Meet the Wholist Coaches
The person in your corner changes everything.
We don’t hand you a chatbot, a script, or a stranger who got certified over a weekend.
At Wholist, you’re coached by a real, experienced human being who knows the biology, has lived the midlife change herself, and has walked the exact program you’re about to walk. Live on video. In your corner. Not a messaging queue, not an AI check-in, not outsourced.
Because what makes change stick isn’t willpower or information alone. It’s someone who sees you, understands your body, and stays with you through the hard middle.
Every coach meets the WholeYou Coach Standard
Anyone can call themselves a coach. We hold ours to three non-negotiables:
A clinical background*
Experience as physicians, nurses, registered dietitians, and advanced health professionals. Coaches who know how the body actually works.
Lived experience
Every coach has personally moved through perimenopause, menopause, or midlife metabolic change. She has been in the body you’re in.
She runs the program
Every coach has completed Weight Wellness herself. She has held the protocol in her own hands, in her own kitchen, in her own life.
A real human who knows the science, has done the work, and can meet you exactly where you are.
*does not constitute a doctor-patient relationship or medical advice.
Meet some of Our Expert Wholist Coaches…
No chatbots. No AI prompts. No offshore call centers. No scripts.
A real human who knows the science, has done the work, and can meet you exactly where you are.
Heather Hammerstedt, MD MPH
Founder of Wholist
An emergency physician and biochemist trained in integrative nutrition, she built Weight Wellness after untangling the same confusing, shame-soaked advice her friends were drowning in — and found her own strongest body at 40.
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Dr. Maneesha Ahluwalia
Health Coach
A former infectious-disease physician who lost 60 pounds through sustainable change and kept it off. She came through Weight Wellness as a member first, then became a coach — so she guides it from the inside out.
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Deanna Clauson
Health Coach
A Nationally Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) - the gold standard, held by just over 6,000 coaches worldwide - and a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach. Her superpower: seeing the best in you before you can see it yourself.
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Jenny Gueguen, MA, CCHT
Mindset Coach
Stanford-trained, a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and yoga instructor with a practice going back to 1992. She works the emotional roots of eating through guided, fully conscious mindset work — you stay awake and in control the whole way.
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Shola Ezeokoli, MD
Mindset Coach
A triple-licensed internal medicine physician, ICF-certified life coach, and #1 Amazon bestselling author. She helps you find and rewire the limiting mindsets standing between you and your healthiest self — on a schedule that fits a genuinely full life.
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Frequently asked questions
Are Wholist coaches doctors?
Many have clinical backgrounds, and several are physicians, nurses, or registered dietitians. In Weight Wellness they work as your coach, not your doctor: they guide the education, skills, and daily practice of the program, and they work alongside whatever medical care you already have.
Is Wholist coaching the same as medical care?
No. Wholist is a coaching and education program, not medical care. If you need prescriptions or medical management, that stays with your own providers. Your coach helps you build the foundation and the skills to carry it all.
What is the difference between a health coach and a mindset coach?
Your health coach guides the biology and daily practice of the program: food, rhythm, hormones, and your protocol. Your mindset coach works the thoughts and emotional patterns underneath your eating, the part willpower alone cannot fix. Many members work with both.
Will I have a real, dedicated coach?
Yes. You are matched with a real human who stays with you through the program, not a rotating queue, a chatbot, or an offshore rep.
What if I am already using a GLP-1 or hormone therapy?
That is welcome here. Medications and hormones are tools with a real place. Your coach helps you build the biology, skills, and daily rhythm that make whatever care you are using work better and last longer.
The person in your corner is ready to meet you
You do not have to figure the next step out alone. That is the whole point.
Schedule a Strategy Call to get matched with your coach, or explore Weight Wellness to see how the program works.