Dietitian Values

Before you move into action or inaction....

Before you start planning for 2026...

Before you make decisions....

Before you celebrate...

Ground in your values first.

Why? How? In aid of what?

Let's chat about exactly that in today's episode.

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The end of a calendar year is nigh and the desire to look forward and get started planning is high.

The business coaches are getting loud with their 'make 2026 the x year ever' and perhaps you are are ready to leave 2025 behind.

BUT....before we rush forward I've got a little pause point for you. I'm planting a seed for both reflection and grounding first.

Reflection of what has been and grounding into what currently is, and then using that as the space to sit in and, if you're ready, plan from.

Offering up a little question for reflection question for you today - or a spur to action - take it as suits for you:

What are you going to do about i?

Tension points, values misalignments, energy & capacity drains...what are you going to do about it?

Cultivating joy, seeing opportunities, passion projects a plenty....what are you going to do about it?

Wanting things to be different, wanting to cultivate a different kind of business and set fire to the systems we are embedded in...what are you going to...

Enough: as much as required.

We've talked about defining your enough in your business (and life of course because that's where your biz is nested). But how do you actually start moving towards a life and business that is enough?

That's exactly what we're up to in this episode - we'll dream, grab the data, critcally analyse shit and make a plan to do things differently and cultivate your enough-ful life.

Let's dive in.

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How we define community, the values we think of it through and act into it by are important.

I recently read a post about the 'cost of community' and it didn't sit with my values for a couple of reasons - I want to chat it through in today's episode and offer up some thoughts on how we conceptualise community and cultivate it together.

In this episode: 

Let's dive in.

How can I make a difference?

Part 2 of a 3 part series sharing practical, grassroots steps you can take to make a difference across business, community & culture.

If you've been asking yourself that question you are not alone. Humans who are doing things differently want the world to be different and want their actions to make a difference. No more business as usual.

In part 2, this episode, we'll chat about community and I'll share 3 radical community based strategies to get you started or simply to plant seeds for you to look at where you...

How can I make a difference?

Part 3 of a 3 part series sharing practical, grassroots steps you can take to make a difference across business, community & culture.

In this episode we'll chat about culture and I'll share 3 radical strategies to change culture, to get you started or simply to plant seeds for you to look at where you can start.

If you've been asking yourself that question you are not alone. Humans who are doing things differently want the world to be different and want their actions to make a difference. No more business...

How can I make a difference?

If you've been asking yourself that question you are not alone. Humans who are doing things differently want the world to be different and want their actions to make a difference. No more business as usual.

But where to start? In this 3 part series I'm sharing practical, grassroots steps you can take to make a difference across business, community & culture.

In part 1, today's episode we'll start with business and I'll share 3 radical business strategies to get you started or simply to plant seeds for you to look...

As seasons being to shift here I thought I’d do a little check in episode.

I’m talking about:

Let’s dive in.

And if you want to keep diving in, check out this episode...

Dehumanisation can be insidious....especially how we are asked to dehumanise ourselves.

A little analysis and observation from me in today's episode.

Let me know your thoughts.

Let's dive in.

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I've talked about the idea of relational inspiration on other eps but I think it deserves its own stand alone episode.

In this one I'll:

- define relational inspiration

- chat about how it can be used as a lens or space for grounding

- offer it up as an alternative to 3 different areas of status-quo building concepts that have never sat right with me, and maybe not for you either:

Let's dive in...

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Let's chat about critically analysing, grieving and leaving the status quo behind.

It's 2025, and I'm sick of seeing '1,2,3 step' formulas and just do these '3 things to make your first $1M' suggestions that are so surface level and so f*cking 2015!

It's beyond time to do things differently, and not just because the status quo success outcomes are only available to a select few, but because it's about cultivating a better f^cking world.

Let's dive in!

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Burnout doesn't have to be inevitable - but it can be, if you are cooking with this recipe:

Take your finite time, capacity & resourcing, add in a cupful of extra things to do and sprinkle on some overwhelm and anxiety...and you've got the perfect recipe for burnout.

But seriously, let's chat burnout and what will get you there quicker than you can say 'dinner's ready'!

Whether you're in burnout, recovering from it or trying to avoid it this one's for you.

Let's dive in.

Break the Burnout cycle...

Hands up my fellow people-pleasers and recovering (unlearning?) people-pleasers.

Let's chat about how people pleasing shows up in your business and how it gets in the way of cultivating a sustainable business for you.

In this episode we'll cover:

Let's dive in

Further podcast eps mentioned:

People pleasing is not a personality trait...

Does a to-do list serve you?

