Today we’d like to introduce you to Andrea Szapiro.
Hi Andrea, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
I would say that my journey into wellness really started when I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s at 17. But if I’m being completely transparent, I didn’t suddenly become health-conscious overnight. Shortly after my diagnosis, I moved to Italy for a year, and I fully embraced the experience. I ate, traveled, enjoyed myself, and didn’t think too much about my diagnosis or what it meant for my health.
By the time I started my freshman year of college, I had gained around 16 lbs, and losing that weight became much harder than I expected. That was really the moment when my curiosity began. What initially started as wanting to feel like myself again and understand why my body wasn’t responding the way I thought it should eventually turned into something much deeper.
I started learning about nutrition and exercise, experimenting with different approaches, and paying closer attention to my body. Over time, my focus shifted from simply wanting to lose weight to wanting to understand how everything was connected, my metabolism, hormones, digestion, energy, stress, sleep, and ultimately my overall health.
That curiosity never really left. For more than a decade, I’ve continued learning, experimenting, and evolving my approach to wellness. And somewhere along the way, I realized that the wellness world often presented two extremes. On one side, there was the focus on looking good, tracking calories, and changing your body. On the other, there was holistic wellness, where caring about aesthetics sometimes felt almost taboo.
I never really identified with either extreme.
I believed, and still believe — that you can care about how you look while also caring deeply about how you feel. You can have aesthetic goals while supporting your hormones, digestion, energy, longevity, and overall health. The two don’t have to compete with each other.
That idea eventually became the foundation for ASH — A Simple Health — and the philosophy behind what I do today: bridging the gap between looking good and eating well.
What began as my own personal journey eventually became something I wanted to share with other women. I became an integrative nutrition and wellness coach and started working one-on-one with women, helping them create healthier lifestyles that actually fit into their real lives. My approach has evolved far beyond simply telling someone what to eat. I look at the bigger picture: nutrition, movement, digestion, hormones, sleep, stress, habits, and mindset — because they’re all connected.
Over the past two years, my own fertility journey has added an entirely new layer to that understanding. It has challenged me in ways I never expected and pushed me to learn even more about hormones, reproductive health, inflammation, stress, recovery, and the incredible complexity of the female body. But beyond everything I’ve learned scientifically, it has also changed my relationship with wellness on a personal level. It has taught me that health isn’t always something you can control by simply “doing everything right.”
That experience has made me more curious, but also more compassionate, both with myself and with the women I work with. Wellness isn’t about perfection or following one protocol forever. Our bodies and our lives are constantly changing, and sometimes taking care of yourself means learning to listen, adapt, and support your body through whatever season it’s in.
Today, ASH is continuing to grow beyond what I originally imagined. I’m building a community and creating programs and resources that make wellness feel simpler, more approachable, and sustainable. At the core of everything I do is the same belief that has evolved with me throughout this journey: taking care of yourself shouldn’t feel like a temporary diet or an all-or-nothing project. It should become part of who you are and how you live.
I’m sure it wasn’t obstacle-free, but would you say the journey has been fairly smooth so far?
Definitely not!! But I think the challenges have shaped both me and ASH just as much as the good moments have.
On a personal level, the biggest challenge over the past two years has been my fertility journey. It has been one of the most difficult and humbling experiences of my life, especially as someone who has spent so many years learning about health and being very intentional about taking care of my body. I think there was a part of me that believed that if I ate well, exercised, managed my stress, took the right supplements, and “did everything right,” my body would respond the way I wanted it to. Fertility taught me very quickly that health doesn’t always work that way.
There have been a lot of unknowns, disappointments, and moments where I’ve had to learn how to keep moving forward without having control over the outcome. At the same time, it has made me incredibly curious. I’ve spent the last two years learning more about female hormones, fertility, autoimmune health, inflammation, and the body than I ever imagined I would. It has also taught me something you can’t necessarily learn from a textbook: how different it feels to take care of your body when you’re asking it to do something and it isn’t responding the way you hoped.
Professionally, building ASH has come with its own learning curve. Turning something that was such a personal passion into a business meant learning to trust my own voice and approach in an industry where there is constantly a new diet, trend, supplement, or “perfect” way to live. I never wanted ASH to add more noise. I wanted to create something that made health feel simpler and helped women understand their bodies rather than feel like they were constantly doing something wrong.
So no, it hasn’t been a smooth road. But I also don’t think ASH would be what it is today if it had been. The challenges have made me a better coach, a more compassionate person, and much more comfortable with the idea that wellness isn’t about controlling every outcome — it’s about learning how to support yourself through every season.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
My professional background is actually in architecture and interior design. That was the career I originally chose for myself, and I still do some interior design work today — I’ve always loved the creative side of designing spaces and bringing an idea to life. But somewhere along the way, life had other plans for me.
Wellness had been such a big part of my personal life for so many years that, eventually, I realized it was more than just an interest. I was always the friend everyone came to for advice on what to eat, how to exercise, which products or supplements I liked, or whatever new wellness thing I was trying at the time. I loved researching, learning, experimenting on myself, and then sharing everything I was learning with the people around me. Looking back, I think I was coaching long before I ever called myself a coach.
What had started as something I was doing for myself slowly became something I felt called to share with other women. That eventually led me to become an integrative nutrition and wellness coach and to create ASH — A Simple Health.
Today, I work primarily with women who want to feel better, look better, and understand their bodies without feeling like being healthy has to take over their entire lives. My approach combines nutrition, body composition, digestive and hormonal health, movement, sleep, stress, and daily habits. I don’t believe these things exist in isolation, so rather than focusing only on a meal plan or a number on the scale, I try to understand the bigger picture.
I think what I’m most known for personally is my vulnerability. I’m very open about my own life and the things I’m going through — not just the beautiful or “healthy” parts. I share my fertility journey, the struggles, the uncertainty, the things I’m still figuring out, and the moments when I don’t have all the answers. Especially throughout my fertility journey, I’ve chosen to show up honestly rather than only sharing the polished version of wellness.
I think people genuinely connect with that because I never want to position myself as someone who has it all figured out. I can be a wellness coach and still go through difficult seasons. I can teach healthy habits and still have days when I don’t follow my routine perfectly. To me, that’s real wellness. It’s not about creating a perfect life — it’s about having the tools to take care of yourself through the imperfect one you actually live.
I’m also very focused on making wellness practical. You should be able to travel, go out to dinner, have a social life, enjoy food, and still take care of yourself. My goal isn’t for a client to depend on me or follow a strict plan forever. It’s to give her the tools and knowledge to eventually make those decisions for herself.
And that is probably what I’m most proud of. Physical transformations are amazing, but what means the most to me is when a woman tells me she finally understands her body, feels good again, or no longer feels like she has to start over every Monday. Seeing someone take what I’ve taught her and make it her own is incredibly rewarding.
Ultimately, I don’t want ASH to be another diet or wellness trend. I want it to teach women a way of living that they can actually sustain — one where taking care of themselves feels simple, flexible, and human.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andreaszapiro.ash/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@AndreaSzapiro
