We were lucky to catch up with Stacy Reuille-Dupont recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Stacy, thanks for joining us today. If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

My first career was in exercise science and health club management. I have always been someone who physically moves, a lot. I need movement to clear my head, facilitate my many ideas, and filter my action steps. I know the power of movement as medicine and wanted to give that back to the world. In my early professional years, I worked at big health clubs, and corporate fitness centers, taught classes and certification programs, and eventually owned a multi-purpose health club. However, I often found myself in conversations and client experiences my colleagues did not have. Things like conversations around mental health and life dreams.

I knew I needed more skills during one session when my client confronted her anger and rage during our workout. As I worked with her using targeted physical movement, her emotions erupted and shifted her sense of self. Following that workout, she did not return to habits and beliefs that kept her playing small and instead rushed ahead and accomplished her goals without much issue. I knew then that I was headed in a different direction and my work would be shifted to focus more on mental health and ways movement is medicine for our psyche.

I returned to school, eventually receiving a PhD in Clinical and Somatic Psychology. I took the research I had done and transformed my learning into a psychology treatment clinic that specializes in movement and meals for mental health.

Stacy, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

My path to my work is a bit crooked. I started out wanting to be a psychiatrist however my physical health issues forced me into the medical jugerknot as a teen and I quickly decided the reactive treatment and experiences I was participating in were not anything I wanted to align my life with. Instead, I choose to move into fitness and wellness as a way to use what I had learned about health in a proactive way to help people live a vibrant and balanced life rather than an exhausted and overwhelmed one.

I also learned early, my parents would say very young, that I was best working on my own and not following other people’s rules. I have always been an entrepreneur and loved building my visions into something tangible.

In my twenties, I got into businesses and eventually owned a multi-purpose health club before transitioning into mental health treatment and adding degrees to my education. Once I had moved far enough into psychology treatment and the clinical landscape, I built my group practice from a solo private practice and continued to blend the world of psychology with the world of physiology.

I specialize in using biology, physiology, neurology, sociology, psychology, and spirituality to treat mental health disorders and de-stigmatize mental health issues in society. By providing education about the physical underpinnings of our mental health experience I hope people can embrace the reality of their pain and trauma before it infects everything around them. It’s not all in your head, your psychology lives in your body and has concrete aspects to your experience.

I hope this knowledge helps people begin to believe their mental health experience is as important as their physical health and take responsibility for caring for themselves well.

So well, that they become vibrant, energetic, and balanced human beings bringing their gifts to the world in positive and kind ways, helping to make our world a better place one person at a time.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

Over the years and multiple businesses, I have learned that reputation is a vital part of being successful in your endeavors.

A solid reputation helps your marketing campaigns and budget. It allows you to capitalize on the relationships you build with your community. These relationships are built through conversations, gatherings, and sharing knowledge.

I participate in a variety of groups and organizations to meet as many different people as I can. This helps expand my circle of influence and links me to audiences I would otherwise not have access to.

As a result of diversifying my social networks, I often run into people I know around town. These quick-in-the-moment interactions offer more opportunities to connect and build authentic experiences fostering trust in the work I do and how I can positively help our community grow.

A key piece of any relationship built is authenticity and genuine expression of yourself. When you are developing a personal brand it is important to remember that your brand is not the totality of you, it is a piece of your professional life and is reflected in how you conduct yourself in the professional space. It is also important to remember that even though it is about your professional self, it also must include aspects of your personality and unique expression.

Another key piece of understanding reputation is the various ways you work on promoting yourself and your business. A lot of solopreneurs and small business owners I come across struggle to see the benefits of a strong marketing campaign that introduces them to a variety of people int he community in small doses over time. I feel like this is key to making sure people are getting to know me and building relationship with me and my business.

How do you keep your team’s morale high?

Your team is everything. They are what drives your business, helps your branding image, and sets you apart from competitors. Treat them like the gems they are.

To be a good manager you must be able to evaluate how your team members contribute to the whole of your vision and company. This means you have to get to know them, understand what makes them tick, and how to inspire them to build motivation and joy in their work.

Allow your staff to be innovative. You must allow them to be vulnerable, make mistakes, and own what they are good at and not so good at. This means you as the boss must also be these things. Lead by example and help them know that their strengths and weaknesses will be honored. Sometimes the weakness is about training and teaching skills other times it truly is something they must honor and not be asked to do. A good leader can discern when to push for something new in the employee and when to assign a project to another.

When your team members are happy, so are your customers. By empowering your team members to solve problems they’ll be more innovative and creative when customers are having problems. Ultimately your customers want the problem solved, not a convoluted system to fix the issue because of internal power dynamics.

Allow your team members to have a say in decisions and growth of the company. This doesn’t mean they need to be involved in everything, however, there are plenty of areas that you can allow your team to participate and feel ownership in the company product and service.

Humans want meaning and purpose in their work. They want honor and respect for their skills and what they bring to the work environment. They want options for learning and growing into their professional lives, allowing them to continue to challenge themselves and stay curious about the world around them. When you can support these things in your team members you’ll find they are amazing assets to your business.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://stacyrd.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stacyreuille/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StacyReuille
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacyreuille/
• Twitter: https://x.com/StacyReuille
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC50bxIi2HlguxOBhNPqXrqQ

Image Credits

Niki Bryant Photography
Stacy Reuille-Dupont