A small business owner, Elaine helps folks discover whole food plant-based meals in her bookstore cafe located in State College, PA. She’s been teaching vegan cooking classes for over nine years now and delights in opening up possibilities for her clients. Recently certified as a Whole Food Plant-based Health Coach through Food Revolution Network, Elaine is excited to help more folks realize the power of eating cleanly for health, wellness, and joy!

I’m a wife, mother, grandmother, and caregiver to my beautiful mom. For over 26 years, I’ve dedicated my career to helping clients feel confident and beautiful on the outside. Now, I’m passionate about helping people feel just as good on the inside.

Through my own life experiences and challenges, I’ve learned how to make positive changes despite the obstacles. If only I knew then what I know now! I’d love to help you incorporate nourishing plant-based foods into your life, as they’ve completely transformed mine. I’ve gained more energy, achieved weight loss, and improved my overall health.

It would be an honor to be your coach and support you on your wellness journey.

My plant-based journey started over a decade ago when an initial mammogram indicated a heightened risk for breast cancer. Research into the lifestyle changes I could make to reduce my cancer risk led me to a plant-based diet. I have since developed a passion for the evidence-based science behind a whole-food plant-based diet for optimum health. I am certified in plant-based nutrition through the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies at eCornell and earned my initial health coach certification through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN). I have also completed the Lifestyle Medicine for Coaches training, offered jointly by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellcoaches, and earned an additional certification in Plant-based Coaching through the Food Revolution Network. I am currently preparing for the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaches Certification Exam. As a complement to my work as a health coach, I am a certified yoga instructor, Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist, and Jazzercise instructor, passionate about lifelong fitness, movement, and mindfulness. I am also an educator with over 25 years of experience teaching college students and other adults.

As a health coach, I use my wide range of knowledge and life experiences to work with you to co-create completely personalized action steps based on your wellness goals. Our work together will help you move toward your ideal vision of health within your unique body, lifestyle, preferences, and resources.

I have committed my entire professional career, spanning 30+ years, to providing nutritional guidance for a multitude of individuals on their quest to disease management, prevention and wellness. As a passionate Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Plant Based Coach, I seek to empower my clients with the knowledge and skills needed to embrace a healthier lifestyle through the power of fresh wholesome foods.
Over the course of my career, I have had the privilege to work with individuals in clinical, wellness, and mental health settings. Many of these individuals were taking an exorbitant amount of medications to manage chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. As a result of simple dietary changes to include wholesome plant foods, many were able to eliminate medications for these conditions. In fact, one individual lost over 100 pounds, which actually disqualified him from weight loss surgery.

My hope is that through engagement, and empowerment, I can assist individuals to incorporate principles of a whole food plant-based lifestyle to restore health and prevent the onset of chronic diet-related conditions.

I’ve been diagnosed with stage 4 Metastatic Breast Cancer and have been working with an integrative oncologist whom recommended going vegan or vegetarian. When I asked if there was any support the response was just google some recipes. This didn’t sit well with me and I dove headfirst to learn everything I can about whole food plant based diets and how to adapt this lifestyle in a way that works for me.

I now have no evidence of disease in my body and have learned to recognize how I feel in my body when adhering to a whole food plant based diet and when I have veered off of the diet. I’m on a mission to support others to incorporate Whole Foods into their diet creating a lifestyle that fits their needs. I’d love to meet you and help you create a Whole Foods Plant Based Lifestyle so you can have vitality!

I am originally from Georgia. I have lived on the California side of Lake Tahoe for 40 years. I love being outdoors and hiking.

I have followed a plant based diet for 2 years. I first realized the importance of a plant based diet by watching the Food Revolution Network Summit 3 years ago. I recently graduated from the Food Revolution Network’s Plant Based Coaching Certification course.

Since getting off of processed foods and eating plant based, I am enjoying more energy and no longer having achy joints. I have also lost weight and kept it off for the first time in my life. I am passionate about helping other people transition to a plant based diet. It gives me great joy to see others enjoying their new found health and well being.

I would love to help you on your journey to better health!

Hello, my name is Lara, and I live in the beautiful city of Cape Town, South Africa. As an empathizer, encourager, and listener by nature, I am dedicated to sowing seeds of peace, compassion, and kindness. My goal is to ensure that my clients feel seen, heard, and cared for by being fully present and attentive. I am passionate about empowering others with encouragement, knowledge, and resources, fostering a supportive and nurturing environment.

I have a deep love, concern, and respect for people, animals, and the environment. I strive for wisdom and creativity in addressing challenges and problems. As a health-conscious, plant-based, and environmentally aware individual, I pay attention to details while maintaining a big-picture perspective. My dedication as a plant-based coach is to offer impactful biopsychosocial care, helping my clients achieve holistic well-being.

