“Decisive”. Bruna Galobrades’ mantra this year is a continuation of her career through medicine to life coaching. With a list of qualifications and accomplishments (two Masters, one of which at Johns Hopkins, a PHD and MD to name a few…). Bruna decided to take what she learned about herself and share it with women looking to make a change in their lives. Bruna shares her expertise to help women find and stay at their healthy weight, but her practices go beyond physical well-being, and can be applied to anything you want to change.
We love to inspire our #JunoWomen with other empowering women. Get to know more about Bruna in our interview! Happy reading.
Have you always been interested in self-help?
No, there was a time I thought it was a waste of your time and believed it to be unscientific.
I dream about a cosy house with a beautiful view at the ocean, accompanied by warm sunny weather of course!
I find beauty in simplicity, less is more for me; symmetric, neatly organized things, be that the symmetry of the Georgian houses in the UK or the simple geometric forms of the Bauhaus architecture; and, a neat line of salads in the allotment.
When I learned that the goal is not trying to be always happy, it was such a relief it made me happy; and, in the little things, like realizing that the daffodils and tulips I completely forgot I had planted are now coming up.
I help women over forty-five lose weight permanently. Getting older and getting healthier is possible, if you really put your mind to it. I bring together my medical knowledge and cognitive coaching tools to teach how to make changes that have permanent results. The smile when my clients realize that they have solved their weight issues forever is priceless. What is even better is that these skills can be applied to anything you want to change.
My brand definitely has a personal meaning. This was me. Despite being a doctor and with years of health research practice, I could not figure out how to keep the healthy weight I had enjoyed for most of my life. I have used the same coaching tools to change many other things. I just could not keep it to myself, I had to help other women.
Being always eager to learn. It works for both personal and professional life. It has, for example, allowed me to live and work in different countries with different languages and meet so many different people.
I have learnt to not call them failures. They all in time become the reason you succeed at something else. Failing at having a good MIR number (the exam that determines which medical specialty you can choose) meant that I went on to have a research career, live in the US, met my German husband, and have with him our British child. How happy I am now of that failure.
I secretly did, I always wanted to do something on my own, but I do not think I took that thought seriously until a couple of years ago.
Isabel Allende, I dreamt of different lives reading her novels, and two exceptionally good friends, Cornelia and Montse, they both always see the best in everybody.
Transplant coordinator during my medical studies. I worked in “l’Oficina de Transplants de la Generalitat.” We worked in on-call rotas. We paired donors with recipients, sometimes 2-3 organs from the same donor to recipients in Catalonia, Spain or internationally if there was not a recipient in the country. It was both thrilling and stressful because all had to happen in a short time. The more recipients we could pair the more lives could be helped.
A love story.
In my free time, I love embroidery.
I discovered I had green fingers for salads and flowers, after having killed many houseplants ha-ha.
Amnesty International.
I use the self-coaching practice. This is basically guiding myself in changing my own thinking, optimism and come up with solutions.
Relax, everything will be okay.
@floretflower is one of my favorite accounts that I follow.
Every year I choose a word (only one, the constraint is important) that I use to guide me through the year. This year is ‘Decisive’.
