As a Health, Leadership and Success Coach, Kelly Travis helps ambitious, high achieving folks prioritize their health and well-being so they can reach new levels in their business and their life. Through her programs, speaking and coaching, Kelly helps individuals build confidence, uplevel their physical, emotional and mental health, and realize their goals. And as a result, they take massive action and create positive change in every area of their life.

Officially, Kelly is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition where she earned her certification as a Holistic Health Coach a certified Precision Nutrition coach and Certified Enneagram coach. Her passion for health and wellbeing started in college, where she was a collegiate All-American runner at UNC-Charlotte, and earned her Bachelor of Science in Public Health with an emphasis on mental health from Central Michigan University. Kelly’s extensive background in sales, marketing and publishing in the competitive Las Vegas market allows her to seamlessly communicate with leaders, individuals and organizational teams on all levels to cultivate a healthy culture, build trust, increase engagement and improve overall communication.

In today’s episode Kelly shares her story stepping into her mission to support women in owning their own desires and letting go of societal expectations. Kelly was a competitive athlete her entire life and she had big goals to go to the Olympics. After her freshman year of college her coach wrote her a contract to lose weight and she began restricting her food. Kelly found herself quickly declining, and dropped out of school after Nationals where she was an All-American. From coming home to get healthy to spending time in the psych ward, Kelly emerge from that experience healthier on the outside, but she soon realized that she didn’t do the work to shift from surviving to thriving. She returned to school and received a degree in mental health, but it wasn’t until she was pregnant that she realized more needed to change. Kelly embarked on that journey. She left her career, started her own business, and after having her second son she left her marriage. That’s where she’s at today - none of it was easy, but her boys were the catalyst for her to change her life. She knew if she wanted to help other women she had to get herself together, and that’s what she did. Today Kelly is racing again, she’s healthy, and she no longer criticizes her body or feels undeserving of the things that she wants. Kelly is supporting women and men who have goals they’re hiding from and helping them show up as themselves.

“What I’ve learned every time I share my story, whether it’s on stage or with somebody one-on-one, I’m reminded of how strong and capable and resilient I am. I’m reminded of the things I’ve overcome and the things that I’ve achieved, and I have to admit those things. We hide from this, we tell ourselves we’re not good enough, that there’s no way we can go after that goal because we’ve tried and failed before. When we can acknowledge the parts of our lives that show us that we are strong and capable and absolutely deserving of the things we want, it’s confirmation.”

— Kelly Travis

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7bZHrtjAzbksbLWNaak1NM

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stories-of-inspiring-joy/id1510488632

To learn more and connect with Kelly visit her website http://www.kellytravis.net on Instagram @kellythealth and you can listen to her podcast She Doesn’t Settle on most podcast platforms

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*Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Stories of Inspiring Joy.