How to Get Hired as a Functional Medicine Practitioner | Ep 325
The Funk'tional Nutrition Podcast
Erin Holt
4.9 • 759 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In a recent Instagram poll, Erin saw that 70% of practitioners want to run their own practice, while 30% do not. This week, Erin speaks to the 30% of practitioners who are looking to work for another company and offers some pointers from her perspective as someone in a position to hire. While credentials matter, being able to apply what you’ve learned and having the skillset to help your clients is non-negotiable. Leave this episode with tangible steps to approach a practice you'd like to work for.
The Funk’tional Nutrition Academy™, our 14-month functional nutrition certification program, opens for enrollment on September 1. We'd love to see your application!
Timestamps
(8:16) The beauty behind not wanting to run your own practice
(16:44) The reason behind why most practitioners want to hire
(19:46) The value behind continuing education
(23:30) Credentials versus having the skillset to help people
(27:39) How to approach a practice you’d like to work for
(34:48) Getting clear on what you do & how you can help
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Erin Holt, and this is the functional nutrition podcast where we lean into intuitive |
| 0:07.2 | functional medicine. We look at how diet, our environment, our emotions, and our beliefs all affect |
| 0:13.4 | our physical health. This podcast is your full-bodied, well-rounded resource. I've got over a decade |
| 0:19.8 | of clinical experience, and because of that, |
| 0:22.2 | I've got a major bone to pick with diet culture and the conventional health care model. |
| 0:26.4 | They're both failing so many of us. But functional medicine isn't the panacea that it's made |
| 0:31.3 | out to be either. We've got some work to do, and that's why creating a new model is my life's |
| 0:37.0 | work. I believe in the ripple |
| 0:38.7 | effect. So I founded the Functional Nutrition Academy, a school and mentorship for practitioners |
| 0:43.5 | who want to do the same. This show is for you if you're looking for new ways of thinking about |
| 0:48.6 | your health and you're ready to be an active participant in your own healing. Please keep in mind |
| 0:53.6 | this podcast is created for educational purposes only and should never |
| 0:57.2 | be used as a replacement for medical diagnosis or treatment. |
| 1:00.7 | I would love for you to follow the show, rate, review, and share because you never know |
| 1:05.5 | whose life you might change. |
| 1:06.7 | And of course, keep coming back for more. |
| 1:12.3 | Hey friends, welcome back to the show. Today I'm going to talk to you about how to get |
| 1:16.9 | hired as a functional nutritionist or a functional practitioner. This is a question that |
| 1:20.7 | we get a fair amount. And I've been having a lot of conversations with my colleagues, my friends, |
| 1:29.3 | people in this specific industry. And there's a lot of conversations that I'm having behind the scenes on Voxer, on Zooms. |
| 1:36.5 | And I'm going to share some of the stuff that we talk about here. So if you are somebody who's |
| 1:41.1 | looking to be hired, I'll give you a little bit of insight into the |
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