Health & Wellness Growth Consultancy

Growth that
reaches further.

withalova.com

We help health and wellness startups scale faster — through strategy, implementation, and access to a network that opens doors. And we use the growth we create to fund access to health for people who can't afford it.

$130B
UK health & wellness market 2025
5,500+
Active wellness startups in the UK
15%
Of net profit pledged to health access
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The growth partner wellness founders have been waiting for...

Alova is a growth consultancy built exclusively for health and wellness startups. Founded by Arina Pavlova — UCL graduate, wellness advocate, and host of The Alova's Chat podcast — we combine deep domain expertise with genuine implementation support.


We work with pre-seed and seed-stage founders building in nutrition, fitness, mental health, and wellbeing. We don't hand over decks and disappear. We stay until the work is done.

Our mission

"To grow the businesses making health accessible to everyone and use that growth to fund access for those who can't afford it."

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Domain depth over generic advice

We only work in health and wellness. Not because it limits us — because it makes everything we do more accurate, more relevant, and more valuable.

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Implementation over strategy decks

We stay through execution. Founders get accountability, not just advice. Results are the only deliverable that matters.

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Growth with purpose

Revenue is the fuel for impact. Every pound Alova earns creates the resource to make health accessible to the people the wellness industry is currently failing.

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Radical honesty

We tell clients the truth about what will and won't work. No vanity metrics. No flattery. No strategy documents that gather dust.

Three ways to work with Alova.

Every engagement is designed as a ladder — each tier creates the conditions for a longer, deeper partnership that delivers real results.

Entry point

Growth Diagnostic

  • Full audit of positioning, GTM, pricing, retention & competitors
  • Written report with prioritised action list
  • 90-minute findings call with the founder
  • 30-day follow-up check-in included
  • One-off, delivered in 5 working days

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Premium

Fractional Growth Director

  • 2 days/week embedded in your team
  • Full ownership of the growth function
  • Hiring and briefing growth roles
  • Investor readiness — deck, data room, narrative
  • Board-level reporting & OKR ownership
  • Access to the full Alova network

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Growth that reaches further

17 yrs
Healthy life expectancy gap between UK's most and least deprived areas
Higher inactivity rates in deprived communities vs wealthiest areas
26%
Mental health problem rate in deprived areas vs 16% in wealthiest
15%
Of Alova's net profit legally pledged to fund health access programmes

The Alova Pledge

The UK health and wellness industry is worth $130 billion. The people who most need what it sells are almost entirely excluded from it. Alova exists to change both of those things — simultaneously. Every pound we earn from growing wellness brands creates the resource to make wellness accessible to those who cannot pay for it. This is not a marketing promise. It is legally built into the structure of this business.

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Subsidised nutrition coaching for low-income families in London

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Free mental wellness workshops in underserved communities

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Partnerships with NHS social prescribing programmes

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Wellness access programmes in schools in deprived areas

The Alova's Chat

with the Pavlova sisters

Two sisters. One honest conversation at a time.

The Alova's Chat is hosted by sisters with a shared gymnastics past and a passion for self-discovery, sport, and life. Together they explore identity, habits, mental health, life after athletics, and what it really means to grow — not just as athletes, but as people.

Honest conversations. Real stories. No filter. New episodes on YouTube and Spotify — subscribe and never miss one.

Episodes — watch on YouTube

We Competed Against Each Other For Years | Here's What Actually Happened

Exploring what happens to relationships when siblings are pitted against each other from the get-go.

Identity YouTube

Structure Creates Freedom | Yasin Baahmed

Yasin Baahmed: Founder of UCA & TCA, Business Owner and Calisthenic Athlete on what discipline and motivation actually is and how movement is the foundation to building success in business.

Guests YouTube

Fallen Off Track? | How To Reset Your Habits

Looking further into what habits actually are, the habit formation framework and why restarting habits feels so difficult.

Mindset YouTube

How To Choose The Right Training Style?

A complete guide to choosing which training style is the best fit for you, whether that be bodybuilding, powerlifting, calisthenics, street-lifting, hyrox, cross-fit or just general cardio.

Guides YouTube

The Mental Cost of Discipline | Katie Does Cali

What discipline actually costs us, the growing issue that mental health poses and an in-depth conversation with calisthenics athlete Katie

Guests YouTube

How To Stay On Track While Travelling?

How to overcome the thought that travelling will ruin your progress. It won't. Here's why.

Mindset YouTube

More episodes available on YouTube and Spotify

Watch on YouTube Listen on Spotify

From first call to real results

01

Free Growth Review

A 30-minute conversation about what you are building. No pitch. No agenda. Just an honest look at where the biggest growth opportunities are.

02

Growth Diagnostic

A full commercial audit of your brand across five areas. Delivered in five working days. The clearest picture of where your business is strong and where it is leaking.

03

Strategy & Plan

A prioritised 90-day growth plan built from the diagnostic. Three clear recommendations. Specific actions with owners and measurable outcomes.

04

Implementation

We stay. Monthly sessions, weekly accountability, async support. Monthly progress reports. Growth that actually compounds — not advice that gathers dust.

Let's talk about your brand

The first conversation is free. And it's genuinely useful.

Book a free 30-minute Growth Review. We will look honestly at where your biggest growth levers are. No pitch. No agenda. Just a real conversation between someone who understands your world and a founder ready to grow.

Book your free growth review arina@withalova.com