Shari-Beth Susskind is an accomplished Certified Lifestyle Coach, Certified Personal Trainer and public speaker. She is a cancer survivor. As a wife and mother of three, she sees one option to go from strength to strength living and teaching others how to find success in health and wellness through nutrition and personal training.
Shari-Beth has always had an incredible drive to do her best, both for herself and her clients. She knows this first hand, because her success is built on a strong foundation in education, years of hands on experience and mostly the unexpected turn of events causing her to become her own client.
While training for a triathlon, Shari-Beth suffered a bicycle accident that lead to many surgeries and months of rehabilitation. As she explains, however, Most important it gave me time, time that I needed to rethink the path that I had chosen. Having enjoyed working for a well established and highly recognized training studio, she felt the desire to create something of her own, bringing together best practices and taking them in a new direction focused on the entire person from a combined training, nutritional and mental point of view. As she started to heal from the accident she became committed to the journey of reinventing herself, adding a Life Coach certification to her growing list of personal training achievements.
As Shari-Beth was feeling at the top of her game having successfully coached herself through a huge challenge and come out feeling great she was dealt another obstacle. She was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer. In her words:
Ok, just another challenge. Again, I just wanted to feel like my self at the end of this newest drama. I consider myself very lucky. In fact, those were the exact words my doctor used when he told me. They had caught the cancer at an early stage. But I still needed a radical hysterectomy. Once again I needed to set some goals.
The great news is that she is now cancer free. Everyday she is dedicated to the things that make her who she is, and has an incredible passion for guiding her clients as they find their own path. Shari-Beth may have considered herself lucky, but the real lucky ones are those that will never have Ovarian Cancer, or who will benefit from research made available through the awareness she is brining to the disease. Staying true to who she is, Shari-Beth partnered with the city of West Orange and the National Ovarian Cancer Coalition (NOCC) to organize an annual 5K run/walk benefiting NOCC. She speaks at NOCC meetings, and has been instrumental in helping so many members discover they are not defined by their cancer, but by how they continue to thrive beyond the diagnosis.
One of Shari-Beth's strengths is making what may feel like daunting changes, easy to implement on a daily basis. She provides everything from training plans to delicious recipe makeovers. As a recipe developer for the Kosher by Design Lightens Up cookbook series, she brings health, nutrition, great food and traditions together.
Shari-Beth is an expert at helping clients create roadmaps for success through her unwavering, non-judgmental support which clients find empowering and motivating as they implement lasting solutions.
The principles of life coaching are wholly consistent with my deepest
core values and beliefs, some of which include: a belief in the ability
of all people to lead extraordinary lives, a strength-based approach to
helping people, and a solution-oriented philosophy.
