29. From professional athlete to body recomposition coach: how burnout changed her life with Stella Iordanidi

Stella Iordanidi is a body recomposition coach and the founder of Train With Stella, a coaching business she’s been running for the past ten years.Her story started in athletics. She was born in Greece, but immigrated when she was three years old and grew up in Colombia. Swimming became a huge part of her life. She competed nationally and internationally as a junior athlete and was fortunate to win several titles. She was the first female athlete in Colombia to hold a national record in long-distance swimming, and also became the overall champion, male and female, in the first open sea swimming championship held in the country.That athletic career eventually took her to the World Championships. But ironically, that’s where she experienced one of her biggest lessons, because she got injured after pushing herself into burnout.Later in life she immigrated again, this time to the UK, where she started her professional career. She worked in sales and customer service at Apple, and eventually built a career in team management there.But throughout all those experiences, sport, corporate leadership, entrepreneurship, she kept noticing the same pattern: high achievers know how to push themselves to succeed, but very few people teach them how to protect their health and their nervous system while doing it.Today her work focuses on helping driven women build strong, healthy bodies through intelligent training and nutrition, without falling into the burnout cycle that so many high performers experience.You can find Stella at:Instagram: instagram.com/stellaiordanidi/Website: trainwithstella.com