Today we’d like to introduce you to Dr. Angela Cudger.
Dr. Angela, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
In 2014, I was excited to enter into the entrepreneurial space as a Holistic Health Coach. With a medical background of almost 20 years, I was primed and ready to help my clients achieve big wins with their wellness. However, coaching was new for me and I was terrified to leave my comfort zone of the bedside in hospitals. As a therapist and anesthetist, my life and income were predictable. I quickly learned that with coaching it may not be. I begin to see more patients who were looking for holistic solutions to health issues.
This is what made me step out and start doing the work that I do. I could no longer, ethically, be part of a healthcare system of care that was not a healing solution for people. Instead of simply allowing myself to help a mall number of people as their personal coach, I decided to create a solution that would change my legacy and the legacy of other families. I decided to share my knowledge in the form of a holistic Health Coach certification program. As the Founder of Legacy Holistic Health Institute, I am honored to be able to offer prospective students in the Health and Wellness industry a unique, higher education experience that allows them to assist others in living a holistic lifestyle.
Has it been a smooth road?
The road has definitely had its challenges and all of them have made me more resilient. While creating my program and taking on the task of getting the school fully accredited, I discovered that there was a glaring disparity in the representation of people of color among top health and wellness outlets that promote true healing. In my extensive research into higher education as it relates to holistic, sustainable healing solutions, I learned that people of color were just as interested but simply had been left out. This allowed me to create a healing, higher educational solution that was inclusive, comprehensive and legacy driven.
Our biggest challenge has come from proving our educational model in a market place that wasn’t designed to include people who looked like me. These obstacles were all too familiar, as I was faced with the same level of misrepresentation as a graduate of a medical school anesthesia program. At Legacy Holistic Health Institute, we believe that everyone should have access to a comprehensively trained Health Coach who is knowledgeable and connected to a community. Health coaching is for every culture. Everywhere. Within 90 days of opening, we had a global student body, with students attending classes online with me from around the world.
Legacy Holistic Health Institute – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
Now that you have an idea about who we are and what we do in the health and wellness space, it’s important to know what it is that sets us apart from all other schools that train other health coaches on the planet. There are several universities and colleges that have health coach training programs. However, the main reason why many of these coaches graduate and find it challenging to run a practice. This is because they lack the tools they need to be successful in Health Coaching. Most Health Coach training programs follow a traditional educational model that does not account for personal and business development.
The personal and business development inside of a health coaching practice is critical to its growth. At Legacy Holistic Health Institute, we understand this and we have implemented business creation as well as personal development for our health coaches as they move through the program and establish a viable health coaching practice. Another thing that sets us apart from other schools, is that we teach our student’s disease management, medications and anatomy, and physiology. Traditional health coach training programs do not teach this information and it is imperative that health coaches help other people with these types of issues. Research shows that 86% of people on the planet have at least one chronic illness or will have at least one chronic illness in their lifetime. Health coaches must have knowledge concerning these processes in order to help people effectively heal and offer sustainable solutions.
Is our city a good place to do what you do?
Atlanta is a great city to start any type of business. There are active networks of people across industries who work together to harness a real sense of high-level enterprise as well as community. Although our school is online, we host several events that allow students to come together and discover even more as they develop themselves.
Contact Info:
- Address: 1000 Peridot Parkway
Stockbridge, GA 30281 - Website: www.discoverlegacy.info
- Phone: 1.844.385.1799
- Email: Admin@legacyhealthcoach.com
- Instagram: @queen.of.wellness
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/legacyholistichealth/
Image Credit:
Klarque Garrison, KLICKS Photography
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