I am so inspired by this interview with Leah Tsui! She has been able to accomplish so much after just seven months of opening up her business.

Leah and I discuss what it's like to own a business with an Achiever mindset (we are both Enneagram 3's!). We talk about how it feels to be constantly battling with thoughts of doing more and getting things done.

We also walk through Leah's journey of opening up her business and growing and she shares about the support she has needed to get to where she's at in her business today.

Some of the topics discussed include:

• Finding boundaries with work and life
• Diversifying business offers outside of 1-1 counseling
• Spreading the intuitive eating + HAES message
• Comparisons

Visit https://pursuingprivatepractice.com/ to learn more about resources to start and grow your dietitian private practice!

Dawn Lundin and I have such a great conversation in this podcast interview. We talk about starting a private practice and the kind of support we needed at that time, and we talk about how the need for the support continues past the beginning days of being a business owner.

Dawn shares the details with us about all of the different people who have helped her in her own business since she started. This interview really highlights the fact that most of us truly do need support in our businesses in both the areas that we don't know very much about and the areas of business that we just don't like or aren't good at!

I hope you are inspired by this interview!

Some of the topics discussed include:

• The inspiration behind Dawn's private practice
• Rock bottom moments in business
• Hiring business support
• The power of relationships in business growth

Visit https://pursuingprivatepractice.com/ to learn more about resources to start and grow your dietitian private practice!

We’re switching things up today with a reverse interview! My operations director interviewed me shortly before my third son was born, all about how we planned and prepared for my maternity leave at Pursuing Private Practice.

We wanted to get a little bit more vulnerable and give everyone a peak behind the scenes at maternity leave as a business owner.

Some of the topics discussed include:

• Preparing for maternity leave during pregnancy
• Why Jennifer decided to take time off for maternity leave
• The guilt and worry that comes along with stepping away from your business
• How to not let the momentum in your business die when you’re away
• Setting boundaries around work and social media
• How much time is “enough time”
• Delegation

For more information, visit https://www.pursuingprivatepractice.com/87

Are you feeling burnt out and resentful of your private practice? In this free 3-part video series, you will learn: what self-care means to you and WHY it's so important, how to set financial boundaries so that you never undervalue your worth, and how to identify your own personal triggers in difficult situations so that you can know how to move forward when you feel stuck. Sign up at https://pursuingprivatepractice.com/selfcare/

Charline Adriaens joins us from Belgium for this episode! I loved having this conversation with her because intuitive eating has spread across the world in the past two decades.

We discuss how culture affects Intuitive Eating, how Charline reaches her ideal clients specifically, and how she has grown her business from Belgium.

This was such a fascinating conversation. Enjoy!

Some of the topics discussed include:

• Why Charline became certified as an Intuitive Eating counselor
• Podcasting and marketing a private practice
• How to think about competition in private practice

Visit https://pursuingprivatepractice.com/ to learn more about resources to start and grow your dietitian private practice!

I really love this episode with Kathryn. Not only do we talk about business and her private practice, but we also talk about her going through maternity leave. 

We talk about what she did to prep for maternity leave beforehand, how her maternity leave went, and what she came back to at her private practice. We had a very candid conversation about motherhood in general, really reflecting on what’s truly important to us as parents and how to incorporate business, life, and family when there’s a new baby.

Some of the topics discussed include:

• Transitioning from weight-centric to a HAES approach
• Preparing for maternity leave
• How Kathryn’s maternity leave went
• Transitioning back into work after maternity leave
• Balancing motherhood and owning a business

For more information, visit https://www.pursuingprivatepractice.com/85

Congrats on starting a private practice! I bet you’re so excited, but if you’re feeling overwhelmed with all of the advice coming at you from all over the place--I get it!

You can sign up for a free business plan roadmap that takes you through the key steps to start a business so you can focus on what really matters and leave the rest behind (like setting up an expensive LLC!): https://www.pursuingprivatepractice.com/join

I absolutely loved recording this episode with Elyssa Toomey.

We know how important supervision is, so we wanted to record an episode together to talk about the benefits of supervision, not only individual supervision, but group and peer supervision as well.

I truly feel that supervision is key to growing as a professional and as a human being.

Some of the topics discussed include:

• Why supervision is helpful for your business
• What you can expect to gain from supervision
• How supervision helps with your client retention

Sponsor:

✨ Business School is designed to guide you through every stage of building a private practice: getting set up, seeing your first clients, growing until you're fully booked, hiring a team, expanding your offers—and even learning how to coast when needed. Inside, you'll follow a step-by-step curriculum with the flexibility to choose the path that fits your current stage of business and life. You'll get access to advanced toolkits, templates, and systems for business topics like marketing and finances, but also for counseling skills and client support. Beyond the curriculum, you're supported by personalized 1:1 coaching, weekly office hours, and monthly themes that address the real challenges of private practice. The program keeps you moving forward with built-in accountability that builds resilience and confidence so you feel like a legit business owner.

