Nicole Porter

Speaker, Author, Stress Coach, Wellness Educator, Nutritionist

About Nicole Porter (short bio)

Nicole Porter is an author, speaker, and award-winning Stress Coach, Nutritionist, and Wellness Educator with over three decades of experience in health and wellness. She is also the founder of Nicole Porter Wellness, a workplace wellness company twice recognized as one of Canada’s Top 10 Corporate Wellness Service Companies. Having overcome her own health challenges with natural therapies, Nicole is the creator of The Hidden Stress Method and The B.A.L.A.N.C.E. Nutrition Program, bringing a strategic, no-nonsense, and results-driven approach to help today’s busy professionals master stress, health, and habit change.

“Nicole Porter completely changed the way I think about ‘getting healthy’.”

Erin Cebula, Media Personality

About Nicole Porter (long bio)

With over three decades of experience in nutrition, fitness, mindfulness-based stress reduction and behavior change, Nicole Porter is an award-winning Stress Coach, Nutritionist, and Wellness Educator, and creator of The Hidden Stress Method and The B.A.L.A.N.C.E. Nutrition Program.

She is also the founder of Nicole Porter Wellness, a workplace wellness company twice named one of Canada’s Top 10 Corporate Wellness Service Companies.

A thought-provoking speaker and passionate educator, Nicole brings an innovative, strategic, and evidence-based approach to stress, health, and habit change, helping busy, stressed out professionals conquer The Top 10 Unhealthy Habits that can sabotage physical, mental, and emotional health – without them even knowing it.

As a solution, Nicole puts forth an innovative and actionable framework for stress reduction and habit change, helping people replace unhealthy fads, trends, and hacks with a proven, realistic, and results-driven strategy to optimize their health, mindset, and productivity – at work and at home.

As demonstrated in her book, How to Kick Ass in Chaos, Nicole’s strategic, no-nonsense, relatable, and realistic approach is key to inspiring profound shifts in how people think about their capacity to succeed – an outcome that can easily translate from one’s personal to professional life.

Based in Vancouver, Canada, Nicole is passionate about her mission to help others live the healthiest, happiest, and most inspired lives possible. You will likely find her with friends, family, or her team, often drinking a glass of water, and occasionally, a glass of wine.

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“Your enthusiasm is contagious! You are doing an excellent job educating many of us, which is very good for the world. We need more people like you and your team.”

Seminar Attendee, North Central Washington Education Service District

The Book: How to Kick A** in Chaos

An essential read for any busy professional, How to Kick Ass in Chaos examines how today’s working adults unnecessarily expose themselves to 10 Hidden Stressors that can secretly sabotage their physical, mental, and emotional health.

“The writings in this book are remarkable…a superb piece…Nicole provides clear guidance on how to change our habits and manage our stress, helping us realize we have more control over our health than we think. I am confident this book will be of great benefit to all who read it and can change how we take care of ourselves and each other.” – Harry Thomas Peters, BSc, MD

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Timely, insightful, and progressive, the writings in this book are remarkable in that Nicole has crystallized the concepts of stress, which can often be difficult to fully grasp on our own. She uses her rare ability to break down complex issues into their core parts, making it easy for the reader to understand and clearly see why her approach can result in success. I am confident this book will be of great benefit to all who read it and can change how we take care of ourselves and each other.”

Harry Thomas Peters, BSc, MD

Hidden Stress and The Top 10 Unhealthy Habits

Hidden Stress is the unnecessary stress caused by The Top 10 Unhealthy Habits that busy professionals repeat every single day. Most people repeat at least 8 of these habits every day.

The common denominator of these habits is that each of them can, to some degree, add unnecessary stress to your body and brain, contributing to the burden of stress that’s keeping you from feeling your best.

Because these overlooked habits are repeated daily, the chronic burden of stress causes all bodily systems to work overtime, ultimately preventing optimal physical, mental and emotional health.

The habits are: Negative Mindset, Multitasking, Poor Breathing, Excessive Screen Time, Lack of Sleep, Poor Nutrition, Imbalanced Exercise Programs, A Lack of Purpose, Overthinking, and Lack of Social Connection.

“Nicole is an excellent presenter and incredibly engaging with the audience.”

M. Lao, Davidson and Company

The Hidden Stress Method™

Strategically designed to effect long-term habit change by reducing the cumulative burden of stress caused by ten overlooked habits, The Hidden Stress Method is a customizable 6-stage habit change framework that can be customized to the lifestyle, workload, and preferences of today’s busy professional.

This game-changing framework is a long-term strategy that replaces short-term tactics – fads, hacks, diets, medications, surgeries – that overload the wellness industry, make people sick, and sabotage results.

We use a strategy to improve a business. It’s time to have a strategy to improve our health.

“I lost 17 pounds without even trying! This Hidden Stress strategy works!”

Tara Zielinski

Interview Topics and Angles

We’ve suggested a few angles below, but can speak about any of the Top 10 Unhealthy Habits, as well as topics like habit change, behavior change, and stress.

Hidden Stressors in the Workplace: The top 10 stress triggers most professionals overlook, and how they silently sabotage mental clarity, physical energy, and performance
Multitasking is the New Smoking: Why the constant juggling of emails, meetings, and deadlines is destroying brain health – and what to do instead
Your Brain on Food: What today’s diet trends get wrong about focus, memory, and decision-making – and how to eat for peak performance at work
The Hidden Cost of Excessive Screen Time: The hidden impact of excessive screen exposure on mental sharpness, sleep, and mood — plus how to fix it without going offline
Fit is Fiction: Why looking fit doesn’t always mean being healthy – and the hidden internal issues that can derail long-term wellness
Manipulating Motivation: Replace traditional goal-setting with the most overlooked step that inspires lasting change
The Strategy Gap – Why We Plan for Profits But Not for Health: Drawing parallels between business strategy and health strategy – and how the lack of a plan keeps even successful people unhealthy
The 7 Sleep Factors: Evidence-based advice to replace short-term hacks so you get the restful and restorative sleep you need
Choose Stillness Over Illness: Why and how busy professionals can realistically incorporate moments of stillness to improve health and manage stress
The Power of Purpose: How a clear sense of purpose influences stress, energy, and overall well-being

Monthly Themes: January (Resolutions; A New Approach to Weight Loss; Habit Change; Alcohol Consumption), February (Heart); March (Nutrition Month, Brain Health Awareness); April (Stress Awareness Month, World Health Day); May (Mental Health Awareness); June (Men’s Health, Migraine Awareness); July/August (Staying Healthy Over the Summer); September (Back to Routines and Resolutions); October/November (Healthy Workplace/Thanksgiving); November/December (Healthy Holidays)

“Nicole is a fantastic speaker with an excellent message.”

Suman Gurung, Event Attendee

Sample Interview Questions

Below are suggested interview questions that can inspire meaningful discussions and takeaways for busy professionals.

You say that we, as busy professionals, repeat 10 unhealthy habits every single day. What are those habits?
What do you mean they put stress on the body? Isn’t stress just mental and emotional stress like tight deadlines and credit card bills?
How would we know we’re exposing our bodies to Hidden Stress? What signs or symptoms should we pay attention to?
What is the #1 overlooked stressor that busy professionals repeat?
What do you think is the biggest mistake that we make when it comes to getting healthy?
If you had to give us one piece of advice to reduce stress, what would you suggest?
Your book, which is called How to Kick A** in Chaos, seems timely! What would you say are the top 3 takeaways for us and how we can better manage the chaos that seems to be all around us!
Why is your book/programs different from other health and wellness advice out there?
What if I don’t want to give up my wine or chocolate?! What advice would you give to those who feel the same?