I don't know if you can relate, but my passion when I first started out back in 2006 was Nutrition and not business! I was so excited to launch my own practice and I had found a great little room in the back of a busy spa. I was a new Grad who had 4 years of health care experience and a year worth of experience at a local health food store.  I thought for sure clients were going to be lining up at my door!!
 
Unfortunately, I quickly discovered that I would have to learn how to market myself, build business relationships and develop a heck of a lot of business skills! I quickly became a struggling practitioner who was barely covering rent on my small room, let alone creating a profit.
 
Thus began a 3 year journey of learning not only how to be a business owner, but how to develop and market my programs and learning how to create a steady flow of new clients.
 
During these three years of studying business as I was building my practice, I learned some really valuable skills that to this day have helped me not only continue to grow my influence, but continuously grow a stable and expanding income. 
 
I was so thrilled with my results that I took all of the skills I learned and developed a program for my personal business.  A process that helped me turn my annual income from a loss, to a profit that had surpassed my full time health care income.  
 
I was so blessed that I became passionate about teaching other wellness practitioners what I had learned!  In 2011 I started teaching others in the wellness field though local colleges and community workshops what I had learned. I called this program the Business of Wellness Consulting Course. 

In 2012 I joined the team at Edison Institute of Nutrition, bringing the Business Course with me and opening the course up to students of any school and program who wanted to learn how to grow a successful business in the wellness field. 
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Since then we have taken dozens of Wellness practitioners through a home-based business course that has allowed them to create a solid business plan to grow their businesses! In 2018 we took the course online with a new platform, and in January 2019 we added in live webinar classes to add even more content into this course!! (see outline below)

We have all had a customer experience at one point or another, which left us with bad taste in our mouth. And we have had customer experiences that, made us happy to be their customer!
Regardless of the experience, good or bad, we have something to say about it don't we?!

As a business owner your job is to do your absolute best to ensure that your customers have an incredible experience to the best of your ability.  
 
Your Job Starts The Moment You Acquire A New Customer!
 
Many of us in sales, have to work very hard to educate people on our products, engage them in understanding the value of what we offer, and at the end of it all, make them a customer.

If you are good at closing you end up being compensated for your new customers orders. This is great news to those willing to work hard, have big vision, and a desire to create a new lifestyle.  Sales is a skill, and if you invest time into learning and doing it well, you can create any level of success that you desire! However...

​Do you ever feel a little bit like you are spinning your wheels when it comes to trying to get everything you know you should be doing done in a day? I absolutely know the feeling!! Being a work from home mom of 4, who runs 2 different Businesses, I was having moments where I absolutely felt like I was drowning!
 
The worst part of it all, was the guilt I was experiencing in feeling like I was never doing enough. I wasn’t spending enough time with my children. I wasn't being a good enough wife, I wasn't contributing enough to my community, and I was never caught up on my business to do’s.  Don't get me wrong I absolutely loved love what I was doing, and I created a career where I could work from home, and have the personal freedom to choose how I spent my day, but there is where my problem was hiding. I DID own my schedule, BUT I wasn't owning my time.
 
"I WAS HAVING MOMENTS WHERE I FELT LIKE I WAS DROWNING"
 
So like most people before they are forced to make a big change, I was having moments of utter desperation and was trying to figure out how I could continue to grow my business and income, and how I could create more balance and less stress at the same time.  Kind sounds like a oxymoron doesn't it!! BUT it is possible and I want to share with you what I did......

Welcome to my Business Blog!!! I am so excited to be sharing my experience on growing a thriving wellness business!! It doesn't matter if you are a health and wellness professional or if you work for a health product company, this blog will share my best advice and business growth strategies.
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If I am new to you, I am so excited to meet you!! My name is Alisa and I am a Nutritionist and mom of 4 children. I have been teaching Nutrition for more than 14 years and started my company when I was just 23 years old!! I left the health care industry (I will share why in upcoming posts) and learned the ups and downs of sole entrepreneurship.  After a few years, I found my footing and grew a successful practice.