Health & Wellness Business Podcast: Build Your Business, Grow Your Practice & Expand Your Expertise

Dr. Kela Smith, PhD

Ready to turn your passion for health & wellness into a career, specialty, or business you love—but not sure what to do next? Whether you're a health coach, chiropractor, nutritionist, dietitian, acupuncturist, doula, women's health practitioner, wellness professional, or aspiring wellness entrepreneur, this podcast will help you build your business, grow your practice, and expand your expertise. Hosted by Dr. Kela Smith, PhD, Health & Wellness Business Strategist and Women's Health Expert, each episode brings you practical strategies for developing a specialty, positioning yourself as an expert, attracting the right clients, marketing and selling with confidence, increasing revenue, and building a sustainable wellness business. Whether you're building something new, growing an existing practice, or exploring a specialty such as fertility and women's health, you'll discover how the right expertise and business strategy can create new opportunities for your career, business, and impact. You don't need to have every step figured out. This show will help you get clear on what to focus on next. Ready for your next step? Take the complimentary Wellness Business Growth Assessment to discover your current stage and receive your personalized Assessment Guide + complimentary Wellness Business Growth Roadmap training. Take the Assessment: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/quiz Connect with Dr. Kela: Website: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com Instagram: @growyourwellnessbusiness

  1. 5d ago

    029: Your Signature Framework: Stop Teaching Everything and Create a Method with Dr. Kela Smith

    You can know a lot and still be hard to remember. If you're constantly teaching, posting, and sharing your expertise, but your audience still isn't clear on what makes your approach uniquely yours, it may be time to stop teaching everything and create a signature method. In this episode, Dr. Kela Smith reveals how creating her Hormone Puzzle Method helped turn her expertise into a clear, memorable process. You'll learn how to build a framework that creates clarity and confidence, makes your marketing and content easier, and can become the foundation for your programs, courses, workshops, and long-term business growth. 👉 Stop sharing more information. Start becoming known for your method. 🧩 Working hard on your wellness business but still not seeing the growth you want? 🔍 Take the complimentary Wellness Business Growth Assessment to discover your current stage and what to focus on next: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/quiz Plus, when you take the assessment, you'll get: ✓ Your personalized assessment results ✓ FREE access to Wellness Business Growth Roadmap: 5 Stages to Start, Grow & Scale a Successful Health & Wellness Business 🚀 Ready for personalized business support? A complimentary Clarity Call with Dr. Kela gives you the opportunity to talk one-on-one about where your wellness business is now, where you want it to go, what may be keeping you stuck, and whether working together could be the right next step. 📞 Book Your Complimentary Clarity Call: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/clarity-call About Dr. Kela: Dr. Kela Smith, PhD is a Health & Wellness Business Strategist, and Women's Health Expert who helps health coaches, women's health practitioners, and wellness entrepreneurs build their businesses, grow their practices, and expand their expertise. Having built a successful brand in the fertility and hormone health space, she now helps wellness professionals turn their passion and expertise into profitable, purpose-driven businesses. She is also the host of The Hormone Puzzle Podcast, a trusted resource for fertility, hormone, and women's health education. 📲 Follow Dr. Kela on Instagram: @‌growyourwellnessbusiness 📩 Sponsorship & Media Inquiries: media@hormonepuzzlesociety.com Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links, meaning a commission may be earned at no additional cost to you.

    029: Your Signature Framework: Stop Teaching Everything and Create a Method with Dr. Kela Smith
  2. Sep 30

