10 Questions with Certified Health and Wellness Coach and Manager of Profile by Sanford Val Giuttari

  What is your education and work experience?

I have a bachelor’s degree in exercise science and sports medicine from the University of Minnesota-Mankato.  I am also a certified health and wellness coach and a certified pharmacy technician.  I started off when I was younger working in a coffee shop.  That was one of my favorite jobs because you could make every customer smile.  I then moved into banking in high school and then to the pharmacy in college.  Working in the pharmacy was very eye opening.  There were so many patients with bags full of medication that I knew they didn’t need if they just made some lifestyle modifications.  That’s what leads me to Profile by Sanford.     

Can you tell us a little bit about your business?

Profile by Sanford was developed by physicians and researchers at Sanford Health.  They are one of the world’s largest healthcare systems.  They came together to create a plan to take the guesswork out of a healthy lifestyle change.  We focus on nutrition, activity, and lifestyle coaching to help our members lose weight, but more importantly, keep it off.  What really sets us apart is our coaches and our Profile foods.  Are coaches finished their bachelor’s degree in health and wellness as well as certified through Sanford Health.  Our foods are FDA approved and fully fortified.  The idea here is to educate our members’ so they are done with diets.  Lastly, we offer a genetic test which will help us set up a plan for you based off your body’s DNA.

   

What are your favorite’s quotes?

“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have”

“Your customer doesn’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”

“The body achieves what the mind believes”

“No matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everyone on the couch”      

What ignited the spark in to starting a business venture or make any significant changes?

It just made sense.  I was working with Profile in Minnesota for almost five years and it never got old.  Each member has their own unique story or journey and to reach the finish line with them is very rewarding.  I also knew I wanted to come back South and get out of that cold weather.  So, when the opportunity came up to move to Arkansas and start this store, I couldn’t say no.  I also have family here so it’s great to be closer to them.

What brings you the greatest joy?

Giuttari Family

My family.   I love coming home every day to my Wife Amanda and my beautiful daughter Gianna.  It brings a smile to my face every time, even on the hard days.  What also brings me joy is my job.  I get to do what I love and help members every single day.  Nothing is more rewarding than seeing members add years onto their lives and seeing them full of energy and happy again.  It’s wonderful being a part of their journey, they become family.  

What is the best advice you've been given?

“Challenge the thoughts in your own head”.  I find that it is easy to doubt yourself or feel that it won’t work or that you aren’t good enough.  But we are always hardest on ourselves so if you can challenge those thoughts, you can push through and go so far.

       What accomplishment are you most proud of?

There are many accomplishments that I am proud of.  I try to really live in the moment and appreciate all the things I have done.  I am proud of my college degree, making a wonderful family, and starting this business adventure here in Arkansas.

      What is one thing you wish you knew when you were younger?

I am blessed to have had a great upbringing and was taught a lot at a young age.  There weren’t many surprises for me along the way.  I do wish that someone would have told me how fast life would go by and to really enjoy each moment.  I do that now, but it took a while to catch on to that.

    Do you have any advice you would like to leave with the reader?

Slow down and enjoy life.  We often get caught in our habits and routines and forget that each day is special.  Do what you love and love the people around you.

 What’s something you think every person should experience in their lifetime?

I think that everyone should experience the world, aka travel.  There is so much this world has to offer and we only see a little piece of it each day.  It’s so rewarding to go to other countries and see how different life could be.  We took a medical mission trip to Honduras and you can really appreciate life when all the comforts are taken away.     

Val Giuttari | Store Manager

Profile by Sanford

4305 S. Pleasant Crossing Blvd

Suite 103

Rogers | AR | 72758

p: 479-340-0909

c: 952-201-5710 f: 855-677-5700

www.profileplan.com

Letting Go of Attachment to Reach Your Outcome

Letting Go of Attachment to Reach Your Outcome

You’re starting a project, new business, new career move or a new exercise plan and it’s in shaky new territory for you. You feel doubt about whether you can do it, and so you’re tensely doing everything you can to make sure it will turn out the way you hope.

