How Christina Rice Balances her Reiki and NTP Practice
Christina Rice is a Primal Health Coach, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Reiki Master, creator of the health and wellness blog Addicted to Lovely, and host of the Wellness Realness Podcast. After learning firsthand how nutrient-dense food could truly heal, she has dedicated herself to helping others find similar transformations in their own lives. Watch this video to hear Christina share what her day looks like as an NTP and as she answers common questions about how she is using her certification!
In this Facebook Live, Christina Rice talks about:
+ What type of clients she works with
+ If you can take the program with a family and full-time job
+ The best certifications or resources for after taking the NTP or NTC program
+ What to do when you aren’t sure how to help your client
Join us for a Live Info Session on July 24 at 11 am PST. One of our Senior Lead Instructors will go in-depth, discussing the differences between our programs. This is a great opportunity for you to get your questions answered!
How long have you worked for the NTA? What is your role?
I joined the NTA in late 2017 and currently serve as Director of Strategic Projects, guiding our Infusionsoft launch. I work with our team to build systems like online registration and marketing automations that help us create structure and bandwidth so we can keep growing. I love that I get to peek under the hood and see how each department works, and then make cool stuff with people I really enjoy spending time with.
What attracted you to work at the NTA?
My lovely group leaders from the 2017 LA NTP class recruited me (thank you, Jess, John, and Rosemary!!!). I wanted to give back since the NTA had such an impact on my life, and when I saw how awesome the rest of the team was, I knew I wanted to be a part of it.
What do you love about working for the NTA?
That this team is made up of such smart, kind, interesting people who also happen to be total badasses – it seems like everyone is doing something cool and different outside of the NTA and I feel like I become a better person just by being around them. Also, all the emojis in our slack channels.
What are you most proud about accomplishing in your time at the NTA to date?
My roles have always been interconnected with others so there isn’t much I do on my own, but I’m proud of our work launching the Career Development and Foundational Wellness courses, and what we’re building right now in Infusionsoft. It’s pretty magical watching our talents come together to make awesome ideas into reality.
Describe the NTA in three words:
Inspiring, Empowering, Evolving
Describe yourself in three words:
Adventurous, Optimist, Thinker
What do you love the most about our community?
That we can get serious about challenging and changing a broken status quo, all the while enjoying the good things in life like perfect avocados and laughing at poop jokes.
What is your favorite fat?
It’s a tie between coconut oil (I mean, come on, what else can be a cooking oil, hinge greaser, mouth rinse and moisturizer?!) and raw cream. Unlike most of us, raw cream only gets more delightful as it sours.
What is your least favorite food?
Durian fruit, bless all the Chinese elders who love it, but it literally smells like rotting garbage.
What is your most used cook book or recipe blog and why?
99% of the time I wing it, but every Thanksgiving I make this AIP pumpkin pie cheesecake because it’s so delicious and my family will actually eat it. I just sub out sweet potato for pumpkin puree. And I love my dear friend Aimee Suen’s blog, small eats.
In your mind, what are the biggest challenges the holistic health community faces?
When I think about our goal as a community, it’s to heal the world with holistic, foundational healthcare and regenerative practices that are woven into our social consciousness throughout our lives. The biggest threat is that we never get to a place where any of this is as legitimized, recognized, or accessible as the conventional systems (and eventually more so!). We’re doing amazing work to get there, but there’s still a ways to go. In my eyes, the greatest challenges are:
+ Providing better access to information and services for the general public, especially marginalized and at-risk populations, like Rise & Root Farm (thanks Ben), WellnessCon and Station CoLab (both created by NTPs!), and so many others.
+ Funding, conducting and advocating for rigorous research in our fields, like the Autoimmune Wellness team is doing.
+ Lobbying for initiatives that support access to information, a consistent standard of care and rights to practice, and regenerative agricultural practices and policies, like CHHE, NANP, FTCLDF, Kiss The Ground, TNAFA, etc
+ All of this hinges on coming together, despite our differences, and empowering ourselves and others in the community with the skills they need to be successful, so they have the resources to fund the work they do and create positive change. (Which is why the Career Development Course was created. And for free resources, HEA is also pretty sweet)
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Join us for a Live Info Sessionon July 24 at 11AM PST. One of our Senior Lead Instructors will go in-depth, discussing the differences between our programs. This is a great opportunity for you to get your questions answered!
The post-graduation hustle is real, we get it! You went to school to solve people’s health problems, but right now attracting clients seems like the most difficult task yet.
So, what’s the deal? How do you even begin to attract the right clients?
We’re here today to crack the code. While it might seem impossible right now, we have three tips to teach you how get your first three clients and then some, so let’s get right into it!
1. Choose Your Niche
As a graduate of the NTA, you’re equipped to help people transform their health, and that’s what you’re striving to do! But trying to help people with every type of health issue could be the reason you’re having trouble attracting clients. When you try to help everyone, sometimes you end up helping no one.