    028: How Virtual Summits Can Explode Your Business with Dr. Kela Smith

    What if one virtual event could help you grow your audience, build your email list, expand your authority, create collaborations, AND generate new revenue opportunities? In this special episode, Dr. Kela Smith shares how she has used virtual summits for nearly six years to grow her health and wellness business—and why you don't need a massive audience to host one. You'll learn how the right summit can help you reach new people through strategic partnerships, build an email list of potential clients, build know, like, and trust, create valuable professional relationships, and connect attendees to your programs and offers. Dr. Kela also breaks down the foundation of a successful summit—from choosing the right audience and topic to finding aligned speakers and creating a strategy for what happens after the event. 👉 Ready to build your own virtual summit? Join Dr. Kela for the Virtual Summit Launch Lab, October 20–22, a live three-day implementation experience designed to help health and wellness professionals turn their summit idea into a clear launch strategy. 🚀 Join now at the founding price before it increases October 13: http://www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/summitlab 🔍 Take the complimentary Wellness Business Growth Assessment to discover your current stage and what to focus on next: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/quiz Plus, when you take the assessment, you'll get: ✓ Your personalized assessment results ✓ FREE access to Wellness Business Growth Roadmap: 5 Stages to Start, Grow & Scale a Successful Health & Wellness Business 🚀 Ready for personalized business support? A complimentary Clarity Call with Dr. Kela gives you the opportunity to talk one-on-one about where your wellness business is now, where you want it to go, what may be keeping you stuck, and whether working together could be the right next step. 📞 Book Your Complimentary Clarity Call: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/clarity-call About Dr. Kela: Dr. Kela Smith, PhD is a Health & Wellness Business Strategist, and Women's Health Expert who helps health coaches, women's health practitioners, and wellness entrepreneurs build their businesses, grow their practices, and expand their expertise. Having built a successful brand in the fertility and hormone health space, she now helps wellness professionals turn their passion and expertise into profitable, purpose-driven businesses. She is also the host of the Hormone Puzzle Podcast, a trusted resource for fertility, hormone, and women's health education. 📲 Follow Dr. Kela on Instagram: @‌growyourwellnessbusiness 📩 Sponsorship & Media Inquiries: media@hormonepuzzlesociety.com Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links, meaning a commission may be earned at no additional cost to you.

    028: How Virtual Summits Can Explode Your Business with Dr. Kela Smith
  3. Sep 30

    027: How Practitioners Can Become Known for Their Expertise Without Living on Social Media with Allison Lane

    Think social media is the only way to become known for your expertise? You could be spending your limited time trying to be everywhere while the people who need you still don't understand what makes you different. Allison Lane shares how health and wellness practitioners can build visibility without constantly relying on social media. You'll learn how to use email marketing, speaking, media, events, content, and a clear message to become known for your expertise, plus how to turn what your clients actually say into stronger marketing and a memorable signature method. 👉 You don't need to be everywhere. You need to be memorable where your people are. 🧩 Working hard on your wellness business but still not seeing the growth you want? 🔍 Take the complimentary Wellness Business Growth Assessment to discover your current stage and what to focus on next: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/quiz Plus, when you take the assessment, you'll get: ✓ Your personalized assessment results ✓ FREE access to Wellness Business Growth Roadmap: 5 Stages to Start, Grow & Scale a Successful Health & Wellness Business 🚀 Ready for personalized business support? A complimentary Clarity Call with Dr. Kela gives you the opportunity to talk one-on-one about where your wellness business is now, where you want it to go, what may be keeping you stuck, and whether working together could be the right next step. 📞 Book Your Complimentary Clarity Call: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/clarity-call About the Guest: Allison Lane helps accomplished women turn their life's work into books that get noticed. For more than 25 years, she has helped thousands of experts clarify their ideas, shape market-ready books, build credible platforms, and create visibility that opens bigger doors. Her clients secure Big Five and premium hybrid publishing deals, land on bestseller lists, appear on top podcasts, speak on major stages, and earn national media in outlets including CBS Mornings, Forbes, People, The New York Times, and Psychology Today. Her clients include Tracy Otsuka, author of ADHD for Smart Ass Women; Emily Lampkin, author of Duct Tape and White Lies; Jessica Waite, author of The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards: a Memoir; Caroline Maguire, author of Friendship Skills for Neurodivergent Adults; and more. Allison hosts The Author's Edge, a marketing podcast for experts who want practical guidance on publishing, platform building, book marketing, and long-term visibility. Connect on LinkedIn at https://linkedin.com/in/allisonlanelit Get her Free 7 Tips to Build Real Authority and get recognized for your expertise (not your follower count) HERE. About the host: Dr. Kela Smith, PhD is a Health & Wellness Business Strategist, and Women's Health Expert who helps health coaches, women's health practitioners, and wellness entrepreneurs build their businesses, grow their practices, and expand their expertise. Having built a successful brand in the fertility and hormone health space, she now helps wellness professionals turn their passion and expertise into profitable, purpose-driven businesses. She is also the host of The Hormone Puzzle Podcast, a trusted resource for fertility, hormone, and women's health education. 📲 Follow Dr. Kela on Instagram: @‌growyourwellnessbusiness 📩 Sponsorship & Media Inquiries: media@hormonepuzzlesociety.com Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links, meaning a commission may be earned at no additional cost to you.

