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From Fired to Freedom: How One Dietitian Built a Thriving Business After Career Disaster
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In this candid conversation, registered dietitian Ana Reisdorf shares her remarkable journey from being fired from her job to building a successful content business and launching GLP-1 Hub. Discover how she navigated career shifts, balanced entrepreneurship with motherhood, and found her true calling after years of friction. Ana reveals her unconventional childcare solutions (lifetime gym hack, anyone?), her approach to passive income, and how she's building an authentic community around GLP-1 education. Whether you're considering a career pivot, balancing family with business dreams, or simply looking for inspiration to trust your path, this episode offers practical wisdom and affirmation that when you're in alignment, the right doors open effortlessly.
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Intro
Introduction and Entrepreneurial Journey
00:00:57
Pamela Rivet
Hi, it's Mandy St. Germain at the Finding My Best Self podcast. I am doing an interview today with Anna Reisdorf and we had a conversation on her podcast not that long ago and I said I have to get you on ours to share your story.
00:01:13
Pamela Rivet
um She is a registered dietitian and a content creator and I'm super excited to get her input and feedback in just all things entrepreneur, motherhood, and also a GLP One user like myself. So I'm going to go ahead and kick it off and let Anna introduce herself.
00:01:31
Ana Reisdorf
Sure. Thank you so much for having me, Mandy. I'm so happy to be on this podcast too. So I'm Anna Reisdorf. live outside of Nashville, Tennessee, and I have been a registered dietitian for almost 20 years now, since 2006.
00:01:46
Ana Reisdorf
two thousand and six um I've done a lot of things in my career as a registered dietitian, teaching at the university, working at hospitals, all sorts of things. The last 10 years, I've been working in content marketing. And so I write, I have a team and we write content for brands. So a lot of the health articles that you might read, a lot of the recipes you might see, those were created by myself and my team about ah health and nutrition.
00:02:14
Ana Reisdorf
And in the last couple of years, for a lot of different reasons, AI changes in Google and all sorts of things.
Market Shift and GLP One Hub Creation
00:02:22
Ana Reisdorf
The market for written content has really declined and I've been, I, my business was struggling a little bit.
00:02:27
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:02:31
Ana Reisdorf
So i decided to make a shift and use all of these skills and all of this, uh, you know, platform that I have and move into creating content and helping people who are using GLP ones. Cause I am a GLP one user myself.
00:02:50
Ana Reisdorf
And I just see a lot of misinformation and people confused about what they're doing and what they're supposed to be, um how they're supposed to be using it and how they can actually use it to be healthier and not just, you know, make things worse for themselves.
00:03:05
Ana Reisdorf
So I created the GLP One Hub platform, and I've been working on that this year, trying to get that up and running. And and I'm really excited. Like, Before we got on, I was working. i I never work on a Saturday, but I was like literally working.
00:03:22
Ana Reisdorf
So.
00:03:22
Pamela Rivet
But that's the best kind of work, the work that like you're so passionate about that it doesn't matter what time of the day or what day or the week it is. You just can't shut it off because it's something that you're you're that driven towards. So that's super exciting.
00:03:35
Ana Reisdorf
Yeah, yeah, I'm really excited about this new direction.
00:03:38
Pamela Rivet
Well, and that's kind of where our conversation started. um If you want to check out her podcast, she also has one, the GLP One Hub, and um just great information based around just kind of the do's, don'ts, the myths, and the ah the truths behind it. And so...
Transition to Entrepreneurship and Motherhood Balance
00:03:56
Pamela Rivet
um I know that you kind of spoke to what led you to kind of creating that. But just thinking about the decision to kind of make that shift, because it's interesting that you kind of said to take all of the things that you've learned, because I truly feel that a lot of us can connect with that, where throughout our path and journey that we have collected all of this knowledge that ultimately has led to something that we're passionate about so um kind of taking us back a little as aside from the shift that you said with ai i know that you're still doing writing and things like that so how did that kind of all come to fruition for you yeah kind of with the beginning like how did it start there and shift to where it's at now
00:04:32
Ana Reisdorf
Oh, you mean with the writing at the beginning or now? ah okay.
