Meet Your Kitchen Coaches!
Who Are The Coaches In Your Kitchen?
If you’re inviting us into your home to cook with you, we imagine you want to get to know us a smidge, yes?! Put your timer on, grab a cuppa and get to know us!
Chef & Coach, Maria Nardella
Maria is a mom, wife, friend, and small business owner who loves great food, healthy living, and an active lifestyle. For over three decades she’s always taken a holistic approach to life, business, and raising her family. Now, she’s combined all these things to create a career she loves. She’s a personal chef and co-owner of Sparkling Soirees specializing in personalized meals for you and your family and catering intimate affairs. She’s also a Health and Wellness Lifestyle Coach and healthy living advocate who works with busy women, their families, and communities to improve their lives through healthy eating and lifestyle changes for their best life.
She formed an amazing friendship with Leanne Shafner that grew into a collaborative partnership in Healthy Coaches Kitchen. Maria and Leanne have a shared passion for a healthy lifestyle. They’ve combined their talents and backgrounds in nutrition coaching, holistic health, and love of great food that is great for you to bring imaginative, creative, and healthy kitchen tips to everyone.
From owning her own business to running large-scale kitchens and planning events as a chef and manager, Maria has always worked with the best, healthiest ingredients, simply prepared and presented. She’s a certified holistic health coach who understands the role food plays in our health and wellness. Now, it’s her mission to share great food, healthy lifestyle tips, and recipes in a holistic style with others so that they too can take control of their health & wellness while harnessing the health and healing your kitchen offers.
Personal Development Coach, Leanne Shafner
Leanne Shafner is the Founder & CEO of Project We Society, LLC, the Founder & Creator of The ‘Me Project’ 10-Day Self-Care Challenge, and a Holistic Health Coach in her coaching practice, Holistic Me Wellness. Leanne’s specialty is as a Personal Development Coach for women and she is passionate about helping women cut toxins of all kinds from their lives, participate in regular self-care (or soul-care as she likes to call it!), and help them find their self-esteem.
Leanne enjoys inspiring women to find, know and love their authentic selves so that they can live happy, healthy, whole lives. Through her own experience, she knows that the foods we eat contribute so much to our overall good health & well-being. Her journey with food has led her to enjoy a WFPB/Vegan lifestyle and she enthusiastically supports others who may want to embark upon or explore a plant-based lifestyle and journey.
As a busy woman, entrepreneur, girlfriend, pet Mom and friend, Leanne understands the intricacies and challenges of making interesting, healthy, wholesome, fun & tasty (and Vegan/WFPB!) meals. She’s excited to partner with her good friend & Chef Maria, to help others to feel inspired, calm, and sometimes funny and at ease in the kitchen! Make sure you keep an eye on her … she can be a little dicey (get it?) in the kitchen! Learn where else you can find Leanne, too.
