Founder & Family Health Coach, Bess Blanco
We are the visionaries behind this healthy community, the heartbeat of The Intentional Lifestyle!
Working everyday to bring you only the best in the world of family health, our heart’s desire is to provide you with every resource and encouragement you’re looking for to get your family healthy in every way!
We welcome you to share life with us, and look forward to serving you and your family in your journey to a healthier life!
Bess Blanco – Founder & President, Family Health Coach
In the roles of Family Health Coach, radio show host, speaker, and author, Bess Blanco lives her dream daily of a passionate activist in natural family health!
She leads a powerhouse team of amazing whole-health experts here at The Intentional 
Lifestyle, as they work together to serve this growing community of families. Her impressive research combined with her own years of experience in the areas of health, home, and spiritual growth have given her unique qualifications and the relevance to share with today’s families how to live a healthier lifestyle.
Her husband of fifteen years and business partner, Juan, supports her growing business as they raise their four children together to be healthy, fulfilled, and purposeful people! Bess leads her own family in the healthy and intentional lifestyle that she teaches and promotes.
Arika Lewis – Co-Founder & Executive Business Director
Arika Lewis is a powerhouse business coach and mentor who’s mission is to help others to recognize and utilize the gifts they’ve been given by God so their light shines brighter, their impact is greater and their dreams become reality! She has recently joined forces with the Health Coach team at The Intentional Lifestyle to bring her unique knowledge and qualifications to the needs of this community as we grow! Arika is also a writer, trainer and visionary, and combines those talents in serving us here as well as in her own business and ministry. Happily married to Jerry and mom to three wonderful kids, she has her hands full, and a ready and willing heart to serve others!
Nancy Olson – Gluten-Free Living & Nutrition Coach
Nancy Olson is a writer, speaker, and coach to many, specializing in the areas of Celiac disease and gluten-free living. She runs a hobby farm in Minnesota with husband Ray, where they raise cows, calves and a bunch of barn cats! She’s on a mission to teach us about the importance of our way of eating, and how powerfully that affects our overall wellness. You can find her in our Facebook community, giving freely of her tips, ideas, and advice. She welcomes you to ask her your celiac/gluten-free questions there! You can also read more from her at Thriving With Celiac, her personal website.
Carl Mason Liebenberg – Fitness Professional
Carl Mason Liebenberg is a man on a mission! Currently residing in South Africa, where he works as a fitness professional, his mission is to bring the same principles he has found to be true in his own life & health to YOU! Here is his reason for serving as a wellness and fitness coach in his own words, “I overcame incurable cancer in my early 30′s. Rather than succumb the grave to which I was condemned, I chose life through the natural provision made for us all. That was 16+ years ago. And today my passion is to help each and everyone I can, to do the same – choose life, health and wholeness!” Carl’s story is a powerful one, and we are honored to have his expertise, tremendous passion and servant’s heart for the wellness community on this team! To get more of his incredibly awesome fitness tips and encouragement, visit our Facebook community or his website, Elements of Wellness.
