Alicia Edge is an Advanced Sports Dietitian and Co-Founder of Compeat Nutrition- an online sports nutrition platform aiming to deliver the best in nutrition advice to support the performance of people in sport and in life. Alicia graduated with a Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics from The University of Newcastle in 2008, and since then has worked in a variety of different roles across community health, private practice and sports settings. In 2016, Alicia and her husband Daniel came up with the concept of Compeat Nutrition and since then have invested a lot of themselves into bringing this amazing company to life...all while raising a young family.
Today, Compeat Nutrition is disrupting the sports & performance dietetic scene, removing the dietitian from the clinic and integrating them into the lives of the active individual whilst at the same time reshaping the value proposition of what is an undervalued and underemployed profession. Compeat Nutrition has established partner agreements with some of the largest gyms and sporting organisations in Australia, the most recent of these being a partnership with Football Federation Australia as the official nutrition support for the Matildas in the lead up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
In this chat, Alicia shares the story of her early career and the events that led her to develop the concept of Compeat Nutrition. We discuss the realities of the job market for dietitians and touch on the many challenges that Alicia has faced over recent years as she and Dan have worked to grow their business. Alicia’s honesty and authenticity in this chat is truly captivating. I hope you enjoy this chat as much as I did!
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