Abel James

Abel James is a Performance Coach, New York Times Bestselling Author, Musician, and Podcaster.

As a leading voice in health and technology for more than a decade, Abel's podcast has ranked #1 in Health in 8 countries with 100+ million downloads and 2000+ 5-star reviews since its launch in 2012. His shows won 4 awards in independent media, including “Best Podcast” at the Impact Awards and “People’s Choice” in Health & Fitness at the Podcast Awards. 

Working globally with PhDs, best-selling authors, celebrity coaches, acclaimed artists, leaders and top performers, Abel’s charismatic approach has made him a popular keynote speaker, host, strategy consultant, MC, performer, and executive coach. Abel has been featured as a keynote speaker for the Federal Government, Department of Education, State Governments, Universities, and is a former strategy consultant for Fortune 500 companies including Lockheed Martin, Shell, Danaher, State Street Global Advisors, and many more. 

Abel starred as a Celebrity Coach on ABC Television, appears in hundreds of podcasts and documentaries, and is featured in People, Entertainment Tonight, Forbes, Fox News, South by Southwest, and many other major media platforms.  

As a musician, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Abel has toured internationally and won several awards for vocal performance. His recent album Swamp Thing features Abel on lead vocals, guitar, tenor saxophone, and clarinet, and multiple songs from the album hit #1 on WavLake and #1 Fountain.fm charts. Abel’s 360 virtual reality musical and nature experiences earned "Top Creator" on the VEER VR platform.

After completing an accelerated B.A. from Dartmouth College, Abel created his own interdisciplinary curriculum to study brain science, music, and technology, graduating as a Senior Fellow with Honors.

Street Cred

• Abel has coached hundreds of entrepreneurs and top performers for over a decade, and is known as a “Coach to the coaches”
• Abel has interviewed hundreds of top performers, entrepreneurs, best-selling authors, doctors, artists and celebrities for his insightful and award-winning podcast 
• Abel starred as a Celebrity Coach on ABC's Hit Primetime show, My Diet Is Better Than Yours, coaching his client to #1 in fat loss and #1 in the fitness competition Week 1
• Abel’s New York Times Bestselling book, The Wild Diet, was named a Top Trending Diet by Google, featured on ABC TV, and helped millions reclaim their health
• Abel was named as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Health and Fitness by Greatist in 2015, 2016, and 2017
• In 2020, Abel received an Award of Appreciation from First Amendment Voice for his speech and musical performance on freedom of speech in America to high-level government officials
• Abel’s book of humor and satire, Designer Babies Still Get Scabies, is a #1 International Bestseller in 7+ countries, including the U.S., Canada, U.K., Germany, France, Australia, and Japan
• When Abel’s debut cooking app, Caveman Feast, beat out The Food Network and Martha Stewart with more than 1,000 5-star reviews in 48 hours in 2014, Abel became the first independent publisher to hold Apple's #1 Food App and #1 Health Podcast at the same time