Transforming From Overworked Clinician to Unique Leader in Precision Wellness

Always been really inspired by Megan Walker. whether it's a webinar or she does lots of free training Honestly, if you can get a whole day or any type of exposure to her, you walk away a better clinician. I'm Jocelyn Hill. I'm a board-certified health and wellness coach. Really shaped how I practice is starting my career at a functional medicine clinic, where I coached hundreds of women and was initially introduced to functional genomics. So, using genetic testing using that, you know, using genes to actually personalize someone's diet and lifestyle. I think in the last year or so, you know, with everything that's going on with AI, what does that mean for health coaching? Just given how people are already using AI for therapy? What does this mean for coaching? I mean, I'm seeing it with all of my clients. using ChatGPT and AI for just about everything from, you know, what snack to have after a workout, to like, you name it. ⁓ But AI doesn't know your genetics. So it's the one thing that I feel really good about, like what I'm doing is quite unique. So I had done a very cool program at Duke Integrative Medicine. It was really based on the neuroscience of behavior change. So I trained to be a coach before coaching was really popular. And honestly, when I launched my own practice officially in 2021, I thought that's what I would be leading with, you know, all the habit stuff, behavior change. And really, the market was not ready for that. I had all this experience with functional genomics. Naturopaths were not doing this testing. MDs were certainly not doing this testing. Chiropractors weren't doing this testing. What I realized is that, you know, a lot of people who are, you know, they're eating clean, they're working out, they're doing yoga. If you say to them, like, what about health coaching? They would say, "Well, I'm good, thanks." Whereas with genetic testing, everybody wants to learn more about themselves. So suddenly I found myself, whether I was at an event or I was at a dinner party, the next day I would have three DMs. I wanna do that The DNA testing was the door opener to health coaching, which was really interesting. didn't... think that would be the case, but it's the DNA testing that got people excited about their own biology. It's also really helped with my mindset. I spent a lot of time in the corporate So Impact Lives has always, even if it's once a year, given me that boost. This market, longevity, precision wellness, precision medicine, it's a very cluttered space. So it's always encouraged me to really think about, you know, what makes me different and to not run my business on autopilot. Don't just do genetic testing, but I have blended the genetic testing with lifestyle medicine and the neuroscience stuff from Duke, so it is that trifecta that makes me very unique. So it's a real-life skills over pills approach. So Impact Lives really shaped the practitioner that I am today. And I think I've always been really good with data. I've always been good at making complex science. really simple. And I had this sort of epiphany during one of the impact lives a couple of years ago that, well, I'm kind of doing the same with health. And that's a real skill, to be able to get people excited about making changes. How do they see themselves in six months or a year? The hard part, of course, is getting from where they are today to where they wanna be. And that's strategy.