EP.375: A New Chapter: What's Next for Me (and Maybe for You)

Speaker A: Foreign. Welcome to the Make More Money as a Dietitian podcast. I am your host, Christine Diane Thompson, and this podcast is for dietitians who are ready to stop apologizing for wanting more. More money, more freedom, and a career that actually honors everything that you bring to the table. This is where we ditch the guilt and start building something big. If that resonates with you, let's go ahead and get started with today's episode. Hey there, my friends. Welcome to episode 375 of, uh, the Make More Money as Dietitian podcast. I am so glad that you are here with me today. This is such a special and exciting episode, and I want to start off by saying, happy New year, friends. It's 2026, y'. All. Can you believe it? Who would have thought that this Gen X woman would be sitting here saying, It's 2026, when we, uh, were all worried about 1999 back in the day? Okay, if you know, you know, this is a crazy time we're living in, but I hope that you had a wonderful entry into this new year. I feel really grateful and blessed and all of the things in between, because y' all who the past couple of years for Christine has been, uh, quite the challenge. And that is literally putting it lightly. But here I am. I feel really good. I'm really excited to talk to you today on this final episode of the Make More Money as a Dietitian podcast. And if you are a regular listener and you listen to episode 374, um, where I was really expressing gratitude for the community of dietitians and gratitude for the work that I have been doing since 2019. You have probably been awaiting this episode. And I actually thought that I was going to record this episode, like, the day before my birthday, because my birthday fell on a Friday in December, and I said, oh, I'm just going to record it right before my birthday, uh, or publish it right before my birthday and have the rest of the year and be done. And it just didn't work out that way. Okay. Um, I wasn't really feeling it until now, and I'm really trusting this whole process of things and, um, recognizing that my energy is a lot different today than it would have been right before my birthday. Although I did have a wonderful birthday. Oh, my God, it was so good. But I digress. So welcome to 2026. Welcome to episode 375 of the podcast. If you've been with me since the beginning of this podcast, since those early days when I was just figuring out things Um, I want to thank you. Thank you for being here since the beginning. If you found me somewhere in the middle during your own moment of questioning whether you had to be more than this in order to make more money as a dietitian, um, I want to thank you for being here regardless. Um, but if you're just discovering us or discovering me now, as you may be contemplating your own career shift or how to make more money, I want to thank you for being here as well. And it's not a coincidence that you are landing here at this time. Regardless of if you have been an OG listener since 2019, January of 2019, or if you just got here on the last couple of episodes, I want to thank you for trusting me with your time, your attention, and your overall transformation. Because I know if you've been listening to any of the episodes here, you have gotten some little breakthrough or some transformation in your career as a dietitian. But this episode, my friends, is both an ending and a beginning, because I'm closing one chapter. Seven years since we're in January now. Seven years, 375 episodes. Countless conversations about money and worth and what it means to be a dietitian who refuses to settle. But I'm also opening a door to what's next. Okay, And I want to tell you where I'm going in case you may want to come, too. But first, let me tell you why this particular season is complete. Now, when I started this podcast Back in 2019, I was Crystal clear about my mission. Um, I was going to be the money mindset dietitian. I was providing all the tips on how to make more money in our profession. I was truly inspired and motivated to help dietitians see what their services, um, are truly worth and to charge what they deserve and to build practices that actually make real money. And over the span of the years, whether I worked with you through private coaching or in one of my programs, or even just here on the podcast, I feel like I did that for the past six, seven years. We talked about pricing strategies and money blocks and imposter syndrome, which was a big one, and all the beliefs that keep brilliant dietitians broke. We even challenged the narrative that dietitians can't make good money. We gave permission to want more, and we built businesses that broke six figures. So amazing. However, my friends, somewhere along the way, something started to shift within me. And I realized along the way that the women that I was attracting, the ones who resonated most deeply with my work, they were not just struggling with money. They were struggling with self trust, with knowing themselves and honoring what they actually wanted instead of what they thought they should want. And the money work was just the doorway, okay? It wasn't the actual final destination. So I kept noticing this pattern in my private coaching clients. They come to me wanting help with their businesses, of course, and, like, confidence to charge more and all of the things, how to get more clients, how to raise their rates, how to scale their businesses. But within the first few sessions, or maybe even the first few months, we'd end up talking about things like their marriage, their relationship with their parents, um, maybe even the dream that they left behind. In their 20s, the voice inside them just kept whispering that there has to be more than this. I actually even had a client tell me, there has got to be more than this. And I was like, yeah, it is now. The business coaching always felt like life coaching in disguise. And a few years ago, I decided to stop pretending that it wasn't. So I got certified as a life coach through the life coach school. Brooke Castillo was my mentor. It was amazing. And I got this certification not because I needed another credential, okay, Because I definitely don't. But I really felt that, um, I needed to acknowledge what was actually. What I was actually doing. I wasn't just teaching marketing tactics. I was helping women trust themselves enough to design lives that felt authentic and true to them and to leave what wasn't working, to claim what they actually wanted and to stop waiting for permission that was never going to come. Okay. And that's the work that truly lights me up now. Not the business strategy part of things, though I can certainly help with that. But it's the deeper part. The who am I becoming? Part, the what does my soul actually want? Part. The how do I trust myself enough to choose what I want over what is expected? Part. Okay? So I realize I don't want to be the money mindset dietitian anymore. I just want to be Christine. Christine Diane Thompson. Helping women create the lives that they truly want. Reminding them that their lives matter. Even when they're a wife, a mom, a daughter, um, an auntie, a co worker, a boss, okay? A business owner. Your life matters, okay? And when you, uh, truly embody that belief that you matter and that your priorities for your life are just as important, if not more than everyone else's around you, when you embody this, you truly start living. You will not need permission. You will be living the life that you really are meant to be living. You won't be resentful of your job. If you're still working a job, you won't be resentful of your private practice because it's taking up so much more of your time. You won't be resentful of your husband because he gets to go out and do all the things he enjoys doing while you're at home taking care of the house and the kids. You won't be resentful when you have to be the caretaker of elderly parents. You will have learned that your life matters. And when you learn that and you truly embody that, you make yourself a priority no matter what. Okay, I have to emphasize the no matter what part, my friends. So this is why this season is complete. The make more money as a dietitian and the money mindset. Dietitian season is complete. And it's not because the mission failed. It is because it actually succeeded. It brought me exactly where we need to be. And now it's time to fully step into what is next. Especially if. If this is resonating with you. Now, before I tell you exactly what. What is coming up, okay, I want to honor what these 375 episodes actually represents. Now, this podcast is a library. Going forward, it's not going anywhere. It's going to be a resource. And it will be a permission slip that will keep working long after this final episode airs. Because here's what I know, my friends. There's someone out there right now. There's a dietitian sitting in her car in the hospital parking lot crying because she can't do another day of clinical. And she's going to find episode whatever about being able to start her private practice and charge what her services are worth. And it's going to change her entire career. There's a student who is being told that he or she needs to do two years of clinical before starting, um, their business. And she's going to find an episode where I talk about that being complete baloney. Okay? And that is so important, because she's going to believe he or she is going to believe in what I'm saying and give her own self permission to do things differently. There's also a practitioner out there who's been undercharging, uh, for years, if not decades, apologizing for her rates and making her services accessible at the expense of her own financial stability. Hello. And she's going to find one of these episodes that I did on pricing, and something is going to click. So these episodes do not disappear just because I'm not recording new ones. They will continue working. They will Just be a living expression of what is important in this money mindset space in our unique profession, okay? They will continue giving permission. They will continue being the voice that says, yes, yes, yes, you can want more, you can charge what your services are worth, and yes, there is another way. And so that is the gift that I'm leaving behind for the dietitian community. But let me tell you what these episodes mean to me personally, okay? They are proof. They're proof that I showed up consistently for all these years through my own breakdowns, okay? My own breakthroughs through business ups and downs, through multiple, uh, family crisis and personal transformation. Proof that I figured it out along the way. Proof that you don't have to have it all together to help people, okay? You just have to be willing to grow in public, which can be a little much sometimes. M. So every single one of you who has ever sent me a message saying, this episode came exactly when I needed it. Um, or some iteration of that, man, you're a part of this legacy, too. Every client who has hired me because something I said on the podcast resonated, you are a part of this legacy, too. And every woman who gave herself permission to want more because I gave my permission first, you are a part of this legacy. 2. We, my friends, did this together. This was not me teaching from some elevated place of just having it all figured out, all right? This was me learning alongside you, making a few mistakes, sharing what worked, being honest about what didn't, and trusting that honesty would serve more than. Than perfection ever could. So, my friends, these 375 episodes are a time capsule. They're proof that transformation is possible. They're evidence that a dietitian from Chi Town, with the podcast and a dream, actually can build something that matters. All right? And they're yours now to revisit over and over to share with other dietitians to use whenever you need a reminder that you get to decide what your career looks like. All right, so what's next? Where am I going? I. My friends, I'm stepping, uh, fully into the work that I've been doing quietly for the past several years. Um, the work that happens right here sometimes in my home here in Chicago, where I guide women through deep inner work that changes everything. Okay? So I'm no longer positioning myself as a business coach for dietitian dietitians. I'm a life coach. I'm a speaker, I am an author because I'm three quarters of my way through a book entitled Before Everyone Else. All right? And so I Am a coach that is going to be helping you if this resonates with you and many other people. Build self trust. Trusting yourself enough not just to make more money as a dietitian, but trusting yourself to make the decisions for your life, uh, that will make your life more fulfilling. Because it was so weird how in my sessions with my clients, that would always come up. It was the common thread in every single coaching client that I had. The life stuff. It's just like when we work with our clients, um, as a traditional dietitian. And I don't know about you, but have you ever sat in sessions with your clients and, you know, it's not just about the food and it's not just about the exercise. And then they start talking about all these different things and you're realizing, oh, my God, I'm not a therapist and luckily I'm a life coach, so I can hold space for some of the things. Okay. But I want you to know that this work going forward, some of the people that I work with will, uh, will still be