We asked some brilliant folks to tell us about the best advice they’ve ever given to a client and have highlighted some of the responses below.

Nikki Pepper

The best advice I’ve ever given to a client is to focus on balance. What that means is 80% of the time focusing on dialing in those healthy habits, whether that’s your workouts, your nutrition, and making sure you’re making choices that are best going to benefit your health, and the other 20% of the time focus on things that bring you enjoyment. Have that treat meal, have a little piece of dessert, because that way you’re going to be able to stay consistent for longer. Read more>>

Barpath Fitness

In the fitness industry, there is a tendancy for women in particular to focus on weight loss. We try to shift the mindset of our clients from weight loss to getting stronger and building muscle mass, strength, and bone density over time. This in turn builds the body composition they want, but also helps them live longer, pain-free lives. We have a 75 year old personal training client who came to us as a referral. She didn’t have set goals other than wanting to lose weight and get a little stronger. She’d been working out for decades, but not focusing on the right things. Read more>>

Brandy Johnson

The best advice I have ever given to a personal training client / meal prep customer was simply to KEEP IT SIMPLE and do the work. Keeping it simple when it comes to creating a life that leaves space for change, for growth, for grace, for health, for happiness and the ultimate goal of evolution is of the utmost importance. Making small changes that add up to the big gains and those big results over time as you continue to improve your overall quality of life. Recently I have had the pleasure of assisting a Spring bride in preparation for “the dress”. Read more>>

Dominique Henderson

Being that all advice is contextual, “best” is pretty hard to judge objectively. But I would say that a theme of the “best” advice I give is centered around the idea of starting with your why. When I construct financial plans for clients, I start with what is most important to them and why that is important. There are several reasons for this, but the most primary is the fact that good financial behaviors develop under the conditions in which we are moving toward a meaningful goal or target. Read more>>

Michelle Scharlop

As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist & Relationship Expert, my work is confidential. Therefore, I will answer this question in a general way. Couples come to see me for a variety of relationship struggles. Two of the most common relationship issues I help couples with are communication conflicts which often lead to feeling disconnected as well as lonely in the relationship and infidelity which breaks the trust in a relationship. Both of these issues need to be addressed because these types of relationship issues can lead to a relationship being on the brink of a breakup or result in a divorce. As a Relationship Expert, it is my job to share with couples the tools needed to take them from surviving to thriving. Read more>>

Marcus Brown

I had a client who was struggling with her ability to move out a state of anger around certain situations in her life and came to me for assistance. We started by going over the things that were frustrating her and how the root cause in every situation had a common denominator, her perspective. What was actually troubling her was something that would continue if we didn’t get to the root of the anger or short temperament. The best advice and saying I gave her in this situation that has changed her life completely is “When you cut branches off of a tree, they just grow back over time but if you go to the root and uproot that tree, it will lose life and wither away. Go to the root, stop cutting branches”. – Metaphysical Marc Read more>>