We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jody L. Teiche. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jody L. below.

Jody L. , looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Can you recount a time when the advice you provided to a client was really spot on? (Please note this response is for education/entertainment purposes only and shouldn’t be construed as advice for the reader)

I integrate how you think into creating youthful vibrant health when I coach my clients. Going back hundreds of years, we see that we become what we think about all day. So, visualizing your dream life in details, writing about it, declaring it out loud and imagining it as if it’s already here and you’re living it has helped clients empower themselves in learning how to control their minds. That, coupled with nutrition, supplemental and certain energy medicine modalities make for a comprehensive wellness program.

A 71yo client I’ll call J used what I taught her to navigate a very difficult situation in her life. Re-balancing her emotional state by reminding herself to tap back into controlling how she thinks she found very helpful in staying above the fray of a very tumultuous time.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I am a people and animal lover. I’ve been passionate about natural medicine and healing for pretty much my whole life. When my daughter was 4, we went with my mom, so the three generations of girls, to Florida for a vacation. As soon as we got to the apartment we were staying in, my daughter came down with a bad ear infection. I was pretty new to my studies in homeopathy at that point and not yet confident. So I took her to the doctor, got the antibiotic prescription and put it into the fridge. But, I also reached out to my overseas homeopath. We agreed upon a remedy and started giving it to my daughter that night. My mom and I stayed up all night with her; she was crying, restless and in pain. By the next morning, her pain and fever were gone. By that afternoon, she was bouncing around like a normal 4 year old. It was like a miracle; I never had to use the antibiotic. And, she’s never gotten another ear infection. She is now 38.

That made a major impression on me, and started me down a path of studying homeopathy. Over the years, on and off, I dove deeper and deeper and learned other energy medicine modalities. My career for thirty years was as a publicist in the entertainment industry, 25 as head of my own firm in NYC. I represented some major artists like John Mellencamp, Roger Waters (we did the iconic The Wall concert at the site of the Berlin Wall in 1990 together), Iggy Pop, The Cure and industry hip-hop icon, Russell Simmons. My hands were full with my firm and those who worked with me in it. So, my dabbling in natural health was just that; dabbling with my family, friends. But friends would continuously come to me asking what natural thing could they take for what they were experiencing. And, I knew I loved talking about health.

After I retired from PR, I took a break but lost my way with natural healing a bit. As someone who also loves fashion, this was a time I focused on that. I went back to school at Parson’s School of Design, near my apartment in NYC. I learned how to sew and began a luxury dog coat and accessories brand named after my new puppy, called Couture by Sophie. For the next two years, Sophie and I did photo shoots, walked runways and I created collections. It was an amazing learning experience but I learned I liked buying fashion as a customer far more than creating it!

But, working with animals was very satisfying, so in 2014 I made my way into blogging and podcasting in the living stylishly with your dog and the rescue spaces. My brand was called Bark & Swagger and my podcast, which had amassed 500,000 listeners a month at its peak, is still active today, and I still interview designers, authors and others in the fashion and in the rescue spaces.

Sometime in about 2017, a light went off and I decided to marry my love of natural medicine with animals. I was back practicing homeopathy in my own life and with my family and animals and continued to see the gentle yet powerful impact it had on various conditions. So, I created a course for pet parents, teaching them homeopathy and good nutrition, another skill I’d learned over the years as a pet parent who was focused on providing the best for my animals as I could. I gave the course live to handfuls of students to great feedback. That led me to eventually start coaching pet parents on natural ways to heal.

I was a Pet Health Coach for a couple of years seeing clients before I decided to expand into humans, too. I went back to school at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition in NYC and became Certified as a Health Coach. I then took the International Association of Health Coaches exam and earned that certification as well.

I expanded my practice to humans in 2021 and love supporting both people and pets. Right now, I do one to one coaching, offering my clients coaching plans based on their needs. I work with clients for either 3 or 6 months but many clients continue to extend our work together to continue to have that support in their lives.

As a health coach, I am my clients’ knowledge source, resource person, champion and cheerleader and their accountability partner. Many people want to get well or feel better and find it very difficult to do on their own.

My method is, as I mentioned above, a holistic approach – mind, body, spirit. We address together how to think differently to create a different account with health, what to do regarding diet, exercise, supplements. I offer certain healing modalities like homeopathy, frequency medicine, medical ozone therapy, and I am very tapped into cutting edged products that heal conditions by freeing up the body to heal itself. These apply to hormone health, anxiety, weight management, heart health.

It is exciting to me how much we have available to us today to naturally heal ourselves. Most people don’t know about many of these options and I feel grateful I am able to support my clients in implementing them into their lives with great results.

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

As a health coach, training and knowledge is very important. However, as important are these: the ability to listen, really listen, actively without any distraction. People want to feel seen, heard and understood. So really listening and mirroring my clients in what they’ve told me is important is creating a safe space where they feel seen and appreciated, which I want them to feel. It is also an opportunity to pick up clues and information as to what is going on for them through tone, words they choose, body language, hand gestures.

The other really important skill is learning how to ask key questions; questions that will stimulate conversation and encourage my clients to look deeper into themselves. We have all of the answers inside of us already. The body is very intelligent and intuitive; we have only to listen, Asking key questions stimulates that exploration.

If you could go back, would you choose the same profession, specialty, etc.?

Absolutely! I wish I’d chosen it earlier! I feel it is my calling; that it was always my calling, That being said, things happen in life exactly when they’re supposed to and years ago, I wasn’t ready to be as effective a coach as I am now. I had to mature, learn more life and interpersonal skills and be further along on my own healing journey.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://teichewellness.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jodylteiche/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thepeoplepethealthcoach/