00:04:39
Ana Reisdorf
Sure. So I, you know, I was a dietitian. started um doing a lot of different jobs, but I'm not a very good employee. Like I don't like people telling me what to do.
00:04:51
Pamela Rivet
Bye.
00:04:51
Ana Reisdorf
i want to come and go as I please.
00:04:53
Ana Reisdorf
I want to do things my way. And I think I've been always been an entrepreneur at heart. And I was afraid to sort of make that leap at that time. I was single. Like I had to rely on myself for my income.
00:05:06
Ana Reisdorf
health insurance, all of that. And so that was kind of scary. And then um I ended up getting fired from my dietician job. And like, that's not really something I share that much because it's kind of embarrassing, but there was a lot of extenuating circumstances around that.
00:05:23
Ana Reisdorf
People who didn't like me and didn't like my entrepreneurial attitude. ah So that kind of propelled me into like, okay, now I've got to make this work.
00:05:34
Ana Reisdorf
And i just saw like, there was so many skills that I had. I had already been writing a little bit on the side and i I knew I could ramp that up if now I had the time and I wasn't working a full-time job.
00:05:45
Ana Reisdorf
um There were a lot of opportunities at the time too, to like do a day, ah one day a week here and there to consult at long-term care facilities as a dietician.
00:05:56
Ana Reisdorf
So I did some of that. So I just kind of like started pulling together a job for myself which turned out to be much more fulfilling to me than having a job and like dealing with the politics of the job and having to go there all the time because i could just do something different every day and it it ended up being great.
00:06:05
Pamela Rivet
right
00:06:09
Pamela Rivet
mm-hmm
00:06:16
Ana Reisdorf
And so when we moved here to Nashville, cause that was when I lived in California, um I just decided that writing was what I wanted to do. And at the time also,
00:06:29
Ana Reisdorf
They're like the demand just started. Google had made this big change where they really wanted writing by experts in the health field, particularly.
00:06:35
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:06:36
Ana Reisdorf
They didn't want just like whoever talking about it. And so the demand just grew. And I was able to like grow this huge team of eight dietician content creators um to help to work with me. And that was just really, really fulfilling to be able to do that.
00:06:53
Pamela Rivet
Well, and I have to say, you're a phenomenal writer. ah If you go check out her website, the GLP One Hub blog post, all the information, it' it's definitely a gift of yours.
00:06:57
Ana Reisdorf
Thank you.
00:07:03
Pamela Rivet
And it's so interesting that you're bringing up just a shift in career, too, because this is something um my co-host Pam and I had just had that conversation this week about... you know, really doing something that you're passionate about and being able to connect that because like you said, it doesn't seem like work and you just are able to pour more into it.
00:07:24
Pamela Rivet
And I feel like, excuse me, whenever we are kind of being, like you said, ran by someone else or told what to do, then you don't get that creative flow that you would if you're doing something that you're more passionate about.
00:07:37
Pamela Rivet
Um,
00:07:37
Ana Reisdorf
Right.
00:07:39
Pamela Rivet
And just as a mom and an entrepreneur, because we do try and focus, you know, a lot of our thought on that, like, how are you balancing, you know, mom life or the shift or just having the more flexibility with your career now?
00:07:51
Ana Reisdorf
I mean, it was important to me. And I think that that was another push when I made this career, this jump sort of into entrepreneurship, I wasn't married yet. um So it was a little bit more difficult, but what, but I knew that once I became a mom, like I didn't want to have a full-time job, you know, and and I like working.
00:08:09
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:08:11
Ana Reisdorf
I didn't want to be a stay-at-home mom. I tried that for a few months and ah cried every day.
00:08:14
Pamela Rivet
and Yeah.
00:08:16
Ana Reisdorf
And so that wasn't for me either, but having a full-time job was just like not going to work. I mean, you know, kids get sick, they have to go here and there, and it's just too much to like try to schedule and figure all of that out.
