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Veteran Insights from a Seasoned Coach with Tina Haupert

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After a 2011 ulcerative colitis diagnosis, Tina says she questioned whether she was actually healthy.

1. Health Coach Radio features Tina Haupert on long-term health coaching, blogging, and functional nutrition. 2. Erin Power interviews Tina Haupert, a business buddy, mastermind partner, FDN practitioner, certified nutrition coach, podcast host, author, wife, mom, and founder of Carrots and Cake. 3. The episode asks how a 2008 blogger became a functional nutrition coach who helps women advocate for themselves with doctors. 4. Tina says she started a free blog in February 2008, when blogs were a daily habit and she posted multiple times a day. 5. She says readers connected most with her wedding planning, meals, workouts, recipes, and the behind-the-scenes details of her life. 6. Brands later noticed the blog, and Tina worked with brands, cookbook projects, and recipe development. 7. Tina says ulcerative colitis was diagnosed in 2011, after she had been presenting herself as a healthy-living blogger. 8. She describes urgent diarrhea, blood in her stool, mucus in her stool, exhaustion, hair loss, and going to the bathroom 20 to 30 times a day. 9. She says she canceled trips and vacations because she could not be far from a bathroom. 10. Tina says traditional care brought colonoscopies, blood work, and medications, but the answers remained limited and symptoms persisted. 11. Functional testing gave Tina more data than her standard blood work and showed mineral deficiencies, cortisol problems, bacteria imbalances, leaky gut, inflammation, and gluten sensitivity. 12. She says the testing helped her see that something was actually wrong, even when doctors said her labs looked normal. 13. Tina says stress is a major trigger for her and that her genetics seem to keep her body in an inflamed state. 14. She describes 2019 as the year when she stopped blogging multiple times a day and shifted fully toward coaching and testing. 15. Tina and Erin discuss how she now works mainly with women 35 plus, especially women in perimenopause and menopause who want body composition changes, energy, and answers. 16. Tina explains that her team matches clients with coaches based on life stage and health focus, such as hormones or mental health. 17. Erin and Tina talk about the value of scripts, question lists, and role-playing before medical appointments so clients can speak up. 18. Tina says women should be willing to find another doctor if the current one is not listening, and Erin frames that as equalizing the power dynamic. 19. The conversation is direct, practical, and coaching-heavy, with a lot of back-and-forth on symptoms, tests, and client support. 20. Listeners who want functional nutrition, menopause support, and patient advocacy will likely get the most from it, while people wanting a short celebrity-style interview may skip it.

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A steady coaching conversation about advocacy, lived experience, and practical health work.

This episode looks at health coaching through the work of Tina Hopper, who has been practicing since 2008 and now brings together functional diagnostic nutrition, nutrition coaching, podcasting, authorship, and the Carrots and Cake founder role.

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