Elyse Wagner

My journey to peace around food and my body started when I was 13 years old. Being called "Obese Elyse" sent me on a mission to change my food first.

🎓 Training the Health Coaches Changing Healthcare
💚 Founder, ANBA® & A Nourished Life®
📚 NBHWC CE Provider | 5,500+ Coaches Trained
🌍 On a Mission: 1 Billion Lives Changed Through Health Coaching
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www.elysewagner.com What I realized is that it is SO much more than food and dieting and weighing yourself. I don't follow or endorse ANY specific diet plan, I'm a normal gal

that had her own weight issue growing up and towards the journey to finding peace with "Obese Elyse" gained a dual masters in holsitic nutrition and clinical health psychology. It's been my journey and I want to share what I've learned with you. I searched for these key ingredients throughout my undergrad years getting my BS in Nutritional Science and then my graduate years getting a dual masters in holistic nutrition and health psychology. It wasn't until I created peace with my body and with food (and it wasn't that long ago) that I truly started flourishing. My mission in life is to help women just like myself, who make food or their bodies the enemy. I want to help you learn what I know and have been through in an accelerated way so you don't have to suffer and struggle any longer. I use my experience paired with my knowledge to create a safe space where women can expand in peace, love, awareness and success with their health around their food, attitude and body! I created a six-step Permission to Feel Fabulous program so that women could start to listen to their own internal guidance, find joy out of their body no matter what size jeans they are and send body shame and food guilt to the garbage! I dubbed the website and brand, My Kitchen Shrink, because I truly believe that every single person can be their own Kitchen Shrink, you have all the key ingredients to create a delicious recipe of health success. You have that secret sauce. All you need is a guide, I'll show you how! My goal is that once you are done with Permission To Feel Fabulous, you are your own 'Kitchen Shrink' and can begin to listen to your body and give it what it needs. Want even more tasty resources, recipes and tips? Get your sweet buns on over to www.mykitchenshrink.com and sign up for juicy food & attitude tips that I only serve in my weekly e-mail updates! www.mykitchenshrink.com

05/09/2026

💥 The Health Coach Leadership Summit (FREE 10-Day Experience)

Most health coaches don’t need MORE passion.

They need a clearer pathway to becoming the coach people trust, hire, refer to, and actually know how to integrate into the real world.

After certification, a lot of coaches quietly find themselves wondering:

“Now what?”

That’s exactly why I created the Health Coach Leadership Summit.

This isn’t another motivational webinar or surface-level workshop.

It’s a real container with real conversations, real leadership, real-world tools, and practical support for health coaches who are done waiting to be chosen.

Over 10 days, we’re going to talk about what it actually takes to step into the future of this field with confidence, credibility, leadership, and collaborative care awareness.

You’ll get:
✅ 7 live + recorded transformational trainings and conversations
✅ Practical tools you can immediately apply
✅ Real-world strategy without the overwhelm
✅ Conversations with industry leaders like National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching, , The Institute for Functional Medicine Institute for Behavior Change, The Health and Well-Being Coaching Conference
✅ Insights from health coaches already getting their work into the world

When I shared this idea, people told me:

“Elyse, this could easily be a $2,000 program.”

But honestly?

My heart said these conversations were never meant to stay behind closed doors.

So yes. It’s completely free.

Because I’m tired of watching brilliant health coaches feel underpaid, overlooked, underutilized, and alone while holding work that could genuinely change lives.

This field is evolving.

And health coaches are not “extra.” They are ESSENTIAL.

If you’re ready to become the kind of coach people trust, refer to, collaborate with, and remember…

I’d love to have you inside.

🗓 May 19–28
⏰ 11am–12:30pm CST daily
🎥 All sessions recorded
💥 100% free

👉 Drop “SUMMIT” in the comments or DM me “SUMMIT” and I’ll send you the invite.

See you inside,
Elyse

05/07/2026

40 registrants. 9 collaborators. One email. 🤯 🤝💌

Before she posted once.

Oh, and did I mention? Her very first live event. Ever.

Lisa came to me about a month ago with real skills, real heart, and zero clarity on how to get her work into the world. No offer. No plan.

Just that sinking feeling of watching everyone else move while she stayed stuck in her own head.

We didn’t touch her strategy. We went straight to her identity. 👀

One conversation. One sentence. Everything shifted.

Then she moved before she felt ready. And what happened next blew HER mind.

Nine collaborators showed up. A Functional Medicine NP spoke at her event. Forty people registered before a single social post went live, 4-0! 👏👩🏻‍⚕️🤝

Her expectation was 10. She quadrupled it. Without a funnel, complicated tech, or a perfect website. 💅🏼

This is what happens when health coaches stop waiting for permission and start leading from exactly where they are.

That’s what we build inside the Health Coach Leadership Summit.