Voltz Health & Wellness Coaching is dedicated to partnering with you to achieve your wellness goals. Beth supports individuals who are stuck in a constant struggle with chronic pain or sadness, battling inflammation, weight issues, sleeplessness, or elevated blood test results. These clients are ready to move forward, eager to feel relief, and reclaim control over their future. Together, we design a healthy, achievable plant-based lifestyle that fosters sustainable results. We tackle health challenges at their root, while cultivating enduring wellness, healing, peace of mind, and increased vitality for life!

Beth has experienced her own transformation through plant-based eating. In December, 2017, she had to leave her job of 30 years as a music educator due to her own battles with pain and weight issues. She encountered challenges in carrying out basic activities such as going up stairs or participating in meetings. She could no longer even imagine setting up the stage for my middle school orchestra!
Her journey from pain to relief began in 2018 after watching the movie, “Forks Over Knives”. Having recently completing the research for her EdD dissertation, she gained a greater understanding and admiration for the research and outcomes showcased in this film. It was truly impressive to see the profound influence of dietary changes on people’s lives, which was both evident and inspiring!

Since then, she has gained valuable knowledge and skills. She recently achieved Root-Cause Health Coach certification from Lifestyle Prescriptions University, following previous certifications in Plant-based Coaching from the Food Revolution Network, and Whole Foods Plant-based Nutrition from Cornell University. Through this journey, she has shed 50 pounds and maintained the weight loss, was able to discontinue BP medication after 22 years, and at the age of 68, even jogged the whole way to the end of her first-ever 5K race! She is now enthusiastic about assisting others in their health endeavors, supporting them through each step of the way!

My specialty is helping people identify their health and lifestyle goals and taking the small steps that lead to transformative change and living their dream. I help people claim ownership of their daily habits so they feel better physically and emotionally. This includes action planning, kitchen organization, and navigating grocery stores, restaurants and other social situations. I understand the value of finding one’s inner strengths, nurturing them and leaning on them to grow in the direction you want. My plant-based journey kicked into high gear about 20 years ago when I participated in an intensive plant-based program. I was raising children, commuting a long way to work, and eating the standard American diet, resulting in being fatigued, overweight and not happy with my health status. Today I am 50 pounds lighter, have improved my biometrics, and have more energy than I did years ago. I am skilled at helping people find their inner strengths and motivations, and nurturing them to achieve more than was imagined.

I have been an impassioned plant-based nutrition specialist for many years and I provide real life expertise, support, and guidance to empower people to achieve their health and situational goals and create, what I call, a Plant-Based Thrivestyle™.

My journey started back in 2017 when my family of five watched the documentaries, What the Health, Forks Over Knives, and Plant Pure Nation. What followed was a complete transition to a plant-based life for all of us. We took this one step at a time, cutting out animal products and then working to eliminate processed junk foods while at the same time increasing our daily consumption of a variety of plants. We were encouraged along the way by the myriad of health benefits we quickly noticed. Feeling so good and watching my family experience these benefits motivated me to dive into learning all I could about the science and research behind plant-based nutrition. From this deep dive and from years of trial and error, I figured out how to make this work for my entire family in our real, day-to-day lives, without giving up social events, going out to eat, traveling, and hosting family and friends.

Whether you’re plant-curious, fully plant-based, or somewhere in-between, I have been there and would love to help you learn how to easily, sustainably, and joyfully thrive while eating more plants!

Deborah helps adults transform their eating habits and mindset to manage serious health conditions, improve outcomes and reduce stress. With results-based coaching, nutrition training, and lived experience, she guides clients to quickly create healthy habits, overcome anxiety, and enjoy greater vitality and happiness.

Deborah reversed a serious GI condition after transitioning to a plant based whole food diet and now relishes delicious food, healthy habits, and sustained vitality.

You’re not alone if you have GI issues. A recent survey found that 40% of Americans experienced daily life disruptions due to uncomfortable digestive symptoms.

With over 20 years of experience as a vegetarian, technology innovator, executive, and mother, Deborah excels at improving nutrition and well-being across diverse lifestyle scenarios. In addition, together with her husband she has raised two children vegetarian and understands the challenges firsthand.

Deborah has personally developed effective strategies and repeatable methods for managing nutrition both inside and outside the home. This equips her to coach with insight, empathy, and proven practices for success navigating health and wellness.

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Do you know people who want to eat more whole, plant-based foods but don’t know how to do it successfully? Or who are struggling with digestive issues they can’t resolve?

Well, through my coaching programs, my busy clients learn to cook delicious, life-giving meals while spending less money on food and less time in the kitchen. I’m helping them resolve a variety of issues causing gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea, you name it. As a result, they have more energy, think more clearly, and sleep more soundly.

