Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in health and wellness but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Louise Valentine, Founder of Breaking Through Wellness, LLC., located in Wilmington, DE, USA.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
I am the owner and founder of Breaking Through Wellness, offering holistic coaching and healthcare services for active women and runners to thrive after 35. Combining 20 years of experience and over 15 different advanced degrees and credentials, I help women achieve their health, fitness, and running goals with more energy, less stress, and sustainable success. By learning simple ways to work with their body, those that I coach unlock their best health and fitness, breakthrough health challenges and turn setbacks into a strong comeback despite a busy life!
Tell us about yourself
While earning multiple awards for designing solutions across the health, fitness, and athletic performance fields, behind the scenes, my own health was suffering. Luckily, I had the education to design solutions to save myself, reversing chronic conditions doctor's told me there was nothing I could do for! I was able to go from feeling bloated, burned out, and broken to a strong runner, energized mom, and vibrantly well-woman. Inspired by how incredibly simple and low-stress we can keep unlocking our best health, fitness, and running performance, I started Breaking Through Wellness to empower other women to know exactly how to look and feel their best without stressing, guessing, or being overwhelmed!
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
It means the world to be able to help other women optimize their hormonal health, energy, recovery, and fitness. By learning simple ways to work with our body and its changing physiology after age 35, we can rewrite the aging story to be one of optimal well-being, incredible energy, and achieving our most ambitious health and fitness goals! Being able to take dedicated time with each client to individualize a holistic approach to achieve their goals is my biggest accomplishment, being we live in a world with rushed healthcare providers, cookie-cutter solutions, and ineffective fitness trends. I'm proud to provide the detailed care and customized solutions I wish I had held in my own health and performance journey.
What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?
I work with many women who come to me frustrated with symptoms like brain fog, fitness plateaus, frequent injuries, weight gain despite a good diet, and feeling overwhelmed by all the solutions out there for hormonal challenges and perimenopause. It's hard to see how confusing the health and fitness world is making it for women to feel their best. I'm happy to serve as the place where women can come together to learn how to support their bodies, keeping them simple and low-stress to achieve sustainable success.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
- Keep it simple, and do not overthink getting started. So many lessons learned will come as you connect with your ideal customers, so don't feel like you have to have it all figured out right away.
- Practice relentless self-care. Business ebbs and flows, like all aspects of life. We need to have our best mind-body health and fitness to keep going strong when it gets hard.
- You got this! And when you don't, seek support. No successful business owner has gotten where they are completely on their own. Even being named #1 in my industry at age 35, it was because I had amazing mentors along the way! Build a tribe of other business owners to remind you of your greatness when you're having trouble seeing it within yourself.
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://www.breakingthroughwellness.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BreakingThroughWellness
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breakingthroughwellness/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/louise-valentine-mph/
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