Hi, I'm Laura Rupsis. My journey started with a health decline, evolved into a health transformation and manifested into a career change. I was eating the conventionally accepted "healthy" diet. You know, lots of healthy whole grains and low fat dairy, and followed that up with lots of chronic cardio to keep the weight off and support a healthy heart. Well, that approach, coupled with not enough sleep and too much stress did me in. After seeing multiple medical doctors and popping lots of prescription medicines just to manage symptoms, I finally got fed up and went to see an alternative doc. Armed with an elimination diet, some probiotics and a handful of Chinese herbs, 6 weeks later I was a whole new person!  6 weeks! No meds! Just diet, movement, stress reduction and sleep.

It was that life altering, mind blowing experience that made me decide to spread this message to as many people I could. Once I exhausted the patience of my friends and family, I decided to try to help those who really wanted it, rather than forcing unwanted advice on those who didn't. I made it official. I became a health coach.

Starting a business from scratch in an unrelated field to my professional experience was hard! But with a lot of passion, tons of mistakes, a couple of pivots and some resiliency, 3 years later I left my career in finance. I am now a fitness professional and gym owner, a practicing health coach and a faculty member at the Primal Health Coach Institute. I believe it is the growing field of health coaches working with the growing population of frustrated health consumers that will finally turn the tide away from managing illness and toward achieving wellness.