Meet Your Mentors: Why The MENTORD Podcast Is the Must-Have Companion for Every Dietitian

The field of dietetics is full of passion, science, and service. But let’s be honest: it's also full of burnout, overwhelm, and unanswered questions.

As a dietitian, you were trained in MNT, lab values, and evidence-based care. You can recite the Nutrition Care Process backward. But where were the classes on setting boundaries? On managing client emotions in session? On owning your scope while still showing up with compassion?

Enter: The MENTORD Podcast — a podcast by dietitians, for dietitians, designed to answer the questions no one asked you in school but are vital to your long-term success and sanity.

Meet Your Hosts: The Real RDs Behind the Mic

Bethany Wheeler, MS, RDN, LD, CEDS-C, and Danielle Southern, RD, CEDS-C, are both experienced eating disorder dietitians, supervisors, and coaches who know what it feels like to navigate the messy, nuanced world of outpatient care.

Bethany is the founder of B. Wheeler Nutrition & MENTORD Dietitian Coaching + Consulting, a weight-inclusive mentorship and supervision practice for dietitians who want to do ethical, values-aligned work without burning out. Danielle is a grounded, highly skilled clinician who brings warmth and realness to every conversation about the emotional demands of our work. She is also the founder of Southern Nutrition, where she offers nutrition counseling as well as run coaching. Together, they create space for connection, clarity, and compassion — with a side of clinical depth and dry humor.

They aren’t here to tell you you’re doing everything wrong. They’re here to validate that this work is hard and that you can do it in a way that honors both your clients and yourself.

What Makes The MENTORD Podcast Essential Listening for Dietitians

This isn’t your average dietitian podcast with textbook tips and surface-level interviews. The MENTORD Podcast is for the dietitian who wants more — more nuance, more support, more truth.

Whether you're:

• A dietitian in private practice feeling isolated or unsure,

• A new RD overwhelmed by imposter syndrome,

• Or a seasoned clinician questioning whether you can keep going in this field without losing yourself,

...this podcast was made for you.

Each episode offers real talk on topics like:

• Navigating client resistance with curiosity instead of control

• Breaking up with a client when the fit isn’t right

• Understanding the nervous system and its role in nutrition counseling

• Reclaiming your scope without abandoning your ethics

• Building a sustainable private practice that doesn’t rely on hustle culture

And yes, we also talk about boundaries. Because boundaries are a must for dietitians — not just for your clients, but for you.

Why This Podcast Will Change the Way You Work (and Feel)

Let’s face it: many dietitians are running on compassion fumes.

You got into this field to help people, not to spend your evenings questioning every session or Googling how to write a discharge email without crying. But without mentorship, community, or real-world tools, it's easy to slip into burnout, second-guessing, and shame.

This podcast isn’t just about nutrition. It’s about the human side of being a dietitian — the part that holds space, regulates emotions, and manages the invisible labor of therapeutic care.

Here’s what adding The MENTORD Podcast to your weekly routine will do:

• Help you feel less alone in the hard stuff

• Give you language to name what’s not working

• Offer tools that are trauma-informed and actually usable

• Encourage confidence without pretending you have to know it all

• Invite you into a community that gets it (and gets you)

If you’re a dietitian searching for:

• Trauma-informed nutrition counseling

• Clinical support for eating disorder dietitians

• How to avoid burnout as a dietitian

• Boundaries in private practice

• Non-diet nutrition therapy

• Nervous system-informed care

• Supervision for dietitians

...you're in the right place.

We created this podcast to be part supervision session, part pep talk, part professional development. With each episode, you'll get grounded, practical insights you can take directly into your next session — no expensive CEU required.

Ready to Feel More Supported in Your Work?

The MENTORD Podcast is your invitation to stop doing this alone. We're here to share the messy middle, the quiet doubts, the bold clarity, and everything in between.

🎧 Start with our first official episode: Boundaries are a MUST for Dietitians

Your scope, your energy, and your clients will thank you.