Today we’d like to introduce you to Katherine Melot.
Hi Katherine, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
I always joke that I was born with entrepreneurial blood running through my veins. From the time I was a toddler, I was always creating and selling something. This trait I attribute to my father, who ran his own businesses my entire life. When I was 12, I chose my career path, Chiropractic, after a local Chiropractor changed my family’s life. The opportunity to help others and own my very own medical office was the perfect marriage of everything I felt called to do, and I recognized that at a very early age.
I feel like most incredible, groundbreaking companies are created from a soul-shattering event that catapults a needed but difficult change in the founder’s life. This could not be more true in my case. The birthbabybody that is running today has evolved and created out of necessity. Necessity for my personal growth, mental health, and necessity for my clients to have the best, most nurturing and supportive environment to receive their care.
The unfortunate dissolution of my relationship, both romantically and as a business partner, was the catalyst I needed to take the leap into morphing birthbabybody into my absolute dream business. I dug my heels in, tapped into my purpose, and started the best and hardest journey of my life. Within a week of leaving my previous life, birthbabybody transitioned into something incredible: a holistic healthcare center for parents. I signed a lease, built a new website, found all the software I needed, hired an employee, moved my equipment, all the while also figuring out my own personal needs for healing and transition. As I battled my own personal demons, I harnessed my desire to embrace my purpose and build a business and a movement that mattered.
Five short months after opening our team has grown from two people to ten. We now offer Chiropractic care, rehab, massage, fitness, parenting classes, and birth coaching. We always offer the option of bringing your little ones to play during your treatments. Our entire goal is to create a community that stimulates the importance of self-care and supports all lifestyles and identities. Although our main demographic is prenatal and postpartum women and their newborns, we want to instill the trust in our patients to refer us to their family members and friends when a solution is needed for bodywork.
Pride does not even begin to explain the way I feel when I think about the community we are building and the vibe we have created for both our patients and our team. I am so lucky to have found like-minded women with the same goals and passion. Every member of our team contributes to strengthening our mission every single day. Ultimately, we hope that our business creates an even larger movement in society that voices the need for every parent to receive support and community during their parenting years.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
The path to get to where I am today was not smooth sailing. I had to overcome so many obstacles along the way, some of the biggest being my own personal fear and self-doubt. Owning a business is hard. Managing employees is hard. Making good business decisions is hard. There isn’t a large amount of security in owning your own small business. It took a lot of self-reflection, therapy, and an incredible support system to help me come to the realization that my purpose and my passion is bigger than those fears. Once I was able to change my focus to how important it was to bring my gifts to the world and show up in a big way, many of the obstacles I was facing seemed smaller. One of my favorite quotes through this whole process comes from the book Untamed by Glennon Doyle: “You can do hard things”.
I take that to heart every day. I can do hard things. I can do very hard things. I will do hard things.
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Birthbabybody Chiropractic & Wellness Center?
Birthbabybody is a holistic care center that provides chiropractic, massage, and rehabilitation services to the perinatal community, newborns, and full families. We strive to empower our client’s health journey by supplying more natural and less invasive solutions for total body and mind care. We combine modern techniques and traditional practices to create personalized care plans for our clients in a nurturing and supportive environment.
Our community is what sets us apart. We have an open and supportive environment where you can bring your kids to appointments, stay and chat as long as you need, feed your babies in the middle of an appointment, or even let us watch your kid while you get a massage. Our office is an open environment for parents to feel all the feelings. We laugh alot and sometimes we cry because parenting is hard! Ultimately, we want to make sure parents feel supported and know they aren’t alone in their journey. By combining community with innovative holistic health care, we have been able to create an environment where our patients thrive both physically and mentally.
Are there any books, apps, podcasts or blogs that help you do your best?
Podcast:
How I build this
I love marketing
Books:
Untamed
You Are A Badass
Dare To Lead
Radical Candor
The ONE thing
Contact Info:
- Email: kmelot@birthbabybody.
com - Website: www.birthbabybody.com
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Image Credits:
Photographer: Angela Doran
