Meet Meghan Jones

We were lucky to catch up with Meghan Jones recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Meghan, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?
Resilience is most likely one of the biggest reasons I am succeeding as an online holistic health coach, and it comes from decades in a professional orchestra career … As well as how I’m internally wired … Though there’s a fine line between all of my training and “just how I am”!

In the orchestra world, the audition process sucks, to put it lightly.
You center your entire life around an audition, practice your a#% off, pay for lessons, battle your mindset 24/7, do more exercise or do less exercise (since last time maybe it was the exercising that didn’t make you advance through the rounds!?), you quit caffeine or maybe not (*see exercise reasoning), you play for colleagues & friends which is terrifying, you read books on how to fight your fear and win, you work with sports / music psychologists to get over audition anxiety, you buy the flight, book a hotel, pay for food, pay for ubers, get to the hall, wait in a “cattle call” room with everyone else taking the audition for that seat, get a private room for maybe 10 minutes to warm up, go out silently on stage (because the audition is screened or “blind”), and then you’re supposed to LAY IT DOWN within 5 minutes … Play exactly how you intend … Within the orchestral box while emoting so they hear your musicianship.
You might rock it.
You might tank.
You might advance to the semi finals because you rocked it, or just because you were the sound they were looking for.
You might not advance regardless if you rocked it or totally bailed on something you usually nail.
It’s rough.
And then … You get up, fly back home, and start prepping for the next audition.
In my opinion, that’s resilience in its purest form.

I know for a fact that living that scenario above has made me even more resilient than I might have been wired with at birth.

With my holistic health coaching business, I show up on social media sharing posts, stories, reels, videos, and lives day after day … Which surprisingly I enjoy … Yet you never really know if the algorithm is on your side, and if the right people who need your support are even seeing it!
Some months of business are incredible, and like every small business, some are less so.
Yet I know my resilience is huge and so important when someone completely out of the blue, whom I haven’t thought of since high school, messages me and says why they need to work with me, and sign up to be my client!
… Which happens way more frequently than I’d ever imagine.

Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?

About me – My name is Meghan, and I am an IIN certified holistic health coach, AFAA certified personal trainer, and a published author of the book 30 Little Thoughts.

I changed my entire life by cleaning up my eating.

… Which cellularly opened up space to heal my life & live aligned, happy, at a great weight for my body, with very little stress … And thus, able to help you do the same for yourself!

I used to think that if I restricted calories to under 1200 a day, or ate fat-free, or no carbs, or processed-packaged-organic vegan frozen food, or ran 50+ miles a week, that somehow my life would start feeling better.
I thought that if I did all those things, my relationships would improve, I would look a certain way, and not feel constantly stressed, never enough, and always sad.

Doing those mean things to myself for decades didn’t work.

I have been there with digestive issues, eating my way through varying fad diets, dealing with awful allergies, feeling physically, mentally, emotionally pretty crappy the majority of the time … and continually searching for answers and fixes outside of myself.

What I learned is that by going inside, becoming more & more deeply aware / conscious / mindful every moment of every day … from my own studies & through shamanic practices … everything starts to shift for the better.

I didn’t reach & exceed my health and weight goals until I shifted into basing my self trust, self worth, & inner value on my heart … actually sensing, feeling, & knowing who I am … that’s where the shift happened for me. Learning to hear my highest self, how to listen to my intuition, always living & making decisions from that space.

That’s the place where your eating, weight, relationships, & life can start to really heal … because it’s all connected!

I do help people lose weight, but I’m not a weight loss coach …
I go beyond.

Weight loss is 1 of the 10+ results included in my program.

My purpose is the benefit of the benefit!

You lose weight and see that your body deserves more, which mirrors back that your body deserves whole, real foods, your whole relationship with food shifts, etc.,

And then …

Beyond the food & physical health, you can unwrap the things that are keeping you stuck, and release them for good.
I have done it for myself, I continue to do it for myself, and I help my clients with this too!

