The Wellness Project with Dr. Kim Foster

You may not want to think about this, but I want to ask you: how ready are you for times of crisis, like a recession? Specifically, if you're building a business, how ready is your BUSINESS for unforeseen challenges? Today I have a guest with me who is an expert at creating systems so that your business can run like a well-oiled machine not only so that you can grow, but also so that you can weath...

Have you considered developing a product line? Whether you run a business currently and you'd love to offer products alongside your existing services, or you're thinking about starting up a brand new side-hustle or business, selling products can be an amazing way to build a new stream of income and chart a path to financial freedom. And to me, freedom is a big part of wellness. Whether it's financ...

If you're building a business, you may be feeling burned out with the social media hamster wheel that requires you to be constantly churning out posts (that are here today and gone in a matter of hours). Or maybe you never really loved social media anyway, but you're wondering "how else are people going to find me?" How are you supposed to get in front of the people who you can help, and the peopl...

Is your website doing the job you need it to be doing? Specifically, is it acting as a client-attracting machine? Because I have to tell you, having a "nice" looking website is not enough. Websites are very important when building your business, but there's very little point to creating and maintaining a website if it's not doing what you need it to do. So how do you make sure that your website IS...

What does being healthy really mean? And perhaps more importantly, how can we each start to pursue our own version of wellness? This is exactly what my guest and I get into on today's episode. Nicola Mercer is one of the coaches on my team - she works with me inside the Wellness Coach Academy, supporting all our students and new coaches as they're building their businesses - and before coming onto...

Are you currently working in an industry that's not related to healthcare or the wellness field, but you would really love to make a change and start building a career in wellness? If you're like many people I talk to, you might have some doubts about your ability to do that. You might have questioned whether it's something you can even do, or you might have thought things like "who am I to talk t...

Building a tribe is such a key thing for us all, especially when we're doing something new, or different, or scary. Having a supportive community that has your back can be the difference-maker you need, in terms of your success and your happiness. It's also a key element of living a healthy life, although it's often not given the importance it deserves. After all, we humans are social creatures. W...

Let's talk about the things that hold us back in business. If you're building a business in the health and wellness industry, I'm willing to bet that the things that you THINK are holding you back aren't the things that are actually holding you back. This is true for many of us, but it's especially true for my guest today, Kat Chao, who has built a huge amount of success growing her social media a...

If you're building a business, do you worry about your critics? When you're putting content out there or creating a new offer, do you find yourself obsessing over what people might say and think? Are you worried that people are going to come out of the woodwork and criticize your ideas and poke holes in them, and make you feel inadequate, inexperienced, or wrong? I know a lot of entrepreneurs stru...

I talk to a lot of people who would love to become a wellness coach and build their own business, but a lot of them really struggle with a lot of doubt. They doubt whether this is really possible. They're maybe even skeptical, because, let's face it, it sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? When you run a successful business as a wellness coach, you are your own boss. You set your own hours, go...

Are you afraid of making mistakes? Are you afraid of taking risks because you're worried that you might do it wrong, or mess up, or lose money, or be embarrassed … and whatever other terrible consequences you think might happen as a result of making a mistake. In this episode, we're going to flip mistakes on their head, and we're going to talk about why mistakes aren't something to be feared – but...

If you're building your business, whether it's a side hustle or your main gig, someone has probably asked you: "So, what do you do?" And this one, seemingly innocent question, can cause a lot of people to feel paralyzed and like a deer in the headlights. It's so awkward, right? I mean, you want to talk about what you're doing because you know that it would be beneficial for you in terms of network...

When you're creating your website or building a sales page, you need to write the words that will go on those pages. The official term for the words that go on your website or sales pages is: copy. And copywriting is a skillset that most of us are not born with. But the good news is that you can learn how to write effective copy, and copy that connects and converts! In fact, you need to learn how...

When you're building a business as a health or wellness coach, one of the main things you need is clients. Everyone needs clients, whether you're just beginning, or if you've been at it for a while. If you're a coach, you need clients. But where do you get those clients from? To help answer that question, I have a guest with me today – Dallas Travers – who is going to walk us through a very specif...

When you're building a wellness business, eventually what can happen is that you start getting very busy, and very overwhelmed. My guest on this episode calls this the "messy middle" and that's absolutely what it is. It can be stressful and hard to know what you need to do to scale to the next level. At this stage, you also might be battling a lot of the noise that's coming at you externally, espe...

Marketing your health and wellness coaching business online can be really challenging. One of the challenges is dealing with the lack of human connection that's inherent when everyone is sitting behind their computers. When you're trying to market to people online, it can be tough to really make that human connection. So how do we get past that? How do we break through that anonymity, and the dist...

Do you offer meal planning services to your clients? If you're not already doing this, is it something you're interested in doing? For many health & wellness coaches, offering meal planning is a terrific way to take your services to the next level, or create an additional stream of income. If the idea of integrating meal planning is intriguing to you, but you just can't figure out how to make it w...

How confident do you feel about your skills as a coach? Maybe you've been focusing a lot of your efforts on building your business and marketing your services…but how much time have you invested in up-leveling your coaching skills? The skill set of coaching is so foundational to building a successful business as a coach, but it doesn't always receive the attention it deserves. My guest today is Le...

There are a lot of myths and misconceptions out there about what it takes to build a successful health coaching business. If you're a health coach or wellness professional currently, or you would like to become one so you can build a profitable, sustainable business that replaces your 9-5 and gives you freedom and fulfillment – then there are a few myths that I want you to be wary of, because if y...

Welcome back to the show. Today I've got a fantastic guest with me, and we're going to be talking about how to build wealth. I often focus on how to build your business here on the show, of course, and how coaches in the wellness industry can get more clients and grow their impact and all of those things, but there is a difference between having a profitable coaching business and actually growing...

One of the biggest struggles I hear from people is how to get started with marketing their business. Especially in the early stages, when they don't have any help or a team to outsource to, so they're doing everything alone. Also, if you don't have a marketing background yourself then how are you supposed to know what to do? My guest on this episode, Sarah Noel Block, is the founder of Tiny Market...

If you're curious about whether paid ads would be beneficial for growing your health coaching business, but you're unsure because you've heard that ads don't work anymore, or you've heard somebody's horror story about how they lost thousands of dollars to an ad campaign gone wrong, then this episode is for you. My guest today is Christina Bernhard, and Christina is a Facebook Ads agency owner for...

If you're building a health coaching business, you've probably thought about how you want your brand to look. And if you're like many people, this might mean that you've given some thought to what you want your logo to look like, or maybe what you're going to choose for your colors. But in this episode, I'm going to challenge your idea of what a brand actually is, and we're going to talk about why...

If you're feeling stressed, and you're trying to run a business, then this episode is for you. The last couple of years have presented some really unprecedented challenges, and not everyone is coping well. It's even trickier when you're actually working within the health and wellness industry, because we tend to feel a certain amount of pressure to have the perfect lifestyle. But we're not immune...

If you're building a business as a coach in the health and wellness space, then there's a good chance that what you need right now is more clients. Clients are the lifeblood of your business, of course. And without consistent clients coming in, then your business is going to struggle. But many new coaches really aren't sure how to market their businesses and get clients. And that's okay! In this e...