00:08:23
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:08:30
Ana Reisdorf
So it actually was like ah blessing to me and pushed me harder to get into being an entrepreneur just because of the flexibility.
Success and Growth of GLP One Hub
00:08:39
Ana Reisdorf
that it allowed. And so, I mean, I've always been a person who's, who's put the children, like my children in some kind of care, at least a couple days a week.
00:08:49
Ana Reisdorf
Remember when I first moved here to Nashville, ah we joined the lifetime gym and they had like, i think it was like three free hours of childcare a day
00:08:54
Pamela Rivet
Oh yeah. right
00:08:58
Ana Reisdorf
And I remember going to my husband, I was like, okay, the membership is expensive, but it's like $120 a month or whatever. I mean, for 15 hours of childcare ah a week, like that's significantly less than what you would pay.
00:09:12
Pamela Rivet
Right, exactly.
00:09:15
Ana Reisdorf
So I remember we were members at that gym um and I worked there for six months every day and I never, I never worked out. I can just used their free childcare and that was my, work those were my work hours.
00:09:26
Pamela Rivet
yeah
00:09:29
Ana Reisdorf
And there was an, there was an, yeah,
00:09:29
Pamela Rivet
I love that. Like that's such a, like, like a, uh, what do they call that? Where it's like, a um, Oh, almost getting away with the system. Like that's perfect. And honestly gives you like that time to kind of have devoted time, but then the kids get to go play.
00:09:39
Ana Reisdorf
Mm-hmm.
00:09:44
Pamela Rivet
That's so cool.
00:09:45
Ana Reisdorf
Right. Well, he was a baby at the time.
00:09:45
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
00:09:47
Ana Reisdorf
i It was my youngest one. And there was an old lady that would work there right in the middle of the day. and he was the only baby in there. And it was just like, it was like a gift that I gave her.
00:09:54
Pamela Rivet
yeah
00:09:56
Pamela Rivet
was meant to be, yeah.
00:09:58
Ana Reisdorf
right And she just would hold him and just be there with him. And I felt great about it. So I've always just tried to like figure that out. But just being an entrepreneur really just allows the flexibility that you want, I think.
00:10:11
Pamela Rivet
and Oh, for sure. And I'm the same way. i I've tried this stay-at-home mom route, but I still worked. Like I couldn't just be home and not have some to some type of focus or income coming in. And so I completely agree with you.
00:10:26
Pamela Rivet
And that's kind of like where the shift is right now is trying to figure out the balance. And I feel like people say that so often, you know, ah well, how do you balance work life family? And it's like, there's really no balance. You just try and figure out what works best for you and for your family and being able to to shift where you need to on certain days because every day is different.
00:10:47
Ana Reisdorf
huh Yeah. Yeah. and But I, that, that flexibility, you know, allows that to happen.
00:10:54
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So coming back to your GLP One hub and all of the amazing things that are happening there, um has anything kind of happened since you launched the website, the the blog and the podcast that has been like a surprise to you or something that you're like super excited about?
00:11:11
Ana Reisdorf
Yeah. So the last two years with my content marketing business, um, it's been diff it's been really difficult you know the beginning of this i invested a lot in like this course i was launching and i got into debt and then the amount of work started declining and i was like struggling to pay the bills every month and pay my my team and everything has just been a struggle for the last two years and
00:11:29
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:11:42
Ana Reisdorf
I've just been like, i remember being in church one day and just being like, give me a direction. Like, what do i do? Like, this is failing. This is failing before my eyes. I'm struggling so hard. and it's just been friction, friction, friction, friction like so hard.
00:11:57
Ana Reisdorf
And then when I started this GLP one, there's no friction. everything is coming. Like I started this podcast, you know, four episodes in, i have a thousand downloads.
00:12:07
Ana Reisdorf
Like, How is that even a thing? i had this, I had in my mind that I was going to get sponsored by Nestle and they have a line of frozen foods for GLP one.
00:12:21
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
00:12:22
Ana Reisdorf
And I'm not sponsored by Nestle yet, but not yet.