Clients / Followers have called me –
Health Healer
Health & Soul Healer
Spiritual Healer
Messenger of Health Healing
Personal Spirit Guide in the flesh
Intuitive Wellness Coach
Soul Whisperer
LIfe Healer
“My” Shaman

I offer 1:1 individualized online coaching, group coaching, online courses, 1:1 and group online somatic breathwork sessions, online personal training sessions, virtual pantry & fridge sessions … and my book 30 Little Thoughts is available on Amazon!

There is no one size fits all way to go about cleaning up your individual body’s eating or healing your life. Everyone is perfectly different, and my coaching is tailored specifically for you. It encompasses everything you have got going on in your life, to make the shifts and transformations that you’re wanting feel as easy as possible, and flow into what you just do everyday. We change your whole life from the inside out.

In the health scene right now, it is a rare opportunity to have the full attention of a health coach, in a program that is completely personalized for you.

If you feel like you need help, like you’re doing all of the things, but nothing’s working, I can help! You don’t have to do it all on your own … and I am there with you the entire time, every step of your journey.

We walk together side by side, step by step to create transformations in both your outer & inner worlds, and put you on the path toward your ideal health.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
3 of the most impactful qualities, skills or areas of knowledge for me have probably been sticktoitiveness (I looked it up, it IS a word!), a beginner’s mind, and having constant external accountability & support.

Sticktoitiveness: If you’re driven in a compelled sort of way with anything … Creating a business to support the most people possible with their individual life transformations, cooking, art, music, teaching, botany, food safety, etc. … then you know that feeling of sticktoitiveness! Even when it really feels like the odds are stacked against you, there’s an inner pull that keeps you moving forward through and beyond the tears. That’s been so huge for me to feel, acknowledge, and simply go / flow with. It’s why my overall trajectory continues upwards … The internal drive holds it all together.

A Beginner’s Mind: Even though friends, family, coworkers and other coaches reach out to me with their questions (and many of them become my clients), every single day feels like stretching to me. Every day there’s something new, out of my comfort zone that I step into, and shift yet another limiting belief. Not to say at ALL that this feels “great” at the time 🙂 Just that in my experience, the more I know, somehow the less I know. Like there is SO MUCH learning and stretching for me to do for the rest of my life … Which impacts my coaching in incredible ways.

External Support: Having constant external accountability & support is non-negotiable for me! I have had a life changing Peak Performance coach, a life saving therapist, many violin teachers / coaches, a former business coach, a current business coach, and my Shaman who I’ve mentored with since 2011, just to name a few of my support network … There is no way I’d be as far as I am right now, nor have the courage to keep showing up in so many new ways without coaching and support! In my opinion, they’ve all shown up in divine timing. You just have to be open! The adage “when the student is ready, the teacher appears” is TRUE.

Thanks so much for sharing all these insights with us today. Before we go, is there a book that’s played in important role in your development?
As far as books go, what changed my life most and had the biggest role in my development is that all of the books I was reading to pull myself up out of my lowest lows ALL said the same things … Whether Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Neale Donald Walsch, The Gnostic Gospels, Mike Dooley, Jen Sincero, Denise Duffield-Thomas, Michael Singer, Jack Canfield, Rhonda Byrne, Michael Beckwith, Joe Vitale (and on and on and on) … It was hugely impactful for me that what they all “preach(ed)” was that everything is internal. I am the common denominator in my life, and that the feelings and emotions (e-motions / energy in motion) that I frequent are what I experience in my external life.

I had to shift.
Me.
Instead of always trying to fix things externally, fix things for other people, fix things with other people, help, over-give … None of that grasping / grabbing / victim-y energy was working, nor would it ever.

I received such a clear message from devouring their books, validation for my empath heart, and a completely different approach to living every single moment going forward.

If you hear the same messages said over and over and over again in varying ways, listen.
It’s very likely that that’s YOUR truth.

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