Grow Your Nutrition Business

Today's podcast guest is Dr. Christina Migliara. She has a Ph. D. in General Psychology, Masters Degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, and multiple state and national level certifications related to mental health. Christina is a CrossFit Level 1 Trainer, a USAW Level 1 Coach, and is the owner of CrossFit Tailwinds. In today's podcast, Nicole Aucoin and Dr. Christina Migliara discuss: - How to pri...

In this episode, Nicole and Jason Aucoin discuss how to grow a nutrition coaching team in a gym. They answer the most popular questions that gym owners ask when building a nutrition coaching program like: - Should I start with a nutrition team or just one nutrition coach? - How do I get everyone on the same page with my nutrition coaching program? - How do I ensure consistent between my nutrition...

Today's podcast guest is Registered Dietitian and Healthy Steps Nutrition Mentor, Kayla Pollock. In addition to being the head of coach development for HSN Mentoring, Kayla is a CrossFit affiliate owner. She brings a wealth of knowledge to the table when it comes to building a nutrition program in a gym and keeping clients engaged. Today, Nicole Aucoin and Kayla Pollock discuss one of the initiati...

Today's guest is someone we consider family at Healthy Steps Nutrition. Campbell is the founder of RVRB, our amazing media team. Clark and his team at RVRB have a gift of capturing people's stories and delivering excellent media. To make it even better, they do it in real-time! Today's podcast dives into the art of telling compelling stories and why business owners need to care about this. People...

Today's guest is Ryan Stemper, the owner of Whole Strength CrossFit & Nutrition in Nashville, TN. He opened up his gym almost ten years ago with a vision to help the greater Nashville community get healthy through four pillars: movement, nutrition, sleep, and mindset. He understood early on that he needed an amazing team. Today, we talk about how he built his team and what he does to continually p...

Today's guest is Michele Norris, Founder of Navigen Leadership, LLC. Her mission is to help her clients attract, retain, and empower the workforce of the future by developing its leaders. Michele is a navigational facilitator who specializes in executive and leadership coaching, corporate culture, generational education, and strategic leadership. After spending 30 years in sales leadership working...

Today's podcast guest is Jason Aucoin, co-owner of Healthy Steps Nutrition and CrossFit HSN. In this episode, Jason and Nicole Aucoin discuss some of the best moments at Healthy Steps Nutrition Mentoring in 2021. From there, they discuss where HSN Mentoring is headed in 2022 to help support gym owners and coaches build professional nutrition coaching programs. At the end of this episode, Nicole di...

In today's episode, Lindsay McDonald and Nicole Aucoin discuss some critical practices to increase staff buy-in and grow your nutrition program in a gym. As a gym owner, you don't need to be involved with the day-to-day when building a nutrition program, but you do need to support the coach who heads up your program. In today's podcast, Nicole Aucoin and Lindsay McDonald discuss some of the best p...

Today's guests are Jocelyn and Barry Weidner. They both left their corporate jobs and opened up CrossFit Generation in 2007. Over the past 14+ years, they have been able to help thousands of people in their community get healthy. They had mastered the fitness side of their business, but the nutrition conversation kept coming up. In 2019, Barry and Jocelyn partnered with Healthy Steps Nutrition Men...

Today's guest is Paddy Coady, co-owner of Pheonix Strength and Conditioning. Paddy did such a fantastic job building the nutrition program and team at his gym, we brought him on to our team at Healthy Steps Nutrition Mentoring during the pandemic! The HSN Mentoring, all-girl team, now has a fantastic addition and a new perspective! Patty is such a well-rounded mentor because he has worn all the ha...

Today's guest is Dan Uyemura, the founder of PushPress. Dan and Nicole Aucoin recently hosted a free training for all Healthy Steps Nutrition and PushPress gym owners on how to increase their presence online. We decided to host a podcast on some of the main takeaways from that training to provide gym owners with simple and actionable tips so that more people can find you online. In today's podcast...

Today's guest is Craig Weller, Precision Nutrition's exercise systems and program director and a Precision Nutrition Master Coach. In this podcast, we talk about how he first learned about performance coaching in the military and how he has translated that experience into coaching clients. One of my favorite parts was at the end when we talked about the motivational drive and dopamine circuits. He...

Today's guest is our longest-standing mentor and chief of staff, Lindsay McDonald. She has helped every gym owner launch their nutrition programs, and she is the main point of contact for gym owners as they are going through training. Let's just say she is a rockstar! In today's episode, Nicole Aucoin and Lindsay discuss some of the most important considerations when revamping a nutrition program...

