We were lucky to catch up with TINA GAFFER recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi TINA, thanks for joining us today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?

My mission for Inspire Health & Wellness LLC is to provide knowledge on weight loss and eating healthy with balance for life. I created Inspire to be unique focusing on emotional eating and the ups and downs of weight loss and gain in your life. I lost over 110lbs in 2010 keeping it off and going back to school to learn more of the emotional parts of eating. With a degree in Life coaching. I wanted a place that was unique, something that you didn’t have to spend a arm and a leg to learn healthy eating and weightloss. I incorporated meal prep, grab n bake meals, and now a food trailer changing with the times through covid. I teach meal prep classes and one on one encouragement through your journey. Customers set up “party” dates with me and bring all the food and everything to prepare grab n bake healthy meals and talk about how to incorporate healthy living into the everyday lifestyle. Balance is what it is all about once people reach their goals. I want to inspire people to keep trying, keep going no matter what life throws at them. #inspiresomeonetoday

TINA, 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?

I got into this line of work 13 years ago when I lost over 110lbs myself, learning healthy living/eating. I wanted to do more to teach, so I went back to school to become a life coach and opened inspire. A place without judgement, to learn balance for life without the HUGE expense like other weightloss places. Its why since covid I still have a private entrance home office with my food trailer. I can keep the costs down in a peaceful country environment. I have 2 boys on our 10-acre hobby farm and a beautiful granddaughter, with a bonus daughter. I am so blessed. I purchased a 2-acre plot of land next to me in hopes that someday will be able to afford to build a inspire building do more for people. With more different classes, gardening, and balance for life.

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

Covid. Being not only in the food industry but diet/wellness I had to do alot of pivoting. I closed my commercial kitchen in Mankato and moved back home to a private entrance home office with a food trailer. Was it hard, YES the hardest I have ever done. Everyday I am afraid that Inspire wont make it. But everyday I am blessed with a order of some sorts. The short drive to my office is always peaceful and gives clients time to reflect on themselves. Someday I will be able to build my building on the land I bought for inspire and incorporate the rest of my plan for inspire, but for now I will keep going with hope.

Learning and unlearning are both critical parts of growth – can you share a story of a time when you had to unlearn a lesson?

I have had to unlearn a lot of things about food. In order to be healthier, I had to learn about food combinations and how to put them together for the better of my body. MAN IS THAT TOUGH, being raised in a society where food is all over it is an addiction, an addiction to carbs. Are carbs bad NO, are they bad in the way society teaches us, yes. We do not work off the carbs we consume, so we had to cut back. Most people have sedentary lifestyles which means we can’t eat all the carbs society has taught us to eat. That has been the hardest thing for me to adjust in my life. Along with then helping people understand I love carbs…. but they can’t be eaten as the average American consumes them. We have to learn a balance from what we enjoy to what we want and how we want to be on the food side of life. That emotional part of that is VERY hard for people to understand and the hardest for me to teach.

Contact Info:

• Website: http://inspirehealthcoach.us
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Inspirehealth1

Image Credits
I do all my own images.