Meet your coach

Mary Pate, founder of Mustard Seed Health Coaching and the SheSTANDS Method,  smiling in a navy blazer, seated in a red upholstered chair against a brick wall.

I'm Mary.

For more than three decades, I was a high-level attorney: the long hours, the relentless pressure, the deadlines that didn’t care how I felt, and the unspoken rule that I keep it together no matter what. I was very good at it. Then menopause arrived and rewrote everything I thought I knew about my body.

The strategies that I had used my entire career - push harder, sleep less, eat clean, train more - suddenly stopped working. The weight that wouldn’t move. Brain fog in the middle of a meeting. The fatigue, the mood swings, the 3am ceiling-staring. For the first time, effort wasn’t enough, and that was terrifying, because effort had always been my answer.

That season changed the direction of my life.

After 33 years, I left the practice of law and became a full-time Integrative Nutrition Health Coach - specifically for women like us. Women who can’t afford to fall apart. Who don’t have hours to chase wellness trends or guess their way through midlife. I’ve trained extensively in menopause health, hormone balance, gut restoration, intermittent fasting for women, and functional, root-cause approaches. I pair that education with a career’s worth of high-stakes, high-performance experience, because I understand the life you’re trying to keep running while your body changes underneath you.

Private 1:1 coaching is available for those who need it - but whether you’re just beginning to look for answers or ready to go all in, the SheSTANDS Program surrounds you with structure, momentum, and women who get it, so you’re never figuring it out alone.

You don’t have to white-knuckle your way through this season. You need a real plan, and someone who’s walked it. I’m ready when you are.

If you’re the woman everyone relies on - the one who holds it together no matter what - you’re in the right place.

DOGS  ♥︎♥︎♥︎

BANANAS  ♥︎♥︎♡

HIKES IN THE WOODS  ♥︎♥︎♥︎

TURMERIC  ♡♡♡

Fun Facts

about me

Mary Pate, founder of Mustard Seed Health Coaching and the SheSTANDS Method, smiling in a light blue cardigan, seated on a wooden bench beside a stone wall.

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DESTINATION
ANYWHERE TROPICAL

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UNHINDERED BY FEAR

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Journey

Fresh baking ingredients—eggs, flour, and honey—with wooden utensils on a marble surface.
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