Building a Board of Directors for Your Life | Ep 394
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.8 • 788 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve been taking in alllll the health, wellness, business, and self-improvement advice, this episode is your permission slip to start curating your own intentional “board of directors.” These are the people who will help you steer the ship and hold the line for your vision when you want to default into old patterns.
You’ll learn Erin’s journaling exercise for filtering your influential inner circle into four categories: candle blower-outers, the safety police, light protectors, and expanders, so you can quickly spot who’s fueling your growth and who might be holding you back.
Erin also shares how she chooses truth-tellers and experts for her own board (some she knows, some she pays, some don’t even know her!), plus practical ways to “meet” with your board regularly.
Even if you are not a CEO of a company, you are the CEO of your LIFE, and the right board can help you stop playing small and start moving forward.
In this episode:
- How Erin runs a regular “board meeting” with herself to evaluate decisions, track growth, and stay aligned with the life she’s intentionally building
- How to identify the “candle blower-outers” who feel subtle, but consistently dim your ambition and confidence
- Why the “safety police” mean well, but can still keep you tethered to what’s familiar instead of what you want
- The difference between “light protectors” who love you and true expanders who prove your next level is possible
- How asking “where is my ship pointed right now?” can immediately reveal which voices deserve decision-making power
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We all have a flame or a light inside that really represents who we are, our magic, our essence, our energy, our spirit, our soul, us. |
| 0:10.9 | And sometimes that light shines really bright. |
| 0:15.7 | And it is so important that we surround ourselves with people that protect that light because there are people, |
| 0:21.3 | the candleblower outers, that want to blow out that flame. |
| 0:24.9 | We want people surrounding us who protect that light, that have space for our joy, that are here |
| 0:32.7 | for the fullest expression of us. |
| 0:36.5 | Welcome to the functional nutrition podcast, spell it with a K, because we do things |
| 0:40.1 | a little differently around here. |
| 0:41.9 | I'm your host, Erin Holt, and I've got 15 years of clinical experience as a functional |
| 0:45.7 | nutritionist and mindset coach, creating a new model that I call intuitive functional |
| 0:50.2 | medicine, where we combine root cause medicine with the innate intelligence of your body. |
| 0:55.5 | This is where science meets self-trust. Your body already knows how to heal, and this show is going to |
| 1:01.4 | show you how. If you're looking for new ways of thinking about your health, be sure to follow and |
| 1:06.1 | share with a friend because you never know whose life you might change. |
| 1:10.5 | Hello, my friends. I'm super jazzed about today's episode. I hope you are too. This is a little |
| 1:15.5 | different, something I haven't done before, a topic I haven't covered before, but I really hope |
| 1:20.3 | that you're into it. And I'm talking about building a board of directors for your life. And if you're |
| 1:27.1 | not super into that term, you can think about it as an |
| 1:30.0 | inner circle if you prefer that. For those of you guys who tuned into the Thanksgiving episode where I |
| 1:36.1 | talked about the board of directors for my actual business, that's cool, but you can also do this for |
| 1:41.5 | your life. And I think it's such a neat concept. And I have to give a head nod to my friend Amber, who runs the old money podcast because she really talked about this concept and gave me the inspiration to talk about it here on this show, how I've done this for myself, not just board of directors for my business, but my life as well. And I want to share how you can do |
| 2:02.4 | this too and why it can be so powerful and so influential. We are taking in so much information |
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