    027: How Practitioners Can Become Known for Their Expertise Without Living on Social Media with Allison Lane
  4. Sep 23

    026: Why I Don't Want You to Be a High-Ticket Closer (I Want You to Own the Business) with Dr. Kela Smith

    Are you focused on making more money, but not thinking about what you're actually building? You can earn a strong income through high-ticket sales, but there's a bigger opportunity: building a business, offer, and assets you actually own. Dr. Kela Smith explains why high-ticket sales is an important skill, but shouldn't be the end goal for an entrepreneur. You'll learn how owning your offers, programs, intellectual property, brand, and systems can give you more control over your income and future, and how to start thinking like a CEO who builds for long-term value, impact, and wealth. 👉 Don't just focus on making more money. Build something that creates value for years. 🧩 Working hard on your wellness business but still not seeing the growth you want? 🔍 Take the complimentary Wellness Business Growth Assessment to discover your current stage and what to focus on next: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/quiz Plus, when you take the assessment, you'll get: ✓ Your personalized assessment results ✓ FREE access to Wellness Business Growth Roadmap: 5 Stages to Start, Grow & Scale a Successful Health & Wellness Business 🚀 Ready for personalized business support? A complimentary Clarity Call with Dr. Kela gives you the opportunity to talk one-on-one about where your wellness business is now, where you want it to go, what may be keeping you stuck, and whether working together could be the right next step. 📞 Book Your Complimentary Clarity Call: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/clarity-call About Dr. Kela: Dr. Kela Smith, PhD is a Health & Wellness Business Strategist, and Women's Health Expert who helps health coaches, women's health practitioners, and wellness entrepreneurs build their businesses, grow their practices, and expand their expertise. Having built a successful brand in the fertility and hormone health space, she now helps wellness professionals turn their passion and expertise into profitable, purpose-driven businesses. She is also the host of The Hormone Puzzle Podcast, a trusted resource for fertility, hormone, and women's health education. 📲 Follow Dr. Kela on Instagram: @‌growyourwellnessbusiness 📩 Sponsorship & Media Inquiries: media@hormonepuzzlesociety.com Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links, meaning a commission may be earned at no additional cost to you.

    026: Why I Don't Want You to Be a High-Ticket Closer (I Want You to Own the Business) with Dr. Kela Smith
  5. Sep 16

    025: Why Having an Email List Is Your Biggest Asset in Business with Dr. Kela Smith

    What happens when the social media algorithm changes and your reach disappears? Your email list is the audience you actually own. In this episode, our host, Dr. Kela Smith, shares why building an email list should be a priority from day one, plus how to grow it with lead magnets, nurture subscribers with personal emails, repurpose your content, and turn your list into a reliable channel for promoting your offers. 👉 You're not building a list. You're building relationships that grow your business. 🧩 Working hard on your wellness business but still not seeing the growth you want? 🔍 Take the complimentary Wellness Business Growth Assessment to discover your current stage and what to focus on next: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/quiz Plus, when you take the assessment, you'll get: ✓ Your personalized assessment results ✓ FREE access to Wellness Business Growth Roadmap: 5 Stages to Start, Grow & Scale a Successful Health & Wellness Business 🚀 Ready for personalized business support? A complimentary Clarity Call with Dr. Kela gives you the opportunity to talk one-on-one about where your wellness business is now, where you want it to go, what may be keeping you stuck, and whether working together could be the right next step. 📞 Book Your Complimentary Clarity Call: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/clarity-call About Dr. Kela: Dr. Kela Smith, PhD is a Health & Wellness Business Strategist, and Women's Health Expert who helps health coaches, women's health practitioners, and wellness entrepreneurs build their businesses, grow their practices, and expand their expertise. Having built a successful brand in the fertility and hormone health space, she now helps wellness professionals turn their passion and expertise into profitable, purpose-driven businesses. She is also the host of the Hormone Puzzle Podcast, a trusted resource for fertility, hormone, and women's health education. 📲 Follow Dr. Kela on Instagram: @‌growyourwellnessbusiness 📩 Sponsorship & Media Inquiries: media@hormonepuzzlesociety.com Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links, meaning a commission may be earned at no additional cost to you.

