FNA graduate Alyssa Chavez had been trying to conceive for eight years. She had stage four endometriosis, debilitating periods, two rounds of IVF, a miscarriage, low AMH, and doctors telling her IVF was basically her only shot. But somewhere inside her, there was still this knowing: there has to be more than this.

In this episode, Erin sits down with Alyssa, to talk about the functional approach that helped her finally move the needle in her own body. Alyssa shares how learning to understand her gut, inflammation, immune system, environment, hormones, and bio-individual needs helped her go from painful periods and infertility to conceiving her baby girl naturally the SAME month she graduated from FNA!

Erin and Alyssa also talk about the bigger ripple effects of addressing your health, and how FNA helped her build a business on her own terms.

• How bloating, bowel changes, gut health, inflammation, and immune function became key pieces of Alyssa’s endometriosis puzzle
• Why 14 months is not “too long” if you’re learning to practice real holistic care
• How bio-individuality applies to your body, your clients, and the way you build your business
• What Erin means when she says her work is about “storying people into possibility”
• Why comprehensive, whole-person care matters even more in an era of AI-generated health advice

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It’s no secret that stepping out of your typical day-to-day routine can be so expansive and help you realize how much possibility exists. It’s one thing to have the breakthrough, but it’s another thing entirely to bring that expanded identity back into your actual life, schedule, relationships, and nervous system.

In this episode, Erin talks about “default mode” and how the story you tell yourself about yourself can become the identity you keep living from.

This is a conversation about identity, healing, nervous system safety, parts integration, and the hardwired stories we keep reenacting without realizing it. Erin also shares a snippet from Manifest Your Health on rewriting your inner narrative, because action is what crystallizes change.

• How big clarity can drop in on vacation, retreat, or in a pattern interrupt, and then disappear when you return to real life
• The one question Erin asks herself every time when anchoring into a new identity
• How the brain uses old memories, beliefs, and predictions to keep recreating the same reality
• Why new experiences, new choices, and new inputs help your brain create a different default

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Episode 412: The Neuroscience of Reality: Why Change Doesn’t Stick

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What labs should you actually be getting? Everyone and their mom is aware of the fact that we need a liiittle more data on our bodies, and we have the availability to get it. In this episode, Erin gives you a complete deep dive through the labs she thinks EVERY woman should ask for, as well as the markers that often get skipped.

Erin also covers cardiovascular and menopause risks, fasting glucose, and the functional labs her team uses most often in practice, including the GI-MAP stool test, DUTCH hormone testing, Wheat Zoomer, and toxin testing, plus when each one might make sense.

If you’re in your 30s, 40s, 50s, or anywhere near perimenopause, this is your reminder to get the data, understand the data, and use it to take action.

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• Why a CMP, CBC, and standard lipid panel are important, but still very much a starter pack
• ApoB, and why it’s a must-have marker if cardiovascular disease runs in your family
• What GGT can tell us about liver function, oxidative stress, toxin load, bile, and glutathione depletion
• The metabolic health markers Erin wants women tracking before menopause
• When a toxin panel might be the missing piece for chemical sensitivity, skin flares, liver markers, or symptoms that are not budging

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Perimenopause is having a moment. Despite what you see on social media, not every symptom you experience in your late 30s or early 40s is automatically due to perimenopause.

Erin gets into the four areas she’s been personally focused on for the past few years: mindset, muscles and metabolic health, labs, and inner work. She also talks about why cardiovascular health needs to become a much bigger part of the peri conversation and why getting your thyroid checked is not a one-and-done situation.

Consider this your no fear mongering take on perimenopause with plenty of tough love, a little sacred rage, and a reminder that your body is not a liability to be managed.

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• Why perimenopause is caught between medical gaslighting and over-medicalizing women’s bodies
• Erin’s realistic, conscious, and “not psychotic” protein approach
• The HRT nuance Erin wants more people to make space for
• The cardiovascular wake-up call every woman in her 40s needs to hear
• Erin’s fitness routine for glucose, metabolism, bones, and future-you health
• Air hunger, heart palpitations, and why you need to stop sleeping on your thyroid, especially after 40

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Episode 357: Before You Jump to HRT - What Your Perimenopause Symptoms Might Really Mean

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This was supposed to be a 15-20 minute episode. Turns out Erin has a LOT to say about it.

Today, Erin is giving you a sneaky peek behind the numbers at The Funk’tional Nutritionist, and what those numbers reveal about building a business with real staying power.

She breaks down what it means to build trust as an actual business asset, especially in a market where people are tired of clickbait, overhyped promises, weird DM pitches, and wellness content that feels like nobody brought receipts.

She also explores why consistency is such an unsung hero, why quick wins are not the same as staying power, and why watered-down content is watered-down medicine. Because more eyeballs do not automatically mean more clients, and being trustworthy might matter more than being everywhere.

P.S. What is it actually like inside of FNA? Erin is teaching a 2-day masterclass for practitioners on how to support clients through a woman’s hormonal lifespan. Grab your ticket here!

• Why Erin had to become a “numbers girly” and what % of 1:1 clients come from the podcast
• The 3 questions long-form content gives people the chance to decide
• Why hearing crickets, being misunderstood, and getting negative comments are part of being consistent
• What can quickly get sketchy if your message, offer, or identity is still all over the map
• The “C word” that Erin says matters more than any shiny marketing trend, and the power of referrals

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Episode 400: 8 Years of Building The Funk’tional Nutrition Podcast: An AMA with Erin Holt

Episode 415: The Healing Timeline: Expectation vs. Reality

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This one is for the practitioners and business owners who are questioning their next step or wondering why growth feels so darn overwhelming.

In this episode, Erin is giving you a behind the scenes peek into what business mentorship looks like inside of The Funk’tional Nutrition Academy. Inside this live coaching call, Erin answers real practitioner questions around pricing, visibility, podcast growth, building a clear method, and figuring out whether entrepreneurship is actually the move.

Erin also gets into the pressure to be further along, the sneaky comparison spiral, the self-trust required to charge real money, and why trying to do 17 things at once is usually a one-way ticket to overwhelm.

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1. The reason “arrival” does not exist, even when you hit the BIG, shiny goal
2. Why Erin is a big fan of price transparency, and what it means if your pricing scares you
3. How to build a clear framework without turning your client work into a cookie-cutter template
4. Why trying to build everything at once can diffuse your focus, your energy, and your actual life force
5. The question Erin asks when someone says they want it all right now: could you actually hold it?

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Episode 399: How To Stand Out As a Functional Medicine Clinician In An Oversaturated Market

Episode 400: 8 Years of Building The Funk’tional Nutrition Podcast: An AMA with Erin Holt

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Mindset work, subconscious healing, and brain rewiring are everywhere right now, and Erin is here for it.

In this replay episode, Erin breaks down why healing is a both/and situation. Your mind, beliefs, nervous system, emotions, and energetic patterns matter big time, but so do labs, inflammation, hormones, gut health, and what’s happening on a physiological level.

Erin shares real client examples, while talking about the fear loops, symptom stories, identity patterns, and emotional roots that can keep chronic symptoms stuck on repeat, and why sometimes the next layer of healing is not another protocol, but a completely new way of relating to your body.

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1. Why some chronic symptoms become neuroplastic or hardwired into the brain and nervous system
2. How pattern interrupts, brainwave states, self-compassion, shadow, and somatic release fit into Erin’s approach
3. The dangers of symptom-tracing Facebook groups, and how they can sneakily lock you into a “sick person” identity
4. What practitioners need to understand before trying to lead clients through deeper mind-body healing work

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If acid reflux keeps showing up, the answer isn’t always “too much acid” and it’s not always as simple as popping antacids either.

In this replay episode, Erin breaks down what might actually be driving reflux, from the way digestion moves through the body to the little valve between your stomach and esophagus that can let acid sneak back up where it does not belong.

She also gets into why stress, overeating, pregnancy, gut imbalances, bile, sleeping position, and even old emotional patterns can all be part of the picture.

If you’ve been avoiding spaghetti sauce, waking up with burning in your chest, or wondering whether H. pylori is the reason for EVERYTHING, this episode will help you zoom out and look at the bigger digestive picture.

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1. What cocktails, coffee, chocolate, peppermint, overeating, pregnancy, and certain medications all have in common
2. The “one-trick pony” problem with running a GI-MAP and calling it root cause care
3. Why acid-blocking drugs are meant for short-term use, and what happens when stomach acid gets suppressed
4. Why bitters are one of Erin’s favorite tools for getting digestive juices flowing (plus, the treatment strategies she recommends)

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Erin is soaking up the Maine sun for a couple of weeks, so today we’re pulling a biggie out of the vault: an episode all about inflammation hunting.

Yes, diet and lifestyle matter big time. But sometimes someone is doing “all the right things,” eating well, moving their body, taking care of themselves… and the math still isn’t mathing.

Erin and TFN lead practitioner Rachel Heintz, MS, RDN, IFMCP, FHP-C, are breaking down what inflammation actually is, what symptoms and labs can raise red flags, and how they use deeper testing to figure out what’s keeping the immune system irritated and overwhelmed.

They also get into gut health, blood sugar, gluten sensitivity, low beneficial bacteria, secretory IgA, calprotectin, cortisol, melatonin, mold, heavy metals, and why sometimes the answer is not a protocol.

P.S. Applications are officially open for the Fall 2026 cohort of The Funk’tional Nutrition Academy, Erin’s 14-month practitioner training and mentorship. Apply now!

1. The blood work, GI-MAP, DUTCH, and OAT clues Erin and Rachel look at when inflammation is suspected
2. Why Erin says the “basics” are not basic, and why skipping them can keep people stuck at 20% better
3. The secretory IgA cycle that keeps people catching everything that goes around
4. Why eating more (not fasting harder!) was the missing piece for one client’s blood sugar, gut, and weight
5. The chronic UTI case study that shows why functional medicine is really about quality of life

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What does it mean to embody your magic? In this episode, Erin talks to psychic channel, medium, spiritual guide, teacher, and author Aycee Brown to get into allllll the tools: astrology, numerology, human design, mediumship, metaphysics, manifestation, intuition, and the ways they can help you come back to yourself.

Aycee shares what human design helped her understand about herself as a projector, the difference between intuition and anxiety, and why discernment is going to matter more than ever in a world full of misinformation, clickbait, and people trying to hijack your brain.

1. What coffee shops, neighborhood dogs, and daily interactions can teach you about your magic
2. How tools like astrology, numerology, and human design can help you come back to yourself
3. The “bricks” that block your intuitive gifts, and why healing helps you access what was already there
4. Why reading a physical book might be one of the most underrated spiritual practices right now

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Aycee’s book, Embody Your Magic: Create the Life Of Your Dreams Through Astrology, Numerology, Mediumship, Metaphysics, and Human Design

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