Dietitian Career Success Podcast

Want to write best-selling cookbooks, write for national media outlets, and partner with food brands? 

In this episode, Wall Street Journal best-selling cookbook author Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, FAND, reveals the step-by-step career path she took to publish 12+ cookbooks and build a thriving media career.

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Writing a cookbook or working as a brand spokesperson doesn't just happen overnight. Today, Toby Amidor joins Stacey Dunn-Emke on NutritionJobs to pull back the curtain on how she transitioned from clinical dietetics and 10 years of culinary instruction into becoming one of t...

Can upskilling as a clinical dietitian help you earn more, expand your scope, and move into leadership? Absolutely.

In this episode of the Dietitian Career Success Podcast, I’m talking with Hannah Randall, RD, LD, CNSC, an acute care clinical dietitian specializing in adult and neonatal nutrition support.

Hannah shares how earning her Certified Nutrition Support Clinician credential, training to place feeding tubes at the bedside, developing NICU expertise, and completing an emerging-leaders program helped her advance into a nutrition coordinator role. 

Through continued upskilling and career growth, Hannah is now earning twice wha...

Do you feel like you need a roadmap for attending FNCE® - the Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo?

This episode will help you approach conference conversations and networking with more intention and outcome. Dietitian Kelan Sarnoff, MS, RDN, founder of The RD Coach, joins Stacey Dunn-Emke to share her three-step approach to conference networking: prepare with a purpose, connect with curiosity, and follow up with a plan. We share conversation starters, ways to connect with potential employers and brands, and simple strategies to make following up easier when you’re back at work.

Whether you’re atten...

What if your dietitian skills could help you build a fresh career in consumer packaged goods (CPG) - including CPG sales, brand strategy, product development, or consumer insights?

In this episode, I’m joined by Ed Coffin, RDN, a dietitian who has built his career at the intersection of nutrition, consumer packaged goods, brand building, and sales.

Ed takes us behind the scenes of the natural products industry and explains what it really takes to move a product from an idea to the retail shelf. He also shares why dietitians may be especially valuable to CP...

Help recruiters, clients, and collaborators find you with a stronger LinkedIn headline. Stacey Dunn-Emke, MS, RDN, shares her simple formula: targeted job title + keywords + signature achievement. Hear practical examples to highlight your expertise to attract jobs, referrals, speaking engagements and career opportunities.

In This Episode:

00:27 Introduction to Networking Opportunities

02:51 Highlighting achievements at any career stage

05:53 Crafting Your LinkedIn Headline: Choosing keywords for your specialty or target role

08:44 Optimizing Your LinkedIn Headline for Opportunities

11:29 Examples of Effective LinkedIn Headlines for traditional and nontraditional dietitian roles

What does it look like to build a creative, non-traditional dietitian career rooted in nutrition, nature, storytelling, food literacy, and entrepreneurship?

In this episode of the Dietitian Career Success Podcast, I’m joined by Stacey Woodson, MS, RDN, LDN, the Earth-Centered Dietitian, to explore how dietitians can combine their interests, skills, and passion projects to create a career that is uniquely their own.

Stacey Woodson has brought together nutrition, urban agriculture, food literacy, storytelling, children’s books, media, speaking, consulting, and entrepreneurship. But she didn’t build it all at once. Her creative side gigs gradua...

In this episode of the Dietitian Career Success Podcast, I’m joined by male fertility dietitian Dara Bergen, MPH, RDN, CDCES. Dara takes us inside this overlooked nutrition niche, including the nutrition interventions she uses, the health markers she follows, and the outcomes she tracks.

In This Episode:

✅ Why sperm health deserves more attention in fertility nutrition

✅ How nutrition and metabolic health can affect male reproductive health

✅ The specific lab values and metabolic markers Dara considers when working with clients

✅ How sperm analysis can be used to track meas...

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As we move into more nontraditional roles as dietitians, many of us are joining meetings with marketing, operations, product development, finance, technology, corporate leadership, and other decision-makers. Unlike patient-care meetings, no one may call on us or clearly define when it’s our turn to contribute.

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🙌  Think retail dietitians are mostly giving grocery store tours? Actually, there’s an exciting and dynamic career path happening behind the grocery store scenes!

Modern retail dietitians are now building visible and financially forward careers in the grocery store setting.

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Salary negotiation can feel especially intimidating when you’re a new dietitian - but being new doesn’t mean you have to accept the first number you’re offered.

In this episode, I’m joined by Kelan Sarnoff, MS, RDN, founder of The RD Coach, to talk about salary negotiation - even as a new dietitian. Whether you are a new dietitian or a seasoned dietitian, Kelan shares how to prepare before an interview, when to talk about compensation, what to do when an offer comes in lower than expected, and how to negotiat...

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🦚 Networking can open doors in your career - for sure - but what happens when all that networking starts getting in the way of actually doing your work?

In this Dietitian Career Success Podcast Career Quickie, I’m talking about how much networking is enough, when it starts becomi...

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 🙌  Are dietitians with advanced certifications earning more money? 

In this episode of the Dietitian Career Success Podcast, Stacey is joined by Sara Griffin, MS, RDN, CNSC, founder of Edge Clinical Nutrition, to talk about dietitian salaries.

In this...