My Human Coach
Making Healthy Changes Can Be Hard—You Don’t Have To Do It Alone!
Project Description
Compassionate, personalized health and wellness coaching.
We pair every client with a certified coach who helps them identify and break down barriers that keep them from experiencing their best health.
Certified human health and wellness coaches meet clients without judgment and help them achieve health goals. Whether it's losing weight, lowering your A1C, recovering from an injury, or learning how to get into a healthy routine, our highly trained coaches offer personalized guidance and ongoing, compassionate support through convenient and accessible asynchronous text-based coaching.
Our coaches customize a path for each individual. We can do this because we don't try to fit everyone into a premade program. Everyone has unique needs, circumstances and goals, so we get to know each client personally and support them in the ways they most need.
Instead of trying to fit everyone into a premade program, our coaches customize a path for each individual based on their values, goals, resources, and circumstances.
Your interaction will be 100% human.
Coaches are parents, partners, coworkers, and community members with their own challenges and health goals. We will work with you to understand WHY you want to be healthier, feel great, do good, and live your best life! And help you create a personalized plan to get you there.
Coaches work free of corporate influences.
We created My Human Coach to allow coaches to work independently, free from large corporate interests that often don't align with what is best for our individual clients. Our employee-owned model ensures coaching remains affordable and accessible while supporting a reasonable living wage for our coaches.
Your conversations are private and secure.
Our messaging app and My Human Coach adhere to HIPAA compliance standards and strictly prohibit tracking and selling user data. Your conversations and data are kept confidential and protected at all times.
Whole-Health Approach
My Human Coach uses a whole-health approach, incorporating the eight dimensions of wellness. We meet each client where they are with human empathy, compassion, and partnership.
Free Resources
Our site hosts our open library of free articles and courses not influenced by marketing, sales agendas, or concealed partnerships. Our one product - and commitment - is ethical 1:1 health coaching.
On My Human Coach’s podcasts, coaches discuss important issues like social determinants of health, workplace well-being, and stress. 100% of the money we raise with donations on IFW, and our podcast platform provides health coaching scholarships for historically underserved communities.
We know (because we've seen it!) that every person who becomes healthier and can live their best life has a ripple effect on their families, communities, and workplaces. Many of our systems are struggling, yet we truly believe a better world is possible - one healthier person at a time.
Join us by purchasing a health coaching subscription for yourself and/or donating to help provide scholarships to people who would benefit from coaching.
Updates
The Campaign FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions:
With a My Human Coach subscription, you get the personal support of a dedicated, professional health & wellness coach. Message your coach anytime at your convenience, and they will get back to you by the next business day, Monday-Friday.
If I buy a subscription, when does coaching start?
Coaches will begin working with clients at the end of July. You will receive an email from My Human Coach with an introduction to your 1:1 coach and instructions. Because coaches need to get to know each individual personally, we won't be able to onboard everyone at once so it will be on a first-come-first-serve basis, but everyone should be able to start coaching in August.
What kind of device do I need to message my coach?
Message your coach on your phone, laptop, or desktop computer. Our coaching platform works on all of these so you can choose what is most convenient to you!
I’m not looking for coaching currently, but I’d like to help someone that is. How might I do that?
You’re the type of person who’s committed to building a better world! You can support others by Paying Health Forward, donating $60 for a one-month subscription to a person in need, or making any monetary contribution that will go directly to coaching scholarships.
If you know someone who might benefit from a subscription, please share our campaign!
How long do I need to work with a coach?
It’s up to you! We sell 3, 6, or 12-month subscriptions that when finished are renewable monthly.
Our goal is not to create dependency but instead to empower people to create and maintain a healthy lifestyle that supports their well-being for the long term. Essentially, we eventually want to ‘graduate’ each client once they have the tools, habits, and resources they need to be successful on their own. This takes a different amount of time for each person, so we don’t lock people into yearly renewable subscriptions.
Why is your health coaching not specifically focused on weight loss?
We believe good health is whole health. Your personal health coach works with you on whatever aspect of your health or lifestyle you wish to prioritize.
