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Below you’ll find some of my favorite free resources for furthering your knowledge and supporting your nutrition business.
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Calculate Your Rate with My Forecasting Worksheet
Forecasting your costs and desired profits helps you be in charge of your finances and become more confident when pricing your services. This worksheet helps you figure out your hourly rate by factoring in your desired take-home income, overhead costs, and number of work days per year.
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Forecasting Worksheet
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Get clear on your niche and
ideal client
Honing in on your ideal client helps you create products and services that are needed, write better copy and focus your time and energy when it comes to marketing. This worksheet walks you through a variety of prompts to help you get super clear on your ideal client.
Free Worksheet:
Identify Your Ideal Client
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Grab my free discovery call template
This template walks you through exactly how I structure my complimentary client discovery call including specific questions to ask and language around how to invite the potential client into your practice at the end in a way that feels natural and authentic.
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Discovery Call Template
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Use my initialnutrition assessment form
I use this assessment form during my first session with a client. It's been developed over years of client work. You'll get an editable version to download and use right away. Note: this form was developed with weight-inclusive clinicians in mind and can be modified as needed.
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Initial Assessment Form
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Recommended Resources
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The EHR platform I recommend if you are just starting your business and who plan to be out of network/primarily private pay:
- Practice Better EHR Platform* Free for up to 3 clients/month when you're just starting out; then increases to $25/month for up to 10 clients. 14-day free trial.
The EHR platform I recommend if you are billing insurance:
- SimplePractice EHR Platform* - Use this link and get 2 months free* Starts at $29/month + $15/month telehealth fee ($44/month total). 30-day free trial.
I use or have used all of the following tools:
Google Workspace* – (formally G-Suite) $6/month to have a custom email address come from your website; can also sign a BAA to make your Google Workspace drive HIPAA compliant.
Quickbooks* – this is how I track all my finances. Use this link to get 50% off for 3 months AND a $50 VISA gift card!
Gusto Payroll* - Use this link, run your first payroll, and get a $100 VISA gift card! I use Gusto to run my monthly payroll (i.e. paying myself). Once it's set up it's so simple to use - it takes care of monthly taxes and generates all the quarterly and annual forms that you need.
Asana* – a productivity and to-do list tool, works well when you have a team too.
Dropbox* – upload forms and share links with clients; they can then download the forms and fill them out.
Thinkific* - all-in-one course creation platform including landing page builder and easy-to-use course builder. I've been running my courses on Thinkific for years.
Hello Sign – easily get e-signatures on contracts and more.
Doc Hub – easily add your signature or edit PDFs – I use this almost daily!
Acuity Scheduling* – clients can schedule online, see real-time availability (syncs with Google calendar, ical, outlook and office 365) and pay for packages or services online. You can set up automated welcome emails with links to forms (I include dropbox links).
Convertkit* – email marketing system with simple automation rules (if: this, then: that). This is the one that I use, after switching from Mailchimp, and I LOVE it! Free up to 500 subscribers.
Yoast SEO plugin – free and easy keyword/SEO plugin for a WordPress blog. This is how I do all my SEO!
Google Analytics – a free web analytics service Google that tracks and reports website traffic
Ubersuggest – free keyword planner tool
Tiny png – compress images to help your website load faster
Weight Inclusive Nutrition and Dietetics: “We are dietetic practitioners, and RDs-to-be, ready for a shift. We’re ready for weight-inclusive care to be the norm, not the exception." WIND brings the weight inclusive community together and provides education, encourages engagement, and fosters connections. WIND also supports movements such as Health at Every Size® and the non-diet approach to nutrition. Check out their webinars and upcoming events.
Nutrition Counseling for Eating Disorders 3.0: Whether you are new to the field or looking to deepen your counseling skills, this online training will improve your clinical practice. Even if you think you don't work with eating disorders, given the high prevalence rate - you likely already are. Taught by Marci Evans.
Body Image Online Training for Clinicians: If you are looking to enhance your nutrition counseling skills and confidence when working with eating disorders, chronic dieting, and any condition which impacts how someone feels about their body - this training is for you. This is one of the best trainings I've ever attended - years later, I still use what I learned in client sessions on a regular basis. Taught by Marci Evans and Fiona Sutherland.
