Uncover the smoke and mirrors in the business world 🤓
Lesli Bitel, MBA, RDN, LDN
Practice Building Expert & Consultant for Health Pros in Private Practice - helping you to get more clients, sell more programs and create a profitable functional nutrition practice with multiple streams of income.
A quick note before I hop on my 6-Figure Biz Academy skill-building call with the 2024-25 cohort of integrative practitioners! Since the Academy runs just once a year, I’ve had several inquiries about whether there’s still time to join. The answer is yes—but this is the final week to enroll before doors close until Winter 2026. If you decide to jump in now, I’ll personally ensure you’re caught up with today’s content so you’re ready to hit the ground running. If you’re considering whether this is the right next step on your entrepreneurial path, I’d love to set up a quick chat to help you decide. Click this link and you’ll be asked to fill out a short form so I can learn more about you and your practice goals before you pick a spot in my calendar for a no-obligation interview. Let’s make 2025 your best year yet with my proven system for creating multiple streams of income through programs, groups, online courses and more!
We’re enjoying our time in Salida, Colorado—there’s nothing like a high-altitude bike ride to really get the heart pumping! We managed a side trip to Albuquerque last weekend to see my son, John Michael, before he embarks on a month-long Pacific Ocean mission for work. It’s the first time we won’t have him home for Thanksgiving, so it was a meaningful visit.
This Week’s “Live With Lesli” Livestream Show
Thursday, October 31st @ 10:30am PST/ 1:30pm EST / facebook.com/CoachLesli/live OR on YouTube.
How to focus when you are a multi-passionate business owner
Are you a multi-passionate health professional juggling many ideas and finding it hard to focus?
Join Lesli and Michele McAlister from Bite by Byte Nutrition Consulting, where they’ll discuss how to channel your creativity and energy into actionable strategies that drive your business forward.
In this FB LIVE, you’ll learn:
Don’t miss this opportunity to gain clarity and focus in your multi-passionate journey!
About Michele McAlister:
Michele McAlister is a registered dietitian nutritionist, diabetes educator, and mind-body coach with over 33 years of experience. Based in Georgetown, TX, she has run her own virtual practice for the past six years, specializing in helping clients with diabetes, gut issues, and autoimmune diseases achieve optimal health through functional nutrition, mindful eating, and lifestyle changes. Michele has training in eating psychology and mind-body coaching from the Institute for Eating Psychology, and she is certified in diabetes education and weight management. Currently a student in the School of Applied Functional Medicine program, she is dedicated to continuous learning and supporting her clients on their health journeys.
Tune in Thursday, October 31st @ 10:30 am PT / 1:30 pm ET at Facebook.com/CoachLesli/live
Last chance to apply to the 6-Figure Biz Academy 2024!
I hope you won’t miss the ONE AND ONLY time I am offering this program for another full year.
If you’re ready to stretch past prior limitations, learn the cutting edge strategies that are working today – specifically -- and be hand-held in a community of incredible support, the Academy is for you!
Remember, if you apply, we’ll still get on the phone with you first and help you assess if this is the right program.
Every single person who has joined was interviewed to make sure they would be served in this program, and to answer all of their questions. It’s no risk to apply.
But perhaps it’s a big risk not to apply.
Tricks or Treats: Which Business Strategies are Just Smoke and Mirrors?
🤔 Ever felt misled by 'innovative' business strategies, unsure which ones truly work for your health and wellness practice?
Join me as we uncover the smoke and mirrors in the business world and reveal the genuine pathways to success.
In this video, you'll learn:
🧐 How to distinguish between passing fads and solid, time-tested business strategies.
🎯 The common pitfalls of flashy business trends and how to avoid them.
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💡 Time-honored methods that will elevate your health and wellness practice.
🤩 And more!
The Best Practices for Learning
I was listening to a podcast recently where author Tim Ferriss (The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body) was talking about all the best practices for learning.
According to Mr Ferriss, if you apply certain principles to the process of acquiring a new skill, you can make a quantum leap in how quickly and effectively you reach your goal.
He made a number of great points, but here are three that really stuck out for me:
✅ Simplify. Tim says you should try to focus on just one goal at a time. Saying yes to too many things is a problem. You must decide what the first, most important thing you must accomplish and then put your attention on that for a concentrated period of time. Do you need to learn to build your list? Create a group program? Get more clients? Pick the thing that will move you toward your goals most quickly and dive into that.
✅ Deconstruction. Most skills are overwhelming and in order to successfully acquire new ones quickly, you need to break them down into pieces, or steps. It’s much easier to follow a system than to randomly try to master something.
✅ Selection. He goes on to explain that discovering and selecting the most effective (and the fewest number) of those pieces or steps to concentrate on is essential. This is why learning from someone else – someone who has already done the “selecting” for you – is so important. That way you get to sidestep the trial and error phase (because they’ve done it for you) and greatly accelerate your success.
As I reviewed what I learned about learning, I realized exactly why I have always had a coach of my own and taken many courses, programs, and workshops.
It is so much less time-consuming and stressful to have someone help me simplify my choices, deconstruct the task into understandable pieces or steps, and allow me to learn from their trial and error so I can see results much faster.
Not only that, I know that all the time I have spent being mentored and taught has made me a better mentor myself!
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Client Spotlight
“I was floundering before working with Lesli”
Before I started working with Lesli I was floundering. I had so many ideas but no direction. I struggled with how to do what I had dreamed of – building my dream practice that was profitable and helping people. Lesli’s program was a richer experience and taught me so many valuable methods for reaching potential clients, setting my rates, building my program, and getting out of my own way.
I feel that Lesli’s problem-solving skills are amazing. When we had our live Q&A calls and she opened the floor up so we could ask for help, she didn’t have to get any books out or refer to anything because she worked through it with us on the spot. She always had great feedback, ideas, and suggestions for fixing the issue.
–Amanda Compton, FNTP WellnessWithAmandaK.com
About Lesli
Lesli is a Business Strategist and Coach for Integrative and Functional Nutrition professionals and RDNs. She teaches her clients to overcome the confusion and overwhelm associated with the business side of running a successful practice. Pulling from a variety of leading-edge strategies, Lesli teaches her clients the necessary tools and techniques to attract the clients who need them most. The end result is the creation of a thriving and profitable business.
Lesli offers private coaching, group programs, classes, webinars, workshops, and more from her home base where she lives near Lake Geneva, WI with her husband and their dogs, Rocky and Piper.
To learn more, please visit www.leslibitel.com or email me at lesli@leslibitel.com