dietitians. Maybe many will be, but there are going to be many that are not. And that's the point, my friends. This message is bigger than one profession. Okay? Because the message is, if I, if I had to simplify it, the message is, your life matters, too, before everyone else. Uh, all right. Before everyone else, your life matters too. So the work that I'll be doing going forward focuses on peace and purpose and alignment. And it's for women who really maybe even have achieved what they thought they wanted and realized that there's something deeper calling them. But this is the work, my friends. I am going to continue to write my book entitled Before Everyone Else. I'm going to continue speaking and creating a new podcast, which will likely be entitled Before Everyone Else. And I'm going to be doing all of this under my own name. Writing, speaking, life coaching under my own name. I've already changed my name on Instagram, but it's not a brand. I'm just being me. And I want to help more women like me prioritize her needs. First. I cannot tell you the number of women that I have been speaking to over the past couple of years who have. And these are not dietitians, by the way, but I have been speaking with women and coaching them over the past couple of years, and there's a very common thing that they share, and the common thing that they share with me about why they can't move forward is because they didn't think that they could give themselves permission. I had one woman tell me that she didn't even consider that she can put her needs before her husband. My mind was blown. So I'm going to do this work. I am just as passionate, if not more, about this work, because enough is enough. That's, like, how I felt when I started, um, the, uh, money mindset dietitian brand. I was like, enough is enough with the. The dietitians not making more money and thinking that they have to wait on the academy for all the things. And good golly, I feel the same way about this. Oh, my God. Enough is enough with us women putting everyone's needs before our own. It doesn't matter if you have children. That's the big one, you know? And I have three sons, so I know. And I also know the detriment that it causes on a woman, on a woman's mental and physical health when she continues to just prioritize everyone else and just take the crumbs. I know. I know personally. So I'm not just talking about theory, and I'm not just standing on this high horse thinking, oh, you need to prioritize yourself, girl, because I got it all together. No, Christine has been through all the things, plus some, um, okay. Plus tax. All right, So I hope if this resonates with you, that you will stay connected and I shall let you know when the new podcast goes live. I am working on it right now, but I'm taking it slowly at my own pace. So if you want to stay informed about when my new website goes live, when the podcast launches, and all of the things, I want you to head over to, um, ManipuraCenter co. If it's not ManipuraCenter co, actually, I let my website go. I will put a link in the show notes, my friends, if you want to, um, stay connected. I do have a coming soon landing page that I think you would love to fill out because, let's see, is it live? Yes, it is. So you can go to ManapuraCenter Co and it'll take you directly to the landing, uh page where there's a coming soon announcement. A new chapter is unfolding. It says, and stay connected to be the first to know when the next expression of my work goes live. Okay. So you can fill out the form with just your first name and your email address. Um, and I will let you know personally when everything goes live. I would love to have you join me, but if this isn't your thing, that's fine, too. Stay connected to this podcast. Listen to the Episodes more than once. There's 375 of them. Okay. And share them with other dietitians that, you know, need to hear this message about money and mindset and charging what your services, uh, are worth. All right, my friends, I think that is all that I have for you. I have some notes here. Let me make sure that I've told you all of the things I really feel that I did. I feel complete. So here we are, my friends, episode 375. The last one. And you know by now, with all my rambling, that this is not goodbye. It is just a graceful handoff. I'm handing you these episodes and this library of permission and possibility and trusting that they'll keep working through you and that you'll listen when you need to, that you'll share them with someone else who needs to hear them. Um, that you'll let them be the permission slip that they were meant to be. And I'm going to step into what's next with the same trust that I've been teaching all along. And I'm going to trust that the path reveals itself as I walk it, and I want you to do the same. Trust that you don't have to have it all figured out. And trust that what's calling you forward is worth following. The work, my friends, that we began together, the work of, um, claiming your worth and trusting your voice and designing a career that feels really good to you. That work does not end because this podcast has its final episode. It just evolves, okay? And it deepens and it becomes less about tactics and more about the truth. So if you want to continue on with me, go ahead to the link in, uh, the show notes of this podcast episode. Or you can just head over to ManapuraCenter, uh, co and fill out the form on the landing page. And you will definitely be first in line to be informed of all the things. Okay. Different container, same heart, deeper work. Thank you so much for being a part of this money mindset movement. Thank you for trusting me with your time, your growth, your energy. Um, and just thank you for letting me be imperfect, yet still valuable. I want to thank you for showing up episode after episode, ready to do the work. And if I've never told you this, I want to say it today. You, my friends, you have changed my life, and I hope that I've changed yours, too. Until we meet again, my friend. Keep trusting your worth and trusting your voice. Keep trusting the timing of things in your life and in your career. And most of all, keep trusting the whisper that says that you were made for more. This is Christine Diane Thompson signing off from make more money as a dietitian for the final time. But I'm not signing off from you with so much love and gratitude. Bye for now. Hey there, my friend. If something in today's episode hit different, I'd love that for you. This week, I invite you to take one action that feels a little scary, yet honors your work. And for more resources and ways to work together, head on over to ManapuraCenter. CO. Remember, you're not asking for too much, my friend. You've just been settling for too little. Sam.