Today's guest is Cindy Dudas. She started working with Healthy Steps Nutrition as a client in October 2020 before her gym owners, Bob and Mark signed up to partner with the Healthy Steps Nutrition Mentoring program. Cindy shares her experience as a client and now as a coach empowering her community at Clamtown CrossFit, in Tuckerton, New Jersey. In this episode, Nicole Aucoin and Cindy Dudas discu...

In today's podcast, Kayla Pollock and Nicole Aucoin discuss why you need to be developing your nutrition coaches. Gym owners wear a lot of hats. Sometimes coach development gets put on the backburner. When was the last time you had a staff meeting? When is the last time you have invested time, money, and energy into helping your coaches sharpen their skills to deliver a better service to your memb...

Today's guest is Darci Donaldson, CrossFit Level 1 Coach and Nutrition Coach at CrossFit Brighton. In today's podcast, Darci Donaldson and Nicole Aucoin talk about: - Her journey becoming a nutrition coach - The impact of adding an in-house nutrition program at CrossFit Brighton - We share the story of one of her amazing clients, Brent, who lost 100# with the help of the nutrition and fitness expe...

In today's episode, Nicole and Jason Aucoin answer the gym owners' questions from a recent CrossFit Affiliate Owner Gathering about adding nutrition programs. Questions that are discussing in this episode include: - What should you charge? - What should nutrition coaching look like from a client's perspective? - Can I legally offer nutrition coaching? - We've done an online course and still don't...

Today's guest is Scott Carpenter. He is the co-founder of PT Legends. A company that provides CrossFit boxes, gyms, and personal training studios with coaching, mentoring, and marketing so they can charge 6-13x more for their fitness and nutrition services without making any changes to their existing business model. In this episode, we talk about the impact of creating a transformational offer to...

Today, Jason and Nicole Aucoin discuss three unconventional ways to build a nutrition program in a gym. Jason manages our nutrition coaching program at Healthy Steps Nutrition Headquarters. He shares his experience with people who come through our doors through all three of these methods. We share what works well for us and with gyms using the Healthy Steps Nutrition Mentoring Program. Make sure y...

Today's guest is Lindsay McDonald, chief of staff and lead mentor at Healthy Steps Nutrition Mentoring. In this episode, we talk about one of the most valuable things you can do to build a nutrition program and boost confidence as a nutrition coach; role-playing. Nicole Aucoin and Lindsay McDonald discuss: - Why you should be role-playing with your coaches - How to role play - What scenarios you s...

Today's guest is Richard Alvarez, owner of CrossFit Riverside, a 12-year CrossFit affiliate. He is also the CrossFit US District Rep and Field Leader for Southern California. In this episode, we talked about why he decided to reach out to Healthy Steps Nutrition to help him build a nutrition program and some of the amazing initiatives that the CrossFit home office is starting to support affiliate...

Olaf Zorn knew he needed to provide more nutrition support to his clients in order for them to see results. He said the pandemic was the perfect opportunity for him and his team to create the nutrition coaching program they always wanted. Fast-forward 8-months, he says, "The biggest bright spot since adding this program is how grateful our clients are now that we are offering nutrition coaching."...

Today, Nicole Aucoin and Ashley Osterman are talking about building a personality behind your nutrition program. Whether you are a CrossFit affiliate owner, independent nutrition coach, big box gym, boutique fitness owner, or someone thinking about starting a nutrition program; this episode is for YOU! Why? Because it's easier to build trust with a person, not a brand. People buy from people they...

Today's podcast guest is James Hobart, Senior Maranger of Programming for CAP, the new CrossFit Affiliate Programming. He is also an 11-year member of Seminar Staff, affiliate owner, and owner of HAM Plan from 2018 until CrossFit acquired it in 2021. In this episode, James Hobart and Nicole Aucoin talk about: - His journey as a gym owner and owner of HAM - The transition to CAP and the vision - Wh...

In this episode, Jason and Nicole Aucoin talk about the CrossFit Games beyond the athletes competing!    For the first time ever, spectators were able to listen to CrossFit Health seminars. In this episode, Nicole and Jason discuss the biggest takeaways from the panel discussions. They also discuss the new initiatives coming out from CrossFit HQ to support affiliate owners.    Did you miss the Nut...