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Few missions matter more than helping people live healthier, happier, longer lives. Yet turning that mission into reality, at scale, is one of the greatest challenges of our time.
This podcast dives into the stories of those who take that challenge head-on — the worlds leading Health Entrepreneurs - who are dedicating their professional and personal lives to creating maximal impact. The true Impact junkies!
Join us as we talk through their stories behind the mission — the wins, the losses, the challenges, and the breakthroughs — with the hope of inspiring more people to join the mission and the health revolution.
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Lenus is on a mission to build the world's best coaching businesses. Learn more: https://www.lenusehealth.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=season2&utm_content=ep2 Follow Lenus on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lenus.io/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=season2&utm_content=ep2 Are you a coach ready to build your business with Lenus? Apply here: https://www.lenusehealth.com/contact?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=season2&utm_content=ep2 Jacob Bork built his coaching business around two words: "F*ck Diets." In this episode, he joins Daniel to make the case against diet culture altogether. If you've ever felt like health had to mean restriction, willpower, and constant tracking, this conversation offers a different way in, one that's helped him build a client base ranging from mothers to a 94-year-old still going strong. You'll hear how Jacob turned his own childhood struggle with weight into a coaching philosophy built on empathy and expertise, why he thinks the industry is obsessing over the wrong things, and what actually changes a client's life long after the scale stops mattering. Whether you're a coach rethinking your approach or just tired of diet culture's rules, this one's worth the watch. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Lenus is on a mission to build the world's best coaching businesses. Learn more: https://www.lenusehealth.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=season2&utm_content=ep1 Follow Lenus on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lenus.io/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=season2&utm_content=ep1 Are you a coach ready to build your business with Lenus? Apply here: https://www.lenusehealth.com/contact?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=season2&utm_content=ep1 With over 20 years of combined experience in Online Coaching between them, our five Lenus Ambassadors sat down at the same table to talk about what makes a coaching business work: from the importance of mindset and accountability, to why coaching spans far beyond a meal plan, to helping clients break out of all-or-nothing thinking, and the cost of trying to hold onto every part of your business yourself. They also tackle the question every coach is asking right now: is AI a threat to coaching, or just a tool that frees you up for the work that matters? Whether you're scaling your coaching business or just starting out, this one's worth the watch. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
This is a story of alchemy: turning pain into purpose or as Emma puts it, turning your mess into your message. As the founder of Team Empower, she's built one of the UK's most trusted online coaching businesses over six years, serving more than 12,300 clients with a 9.1 NPS score most companies would envy. But the version of Emma her clients see online is only half the story. She joins Daniel to trace where it all began: years of bullying that pushed her into isolation, and a moment on a family holiday that changed the course of her life. What followed was a transformation that looked like success from the outside, but nearly cost her everything from within. They also get into a chapter Emma has rarely spoken about: a period of her life so dark it landed her in hospital, and a decision afterward that sent her back to school to study the brain itself. She unpacks what she calls "alchemy," turning her lowest moments into the exact thing that now shapes how she coaches, and why she believes the industry's obsession with discipline is missing the point entirely. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Lenus is on a mission to build the world's best coaching businesses. Learn more: https://www.lenusehealth.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=season1&utm_content=ep11 Follow Lenus on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lenus.io/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=season1&utm_content=ep11 Are you a coach ready to build your business with Lenus? Apply here: https://www.lenusehealth.com/contact/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=season1&utm_content=ep11 Kennedy Farrell spends her days moving between two versions of the same calling. As an ICU nurse, she sits with people in the hardest moments of their lives. As a coach, she sits with people in the hardest moments of changing theirs. Both, she says, come down to the same thing: showing up for someone when it matters most. She joins Daniel in Copenhagen to trace where that instinct comes from: a childhood spent watching her parents struggle with addiction, and the moment as a teenager when she realized she couldn't fix them, but could focus on improving herself. Self improvement is the same instinct that later took her from cheerleading mats to gym floors to a coaching business which she runs parallel to shifts in the ICU. She unpacks the lessons that now guide her coaching: why she believes people can change no matter how they were raised, and why she pushes back on the idea that health requires seven-day routines and constant sweat. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Lenus is on a mission to build the world's best coaching businesses. Learn more. Follow Lenus on Instagram. Are you a coach ready to build your business with Lenus? Apply here. Indya Agos was emancipated at 15, slept in an abandoned house to make it through high school, and grew up watching her mother struggle with addiction. She joins Daniel in Copenhagen to trace how that childhood shaped every chapter that followed, from hairdressing to a 250-pound turning point in front of a mirror, to building an online coaching business with an average client NPS of 9.1. India is disarmingly honest about the parts of her story most people would keep hidden: the moment she recognized her mother's patterns in her own reflection, the toxic relationships she repeated because it was the only love she knew, and the one-way ticket to Asia she bought while struggling with depression and suicidal ideation, not knowing if it would give her life or take it. She also unpacks the lessons that now shape her coaching: the difference between an explanation and an excuse, why trauma-informed coaching means understanding the story behind the scale, and why 100% of transformation comes down to mindset, even when GLP-1s are part of the picture. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Lenus is on a mission to build the world's best coaching businesses. Learn more Follow Lenus on Instagram Are you a coach ready to build your business with Lenus? Apply here Sarah, founder of Sarah in All Sizes, lost 210 pounds (starting at 370) and turned her journey into a coaching business that has changed the lives of more than 1,300 women. In this episode she sits down to tell the whole story: growing up hearing the word "obese" from the age of four, the fad diets that never stuck, the stigma that made her resist bariatric surgery for years, and the day the scale finally pushed her to change everything. Sarah is refreshingly open about the parts most people keep quiet. From veterinary nurse to mortician to online coach, her path is tied together by one thread: being in service of people in the moments they need it most. She shares why education beats another 1,200-calorie meal plan, why clients sometimes need to slow down to succeed, and why holistic, personalized coaching built on real human connection is what finally breaks the cycle. This is a conversation about grit, stigma, second chances, and what it means to become the turning point for others that you once needed yourself. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Lenus is on a mission to build the world's best coaching businesses. Learn more Follow Lenus on Instagram Are you a coach ready to build your business with Lenus? Apply here Amanda Nydén built MandyFit from a single group-fitness class in a small Swedish town into one of the most successfull coaching businesses in the Nordics. In this episode she sits down with Daniel in Copenhagen to trace the whole arc: the inner drive that kept pushing her out of her comfort zone, the long grind to a pro card, and the burnout that finally forced her to slow down. Amanda is refreshingly honest about the parts most people hide. She talks about chasing a goals harder than most could, the identity shift that came when the competing stopped, and the autumn she woke up unable to get out of bed. Her story is a study in grit, and also in learning when grit stops serving you. Along the way she unpacks the lessons that now shape how she leads as a Health Entrepreneur: why goals deserve a timeline measured in years rather than weeks, why the magic tends to live just outside your comfort zone, and why a founder has to stop managing everything and become the creator of the business instead. Whether you coach, build, or simply push yourself hard, this is a warm, candid look at ambition, the cost of it, and what it takes to keep going without breaking. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Lenus is on a mission to build the world's most impactful coaching businesses. Learn more Are you a coach ready to build your business with Lenus? Apply here Follow Lenus on Instagram Kevin Clevenger got clean, got strong, and built Iron Sanctuary "one rep at a time". In this episode, the founder who grew a following of millions by being radically honest online sits down to talk addiction, recovery, and the daily fight to make the sad voices go away. Kevin doesn't flinch from the hard parts: the friend he lost to suicide, his own attempt, and why he believes the biggest killer is silence. He opens up about why food addiction can be even harder to beat than drugs, what recovery rooms taught him about how addicts actually feel, and how being radically honest online gave millions of people permission to stop hiding. Underneath it all is the throughline of his work: training as a tool for mental health, and breaking the silence that keeps people stuck. It's a raw, hopeful conversation about turning pain into purpose, and the strength it takes to stay on the journey of creating impact at scale. This episode discusses addiction and suicide. If you're struggling, you're not alone. In the US you can call or text 988, and elsewhere please reach out to a local helpline. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Learn more about Lenus Follow Lenus on Instagram Work with Lenus In this episode of Impact Junkies, Daniel sits down with Bliss from Bliss Mode to unpack the story behind one of the most energetic forces in online coaching. Before building Bliss Mode, Bliss was working early mornings as a trainer, late nights as a server, and doing everything she could to keep coaching people — even when she was barely getting by. One of her lowest moments came when her car was repossessed outside the gym while she was coaching a class. She calls it her rock bottom. This conversation is about grit, self-belief, and what it really takes to turn passion into impact at scale — from garage training during COVID to building a coaching brand that has helped thousands of people move more, train harder, and change their lives. In this episode: Bliss’ early relationship with health and fitness, the grind years, her rock bottom moment, building Bliss Mode, scaling online coaching, and leading with energy, passion, and purpose. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Relevant links: Learn more about Lenus Start your Health Entrepreneur journey and Partner with Lenus Follow Lenus on Instagram This episode of Impact Junkies: Few topics are changing the future of weight loss more than GLP-1s. But according to Liza Marie, medication alone is not the full answer. In this episode of Impact Junkies, Daniel sits down with Liza Marie, also known as the weight loss big sister, to talk about her own transformation, the 140 lbs she lost, the coaching business she built, and why sustainable weight loss still comes down to habits, support, strength training, nutrition, and lifestyle change. Liza shares what it was like growing up overweight, using food for comfort, feeling stuck in life, and eventually taking the first step during lockdown: a 20-minute walk. That first step became 10,000 steps, then 30 lbs lost, then 140 lbs lost, and eventually a business that has helped more than 9,300 women change their lives. They also dive into one of the most important conversations in health right now: how GLP-1s can reduce food noise and create powerful change, but why coaching may be the missing piece that helps people build a healthier lifestyle they can actually sustain. This is a conversation about weight loss, food noise, confidence, coaching, GLP-1s, and what it really means to build a smaller body for a bigger life. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Learn more about Lenus Follow Lenus on Instagram Start your Health Entrepreneur journey with Lenus This episode of Impact Junkies: Amber DosDos is the founder of Ambitious Coaching, and a health entrepreneur who has transformed her own life and the lives of thousands of others. Amber lost 160 lbs without a coach, a plan, or anyone who had done it before her to show her the way. Then did something most people don't: she shared the story, and turned every painful lesson into a programme that now helps women do what she had to figure out the hard way. The grief, the shame, the staircase moment that changed everything. This is the story of a health entrepreneur who lived it first, then built something transformative from it. If you work with people trying to change their lives, this one is for you. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Learn more about Lenus Follow Lenus on Instagram Start your Health Entrepreneur journey with Lenus This episode of Impact Junkies: Siobhan Wilson spent years chasing professional football, working three jobs, delivering mail and late training sessions, before finally earning her first contract. Then a carreer-ending injury forced her to pause and reflect. In that stillness, she realised the dream she'd fought for her whole life no longer fulfilled her. Today she's all in on changing others lives through coaching. This is how she got there. Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Learn more about Lenus Follow Lenus on Instagram Start your Health Entrepreneur journey with Lenus This episode of Impact Junkies: Most people close the door on themselves long before anyone else does. Meredith couldn't speak until she was 5, grew up overweight, and gave herself a ceiling of maybe 20 clients. Then one leap of faith changed everything, and she left a near-decade career to bet on herself. This episode is the real story behind the confidence you see today. — What it feels like to trust your gut when the world says no — How she scaled to 1,000+ clients without losing the people she started for — What she'd say to the coach who keeps closing the door on themselves This one is for anyone still deciding whether they're worth betting on. Impact Junkies — Powered by Lenus Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.
Learn more about Lenus Follow Lenus on Instagram Start your Health Entrepreneur journey with Lenus This episode of Impact Junkies: In this episode, James Middleton breaks down the hidden phases behind building real impact. From the outside, it looks like a straight line: growth, results, scale. In reality, it’s not. There are phases of doubt. Phases of identity shifts. Phases where nothing seems to work. And those are the phases that shape people who create real impact. We dive into: The unseen phases behind success What it takes to scale impact as a coach The pressure of being responsible for others’ transformation How James’ philosophy has evolved The difference between building a business and building something meaningful This episode is for anyone who: Wants to create impact through coaching or entrepreneurship Feels like they’re in the middle of it right now Or wants to understand what success really looks like behind the scenes Thank you for listening to Impact Junkies – Powered by Lenus Follow the show, leave a rating, and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps us bring more stories of health, coaching, and impact to more people.