Registered Dietitian Approved

Summary: In this episode, Dr. Dennis Cummins talks to Marissa and Austin about the importance of improving your public speaking skills. He shares that public speaking can be the most effective form of marketing for business owners especially when it is done right. Dr. Cummins breaks down the benefits of improving your public speaking skills and how these can translate into making you a better health professional as well as a great speaker.

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Summary: In today’s episode, RDA guest Hannah Boyl shares her entrepreneurial story. As a new RD, she is working on starting her business. Hannah shares her experience navigating through starting her own business and gives advice to RDs and RDs to be also taking their first steps in their entrepreneurial journey. Hannah talks about the importance of starting early, starting where you’re comfortable, and experimenting with your niche. Hannah Boyl can be found on Facebook as Hannah RDN, on Instagram @hannahrdn_ , and online at hannahrdn.com

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Summary: In this episode, Marissa and Austin interview registered dietitian Dina Garcia about how she uses Facebook to get clients for her private practice. Dina discusses how starting engaging posts on her own Facebook group as well as staying active on others helps her to market herself and her services to potential clients. She explains the importance of a strong and specific niche in the overall success of her marketing efforts. She also touches on how setting goals and boundaries allows her to be more present for her clients. Dina Garcia can be found on Instagram as @dietitiandina and on the Facebook group End Emotional & Binge Eating with Dietitian Dina.

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Summary: RDA guest Barbara Mayfield tells Austin and Marissa all about her career as a registered dietitian. Though she has had many jobs, Barbara has never worked a single day as a clinical dietitian for the simple reason that that is not what drives her. Her passion for nutrition communication and the strong network she has built over the years has guided her through a fulfilling career with jobs in various settings. Barbara started out in private practice (!) and has worked as a consultant in a nursing home, with WIC, as a professor at Purdue University and as an author for a textbook just to name a few jobs. Though she is now retired, she is still working in the field as she is currently writing the one and only textbook geared towards nutrition communication.

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Summary: In this episode, RDA guest Rachel Fine from To The Pointe Nutrition explains how she created her own niche and how it has helped her stand out in the nutrition world. She talks about how narrowing her niche helped her better her SEO and offers some advice to new RDs. Austin, Marissa and Rachel discuss staying open to opportunities and how it has helped them find and grow in their current careers.

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Summary: In this episode, Austin and Marissa take us through the top 7 lessons they learned in 2019. They share examples from their own lives and how applying these lessons has helped them get through some of the big changes they have experienced this past year. From redefining your self identity to finding the magic in allowing yourself to be uncomfortable, these 7 tips are crucial for anyone trying to achieve more this coming year. As 2020 begins, their hope is that these lessons will help RDs grow and conquer their biggest goals.

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In this very first episode of the Registered Dietitian Approved podcast, Austin & Marissa introduce themselves and tell their stories on their journey to becoming a RD. They talk about how in school they were both pushed to go into one direction as a dietitian, which was clinical. So after a few years of working in clinical Austin & Marissa found out that what they were told in school wasn't necessarily true. There are so many more opportunities that exist where you can be successful as a RD which does NOT include clinical or any other traditional RD route.  Through this podcast they wish to bring more awareness to RDs and RD 2 BEs on all the non-traditional opportunities that were not taught in school.