Terri Paige
Terri Paige
Medical Transformation Center
CEO, Co-Founder, Certified Lifestyle & Professional Performance Coach
Website: https://medicaltransformationcenter.com
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Who is Terri Paige?
An entrepreneur at heart, Terri Paige has been the driving force behind multiple business ventures, including co-founding Medical Transformation Center with her husband of 40 years, Dr. Carl Paige. Terri is an excellent communicator, speaker, and motivational coach. She has dedicated much of her professional life to helping others live the best, most productive, and active lives possible for them.
The Western Kentucky native earned her BS in Accounting at the University of Kentucky in 1985. She began her career in corporate accounting and auditing as a retail accountant for Jerrico, then as an internal auditor and business manager for retail banking at PNC. These roles allowed Terri access to C-Suite executives and key customers, many of whom represented Fortune 1000 companies, helping to grow her business acumen. In 2011, she became an Arbonne representative, earning RVP status, putting her in the top 3% of the company.
Terri Cooking - Terri Paige Terri’s early career experiences laid a foundation for her work in health and medicine. She co-founded and ran a primary care medical practice in Kentucky with her husband for 23 years. In 2014, they opened Medical Transformation Center, which is focuses on the cellular medicine approach to health. As CEO of Medical Transformation Center, Terri is responsible for growing the practice and staying ahead of the curve with the latest medical technologies and business strategies. Under Terri’s leadership, MTC has become a regional hub of innovation, advancing optimal health through cellular medicine, and helping the body heal itself.
An active member of the health and wellness industry for more than three decades, Terri was an original member of the Coalition for Healthy Oldham County (KY) and named a Louisville Healthcare Fellow in 2015. This health technology leader is dedicated to learning about the newest breakthroughs to maximize energy, improve strength, treat and prevent disease, and extend health.
She is a Fellow of the International Seeds Scientific Research and Performance Institute and a regular speaker at Institute symposiums; a Certified Lifestyle Coach through the American Academy of Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine in conjunction with the Metabolic Medical Institute; and a Certified Professional Performance Coach through SourcePoint Training.
In her spare time, Terri loves to cook and experiment in the kitchen, creating delicious Paleo-Mediterranean dishes that anyone can enjoy. She loves dancing, reading real books – personal development, business strategy, and mysteries are her favorites – and spending free time with her family, including eight children and two grandchildren. This energetic, inspiring, multi-faceted entrepreneur likes exploring all life has to offer and savoring new experiences.
Please briefly summarize your life's journey, highlighting the significant chapters and pivotal moments.
My journey has centered heavily around motherhood - beginning with Early Motherhood at 16, and then needing to continue school and then working as an accountant to support my husband. Together with my husband, we built a medical practice, and later I embraced later motherhood, taking time away to be with my 8 children, homeschooling some of them. After my own health struggles, my husband and I pivoted our practice to offer proactive and preventative care via integrative cellular and regenerative medicine.
How have you made space for your passions, purpose, and wellbeing while navigating the demands of daily life?
My biggest passion is being in service - nurturing and helping people. I've always wanted to be a mom. Of course, I didn't think it would start at 16 or that I would continue to have children until I was in my 40s. I completed high school and college when my son was young. Supported my family while my husband finished medical school. When my first daughter turned 11, I began having more children. When they were old enough, I went back to work and focused on making a ripple effect through our community by helping people transform their lives with integrative regenerative and cellular medicine.
Was there a time when you felt disconnected from your purpose or struggled to find balance in your life? How did you navigate that season?
Perfect balance is an illusion. It's really about the different seasons of life and doing your best to have all the info you need to make a fully-informed choice.
Have you ever felt guilt about how you spend your time? How do you manage those feelings?
We all do the best with what we have at any given moment. There are seasons to life. As mentioned above, perfect balance is fake - it's really what you're choosing to prioritize in any given moment. You won't have everything balanced in your life. The point is making a conscious choice - setting up a mindset and protections to not be a victim of circumstance or reacting constantly. It's better if you look at hard situations circumspectly and make a choice. Nothing is free. There's always going to be fall out. When you start with this realistic baseline - you stop wasting time beating yourself up about not being in balance or always doing something else than what you are doing now or have done. Make a choice and stick with it, until it becomes clear you need to pivot. Before pivoting, take time to consider your situation and options from all sides. I spent a lot of time with regret from going back to work in 2011 - after having taken many years off to grow and raise my family. I loved staying home. Overall, I'm the happiest when I am in service - helping one of my children, sharing life-changing information and resources with people, contributing positively to someone's life. When I went back to work in 2011 to try to help the business evolve in a time of need, it took me away from my family and changed our lives in a major way. There were a lot of negatives, but also a lot of positives. The important factor? This was a choice that I consciously made. Though there were sacrifices from a family standpoint, my children are healthier and so are their kids because of the way we evolved to include insights from integrative regenerative and cellular medicine in our lives. We were able to increase our income to build a legacy business and help our family. We've also made a huge difference in people's lives. So, while my return to full-time work after 8 children created a lot of mom guilt - yet by focusing on the impact this could have for my children and for the patient community we have the privilege to work with, I'm able to understand that I am living my choice.
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