We recently connected with Luli Gamburd and have shared our conversation below.
Alright, Luli thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. We’d love to hear the backstory behind a risk you’ve taken – whether big or small, walk us through what it was like and how it ultimately turned out.
A risk that I have taken that changed my entire career path and journey was to begin working full time as a holistic health coach. Although I got certified back in 2016 and have always been passionate in health and wellness, it took me up until this year to have faith in myself to launch this business full time. The more I postponed this passion of mine, the further I felt from my truth of helping people achieve their health and wellness goals through a complete inner transformation of their mindset and habits surrounding their approach to nutrition, exercise, body image, and ultimately self esteem. In a short amount of time that I decided to launch full time, it has also been the most rewarding months of my life in terms of my career so I am forever grateful that I took the risk, followed my dreams and went for it.
Luli, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?
My health and wellness journey began from a very young age, strongly influenced by the diet culture mentality that created near impossible standards of what a woman’s body should look like in order to feel accepted by society. That influence created a skewed perspective for me around food, nutrition, exercise and body image which inspired me to major in Psychology at Boston University to understand how humans can create positive and lasting behavioral changes. During my studies at BU, I was taking a class on the Psychology of Women and doing my research on Eating Disorders, when I decided to create “Nutriluli” as a way to not only create lasting and positive healthy lifestyle changes for myself, but to hopefully inspire others to have a more balanced and positive relationship around food, nutrition, exercise, self esteem, and body image. During that time, I also got certified as a Holistic Health and Nutrition Coach at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. I then continued to pursue my education by getting certified in the advanced education in Emotional Eating and Hormone Health at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, and in Functional Nutrition at mindbodygreen. My goal is to merge my passion for overall wellness, including nutrition and psychology, to help others feel their best from the inside out by creating long-lasting changes to ultimately improve one’s health and quality of life.
Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?
The most effective strategy for growing my clientele is to show up to work with my current clients every single day demonstrating the passion I have for this line of work, with an open heart, ready to listen, and to be of support to them to allow them to feel safe and ready to create change. From this point onwards and because I put so much love and care into each of my clients, this strategy allows for word of mouth to grow my clientele as well as maintain my reputation in this field.
Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?
I thought about this many times because throughout my career I wanted to be a Registered Dietitian. However, although I respect that career choice so much and I think they are so necessary, there was something about that career path that did not completely sit right with me for my own personal goals and journey. I was personally more concerned with what is going on in the inside from an emotional and psychological perspective, rather than the actual focus on food itself. Therefore, I would not go back and change my profession as I loved majoring in Psychology and getting certified as a Holistic Health Coach. This allowed me to create my own path to work on the mindset and habits of clients that are looking for long-lasting health changes in their lifestyle and the way they view themselves.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.nutriluli.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nutriluli/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nutriluli
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucilagamburd/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/Nutriluli_
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@nutriluli