AllerCoach™ Spotlight: Susan Freel

AllerCoach™ Spotlight: Susan Freel

AllerCoach Graduate and Founder of Susan Freel Coaching

Susan Freel
www.susanfreelcoaching.com

What is your professional background?

MSW, MA, CPC   Health Promotion

Explain how allergies have affected your life or the life of someone close to you.

As a family, we have been dealing with food allergies since 2001, as both my children were born with multiple food allergies.

What motivated you to become an AllerCoach?

As a parent whose children were diagnosed with multiple food allergies, I learned that changing the way our family thought about how we lived our lives was the first step to ensure that our children did not feel they were defined by their diagnosis. I became passionate about helping my family and others find ways to navigate through life's transitions.

What were your key takeaways from the AllerCoach program?

The program was comprehensive, professional and empowering.

How have you implemented what you learned from the AllerCoach program?

Instead of focusing on obstacles, we need to strategize safe and healthy ways to live our lives the way we choose.

How has the AllerCoach certification helped you personally?

With information, one can lead and educate from a place of positivity and empowerment instead of from a place of fear and misconception.

How has the AllerCoach certication helped you professionally?

By empowering me to reach out to others living with food allergies and food intolerances. Through coaching, I found a way to take my experiences and help others in transition to live their lives with less uncertainty and more purpose, direction and balance.

Please tell us more about your AllerCoach business!

As a parent whose children were diagnosed with multiple food allergies, I learned that changing the way our family thought about how we lived our lives was the first step to ensure that our children did not feel they were defined by their diagnosis.  Due to my experiences with my family's food allergies, I became passionate about helping others find ways to navigate through life's transitions.  Instead of focusing on obstacles, we need to strategize ways to live our lives the way we choose.  Through AllerCoaching, I found a way to take my experiences and help others live their lives with less uncertainty and more purpose, direction and balance.

AllerCoach™ Spotlight: Lori Moussapour

AllerCoach™ Spotlight: Lori Moussapour

AllerCoach Graduate and Founder of To Empower U

Lori Moussapour
www.toempoweru.com

Please introduce and promote your AllerCoach business!

Lori Moussapour is the founder of To Empower U.  She is a social worker, coach, public speaker, and educator - whose mission is to help people push through challenges to find both passion and balance in love, work and play. As a parent of a child with several food allergies, she is particularly dedicated to the food allergic community. She launched Food Allergy U, a division of To Empower U, to support, educate and empower those living with food allergies and to promote more sensitive, informed and inclusive communities. Lori offers one:one coaching and social work services in office or online. She is especially committed to helping individuals and families with food allergies manage worry and stress. She uses evidenced based programs to coach and counsel those whose anxieties take up too much emotional real estate. In this work, the goal is to help clients harness the protective factors of worry to promote healthy allergen vigilance and to mediate the unhealthy ones to promote overall well-being. Lori writes a blog to inspire personal or professional growth and change and to empower the Food Allergic community.  To learn more visit  www.ToEmpowerU.com.

What is your professional background?

Social Worker, Educator, Coach & Consultant

Explain how allergies have affected your life or the life of someone close to you.

I am the parent of a child with food allergies.

 

What motivated you to become an AllerCoach?

As I gained experience as a parent of a child with food allergies, I gravitated towards mentoring others and local community advocacy. In good time, I wanted to reach a larger community. My background in counseling and coaching was specific to a broad range of clients, but I wanted specialized professional development in meeting the needs of the food allergy community.

 

What were your key takeaways from the AllerCoach program?

I valued the emphasis on individualizing services based on each client's needs. It aligned with my work ethic and business practices.

 

How have you implemented what you learned from the AllerCoach program?

The program offered substantive information about food allergies and other medically necessary diets. I have used some of this content to create social media posts for client, community and global educational, awareness and sensitivity programming.

    

International Chocolate Day

International Chocolate Day, July 7th!

Celebrate With These Delicious Allergy Friendly Chocolate Cupcakes!

Chocolate contains a mixture of ingredients. The main ingredient is typically cocoa powder, which is a processed version of the cacao bean. This powder is then mixed with a variety of other ingredients which can include sugar, fat, emulsifiers, and soy lecithin.

Many types of chocolate are also made with milk products, and/or are made in the same work-space as chocolates that contain nuts.

For people who are allergic to chocolate, it can be difficult to work out exactly what is causing the reaction because of the variability of the ingredients. 

Here is an allergy friendly, quick and easy, chocolate cupcake recipe that is FREE of dairy, soy, nuts, peanuts, sesame, and vanilla. Happy International Chocolate Day!

Chocolate Cupcakes With Fresh Red Raspberry and a Light Chocolate Mint Icing

1 bag sugar and Spice chocolate cake mix
1/2 cup of Earth Balance Soy Free
3 eggs 
2/3 cup of rice milk
1 tablespoon of maple syrup 
1 teaspoon cinnamon 
24 raspberries (can be done with chopped strawberries or blueberries as well) 

Heat oven to 350 degrees 
Mix ingredients (except raspberry) together using an electric mixer for 1 min 30 seconds 
Pour mix into cupcake pan w paper baking cups 
When cups are 1/2 full place one berry in the center and continue to fill until just under 3/4 full. 
Bake for 15-20 min 
Let cool and then place one rasp atop each muffin.

AllerCoach™ Spotlight: Tami Pyles

AllerCoach™ Spotlight: Tami Pyles

AllerCoach Graduate and Founder of Thrive on Consulting

Tami owns Thrive On Consulting in Louisville, KY. She is also a food allergy mom who has managed multiple food allergies for over 6 years. Her background in food allergy management and advocacy coupled with her professional experience in coaching and training allows her to work with clients to overcome fears, put safe practices into place, and Thrive On with food allergies.

Tami Pyles
www.thriveonconsulting.net

What is your professional background?

I hold an undergraduate degree in Communication from Ohio University and a master's degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from The Ohio State University.  Prior to founding Thrive On Consulting I worked in higher education and training and development for 15 years where my responsibilities included overseeing the direction and success of programs at major universities and leading a Fortune 500 company's training and development team. 

Explain how allergies have affected your life or the life of someone close to you.

I know first-hand what it is like when your family learns of a life-threatening food allergy.  Motivated by my desire to keep my daughter with life-threatening allergies safe, I have worked to promote food allergy awareness since receiving our daughter's diagnosis in 2010.  I started Thrive On Consulting in 2014 to utilize my vast and first-hand knowledge of managing food allergies, as well as my coaching and training and development skills, to assist families who are dealing with food allergies and to provide engaging training sessions on food allergy awareness.

What motivated you to become an AllerCoach?

As I launched my business, I wanted to be certain a had a breadth of knowledge of all food allergies, not just the ones that my family was managing.  I was also intrigued by the content of the business portion of the class.

What were your key takeaways from the AllerCoach program?

My key takeaways were: a deeper understanding of all food allergies; key social media and marketing skills; and a broader understanding of the the food allergy community. 

How have you implemented what you learned from the AllerCoach program?

From food allergy information to business approach, I have been able to implement components of the program into my practice.

How has the AllerCoach certification helped you personally?

I was able to not only build out my food allergy knowledge and business skills, but it has also helped me to connect to some great people that have helped to grow and compliment my business.

How has the AllerCoach certification helped you professionally?

It has helped me to establish a broader network in the food allergy community and gain access to professional conferences and events.

www.thriveonconsulting.net