What is your name?
Nicole Chenard, MS, RD, LDN
What is your title?
Founder
What is your business name?
Major League Nutrition
What is your website URL?
👉 www.majorleaguenutrition.com
What is your Instagram handle?
@majorleaguenutrition
What is your LinkedIn URL?
👉 linkedin.com/in/nicole
How long have you been a Boston Business Women member?
Less than a year
Where are you based? How did you end up there?
Boston, MA and Naples, FL. Boston is home, where Nicole went to school and built her main client base. She fulfilled her dream of buying a home in Florida and travels back and forth, balancing work remotely with her Boston clients and supporting her boyfriend who runs a golf club in Naples.
Tell us more about your company! What do you do and what pushed you to start?
Nicole is a Registered Dietitian and Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist in Massachusetts and Florida. She has helped hundreds of individuals, businesses, and non-profits improve health, implement wellness programs, and gain tools to succeed. Her podcast, The Major League Nutrition Show, shares accessible health information via Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and iHeartRadio. She’s received awards including the 2022 Villanova University Feeding the Need, Problem Solver Award, and Massachusetts Emerging Dietetic Leader of the Year 2020.
What is your definition of success? How do you know when you’ve reached it?
“Having enough time and resources to live freely and pass on wisdom. You know you’ve reached success when you stop complaining about not having enough, and feedback excites you to create more and help more people.”
Tell us about your most transformational moment as an entrepreneur.
Hiring an assistant recently has been transformational. Seeing her perspective, feedback, and excitement about their work sparked a new level of joy Nicole hadn’t experienced in the 8 years of growing her business.
What was one of your biggest challenges in business?
Finding an assistant and learning to delegate. Working without startup funds and reinvesting all profits back into the business has been slow but steady progress.
How do you handle the harder days? The struggles? Those moments when you feel like giving up?
Nicole relies on resourcefulness and gratitude for support. She focuses on the bigger picture, recognizes the positive impact she has on clients, and trusts her inner compass to guide her through struggles.
How has being a Boston Business Women Inner Circle member positively influenced your life + business?
“It makes the pressures of entrepreneur life less lonely and more invigorating!”
Tell us about your most proud moment in your career.
Being invited to speak to her undergraduate class by a professor who once doubted her potential. This recognition of her growth and success was deeply meaningful.
Who is the woman behind your business? What does she like? How does she spend her free time? What does she value?
Nicole is a thinker, initiator, change-maker, problem-solver, athlete, aunt, girlfriend, friend, sister, daughter, and cousin. She reads extensively, fights for justice, surrounds herself with positive, active people, and values persistence, dedication, and lifting others up.
What makes you stand out from others in your field? What do you do differently?
Nicole works with clients who have complex health and wellness challenges, including veterans and breast cancer patients. She takes a team-based approach, integrating nutrition, physical activity, sleep, motivational interviewing, technology, and personalized insights to help clients win their day and achieve their best life.
Where can we keep up with you? What social media platforms do you use the most?
Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter