Ep 15 - Making Money From Memberships: An interview with Brittyn Coleman The Autism Dietitian

Episode Show Notes

Hello and welcome back to Beyond the Clinic! I'm your host, Sarah Almond Bushell, and I am really excited to chat with you today. Our guest is Brittyn Coleman, a fellow dietitian from the US, known as the Autism Dietitian. Brittyn and I share a passion for paediatric nutrition, especially in the realm of picky eating. Brittyn's journey is incredibly inspiring as she has pivoted through various business models before finding her niche in running a membership site. By the end of this episode, you will be absolutely inspired to consider new directions for your own practice. Let's dive in!

In this episode, Brittyn Coleman shares her journey from starting in clinical practice to developing a successful membership site focused on nutrition for children with autism. She discusses the burnout she faced in different business models and how she ultimately created a sustainable and fulfilling career. Brittyn's story highlights the importance of listening to your audience and adapting your business to meet their needs.

1. Finding Your Niche: Brittyn explains how she transitioned from general paediatric nutrition to specialising in picky eating and nutrition for children with autism, driven by personal experience with her autistic brother.
2. Overcoming Burnout: She candidly shares her experiences with burnout from taking insurance, moving to a private pay model, and the intense demands of one-on-one client sessions.
3. Building a Membership Site: Brittyn describes the evolution of her business into a membership site that now supports over 600 families, providing a community, live Q&As, and expert workshops.
4. Importance of Community: The shift from a content-heavy library to a community-focused model significantly improved member retention and satisfaction.
5. Flexibility and Family Life: Brittyn highlights how her business model now allows her more flexibility, reducing burnout and enabling her to spend more time with her family.
6. Continuous Improvement: Through market research and feedback, Brittyn continuously refines her offerings to better meet the needs of her members, focusing on personalised roadmaps for different nutrition challenges.

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Beyond the Clinic EP15

[00:00:00] Sarah Almond Bushell: Welcome along to another episode of Beyond the Clinic. I am really excited to chat to you today with my guest,

[00:00:07] Sarah Almond Bushell: Brittyn Coleman.

[00:00:08] Sarah Almond Bushell: Now, Brittyn is a dietician like me, but from across the pond in the US, and she is also known as the autism dietician. Brittyn and I have crossed paths a few times, actually.

[00:00:20] Sarah Almond Bushell: We both work in the field of pediatric picky eating, fussy eating, And we both also have businesses that extend beyond the traditional clinic model, which is what I am all about, as you well know. So Britton's going to talk to us a little bit about her business journey, about how she pivoted from various different business models Getting burnt out each time until she found her niche, which is a membership site.

[00:00:50] Sarah Almond Bushell: And by the time you get to the end of this episode, you will be absolutely inspired about perhaps thinking of a membership site for your own. I'm going to leave it there, but do hang around and listen to this interview

[00:01:03] Sarah Almond Bushell: because you are going to learn so much. So welcome Britton. Thanks so much for coming on to the podcast today.

[00:01:10] Brittyn Coleman: Brittyn Coleman Thanks. I'm really excited for our conversation. You were just on my podcast where we talked all about picky eating and now it's fun to, flip the conversation and talk more about our businesses as well.

[00:01:22] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah, that's absolutely awesome. So do you want to kick off by just introducing yourself, letting everybody know who you are, what you do and I guess a little bit about your business journey.

[00:01:32] Sarah Almond Bushell: What does that actually look like as it sounds today?

[00:01:36] Brittyn Coleman: Yeah my name is Brittyn Coleman. Like you said, I specialize in nutrition for kids on the autism spectrum. And it's a very niche area and my brother's autistic. And so that's the reason that I've gone into this area and why I specialize. And, in the beginning of.

[00:01:52] Brittyn Coleman: This whole journey, I wanted to do everything when it came to autism, but believe it or not, there's such a wide like net when it comes to like nutrition for autism. We have people who are doing more of like the biomedical side of things and lab testing and one on one and. I started off that way and I just, I didn't love it.

[00:02:14] Brittyn Coleman: And I just felt really stressed out by it. I was burned out by it. And I'll talk through, cause I feel like I changed, I've changed my business so many times and I just got burned out in new ways every single time. And I'm finally in a place where I'm actually not feeling burned out for the first time, which is really exciting.

[00:02:33] Brittyn Coleman: But I moved into the picky eating, selective eating space. And I, because that was something I really realized that I loved when I was counseling my clients. And then I was like, I think that I can take just this part full time. And so pivoted my practice. Selective eating for autism back in I think 2020. And then have just rolled with it ever since. But I started my private practice in 2017. I was pretty fresh out of grad school and everyone says that you need a few years while you're in clinical, and I, heard that as well, and I was working, I was in grad school, I was working part time at a hospital, and then I found a role for an outpatient position for dieticians to work, or it was like an outpatient clinic for kids with diabetes, Developmental disabilities.

[00:03:27] Brittyn Coleman: And so I was working alongside OTs and speech therapists. It was awesome, but it was so part time I think I was working like Thursdays maybe and that was it. Maybe it was in like half days on Thursdays they just didn't have the caseload that I needed and So I was like, I think I'm just gonna start my private practice now I'm just gonna have it there Kind of work on it as I go, but I never took it really seriously.

[00:03:55] Brittyn Coleman: And it was a good thing that I had opened that up because that clinic that I was working for ended up going under and All of my clients that were there. I had a good number of clients, even though I was just going every Thursday needed somewhere to go. And so it was really lucky that I was like, Oh, just come on into my private practice.

[00:04:15] Brittyn Coleman: So it was a really easy transition. I, of course not everyone transferred over, but it was a nice little kickoff and I was glad that I had it there for myself, but it's funny to think I know we'll talk so much more about like where my practice is now. At the time I was living in Oklahoma, I had an in person like office.

[00:04:37] Brittyn Coleman: I was taking insurance exclusively and seeing people one on one and that couldn't be. More opposite than what I do right now. I am so glad I, I look back at that girl who was like doing it scared, like in her private practice and just doing what she could, and I'm so proud of her for just starting, but I wish I could have shown her like, okay, this is what this is going to look like in.

[00:05:04] Brittyn Coleman: Six, seven years from now, which is where I am now, which I'm not done, but it's just really neat to reflect back on.

[00:05:13] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah, absolutely. And I think it's not an uncommon path, is it, to start in clinical practice, for us in the UK, it's obviously in the NHS but it could be a private practice.

[00:05:25] Sarah Almond Bushell: And then after a few years, like you mentioned, you burn out, you get to a point where you reach that threshold, don't you, because you've only got a certain number of hours in the day. And, as our businesses grow we reach that threshold, don't we? And we can't do any more. And I think because of the nature we have as carers of people who really want to help everybody, it's actually really hard to say no and turn people away, isn't it?

[00:05:50] Sarah Almond Bushell: So that burnout does happen. It's a real thing. So tell us a little bit about your business now then and how that's different and how it contrasts to where you were back then.

[00:06:01] Brittyn Coleman: Yeah.

[00:06:01] Brittyn Coleman: So now I run a membership site and support parents who have kids on the autism spectrum to help their kids expand their diet.

[00:06:09] Brittyn Coleman: As of right now we have over 600 members and, I fully support them. I do the membership like full time and that actually just changed probably about six months ago. I decided to take the membership full time and I mean that I don't work with clients one on one anymore. I did group coaching in between one on one and membership.

[00:06:30] Brittyn Coleman: Don't do that anymore. So now I just run a practice through my membership. And I also have a podcast. I do social media. I do collaborations with brands. So it's just a completely Different, like it doesn't even look relatively the same. Yeah. But in between. Where I was going with that is, I started out with seeing people one on one and in Oklahoma taking insurance.

[00:07:01] Brittyn Coleman: I know you're in the UK, so getting a grasp on the different States, but in Oklahoma, you have to take insurance. You don't have to, but most people expect you to. And so I was stuck in this model. Now, the cost of living in Oklahoma is. Like definitely not the highest in the United States.

[00:07:19] Brittyn Coleman: I moved to San Francisco, California after I got married. And that is one of the most expensive cities in the U S I'm sure in the world, it's just. So expensive and I was still taking insurance. I did switch to telehealth. So that was fantastic at the time. It was very new to all of us to switch into telehealth and it went well, thankfully, but I just realized I couldn't afford living in San Francisco if I was going to continue doing insurance.

[00:07:45] Brittyn Coleman: So I switched over to the private model. But I was having a hard time booking clients. And then I worked with a business coach who really helped me up level in the one on one space. I did a, I had a six month program and a three month program. And I really took off and I filled my private practice so full that I was so just, So tired by the end of the day, I was just seeing everyone one on one back to back every day.

[00:08:16] Brittyn Coleman: And I was just like, I hate this. I was making a lot of money doing that, but I was just so tired. And eventually I started working with another business coach who helped me switch into the group model. And that really helped for a while because I was seeing like, I'd grown enough on social media. I could switch to that one to many.

[00:08:35] Brittyn Coleman: And so I would have group coaching programs with about 10 parents, coach them for eight weeks over, expanding their child's diet, helping with their nutrition. And I did that for a few years and it was going really well too. I was making even more money. While I was doing that, I was like, I want to start a membership because when I have kids one day, I want to be able to not be on calls all the time.

[00:09:02] Brittyn Coleman: Even though that group model, it's like I was getting into, you only have one call a week, or at least my groups did. And I ran a few groups at a time and I was just like, but I hate like being stuck to my calendar. Every Tuesday at 10, I'm on this call and there's no flexibility with it. And so I started my membership and it was just like a side hustle.

[00:09:26] Brittyn Coleman: People in my group got access to it. I, it was 999 when I launched it. And I just had it for a few years. Didn't really take it seriously, but. Contributed to it often. And then, yeah, I decided I actually I got pregnant and then I was like, okay, this group model is not going to work out.

[00:09:47] Brittyn Coleman: So I did a hybrid between online courses and membership. So I'd never fully committed to my membership and I wish I would have a long time ago. I just didn't think that it could be. It could be my full time gig.

[00:09:59] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah,

[00:10:00] Sarah Almond Bushell: your full time thing. So what, just for those of those people who might not be familiar with memberships, what does it look like?

[00:10:06] Sarah Almond Bushell: What's inside your membership?

[00:10:08] Brittyn Coleman: Yeah. So when it first started, it was called the Autism Nutrition Library. And all it was was basically I hired, I had few different contractors and students who would help me and we would research a certain topic and we would put it into the library as like a note.

[00:10:28] Brittyn Coleman: So like we would have notes on diets and foods and nutrients and symptoms and it was great for what it was. However, we were like churning out content. Every single week and it was so exhausting and it just didn't feel like it was paying off for the amount of work that I was putting into it.

[00:10:50] Brittyn Coleman: I was like, I was so tired from the content. So that was my biggest problem with it is that it was just a, it was a good amount of work.

[00:10:59] Sarah Almond Bushell: And when you say notes, was it written stuff that you were doing? You were producing?

[00:11:03] Brittyn Coleman: Yeah. It was like a written it was like the spark note. So if somebody was like, Oh, shouldn't my child be eating apples? Be like, okay, this is why apples are beneficial. This is the research we have on autism and apples.

[00:11:16] Brittyn Coleman: Here's how you can integrate it. If your child's a picky eater like the different ways. So it was really cool. And then we had a forum that people could, ask questions in as well, but it was, pretty quiet in the forum. And then, because I was so burned out by that, I had to just put myself into burnout in so many different ways.

[00:11:37] Brittyn Coleman: I was like, okay, what does my clientele really need? And a lot of time, what they're looking for is a support with picky eating. And all we had was like a note on picky eating in the library and their winning community. And I feel like I'm failing at both of those things in my membership.

[00:11:55] Brittyn Coleman: And so this past October, November of 2023, I completely relaunched my membership under a new name. We structured everything differently to where the library is now just a feature, and we don't regularly contribute to it. We add new research or update where needed, but it's a feature and it's like a complete library.

[00:12:17] Brittyn Coleman: The main deal now is the community. I host live Q& As. I bring in guest speakers. We do like community events where moms can come and meet up and like just have a second to chat with other moms who really get it, who also have autistic children. And it has been, I completely, I doubled my membership at least within the past six months.

[00:12:44] Sarah Almond Bushell: Awesome.

[00:12:46] Brittyn Coleman: Thank you. It was just pivoting to really thinking, okay, what does, what do my people really need and how can I properly give that to them?

[00:12:56] Sarah Almond Bushell: Absolutely. And I was just thinking that as you were saying that, that. I harp on all the time to my clients about market research, and I think they're probably sick to death about me talking about market research and what does you ride your client want, and actually what they want isn't what often what they need or what we want to give them.

[00:13:14] Sarah Almond Bushell: It's what do they specifically want. Yes. So is that what you did? You went out to the people that you had? Just found out exactly what it was that they wanted and then created something to meet that demand.

