Episode 139: What Your Dietitian Niche Says About You

Season 8

May 15

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In this episode of The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, Emily and Hannah chat about what your dietitian niche says about to you. On a lighter note, the girls wanted to talk about some fun, very unserious topics like clinical dietitian personality types or what being a podcaster says about you (we do analyze ourselves ofc). From social media dietitians to dietitian meme accounts, they talk about all things dietitians and more. This is all in good fun! This is purely speculation and there is no science backing up any of our claims. Tune in for all the fun!

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0:08
Hello everybody, Welcome back to a brand new episode of the Upbeat Dietitians podcast.

Hello everyone.

Today we are bringing a much more low key and fun vibe to the podcast.

Today we're going to be talking about what your dietitian niche says about you, some good old personality evaluating and speculating.

0:30
We're going to talk about different areas of dietitian or different areas of like dietetics.

And then also like from a content creation side, I feel like this will be fun, like what you specialize in, what that might say about you and what you might thrive doing.

0:47
And then of course we'll have to do some deep dives into our own situations and what that actually says about us.

I'm excited.

So we just like 2 silly little dietitians talking about whatever with literally no data to back this up.

1:04
It's just us being goofy little girls.

Yep, a nice change of pace from the whirlwind that this season has been so far.

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1:20
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1:44
It's a lot less stressful, so.

Probably always just two girls being goofy.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, let's get insighted.

OK, let's talk about the niches first.

So like when you hear dietitian, what are the different jobs that someone could be doing?

2:02
Yes.

So remember when we made a an I'm already during we made an episode that was like, you're a dietitian?

Now what?

Episode two or something or three.

A nice little.

Little shout out to that episode.

2:18
Are we talking about different areas of dietetics you can go into?

But now we're gonna be talking about what that says about you, so a little bit more fun.

But the main areas we're gonna be talking about, these are pretty broad.

There's a lot you can do within all of these, but we're gonna probably keep them pretty broad 'cause we'd be here forever.

2:36
There is clinical, which is like think like hospitals, think outpatient, inpatient, a lot more feeds, tube feeds, stuff like that.

There's food service and this can be from like restaurants to working on menus to like cafeterias to being a kitchen manager.

2:57
And then there's social media, which there's so much that can be with that, just like an influencer status or managing someone's social media or being a media spokesperson, virtual assistant.

Mm hmm.

And then community probably the one that's talked about I think the least, where we think like our nice WIC dietitian, shout out to them, love the work they're doing, working with kind of more like community events.

3:26
And like typically this I see in like more like lower income areas, just talking about like food accessibility, stuff like that, a very underrated side of dietetetics.

I didn't know anything about it until I did it during my internship and it ended up being my favorite rotation.

3:42
What was your favorite rotation?

I don't know if we've talked about this before, I think.

I liked food service, but that's because that's because I work with like, amazing people.

And.

Like, it made the like, very mundane, like work, very fun.

4:03
Like they had me, like trying like the head chef was like teaching me things.

I was working in the cafe, I was doing all these fun little things and I got to eat a lot.

So, like, it wasn't that bad.

I think I would have made like the Sports nutrition one a little bit better, but that was in Peak COVID, so it was all virtual and it wasn't really real.

4:26
Yep, same for me.

I was supposed to do my, like, selective one with a sports dietitian.

And then COVID happened, which we talked about.

We discussed that on episode.

We could link that below.

So yeah, like I almost said, with each of these different niches, there's like a ton of different, like even more niche down things you could be doing.

4:49
I was Googling when working on this outline and this dietitian Blogger made a post about like 101 niches you could do as a dietitian.

And that wasn't even like all of them.

That was just like, Oh my gosh, that's still a lot though.

It's like, yeah, I mean, there's PCOS talked about with Sam recently, I mean.

5:09
Like literally any disease.

Any disease or critical condition, yeah.

And then you can like go even further and do like just women, just men.

You could do like certain ethnicities of people, like you can literally go so niche.

And I think that depends on the type of work you do.

5:27
Like for us, being content creators, it is important for us to niche down pretty far.

But if you're like working a private practice, brick and mortar, you don't want to get so niche that you have like 2 clients in your area.

5:44
So it depends on where you work.

Yeah, definitely have to adjust it to your situation, but let's get into the first one.

And this is all speculating like nothing is.

So if you, if your niche is clinical, you're a clinical dietitian.

6:05
I think you're someone that is very like.

It's known that a lot of dietitians are pretty type A, but I think you're incredibly Type A maybe to a fault if you are a clinical dietitian.

I think you really enjoy science and you really enjoy puzzles and challenges and seeing like different things and trying to keep like to have different things going on every day depending on the setting.

6:34
I'm going to say you're I'm, I'm thinking like strengths and weaknesses.

My weakness I think is 1 the like Type A to a fault and then two.

I think maybe you have a little bit of a superiority complex.

6:50
Oh, for sure.

