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Taylor Treacy is a passionate thought leader within the realm of female athletics as she supports and encourages athletes to balance sport with life. As a former UNC volleyball athlete and retired pro-player, she is using her personal life experience to shed light on the challenges that accompany being a college athlete, specifically mental health. She created a platform called, The Virago Project which creates open dialogue and a safe space for female athletes to connect. She’s a positive force and you’ll be inspired as she shares her hope for the future of changing the landscape of female athletics.Enjoy this final episode of Season 1 of the Journey 2 Health podcast, we will back with Season 2 in the Fall! In the meantime you can review show notes at www.journey2health.com/podcast. 

Elli McGlauflin is a vibrant, magnetic and enthusiastic ray of sunshine in your day, however, before the Journey 2 Health program, she didn’t feel that way.  She was 50 lbs. overweight, not physically active, alcohol was a daily staple and she desired to be healthier.   She decided to commit to her health when her employer, Weaver Street Market, implemented the Journey 2 Health program and she signed up for health coach! Hear her inspiring story in this episode and read show notes at www.journey2health.com/podcast. 

Allison Wrenn serves as a Health Coach for EHOP Health. She’s a North Carolina State University graduate and holds her Health Coach certification from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. After spending over a decade at the Cary Chamber of Commerce, she recognized the unmet need of businesses to be served by a health plan focused on needing less healthcare. Allison knows the importance of living a life aligned in mind, body and spirit. With a conscious effort on tackling her fears and building her spiritual and physical health, she established synergy and healing in life. View more show notes at www.journey2health.com/podcast. 

The Journey 2 Health is a program based on 3 pillars of health; Live Well, Move Well and Eat Well.  We share our last, but possibly the most impactful pillar on this episode, Eat Well. If you missed our Live Well and Move Well episodes, I’ll encourage you to go back and give Episode #13 and Episode #16 a listen.

Eat Well is one of the most critical pillars for making real strides in your health. You’ve heard it said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” from Hippocrates.  And throughout our podcast, you’ve heard countless stories from our guests about how food has brought them healing. It’s about 90% of the health journey and we share our 3 best Eat Well tips with you today. See show notes at www.journey2health.com/podcast. 

Caroline Wilson is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach at Carolina Total Wellness and with the EHOP Health team. She also holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree in Counseling from East Carolina University.

Caroline’s coaching journey began in 2009 when she re-connected with her college roommate who is a practicing functional medicine doctor. Caroline currently coaches in the same clinic. When Caroline began digging into the aliments plaguing her life and implementing small changes to her nutrition, she quickly recognized that food is medicine. After traveling her own health journey, she found that by combining her background in counseling and her love for health and fitness, health coaching was where she wanted to be!

Joni Haltom is the HR Manager at Harriss & Covington, a 5th generation hosiery mill in High Point, NC. She shares that while she had a solid foundation of knowing healthy behaviors and having parents who led her well, she found herself at the age of 50 in the “perfect storm". She was battling weight gain, not exercising or eating well, heart burn, high blood pressure and an unexpected diagnosis of pre-diabetes. She had let herself go and knew she needed to get back on track. View show notes and more at www.journey2health.com/podcast.