Katie Wells (founder of Wellness Mama) describes how a health crisis in college transformed her career goals from politics/law to health advocacy. With a journalism background, she researched nutrition and alternative health when conventional doctors offered no answers, realizing that diet affects more than calories and becoming motivated to learn and share those findings.
I wish I could say this had always been a mission for me. I've always been very driven and I, since a young age, wanted to change the world, but had this idea that I was going to do it maybe through politics or through law or through changing things that I saw wrong in the world. And in college had a health crisis of my own and I realized at that point, if you don't have your health, you don't have the ability to change anything. And started researching. My background at that point was in journalism and so I started researching my way into health, trying to find my own answers when doctors couldn't give me answers and. And started delving into the world of nutrition and alternative health and realizing there were other answers besides the conventional ones. But unfortunately it took me getting really sick before I had the motivation to learn that world. And it sounds crazy now to say that, but 15 years ago it was a revelation to realize what we ate affected us more than just calories.
