Kristen Holmes is joined by Angela Foster, an award-winning nutritionist and health coach. They discuss Angela's transition from lawyer to coach, the process of BioSyncing, improving nervous system balance, obstacles women face, and using data in health and wellness.
Prioritizing self-care and aligning goals leads to fulfillment and empowerment.
Transitioning from a lawyer to a high-performance coach requires overcoming challenges and creating a new career path.
Opportunities for women to embrace high performance by prioritizing health and continuously improving themselves.
Deep dives
Importance of Self-Care and Alignment of Life and Goals
Angela Foster discusses the importance of prioritizing self-care and connecting the mind, body, and spirit. She emphasizes the need to align one's life and goals to achieve a sense of fulfillment and empowerment.
Transitioning Careers and Overcoming Challenges
Angela Foster shares her personal journey of transitioning from a corporate lawyer to a high-performance coach. She discusses the challenges she faced, such as postnatal depression and major depressive disorder, and how she overcame them to create a new and fulfilling career.
Embracing Leadership Roles and Stepping Into High Performance
Angela Foster highlights the opportunities for women to step into leadership roles and embrace high performance. She encourages women to prioritize their health and well-being, strive for continuous improvement, and create a positive ripple effect in their personal and professional lives.
Prioritizing actions and transforming stress and anxiety
The podcast episode emphasizes the importance of prioritizing actions to turn visualization into reality. It explains that stress and anxiety are common emotions, but it is crucial to transform them into trust-based emotions like positivity and optimism. The episode delves into strategies for dealing with stress and anxiety, both from a macro and micro perspective, highlighting the significance of being in line with one's desired identity and using breath as a tool to bring oneself back to the present moment.
Biosinking and the role of values in high performance
The podcast explores the concept of biosinking, which combines sinking with one's future self, female physiology, and bio-individuality. The speaker emphasizes the importance of optimal health as a foundation for sustained high performance. The episode also discusses the role of values in aligning behaviors and achieving success. By understanding one's values and purpose, individuals can make decisions that are in sync with their desired identity, leading to improved heart rate variability and overall well-being.
On this week’s episode, WHOOP VP of Performance Science, Principal Scientist, Kristen Holmes is joined by Angela Foster. Angela is an award-winning nutritionist, health & performance coach, keynote speaker and host of The High-Performance Health Podcast. Kristen and Angela will discuss Angela transitioning from a lawyer to a high-performance coach (3:45), the drive to start looking after yourself (9:33), creating a new identity (14:05), expanding goals and knowledge (17:36), training your self-awareness (22:15), aligning goals to who we want to be (26:35), the process of BioSyncing (29:37), improving nervous system balance (32:19), ensuring everything is in alignment (37:38), women measuring success and growth opportunities in business (42:13), obstacles women face (47:13), how to ask for help (50:01), and using data in health and wellness (55:09).
