We are very proud to feature our Wonderful Web Radio Rising Star interview. In this segment, we speak with Sam Beau Patrick.

With a background in nursing, naturopathy and nutrition Sam Beau Patrick has become a leader in women’s health especially when it comes to hormones. From TV appearances, books and retreats, Sam strives to help women understand how lifestyle, work and relationships affect your health and how you can live a happy balanced life.

Transcript of the Interview

Announcement: Welcome to Rising Stars Radio, where we share the stories of ordinary people taking action to create extraordinary changes in their businesses. They are the true rising stars to watch. Get ready to take notes around no fluff, cutting to the chase, 20 minute interview.

Janet:               Hello and welcome everybody. It’s Janet Beckers here from Rising Stars radio show. It’s great to have you here and I’m really excited to introduce you to my guest today, Sam Beau Patrick. Now Sam has been a member of our community for quite a few years now. We also have some mutual friends as well.

The thing that I’ve always loved about Sam is throughout all of that time that I’ve known her and I’ve been watching her business evolve, is her incredible passion for what she does is absolutely unwavering. This is a woman who knows why she is doing what she’s doing. She knows the outcomes that she wants to get and she’s incredibly passionate about it. For me, that is one of the core things that means that this is a woman that’s going to be there for her clients and that her business is going to keep on going from strength to strength.

Instead of me telling you all about what Sam does, I’ll introduce her and let her tell you a little bit about herself. Sam, it’s wonderful to have you here.

Sam:                Thanks Janet. Thanks for the beautiful introduction.

Janet:               You’re very welcome. Our aim today is to be able to give as much value as we can to the people who are listening so that they can learn more about you and also importantly, about the decisions that you’ve made as you’ve grown your business so that they can learn from what’s worked for you and what hasn’t worked for you. We’re going to try to do that in about 20 minutes. Everybody who’s listening, thank you for your time. Get ready to take some notes because we’re going to get straight into it.

To start and drive straight in Sam, would you mind sharing with us all who it is that you help and how it is that you do that?

Sam:                Yes, I’ve got a strong medical history – nursing, pharmacology, got the science behind me I guess as a practitioner. About 13 years ago, I’ve always had a passion for natural medicine and that’s where I branched out on my own and started my own business as a naturopath-herbalist and nutritionist with a background of nursing and oncology.

My absolute passion is actually helping women understand why we respond the way we do in social situations when we’ve eaten certain foods, and really giving women the understanding that we can have the life we want to have. Regardless of what’s going around us, if we get our understanding about our life and what results we get from certain actions. I’m a health coach. I’ve written now five books. I tend to focus on the hormones because it’s a tangible modality I guess when I measure women’s hormones, and I can present it to them. I say, you know what, you’re telling me you’re quite happy in your environment, but let’s check out what your body is saying. What’s the body saying. That’s the body saying it’s not happy, it’s stressed out. Let’s get down and dirty and talk about are you really happy? Are you getting the results out of life that you want? Have you put too much pressure on yourself. I just love that, I love working with women in that space.

I generally use food. I’m very active and I travel a lot and I really try to inspire women that they too can do the same. Yeah, that’s generally what I try to achieve in the work place.

Janet:               Excellent. I know that you been talking about hormones almost acting like a little bit of a barometer of how successful is what you’re doing in your life for your health. I know that you mentioned about food and that’s always one of the things that I’ve associated with you is your lovely approach to food, and health, and nutrition as being something that is to be celebrated rather than for it to be a hangup with, that the food is the problem.

Sam:                Totally, the people, particularly in your western cultures where when I sit down with people, or do it over Skype, or through my programs, I really try and keep what their values are and what they feel they’re here to achieve. Often being rich sitting on a yacht, it’s something sometimes it’s nice, it’s a dream, and I suspect a lot of us like it, but the real thing women will tell you is they want connection, they want love, they want to be proud of their body when the light’s on and it’s in the bathroom.

They don’t want to be judged for external things that they don’t have. Helping women understand that food is a really integral part of that, love’s a really integral part of that, movement is as well. They shouldn’t be punishments, they should be pleasure activities because as soon as we make them pleasurable we can gravitate and do more of them.

I think it’s a real travesty that we have diets and people feel like a failure when they fall off them. I tend to try and inspire good nutrition. Wine’s not bad, have it with a social set with friends, it’s quite different. I tend to think we’ve got a little bit caught up sometimes with punishing ourselves.

Janet:               I can so relate to that, you see that so much. There’s already too many opportunities for us to beat ourselves up. It’s really nice to be able to have somebody that’s kind of approaching health and nutrition from a place of positive rather than lack.

From a business perspective Sam, how do you help people? Do you work with people one on one, do you do everything remotely? You mentioned Skype before so how is it that you help people? How do you structure that?

Sam:                Yes well there’s a few way. I’ve ebbed and flowed, tried different things over the years. Historically I started speaking from a very early point in my business. I got asked to speak on menopause at a medical function. There’s 200 doctors in the room and because they knew of my pharmacology background, nursing background, I guess they thought I wasn’t someone who bathed in the moonlight so they thought I had a bit of science behind me so that was good.

For a while with that whole speaking, drawing people to me from a speaking perspective, and then what I’d do is pick them up as clients. I became the go to person for doctors because they trusted what I had to say. They get a little bit scared of natural medicine I suppose. I’ve always taken speaking opportunities as learning opportunities for myself and people in front of me. It really helps when you’re standing in a forum to formulate your own ideas.

I’ve loved speaking and I became a professional speaker about five years ago. I do still speak. I do have a one-on-one health clinic where people can either come and see me in person. I’m trying to wind that down, because time wise and leverage wise from a business perspective, I’ve got so many grander things at the moment. Yeah, help one person is fabulous, but I prefer to help people en-mass.

I’ve been on TV quite a lot so when I do get asked to do TV interviews, which is not as regularly not but at one stage there I was on a lot. That’s a brilliant platform to inspire people. Interesting from a business model, being on TV generally gives you credibility, but when you’re running a one-on-one business it’s not necessarily good for that, but it does give you credibility.

I started writing books six years ago. One of the books has been a best seller and that’s been instrumental. I’ve just spoken at a conference in the last couple of days and people were coming up from all around us saying we’ve just come to hear you speak because I read your book.

Janet:               How fantastic is that?

Sam:                Yeah, and you just kind of sit ther