About Marna

Marna Goldstein Thall is the CEO of Thin From Within, LLC., an author, presenter, educator, and an expert in understanding the thin mind.

After agonizing over her weight gain from age 12 to18, Marna dug into the thin mind and found a powerful way to slim down without diets. After losing over 30 pounds in 1994, Marna was bombarded with questions regarding what she had done to lose weight, and lose weight so quickly. After years of interviewing and researching the naturally thin and applying these findings to herself and others with fantastic results, she started Thin From Within, LLC (formerly Model Image) within one year of graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a Psychology and Education degree in 1997.

In a dimly lit room with no marketing background, no money, a computer, gobs of library books, a peach painted desk and lamp, and some legal support, Marna set up two metal folding chairs and started seeing clients. She plastered the city with her grassroots marketing posters and flyers with an interesting message, “she could help people get thin, by thinking, eating and living thin.”

The editorial staff at Colorado State University instantly got wind of her poorly done marketing materials, and immediately wanted to interview her for a story.  Her approach was met with curiosity, intrigue and critique. Professionals from all over the city had something to say about this new philosophy. The excitement led to a rush of new clients ranging from college professors, mothers, librarians, lawyers, doctors, psychologists, students, and heads of companies.

Although they were not impressed by the dimly lit office and metal folding chairs, they were wildly impressed by their weight loss results! Over 70% of the clients walking in Marna’s door, walked out thinner. Those who applied these thin principles dropped weight fast, no question. There was the occasional client needing to be referred out, but the vast majority saw incredible results.

As Marna’s business grew and then shrank, and then grew and then shrank, she immediately learned that she needed marketing skills; skills she never acquired in her psychology or education classes. While seeing clients in the evening and leading seminars on weekends, she started working for one of the top marketers in Colorado at an upscale mall called Cherry Creek Shopping Center. She launched their first ever website, where she was honored with a marketing award in Westword's Best of 2002 Ebulletin Sales Alert.  In addition, Marna worked with over 160 merchants to help grow their business and exposed them to local marketing opportunities. These stores included: Cartier, Louis Vuitton, Ralph Lauren, The Gap, Neiman Marcus, and many, many more.

She was then recruited to be the Marketing Director for a local Denver Hospice where she increased sales by 40% within the first few months of being hired and helped to brand their company’s image.  To this day, she is a strong advocate of hospice and sits on the board of Front Range’s Hospice.

With over seven years of marketing skills, she decided to go out on her own full-time in 2007. She met up with powerful internet marketers who she credits much of her success to.  Amy Grant and Pat O’Bryan believed in her, taught her, and continue to teach and inspire her to grow professionally. As her coaching practice grows, she has continued to gain expert status within the non-diet community.  Marna has produced over 20 online products, including audios, her ebook, Naturally Thin Secrets, and teleseminars.
In 2009 she developed ThinWithinU, an online community dedicated to mastering her simple strategies and techniques needed to think, live and eat thin. Marna also developed a corporate arm of the company where she and her partner, Kim Hiatt, PhD are taking Marna’s clinical experience and Kim’s research findings out to corporations.

Marna has led over 60 seminars and has been featured in the 2008 documentary, Facing the Fat. She has been interviewed on numerous radio shows, in local newspapers, and by health experts across the globe. Marna has had the fortunate pleasure of teaming up with and being included in expert panels with: Scott Tousignant, Bob Doyle, Stacey Mayo, Penelope Pauley, (look through list). Her client list has included football stars’ families, Miss USA contestants, Royal  American families, and fellow experts and professionals around the globe.

Marna’s known for her ability to quickly generate valuable weight loss and body image results for others. To see the type of results Marna is known for, click here.

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Marna was married in 2008. She lives with her husband, Josh and their two dogs, Cooper and Finley. They are expecting their first child in March 2010.