That's a good one.

Because you're a clinical dietitian and you're oh so smart, you get 20 lab coat, I'm partially A clinical dietitian.

So we're we're we are saying these about ourselves as well.

Yep, Yep.

7:07
But we're just speculating.

It's all good fun.

I think you also have to you either get like really pissed off when someone calls you dietary or you're like, so chill that you're like, whatever.

I hear it every day, kind of person, which I'm still getting grumpy about it.

7:25
Same, same.

I probably still get grumpy about the misspelling of dietitian, to be honest.

Like, not as much as we were in our episode 2, but it's still a little like it's 2024 and we're spelling dietitian wrong.

Like.

7:40
Especially on, like, social media, which I know is not our niche right now, but it's in my name.

My username is Dietitian Hannah.

It's right there.

Like when you're going to comment back to me and spell it wrong to make a photo of dietitians at least like act like you know what you're talking about.

7:57
Yeah.

But anyway, we'll get to the social media side in a minute.

But yeah, I agree with all of your personality assessments of a clinical dietitian.

I think there is a big difference though between inpatient versus outpatient.

Personality wise, I think the inpatient ones are the ones who are more of that superiority complex, very sciency, very smart lab, coat carrier laptop around kind of gal.

8:23
The outpatient is a little bit more type B, but as someone who works partially an outpatient, I am not a type B personality.

So it does not apply to all, but I think it does allow those who are a little bit more free spirited to work clinically work in a hospital setting but not have to be so type A by the book.

8:48
Yeah, definitely a big difference there in the outpatient, inpatient.

I couldn't go back to Inpatient.

I think about all the time about my rejections from hospitals that you you know about.

And I'm so thankful every day that I did not get a hospital job.

9:06
Yeah.

Yes, that's and I know there are people in the hospital that love their job dietitians.

I love working in the hospitals.

But I just, I'm like it's it's so much and it doesn't sound fun or relaxing.

9:25
No, I don't know.

I one thing I would like about it, which is we can get to later too when talking about like us specifically in our personalities, working outpatient.

It's a lot of a course like face to face work, which I love meeting people, but my personality is just like I'm so introverted and it's it's exhausting working with patients all day long.

9:50
So I think that would be one thing I like about inpatient is that you don't have to visit every single person and when you do they usually don't want to be talking to you.

So it's a lot.

Quicker, like complaining about the food and you're like, OK, I'm done.

That's part of it too.

10:05
I think.

Personality wise, inpatient.

You have to be OK with rejection because.

You'll get a lot of that.

Most of them don't want to see you, unfortunately, but also like I feel for them, like you're in a hospital, you're probably.

I'd be annoyed.

10:22
I'd be like, don't talk to me about what I want to eat right now.

Exactly.

I'm just trying to survive.

Yeah, exactly that.

OK, should go into food service.

Let's go into food service.

As someone who worked a long time in food service, not as a dietitian, but there, there is a type of personality who works in food service.

10:44
So yeah, with food service you can do it like in a hospital setting, like when I was interning and doing my food service rotation, there was a dietitian who like ran the kitchen basically.

And depending on the hospital and like that, how big it is.

If it's like a Community Hospital or like a bigger 1, the dietitian might play a role in like like scheduling of the employees, ordering food.

11:08
Sometimes though they have like a different person doing that.

It's it's like that's their sole job is like that kind of thing.

Or outside of a hospital you could do like a school and then like Ellie mentioned too, like restaurants, that sort of thing.

But I think with food service, you are much more outgoing and like a people person than a clinical dietitian is because you're like talking to your Co workers all day, likely communicating with either like patients or customers.

11:38
I think you really have to, I think it's a very different person than clinical.

I don't think those two are anything alike.

No, no.

I also think food service, they're like naturally very creative people, 'cause all food has a lot of menu planning and people don't like repetitions, so you really have to think of something original and fun and keep keep people on their toes.

12:05
So I think that aspect, which is very like a little bit more like freeze, I'm like thinking freestyling, They're like freestyle in the venue, just like a little bit more like free spirited, not as like rigid.

12:21
I see as like a clinical dietitian like kind of going to be pretty.

'Cause like you're not going to get a shipment of your pineapples that day and you have to, like, figure out what to do instead, Or one of the cooks is going to call off and you have to figure out how to fill their spot.

12:36
So you have to be a lot more flexible than someone in clinical maybe has to on a day-to-day basis?

Yeah, a lot more chill, yeah.

Which I don't know if I had to pick one over the other.

I don't know.

12:52
I like food service a lot, but I don't think I would like it from like managerial standpoint.

I am, as we know, I am not a manager.

I don't like being directed mean to people and making the rules.

I'm a rule follower, not a rule maker.

13:10
So I think I have to choose clinical, I don't know.

What do you think?

I see food service as more stressful than clinical.

Say.

