Rising Stars: Meet Janelle Johnson of Cleveland, GA

Today we’d like to introduce you to Janelle Johnson.

Hi Janelle, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
Hmm, my story… Where do I start? Ok, first off in the last 5 yrs I became a full time Realtor and an Optavia Health & Wellness Coach. So I guess my story starts around 2020 when my full time corporate career of 20 yrs collapsed under Covid. So I was left facing unemployment and needed to find a pivot since I am a 50/50 contributor to my families household. When my daughters started back in school that Fall, I diligently worked and focused for 9 straight long days and completed my Real Estate license course, passed my exams and was in business for my self as a Realtor by November 2020. My timing for the market couldn’t have been better, learned years worth of experience just in my first year. I was Rookie of the Year for my first 2 yrs in real estate & one of the top performers on my team.

I found a passion for being an entrepreneur and working for myself and in February 2022, I decided to open my second business as Health Coach for Optavia. I started in January (a month earlier) as a client with the company. When I started as a client, it was because I was a tired, frustrated, overweight, physically hurting mama and wife who wasn’t thriving or showing up well for anyone in her family. I needed change. Fast forward to August 2022, I hit my health goal of 65 lbs down in 7 months!! By this point, I was coaching 75+ clients to their healthy goals. Now having been in the coaching business for almost 4 years, I have helped 500+ clients get healthy, reverse their diabetes, come off of medications due to their weight loss and overall helped them thrive in their daily lives now.

In my real estate career, I have toughed through this market because I am a hustler full of GRIT and the ability to pivot and overcome the hard.

My personal accomplishment for the goal I set was to use my coaching knowledge with this plan to help my family near & far. So as of today, I have helped 35 family members (3 generations from ages 14-75) lose weight, get healthy, get stronger and live fuller lives. My dad is a cancer survivor who has lost 180 lbs since being my client and at almost 70 yrs old, now goes to the gym and works out each morning! This is the way I feel like I get to buy back years with my loved ones!

As a busy mom, I have my two businesses, I have two young daughters, a wonderful hard working husband, I coached my daughters volleyball team last season, we n0w live in Cleveland GA where we bought our dream 3 acres with a view! I think I am some what of an anomaly in the way I run both of my businesses from one personal social media page (facebook). Most agents create a business page and keep their personal lives separate. With me, I work both businesses and market from my personal page where I invite all of my clients to be a part of my life daily. This actually allows the two businesses to cross paths and so now my clients in Optavia have me selling & buying homes… and vice versa the real estate clients are now becoming my health clients. It’s because they built trust with me, they know my family, they see my crazy Great Dane puppy and they know i am the expert in those two areas and that I will always fight hard for their best interests!

I never wanted my identity to be “a Realtor’ or ‘a Health Coach’…. I can do it all and that helps both businesses grow. Hence my hashtag #yourhealthandhomegirl (it use to be #momwiferealtorcoachlife)

Anyways, I don’t know that I have the most amazing news worthy type of story… but it’s mine, I live & work my passions and have a servants heart to help people and I have figured out how to bless my family financially with that passion for people!

I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Oh man! The struggles have been real for sure!

Real Estate was so simple from 2021-2022.. However the last few years it has been HARD. Not impossible, and actually last year I had a great year when 75% of agents didn’t sell 1 home in 2024! But the start of 2025 was my worst 1st quarter ever… so constantly humbled as an entrepreneur in this business. The 2nd half this year is looking FANTASTIC through!

In Health Coaching its always a struggle because I have to keep reminding clients of WHY they started, what their goals are and you’re dealing with others choices & emotions/excuses while trying to get them to stick with it. But I will say getting myself healthy a few years ago changed everything in the way that I can handle/cope with struggles, hard days, ever changing markets and the massively changing economy.

What’s next?
My plans for the future include building both of my businesses foundations to be stable enough and revenues to be double what they are now so that I can retire my amazing husband from his not so enjoyable career and give home the freedom to find a new career path or to start his own business and work for himself. He is my goal!

Getting to that goal includes actually taking 2-3 vacations per year, it includes helping my soon to be college student with her college expenses, and buying an investment destination property for our family to enjoy and also use as short term rental.

Pricing:

• Health High Protein Plans – $250+ to feed yourself for the month (+you get me for free as your personal Coach)

Contact Info:

• Website: https://blinq.me/ScgB35uQdplGy7LpVTlP
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourhealthandhomegirl
• Other: https://onereal.com/janelle-johnson