Become a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor: This is the certification program/process that I went through to become a Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor.
Become an Intuitive Eating PRO—Skills Development: A 6-week, virtual training series in an interactive small group format led by Evelyn Tribole. If you decide to pursue the certification, this is one of the required components that you must complete.
Trauma-Informed Dietetic Care Training: Learn how to understand the nervous system to better help your clients. Another one of the most important trainings I've ever taken - completely life-changing both for myself and for my clients. A must for every provider. Taught by Fiona Sutherland and Tracy Brown.
ACT for Dietitians - Bring Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Into Your Practice: Improve your counseling and behavior change skills, with the integration of ACT. This course brings together 3 experts from the perspectives of psychology, nutrition counseling, and eating disorders to teach dietitians how, when and why you can infuse and use ACT in your work with clients.
Introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) for Nutrition Professionals: IFS is an evidence-based therapeutic technique that can be helpful in the treatment of eating disorders and disordered eating. This is a really helpful introductory course to learn more about IFS, including how dietitians can integrate the IFS model concepts with clients with disordered eating. Taught by Molly Kellogg.
Digestive Disorders & Eating Disorders: A Complicated Mix, Training for Clinicians: “Complicated digestive issues plague our clients with eating disorders. Consequently, we as clinicians grapple with how best to help them deal with their complex array of painful and debilitating symptoms." Taught by Marci Evans and Lauren Adler Dear.
Eating Disorder Registered Dietitians & Professionals (EDRD Pro): A monthly membership that provides high-quality webinars, case studies, and supervision sessions on a variety of topics related to eating disorders, disordered eating, body image, counseling skills, and so much more.
INSPIRD to Seek Community Mentorship: A monthly membership that offers peer-group mentorship, training workshops, and conversations centered on personal & professional growth.
Free Weight Inclusive Practitioner Facebook Groups: #INSPIRDtoSEEK, The Mindful Dietitian, WIND
Websites:
- Association for Size Diversity and Health: www.asdah.org
- No Weigh Campaign: www.noweigh.org
- WIND: www.weightinclusivenutrition.com
- Harvard Implicit Bias Test: www.implicit.harvard.edu
- HAES Health Sheets: www.haeshealthsheets.com
- HAES MNT Handouts: www.creatingpeacewithfood.com/haes-mnt-handouts/
- ‘Don’t Weigh Me Cards’: www.more-love.org
- Weight and Healthcare Substack by Regan Chastain
- Body Liberation with Lindley Ashline
- Marquisele Mercedes Patreon
Books (Click Here for Links):
- Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
- Belly of the Beast by Da’Shaun Harrison
- Unapologetic Eating by Alissa Rumsey
- Intuitive Eating 4th Ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
- Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison
- Fat Politics by J. Eric Oliver
- The Body is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
- What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Podcasts (Click Here for Links):
- Maintenance Phase
- Unsolicited: Fatties Talk Back
- Food Psych
- Unpacking Weight Science
- Dietitians Unplugged
Culinary Nutrition Certification Courses* - taught by two dietitian-chefs, this is an in-depth professional certification program in both basic culinary skills and culinary nutrition that provides practical, everyday cooking skills as well as a deeper dive into a variety of culinary nutrition topics, such as diabetes, heart disease, aging, and more. This program can enhance prior training as a health professional or serve as your first introduction to the field.
Canva – graphic design tool – blog and social media graphics, templates, handouts, worksheets, media kit, PPT presentations, lead magnets, pinnable photos, logos, e-books, header photos, etc.
Grammarly – grammar editor for documents, emails, blogs, etc. Free and paid versions.
Power thesaurus – crowdsourced thesaurus built by a community of writers (free)
Hemingway app – makes your writing bold/clear, tells you reading level.
Coschedule – helps you create and manage content better with a drag and drop content marketing calendar that plugs directly into WordPress. Also check out the Coschedule headline analyzer
Qzzr – create quizzes and embed them into your blog
These are great places to find designers and other freelancers who charge by the hour. For example, if you need a logo designed, or are looking for support installing Google Analytics or a theme onto your website. (I've been using a person I found on Upwork for over 5 years, he does all my more complicated website updates and fixes).
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