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

Sonya, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

My mission is to help people connect the dots between food and disease. When we are educated, we become empowered to make better food choices.

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 am a retired nurse, wife, mother, health Coach, and new author. I founded Beyond Radiant Health Coaching, LLC because I wanted to teach parents the importance of nutrition and other alternatives. I have four children, and two of them have special needs. My daughter has a learning disability and ADHD, and one of my sons was diagnosed with autism.

I am extremely passionate about empowering parents. Over twenty years ago when my children were diagnosed, I did not have many resources. I had to learn on my own. I never lost hope.

I discovered holistic options that helped me to support my family’s health. I now provide virtual coaching as well as virtual nutrition workshops as a way to educate our community. I provide hope and light to other parents. I help them to find their “radiance” and together we bring out the “radiance” in their children.

I’m very proud of my son who was a nonverbal autistic child who had poor social skills. Now, twenty years later, he’s very vocal and is living independently as a sophomore in college. He loves to cook and his dream is to own a food truck someday. I live in GA and he attends college in VA.

I wanted to add more value to our community. I wanted to reach a larger audience, so I wrote a book about our personal autism journey!

The book is entitled, “ Moving Forward; Details of an Autism Journey”. This book is a great resource for everyone. It provides hope! It provides information on nutrition, alternative therapies, information on digestive issues such as leaky gut and much more!

So in addition to coaching sessions, nutrition workshops, a book, we also offer grocery store tours for our local community.

We are grateful for the opportunity to serve our community in this way.

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

Word of mouth has definitely been my most effective strategy for growing my clientele. I have over twenty years of experience in working with parents who have children with special needs. I am compassionate because I understand and that genuinely shows in how I interact with my clients.

Can you tell us about a time you’ve had to pivot?

Yes, my background is in nursing. I retired early in my career to be a full time mom. After having two kids with special needs, I was more needed at home. Almost thirty years later, I decided to change careers and I became an author.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.beyondradianthc.com
• Instagram: @beyondradiant422
• Facebook: Beyond Radiant Health Coaching