A number of AFPA college students and grads have unbelievable information, actual shopper wins, and a ardour to impression extra folks. What they don’t all the time have is a straightforward solution to flip that worth into one thing purchasers can use time and again, even exterior of periods. That’s the place publishing could be highly effective, not as an enormous life aim, however as a sensible solution to assist folks, construct credibility, and prolong your impression.
AFPA graduate Kim Logan, a Intestine Well being Vitamin Specialist and creator of Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Every day Tracker, did precisely that. She turned her expertise and evidence-based coaching right into a 30-day guided tracker designed to assist readers determine 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 personal useful resource is likely to be extra achievable than you assume.
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, life like, and doable. By means of her YouTube channel Intestine Well being Made Easy, she shares science-backed schooling and sensible way of life methods to assist folks managing continual irritation and autoimmune-related challenges.
Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Every day Tracker is considered one of her newest tasks, a 30-day guided journal designed to assist readers determine patterns affecting their intestine well being, with built-in suggestions and sources to assist knowledgeable, sustainable wellness selections.
What sort of suggestions have you ever obtained from folks utilizing the tracker?
Previous to publishing, I supplied a free PDF model of the tracker to pals, household, and colleagues for sincere suggestions. This led to 21 5-star evaluations inside weeks of publishing. The general sentiment is Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Every day Tracker is easy-to-use, eye-opening, and a game-changer for total well being.
Probably the most significant final result that I’ve seen thus far is from the shopper who impressed me to write down the guide. Although she has by no means offered with digestive or autoimmune points, she has suffered from persistent nervousness 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 impression on intestine well being, she got here to me in search of a “weight loss plan.” I defined that we’d be working by extra of a sustainable way of life “improve” moderately than a fad.
After I began compiling movies and free guides that I’ve created for stress, anti-inflammatory meals selections, sleep administration, motivation, motion, and many others., I noticed it might be useful to compile this info in a single place together with common self-assessments and day by day tracker pages, so folks might determine triggers AND selections that work for themselves.
This specific shopper reported again inside the week that, whereas she nonetheless had nervousness, she was capable of 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 always embody prebiotic fiber and cultured probiotics.
How did finishing the Intestine Well being Vitamin Specialist Certificates form the best way you approached this mission?
With out this program, I’d not have the credibility to write down and publish this guide. My curiosity in intestine well being stemmed from private expertise with an autoimmune illness. My physician didn’t advocate that I make any dietary or way of life modifications to handle the situation, so I did it alone after studying a guide known as Intestine Test by Dr. Steven Gundry. As soon as I acknowledged the impact my intestine well being had on my situation, I wished to know the science and analysis out there, and by some means I discovered AFPA! From there, I used to be capable of 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 guide?
The guide highlights the impression that weight loss 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 stable construction when working with/presenting to others.
What did the Amazon publishing course of really appear to be 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 guide I used to be publishing (low content material due the tracker pages). Right here, I additionally realized about “bleed” and the way that will have an effect on printing. The method was pretty easy however required numerous manhours. As a result of my guide has tracker pages, I wanted graphics, so I created the design in Canva with particular measurement parameters. Then, I downloaded the PDF and uploaded that to KDP Amazon.
At this level, I used to be guided to pick title, writer(s), classes, key phrases, print particulars, and many others. 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 capable of launch a preview and approve from there.
Publishing is just one a part of the method, nevertheless. To be a profitable writer, there must be a stable plan for advertising and marketing.
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 electronic 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 info to a unique 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 thought of compiling the data together with 30 days of day by day monitoring pages was born! Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Every 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 guide, so that point will not be included in idea-to-publish, AND if I had been to do it over, I’d have spent extra time on the quilt and launch.
What was more durable than anticipated? What was simpler than anticipated?
I’d say the method was extra tedious than anticipated—that means many little elements to the method and frustrations alongside the best way. 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 sincere reply is the publishing half will not be one thing to be intimidated by. It’s the advertising and marketing half that’s tough, 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 guide folks can 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 really assist folks.
Many AFPA college students dream of writing a guide however by no means begin. What’s the most important mindset shift that helped you progress from “sometime” to “accomplished”?
For me, the shift was that I’ve skilled and realized the science about one thing that may assist others. Sure, I can doubtlessly earn a living from guide gross sales, however the worth of what’s inside far outweighs the worth of this guide.
How does this guide match into your larger imaginative and prescient to your work?
Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Every day Tracker has a number of purposes in my larger imaginative and prescient as a wellness coach. First, for anybody who outright buys the guide, 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 total wellness. By means of this article, I’ll ultimately market a web based course (which is taking me for much longer to supply than publishing the guide). Moreover, as soon as I start working extra recurrently with one-on-one purchasers, the guide will function our framework (and can be a part of their shopper package deal). 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 Simple.
The rest you need to share?
Sure! There are two methods to purchase Intestine Well being Made Easy: Your Every day Tracker. It’s out there on Amazon or as a printable PDF on my web site.
It’s a fantastic useful resource for people concerned about making sustainable upgrades to their wellness. However, it’s also a fantastic instrument for coaches as it’s a tangible asset for purchasers to work by together with their coaches’ steerage. I’d love to listen to suggestions from anybody who decides to make use of it with their purchasers!
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