Learn more and apply here: https://pursuingprivatepractice.com/businessschool/

Connect with Pursuing Private Practice:

🎉 Instagram: @pursuing.private.practice

📧 Email: Contact Us

Free Resources For Dietitians at Any Stage of Business:

🍎 The Ultimate Checklist to Start Your Private Practice

✨ Free Training: Get Clients Now 3-Day Challenge

👯 Free Workshop: Hire Your Next Team Member

💻 The Pursuing Private Practice Blog

🎙️The Pursuing Private Practice Podcast

You are going to love this episode. We recorded this episode one day before Courtney’s one year business anniversary! We celebrate that accomplishment, and we also talk about the problems that Courtney has faced and the lessons she has learned over the course of the past year. 

She has struggled with shiny object syndrome (my hand is also raised here!) and we talk about how that has shown up in her business and why shiny object syndrome is so common amongst private practice dietitians. We also talk about the importance of consistency on business growth and development.

Happy One Year Business Anniversary to you, Courtney!

Some of the topics discussed include:

• The importance of Self Care as a business owner
• Learning to not take business personally
• Shiny object syndrome and it’s detrimental effects on your business

For more information, visit https://www.pursuingprivatepractice.com/83

Are you feeling burnt out and resentful of your private practice?

In this free 3-part video series, you will learn: what self-care means to you and WHY it's so important, how to set financial boundaries so that you never undervalue your worth, and how to identify your own personal triggers in difficult situations so that you can know how to move forward when you feel stuck. Sign up at https://pursuingprivatepractice.com/selfcare/

I'm so excited to bring Paula onto the podcast for this episode (her very first podcast interview ever!)

Paula explains how she has grown her private practice over the past year and where she's at now. This is a really insightful episode about how much your business really can grow in one year, but also an honest reflection of the hard decisions that have to be made for that growth and because of that growth.

I know you will get so much value from this episode!

Some of the topics discussed include:

• It's never too late to start a business
• Utilizing your local community, even with a virtual practice
• Letting go of responsibilities in order to grow your private practice
• Everything is an experiment

Visit https://pursuingprivatepractice.com/ to learn more about resources to start and grow your dietitian private practice!

In this episode, Taylor Wolfram, MS, RDN, LDN, takes us through the launch of her new online course, The Anti-Diet Vegan Nutrition Course. Not only will you get to hear a behind-the-scenes take on the actual course launch, but you will also get to hear her honest story of experiencing burnout, things she wishes she had done differently, and her plans for launching again in the future.

I love talking about online courses on this podcast, because the marketing plan for a course is pretty different from the marketing plan for a private practice. Thank you so much for this peek behind the scenes, Taylor!

Some of the topics discussed include:

• Taylor's motivation for creating her online course
• The work needed behind the scenes before a course launch
• The technology behind an online course
• What Taylor would do differently during her next launch

Sponsor:

✨ Business School is designed to guide you through every stage of building a private practice: getting set up, seeing your first clients, growing until you're fully booked, hiring a team, expanding your offers—and even learning how to coast when needed. Inside, you'll follow a step-by-step curriculum with the flexibility to choose the path that fits your current stage of business and life. You'll get access to advanced toolkits, templates, and systems for business topics like marketing and finances, but also for counseling skills and client support. Beyond the curriculum, you're supported by personalized 1:1 coaching, weekly office hours, and monthly themes that address the real challenges of private practice. The program keeps you moving forward with built-in accountability that builds resilience and confidence so you feel like a legit business owner.

Learn more and apply here: https://pursuingprivatepractice.com/businessschool/

Connect with Pursuing Private Practice:

🎉 Instagram: @pursuing.private.practice

📧 Email: Contact Us

Free Resources For Dietitians at Any Stage of Business:

🍎 The Ultimate Checklist to Start Your Private Practice

✨ Free Training: Get Clients Now 3-Day Challenge

👯 Free Workshop: Hire Your Next Team Member

💻 The Pursuing Private Practice Blog

🎙️The Pursuing Private Practice Podcast

I love this episode so much. Amanda Mittman joins us to talk about gaining the confidence to start a private practice, figuring out what the next steps are, and also knowing when you have to coast in your business.

Amanda is a perfect example of this. She is so crazy busy right now with so much on her plate. She's not able to actually grow her private practice any more in this present moment, although she has goals and dreams for growing her business in the future. If you have ever felt this way, you will really relate to this episode. Amanda is a perfect example of someone who is taking the time to think about what's best for her business as an act of self care.

Some of the topics discussed include:

• Making a career change
• Setting boundaries and creating a marketing strategy that supports them
• You don't have to be "all or nothing" in your private practice
• Saying "No" and dealing with the feelings of letting others down

Visit https://pursuingprivatepractice.com/ to learn more about resources to start and grow your dietitian private practice!