How to build a start a business & stay healthy, Rhian Stephenson, Artah
How To Start Up by FF&M
Rhian Stephenson is a nutritionist, naturopath and founder of ARTAH, the practitioner-led supplement brand built around a core belief: performance starts with your health.
In this episode, Rhian shares the realities of building a company in the wellness space, how to stay healthy while navigating the pressures of entrepreneurship & why understanding your physiology is one of the most powerful business tools you have.
We cover:
- Think of yourself as your business’s most important asset
- Your performance will affect the whole team
- Your health is vital: try keeping a one-month food/energy log
- Know that protein is fuel
- Understand your needs and proactively manage your mind/food/exercise
- Prioritise and be disciplined about doing what you can in these areas
- Try having a mentor, like a sports coach, to help you keep improving
- Being self-employed is both the hardest the most rewarding way of working
- Fibre (we should all be having 30 gm a day) affects mood, energy and immune systems
- Female founders have to accept they are cyclical, and that ageing affects oestrogen levels
- If in any doubt have your hormone levels checked
- Magnesium aids good sleep
- Try to speak to other founders
- Know that constant comparison via social media is simply destructive - try breaks from it
Rhian has seen first-hand, both in clinical practice and as a founder herself, how many people push themselves to the point of burnout while building businesses. Her mission with ARTAH is not only to create targeted, science-backed supplements but also to empower people, especially entrepreneurs, to protect their minds and bodies as they grow their careers.
FF&M enables you to own your own PR & produces podcasts.
Recorded, edited & published by Juliet Fallowfield, 2024 MD & Founder of PR & Communications consultancy for startups Fallow, Field & Mason. Email us at hello@fallowfieldmason.com or DM us on instagram @fallowfieldmason.
FF&M recommends:
- LastPass the password-keeping site that syncs between devices.
- Google Workspace is brilliant for small businesses
- Buzzsprout podcast 'how to' & hosting directory
- Canva has proved invaluable for creating all the social media assets and audio bites.
MUSIC CREDIT Funk Game Loop by Kevin MacLeod. Link & Licence