For example, weight loss might be an initial focus that shifts to managing stress, lowering cholesterol, or recovering from an injury. Often, these are interconnected, so weight loss might include other dimensions of wellness. When priorities change during your subscription (because 'life happens!'), your coach will always adjust to your needs.
Why human coaches?
At My Human Coach, coaches are all humans with their own personal struggles – we’ve been there! We have failed, struggled, and triumphed, and we know exactly what it is like to want to make changes but not quite be able to get there.
Just like our clients, we are trying to make healthier choices, feel good, and take better care of ourselves and the people we love. We know firsthand how hard it can be to be human and how helpful it is to have someone by your side when trying to make important changes. You don’t have to do this alone!
Why is MHC an employee-owned Co-op?
Being a small, employee-owned company means coaches get to decide how we coach! There are no executives, shareholders, or product managers influencing our decisions. We do not sell products, promote medication, or engage in hidden partnerships.
Our coaches teamed up to create My Human Coach because we are passionate about caring for people and providing excellent health & wellness coaching.
Why are all your articles and self-paced courses free?
We believe impartial health information should be available to everyone who needs it. When searching online about a health topic, people often end up on sites that market or promote products, sometimes surreptitiously. We offer people the information and resources they need to be healthier without the influence of for-profit motives.
Our only product is professional, 1:1 health coaching. Our coaches may use these same articles to help clients achieve their health goals. Because we are dedicated to improving people’s health, our resources are available for anyone to read and/or share - with or without a coaching subscription.
You can purchase a 3, 6, or 12-month subscription and pay month-to-month after that, canceling anytime you feel ready.
Does MHC use any bots or Artificial Intelligence?
No, we are keeping things real.*
*Because your personal coach is 100% human, they work Monday-Friday and will sometimes need to do things like go on a vacation or take a sick day. No worries! When your coach is away they will let you know ahead of time (if possible), and another coach will always be made available to support you and answer questions until your coach returns. When you message on the weekend or a holiday, your coach will be sure to get back to you the following business day!
Who are the Health coaches?
My Human Coach is a cooperative of health coaches who met while working for a large weight loss app. We saw firsthand how text-based coaching helped people be successful at making healthy changes while feeling supported along the way! Our coaches are trained in behavior change and certified in various health and wellness occupations, including personal trainers, certified dietitians, physical therapists, nurses, and mental health counselors. Many are NBHWC board-certified, and we collaborate with each other, utilizing our diverse backgrounds, skills, and years of experience to ensure we give our clients the best possible support.
Purchase a three-month subscription for yourself. You will get 1:1 support from a professional coach to reach your wellness goals via our asynchronous text-based coaching platform.
Pay it forward, funding one month of a 1:1 coaching scholarship for someone who will benefit from extra guidance, compassion, and support as they work to reach their health goals.
Make a monetary contribution of any amount toward our coaching scholarships. For every $60 we raise, we can provide one month of a health coaching scholarship to a person in need.
Our employee-owned business is grateful for all subscriptions purchased and donations toward scholarships. Longer subscriptions help us plan ahead.
Purchase a six-month subscription for yourself and work toward a long-term goal with 1:1 support from a personal coach.
Our coaches have years of experience successfully helping clients with an asynchronous, text-based coaching model. Making healthy changes can be hard—you don’t have to do it alone!
Rewards
Purchase a three-month subscription for yourself. You will get 1:1 support from a professional coach to reach your wellness goals via our asynchronous text-based coaching platform.
Pay it forward, funding one month of a 1:1 coaching scholarship for someone who will benefit from extra guidance, compassion, and support as they work to reach their health goals.
Make a monetary contribution of any amount toward our coaching scholarships. For every $60 we raise, we can provide one month of a health coaching scholarship to a person in need.
Our employee-owned business is grateful for all subscriptions purchased and donations toward scholarships. Longer subscriptions help us plan ahead.
Purchase a six-month subscription for yourself and work toward a long-term goal with 1:1 support from a personal coach.
Our coaches have years of experience successfully helping clients with an asynchronous, text-based coaching model. Making healthy changes can be hard—you don’t have to do it alone!