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Do Your Own Marketing (without being a genius) with Bonnie Campbell, R.D.

·1 hr 8 min·4 clips

Bonnie says her coaching works without live calls: clients get recorded video replies, not weekly Zooms.

1. Health Coach Radio centers this conversation on Bonnie Campbell and The Nourished Path, a nutrition coaching business built around weight loss and client systems. 2. Bonnie Campbell is the guest, a registered dietitian with a master's in nutrition and a year-long residency, and Erin Power is the host of Health Coach Radio. 3. The episode asks how a nutrition coach can market, scale, and coach without relying on constant live calls or a solo-preneur model. 4. Bonnie says The Nourished Path mainly serves women in their 30s, 40s, and early 50s who already exercise at Orange Theory, lift weights, or do Pilates. 5. She says the clients usually want nutrition support because they feel the food piece is missing, and they want to lose 20 to 40 pounds. 6. Bonnie also names breastfeeding women and pregnant women as a second client group, with the specific challenge of losing weight while protecting milk supply. 7. She says that balancing weight loss and milk supply is a “tight rope,” and that the licensure of registered dietitians gives her more clinical confidence and liability protection. 8. Bonnie explains that clients do not receive weekly live calls or small-group sessions; they get recorded video responses to their check-ins. 9. She says the asynchronous format works because clients can pause, rewind, revisit, and respond on their own schedule. 10. Bonnie says clients report on last week’s goals, struggles, meal questions, their period, and for breastfeeding clients, any changes in milk supply. 11. She says daily tracking usually includes workouts, water, steps, and sometimes food in MyFitnessPal, because it lets coaches see actual food diaries. 12. Bonnie describes a reverse-dieting or maintenance phase for clients who are depleted, and says her team may spend four to six weeks there before pushing fat loss. 13. She says her business usually goes straight into fat loss because many clients have already tried for weeks on their own and are ready to start. 14. Bonnie says group programs fell flat for her, so the business chose a coaching-team model where each coach manages a client roster. 15. She says one coach manages about 65 clients and another about 35, with each client taking roughly 30 to 35 minutes per week. 16. Bonnie says her own role is shifting toward marketing, discovery calls, systems, and hiring support so the business can keep running if she has a family. 17. The interview tone is practical and operational, with Erin Power pressing on workflow, scaling, and what happens behind the scenes. 18. Bonnie speaks in a straightforward, detail-heavy style and gives concrete numbers, tools, and role descriptions rather than abstract advice. 19. Coaches building a nutrition business around women’s weight loss and client systems. 20. Listeners wanting celebrity gossip, theory-heavy debate, or entertainment-first content.

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A grounded marketing conversation for coaches who want practical ideas without the fluff.

Bonnie Campbell’s conversation reads as a plain-spoken look at coaching as a business. A registered dietitian who left clinical practice, she built her own weight-loss program and now works in coaching relationships with women looking to lose weight.

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If marketing feels like the job you never hired for.

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