48 Running businesses as a Public Health Nutritionist, Recipe Developer & Food Photographer, with Shelley Judge

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Shelley Judge is a Public Health Nutritionist who specialises in helping kids develop a healthy relationship with food. Her business Shelley’s Good Eats offers parents and children advice and resources to make cooking, nutrition and food fun - making her the ‘cool aunt of nutrition’. Shelley also runs a business called Good Eats Creative, where she works with brands as a recipe developer and food photographer. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the many facets of Shelley’s businesses and how she has grown them into what they are today.

Hear Shelley talk about:

  • How she developed a healthy relationship with food growing up and wants to help others do the same.

  • Her original plan to study medicine and how this evolved.

  • Doing a bachelor of food science, followed by a masters in public health nutrition.

  • Getting offered a full time position as a public health nutritionist for a community health organisation in Melbourne, just days after finishing her masters.

  • Starting her blog during her first degree and how Shelley Good Eats grew into what it is today.

  • How Good Eats Creative was born and how she approached brands she wanted to work with.

  • Developing her food styling and photography skills.

  • Getting a big contract through a connection she had in the industry.

  • Using your social media and website as a online resume / media kit.

  • Creating eBooks to sell on her website.

  • Using influencer marketing to reach her target audience.

  • Batching content for social media and her website.

  • Her organisation tips and tricks to balance her businesses and get so much done while having a work life balance.

  • All about how she prices her services.

  • Her advice for people getting started and wanting to do something similar.

  • Why done is better than perfect.

  • Behind the scenes of her social media strategy.

  • Her experience starting to use reels and the results she’s seeing.

  • And so much more!

Shelley’s Book Recommendation was The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*** by Mark Manson.

Find out more about Shelley via her websites https://www.shelleysgoodeats.com/ and http://goodeatscreative.com/.

Follow along with her journey via instagram @shelleysgoodeats and @goodeatscreative.

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