    025: Why Having an Email List Is Your Biggest Asset in Business with Dr. Kela Smith
  6. Sep 9

    024: How to Scale Your Coaching Practice Without Burning Out with Dr. Alicia Newsome

    How do you scale a health and wellness business without burning yourself out in the process? If you're trying to grow your wellness business while being the practitioner, marketer, salesperson, and operator all at once, this episode is for you. Dr. Alicia Newsome shares practical ways to use delegation, automation, client boundaries, and business systems to build a more sustainable health and wellness business. Learn what to automate, what to delegate, when to hire support, and how to design your week around the work that actually needs your expertise. 👉 Build systems that protect your time, energy, and capacity to grow without doing everything yourself. 🧩 Working hard on your wellness business but still not seeing the growth you want? 🔍 Take the complimentary Wellness Business Growth Assessment to discover your current stage and what to focus on next: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/quiz Plus, when you take the assessment, you'll get: ✓ Your personalized assessment results ✓ FREE access to Wellness Business Growth Roadmap: 5 Stages to Start, Grow & Scale a Successful Health & Wellness Business 🚀 Ready for personalized business support? A complimentary Clarity Call with Dr. Kela gives you the opportunity to talk one-on-one about where your wellness business is now, where you want it to go, what may be keeping you stuck, and whether working together could be the right next step. 📞 Book Your Complimentary Clarity Call: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/clarity-call About the Guest: Dr. Alicia Newsome is a Functional Medicine Practitioner, executive advisor, international speaker, and 3x bestselling author who helps high-performing women build profitable businesses without sacrificing their wellbeing, their relationships, or their values. After struggling with her own hormonal imbalances starting as a teenager, she discovered functional medicine and dedicated her career to empowering women through root-cause care. With over 15 years of clinical and entrepreneurial experience, she brings a rare blend of hormone expertise and business strategy to practitioners and coaches who want to scale sustainably. Dr. Newsome has conducted trainings at Yale University, Mayo Clinic, and Johns Hopkins, and has been featured in USA Today, ABC, NBC, FOX, and CBS. She is the recipient of the United States Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award and host of The Whole & Complete Woman Podcast. 📲 Follow Dr. Alicia on Instagram: @‌dr.alicianewsome 🎁 Grab her free wellness gift bundle perfect for coaches and practitioners who want to optimize their own health while building their practice HERE. About the Host: Dr. Kela Smith, PhD is a Health & Wellness Business Strategist, and Women's Health Expert who helps health coaches, women's health practitioners, and wellness entrepreneurs build their businesses, grow their practices, and expand their expertise. Having built a successful brand in the fertility and hormone health space, she now helps wellness professionals turn their passion and expertise into profitable, purpose-driven businesses. She is also the host of the Hormone Puzzle Podcast, a trusted resource for fertility, hormone, and women's health education. 📲 Follow Dr. Kela on Instagram: @‌growyourwellnessbusiness 📩 Sponsorship & Media Inquiries: media@hormonepuzzlesociety.com Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links, meaning a commission may be earned at no additional cost to you.

    024: How to Scale Your Coaching Practice Without Burning Out with Dr. Alicia Newsome
  7. Sep 2

