If I’ve learned something about food and nutrition professionals, it is that we aspire to be life-changers. We don’t enter this profession because it will make us rich or famous. We entered it because we wanted to make an impact. A positive impact. A life-changing impact. However, reality happens. We don’t have the impact we desire. Clients don’t show up. Audiences stop following. Our messages seem to fall on deaf ears. We get disheartened. We get burned out.

When it comes to conversations about food and nutrition, Registered Dietitian Nutritionists are the trusted, evidence-based experts. But only if we are invited to the “tables” where these conversations are taking place.