When a personal tragedy changed the lives of Pip Seldon and her family forever, she resolved to do something about it. A construction site project manager, Pip has developed a program to help a group of workers known colloqially in Australia as 'Tradies' - construction workers, electricians, carpenters, plumbers, just to name a few. The lifestyles Tradies lead and the physically demanding work they do can lead to poor health - but it doesn't have to be this way. Pip introduces her Healthy Tradie project which promises to help improve the lives of Tradies in Australia and around the world.

Pip Sel­don is a Con­struc­tion Pro­ject Man­ager, health and nutri­tion coach and founder of #theHealthyTradiePro­ject.

Her trans­form­a­tional jour­ney began in 2009 with the loss of her eld­est brother, a car­pen­ter, to sui­cide. Pip’s mis­sion now is, “to edu­cate and inspire, to enhance the phys­ical, men­tal and emo­tional health of Australia’s con­struc­tion industry.”

Pip believes that well­ness exists in all of us and through the right nutri­tion, exer­cise and life­style prac­tices we can each unveil our health­i­est self.

In her quest to imple­ment a pro­act­ive approach to sui­cide pre­ven­tion, Pip foun­ded #theHealthyTradiePro­ject. She now deliv­ers Healthy Tradie Work­shops, Tool­box Talks and a ’21-Day Tradie Trans­form­a­tion’ nutri­tion and exer­cise coach­ing pro­gram. Pip gives people the tools they need to make step-by-step changes in their life­style unlock­ing the keys to look­ing bet­ter, feel­ing bet­ter and liv­ing bet­ter!

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx