Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey in health and wellness but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Abbie Stasior, CEO of Be About Being Better, located in Nashville, TN, USA.

What's your business, and who are your customers?

Be About Being Better is a virtual health and life coaching company that helps busy, high-achieving individuals develop a sustainable healthy lifestyle to live a better, more vibrant life! More specifically, we help clients ditch dieting and cultivate a non-diet, intuitive eating approach in order to build a foundation for healthy living that they can actually maintain! Over the last 5 years, we've coached hundreds of people across five different continents on how to heal their relationship with food, improve body image, streamline routines, and find consistency which ultimately allows them to live a better, more successful life!

Tell us about yourself

I was always planning on going to medical school. I come from a very medical family. But after spending time in the medical field as a Medical Scribe, I realized I wanted to be more on the preventive side of a patient's health and wellness versus managing chronic diseases with medications and surgeries. So I decided to invest my savings into launching my business! I am motivated each day to keep growing my business and changing lives, even while in graduate school because I know what it is like to chronically diet. I know what it's like to have such poor body image and negative self-talk that it distracts you from your day, impacts your relationships, and holds you back from being successful. I want to help people heal from these things so they can free up that mental headspace, usually taken up by self-deprecating thoughts, to devote that to other areas of their life where they can move the needle and be more successful. I'm motivated because I've been where my clients are, so I get it. And I'm currently living a life and have a relationship with myself and food that they hope to have so that I can help them too!

What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?

Keeping up with my business while in graduate school at Columbia University and during my Dietetic Internship with Vanderbilt University Medical Center (I'm also working to become a Registered Dietitian!). It's not easy to keep up with basically two full-time jobs all these years, but it's only forced me to become a better business owner and learn how to hire, delegate, and systemize.

What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?

Managing a team. However, if you hire the right people and have a clear company vision/mission and people on your team that is crazy about serving that mission, you will do great.

What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?

  1. Hire slow, fire fast. We have a long, multiple-interview process to get hired at Be About Being Better, and this is intentional. We need to make sure that person is the right fit culturally in addition to them being able to do the job well. It's also important to treat your employees like your VIP clients. Make sure you give them coaching, compensate them well, and invest in their success.
  2. In business, it's less about what you do and more about how you feel. If you focus >50% of your time in business on catering to your energy state and taking care of yourself, you will not burn out, and you'll attract more abundance to your business. Find the fun! Play more!
  3. Invest in coaching and a mentor. People before you have figured so much stuff out; you do not need to reinvent the wheel. You also need to invest in your health and your own growth. You cannot take a client down a deeper transformation than you've gone yourself. So your growth and health are important for their success and the longevity of your business.

Where can people find you and your business?

Website: https://www.beaboutbeingbetter.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alstasior
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abbie.stasior/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@abbie.stasior
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbiestasior/

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