[00:13:28] Brittyn Coleman: Yeah, I would send out, I like send out quite a few surveys to, to all the members, people who had canceled asking them what would have made you stay?

[00:13:39] Brittyn Coleman: What are you looking for? Create these, different features. And it really came back. Community was number one, for sure. Live calls was number two. And I was like I don't host any, either of those really in my current membership, so it's no wonder I have such a high churn rate. And so I changed platforms.

[00:14:04] Brittyn Coleman: I, I completely shifted everything. And it's just funny thinking of like how this membership looks versus, the autism nutrition library, even though it still has that in there. It's just night and day.

[00:14:19] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah, absolutely. And you mentioned also that your people wanted more information about picky eating.

[00:14:25] Sarah Almond Bushell: So did you have to create like resources around that to, to supplement what was in the library?

[00:14:31] Brittyn Coleman: Yeah. And I've learned too, like I, since I, relaunched my membership have learned actually how to support them even better than that. So what I started doing when when they joined the membership in the beginning, I had this roadmap for them to go through and everybody went through the same roadmap.

[00:14:50] Brittyn Coleman: So it was like this long PDF and it was fillable and they would go in through each of the steps and I had videos that would walk them through it. It was like a mini online course. And It had a section on picky eating, but I just, there were so many questions still coming through that I was like, man, I must have not gone in depth enough.

[00:15:11] Brittyn Coleman: And my churn rate was better than it had been, but it was still not where I wanted it to be. And so then I was like, I was listening in on a summit about memberships. And it was like, the biggest thing that you can do for retention is have individualized roadmaps. And so I was like, ah, that's what I'm doing wrong.

[00:15:29] Brittyn Coleman: So I, took a poll between all of the people who are in my membership. What is your biggest nutrition struggle? And it really came down to three things. The top, probably 75 percent of my membership is picky eating. The second one was gut issues. Constipation is a major issue with my clientele.

[00:15:47] Brittyn Coleman: And then number three was like, I don't necessarily have like picky eating or gut issues, but I'm trying to work on like enhancing my child's nutrition. Like what diet should they be following? Should they be taking supplements? Should they be in lab testing? Like this higher level. And so what I ended up doing was creating a roadmap for each one of those, which is now not this long PDF, but it's Online, like mini online course that they go through and when they join, they take a quiz and based on the results of that quiz, it puts them into one of those roadmaps.

[00:16:22] Brittyn Coleman: So now people feel, a huge conversation in the collective is my membership is called the Nourishing Autism Collective is them working on their personal roadmap. And so they're like, I'm halfway through my roadmap, I've learned this, and this what do I do here? And I'm like, okay this is what you have to look forward to.

[00:16:39] Brittyn Coleman: Or I can individualize what they're working on to their child, what they've already learned. But yeah, that definitely helped my churn rate because people feel so much, they feel very seen and they know that what they're struggling with, they're getting. Very specific support on.

[00:16:57] Sarah Almond Bushell: That's one way. Hostilization to them.

[00:16:59] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah. Yeah. And do you offer you said about, people wanted the community aspect, so do you offer like live calls where they can come and have questions answered and so you have that alongside things?

[00:17:11] Brittyn Coleman: Yeah. Exactly. I use a platform called Circle and I love Circle.

[00:17:16] Brittyn Coleman: Circle. I could talk your ear off about it because I love it so much. I'm actually, they invited, Circle invited me to come into their membership of creators actually in about an hour and like showcase my membership inside of Circle and but they're great. My community is so active.

[00:17:38] Brittyn Coleman: I think that speaks to both their platform, but also. My people are just craving community. They feel so isolated and alone. Yes, they have the support from each other. Often times I see threads going on and I'm like, I don't even need to hop in here because they've got it. Yeah. They're just supporting each other.

[00:17:57] Brittyn Coleman: Yeah. But yes, inside Circle, you can host like different channels, like you can in Slack, but then you can also host events. And and it sets up a whole calendar. So we host monthly Q& As, and then I just tested out one of my contractor dietitians doing a Q& A yesterday. Just so I can also have more, Space and flexibility.

[00:18:18] Brittyn Coleman: And she did a great job and they loved it. And there was a great turnout. I also have a community coordinator who is a past client of mine who has two autistic girls, and she takes the role of connecting. Parents to other parents and like making sure they feel supported in their journey. She doesn't do the nutrition side.

