Matty Lansdown is a scientist, Nutritionist and an Emotional Eating and Self Sabotage coach that specialises in weight loss and self confidence for women and busy mother’s. Matty runs an online group program, has a successful podcast ‘How to NOT get sick and die’ with an impressively large audience and is an absolute inspiration in the emotional eating space.
In this episode, Matty shares:
- His unconventional entry into the health industry.
- The exposure he had to natural medicine growing up, including his mum healing his childhood eczema naturally.
- Studying forensic science at university.
- Working for a company in nutritional epigenetics, focusing on hyper personalised nutrition.
- Being part of a cancer research team for a hospital in Melbourne.
- Living a double life by working in western cancer treatment but researching natural and holistic cancer treatments in his spare time.
- Doing a lot of his learning reading articles on pubmed.
- Leaving the cancer business and moving into the nutrition world.
- His passion for behaviour change, mindset and supporting people with emotional eating.
- Growing a large following through the success of his podcast ‘How Not to get Sick and Die’.
- His journey starting the podcast and releasing an episode every week for the past 4 years.
- Getting burnout from trying to be on all of the different platforms.
- How his love for public speaking led to his mentor suggesting he start a podcast.
- Hitting 150,000 monthly listeners after releasing 100 episodes.
- The networking and opportunities that come from having a podcast.
- How to get out of the mindset of comparison, competition and scarcity.
- Mirroring your consumer behaviour with the kind of consumer behaviour that you want to attract.
- The importance of walking our talk and being the example for the people we work with.
- The reality of starting a business and the challenges that can come with it.
- Being a student for life and keeping yourself open to the lessons.
- His transition from full time work to going full time in his business quicker than he planned.
- Why marketing and messaging is one of the most important things that we can learn to do.
- The mindset shifts involved in growing a successful business.
- Putting the input in to get the output.
- Developing systems and outsourcing things in your business.
- Keeping business seperate from personal life & personal space.
- Mapping out a highly profitable business structure.
- Staying in your own lane and not getting swept up with what other people are doing.
- The importance of focusing and doing the one thing until it works.
- Succeeding in business without having or using social media.
- Learning that consistency is more important than frequency.
- And so much more!
Matty’s book recommendation was ‘Story Brand’ by Donald Miller.
Learn more about Matty via his website https://mattylansdown.com/ or listen to his podcast ‘How to NOT get sick and die’ via apple podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/how-to-not-get-sick-and-die/id1450212088) or spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2FTMqWqzD89wyFMHUudbX9).
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