123: Answering Common Questions about Being a Health at Every Size Private Practice Dietitian

Nutrition Matters Podcast

Paige Smathers

Weightloss, Eatingdisorder, Kids & Family, Eating, Nutritionist, Nutrition, Health, Dietitian, Health & Fitness, Recovery, Food, Mindfulness

4.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be in private practice? Have you wondered about how it works to be an entrepreneur who is offering a counter-cultural approach to food and nutrition?

Jessi Haggerty, RD is a fellow dietitian in private practice who also has a podcast, and joined me on the podcast to answer the most common questions we get about our work.

We go through the following questions and more:

How we got started
What we were most afraid of when we started
How we finally made the leap of faith
What happened when we started to take our businesses seriously and started making commitments
Our process of how to organize your business
What to consider when getting started with private practice
How to network and get referrals
How to decide about insurance
Why we both started enforcing our policies (especially cancelation policies) and why it's hard to do it sometimes
How to keep yourself accountable to finish tasks and stay on schedule with due dates
Attracting clients with a HAES and non-diet approach
Getting over the fear and taking the plunge
How to deal with impostor syndrome
Whether or not it's true that you should get clinical experience before opening a private practice
How to navigate branding and marketing
EHR (electronic health records) versus paper charting
Whether or not we get sick of talking about food and body image all the time

Links mentioned:

Jessi's website and podcast
A Dietitian's Guide to Starting a Private Practice
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1:01.1	Hello everyone and welcome to Nutrition Matters podcast. My name is Paige. I'm your host and I'm really
1:07.2	excited to share with you a conversation I had with my good friend, Jesse Haggerty,
1:12.6	who is a registered dietitian in Boston, and she is the owner of a private practice like me.
1:20.6	And a couple months ago, we decided it would be a good idea to record a podcast together
1:25.4	where we talk about the common questions we get about private practice,
1:29.1	about being a dietitian, about anything and everything. People ask questions to us about
1:36.8	what it's like to be in our roles and in our jobs. So we sat down together actually live in person when she visited me and we went
1:47.5	through a list of questions that we gathered from some of our followers on social media and went
1:53.4	through the common questions we get. So we talk about financial, we talk about legal considerations,
2:08.9	we talk about emotional considerations, how to know if you might be a good fit for being an entrepreneur.
2:18.8	We talk a little bit about marketing, how we attract clients, how we do all of these things from a weight inclusive perspective,
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