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Welcome back to the Life with Mary and a Podcast. I'm your host, Maryanna Hewitt.

In this episode, I'm joined by Melissa Wood-Teperberg, a digital entrepreneur and founder of Melissa Wood Health.

She certified in yoga, pilates, and meditation, and we're chatting about setting intentions for the new year

and being the best version of yourself. To hear about all this and more from Melissa, keep listening.

What led you to becoming certified in yoga, pilates, and nutrition?

Oh my goodness, so many things really. It was at a place in my life where I was really living

a life of shoulds. I was modeling in New York for years and then moved into the acting space.

And while I liked it, I wasn't exactly living my passion. I was just doing what felt like the next step

in the field that I was in. So once I got really clear with myself that wasn't what really lit me up,

I decided to enroll at IIN. Literally, it was like I took a weekend to myself.

Got so clear with the things that made me happy. It was really like the simplest things.

And it just all redirected itself back to when I'm feeling centered, a line.

When I eat, well, I feel well in it. It just felt like, okay, let me just try this on.

So I enrolled there and that really just started my interest and it kind of like opened my eyes to

the realm of possibilities of what I could do in the space. And after I left there, I worked with,

I was working with an integrative doctor in the city as his health coach. I was the first health

coach that he hired. And it was an amazing experience opportunity. I learned how much I did not know,

which was quite essential because I think people are so quick to call themselves experts in a space

where there are so many people. You know, you can be in a space, but I think to be an expert,

when I worked with a doctor who was an expert and he would ask me questions all day and I just

didn't know the answer. So I got really comfortable being honest and saying, I don't know, I don't know,

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