Who You’re Sitting Next To At This Dinner Party: Golda Poretsky

This year, I’ve decided to run a series of short interviews with some of the marvelous people I know or have worked with (or both), because I know far too many fascinating people not to share.  Each person answers the same questions.  All of them give thought-provoking, interesting, wonderful answers.

These are the people you’re sitting next to at this dinner party.  Enjoy.

Golda Poretsky, health coach to the stars.

 

Golda Poretsky, HHC is a certified holistic health counselor and founder of Body Love Wellness, a program designed for plus-sized women who are fed up with dieting and want support to stop obsessing about food and weight. Her programs and activism work have been featured on CBS’s The Early Show, ABC’s Nightline, NBC’s LX New York and in Time Out New York.  She is the author of Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons To Stop, 25 Ways To Heal, available in softcover and Kindle. Golda has also organized and hosted major body positive online events, including The Body Love Revolutionaries Telesummit and the HAES® Master Class. Golda’s big, fat dream is for every plus sized woman to own her power, beauty, and body, whatever her size.

Q: Please describe yourself in 25 words or less.  

I’m an intuitive eating and body image coach, speaker, blogger, and podcaster. :)


Q: What are three things about you that most people either don’t know or wouldn’t expect?


Hmm.  To be honest, I’m often surprised by what surprises people about me. But here are three that may be a bit surprising.


I used to be a lawyer.  I’m actually still admitted to the bar, but haven’t practiced much in the last few years.  I worked as a real estate lawyer at some major firms in New York.  But even when I was practicing I was always doing other things and people who met me outside of work always seemed surprised that I was a lawyer.
I’ve been reading tarot for 20 years.  I don’t see many clients nowadays (just a few old ones here and there) but I still love tarot.  I credit it with helping me develop my intuitive sense over the years, which I find really helps in my coaching practice.
 I love comedy. I’ve studied comedy writing and improv and even spent a brief few months performing weekly in a musical improv group.  It’s been a few years but I often think about getting back into it.




Q: Of the things you’ve done in your life so far, what are you proudest of? 

I’m actually really proud that I’ve been able to make this career change and have my own business.  I’ve known so many unhappy lawyers, but it’s very hard to leave that world.  Every once in a while when I get my student loan bill I have a moment of doubt myself, but I still feel like doing work that I love and that has meaning for me is my biggest accomplishment.

Q: What’s an as yet nonexistent thing about which you’ve thought “why hasn’t someone created that yet?”

Now I’m just thinking of ridiculous things, like a machine that you talk into and it repeats what you say but as Al Pacino would say it.  A player-tuba (like a player piano, but with a tuba). Shoes with changeable heel heights?  (Actually, that’s not a bad idea.)

 Q: If you could get everyone who reads this to do one thing, just once, what would you get them to do?

Sign up for my newsletter? But seriously, I would love to ask your readers trust their inner critic less and trust their intuition more.

 

Want more Golda, more Body Love Wellness, and a bit of me, too?  Join us, plus Virgie Tovar, Tasha Fierce, and many other brilliant badassed women for The Body Positive Dating Master Class on February 9, just in time for Valentine’s Day!