INCREDIBLE: FBI Intelligence Chief Becomes Health Coach | Holly Bertone
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🗓️ 8 April 2025
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Holly Bertone was an FBI Chief of Staff for Counterintelligence until her career was derailed cancer and autoimmune disorders. Twenty years in a high-pressure job with ultimate stakes had taken their toll and contributed to the demise of her health.
But she didn't let her years of intelligence training go to waist. After leaving her dream job she began investigating why her body was failing her. It was espionage on her "food monsters" that enabled her to finally crack the code on her emotional eating.
It wasn't long before she accomplished her new mission of becoming a Certified Holistic Health Coach. Now she is using the same investigative tactics to help other high-achieving women solve their own mysteries by overcoming emotional eating and reclaiming their health.
Holly joins Chuck Carroll to share her incredible journey back to health on The Exam Room Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. |
| 0:03.7 | I'll give you a great example of the stressful work at the FBI and how this manifested in my emotional eating. |
| 0:10.1 | Every single day, I get a family-sized bag of M&Ms, color code them, speed eat them with my left hand, and I crank out PowerPoint decks with my right. |
| 0:22.0 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:26.2 | Hi, I'm the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:32.5 | Hi to the exam room. He's listening in Overland Park, Kansas, Chula Vista, California, and Moscow, Russia. |
| 0:39.9 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:44.2 | This is episode 31 of Season 8, number 630 overall. |
| 0:49.9 | And if you like spy movies and espionage, well, today's show is for you because we are going to be joined by Holly Bertone, who at one point was an FBI chief of staff for counterintelligence. |
| 1:05.1 | That was until her career was derailed by cancer and an autoimmune disorder. |
| 1:10.7 | There were 20 years that she spent in that |
| 1:13.3 | high pressure job where the stakes were as high as they possibly could be. But those same stakes |
| 1:19.8 | and all of that pressure took their toll and ultimately would contribute to the demise of her health. |
| 1:25.5 | But Holly did not let her years of intelligence training go to waste because after leaving |
| 1:31.6 | her dream job, she began investigating why her body was failing her. |
| 1:36.5 | It was espionage on her own food monsters that enabled her to finally crack the code of her |
| 1:43.6 | emotional eating. And it wasn't long before she |
| 1:47.0 | accomplished her new mission to become a certified holistic health coach and help others. And that is exactly what she is doing. She is using these same investigative tactics to help other high-achieving women solve their own mysteries by overcoming |
| 2:02.6 | emotional eating and reclaiming their health. |
| 2:06.2 | And she joins us here today for an incredible story of her own transformation from FBI |
| 2:12.6 | counterintelligence chief to now the chief investigative officer for so many women who are reclaiming their health. |
| 2:21.7 | Here now, Holly Bruton on the exam room. |
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