People Strategy … The Medical Strategy… The Financial Strategy …. All under One Roof and I realized I could make a huge difference once again !!

People are windows and doors to other people and the directions from all these healthcare professionals I have worked with here in the United States over the years, has taken me from here in the US to Hong Kong to Taiwan to Korea to traveling 7 cities throughout India to South America and has inspired me to create my business really focused multi culturally because of my constant thirst to meet new and interesting women from every demographics, ethnicity, and culture.

It completely fills my heart knowing I can help them make an impact on “their communities”… to the people that are most important to them !

A monumental moment in my career for me was when my husband paid me the greatest compliment one day that I will NEVER forget … he said, “Jan, I think you have touched more lives in your career path of 30 years than I ever did in my 30 year medical practice!”

Touching the lives of others in such a positive way kept me awake at night with excitement when I first got started and still does to this day … it does!!! I’m not tired, I’m not bored, and it’s because of the amazing women I work with and how much they inspire me to keep my creative juices flowin’ !!
To love what you do and know that it matters – yep!

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I believe I provided alot of that information in the prior question – yet if I were to isolate anything about me it’s the fact that all under one roof I am able to provide a turn key business and healthcare opportunity for anyone in a health or fitness related field looking to grow themselves and be able to cast a wider net for clientele to have an adjunct compliment to their current business strategy or ( a health enthusiast who happens to enjoy business ) … I provide a highly credentialed opportunity ( medically endorsed by the most highly credentialed allopathic and holistic physicians with a 30 year track record ) where they can have and enjoy hands on “STREET SMART” mentorship that comes from wholesome strategies, not solely focusing on overwhelming Internet Strategies. I enjoy learning about their lives – understanding their mindset, their insecurites and strengths and then implementing the elements that are relevant for THAT persons goals and objectives. Not some cookie cutter game plan… but literally a “very hand holding experience”.

I’m not better than people who identify themselves as “Professional Business Consultants” …I’m just different ! I am a very hands on mentor … and more interested in personal communication than “click here” for automation!

I have mastered and consider myself an expert teaching Integrative Healthcare to Physicians and Integrative Health Coaching to Health Coaches and the art of teaching them how to massage their limited strategies into so many directions they otherwise would never think of or feel confident to approach, yet they acquire and master every skillset and qualification to blossom in all those directions after working with me!

Can you tell us about what’s worked well for you in terms of growing your clientele?

The most effective strategy for growing a clientele is having a very simple step by step system that is literally Kindergarten to learn and Kindergarten to execute that can be done offline or online. Not multiple strategies that require hours of research and planning!

People don’t have the space in their brains for anything complicated.

I teach a 5 step system I ( Very “ADD” Friendly ) where all five steps help someone looking to grow a clientele or team will easily follow because it is sensible – and does not require “Deep Thought” to comprehend or execute.

Having a functional roadmap is key while simultaneously practicing the “Art of Conversation”

Any stories or insights that might help us understand how you’ve built such a strong reputation?

My name is Jan Bloom…. and I truly believe in “Living Life in FULL Bloom” … It’s what I stand for . …It’s what I teach! I’m The Real Deal

As I reflect back over the years and how many women have continued to work with me for as long as 20+ years … I believe it must be due to the fact that they feel safe with me in their lives and feel my loyalty to them -and their families and they observe my loyalty to our corporate partner after all these years ….. and that they can always count on me to “show up” …

Today Loyalty rarely exists. You meet people who have jumped from one thing to another … always looking for the next shiny object.. never staying in one place long enough to conquer it …. thats just not who I am!

I have witnessed and been instrumental in helping improve and save lives for so many years in the same endeavor and believe to my core in what I do … and people that know me, they trust my judgement, and people that seek me out, it’s because they observe my messaging is authentic, it’s not “Ai ” written.

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