In fact, my client Jenny learned to cook a variety of whole food, plant-based recipes, and loves it! She’s lost 25 lbs, lowered her cholesterol 35 points, and her doctor is no longer bugging her about taking statin drugs. She went from experiencing daily gas and bloating to having none at all. She has more energy, less brain fog, and sleeps soundly.

As a coach, I love helping my clients feel better using plants as medicine. My clients meet their weight goals, discover food sensitivities, balance blood sugar, resolve emotional eating, and soothe cravings. As a result, they feel balanced, sleep well, enjoy exercising, and eat to live. They recognize when their body is out of balance and know how to get it back in balance. It takes courage to get started, but it’s a journey well worth beginning!

Carrie is certified by the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching, by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and as a Plant-based Health Coach by the Food Revolution Network.

Sharon Y. Brown is a Food Revolution Network Certified Plant-Based Coach, Plant Powered Metro NY Organizer and Mentor, PCC Credentialed Life Coach, Owner of Collaborate Change, and Master Energy Medicine Practitioner. Sharon is warm, compassionate, intuitive, and spiritual. She is committed to whole food plant-based nutrition, plants as medicine, indigenous healing and wisdom traditions, health equity, cultural awareness, and social justice. She believes that everyone deserves dignity, respect for their intersectional identities and perspectives, and the ability to live and contribute fully and freely from their authentic gifts in a just, equitable society.

Sharon provides the following services to support people who want to prevent or reverse chronic diseases by incorporating more whole plant foods in their diet: Individual and group coaching support for those interested in transitioning to a plant-based lifestyle; plant-based nutrition and lifestyle information sessions for church groups and nonprofits; referrals to evidence-based, health-supportive materials, resources, and opportunities; encouragement to create delicious, plant-based meals that feature culturally relevant seasonings; practical support for plant-based shopping, meal prep, and dining out; and brainstorming strategies for maintaining a plant-based lifestyle in unsupportive environments.

Collaborate Change incorporates the power of plants, ancestral wisdom, and a social justice lens to support holistic healing of body, mind, soul, and spirit. Collaborate Change operates on the belief that individual health and wellbeing contribute to collective healing, advocacy, co-creation, and social change. As a plant-based health coach and educator, Sharon is especially committed to supporting people who are disproportionately impacted by lifestyle diseases to take their power and health back by incorporating more whole food plant-based, nutrient-dense foods in their diet. Sharon has over 15 years of experience with culturally aware/trauma-responsive life coaching and training, curriculum and workshop design, project and team leadership, community applications of coaching, and prison workshop co-facilitation. She loves reading, growing food in small spaces, writing, and spending time with family and friends. Sharon lives in Essex County, New Jersey where she was born and raised.

Phyllis Leon is a Certified Plant-Based Coach and Woman-Centered Transformational Coach committed to a food-as-medicine approach to health and wellness. A graduate of the Food Revolution Network Plant-Based Certification Coaching Program, Phyllis empowers women in high-demand, male-dominated fields like TECH and STEM to achieve optimal health and professional success without sickness.

With over 36 years of experience in the tech industry, Phyllis leverages her results-oriented project management expertise to deliver impactful coaching that integrates holistic health and whole food, plant-based nutrition. As the founder of Women Embracing Wholeness, she helps women disrupt generational cycles of decline, disease, and diminished quality of life by guiding them to reset their relationship with their plate, power, and potential to promote health and prevent disease

Sally Handlon is founder and president of Handlon Business Resources* (HBR) LLC, a woman-owned business, located in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. In 2020, she became a published author with her first book Your Journey to Aging Well. According to David Winston, RH (AHG) internationally renowned herbalist,” (s)he just put out a lovely book on commonsense nutrition/lifestyle choices and is doing some really good work.” Her second publication was in the 2023 collaborative 10th volume of Mission Matters, chapter 35, Building A Stronger, More Sustainable Bottom Line.

Sally is a graduate of David’s Center for Herbal Studies, two year and graduate program (2008, 2009). She is also a 2019 graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the world’s largest nutrition school and has Integrative Nutrition Health Coach certification. In 2024 Sally continued her wellness studies by completing the Food Revolution Network’s Plant Based Coaching certificate program. This wellness journey led to her establishment of Body Construction website www.bodyconstruction.me

Active in the Lehigh Valley community for over 40 years, Sally has been involved with civic and business groups in Allentown, Bethlehem & Easton. Her current activity includes: Rising Tide Community Loan Fund Board, community host for WDIY (Lehigh Valley Business Beat and Wellness LV) and champion for Penn State Lehigh Valley.