Coach Melanie Jordan
NBC-HWC, Weight Loss and Health Transformation Coach
My passion and mission in life is to help others create happy endings for their personal weight loss story.
I specialize in showing career professionals how to become successful at losing weight for good without gimmicks or deprivation that fits who they uniquely are. This career began after a wake-up call in my mid-40’s that changed the course of my life.
Like you, I was a successful businessperson, but I struggled with my weight for years because I kept putting my own health on the back burner. I put everyone and everything else first while burning the candle at both ends and in the middle in everyday life.
Suddenly I came face to face with the ghost of my future health self in my own family. The impact of sedentary lifestyle, poor diet and obesity was resulting in tragic health consequences.
Like Scrooge on Christmas morning, I woke up and realized if I didn’t take quick action, that could be my future as well, but I also recognized it was in my power to rewrite my future health story. Ultimately, I lost 48 pounds and it not only positively changed my health…it changed EVERYTHING.
I’ve devoted the last decade plus to all things health, fitness and wellness, changing careers from the business world.
It all started when I got up the nerve to go from Zumba® student to ACE® Group Fitness Certified Zumba/Zumba Gold Instructor after Iosing nearly 50 pounds. I felt I could now stand in front of the class as a role model and so I did! Others had seen my success first-hand, so I got lots of questions about what I was eating, drinking and thinking as they wanted to accomplish their own success stories. I started coaching by the seat of my pants, not realizing at first that this was indeed a profession that was starting to explode.
Once I realized that I had found my true calling, I invested my time and money to master my craft. I acquired the knowledge, experience, and credentials to help others succeed much more quickly than I had going it alone. This included getting dual health and wellness coaching certifications from Wellcoaches® (which is endorsed by the American College of Sports Medicine) and the American Council on Exercise (ACE®). I also have served the employees of corporate wellness programs both as a Health Coach and a WELCOA® (Wellness Council of America) certified professional, having earned their prestigious Faculty Status designation.
Ultimately, I became Nationally Board-Certified as a Health and Wellness Coach — one of the first coaches in the country to have earned this designation — which is a collaboration between the National Board of Medical Examiners and the National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching.
Besides my coaching, I also bring my knowledge as an ACE Certified Personal Trainer and ACE Certified Senior Fitness Specialist to the table.
I’ve also led two teams of Health coaches and two teams of Health Coach Managers to support the life-changing wellness missions of three digital health startups.
What all this means is that I work with each person I coach holistically. I recognize each person is a unique and complex individual.
Of course, we’ll achieve success in healthfully dropping pounds and keeping them off, but we’ll also make sure that in the process you transform across all areas of your well-being — nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress and mastering new life skills like making yourself a priority. This will help ensure that what we achieve together lasts for your second and third acts at work, in your personal life or both.
Throughout my coaching career over the last decade plus, it has been my joy to have successfully helped thousands of people from all walks of life get out of their own way and achieve their healthiest and happiest lives.
I’ve been in the shoes of the people I’ve coached with my own weight loss struggles. Knowing I “get them”, combined with my credentials, experience and expertise, makes all the difference.