Today I want to offer up some questions and some space to get curious around the good old to-do list, how it's serving you an perhaps if it is at all (or at least in its current iteration)

A tool is only as much use in your business as it is useful to you.

Let's dive in.

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It feels topical, dare I say seasonal, to talk about season as we transition from summer to autumn, winter to spring, or between dry/wet depending where you are in the world.

It offers a moment to pause and notice. To observe how the seasons and their transitions impact you and how you interplay with the seasons.

And of course seasons aren't just related to those of the natural ecosystem around us - they can refer to the life stage we are in or the climate of the political/economic/cultural.

Today we'll...

Do you 'should' on yourself?

Do you place obligations of correctness onto your actions or criticise them based on a cultural definition of correctness?

Well, you should stop that! Just kidding....

In this episode I'm chatting about the habit of 'shoulding'. Sharing why it's a red flag in your relationship with yourself and your values and encourage you to take the opportunity to get curious and get critical of what's going on.

Of course we'll be chatting values in there and I'll be offering up a quick litmus test you can...

Hello, hello...it's been a while.

Have had a little unexpected pause on the podcast (but you know we love a pause around here). 

I'm back today to check-in, chat life update and let it be a reminder (or an opportunity to plant seeds) for some reflection and checking in of your own.

Let's dive in.

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When things are in a state of change we can often feel pulled to move back to 'business as usual'

But what even is business as usual? Who does it benefit? And does it take you where you want to go?

We're chatting all that and more in this ep.

Let's dive in.

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There are a lot of values disconnects and tension points at the best of times when running a values grounded business inside a status-quo upholding business system.

And these 'unprecedented' times continue to add more tension.

Tension can be uncomfortable AND it also holds possibility (h/t James Olivia Chui Hillman).

Where are the opportunities to wrap words around what you are feeling and processing. Firstly as a support for yourself and then as a way to signal to the humans in your ecosystem that they're not alone.

A reminder to...

Knowing your values is one thing, checking in with your business and it's alignment with your values is a whole other thing.

In todays episode I want to chat to you about carrying out a values audit. Don't worry, it's not as scary as it sounds. Basically a temperature check of where your business is in relation to your values.

I'm going to offer up some overarching thoughts, offer a suite of options for actually auditing things and some practical steps to get started.

Let's dive in.

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Let's talk hope. Not as a wish or desire but as a grounding in your values, a commitment to act into those values and an embracing of the unknowable future.

I want to talk about hope, an antidote for the shit show that is the world right now and a tangible space to take action from. A tool for business and a call to start co-creating a different kind of world.

And I want to share a few quotes that I find supportive reminders, as well as a few spaces where you can ground into...

As a new calendar year begins what are you deciding: more of the same or actually different?

The thing is, you get to choose. If you want things to be different, if you want to be co-creating a different kind of world what are you deciding to do about it?

And once you decide...

What action(s) do you need to follow through on your commitment to actually doing things differently in your business? And what supports do you need to allow you to take them?

Let's dive in.

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Welcome to the first podcast ep of 2025!

I wanted to start off the year by sharing my Word for the Year and what it will look like in action for me.

Do you have a word of the year? Anything you are looking forward to or diving into for 2025? I'd love to hear from you about it.

Let's dive in.

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If you're guilty of prioritising everyone else's needs and agendas over your own then this one's for you!

Health and helping professionals are notorious for de-centreing their needs and I want to present an alternate option that isn't a pendulum swing into 'selfishness' but an acceptance and awareness of your own needs and how meeting those reduces both resentment and burnout.

There's a million ways to plan, and this is less a prescriptive step-by-step and more a concept to hold as you being any planning for the calendar year ahead or at any time. 

Today's episode let's chat about a couple of things.

Firstly - celebrating. Celebrate your wins, celebrate what you're proud of, celebrate you!

This time of year it's so easy to move into planning and looking ahead. Culturally we are encouraged to keep moving onto the next thing, the next goal, the next achievement. So i'd like to invite you to first notice and celebrate.

Secondly - aligning with your seasons and rhthms.

Again, there is a cultural/social message that this time of the year is for certain things. BUT we...

Today I'm in conversation with Whitney Bateson, RD turned website coach supporting health and helping professionals to create beautiful, functional and profitable websites without the tech overwhelm.

At the centre of our conversation is the way that your websites can be a powerful tool for connection in your business.

We chat about:
- How Whitney went from school nutrition dietitian to website coach
- supporting dietitians and health professionals to be confident and competent around their websites
- the evolving nature of websites in business and how that's a good thing
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Today I'm in conversation with a favourite human of mine, Charlie Golightly.

Charlie is a queer & gender expansive dietitian, educator, speaker, and supervisor. They are the founder of Moxie Mind, a virtual private practice based out of Denver, Colorado. They are passionate about supporting heart-led clinicians do better work through individual and group supervision, the Counseling Skills for Dietitians Who Give a Damn course, the Gender From the Inside Out Course, and human-centered business consulting.

In this conversation we dive into:
- making private practice your own,
- identifying and honouring your capacity<...

It's here, the end of year 'whoosh'

When life gets extra lifey, busy is the vibe and it's all too easy to get swept along in the 'whoosh' of the season.

Today's episode is encouraging resistance...or at least a deep grounding in your values and your touch points for the month ahead.

I'm inviting you to consider what you need to put in place to resist the whoosh and sharing examples from my own reflection and purposeful whoosh-resisting process.

Let's dive in.

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Whether you are looking forward into 2025 or grappling with the present I've got something for you, some foundational space to ground into.

Creating a business happens in times of stability, times of transition and times of turmoil. I believe if you have clarity around these few foundational pieces it can support you to stay grounded in what your business is here for and where you want it to take you.

Let's dive in.

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Let's take a moment together

As we 'whoosh' towards the end of the calendar year it's a great time to pause and check in.

In today's episode I want to hold a space for you to do just that, including some reflection questions to support you as you need.

Let's dive in.

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You know having a niche is a helpful thing for your business - but how exactly do you find one?

How do you narrow things down, choose between your passions and find an audience that wants to hear what you have to say?

In this episode we'll chat about:
- how to find a niche for you business
- getting started on niching down
- different ways to narrow your niche
- and of course we'll do it all through a values based lens

Let's dive in.

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Today we are chatting all about niching. 

If you've ever wondered what a niche is and if you need one, then this is for you.

This is part one of a two part series on niches - next ep we'll cover how to find your niche.

In this episode we are getting all up in niches. We'll cover:
What exactly is a niche - yep, we are going to get a little word-nerdy in here
Why a niche can be helpful
Where in your business a niche is actually used (n...

As we move into the last part of the calendar year it's a classic time for burnout to strike.

In this episode I want to offer an invitation to pause, check in and see where you're at.

And if you are a frequent flyer in the burnout cycle I want to encourage you to look out for any burnout markers and put in place space to do so frequently as we move towards the end of the year.

I'm also planting a seed for a values based shift in your relationship with yourself...

Do you find it hard to say no?

You're not alone. 

In today's episode I'm chatting about why and when to say no. It's the permission slip that you don't need!

I dive into:
- why saying no is so hard
- the connection between saying no and people pleasing
- when to say no
- the importance of practising no
- moving through the discomfort of the no
- connecting your no with your values

Let's dive in.

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Hands up if you identify as an active or recovering people pleaser!

Yep, me too. 

And in today's episode I want to unpack people pleasing a little. Especially, I want to touch on:
- people pleasing being something we are asked to perform vs a personality trait (ie. it's not a 'you' problem)
- the roots and values that people pleasing is embedded in
- people pleasing and power dynamics
- where it might show up in business
- how your values can offer an antidote

Let's dive i...

Offering up a question to reflect through for you this week:

'What's the point?'

And no, not in the nihilistic point of asking but more the why-are-you-doing-this-thing kind of lens.

A space to check in with yourself about what you going after, why you are going after it and whose values are you going after it through.

Let's dive in.

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Change the values or nothing actually changes.

Too often I see people reaching for or implementing tool-level changes - using a different strategy or way of taking action.

And, don't get me wrong, I'm all for action, BUT unless it's grounded in different values, your values, you'll just get the same outcome. 

It might be different on the surface but it's not going to be actually different. Same shit, different sandwich and all that...

Let's dive in.

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Have you ever thought to yourself (or screamed out loud!) 'what am I doing wrong?'

Does comparison-itis get you thinking everyone else has it figured out and it's just you that can't get this business thing sorted?

Or do you simply just get overwhelmed and/or distracted by all the business things out there to do, try and implement?

In today's episode I want you to know that you're not doing 'it' wrong....you're probably just trying to fit yourself into somebody else's idea of what it looks and feels like to...

Marketing get you feeling some sort of way? 

Today I want to chat about a the role of trust in marketing. I'll cover:
- current trends and what other biz owners are noticing around marketing and time that people are needing
- what trust has to do with it
- why cultivate trust
- where to cultivate trust
- how to cultivate trust to support marketing
- finding ease in marketing through bringing it back to relating
- suggestions on where and how to get started

Let's dive i...