[00:18:37] Brittyn Coleman: She just does the community side and she hosts monthly calls. We call them our monthly mama mingles. And we've had one this past Monday and. Just provides people a time. We don't record those. We have replays for the other ones, but for those, it's just a time to come and chat about what's on your mind and it doesn't have to be nutrition.

[00:18:56] Brittyn Coleman: And and then, like I said, I had guest workshops where people come in like speech therapist, occupational therapist and it's mutually beneficial for, everyone for my clientele to learn. And then, potentially to get, new people on their email list or. new followers or a new client, whatever that means.

[00:19:15] Sarah Almond Bushell: Brilliant. That's great. So it's a win for everybody there, isn't it? Yeah. And how has that impacted you in terms of your time? And I'm assuming you're no longer burnt out. And you've also mentioned having a little one as well. How is that in terms of your life?

[00:19:31] Brittyn Coleman: Yeah, I have a 20 month old And I'm due in October and with our second.

[00:19:38] Brittyn Coleman: Oh, congratulations. We're so excited. And I just remember when I was doing group coaching and I was like, I really need to put more into my membership. I need to shift. And when I was dreaming of like making the shift into my membership, it was really so that I could have. This flexibility with my kids.

[00:19:57] Brittyn Coleman: And I remember thinking back in 2017 when I started this, I was like, it's great for me to have flexibility when I become a mom, because I want to be able to do that, but I kept putting myself in these like traps where I. Was so stuck in my business. And I was able to take I took, I think 12 weeks with my son and I was still working a little bit, but this time I'm really not stressed about it because I have people who are helping me on the inside.

[00:20:28] Brittyn Coleman: It really runs itself. I'll still pop in there. Cause I. I can answer questions and support my families typically in 30 to 60 minutes a day and sometimes that's all I do that day. And then I like get to do other stuff and be with my son when he's not in daycare and not stressed about it. So I really love that.

[00:20:52] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah, that is the dream, isn't it? When you've got a a product that runs itself, essentially, that's what you're talking about. You've got this, amazing community who talk to each other and support each other. And you've got your co coaches who are helping as well. You've bought yourself freedom.

[00:21:07] Sarah Almond Bushell: You've created a business that's, it's allowed you to have that freedom.

[00:21:11] Brittyn Coleman: Definitely. And I was just sharing before we hopped on this call too, we moved last week and my son was out of daycare. And I said so many times to my husband thank God I changed my business. Cause you, could you imagine like me trying to work right now?

[00:21:27] Brittyn Coleman: And yeah, he was completely out of school that whole week and we like moved all of our stuff, out of our house during renovations. And I just, I didn't have to really think about work. Like it was going on, at night I would pop in and answer questions for maybe like 20 to 30 minutes.

[00:21:46] Brittyn Coleman: And I felt like I never felt like I was behind. Now, like the whole thing on like growing your business, working outside, working on it and not in it. Last week was that only work in it sort of week where I was just like, we're just keeping things going. But my members never felt that I was busy or that I like was moving or whatever it was.

[00:22:07] Brittyn Coleman: They never saw any of that. Now, my social media was a little quiet, but it's that doesn't matter. That's okay. Like I'm focusing on supporting my people.

[00:22:17] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah,

[00:22:17] Sarah Almond Bushell: absolutely. Amazing. That's such an inspiring story. Thank you so much for sharing that with us. I've got. Five quickfire questions to end with, if that's okay, let's do it.

[00:22:31] Sarah Almond Bushell: Great. So number one, best bit of your working day.

[00:22:35] Brittyn Coleman: Ooh, best bit of my working day. I do really love my membership. I love hopping in there. And so that's one of my favorite things to do is hop in. And actually work on my membership.

[00:22:48] Sarah Almond Bushell: Brilliant. I love that. Number two, why do you do what you do?

[00:22:53] Brittyn Coleman: To support families like mine who didn't have the resources to, with my brother, he was an extremely selective eater.

[00:23:03] Brittyn Coleman: We didn't have these kinds of resources in the nineties. To be able to support them and help them, feel understood and validated and supported and to help their kids feel their best so that they can do better in all areas of life. Yeah, that's, it's a real passion project as well as a business, isn't it?

[00:23:22] Brittyn Coleman: For sure.

[00:23:23] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah. Brilliant. Question three, tech, love it or hate it? I love it.

