79 Building a Thriving Women's Health Clinic Online, with Jacinta Barbagallo

Jacinta Barbagallo is a qualified Nutritionist that specialises in skin and women’s health. Having built a thriving online clinic called Orenda Women’s Health, she shares her experience growing from solopreneur to having a team. Along with supporting clients, Jacinta also educates skin therapists about the intricacies of skin health from the inside out.

In this episode, Jacinta shares:

Her transition from working as a Sales Manager at a supplement company to going full time in her own business.
Practicing out of her brother’s gym doing nutrition consultations.
Working at a skin clinic and finding her passion for skin health.
Running her practice while working 4 days at her job.
Letting things go along the way.
Transitioning from work to full time in her own business.
Staying in your own lane and not focusing on other people’s journey.
Adopting the mindset of it having no choice but to be successful.
Asking herself ‘what would the future version of my clinic need?’.
All about building a referral system with skin clinics and other modalities.
Why you don’t have to have everything perfect before you start.
The importance of building rapport with your clients.
Educating patients and helping them understand why things are happening for them.
Using the right language to improve client retention rates.
The benefit of talking your client through the process and how your approach will help them.
Going from having no social media or website to having an online presence.
Creating her course ‘Advanced Acne Training’ for skin therapists, which led to passive income and also building her referral network.
Speaking to a marketing consultant about how you can optimise different funnels in your business.
Setting up your brand, your content pillars and offerings.
Reaching a larger audience through social media.
Introducing discovery calls.
Hiring a patient advocate and clinic manager and how this has helped grow her business.
Our collaboration on ‘Healthy Skin From Within: The Acne Edition’, a 6-week educational program with a 6 week meal plan.
Going from a solopreneur to growing a team.
Recognising where your strengths and weaknesses are and working in accordance with those.
Her recommendation for growing your own online clinic.
Why having a niche is important.
Working on your personal things to ensure they don’t get in the way of your business.
And so much more!