Bek Starr Coaching - Transformational Coaching For Women

How long have you been doing what you do, and how did you become a Positive Health and Fitness Coach?

To answer this question, it’s probably best that I share with you a defining moment, and resulting “compelling story”, that brought me to where I am today – coaching women like you on exactly what to do to learn self-acceptance, get to know your body and what it needs, and embrace who you are in order to live your best life.

That defining moment in my life happened on January 1st, 2015 when my husband and I realised our marriage was over.

My husband and I broke up after 15 years together. In addition to our marriage and our son, we also shared a personal training studio and group fitness business together. I always felt kind of uncomfortable with the standard fitness industry and how they focus on APPEARANCE and how LEAN = FIT. Despite my best intentions, it was really hard to be different within the industry and we fell short. Our gym focused took on the traditional meal planning, calorie counting and no pain no gain bullshit.

I even did a bodybuilding competition in 2012 after 12 months of intense dieting and gruelling training. I won, which is great, but I came to learn what it cost me. Emotionally. Physically. Socially.

After we divorced, I took over the business. And after some soul searching about the diet industry we were perpetuating, I decided: fuck that shit. It’s not sustainable and I hated buying into that crap. I imagine you hate it too.

At first, I felt all alone because I didn’t know anyone who thought differently. But gradually, I found my people. I became part of the Body Positivity movement and Health At Every Size. I adopted those principles to guide what I was doing and why I was doing it. For the first time in my career, my work became authentic. I radically changed my food choices and my feelings about food. I became creative about choosing my physical activity, movement and play instead of just tracking hardcore cardio and weight training. And I encouraged my clients to approach their health and fitness with the same authenticity.

I reinvented myself and my work and started coaching women how they can do the same: I watched their self-confidence and energy soar too! After 8 years serving clients in my community of Western Sydney from my personal training studio, I decided to expand my practice to coaching people all over the planet. I have a message that people need to hear: you need to be you - you’re wonderful and awesome and amazing and worthy and deserving of all the wonderful things that you want. I’m going to show you how to have it. I have since made a commitment to dedicate the rest of my professional life to helping other women experience a hell of a lot more self-acceptance, a hell of a lot less self-judgment, and shitloads of joy and passion.

Since then, I’ve worked with many private clients, I have been on the radio, and spoken in front of countless groups: I live my dream of financial freedom to spend my time with my son, my friends, my loved ones whenever I want; and I have created the Your Beautiful Body, Your Rules System, a series of 6 important health and fitness and personal steps every woman needs to apply to drop the shame the diet industry instilled in your mind, find freedom with your food and movement choices, and embrace and accept who you are to live the authentic life that you deserve.

Who are your clients?

I work with people just like you who are sick and tired of being on the diet and exercise merry go round and who are sick of feeling like a failure and being ashamed of their bodies. These women are intelligent and strong yet they feel stuck where they are because they have never been taught a way to LOVE THEMSELVES and their bodies WITHOUT the shame cycle.