52 Building a Thriving Online Practice, with Solaine Douglas

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Solaine Douglas is a qualified nutritionist that specialises in helping woman with their hormonal and digestive health. She runs a successful online practice where she offers one-on-one consultation packages to help people live symptom free. Solaine also has experience working with ATP Science and is currently working part time for The Natural Nutritionist. She is a brilliant example of someone that has hit the ground running since graduating and has plenty to teach us all through her experience and advice.

In this episode, Solaine shares:

  • About her experience working with ATP science after graduating.

  • Being mentored by Steph Lowe from The Natural Nutritionist and how this led to her current role working for her.

  • How her practice doubled after leaving her job at ATP and creating the space to spend more time on her business.

  • Her experience going to see other practitioners to learn how they ran their practice and get a feel for what others were doing.

  • How word of mouth has become her biggest source of clients.

  • Going that extra step and sending gifts and thank you notes to clients.

  • Tips for standing out and making yourself memorable.

  • Why she offers packages instead of one-off sessions.

  • The importance of working on your business as well as working in your business.

  • Her experience working with mentors as well as details of what this has looked like and the types of mentorships.

  • Important skills to have as a nutritionist and in business.

  • Seeing business as a journey of personal growth.

  • The importance of backing yourself.

  • Why hustle isn’t the answer.

  • The importance of listening to your intuition and trusting the inner knowing.

  • The reason you need to invest in yourself and ways to do so.

  • Learning that we are the most important important thing in our business/career.

  • And so much more!

Solaine’s book recommendations are:

Learn more about Solaine via her website https://www.solainedouglas.com/ and follow her journey on instagram @solainedouglas_nutrition.

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