Today we’d like to introduce you to Dustin Strong.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Dustin. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I’m a holistic and applied clinical nutritionist and wellness specialist as well as a business owner, entrepreneur and community volunteer. I come from a long family line of healthcare practitioners that has always informed my interest in health. However, I found that my own global experiences, non-traditional training and genuine passion for wellness and balance are unique, especially in the DFW area. This inspired me almost a decade ago to become a partner for others who are searching for lasting, individual lifestyle changes.
In 2012, I founded Strong On Health, a holistic wellness clinic based in Mansfield, TX, where I work with clients located locally, nationally and globally who are of all ages, health states and fitness levels, providing guidance, motivation and accountability, leading my clients to succeed. My specialties include:
– Advanced Clinical Nutrition Therapy.
– Nutrition Response Testing (NRT) / Muscle Testing.
– Lifestyle & Wellness Counseling.
– Emotional Clearing & Balancing.
– Educational Lectures.
– Healthcare Practitioner Consults and Master Classes.
I know that each person is an individual with his/her own, unique needs and motivations and I specialize in “detective-style” consultation, uncovering the roots of health problems and life course stalemates that often go unnoticed and untreated by traditional methods. I’m ecstatic that my customized, “whole-person” counseling has helped my clients, who come from all walks of life, to thrive.
As a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, a Certified Applied Clinical Nutritionist and a Certified PSYCH-K® Advanced Facilitator, I’ve expanded my practice as a lecturer for universities, conferences and seminars throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth area and beyond and I’m thrilled to be a featured practitioner author in several health-related publications. I’m also a featured wellness expert on the new Amazon Prime Video show, “Yes, And Yoga.”
Outside of my day job, I am a volunteer nutritionist for the Mansfield Chamber of Commerce and Blue Zones Fort Worth. I co-founded and currently direct “Healthy This Way,” a new Mansfield community health initiative launched this year that’s focused on making connections with local businesses to guide people toward simple, healthier choices for their diets and lifestyles.
An entrepreneur at heart, I’ve developed multiple, whole food-based, organic-focused products available nationwide, including Strong On Health Healthy Handfuls, a line of raw, organic, sprouted nuts and, most recently, The Strong On Health Box, a really exciting health and wellness subscription box that helps those who aren’t located near my clinic to still get a great sampling of wellness advice and innovative new products delivered to their door every month. I’m also developing a new line of probiotics that will be coming out soon, as a balanced microbiome is essential to overall health.
Overall, I’m most excited that both my local community clients and my celebrity clients have been able to experience healthier, brighter versions of themselves after making the choice to work with me. It’s been an incredible journey from a single room office to our current multi-practitioner clinic and from one business idea to an entire collection of new ventures. Throughout it all, I’m grateful that I’ve been able to innovate while staying true to my original focus: helping the whole person – mind, body and spirit.
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
It definitely has not always been a smooth road!
All of my business ventures have been entirely self-funded without any outside or family investors and learning to be an entrepreneur (and a successful one, at that) has had its serious ups and its serious downs. On any given day, in addition to being a clinical practitioner, I am accountable for human resources, bookkeeping, marketing, inventory, communications, etc. AND the non-glamorous things like air conditioning issues, negotiating rent, taking out the garbage and everything else that’s needed to keep a business running. I’m also keenly aware that the livelihoods of my amazing staff members depend on the success of my business, which is part of every true business owner’s reality, but one that can put a lot of pressure on one person.
As an entrepreneur in the wellness space, it had been quite challenging to differentiate myself and my businesses from the traditional healthcare industry, especially in the more conservative areas of DFW. However, the mindset of people across the nation, including in the Dallas Fort Worth area, is changing rapidly, and people are becoming more and more interested in taking control of their own health, in finding caring partners to guide them and in holistic, natural approaches to doing that. We’re so lucky to have found some amazing clients who go on to be our biggest champions throughout the local area and beyond.
Strong On Health – what should we know? What do you guys do best? What sets you apart from the competition?
STRONG ON HEALTH
Strong On Health is a team of wellness professionals specializing in a total approach to health. Our specialties include nutrition counseling grounded in clinically-researched, whole-food nutrition, wellness counseling, functional healthcare, transformational lifestyle coaching, educational lectures and professional consults. We focus on the whole person living in the real world, recognizing that each person’s health needs and goals are unique and require customized plans to achieve optimal results.
At Strong On Health, we aim to mend the gap between knowing and doing, by catering to each individual’s unique lifestyle, challenges and goals. We specialize in working with you as a whole person. Whether you’re interested in getting help with a chronic issue, managing your weight, overcoming a dietary condition or developing a healthier relationship with yourself, Strong On Health offers a carefully-curated menu of services designed to meet your needs.
THE STRONG ON HEALTH BOX
As wellness practitioners, we saw that time and time again, people had trouble wading through all of the “health” advice and products available in stores and online, only to throw their hands up and…give up.
Determined to find a better way for those who couldn’t come to see us in person, we developed the Strong On Health Box, a monthly subscription box full of the newest wellness products available. Our team of holistic health experts thoughtfully hand-selects a variety of exceptional products for you each month – superfoods, supplements, personal care items, lifestyle goods – and we ship them straight to your door. But before we do, we add in a little fun, some great education and a whole lot of love.
Each month, our subscribers receive a special delivery packed with wellness goodies focused on specific health areas:
– Superfoods and Whole Food Nutrition.
– High-quality, New Products Each and Every Month.
– Exciting Products Chosen by Our Holistic Health Team.
The Strong on Health Box is designed to help you discover what your body wants from you, what you enjoy and how to get in the habit of doing good things for yourself. The “easy button” for a healthy lifestyle, The Strong On Health Box is perfect for the wellness enthusiast in you or your family.
What moment in your career do you look back most fondly on?
It’s really tough to choose one, proud moment because I’ve witnessed such amazing transformations over the years in my clients, from overcoming fertility issues to reducing the worst symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease to virtually eliminating auto-immune conditions people thought they’d have to live with for the rest of their lives. It’s remarkable how much can be changed through a holistic approach to health.
However, I have a special place in my heart for children, who are often the innocent victims of misinformation, poor nutrition and toxic overburden.
I think that one of the proudest moments of my career has been working closely with a young boy who was non-verbal and emotionally-detached, who had major gastrointestinal issues and who had a limited function at home and at school. Thanks to the faith his family had in me and my methods, after some months of dedicated time working closely together, we were able to find a holistic, drugless solution for him. He is now a smiling, positive child who is not only able to digest whole, healthy foods but who also interacts with others and who is able to have real conversations with all kinds of people. I’m happy to report that he has quite a sense of humor that we didn’t know existed until now! His life and the lives of those around him are changed now for the better and his life has a chance to be more complete because, rather than label him and dismiss him, we approached him as a whole, human being with all the energy, spirit, attention and options that he deserves.
Experiences like that are what drives me forward every day, even on the challenging days, because they don’t just make me proud. They make me grateful that I can use what I’ve learned to try to make one more person’s life better.
Contact Info:
- Address: Strong On Health
2300 Matlock Rd Suite 4
Mansfield, TX 76063 - Website: www.strongonhealth.com
- Phone: (682) 518-3070
- Email: info@strongonhealth.com
- Instagram: @strongonhealth, @strongonhealthbox, @dustinstrong_life
- Facebook: @strongonhealth, @strongonhealthbox, @dustinstrong.life
- Yelp: https://www.yelp.com/biz/strong-on-health-mansfield
- Other: www.strongonhealthbox.com
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