Anna Rakoczy is the Founder of Homemade Method. She has Masters Degrees from Stanford and UC Berkeley and is a Fulbright Scholar. Anna presented at the Food Summit in 2013, the Food@Work Conference in 2014 and the Berkeley Food Innovation Lab.
She has spent thousands of hours coaching Homemade Members to lose tens of thousands of pounds, and reverse chronic medical conditions including diabetes, high blood pressure & cholesterol – without dieting.
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Sneak Peek Into What You’ll Learn…
2:46 – Anna tells us more about her business, the Homemade Method, and how it empowers her clients to lose weight and achieve health-related outcomes, without dieting.
3:57 – Anna shares her personal journey with food and how it led her to start the Homemade Method. She dives into how the Homemade Method works and how it has allowed her to maintain a healthy weight without dieting or deprivation.
11:40 – How can busy working parents use the Homemade Method? Anna details the steps you can take to integrate the system with your busy life.
18:30 – Anna addresses emotional eating and discusses the ways the Homemade Method can help those who use food for comfort and struggle with cravings.
27:43 – Anna takes us back to Australia and tells us about her early career as a lawyer. She shares how her journey led her to the US, and how and why she pivoted from law into pursuing social entrepreneurship.
34:20 – Are you thinking about making a career change or starting a business? Anna talks about how she made her decision to leave the practice of law and how she suggests handling naysayers if you decide to make a pivot.
46:23 – Brass Tacks: The lightning round of concrete advice and tips
Quotable quotes:
“…follow your gut, be really honest about your passions, and then take each time when you have a decision, try to take the next step, that gets you closer to whatever that goal is, even if you don’t know what the goal is yet, you’ll feel in your gut or your heart if it’s taking you in the right direction…”
“[on running a business]…hire before you’re ready, hire before you’re sure it’s going to work out, because it’s necessary to free up your time to do the stuff that’s going to take your business forward…”
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