For some reason, I don't know why, but I feel like clinical like when it's stressful, like a patient is not doing well and we have to do something and typically the dietitians aren't involved.

13:32
Maybe that's why it's not as stressful where it's like.

We're not like it's an.

Emergency.

We are not in the front lines, but if there's a food service emergency, I feel like a lot of that probably weighs on the dietitian, so maybe it's just a reflection of not working well under pressure.

13:50
Yeah.

I think clinical is more like mind stress and food service is more like in the thick of it like busting your butt all day kind of thing.

But clinical is just like your brain is working 24/7.

Yeah, different type of stressors.

14:07
Should we do community and then social media and then like go into the other parts of it?

OK, so community, I mean to give my own experience of that.

So it can be very different.

It can be like a Wick.

It can be like for mine, I was doing a lot of, oh, it's called Veggie RX is the program of what they do where I live.

14:29
But we basically give like farmers market vouchers to those who can't afford fresh fruits and veggies and they would like host this farmers market.

So it could be that kind of stuff.

It could be going to community hospitals and doing work there, like running events and health fairs, that sort of thing.

14:48
This person is very like down to earth friendly, wants to like really connect with people and make a difference.

They're the person who went into dietetics because they want to help people, which all of us do to a degree, but this person like.

Like genuinely is to their heart.

15:06
They still want to be doing that.

A nice person, something I also think of.

And maybe this is bad, but I think of how poorly paid community dietitians are.

So that's why I also think, like, if you're a community dietitian, you love what you do.

15:26
It's not just for the money.

It's not just for the money.

Or maybe it's like your first job.

Maybe it's your first job.

You couldn't get anything else.

It's one or the other.

But this person just so kind and genuinely there for the people.

And I think there's also that creative aspect where it's like helping people like learn how to navigate nutrition with limited accessibilities to resources.

15:52
Yeah, this person's really, really good at taking like all the smart seed dietitian stuff and like really bringing it down to the level that anyone can understand.

That's like a gift.

Like being able to translate nutrition science into really easy to understand concepts and like make it fun and engaging too with like cooking, demos, presentations, that sort of thing.

16:13
So this person's really good at they.

They could also be probably like an elementary school teacher in another life if they weren't.

Oh yeah, that is the equivalent.

I'm trying to think of flaws of community.

Maybe you're sorry?

16:29
Yeah.

They're the nice people.

We're not good enough for community dietitians.

No, but bless their hearts, I love all community dietitians.

Let's do social media.

I feel like this is going to be like.

I feel like there's not a certain type because, and I'm only basing this off of our guests.

16:49
True.

Which I so initially my thoughts for social media dietitian, very extroverted, very like outspoken, super creative, Canva girly.

They are very technologically savvy.

17:11
They are chronically online to stay up to know on everything going on.

And I think they're just really good at being personable through a screen, which I think is really challenging to do.

When you cannot gauge your audience, you're talking at something that gives you no feedback.

17:29
True.

That's a good point.

I say this, but then we've had a lot of guests on our podcast, as you guys know and like there we've had like some pretty big name people come on and I feel like I always perceive them as very outgoing.

17:47
But then when we talk to them, they're like, so I feel like almost like quiet.

And it may be it's because, like it's our first time meeting them or like they're nervous about being on the podcast, but they seemed just not like very much more introverted.

18:03
And it's not to say like you can't be introverted because social media, but I feel like when I look at a lot of their social medias, it seems that way where they're just like, so like reaching out to the people and whatnot.

So that's very interesting to me.

Goes to show social media is not always what you think it is, as we tell you.

18:24
I think of like myself, like I am not extroverted.

I do social media because I get to like, do it in my corner of my room with like a hood over my head and it's like ghee and a hot tea and like no one actually is talking to me.

Yeah.

18:40
There's other reasons too.

I like it as we'll get to, but I I agree.

I think at first your first thought would be at someone who's very good at talking to people and putting themselves out there.

But I think a big reason why a lot of us also go into it is because it's a way for us to not talk to people as much.

18:58
Yeah, no, yeah.

I've seen like, big Youtubers get like seen in public and they're so shy.

That'd be me.

And people talk about how introvert they are.

I'm like, I feel like it is so much easier than to talk to.

19:14
Just like, it's a lot easier when you don't really have to, like be actively listening or actively there as much.

You're just talking at a recording device.

Exactly.

Or we think about like the blogging social media dietitians.

Like that's the they don't.

19:31
Want.

To talk to anyone.

Not even a camera.

You just are like typing.

Yeah, you can work full hermit rat.

That is my ultimate goal.

I would love, I do love, like making the podcast in YouTube and that kind of stuff actually.

So I don't think I'll ever stop doing that, but I would love.

19:48
The blog was like my main thing.

Just click clack it all day on my computer.

Oh.

Yeah.

And it's so helpful.

It's free to people.

You can still build a community that way, like in the comments and like wherever you like talk about your blog, like a Facebook group or whatever.

20:07
So you still get that community building, which is a a big reason to do social media too.

You feel like you're like making a difference, but you also get to be just a little hermit, which I love.

Yeah, yeah.

I could literally, I could probably go weeks without talking to anybody and I'd be OK.

20:29
I would not be impacted by that negatively in any way.

Yeah, you would thrive.

I'd like blogging.

I think so too, and I'd like to write so follow me on my blog because I'm.

Following this blog so she can be a hermit in type of way for a living.

20:47
I'll still be here.

You'll see my face on the podcast and on my YouTube.

But what if that was it?

That could be it.

Your three check insurance of the week, although that's still a decent amount, I feel like it's like on YouTube people like maybe post like once a week like so three times a week is pretty generous for you already.

21:08
You're welcome.

Yeah, let's go into the content styles.

I'm really excited for this.

This is probably more social media focused, but like, this is something that I just feel like there's so many different dietitians out there and it says a lot about you based off of what your main form of content is.

21:27
So the first one we have is cooking videos.

My mind, this person one loves to cook.

They love to cook.

They love to eat.

They love to try new things.

Not, I mean not try new things, but they love to share what they enjoy with others depending on the video.

21:49
I feel like they don't want to really 'cause that much.

Like controversy.

Controversy despite the fact recipe videos I hate all the time, which blows my mind.

I'm like people are so bored.

22:05
Insane.

Those are my that's insane.

Like, why did you use the pink frosting instead of the blue on that cupcake?

Yeah, or like I'm allergic to pineapples.

Can you make an alternative for your upside down pineapple cake?

It's like, why?

22:25
But I feel like it's like I also see cooking video people as introverts.

They don't show their face unless they want to show their.

Something to do, but I feel like often times.

Just hands.

Yeah, minimal interaction.

22:41
And it's something you have.

You have to eat, so.

I think if I was a better cook, I would totally do that.

That'd be that'd be a nice way to just like, again, you could like be a hermit in the background.

You don't have to get dressed that day, just your hands are looking good on camera.

Yeah.

Could be nice.

22:58
You have to have good like video and editing skills for this because it's a very saturated market.

People are really good at it.

So you got to stand out in that way for sure.

Yes.

So I think you're, yeah, you're very creative.

23:14
I think all of these are, if you're in social media, you got to be creative.

But this one, especially like you got to really, I think you have to have like again, like photography, videography, like those skills that maybe you don't as much for like blogging and that kind of stuff, podcasting even.

23:31
Yeah, and you're normally on now like a a time restraint.

These people's attention spans are so short, but you still you have to give enough that they know how to make it, but not too much that they get bored.

It's a very a tricky science.

23:47
Yeah, so if you don't give them enough, if you like, just show the food and don't give enough breakdown of how to do it, they're going to complain.

Where's the recipe?

How do I do this?

Was that 1/2 cup or 1/4 cup?

You gotta find that perfect perfect spot.

The pacing of it is, yeah, challenging, yeah.

24:07
As someone who does cooking videos yourself, I don't know, do you feel like, How do you feel about that?

So I feel like I don't fit this because I don't really like cooking, I.

Just.

A mistake on my part.

24:22
I feel like it was like I was trying to learn, I was just trying new to content and it ended up doing like pretty decently for the time being.

But then it became dinner would take like now like a third of the time longer because I'm setting up everything.

24:39
I'm moving the camera, I'm moving the tripods and that time point I'm getting hangry.

I think I would.

I think I could get back into cooking videos like that if I didn't work in nine to five I.

Was just thinking if that was like your job was like during the day you're making cooking videos, that'd be awesome, but you're just like recording the meals you're actually eating and.

25:00
You're like tired after the full day you.

That's not something I want to do, hence why it's died off quite a bit.

But I do some long form cooking videos, so those are there.

But you have to listen to my commentary a little bit.

I like to talk a lot.

25:17
That's the beauty of YouTube long form.

You get to like, really show your real self there.

Yes.

I'm trying.

To think of flaws, what are some flaws of cooking video people?

Oh.

I'm trying to think of flaws of all of these.

25:32
Flaws.

Hmm.

I was gonna say they're like, full themselves, but they're not.

That's not true.

I don't feel that way.

Well, maybe, depending on the cooking person, there are some cooking accounts.

This is not dietitian specifically, but there are some cooking accounts.

25:49
The spicy dudes who are always like sexualizing everything.

I'm like can we stop violating the food please.

And what makes me so mad is their lighting and their production is so good.

I'm.

What a waste.

Like you're putting all of this effort into something so uncomfortable and people watch it cause like one the three does look good, and like they're intentionally initiating a reaction out of you.

26:17
But I'm like, you could make such good content if you weren't feeling up your food.

I hate those.

Same, I will note that there are some people who give off like weird elitism vibes with their cooking and I'm like as soon as I I don't see a lot of them, but as soon as I see them I'm like swipe away.

26:41
Well, of course there is too, like the diet culture E Wellness culture E cooking too.

And we obviously don't love that.

No, but from a dietitian side, I haven't really seen any cooking ones that I don't like their energy.

No, I love following the cooking dietitians, 'cause they give me good ideas, things I just don't think of.

27:02
I don't know.

I can't think of any other flaws.

I can't cooking video dietitians.

They're the best.

They're already the top team.

They're so neutral.

Like when it comes to social media, you have to have some sort of controversy as we'll talk about probably with us more.

27:19
Obviously you guys know that we're very controversial.

We don't think we are, but the other thinks we are.

We, yeah.

And cooking videos end up being controversial because the comments are stupid, but I feel like those are the people who are just trying not to be.

27:35
They're just like here to share what they know and be like, OK, that take it or leave it, yeah.

Exactly.

OK, I'm glad you included this next one.

I would not have not thought of this as a niche, but it is.

I love that.

OK, so the next one is dietitian humor.

27:51
I guess this would probably go with the next one too.

Like memes, memes, and humor.

I love following its accounts, and I love reposting dietitian memes.

These people are so funny.

Like, these people are probably like creative glass clowns.

They're so creative.

I love when they, like, make it kind of clinical.

28:08
So it's like, you have to be a dietitian and know it.

I'm like, they're so smart.

Uh huh.

And they're just so funny.

Yeah, my brain doesn't work that way.

I I can't make memes.

I'm not a meme person.

No, no.

28:25
I think I made one or two memes at the beginning of my Instagram career, and then I was like, all right, that's enough of that.

We had our fun.

As someone who loves puns, I'm surprised I don't like making these, but I don't know.

I just.

I'm not funny enough for that.

28:40
I have a different kind of humor, I think.

You have to have a very like majority of the people will like this type of humor.

Yeah, you would have a very specific set of people on your meme page.

28:57
Not that this would be.

Really.

No, no, no.

You'd be really good at, like, pop culture knowledge too, which I'm not the.

Best.

Another chronically in line.

Uh, huh.

Position memes.

Also Canva, Girly, Probably.

29:12
Total Canva, Girly, Really.

All social media platforms too.

Like just being good at like finding the blank template and turning it into whatever you want.

Like you have to know how to navigate just the Internet in general to make a meme sometimes.

Yeah.

I love these people.

29:28
I you want them as a friend.

They're just like fun.

Yeah, probably the extroverts.

Like you said, class clown.

We are not these people, but I really like them and I kind of wish I was one.

I wish I was as funny as them 'cause they're so funny, but.

29:47
Flaws.

I feel like they know they're funny, yeah.

They're a little bit.

They might need to be humbled.

They're like, know your worth girl?

Like that's great.

Yeah, yeah.

They are the ones who definitely they could be put in their place sometimes.

30:04
Yeah, yeah.

Let's go next to.

One more thing, I feel like they would also be someone who would get very upset if you didn't laugh at their joke, which I can relate to that.

So they like they, their perception of how the day is going is based on if you think they're funny or not.

30:26
So they're very easily, they're very easily impacted by what others think of them.

A people pleaser, potentially.

Potentially.

I think of like, Chandler being on friends, like he makes friends and like gets that situation by being funny.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's how I cope.

30:42
That's their flaws.

One of their main personalities, traits is being funny and they don't know what they are.

With that, we're really deep diving into.

Look at us getting all therapy.

Just making all these silly little dietitians.

I know if you guys listen to this and you are a meme content creator and you're like, that's not true of me at all, that's OK.

31:03
Yeah, this is all speculation.

Yeah, we're literally making this shit up.

Yeah.

OK.

Yeah.

Let's move on to the next one.

Myth debunking dietitians.

I feel like these are the people that go through the trenches the most 'cause they're never right.

31:20
This is probably us, and these are the people that like, are not afraid to shy wave from some controversy.

And most oftentimes, if you're myth debunking, you're saying someone is wrong, which just naturally creates a lot of conflict.

31:38
I think you have to have, I think, myth debunking.

Dietitians have pretty tough skin because especially in the nutrition world, everyone has their opinions.

And if you're debunking myths, they're going to be the people that believe the myths that are on that side.

31:56
I think of flaw.

I'm going right into flaws.

A myth debunking is potentially being a little bit too scientific or forgetting that people don't have our background.

And I'm not just saying this for us, but I think there's a lot of miss debunking dietitians out there.

32:16
And I think sometimes things that we know aren't always communicated, like we think it's like common sense, but it's not.

So sometimes the point gets missed.

I know we struggle with that.

We've gotten better on the podcast, but we like assume that everyone just knows what we know.

32:35
That's not the case.

Yeah.

Yeah, I sometimes wonder how I do fit into this content style and why I got into this tying it into the Enneagram right away as an Enneagram 9 who hates conflict and I want everyone so.

32:53
Interesting to me.

But I'm also someone I'm kind of a smart ass, and I like, want people to think of me as like a smart know it all too.

So it's a very conflicting internal battle at all times.

Yeah, like, I want everyone to be happy, but also I want to fight you also.

33:13
That's my Enneagram.

It's my eight wing coming out, I think.

There we go, Yeah.

It's very interesting.

I like I for you.

I could totally see you being like in this realm.

Like, you know what?

I enjoy conflict.

I often seek it out, but that's what's so interesting to me is like, you post so much myth debunking and it's very much like you just want but you also want everyone to be happy, but then it's like.

33:45
I think it's like a sense of justice, like because I want the world to be right.

I feel like by debunking terrible nutrition myths, that's my way of helping with that, but like helping others know what is right.

Yeah.

And so the unfortunate side effect is that I'm going to make enemies along the way, which I don't love.

34:05
I'm getting used to and coming to terms with it, but I think that's probably what it is, actually.

Now that I think about it, it's like my way of eventually, hopefully, reducing conflict by debunking these myths.

Does that make sense?

34:20
I think so.

Your end goal is just being happy.

Yeah, even though it's not going to happen because social media, but.

No, you're fighting the good fight, yeah.

I just realized that very interesting, a lot of self reflection happening as always.

34:38
There we go.

Oh man.

OK, the next one is skits.

I definitely have dabbled in this.

That's actually my very first viral video was this, Yeah.

Oh my gosh, that's how I like got a.

Lot of my followers, yeah.

Which, if you're one of those people from my very first skit, God bless you.

35:00
Yeah, thank you for hanging around, 'cause I am very different than I was back then.

Skits.

This person has, you know, that acting.

I don't wanna say background, 'cause I obviously did not.

But like that, I don't know.

There's something in that likes to like, act and, like, be a different person.

35:19
I think they're also very funny.

They could go along probably really well with the mean people.

I think those two groups of people are very similar.

That Venn diagram is a circle, as the kids say.

I think again, they're all creative, but this person has a different kind of creativity where they can like educate by like making up scenarios.

35:42
I don't know.

You have to be a very creative person to know how to like, translate that, I think.

I was gonna say, I feel like they're like a natural, like storyteller.

Like that's what they're like.

Strength is like showcasing what they're trying to say.

But like, their way of doing it is like demonstrating and explaining it, which like is a very creative, very different creative branch.

36:09
I I think it's a great way to learn is like by like watching something that's so engaging, it'll like make you remember it versus just like watching me on a video talking about like what amino acids are or whatever.

Yeah, if you like, turn it into a skit.

36:26
It's way more educational in a way that will hopefully stick.

I think a flaw would be just like any actor.

Their flaw would be is that you never really know what you're going to get.

Like are they really showing their true self or are they like?

Making up a character.

36:42
Are they doing a bit right now?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Who are they?

And I mean from their own point of view too, they probably don't really know who they really are like to their core, they have a hard time connecting with that person because they are always playing different people.

36:57
So it's probably very challenging for them to know who that true dietitian is.

Give some deep reflection, Yeah.

To who are they?

This is such a silly episode.

I love it.

Like what are they talking about?

37:17
Especially if they're not a dietitian or like a student listening to this.

Or be like what?

What is this?

Oh.

The versatility you get here.

Yeah, OK.

Our final content style, although there probably is so many more, I guess like even like Youtubers would be one too.

37:38
And we haven't even talked to you about Youtubers.

Yeah.

Well, I'm going to add them because they're definitely a big niche and also we're included in that, so you can talk about yours.

Oh yeah.

Oh my God.

We're podcasters.

OK, let's actually go back to blogs first though, so we've kind of already hinted, but this is, I think this is me.

37:57
Like this is what my my identity wants to be, is the blogging dietitian.

I think you're an Enneagram blog.

That's yours.

Yeah.

We're creating different personality traits.

This person is.

This is who you are.

38:13
This is me.

This is me.

Yeah, this is me.

I could totally see myself doing this the whole time.

So this person has sweatpants in every color.

They only wear athleisure wear.

They got so many coffee mugs.

They definitely have like a water bottle.

38:29
They carry around everywhere all over their house.

They've got like 4 liquids on their desk at all times, standing desk, the whole shebang.

Like this person is a pro at working from home and like I said earlier, this person could not talk to anyone in real life for weeks and be totally fine with it.

38:50
I think that is their flaw is.

I was just gonna say.

Lack of social interaction might affect their concept of reality.

Yeah, yeah.

But other than that, they're living their best life.

A little socially awkward, but we love them.

Yeah, maybe struggles to talk to people.

39:09
Yeah.

And make sure they're hydrated because they might not be talking at all.

Yeah, that's a thing too, is you can definitely get very into your work if you're a writer and just like, forget to eat and drink.

39:25
So you got to have a nice nice desk layout where you can have all your snacks and drinks right in front of you.

Yes.

Pro tip if you work from home.

Yes, let's talk about Youtubers, because that's also us.

I think, but somehow also polar opposite of blogs.

39:43
Yes, I feel like.

We're both.

Because YouTube is like long form so you can't do a like one minute video and call it a day.

You have.

You tend to have to hold people's attention for a little bit longer.

40:00
I think Youtubers like to talk, which is you have a bit of blogging.

You've got a little bit of what's it called like you think that you deserve to get attention.

You, your word deserves to be heard.

40:16
Like exactly which.

Podcasters too.

Podcast should be even more so.

Podcasters, I think, might meanwhile.

Like, it's literally just a voice in your ear.

Like you think you're so important that the words you're saying need to be listened to?

Yes.

I think Youtubers have to be creative.

40:37
They're all creative, but like keeping it interesting.

Like there's a lot more editing involved.

There's a lot of different clips going on.

And once, like, like, I I just read something out, my my thought process is gone.

40:52
What was I saying?

If you need editing takes a lot, you have to be a little bit more interesting there.

Oh, saturation.

It's the YouTube space is incredibly over saturated.

Not really with dietitians though.

So go follow.

41:09
Like I said, follow the podcast and follow both of us on YouTube.

We're over there as well.

But I feel like you really have to stick out on YouTube.

Like, if maybe imagine us starting in YouTube 10 years ago, like we were in college, so that would have been a mess because we did not have time.

41:30
But I think that'd be so funny.

And that was like prime YouTube time, like the early 2000 tens.

Instagram too.

We would have grown so fast.

Yeah, so now it's a little bit.

You gotta be a little bit more special and stick out.

And that's part of it too, Is like, you can't just talk about dietitian stuff.

41:50
Yeah, like I've tried that.

Like posting about, like just educational content.

It's good for like the YouTube algorithm, more so, but you're not going to build a loyal following that way.

People want to, like, actually know you.

If they're going to be watching these 1520 minute videos of you they want to like, hear about your life, what you're doing, what you enjoy, Like they feel like there's someone that they know.

42:14
Exactly.

You have to be more personable there, which is also challenging because you're talking at a recording device, yeah.

I feel like I've gotten better at that.

I don't know about you, but I feel more confident.

Just like kind of being silly and being myself on camera.

But at first, it was so hard to not just be like, hello, welcome to my channel.

42:32
I'm a dietician.

This is what we're going to learn today.

So it's like, no, Like you said, there's no one there to, like, give you any feedback immediately while you're doing it.

So it just feels so weird.

You can't read anyone's faces.

We're taught like in like counseling, like how to gauge our audience, adjust like our education style based on what they're giving us.

42:52
If they're like being quiet or being really engaged, what do we do to change that or keep it going.

But we don't have that.

When you're recording to just like a little less, you're just.

Guessing like what people are saying.

And that's why our content changes so much over months, years, decades, even if you do it for that long, is because we're always adapting based on the feedback we do get.

43:13
But we get it later, after the video's up, we get the feedback to then change future videos.

Yeah.

It's tricky.

Interesting.

OK, something I'm curious about.

I've been trying to reflect myself, but I tend to block out a lot of things which I think I need to see a therapist talk about that.

43:31
But I'm curious, like, do you feel like the things that you do now slash like your I don't want to call it a dream job because we don't dream of working, but so say your ideal dietitian work day.

Do you feel like it lines up at all with things that you like to do when you were a kid?

43:49
I think it does now, specifically because I think you know this.

I like.

I used to make a lot of videos when I was a kid.

I don't think I do that.

Like have I?

OK, this is something that I'm nervous to share with the public because I've held it.

I've had it under wraps for so long.

44:08
One of my main things I would do like with one of my best friends growing up was remaking Backstreet Boy videos, videos and like they were like decent quality.

Like we would like it was an all day production of recording with props and all these things.

44:28
And then it was a full day of editing where like we were syncing up the the music and that was a lot of what I did growing up.

So the video editing and like creativity very much checks out.

44:44
That's so funny.

But I will not show any of the public any of these videos.

Like maybe for $100 million, I will.

Maybe if we get like a certain number of like subscribers or something if you a.

44:59
Hundred 100 million subscribers?

Maybe if we get.

I'll let you do something.

Because The thing is, there are other people in the video so that I need to get their consent as well.

But once we get the new subscribers, it's poor eyes on this video, yes?

45:19
So it's going to be a high amount, we'll just say that.

Yeah, we're nowhere near it, so we don't have to decide right now.

Yeah, but that's what I did a lot.

And then I did a lot of photography.

So like, I don't do a lot of photography now, but.

45:36
I think it translates videography photography.

Yeah.

But then I'm thinking of like clinically my job suit, like pretty low key, which I enjoy.

I would I be doing it if I didn't have to?

No, 'cause I don't want.

I'd rather just not work at 9:00 to 5:00.

45:51
Don't dream of Labor.