[00:23:29] Brittyn Coleman: Oh, I love it. Me too. Oh, me too. There's so much stuff out there now that just makes life easier and you don't have to work as much. Yeah. I'm with you on that one. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I love trying out new products and new apps.

[00:23:45] Brittyn Coleman: It's so fun. So yeah. Count me in on that.

[00:23:48] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah, brilliant. Question four, how do you stay motivated?

[00:23:52] Brittyn Coleman: I really do love what I do. I think not feeling so tired all the time helps me keep going, but I also think The motivation for me I love a challenge. And so one thing that I've had to say, okay, I need to sit still for a second. But I love to challenge myself and come up with new products and new ideas.

[00:24:14] Brittyn Coleman: And so I think with the membership, I'm able to focus all of. My like need for like new challenges for new features instead of like completely new products where I'm trying to like pivot my business model all the time. But yeah, I love doing that, but of course, my son is a huge motivator of mine and then

[00:24:34] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah, brilliant, great.

[00:24:36] Sarah Almond Bushell: And then final question. What's one thing that you know now that you wish you could tell your former self when just starting out in business?

[00:24:46] Brittyn Coleman: I think it's okay that it's a hustle in the beginning. I think that consistency really pays off. And I also think really working hard to understand who you're serving and what they want.

[00:25:07] Brittyn Coleman: And Not thinking about it from, Oh, what new product can I put out? Or what do I think they need? Really staying true to what your people need is going to help you get so much closer to what is going to be successful than just trying to follow like the traditional dietitian path. Another thing I would say is just Take the leap to do it.

[00:25:33] Brittyn Coleman: If you're considering doing a business, I'm so glad I started when I did. And I was so scared and I was so young and so fresh. I am just glad that I didn't, I got pushed into it, honestly, when the other company went out, but I at least had started and I wish I. What if felt more confident in that?

[00:25:55] Brittyn Coleman: And the cool thing is like now a lot of dieticians are going into private practice and they're fantastic supports. I think you and I actually met through Erica Jolson and I remember when her like unconventional RD Facebook group started and I was like, God, so there are resources out there and you can really scale a business and like hop into this, you'd just have to do it scared in the beginning too.

[00:26:20] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yeah,

[00:26:21] Sarah Almond Bushell: you're so right. And yeah, I was exactly the same when I decided that I wanted to do something different as a dietician. There was nobody in the UK doing it. Absolutely nobody. And it was really scary and I didn't really know what to do. And When I found Erica, I was like what you got?

[00:26:38] Sarah Almond Bushell: And she was like hang on a minute, hang on a minute. And it was before she had her SEO course. But I think I was one of the first people who did that course. Cause I was like, I need to learn how to do this. So yeah, absolutely.

[00:26:50] Brittyn Coleman: Me too. I was one of the early buyers of her course, just because it was like you were the per the person who's doing things differently right now and actually pulling together these other dieticians. Yeah. I'm hopeful. I never learned anything about private practice in school. I'm hopeful that's something that trickles down. And I speak to my Alma mater almost every year about private practice and, trying to help dietitians realize that we can go into other areas and yeah, this can look like a membership model.

[00:27:17] Brittyn Coleman: It can look like being an influencer. It can look like, running a really successful and profitable blog. And I think we just don't see that. We get stuck in the traditional dietitian.

[00:27:29] Sarah Almond Bushell: Yes. Model. Yeah. Yeah. You're absolutely right. Amazing. I've absolutely loved this conversation. It's been absolutely inspirational.

[00:27:37] Sarah Almond Bushell: I have a membership which I have neglected and I use it as a downsell for what, for my main program, but you've inspired me to actually sit down and have a look at what can I do to improve it? And maybe I'll get a little bit more interest in that as well. So thank you so much for being an inspiration.

[00:27:55] Brittyn Coleman: Thanks, Sarah. I really appreciate being here.

[00:27:58] Sarah Almond Bushell: And just before you go, where can people connect with you?

[00:28:01] Sarah Almond Bushell: Autism Dietitian on Instagram is a great place to connect. And I do have a freebie for practitioners as well that I'm happy to share. It's a nutrition toolkit for autism made entirely for practitioners.

[00:28:14] Sarah Almond Bushell: And I'll share the link with you, Sarah, so that you could share it in the show notes as well.

[00:28:19] Brittyn Coleman: Will do. That's brilliant. Thanks ever so much. Of course. Thank you. Take care now. Bye.