Seven days. May 19th–28th. Free. All sessions recorded.

P.S. The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) is a participant and supporter of the Health Coach Leadership Summit.

Your registration comes with exclusive IFM resources you can use with your clients right now. 📚

Yours. Free. Just for showing up. Access opens May 19th. Vault closes May 28th.

Once it’s closed, it’s gone.

Drop SUMMIT in the comments and I’ll send you the invite personally. 👇

FunctionalMedicine

05/05/2026

Honestly, when SC first told me her dream was to be the health coach for a yarn store in small-town Nebraska, I paused...🧶🤔💭

It wasn’t a bad idea, in fact it was BRILLIANT, it just had NEVER been done before to my knowledge.

I had never even thought of it as a possibility. Wasn’t even on my radar. 🎯

And that moment stopped me in my tracks, because I’ve been in this industry for years, I’ve worked with over 5,500 health coaches, and even I had a ceiling on what I thought health coaching could look like.

She didn’t.

She had a calling, she had the clarity, and honestly, the lady coconuts to go after something that looked nothing like the traditional path. 🥥

Spoiler alert: She landed it.

A yarn store in small-town Nebraska with an owner so progressive about employee wellness that SC now has steady income AND a pipeline of private clients coming directly from that one collaboration.

While most coaches are still trying to fit themselves into a box that was never built for them, SC went and designed something entirely her own.

That vision you’re carrying, the one that feels a little too specific, a little too unconventional, maybe even a little embarrassing to say out loud, that’s not a fantasy. That’s a direction.

And the coaches who learn to follow it, without dismantling themselves every step of the way, are the ones who end up living it.

SC is proof. And she’s going to be in the room telling you exactly how she did it.

The Health Coach Leadership Summit runs May 19–28, free, all sessions recorded, and this is the conversation our industry has never had publicly.

Not theory. Not tactics. Real coaches, real paths, real proof that health coaching gets to look like whatever you have the courage to build.

This is the room that was built for the version of you that’s been waiting to be told she was right all along

DROP “SUMMIT” in the comments and I’ll send you the link. 👇

05/04/2026

She came from dead last. 23-1 odds. 152 years of history working against her.

And Cherie DeVaux won the Kentucky Derby anyway. 🐎

The first woman in 152 years to train a winning horse. And after? She said this:

“I’m glad I can be a representative of all women everywhere that we can do anything we set our minds to.”

I read that this morning sitting with Neville Goddard:

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire and then you believe it to be true.”

Both of those things hit differently today.

Because over a year ago I had a thought drop in. Something I wrote down quietly and told almost nobody about. Something so specific it felt more like an instruction than an idea.

Tomorrow I’m finally telling you what it is.

If you’re a health coach who knows you’re meant for something that doesn’t have a blueprint yet, you need to be first in line for this.

152 years is a long time to wait for someone to decide the door is open.

Health coaches aren’t waiting anymore either.

DROP “EARLY” in the comments. I’ll make sure you’re there. 🐎👇

05/01/2026

You weren’t trained wrong.

Read that again. 👆

You were trained for a system that wasn’t ready for you yet.

That’s changing.

And you’re right on time. 👏👏👏

Follow along, because this is the conversation the health coaching industry needs to be having. 🌿

And it’s going to be happening LIVE very soon!

04/29/2026

Collaborative care is already here. 🙌👏And the health coaches who understand their role inside it are building the dream CAREERS everyone else is trying to figure out.

I’ve been building something for the health coaches who are ready to step into that.

More on that next week. Stay tuned! 😘

💚 Save this if it landed.

04/27/2026

I read Influence by Dr. Robert Cialdini years ago and one line has never left me. 👇

“People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”

That’s it. That’s the whole thing.

Not complicated frameworks. Not elaborate behavior change models. Just the simple, almost embarrassingly human truth that people need a reason that belongs to them, one they believe in, one they chose, one they can come back to on the days when everything feels hard.

The health coaches who get this are the ones whose clients actually follow through.

Because here’s what 15+ years in the behavior change, health and well-being field has shown me.

People don’t struggle to change because they don’t know what to do.

They struggle because nobody has helped them anchor into WHY they’re doing it in the first place.

And when the why goes quiet, the behavior goes with it.

Your job as a health coach isn’t to convince anyone of anything.

It’s to help them remember what they already decided. To reflect back the words they said when they were clear and motivated and certain, on the days when they’ve forgotten all three.

To be the consistent presence that makes consistency feel possible.

That’s not persuasion. That’s not even coaching in the way most people think about it.

That’s partnership. And it’s where real change actually lives.

Cialdini figured out how influence works. Health coaches get to live it every single day.

Now, I’d love to hear from you. What’s the one thing you come back to when a client is losing momentum?

Drop it below, I’d love to hear how you’re anchoring people right now. 👇⚓️

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