But it is much more relaxing than any of my dream sports nutrition jobs because I wanted to be a sports dietitian.

Yep, we did so bad.

That's not so.

That's not relaxing at all.

46:07
We weren't.

We weren't considering like.

And.

You like that?

Exactly.

We were just thinking about, like, what we want to be doing with our like job, which of course you're going to college to like.

Figure out what job you want to be doing.

Yeah.

So of course our brains were in that area, but we were not considering what the rest of our life would also look like and how our job might fit into that.

46:28
Yes, yeah.

Which pro tip?

If you're a student right now, consider what like you want your actual life to look like when considering what job you want.

Because you are more than what your job is.

There's a lot more to life than that.

What about you?

I don't know.

46:44
I know your childhood that well in terms of jobs.

Yeah.

What I'm thinking of right now is I used to love to write.

I would like I wrote books all the time as a kid, meaning like like little stories and stuff.

Right.

My dad, Speaking of embarrassing moments.

47:04
Oh oh oh.

I'll try to find the picture you sent me so you can put it on the YouTube.

I wrote this book.

I think it was in like fifth grade.

It was called The Snobs Next Door.

Oh my God.

And you know, I drew neighbors.

47:21
No, I had find neighbors.

I don't know why I was.

Like calling them snobs.

I know.

I don't think it was based on a true story.

I was just, I think I wanted some drama in my life in fifth grade.

I don't know.

But anyway, I have like I I created the cover.

47:36
I illustrated the cover, so I'll try to find it and send it to you so you can put it on Facebook.

It's so goofy.

But I used to like, write books all the time.

I would whenever we go on vacation, I would journal the entire time like what we're doing today, which I think goes into like the youtubing, like vlogging type, Stuff like that lines up really well.

47:55
I love to like, share mostly for myself too.

I love to be able to look back because I don't have a great memory.

I like to look back and like, remember like, Oh yeah, I was doing this.

That's how I thought about it.

I was never really artistic.

I didn't do a lot of like drawing or like painting.

48:12
My parents, I'm sure, like, had me try that kind of stuff because all kids like, dabble a little bit in like, artwork.

But I never really got into it.

We did also do a lot of home videos and I always really enjoyed that, whether it was like me recording stuff or like being on camera.

48:28
So same to that point, I loved to do video in some way and my sister and I also used to do like our own dances to we did like a lot of Hannah Montana dances.

We never videoed it because it just like wasn't a thing at that time, like there weren't like smartphones or anything.

48:52
But the performance, the performance aspect was also there, which I think lines up with the podcasting and youtubing.

Yeah.

It's so interesting, they say that like what you do as a kid, like what you really like to do, then lines up a lot with what you want to do as an adult.

That chunks out.

49:10
We're all just healing our inner child.

I know I actually forgot that I wrote those books until just now we were talking about it.

I feel like that that is just more reason that I need to be doing blogging all the time.

Yeah, stay tuned.

49:25
Y'all.

Stay tuned for Hannah's blog.

I've got my sites fixated on something.

OK, last thing I mentioned my enneagram and how it's a little bit confusing why I do what I do.

49:41
Do you think that being an enneagram 8 lines up with what you do?

I don't think it does.

Well, I don't know.

Because, like, I feel like a lot of Enneagram 8 is like putting yourself out there, which like, I guess I do with like YouTube and stuff like that.

50:01
Yeah.

But I, like, honestly, have really pulled back on the myth busting on social media just 'cause I I'm sick of the trolls.

I'm mostly.

Like here.

Yeah, I'm like, it's good to do it with you, 'cause I'm like, OK, we can talk about together, we're A-Team coming against both of us.

50:21
But when it's just like me, I'm like, oh, sometimes I'll say things in YouTube videos, but I don't want to make that like the whole purpose of it.

It's more of a like not like forcing my beliefs and what I forcing my beliefs on people type situation.

50:39
I'm being a little bit more creative on that, but yeah, I think it maybe it is in there because like YouTube is something that terrified me, like the idea of according well, I guess just video in general, like that was very scary.

50:55
Yeah.

To show up.

But now it's like, I can't stop talking.

And I know I'm like actively trying to cut off my YouTube videos where I'm like, I'm talking too much.

So maybe I eventually got there.

51:12
It just took some time to like figure out what I wanted to do.

Yeah, very interesting.

Wow.

As always, we've done a lot of reflection hide in the childhood as we do.

Yes, and it was fun.

51:28
If you guys are in any of these niches, let us know.

Also, if you're a meme account, we love you.

Please tell us if you follow us, because we probably think you're really funny and.

We want to follow you back.

51:44
Yeah.

We love memes.

All right guys, well, we are keeping the speculation train going in.

The bonus question today we're going to talk about what our phone alarm says about us.

So continuing to just judge each other and other people based on what phone alarm they use.

52:00
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We'll see you there.

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Thanks for listening, guys.

We'll see you next week.

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