Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in health and wellness but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Amanda Plevell, Founder of ANMC Holistic Health, LLC., located in Little Falls, MN, USA.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
ANMC customers are individuals that believe in their ability to create their lives and heal. They are ready to invest in themselves, are coachable and possible, and let nothing get in the way of their growth.
- B2B (Business Customers).
We create partnerships within the community to create greater patient outcomes, professional networking, and support. B2C (Clients). Our clients have multiple options for wellness and clinical nutrition with our multi-specialized office and opportunities for coaching, classes, wellness, and therapeutic modalities.
- PARTNERS
We partner with chiropractors, physical therapists, dentists, massage therapists, fitness centers, and optometrists to support nutritional, emotional and health strategy needs outside of the services they offer. We offer workplace wellness solutions, challenges, and team wellness training.
Our customer vision is that we report positive experiences and marked change in our clients' lives through excellent customer service, care in a safe zone, integrity and client centered-ness, ongoing therapeutic programs, and opportunities to create well-being.
- Philosophy
Our customers are motivated to improve their health for themselves, committed to learning about themselves, and see the value in combining multiple modalities to fill all the pieces of their puzzle.
- Geography
While originally founded in Little Falls, MN, we have the ability for telehealth and online courses throughout the nation.
Tell us about yourself
I built ANMC out of my own experiences. I’ve always loved natural health, nutrition, and energy, just a natural call to it. I first went to school for teaching and counseling. But I knew it wasn’t a fit. I had children and continued schooling, and I still felt the pressure of “what I wanted to be when I grew up.” It’s funny how life brings you exactly what is meant for you, even if you can’t see it at the time, or especially if the lessons are painful. I suffered medical iatrogenesis when an illness was caused by a medical intervention. I lost the use of my legs.
Soon I had neuropathy and myopathy and could barely move ANY part of my body, and certainly not without excruciating amounts of pain. I was confined to a wheelchair if I could move at all. Long story short, I was glad I had continued in my education. It provided the solutions I needed to put my all into all I knew I had as resources at my fingertips. My own body became my greatest institution of higher education. When it wasn’t known if I would walk again, where I thought I was going to leave this life, I got my legs back.
I re-learned how to walk and, over the years, restored my health. I’m all for acute and emergency medicine. We have amazing opportunities in this country. I don’t fault conventional medicine either for my experience it gave me the need to see beyond. I saw how it had to be both models together on a continuum of care.
I learned that people are suffering and need more options. They need to have support in how to be healthy and how to create a world whose core values contain health for all, with systems that are set up to support this. They need a relationship with people who are knowledgeable, can support their journey, and help them as they make decisions along the way.
We form a relationship with each client where we outline what’s not working and help to understand why the body is working in the way that it is. We see trauma, where the nervous system got off track, and what stories the cells have recorded to memory. We work to understand the whole being and identify a timeline of experiences. Then we create opportunities for each client to learn and “create health” through simple strategies, a curated system of practices that work.
In this way, we are influencing health and healthcare by providing opportunities to be well and by creating communities in which it is easy to be healthy and okay to be happy.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
Outside of the customer success we regularly review, I've been honored to be awarded "Best of Practice" awards multiple years. We also collect data for research, and accomplishing case studies enough to affect medical science is exciting!
What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?
Directing focus and clarity. There are so many needs, and we want to help them all. Staying focused on what we do really well and allowing the rest to grow slowly is a challenge when we want to serve it all.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
- Create an adaptable document, a living vision that you can alter, change, and grow with it to keep you focused on your vision and priorities.
- Don't lose sight of the context of your whole life! Your work must fit in, or imbalance and burnout happen fast.
- Surround yourself with good people - at work, your employees, and supports, and take the time and resources to hire a leadership/business advisory team.
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://anmcholistichealth.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MNHolisticHealth
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/anmcctr/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ANMCctr
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-e-plevell/
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