    023: Stage Fright, How to Speak Like the Bad Ass You Are with Dr. Kela Smith

    Afraid of speaking, going live, or putting yourself out there? That fear may be keeping potential clients from finding you and limiting your ability to grow your wellness business. Dr. Kela Smith shares how to build speaking confidence through repetition, shift from performing to serving, and use speaking as a powerful marketing and visibility tool for your health and wellness business. Learn her simple story-based speaking formula, how to sound authentic instead of scripted, and how strategic speaking opportunities can increase your visibility, build trust, create connections, and help you reach more potential clients. 👉 Your voice is a business-building asset. Stop waiting for confidence and start practicing. 🧩 Working hard on your wellness business but still not seeing the growth you want? 🔍 Take the complimentary Wellness Business Growth Assessment to discover your current stage and what to focus on next: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/quiz Plus, when you take the assessment, you'll get: ✓ Your personalized assessment results ✓ FREE access to Wellness Business Growth Roadmap: 5 Stages to Start, Grow & Scale a Successful Health & Wellness Business 🚀 Ready for personalized business support? A complimentary Clarity Call with Dr. Kela gives you the opportunity to talk one-on-one about where your wellness business is now, where you want it to go, what may be keeping you stuck, and whether working together could be the right next step. 📞 Book Your Complimentary Clarity Call: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/clarity-call About Dr. Kela: Dr. Kela Smith, PhD is a Health & Wellness Business Strategist, and Women's Health Expert who helps health coaches, women's health practitioners, and wellness entrepreneurs build their businesses, grow their practices, and expand their expertise. Having built a successful brand in the fertility and hormone health space, she now helps wellness professionals turn their passion and expertise into profitable, purpose-driven businesses. She is also the host of the Hormone Puzzle Podcast, a trusted resource for fertility, hormone, and women's health education. 📲 Follow Dr. Kela on Instagram: @‌growyourwellnessbusiness 📩 Sponsorship & Media Inquiries: media@hormonepuzzlesociety.com Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links, meaning a commission may be earned at no additional cost to you.

    023: Stage Fright, How to Speak Like the Bad Ass You Are with Dr. Kela Smith
  8. Aug 26

    022: Steal My Collaboration Strategy: How One Partnership Can Change Your Entire Business with Dr. Kela Smith

    🎙️ A new chapter for the podcast! The Fertility Coaching Mastery Podcast is now the Health & Wellness Business Podcast, where we'll be expanding our conversations around building your business, growing your practice, expanding your expertise, and creating greater income and impact in the health and wellness space. I'm excited about this next chapter and all the new conversations we'll be able to have as we help health and wellness professionals build successful businesses and practices. Struggling to grow your wellness business because you think you need a bigger audience first? You may be overlooking one of the most powerful ways to get in front of the right people: collaboration. Dr. Kela Smith pulls back the curtain on the relationship-building strategy that has helped her grow organically without relying on a massive social media following or successful paid ads. Learn how to find the right collaboration partners, reach out without making it transactional, create value for someone else's audience, and turn one relationship into podcasts, speaking opportunities, referrals, summits, and more. You'll also discover the common collaboration mistakes that can cost you opportunities and how to create a simple strategy you can start using right away. 👉 You don't have to build your business alone. One genuine relationship can open the door to many more opportunities. About Dr. Kela: Dr. Kela Smith, PhD is a Health & Wellness Business Strategist, and Women's Health Expert who helps health coaches, women's health practitioners, and wellness entrepreneurs build their businesses, grow their practices, and expand their expertise. Having built a successful brand in the fertility and hormone health space, she now helps wellness professionals turn their passion and expertise into profitable, purpose-driven businesses. She is also the host of the Hormone Puzzle Podcast, a trusted resource for fertility, hormone, and women's health education. 📲 Follow Dr. Kela on Instagram: @‌growyourwellnessbusiness 📩 Sponsorship & Media Inquiries: media@hormonepuzzlesociety.com Disclaimer: Some links may be affiliate links, meaning a commission may be earned at no additional cost to you.

    022: Steal My Collaboration Strategy: How One Partnership Can Change Your Entire Business with Dr. Kela Smith

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Ready to turn your passion for health & wellness into a career, specialty, or business you love—but not sure what to do next? Whether you're a health coach, chiropractor, nutritionist, dietitian, acupuncturist, doula, women's health practitioner, wellness professional, or aspiring wellness entrepreneur, this podcast will help you build your business, grow your practice, and expand your expertise. Hosted by Dr. Kela Smith, PhD, Health & Wellness Business Strategist and Women's Health Expert, each episode brings you practical strategies for developing a specialty, positioning yourself as an expert, attracting the right clients, marketing and selling with confidence, increasing revenue, and building a sustainable wellness business. Whether you're building something new, growing an existing practice, or exploring a specialty such as fertility and women's health, you'll discover how the right expertise and business strategy can create new opportunities for your career, business, and impact. You don't need to have every step figured out. This show will help you get clear on what to focus on next. Ready for your next step? Take the complimentary Wellness Business Growth Assessment to discover your current stage and receive your personalized Assessment Guide + complimentary Wellness Business Growth Roadmap training. Take the Assessment: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com/quiz Connect with Dr. Kela: Website: www.growyourwellnessbusiness.com Instagram: @growyourwellnessbusiness