Having a niche is how you attract your ideal clients, change more lives and make more money. It also makes it much easier to define your programs and services, set your pricing and market to the right people.
So how do you choose a niche? Start by asking yourself these questions:
What is your story?
Telling your story will inspire others and remind you of why you chose this path in the first place. Write it down and remind yourself of how you turned your own struggles into success.
What are you good at?
This is something that likely comes naturally to you and you have helped others with in the past. Write these down in a list and cross-reference with the next question.
What do you like?
If you had to help the same type of client day in, day out, what would bring you joy? Write these down in a list and check-in with question two. Where these two questions overlap is your point of success.
What specific problem will you be solving?
Most graduates stop once they have categorized their niche (example: weight loss, hormones, digestion), but this isn’t specific enough. Dig a bit deeper. What specific problem inside of this category do you want to solve? Is it hormone balancing for post-menopausal women? Perhaps digestion for acne-prone women? Hone in on the specific problem you’re solving.
What exactly do you do?
Take the answers from above and sum them up into one statement. For example, “I am a ___________ who helps ____________ achieve _______________.” The first blank is your preferred title. The second blank is who you help. The third blank is the result. For example: “I am a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner or Consultant who helps women with adult acne achieve clearer, more radiant skin through optimal nutrition.”
2. Create a Lead Magnet:
A lead magnet is an incentive you offer to potential clients in exchange for their email address. Having a great lead magnet is the key to a steady stream of new, potential clients.
There are two great lead magnets that convert well for nutrition professionals:
A Curated Recipe Book:
Most people struggle to find recipes that contribute to their overall health or solve their unique health problems. Creating a free resource that has awesome recipes your ideal client would love is a great way to attract new clients.
We recommend including 8 to 10 recipes in your recipe book. This will be enough recipes to entice people to leave their email address, but not so many that you’re giving away all your content for free.
Here are some great examples of recipe books that would make amazing lead magnets:
+ “Portable, High Protein Breakfast Recipes for Athletes On-the-Go”
+ “Healthy One-Pan Recipes to Get Dinner on the Table in 30 Minutes or Less”
+ “Dairy-Free Snack Guide for Children with Eczema”
A Three or Five-Day Meal Plan:
One of the most valuable resources you can offer as a nutrition professional is a meal plan because it is like a roadmap your clients can follow to feel their best. Since people are willing to pay for an awesome meal plan, offering a sneak peek of one is a great way to attract potential clients to sign up for your email list.
Three to five days is the perfect length for a lead magnet meal plan because it doesn’t overwhelm your potential client and is likely to leave them wanting more! Your lead magnet meal plan should be carefully designed to solve one specific problem, attract your ideal client and deliver them a quick win.
Some examples of awesome meal plan lead magnets include:
+ “A 3-Day De-Bloat Meal Plan for IBS”
+ “A Simple 5-Day Healthy Meal Prep Plan for College Students”
+ “A 3-Day Post-Holiday Detox Meal Plan”
Creating lead magnets can feel overwhelming when you’re creating them from scratch, but That Clean Life for Business gives you all the recipes, photography, a grocery list, and beautiful design with your custom branding to make it look professional.
Giving free talks might seem counter-intuitive, but it is one of the fastest ways to grow your business as it puts you in front of a new audience and establishes yourself as the resident expert on a topic. You can transform total strangers into leads with the power of your talk, and it only takes three short steps.
First, pick a topic and title for your talk. Establish a title that clearly communicates what you’ll be covering (related to your niche) and the value you will provide. Some examples of great free talk titles include:
+ Nutrition for New Moms: How to Increase Milk Supply
+ 3 Reasons You’re Bloated and What to Do About It
+ How to Build the Perfect Post-Workout Smoothie
Next, pick a venue. Scout out locations in your community that align with your messaging. Create a list of five potential venues that you would be excited to deliver a free talk at.
And finally, pitch yourself. Once you have your topic decided, it’s time to pitch yourself. Send an email to all five venues. You can even create a template and plug in the name of the business as well as personal details to make your workflow much faster and easier.
Once a venue has accepted it’s time to craft your free talk! Don’t worry about the creation of the talk until after the venue has accepted and the date has been set, that way you won’t have wasted any time if they want things changed.
If you’re struggling with creating content for your talk, or you’re unsure how to convert attendees of your free talk into paying clients, then click here.
There you have it! By getting clear on your niche, creating an awesome lead magnet to attract your ideal clients, and putting yourself out there with free talks, you will be attracting new clients like crazy. Yes, it will take some hard work, but we promise you it will pay off!
Want your recipe or article to be featured on our blog? Email our team Marketing@nutritionaltherapy.com with your full name, article, a short bio in third person, and a headshot. We may feature you in an upcoming blog post.
About That Clean Life
“We make eating healthy super simple and fun. Everything you need to meal plan for yourself, or your clients.”
