Business coaching for dietitian entrepreneurs.
Dietitian Side Hustle turns entrepreneurship into a concrete path for dietitians, interns, and students. Katie Dodd frames side businesses around sales cycles, mindset, offers, community, and the realities of leaving traditional work.
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Dietitian Side Hustle treats entrepreneurship as a learnable craft for dietitians, not a mystery reserved for people with business degrees. Katie Dodd, a nutrition entrepreneur, brings a direct teaching style shaped by seven years building a side hustle before moving into full-time entrepreneurship. The show is practical first. It talks about what needs to exist inside a business before a dietitian can expect steady income: traffic, leads, sales, fulfillment, offers, systems, and follow-through. Some episodes feel like a workshop. Others feel like a candid business diary. That mix is central to the appeal. Katie will explain the sales cycle in plain terms, then describe what it felt like to invest heavily in coaching while working full time and raising children. She gives mindset real weight. Fear, comparison, imposter syndrome, perfectionism, and hesitation are treated as bottlenecks that can stop a business as surely as weak marketing can. The show also returns often to proximity and community, especially masterminds and rooms where ambitious peers challenge each other to move faster. It is not only about quitting a job. Several episodes compare different paths, including keeping full-time work, pairing part-time work with a side business, or eventually becoming a full-time entrepreneur. Guest conversations widen the frame without losing the dietitian focus. Caitlin McSorley explains health insurance options for entrepreneurs. Laura Schoenfeld brings a perspective on hybrid offers and online business models for healthcare professionals. Kori Ruth discusses brand-building in women's health, PCOS, fertility, supplements, and virtual business. The show also functions as a hub for Katie's broader ecosystem of books, summits, accelerators, guides, and business resources. That gives it a promotional edge, but the core value is still its specificity. Dietitian Side Hustle understands the gap between nutrition training and business ownership, then keeps naming the missing pieces until they feel manageable.
Made for: Dietitians, interns, and students who want to build a side business, online offer, business extension, or eventual full-time entrepreneurial path. It especially suits listeners who need business basics explained through nutrition-specific examples.
What sets it apart: The show is narrowly built around dietitians, so its advice lands in the space between nutrition training and business ownership. It combines tactical sales and marketing frameworks with candid discussion of mindset, risk, community, and leaving traditional employment.
The Dietitian Side Hustle podcast is for dietitians and students looking to be inspired, further their professional development, and perfect (or start!) their side hustle. My name is Katie Dodd and I built a six-figure side hustle before leaving my full-time job- to do things I love! Each episode is filled with information, inspiration, and action items to build the side hustle of your dreams. Let's do this!
Katie Dodd turns your dietitian ambition into sales-cycle homework, insurance questions, and one braver next move.
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Katie Dodd recalls the mastermind advice that challenged her full-time job and side-hustle identity.
Katie Dodd makes the case that the people around a business owner can change which risks feel possible. She suggests taking stock of current circles and seeking out the right rooms.
A practical first listen for dietitians comparing coverage outside traditional employment.
Katie Dodd talks with registered dietitian and health insurance broker Caitlin McSorley about health coverage for dietitians working outside traditional employment.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
Katie Dodd says a blog business needs “something to sell” and an audience, not just a product.
Katie Dodd discusses the importance of surrounding yourself with the right community to achieve success in your side hustle.
Katie Dodd discusses the sales cycle as the fundamental framework for building a successful dietitian side hustle business.
Katie Dodd discusses mindset as the key barrier in entrepreneurship and side hustles, sharing high-level mindset tips to inspire listeners to take action.
Katie Dodd announces a free two-hour Side Hustle Summit for dietitians on April 4, 2026, to help them start or grow their side businesses.
Katie Dodd introduces Chapter 3 of her Dietitian Side Hustle book and promotes free resources for dietitians looking to build side hustles.
Dietitian Side Hustle episode 288, Health Insurance 101 for Entrepreneurs, argues that max out-of-pocket limits and network rules matter more than monthly premium alone for self-employed dietitians.
Laura Schoenfeld discusses how dietitians can create hybrid offers to earn more with fewer clients, even when accepting insurance.
Katie Dodd interviews Kori Ruth, the Women's Dietitian, about her journey building a brand in women's health, including PCOS, hormone health, fertility, and her recent supplement line and book launch.
Katie Dodd shares her experience and tips for publishing a book on Audible, encouraging dietitians to consider the platform.
Katie Dodd interviews Kat Durston about outsourcing tasks in a dietitian side hustle, discussing when and how to delegate to grow a business.
Katie Dodd interviews Stacey Dunn-Emke about the Dietitian Salary Project, discussing dietitian salaries and career resources.