Podcast Interview with Julie Hamilton, Fibromyalgia Coach and Owner of Coaching PI

We engage in conversations with successful business owners to learn the little things that made the journey of building their companies special. Then we discuss how they plan to hand off their business to the next generation of leadership.

This episode is with special guest Julie Hamilton, Owner of Coaching PI.

Julie Hamilton has over 20 years of Human Resource Management experience and has been a Certified Fibromyalgia Coach for over 7 years.  She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia in 2009.

As a Human Resources Director, she knew the resources to use such as Family Medical Leave Act and workplace accommodations to help her with the tasks she was struggling with.  She didn’t need to worry about her job when she needed to take time off for flare days or medical appointments. She went from missing two to four days per month to missing two days or less a year.

Then after relocating to Ohio, her chronic illness made it impossible for her to work.  That is when she studied to become a Certified Fibromyalgia Coach and learned to manage her fibromyalgia.  She has gone from being in bed 90% of her life to walking three miles a day and even participated in her first 10k.  She now helps professionals who have fibromyalgia maintain their career and regain their active social life.

Her goal is to help companies create an inclusive environment for the chronically ill and assist them in implementing policies to benefit both the employee and the company.  She understands what it takes to make it work and can educate the company and the employee on how this collaboration can work.

Her company is Coaching PI.  For the past 7 years she's been helping clients 1:1 but through that coaching she learned that companies do not know how to work with their chronically ill employees.  The following is basically what she likes to talk about when she's discussing this with companies.

You know how important it is to have quality employees and how crucial retention is to your organization.  But are you wondering how to make your chronically ill employee more productive?

This scenario may have happened before your eyes – that star employee used to be very productive but recently was diagnosed with a medical issue.  Maybe they have turned into that mediocre employee – or worse, a bad employee.  If you want to learn how you can turn that employee back into a more productive employee, this discussion is for you.

You can contact Julie at:
Email - [e-mail]
Website - coachingpi.com
Phone - 402-520-0255
Link to book - https://amzn.to/46nSQfb

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