Mission statement: To make a difference in people's lives


Priorities Simplified, LLC was created and named by president and owner, Pam Schmid, to describe and reflect what she believes is crucial in helping people take charge of their health and well-being. Living hectic lives In a world immersed in information overload, makes it challenging to do that.

Over the years working in a variety of settings to make a difference, from being a special educator early in her career, to a health and fitness professional in non-profit, corporate, and private settings, all the way to working in a drug treatment program in a federal prison, she learned that helping people move forward started with the basics: figuring out what was most important and breaking it down to it's simplest parts...Priorities Simplified.

Priorities Simplified provides health and wellness services with an emphasis on a real life, practical approach to optimizing health, fitness, happiness and well-being with programs that inspire hope, motivation, and give a pathway to lasting change.

More about Pam (Complete CV/resume available upon request):
Known as the health and fitness expert and wellness coach who “simplifies the facts” and makes lifestyle change easy with a one step at a time coach approach, Pam has been energizing people to live their best lives since 1981. She is an expert at helping people find their motivation and following through to sustain healthy behaviors to manage health, weight, and improve happiness and well-being.

Pam is a certified Executive Wellness Coach through Wellcoaches Corporation (an ACSM partner), ACSM (American College of Sports Medicine) Health Fitness Specialist, and an ACSM/ACS Cancer Exercise Trainer. Pam is a speaker, coach, and writer who has been interviewed and quoted by local, national and international media, including US News and World Report, ABC and CBS local, Danish Broadcasting Corporation, and many others. She has written numerous articles for professional and popular media on health and lifestyle topics, was co-investigator for the first wellness coaching study utilizing the Wellcoaches methodology (credentialed professional working as coaches) as a single intervention, first to bring wellness coaching to cancer survivors, and was contributing author for the first coaching textbook in health care, Coaching Psychology Manual, (Lippincott, Williams, and Wilkins). She also serves as Wellcoaches® faculty, advisor, and live workshop presenter for Wellcoaches Corporation. She is presently authoring a book about breast cancer for Healthy Learning, Inc. (Wellcoaches established the gold standard for coaching psychology in healthcare and the professions of wellness, health, and fitness coach).

In 2004 when Pam was diagnosed with breast cancer, the name of her company, Priorities Simplified, took on new meaning. Struggling to regain strength, energy, and confidence after aggressive treatment, she understood how challenging living a healthy lifestyle could be for survivors. Being a leader in the new field of wellness coaching, she saw the perfect opportunity to make a difference using a program that would incorporate all parts of a survivor’s life, and help them build confidence in their ability to take charge of their health and well-being. Most importantly, it was a program to help them transition and live fully after a diagnosis of cancer.

Her Healthy and Fit After Cancer® programs offer wellness coaching services to individuals and organizations through grants, when possible, to provide coaching free of charge.Healthy and Fit After Cancer® provides workshops for professionals to learn more about healthy survivorship and how to support healthy living for survivors, starting with brief motivational coaching and information about cancer and exercise.

Pam is a founding member of the Duke Patient Advocacy Council, was Co-chair of the NC Comprehensive Cancer Partnership Survivorship Workgroup from 2008-2010, and two time LIVESTRONG national delegate and 2009 Global Summit volunteer. She was co-investigator for a published study determining longitudinal benefits of wellness coaching for cancer survivors that has been accepted/ presented at four scientific conferences around the world. She has presented at numerous cancer related workshops/conferences delivering keynote and other educational sessions.

Pam’s greatest joy and accomplishment has been raising her two boys, and being a wife of almost 30 years. Pam is also an actor who has done work in commercials, industrials, and film.