In 2023, Loren Mattingly got the surprise of her life. A rental car rolled up her rural road past the long line of wooden fence, past the acres of pasture with cattle grazing and farm buildings that sit on the property where she and her husband raise their three boys, and right up to her front door. The unexpected visitors? FASTer Way to Fat Loss CEO and founder Amanda Tress, and her pro trainers, who had flown from Florida to Kentucky as a ‘prize patrol’ of sorts, to let Loren know in person she had taken the top spot on the FASTer Way to Fat Loss Certified Coach leaderboard. 

This small town girl from the middle of nowhere in the midwest, a farmer’s wife, a boy mom, had become a self-made millionaire as a health coach. Loren had not seen that one coming. Especially since when she signed up to become a coach with the FASTer Way she had no money to even pay for the certification. Just a couple years earlier, she’d taken out a $5,000 loan to cover the cost - not knowing if she could ever pay it back, let alone come as far as she had. 

At the time, she was struggling - personally, professionally, financially. As Loren tells us, “I was at a low point in life. Just surviving, not living, just going through the motions.” She was tired. She hated her job. She gave what little energy she had to everyone else. Loren says, “I got lost in motherhood.” 

And then? She found the FASTer Way to Fat Loss. Loren experienced her own personal fitness transformation saying, “It gave me back my life and I wanted that for everybody,” says Loren. 

It was daunting at first. She knew she could fill a void in her community to give women the same courage and inspiration to feel and see the change she had felt. But here she was, a dental hygienist in a rural community, no fitness background, no money, no idea how to do a Facebook live, no experience with a Google sheet.  

But Loren had the FASTer Way certified coach community and the experts at FASTer Way headquarters to help her navigate those lessons. There were trainings and certifications to help her become a fitness expert, mentors to support her in marketing and finance, and best of all the group of fellow coaches to lean on. 

Loren started with nothing, she knew nothing, but her heart was all in and she got to work. It didn’t happen overnight. Loren poured everything into her coaching business - committed to becoming the expert she needed to be; reading, researching, connecting in the community. 

She knew it would be worth it someday, and she was right. Loren quit her job, paid off the family’s mortgage, and has gone on to serve thousands of clients in the FASTer Way to Fat Loss program helping them to make lifegiving transformations in their health and wellness. 

How did she go from being scared to being at the top? Loren’s advice: 

• Don’t let fear stop you from doing what you know is right.
• If you want something bad enough, you’ll do what has to be done.
• Don’t get in your own way and stop yourself from taking action. 
• Be confident in yourself and what you believe in. 

“You’re worthy of a life you cannot wait to wake up to. If I can do this, you can too,” says Loren. “God is so good. I’m so proud of the life I created. Use my story as inspiration to dream big and hustle hard. This might be the very thing that gives you purpose and lets you feel passionate while giving back to your community and your family in huge ways you never dreamed possible.” 

‍Watch Loren tell her own story, and then register for your own FASTer Way to Fat Loss coach success journey. We’ll see you on the leaderboard next!