That Clean Life was founded by Abigail and Christopher Hopkins in January 2015, they’ve helped tens of thousands of people from all over the world feel awesome about the food they are putting in their bodies.
Whether you are an individual meal planning for yourself, a parent meal planning for your family, or a wellness professional building meal plans for your clients and community, your success means everything to them. They’re there for you every step of the way.
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Join us for a Live Info Session on July 24 at 11AM PST. One of our Senior Lead Instructors will go in-depth, discussing the differences between our programs. This is a great opportunity for you to get your questions answered!
Stuffed and Baked Sweet Potato Recipe: Paleo, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, and Delicious
This Stuffed and Baked Sweet Potato Recipe will have your tastebuds swimming in bliss. Brooke Libby, NTP took the combination of sweet, tangy, and savory and turned it into a nutrient-dense masterpiece. This dish encompasses a rainbow of phytonutrients. Plus, who doesn’t love any opportunity to use Diane Sanfillipo’s Balanced Bites Seasoning? Libby says on her website, that it takes about an hour start to finish, but the majority of that time is spent waiting for the potatoes to cook in the oven. The actual hands-on time is more like 15-20 minutes.
2. Using a fork, stab the sweet potatoes all around several times and lightly rub with olive oil. Roast them directly on the top oven rack for 50-60 minutes, until very tender. A fork should go through very easily with no resistance. (place some foil on the bottom oven rack to catch any drippings.)
3.While the potatoes are cooking, melt some coconut oil or ghee in a large cast iron skillet. Add the onion and sauté them until they are mostly translucent.
4. Mix in the ground turkey, Italian seasoning, granulated garlic, salt, and pepper.
5. When the turkey is thoroughly cooked (no more pink), add in the zucchini and let cook for an additional 2-3 minutes.
6. While the turkey is cooking, put all of the ingredients for the Lemon Tahini Drizzle in the blender and mix completely. Add some warm water if necessary until a consistency that allows you to pour it out is reached.
7. Remove the potatoes from the oven, and carefully cut in half the long way. Leave the ends intact though. This creates a “potato boat” as Cal calls them in our house!
8. Gently push open the sides of the potato to make room for the stuffing. Be careful not to rip it open completely (not the end of the world if you do, it just wont look as pretty).
9. Place the turkey mixture inside the potato boat and top with a healthy amount of lemon tahini drizzle, pomegranate seeds and sunflower seeds.
Enjoy!
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About Brooke
BrookeLibby is a CPA turned NTP. She is a blogger, recipe creator and real food enthusiast. She is a mama to two young children and lives with her Lobsterman husband just outside of Portland Maine. Brooke found her calling into the nutrition world while struggling through infertility and her autoimmune skin condition, psoriasis. She used real food to heal gut and put her disease into remission. She now uses what she learned through the NTA education to help others find optimal health through nutrition.
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Join us for a Live Info Session on June 26 at 5 PM PST. One of our Senior Lead Instructors will go in-depth, discussing the differences between our programs. This is a great opportunity for you to get your questions answered!
How long have you worked for the NTA? What is your role?
I have worked with the NTA for almost 2 years now as an Associate Instructor and really enjoy my role in supporting our students!
What do you love about working for the NTA?
I love working with the NTA because I get to be a part of a movement that I feel so passionate about. I am honored to support and empower our students with knowledge and a clinical skillset, so they can in turn help others. Together, through this ripple effect, I believe we have the power to shift the direction of our current disease epidemic and ultimately – change the world.
Describe the NTA in three words?
Heart-led, Receptive,Growing
Describe yourself in three words
Proactive, Resilient, Curious
What do you love the most about our community?
I have never seen a more passionate group of individuals with such a wide diversity of backgrounds! Everyone brings such a unique perspective to the community and I love learning from all of you.
What is your favorite fat?
Avocados! They are so versatile, yet wonderful on their own. A little crack of sea salt and a spoon and you are well on your way to a perfect snack.
What is your least favorite food?
Eggplant – It is really the only vegetable I do not enjoy, for whatever reason is was just never my thing. Sure, you can deep fry it and cover it in cheese and it’s totally edible, but it is not something I will go out of my way to consume.
What’s your most used cookbook or recipe blog and why?
Honestly, I don’t really use cookbooks or recipe blogs. I tend to just make things up as I go. I was a chemistry minor in college and loved it, so these days I tend use my kitchen as my experimental “lab”. Somethings turn out great and others not so much, but it’s always fun to try.
What are you reading (or listening to) right now?
Brene Brown – Wow, that woman helps me navigate the world.
And my mom – always listen to your mom! 😉
Want to speak with an instructor?
Join us for a Live Info Session on June 26 at 5 PM PST. One of our Senior Lead Instructors will go in-depth, discussing the differences between our programs. This is a great opportunity for you to get your questions answered!
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