When Healthy Mummy founder Rhian Allen was six months pregnant with her first child, she made the life-changing decision to quit her job in sales and start her own weight-loss business.
Nearly 10 years later, her decision has really paid off as she’s helped 100,000’s of mum transform their health and bodies
Rhian says,
“It blows me away that people want to talk to me and I find it all pretty surreal and very humbling!
Nearly ten years in I work as hard today as I worked when I launched the business in 2010 and I LOVE what I do.
I have always placed the customer as number 1, reinvested profits back into the business and always ensured innovation, support & service is key in everything we do.
I feel so grateful to have these opportunities and that I am lucky enough to do something I love and which helps so many women and has helped me to support my own family as well as being there for them.
Thank you so so much to every single customer who supports us – your feedback (good and bad) has always NUMBER 1 to me and always will be.
Thank you so much for being here and helping this business succeed, learn and grow and helps us to employ over 150 people (90% are mums) across the Country.
I am also exceptionally lucky to have a team around me who 110% share my own values in customer service, innovation and support and work so hard every day to deliver this.
Thank you to EVERYONE – past and present – who has helped me and the business – I wouldn’t be here without and I am so thankful for you every day for this.’
The Stellar interview
“It was literally a light-bulb moment,” she tells Stellar magazine.
“Everyone saw it as a crazy move. I didn’t. I felt I was at a crossroads – I could go back to my boring job, or I could change my life.”
Rhian: ‘Everyone thought it was a crazy move’
The mum-of-two revealed her decision to start a weight-loss business came after an online course she took while pregnant.
“[It] really highlighted to me the misinformation women are given about losing weight,” she told the publication.
“By the time a woman is 45, she has tried an average of 60 diets. They give it a go, they fail, but they try again – because what else can they do?
“It’s depressing and has a negative effect on you psyche.
“The overwhelming message was that losing weight was just too hard, and I realised there was a real opportunity here to help women, especially busy mums.”
The Healthy Mummy founder admits she did nothing but work
Rhian, 41, had to sell her home and rented for the next 7 years, moving house eight times and working 18-hour days to get her business off the ground.
The Healthy Mummy didn’t make money for the first three years because Rhian was funnelling the profits back into the business.
“We did nothing but work,” she admits. “We had no holidays, barely saw friends, didn’t go anywhere. We just worked and lived in tiny apartments with two babies and a dog.”
Then in 2017, Rhian sold half of her business. In 2018, The Healthy Mummy launched in the UK and last year it launched in the US.
But despite the success fo the company, Rhian makes sure she makes time for her two sons.
The new MindPower add-on is now available on the Healthy Mummy app, and includes a psychologist and a doctor to help women with any mental health issues they have with weight loss.
“I want members to feel connected to the business and that have a say,” she adds to Stellar.
“It’s not a set-and-forget business model – far from it.”
How it began
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