Empower’s one-on-one Wellness Coaching is a personalized, participant-led health coaching program delivered by Madelka McCalla, IIN Certified Health Coach. Rooted in the Institute for Integrative Nutrition whole-person approach, each session is built entirely around the participant — their goals, their pace, and the full context of their life.

Program Structure

• 1 Intake Session — 60 minutes to build trust, review health history, and understand your full life context
• 6 Coaching Sessions — 60 minutes each, participant-led and focused on sustainable behavior change
• Virtual or in-person: Saturdays or Sundays
• Optional text check-ins between sessions and an ongoing accountability community

What each session covers

• Grounding practice to open each session with calm and psychological safety
• Reflection on progress, wins, and challenges since the last session
• Client sets the agenda — the focus is always for clients to define
• Deep coaching conversation: deep listening, open questions, and building clarity
• One realistic, self-chosen action step to carry into the week ahead

What clients work toward

• Greater awareness of the health habits and life factors shaping their well-being
• Realistic, self-directed wellness goals grounded in their values and readiness
• Sustainable routines that reduce stress, build energy, and fit their real life
• A stronger sense of agency — the confidence to manage their own health long-term

“This is not prescriptive health advice. It is a space where you build the clarity and tools to lead your own wellness.”

Core Philosophy

The program is rooted in the IIN whole-person framework, which holds that true well-being extends far beyond nutrition and exercise. It is shaped by the full context of a person’s life.

• Primary food matters as much as food on the plate — relationships, career, movement, purpose, and environment are all forms of nourishment.
• Client-led goals — the client sets the direction. The coach walks alongside, never ahead.
• Small, sustainable changes — lasting transformation is built one realistic step at a time.
• Cultural respect — food traditions, community values, and lived experience are honored, not overridden.
• Strength-based approach — sessions build on what participants already do well.
• Community as medicine — connection, accountability, and shared growth are core to healing.

Program Objectives

By the end of the Empower Wellness Coaching Program, clients will have:

• Developed greater awareness of their current health habits and life patterns
• Identified personal stressors and barriers linked to social determinants of health
• Set and pursued realistic, self-directed wellness goals
• Improved energy, mood, and day-to-day confidence
• Built sustainable lifestyle routines that fit their real lives
• Strengthened their sense of agency and self-care
• Connected with a supportive accountability community

Program Structure at a Glance

• 1 Intake Session (Health History)  ·  60 minutes
• 6 Coaching Sessions  ·  60 minutes each
• Format: Virtual or In-Person  ·  2 Saturdays/month in person, 2 Saturdays/month virtual

Optional: Text check-ins between sessions  ·  Ongoing community accountability chat

“You already have what it takes. Coaching is simply the space where you remember that“