EP266: Lisa Fraley - Law and the Health Coach

Health Coach Conversations

Does the legal jargon make your head spin as a health coach? Do you wish running your business was as easy as sipping a green smoothie?

Lisa Fraley, an attorney and legal coach, shares some great insights on the legal landscape of the health and wellness industry. She provides valuable advice on avoiding common legal pitfalls and setting up compliant health coaching practices. She demystifies the complex legal issues to help you understand the legalities that come with the health coaching business so you can focus on helping clients without legal worries. Whether you are a health coach, a doctor or any other licensed medical professional, this episode has some great insights for you!

In this episode, they talk about:

• How can a burned-out psychologist hire health coaches to work while complying with HIPAA

• How can doctors hire health coaches to work with their patients

• Differences between functional medicine and functional wellness coaching

• Can health coaches work with labs

• HIPAA compliance requirements for health coaches working with medical practices

• Changes in telemedicine laws, especially post-pandemic

• Risks of using medical titles (e.g., Dr.) in health coaching practices

• Difference between licensed medical professionals and health coaches

• Can licensed medical professionals sell their books on a health coaching website

• Rules for health coaches practicing online in green and red states

• How to get a free 20-minute legal chat with Lisa's team

Memorable Quotes

“It’s frustrating when we want to be holistic and help people holistically and reach people farther and wider. But the law just isn’t still quite there yet.”

“Doctors are doctors, and health coaches are health coaches. If a doctor wants to become a health coach, they need to go get trained as a health coach and become a health coach. Or they can educate people from their medical background, but they can’t cross the two. They have to be separate because one is licensed and one is not.”

BIO:

Lisa Fraley, JD is an Attorney, Legal Coach®, and Holistic Lawyer®. She takes a holistic approach to law and business by blending her expertise as a former health care attorney in a large corporate law firm with the care and support as a Health & Life Coach. Her goal is to make law easy to understand, accessible and affordable, with lots of “Legal Love™”.

With a Certificate in Sustainable Business Strategy from Harvard Business School Online, she’s the author of Easy Legal Steps…That Are Also Good for Your Soul, a #1 Amazon best seller in both Corporate Law and Ethics, and the host of the “Legally Enlightened Podcast” on iTunes which offers bite-sized, digestible legal tips in 20-minutes or less.

Lisa has spoken on international stages from the Bellagio to British Columbia, including for Jonathan Fields, National Association of Nutrition Professionals, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, Maryland University of Integrative Health, World Conference on Food Science & Technology in Rome, Italy (upcoming), JJ Virgin’s Mindshare Leadership Summit (upcoming), and Maine Women’s Network. For her expertise, she has been a legal expert on over 300 podcasts and interviews, including mindbodygreen.com, “Entrepreneur on Fire” hosted by Jon Lee Dumas, Health Coach Institute, Integrative Women’s Health Institute, Chris Kresser, Dr. Tom O’Bryan, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, Functional Nutrition Coaching Academy, True Detox, Institute of Nutrition & Fitness Sciences, Dr. Stephen Cabral, Russ Ruffino, Primal Health Coach Podcast, Practice Better, The Health Coach Group, The Limitless MD Podcast, Doctors Unbound Podcast, Wellpreneur Podcast, That Clean Life, The Wellness Business Podcast, National Association of Counselors in Private Practice, Dietitians in Business & Communications, The Flourishing Center, Dieticians in Private Practice, Entrepreneur Now Podcast, In Her Voice Podcast, Simplero, Shining Mentor Magazine, Australia’s YMag, and “Good Day Maine” (WGME-13 Portland).

Mentioned In This Episode:

Easy Legal Steps...That Are Also Good For Your Soul book: lisafraley.com/book

Lisa Fraley Website: https://lisafraley.com/

https://lisafraley.com/services/

Links to resources:

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