THP 007: Building A Successful Nutrition Consulting Business Through Referrals
It's sad, but practising outside of the conventional medicine model can land you in hot water. Even though patients really want this kind of care, not everyone is the system is happy about...
Brent Boswell is a Nutrition Consultant at the Modern Life Nutrition Clinic. He has built a brick & mortar clinic in Huntington Beach where he sees an average of 150 clients per week.
Brent gets excellent results helping people lose weight and keep it off, and in this episode, he explains that the weight gain is more often than not, a symptom of a more profound underlying imbalance and when this is corrected, the weight loss is a very welcome side effect.
In this episode, we also discuss Brent’s approach to building a busy practice within five years that was based purely on referrals.
- Today's Guest
Brent Boswell
Listen in on this conversation with Brent where we talk about how he has built a solid nutrition consulting business exclusively through referrals.
NUTRITIONAL CONSULTING PRACTICE
Modern Live Nutrition
16511 Goldenwest Street, Suite 105
Huntington Beach, CA, 92647
Phone
562 810 5303
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- TOPICS Discussed
*You can click on a time to go to that section in the audio
1:30 – How Brent got started as a nutrition consulting business
10:00 – The importance of assessing the individual and crafting a nutrition plan that will work for the person and is a plan they can realistically follow
14:25 – The importance quick wins when working with clients
15:49 – Setting expectations for clients
17:45 – The challenges of making changes to nutrition and lifestyle
22:14 – The importance of stress management and sleep in weight loss
26:00 – Getting to the point where clients are no longer focusing on weight loss
29:25 – How to build a thriving nutrition consulting practice
30:40 – The beauty of a referral based business
33:00 – The key lesson Brent learned from his father who had a long career as a chiropractor
36:00 – The importance of implementing systems in your practice
40:10 – Using frameworks in your systems. Sam Carpenter’s book, Work The System
46:00 – Helping patients gradually and meeting them where they are at rather and trying to do too much too soon
49:40 – Brent’s mentors and influencers
54:30 – Personal strategies that Brent uses to stay healthy
57:25 – Inversion boots
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