00:12:26
Pamela Rivet
Not yet. Not yet.
00:12:27
Ana Reisdorf
But, but one of my colleagues was like, oh, they just sent me this, this PR email and they want, are looking for people. And so now I have contact information.
00:12:37
Pamela Rivet
Yes.
00:12:38
Ana Reisdorf
At Nestle. And I know i need to grow a little bit more before they're going to do that. But like now I know who to turn to. It's like everything is oh is opening.
00:12:47
Pamela Rivet
Yes.
00:12:48
Ana Reisdorf
Every door is opening. Everything that I say, okay, I want a sponsor. I have two sponsors for the podcast.
00:12:54
Pamela Rivet
That is amazing. And it's literally, and we have to attest to that too at MBS, we 100% just, it got to a point the same thing. Like we know this is what we're supposed to be doing.
00:13:07
Pamela Rivet
We know that this is the direction we're supposed to be going. But why is it so hard right now? But it was because all these little things were being placed in front of us. And like you said, it just comes and it's easy. And then literally we just sit there and we're like, God did it.
00:13:23
Pamela Rivet
God did it because there's no other explanation.
00:13:23
Ana Reisdorf
Mm-hmm.
00:13:27
Pamela Rivet
You know, like you said, the contacts or just certain things, certain people we meet, certain situations, it all is happening and kind of laying those seeds because That's what, you know, your passion and your life purpose is. And so I'm so thankful that you're following that because a lot of people don't necessarily, they may look at it and they're like, oh, well that sounds great, but i don't want to take the risk or I don't want to try it.
00:13:51
Pamela Rivet
And so, like you said, like you're a go-getter, you're going to constantly go after the things that you feel like you
Shifting Focus to Passive Income and Creativity
00:13:56
Pamela Rivet
should be doing. And that's what one of the beauties of entrepreneurship is, is to make those shifts and just know that you're going to be guided in the direction that you need to go.
00:14:05
Ana Reisdorf
Right.
00:14:06
Pamela Rivet
Um, so with the, the passive income and things like that, so in starting with the GLP one hub, kind of what are the next steps moving forward as far as where the direction of it, you know, kind of the plan that you have or that you envision is going to take place?
00:14:20
Ana Reisdorf
Yeah. Well, I want to keep growing it, which it's been growing really well. And I think I need to get sort of a level of followers, you know, across all the platforms and on the podcast.
00:14:33
Ana Reisdorf
um And then, you know, more... support products for GLP one users. So I'm trying to understand more and more like what people need.
00:14:43
Ana Reisdorf
i created two quick like nutrition guides that are that have meal plans in them and like how to plan your meals and stuff like that.
00:14:47
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:14:52
Ana Reisdorf
But i I envision it being like a lot more, you know, like a whole platform of of guides and meal plans and tips and, you know, all of that kind of stuff.
00:15:00
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:15:02
Ana Reisdorf
And then just having more partners as well, like You know, MBS gratefully offered me sort of just like a little, you know, affiliate opportunity.
00:15:11
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:15:13
Ana Reisdorf
And I want to get more of those types of partners of other brands that I believe in and other foods that I believe in.
00:15:18
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:15:20
Ana Reisdorf
So that's sort of like my monetization goal. But my my real goal is to have like a community. You know, people are already starting to ask me questions and, you know, comments.
00:15:28
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:15:30
Ana Reisdorf
And it's small right now, so i don't get that many. But like, I really want... to help people in that way. And maybe eventually bring in more dieticians if people want like individual counseling or, you know, I'm just trying to see what kind of support they're looking for.
00:15:37
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:15:47
Ana Reisdorf
Cause I have my own ideas, but you know, I don't, you you never know what people are really struggling with.
00:15:52
Pamela Rivet
Right. And be able to have that community. And that's why I love it's called the hub because it really will be a one-stop shop for all things. And in the Facebook group, you have a Facebook group for it and people are already going in there and asking questions or, you know, after episodes and things like that, kind of giving feedback. So that's, I can honestly see the progression of that. and Like you said, there's not a lot of that out and that conversation is finally becoming one that's ah comfortable for people to talk about. And so you having that platform and kind of just your, your background on everything, um those connections are definitely going to come.
00:16:30
Pamela Rivet
I can and see it
00:16:30
Ana Reisdorf
Yeah. And then I i see there's there's a lot of information about GLP-1 out there. And I see it's not coming from healthcare care providers.
00:16:40
Ana Reisdorf
Like the people who have the big followings and stuff are people who they've lost weight on GLP-1, which is fine and and great, wonderful to share their story.
00:16:40
Pamela Rivet
Mm hmm.
00:16:49
Ana Reisdorf
But like, sometimes I see them providing advice that is not good advice.
00:16:54
Pamela Rivet
Right.
00:16:57
Ana Reisdorf
based on their own experience, which, you know that's part of the GLP One hub, of course, but I just feel like there needs to be more voices like mine that have a little bit deeper understanding of, you know, nutrition and legitimate information.
00:17:11
Pamela Rivet
right
00:17:13
Ana Reisdorf
So.
00:17:14
Pamela Rivet
Yeah, and I think too, a lot of it, um ah you hear the negatives to it. You don't necessarily, and that's like anything else. I mean, the the negatives are going to kind of outweigh the positives. So if you do have that platform to speak to the positive things that have happened, speaking to other people that it's actually been beneficial for, but then also bringing in like you said, the experts that can kind of speak to you know, what are the that the health benefits for it and why is it here? Because I do think that people just look at it as a weight loss fix, quick fix, but there's so much that goes into it for, you know, PCOS and ah diabetics and all these other things that, you
00:17:54
Pamela Rivet
there are There are truths to it that are not all negative. um And hopefully that that is what begins to flood our news feeds, not the the negativity part to it.
00:18:05
Ana Reisdorf
Yeah, my husband sent me some tweet or like at x I don't know what they're called now, posts on X the other day.
00:18:05
Pamela Rivet
come
00:18:10
Pamela Rivet
I know. I still say tweet. Yeah.
00:18:12
Ana Reisdorf
And, uh, and it was like something about weight loss medication. And then the comments underneath were like, good luck with your blindness. Good luck with your kidney failure.
00:18:20
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
00:18:21
Ana Reisdorf
Like all of sudden I was like, Oh my God. Like
00:18:25
Pamela Rivet
Yeah. I seen one earlier today too, that was talking about it. It's made from a snake venom, apparently that I was not aware of.
00:18:32
Ana Reisdorf
it is made for, it is made from the saliva of a Gila monster, but it's not.
00:18:35
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
00:18:38
Pamela Rivet
It was all negative after that, though.
00:18:38
Ana Reisdorf
Yeah.
00:18:39
Pamela Rivet
It was like, oh, they're going to be blind. They're going to, you know, and I'm not discrediting that that might happen to some people. like ah You know, with any medication, there's a side effect for some, but that's not for all.
00:18:48
Ana Reisdorf
Sure.
00:18:53
Pamela Rivet
And I feel like it's been, you know, kind of blanketed statement that there's negative side effects for everybody. And that's just not the case. Yeah.
00:18:59
Ana Reisdorf
Sure. Yeah, it's just funny to read all the comments.
00:19:02
Pamela Rivet
Yeah. And how passionate they get about it, for sure.
Balancing Multiple Roles and Career Fulfillment
00:19:06
Pamela Rivet
um So kind of looking at, I kind of want i talked to talk to, had seen on your, we had kind of talked before about ah your comment you made about constantly hustling.
00:19:17
Pamela Rivet
That stuck to me so much whenever I read that um with the little questionnaire that we had sent to you, that this was another reason why you had kind of made this shift is that you didn't want the constant hustle. And i feel that so much, especially lately. And so I just kind of wanted to have a little conversation about that and address like, you know, what what exactly does that look like for you?
00:19:41
Ana Reisdorf
Mm-hmm. So this year, in addition to starting the GLP One Hub, I've like wanted to really get more sources of passive income. And I i know that in the beginning, the GLP One Hub is going to take some hustling, but I'm feeling really good about it.
00:19:55
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:19:57
Ana Reisdorf
And so I think that eventually I'll be able to take my foot off the pedal. But like I mentioned, in the last two years, it's just been so hard. And I just felt like every day I was like, emailing people, do you have work for me? do you have work for me? do you have work for me? And it was like just this never ending thing that I was just like constantly having to like, look for work, look for work, look, you know, and I was, I just am tired.
00:20:20
Ana Reisdorf
I'm just tired, you know, and this content creation and talking about GOP ones and just being able to come on and like, Talk about who I am and not having to be like, how can I convince this person to give me money?
00:20:31
Ana Reisdorf
How can I convince this person to give me a work?
00:20:32
Pamela Rivet
evening Right.
00:20:33
Ana Reisdorf
You know, that's what I wanted to back off from. and and instead, like go into a space of more like creativity and work that doesn't feel so like, I don't know, friction.
00:20:48
Ana Reisdorf
ah Friction is the word that keeps coming up for me.
00:20:48
Pamela Rivet
Or just like, Yeah, or just like money driven, because I do feel like we get into these states where, you know, obviously you want a job that's going to pay well.
00:20:52
Ana Reisdorf
hmm.
00:20:57
Pamela Rivet
But then i would imagine with that, you know, you're constantly having to to look for sources just to to where you can have that income come in to where it's a constant hustle. And I think, too, just shifting from.
00:21:11
Pamela Rivet
Us always feeling like a like we're constantly in this rat race. That's that's kind of what I think about, because especially um just being in my current position and also doing MBS on the side.
00:21:25
Pamela Rivet
it's hard. It's hard to juggle something that you're passionate about because I am passionate about both of them. But at the same time, it's, it's the balance between the two and not feeling like I'm constantly pushing towards something else that it's kind of just coming to me. And I know that's what you were saying with the hub is that it's just easy. And I feel that's whenever you kind of find your niche, you know, your thing. And so,
00:21:49
Pamela Rivet
um I'm hopeful that that brings that pass passive income. That way, you know, it's not a constant battle because ah you are still riding on the on the side too, correct?
00:21:58
Ana Reisdorf
her Yeah, I mean, i I, the hub, you know, even though I've got two sponsors, they're not, paying the amount that I need because I started small.
00:22:05
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:22:07
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
00:22:07
Ana Reisdorf
So, um, yeah, I still have to do writing.
00:22:10
Ana Reisdorf
And so it's in the last like two weeks or so, I've really been focusing on just growing a hub, but the last, you know, through this beginning of this year, I've really had to do both.
00:22:17
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:22:20
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
00:22:21
Ana Reisdorf
And my husband's always like, Oh, you can just do both, just split your day. And I'm like, it's not really,
00:22:27
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
00:22:27
Ana Reisdorf
once writing takes a lot, like out of your mental abilities, there's only so much you can do if you, if you're writing, you know, you can't write 10 hours a day.
00:22:29
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:22:35
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
00:22:38
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:22:39
Ana Reisdorf
It's just too hard. And so, yes, I have to do both for a little while, but I'm hopeful, you know, if I continue to put some, put effort into this and and because just the topic is so popular right now, um, I'll be able to spin it up pretty quickly.
00:22:56
Pamela Rivet
Yeah. And I think, and then that's why I think too, that it's like the perfect time. And I mean, that's why I was glad to find it because um it was able to shed light on the things that i had kind of talked about before, but not really. And so I think just having that safe, safe place to kind of discuss that will be good. and
00:23:17
Ana Reisdorf
Yeah. Yeah. like The community aspect is really important to me. And I want to think through more how I can encourage people to share. Cause I think I mentioned to you, I was, I've been struggling a little bit to get people to come on to talk about their stories.
00:23:31
Pamela Rivet
Right.
00:23:33
Ana Reisdorf
Um, I I've got plenty of doctors lined up. I got plenty of dieticians, you know, that's no problem at all. Um, But finding people to come share, like one of my girlfriends was talking to me about it and she's like, oh, I just, I just don't know.
00:23:47
Ana Reisdorf
i just don't know if I can tell people. and like, everybody knows. You lost 40 pounds in like five months.
00:23:51
Pamela Rivet
Yeah. yeah
00:23:54
Ana Reisdorf
Everybody knows.
00:23:54
Pamela Rivet
We know, we know, but we want to hear your experience. And that's the thing.
00:23:58
Ana Reisdorf
Right.
00:23:58
Pamela Rivet
I think the more people discuss their experience, even if it's up and down, I mean, everybody has a different journey with it. So, but I feel like that's where people will start to talk about it more because they're like, oh, I can resonate with that.
00:24:12
Pamela Rivet
Or yes, I felt like that too. And um the stigma will hopefully go away because it really shouldn't be ah stigma. i mean, this has been... a great thing for um a lot of people. And so I'm really hopeful that she does share. So if you're listening, you need to look you need to go share your story. yeah
00:24:31
Ana Reisdorf
Well, there's a lot of, I've recently discovered there's a whole community of YouTubers who are sharing and talking about their journey.
00:24:36
Pamela Rivet
o Yeah.
00:24:39
Ana Reisdorf
And so I've managed to like comment on some of those and and some of them have agreed to come on. So yeah.
00:24:44
Pamela Rivet
Well, good. That's exciting. Yeah.
00:24:46
Ana Reisdorf
Yeah.
00:24:47
Pamela Rivet
Well, that'd be great.
00:24:49
Ana Reisdorf
I hope so.
00:24:49
Pamela Rivet
Well, and, and kind of going back to, ah just career shifting in general, I know for a lot of people that's scary, just, and just the same as far as being confident enough to go from one career to the other, or to kind of simultaneously do the same.
00:25:05
Pamela Rivet
So, um, what advice would you give to women or, you know, just in an an individual in general that might be trying to make a shift that way or kind of hesitant?
00:25:16
Ana Reisdorf
I think that you just, you need, I mean, just cause sometimes have to take the leap. When I first started writing, I kind of, I was doing a nursing home consulting.
00:25:23
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm.
00:25:27
Ana Reisdorf
And so I just kind of ramped that down as the writing started to go up. And I know that I'm lucky to have had that because I could flex my time, you know, but like, I just kind of ramped it.
00:25:38
Ana Reisdorf
And so as the writing went up, I dropped it, a nursing home and and like it, it worked out for me. And I know that not everybody has that sort of ability to to make that change.
00:25:51
Ana Reisdorf
But you know I think that we go through phases too. So right now I'm in like a period of growing the GLP One Hub and I can't drop this other stuff because the GLP One Hub isn't making really any money at the moment.
00:26:02
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
00:26:04
Ana Reisdorf
So I'm going to have to just accept that I'm going to go through probably six months or longer of doing both. And it's maybe going to be tiring, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. So if you're really feeling like lead, like this is, but this idea came to me. It was like one of those ideas that just plops in your head, you know, like Jesus just put it in there. And I was like, yeah.
00:26:31
Pamela Rivet
yeah
00:26:31
Ana Reisdorf
Wow. Okay. And then like I went and I looked in the domain name was available, glp-1hub.com. And i was like, oh my God, this is a sign. Buy it right now.
00:26:40
Pamela Rivet
yeah Yeah.
00:26:41
Ana Reisdorf
bought it like that second. And so,
00:26:43
Pamela Rivet
I don't know what I'm doing yet, but I'm claiming it's mine.
00:26:46
Ana Reisdorf
right. And so when you're like getting all these yeses along the way, like you have to listen to that at some point, even if it means a phase of, you know, doing both.
00:26:54
Pamela Rivet
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:26:59
Pamela Rivet
Right. Of the hustle. We have to hustle.
00:27:01
Ana Reisdorf
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:27:01
Pamela Rivet
Yeah. I mean, and and I think that's going to resonate so much with so many because we know, like, you know, like you said, like you're being pulled, you're being guided and you feel it. And it's just for us to, to listen and to let it happen and not try and have our own reasoning behind it. Like, oh, you know, maybe I shouldn't, or I don't know if this is like what I'm supposed to be doing, but whenever it's easy and it flows, then that's, that's your sign that that's what the direction you need to go.
00:27:29
Pamela Rivet
And that's such a powerful shift to make whenever you can finally just say, okay, I have to stay on course.
Authenticity in the Age of AI
00:27:35
Pamela Rivet
it's gonna It's going to work out.
00:27:37
Ana Reisdorf
Right. And then if there's something that like, you can't stop thinking about, you know, I just, this was in my head and I was like, I gotta do it.
00:27:41
Pamela Rivet
Hmm.
00:27:45
Ana Reisdorf
I gotta do it. You know, it was just like something you wake up in the middle of the night and it's like on your mind.
00:27:50
Pamela Rivet
Mm hmm. I love that. And I'm glad that you did it because I'm a total fan now and I appreciate it.
00:27:57
Ana Reisdorf
Thank you.
00:27:58
Pamela Rivet
um Well, to kind of close out our conversation, we always ask, um what do you think the woman beyond the cape means to you? So this is something that MBS kind of stands behind. Obviously, we're MBS, the woman beyond the cape.
00:28:13
Pamela Rivet
And just thinking of women in general and all the different roles that we play. ah What do you think that means for you?
00:28:21
Ana Reisdorf
um What I've been thinking about a lot lately is like how to really be yourself as much as possible and authentic as much as possible. So that was what I was thinking about is sometimes we put on this front and to, to look a certain way or to be a certain way.
00:28:41
Ana Reisdorf
And I think speaking of the AI, um, the authenticity is going to be even more important because the AI is, is, is perfect and not authentic at all.
00:28:53
Pamela Rivet
Yeah.
00:28:54
Ana Reisdorf
um So I was just thinking, you know, putting that into your business of who you truly are and showing up with your mistakes and your flaws and all of that is what I really connected with, with the woman beyond the cake to show ourselves.
00:29:11
Ana Reisdorf
And I think that's how we're going to stand out, you know,
00:29:13
Pamela Rivet
yeah
00:29:14
Ana Reisdorf
in business and in this world with these robots doing what they're doing, whatever they're doing.
00:29:20
Pamela Rivet
taken over the world.
00:29:22
Ana Reisdorf
Mm-hmm.
00:29:23
Pamela Rivet
Yes. Yes. I love that so much because it is true. i mean, you see it every day on social media. It's a highlight reel. People are not sharing. Now we're getting better. It's getting better, but I do feel that people just want to see people.
00:29:38
Pamela Rivet
We want to see the good, the bad, the ugly, you know, the struggles.
00:29:38
Ana Reisdorf
hu
00:29:42
Pamela Rivet
Um, And that's why i think we connected so much because that's what, you know, I see in your stories. You know, you're constantly showing the different things that you're doing and being honest about it.
00:29:53
Pamela Rivet
And that's what we need to see more of, especially as women and as moms and just being able to show that yes, you know, we're trying to do all these things, but it's not perfect. And we're just trying to do our best every single day and find ourself along
Conclusion and Listener Engagement
00:30:07
Pamela Rivet
the way.
00:30:08
Pamela Rivet
so
00:30:08
Ana Reisdorf
Yeah, yeah, I hope so.
00:30:10
Pamela Rivet
I appreciate that so much. um Well, thank you so much for coming on today. And like I said, we'll drop everything in the show notes as far as your links, ah your Facebook, the podcast, all of the things. And um as always, if you resonated with this, please share it with someone and leave us a review. We would love to hear from you and any other topics that you are wanting to discuss.
00:30:33
Pamela Rivet
But thank you again, Anna. And I will see you on Facebook, on Instagram, and on your podcast as a weekly listener. So thank you so much.
00:30:42
Ana Reisdorf
Oh, thank you so much. I'll talk to you soon.
00:30:44
Pamela Rivet
um Yes. Bye.