Today we’d like to introduce you to Alina Albizu.
Before dedicating her life to health and wellness, Alina had a successful job in public service in New York City. After completing her studies in integral nutrition, she decided to leave the corporate world and pursue her dream career in the wellness industry. She began as a nutrition coach and personal chef in New York and Las Vegas Nevada for local models and athletes. Alina has created several holistic nutrition programs and eBooks: 21 days VEGAN, 21 days BURNING FAT and AWAKENING an eight (8) week nutrition program. Through its various nutrition programs, Alina has transformed the lives of many people who seek to live a healthier and happier life. After her successful nutritional programs, Alina understood the need to educate her clients and followers about everything that nurtures human beings at a deeper level. This inspired her to write her first book, “Alimentación Primaria” in which she explains why nutrition is secondary when it comes to health and happiness. Alina is an international health speaker and creator of healthy recipes who is living her dreams of transforming people’s lives and making her audience look radiant and happy by adopting a healthy lifestyle. She also started a meal prep company called, Healthy Meal by Chef Alina. Her goal is to continue growing in the wellness industry to keep having a positive impact on people’s lives.
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
My journey hasn’t been easy. I graduated from a business school and years later after working in the corporate world, I realized I was not happy with the job I was doing. I did not feel I was doing anything meaningful to my life. I was doing great financially, but I was feeling so empty in the inside. Not being satisfied at my job, hating my career, and experiencing so many losses at the same time: a divorce, the death of my dad, losing all my belongings and losing my job all these bad events affected me so bad that I became part of the statistic of depression in America. I suffered a terrible depresión for two consecutive years. I started cooking to distract my mind, and realized that cooking was therapy, I started to heal and I discovered my passion for food and the healthy lifestyle. When I was recovered from the depression, I suffered I wanted to help as many people to recover as well, so I went to the nutrition school, got my degree, then became a health coach, took many cooking clases, started posting on social media, sharing my knowledge, wrote all my programs. Then, I was getting more ambitious about reaching more and more people, I wanted to help as many people as I could and that’s how I started preparing myself to become a Wellness speaker, most of my speeches are about happiness, because HAPPINESS was what I was looking the most during the two dark years of depression that I lived.
Please tell us more about your work, what you are currently focused on and most proud of.
I am a Holistic Wellness Profesional. I do online coaching, most of my couching are group couching. I have two amazing programs: one to lose fat and the other one to learn and understand veganism, this is the 21 Days Vegan Program. My clients love my programs because is not only a nutritional program we create a community of centered and beautiful people.
I also have a meal prep company and my responsibility is to take care of the weekly nutrition of my clients from breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack from Monday-Friday. This business is also very beautiful because it provides a healthy meal for my clients at an affordable price for their healthy nutrition. Proper nutrition is very important because we become what we eat. Think about this, your blood is completely renewed every three months and is based on the nutrients you put in your body. That’s why is very important to understand the biological and chemical effect of what we eat in our bodies.
So much of the media coverage is focused on the challenges facing women today, but what about the opportunities? Do you feel there are any opportunities that women are particularly well positioned for?
I believe that women are no longer victims, I believe that their doors are finally open for women. Think about this, there are women who are leaders in politics, in science, in the music industry, and in the sport industry. We’ve proved that we are as capable of men to have a big contribution to our society and we as women are doing an amazing job. Of course, there are still things to improve, but the opportunity we have and the support we have even from a financial institution to become entrepreneurs is amazing. In the Health Industry, particularly in the industry that I am in, women are leading and is a very profitable industry. We need to take advantage of this moment because is the time to plant the seed that will grow as much as we want the seed to grow.
Contact Info:
- Website: alina albizu.com
- Phone: 9176914665
- Email: [email protected]
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alina.albizu/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alina.albizu
Image Credit:
Photographer Diosa Pacheco
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