The stress, fear, doubts and tension all come from attachment on how you perceive your outcome and how you think things will turn out. The process is a journey and it’s important to let go of any negative attachment be it people, places or things that may hinder you for reaching your goals.

We could acknowledge that…….

·                                 The outcome isn’t always fully in our control. 

    Sometimes other people get in the way or unintentionally sabotage a project, sometimes things happen that we didn’t expect, sometimes despite our best efforts things just turn out differently than we pictured in our heads. On a training plan, the weather could get worse than we thought, we might come down with the flu for a week, we might get injured or things come up to throw our schedule off.

·                                 There are multiple outcomes that will be OK, if not great. For example, maybe we won’t get six-pack abs if we do our best with this plan, or maybe we won’t finish the marathon we’re training for … but maybe we’ll get healthier despite not meeting the goal? Maybe we’ll enjoy the exercise, maybe we can meet other people trying to get healthier, and maybe we’ll experience beautiful outdoors that we wouldn’t otherwise get to experience? On our new project, maybe it won’t turn out as well as we hope, but we could still enjoy the process, learn a lot, form good relationships with our team or client, and get better at the process itself. The outcome we hope for isn’t the only one we can be happy with, and sometimes the actual outcome will be better than we hoped for, if we’re open to it.

         Focusing on the outcome is detrimental.  

    It causes us to stress out, to enjoy the process less, sometimes to not even start something because we don’t think we have a chance of getting the desired outcome. We don’t ever write that novel because we think we can’t write a good one. But how do you ever get good at writing a novel if you never attempt it? It also causes us to be disappointed with the outcome when it’s not what we want, to be disappointed in ourselves when we don’t live up to our own expectations, to feel that we’re not enough (or others are not enough).

              Letting Go of Attachment to Outcome

Letting go of our attachment to the outcome is freeing. It helps us to be more present with the doing, the being, the act itself, rather than what might come in the future. It can help us have better relationships, because we’re more focused on the people than the goal. It can help us have a better relationship to ourselves, as we focus on our own well-being and contentment, rather than some external source of possible happiness (spoiler: happiness doesn’t come from external things)

What can you focus on instead of outcome? Here are a few good ideas:

·                     The intention. I’ve found my intention in doing a task to be much more important than the outcome. It’s what I hope to bring to the task rather than what I hope to get out of it. It’s how I want to show up right now, rather than what I want things to be in the future. 

Examples: I have an intention to be helpful and loving as I write this post; I intend to be mindful and appreciative of my many blessing small or big. I intend to be fully present with the person I’m talking to, compassionate and open-hearted with them.

·                   The effort. Instead of worrying about how things will turn out, pay attention instead to how focused you are on it, how much effort you’re putting into it, how mindful you are as you do it. How much of your heart are you putting into it? How much love and care are you giving it?

·                     The process. The outcomes are a result of the process — if you’re not getting the outcome you want, focus on improving the process. How much care are you taking as you do it? How can you step up your game? Don’t worry about the outcome as much as you pay attention to how you’re doing things.

·                     The moment. What is beautiful about this particular moment, as you do the action? What can you notice? Can you be curious as you do the act, instead of having a fixed mindset? What is there to appreciate about yourself, about the other person, about everything around you, right now?

·                     Relationships. Much more important than the outcome is the relationship you have with the people you’re serving and working with or your relationship with your loved ones. When you’re focused on the outcome, you often disregard the feelings of the people you’re working with, snapping at them when they’re not doing things the way you’d like. Instead, you can focus on your connection with them, on finding ways to make them enjoy the process more, on being loving or compassionate.

Think about how this might change things for you. If you’re working on a shaky new project, you can let go of how you might want things to turn out, and instead focus on how you want to show up, what is beautiful about the moment, having fun with the effort, playing and being curious, being more loving to yourself and others. This transforms every act, every habit, every project, every moment with others.