8 Years of Building The Funk’tional Nutrition Podcast: An AMA with Erin Holt | Ep 400
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.8 • 787 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
It’s been EIGHT years of The Funk’tional Nutrition Podcast and 400 episodes of consistency. If you’re waiting to “feel ready”, certified enough, niche enough, confident enough, and your nervous system is fried from comparison and perfectionism… this solo AMA from Erin is for you.
Erin is getting deep in the trenches about how the podcast started, the pivots along the way, identity shifts, primary parenting, what it’s really like to work alongside her husband, and the uncomfortable truths about building a values-driven business over time.
This episode is jam-packed with reminders that perfection is not a prerequisite for growth. Keep showing up, put in the reps, and have the willingness to “go ugly” early.
In this episode:
- The platform Erin not-so-secretly is launching as a “no-niche” space
- Why going “ugly early” builds clinical confidence faster than over-preparing ever will
- What actually changes when you move from solopreneur to leading a salaried team with benefits and 401Ks
- The behind-the-scenes tension of growing a podcast in a celebrity-dominated industry
- How Erin and her husband Scott navigated parenting and redefining who carries the financial load
Resources mentioned:
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Erin also references these episodes:
Episode 399: How To Stand Out as a Functional Medicine Clinician in an “Oversaturated” Market
Episode 325: How To Get Hired as a Functional Medicine Practitioner
Episode 307: Starting a Business From Scratch
Episode 279: How Do I Get Clients?
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https://www.thefunktionalnutritionist.com/podcast/400-erin-holt-ama
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I don't really live with a lot of regrets when it comes to my business. And that's because every |
| 0:04.5 | single choice I have made has brought me here. I have grown and evolved and learned from every |
| 0:10.9 | quote unquote mistake. And I know that that can be super trite and cliche, maybe even annoying |
| 0:16.7 | to hear. But if we choose to see mistakes as growth opportunities, it really changes the game |
| 0:24.3 | for us. If you are able to run your business by this credence, it truly makes everything so |
| 0:30.2 | much better because you stop waiting on perfection to move. And that is something that I |
| 0:35.7 | commonly see. A lot of people will wait until |
| 0:38.2 | things feel perfect. Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K, because we do |
| 0:43.9 | things a little differently around here. I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical |
| 0:48.5 | experience as a functional nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call |
| 0:53.2 | intuitive functional medicine, where |
| 0:55.1 | we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body. |
| 0:59.5 | This is where science meets self-trust. |
| 1:02.2 | Your body already knows how to heal, and this show is going to show you how. |
| 1:06.6 | If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to follow and share |
| 1:10.5 | with a friend because you never know whose life you might change. |
| 1:14.4 | Hello, my friends. We are here with the 400th episode of the Functional Nutrition podcast, |
| 1:21.0 | 400 episodes. Can you even believe it? I kind of can't. I started this eight years ago. |
| 1:27.0 | My kid was three years old. |
| 1:28.3 | She is 11 now in sixth grade. So that just helps to contextualize it for me how long I've been |
| 1:35.3 | doing this. I think this is the thing that I've been the most consistent with, the longest in my |
| 1:40.3 | career, perhaps even in my life, like every single week for over eight years. So for |
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