Loads of AFPA college students and grads have unbelievable information, actual shopper wins, and a ardour to affect extra folks. What they don’t all the time have is a straightforward approach to flip that worth into one thing purchasers can use many times, even exterior of periods. That’s the place publishing might be highly effective, not as an enormous life purpose, however as a sensible approach to assist folks, construct credibility, and lengthen your affect.
AFPA graduate Kim Logan, a Intestine Well being Vitamin Specialist and creator of Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Each day Tracker, did precisely that. She turned her expertise and evidence-based coaching right into a 30-day guided tracker designed to assist readers establish patterns affecting their intestine well being and make extra knowledgeable, sustainable selections. Right here’s how she introduced the mission to life, what the method actually seemed like, and why creating your individual useful resource could be extra achievable than you suppose.
Kim Logan is the founding father of Grammy Going Inexperienced, a wellness enterprise devoted to creating intestine well being and anti inflammatory dwelling really feel easy, lifelike, and doable. By way of her YouTube channel Intestine Well being Made Easy, she shares science-backed schooling and sensible life-style methods to assist folks managing continual irritation and autoimmune-related challenges.
Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Each day Tracker is one in every of her newest tasks, a 30-day guided journal designed to assist readers establish patterns affecting their intestine well being, with built-in suggestions and assets to assist knowledgeable, sustainable wellness selections.
What sort of suggestions have you ever acquired from folks utilizing the tracker?
Previous to publishing, I provided a free PDF model of the tracker to buddies, household, and colleagues for trustworthy suggestions. This led to 21 5-star critiques inside weeks of publishing. The general sentiment is Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Each day Tracker is easy-to-use, eye-opening, and a game-changer for general well being.
Essentially the most significant consequence that I’ve seen to this point is from the shopper who impressed me to write down the e-book. Although she has by no means offered with digestive or autoimmune points, she has suffered from persistent anxiousness and panic assaults for many of her life. In recent times, by stress and poor consuming habits, she gained 50+ kilos. As a result of a lot of my social media focuses on meals and its affect on intestine well being, she got here to me in search of a “food plan.” I defined that we’d be working by extra of a sustainable life-style “improve” slightly than a fad.
Once I began compiling movies and free guides that I’ve created for stress, anti-inflammatory meals selections, sleep administration, motivation, motion, and so on., I noticed it could be helpful to compile this data in a single place together with common self-assessments and every day tracker pages, so folks may establish triggers AND selections that work for themselves.
This explicit shopper reported again inside the week that, whereas she nonetheless had anxiousness, she was in a position to handle it extra successfully with out going into full panic assaults (suggesting the gut-brain connection). Inside a month, she had misplaced 11 kilos. She remains to be sending me movies of her new recipes that usually embrace prebiotic fiber and cultured probiotics.
How did finishing the Intestine Well being Vitamin Specialist Certificates form the way in which you approached this mission?
With out this program, I might not have the credibility to write down and publish this e-book. My curiosity in intestine well being stemmed from private expertise with an autoimmune illness. My physician didn’t suggest that I make any dietary or life-style modifications to handle the situation, so I did it by myself after studying a e-book referred to as Intestine Test by Dr. Steven Gundry. As soon as I acknowledged the impact my intestine well being had on my situation, I needed to know the science and analysis out there, and by some means I discovered AFPA! From there, I used to be in a position to be taught extra about what occurred to me and commenced to assist others.
What particular information or frameworks from AFPA confirmed up immediately in your e-book?
The e-book highlights the affect that food plan, motion, stress administration, and prioritizing sleep has on the intestine microbiome. These 4 aspects had been elementary to the Intestine Well being Vitamin Specialist program and have given me a strong construction when working with/presenting to others.
What did the Amazon publishing course of truly seem like for you?
To start, I used to be not conscious that to self-publish on Amazon, I needed to undergo Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP Amazon) which required an account setup. From there, I watched movies particular to the kind of e-book I used to be publishing (low content material due the tracker pages). Right here, I additionally discovered about “bleed” and the way that will have an effect on printing. The method was pretty easy however required a lot of manhours. As a result of my e-book has tracker pages, I wanted graphics, so I created the design in Canva with particular dimension parameters. Then, I downloaded the PDF and uploaded that to KDP Amazon.
At this level, I used to be guided to pick out title, creator(s), classes, key phrases, print particulars, and so on. As soon as all of this was verified, I uploaded my content material then was given the choice to create my cowl by KDP or create my very own. I selected to create and add my very own cowl. I used to be in a position to launch a preview and approve from there.
Publishing is just one a part of the method, nevertheless. To be a profitable creator, there needs to be a strong plan for advertising.
How lengthy did it realistically take from concept to revealed?
I can let you know the precise time as a result of it was an e mail that I despatched that impressed me to create the tracker! On 10/6/2025, I compiled a number of of my YouTube movies together with some free guides for a shopper. I had despatched the identical data to a distinct shopper the day earlier than and in addition despatched her a meals journal from Amazon. I noticed that gifting purchasers meals journals was not going to be value efficient, and that’s when the concept of compiling the data together with 30 days of every day monitoring pages was born! Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Each day Tracker was revealed on 11/17/2025. The caveats to this reply are: I already had created the movies and free guides which can be included within the e-book, so that point isn’t included in idea-to-publish, AND if I had been to do it over, I might have spent extra time on the quilt and launch.
What was more durable than anticipated? What was simpler than anticipated?
I might say the method was extra tedious than anticipated—which means many little components to the method and frustrations alongside the way in which. However, the choice to publish on Amazon makes the method simpler.
If somebody is intimidated by self-publishing, what would you inform them truthfully?
My trustworthy reply is the publishing half isn’t one thing to be intimidated by. It’s the advertising half that’s troublesome, humbling, takes intentional effort, and probably requires a monetary funding. That’s the place I’m proper now.
How does it really feel to see your title on a e-book folks should purchase, use, and profit from?
It’s a sense of accomplishment as a result of I do know that I caught out by the method of making one thing that WILL truly assist folks.
Many AFPA college students dream of writing a e-book however by no means begin. What’s the largest mindset shift that helped you progress from “sometime” to “executed”?
For me, the shift was that I’ve skilled and discovered the science about one thing that may assist others. Sure, I can doubtlessly become profitable from e-book gross sales, however the worth of what’s inside far outweighs the value of this e-book.
How does this e-book match into your greater imaginative and prescient on your work?
Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Each day Tracker has a number of functions in my better imaginative and prescient as a wellness coach. First, for anybody who outright buys the e-book, there’s an possibility for them to subscribe to my weekly publication, “Intestine Test with Grammy Going Inexperienced,” the place I share suggestions, motivation, and sensible methods to enhance general wellness. By way of this article, I’ll finally market a web-based course (which is taking me for much longer to supply than publishing the e-book). Moreover, as soon as I start working extra recurrently with one-on-one purchasers, the e-book will function our framework (and can be a part of their shopper bundle). Lastly, as a result of there are YouTube movies included, I hope to extend view time and subscribers on my channel Intestine Well being Made Easy.
Anything you need to share?
Sure! There are two methods to purchase Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Each day Tracker. It’s out there on Amazon or as a printable PDF on my web site.
It’s an amazing useful resource for people fascinated by making sustainable upgrades to their wellness. However, additionally it is an amazing device for coaches as it’s a tangible asset for purchasers to work by together with their coaches’ steering. I’d love to listen to suggestions from anybody who decides to make use of it with their purchasers!
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