# Ep. 109: When Your Business Stops Working: How Ana Reisdorf Pivoted to 40K Downloads/Month with GLP-1 Hub Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-growth-show-with-whitney-bateson-6840525/ep-109-when-your-business-stops-working-how-ana-reisdorf-pivoted-to-40k-downloads-month-with-glp-1-hub Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-growth-show-with-whitney-bateson-6840525/ep-109-when-your-business-stops-working-how-ana-reisdorf-pivoted-to-40k-downloads-month-with-glp-1-hub.md Podcast: [The Growth Show with Whitney Bateson](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-growth-show-with-whitney-bateson-6840525) Published: 2026-03-16T10:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/the-growth-show-whitney-bateson/episodes/ep-109-when-your-business-stops-working-how-ana-reisdorf-piv Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/65d4445a7e29af00164868b8/e/69b45a7063444515f9dbe08a/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-growth-show-with-whitney-bateson-6840525/episodes/ep-109-when-your-business-stops-working-how-ana-reisdorf-pivoted-to-40k-downloads-month-with-glp-1-hub Duration seconds: 2585 ## Resource What do you do when the business you've spent years building starts to crumble and no amount of hustle can fix it? Ana Reisdorf knows that feeling well. After years of running a successful health writing agency with a team of 10 writers, Ana watched her revenue dry up as clients took content in-house, AI tools disrupted SEO writing, and a costly course launch left her in debt. She went from doubling her revenue year over year to sending 2,000 cold pitches with zero new clients. Then one day in the shower, an idea hit... and GLP-1 Hub was born. In less than a year, Ana turned her deep nutrition expertise and content skills into a media platform that's now pulling in 40,000+ podcast downloads a month, ranking in the top 20 of Medicine on Apple Podcasts, and generating real revenue from sponsorships, YouTube ads, digital products, and a brand-new membership. This conversation is raw, real, and packed with practical takeaways for any wellness pro thinking about pivoting, building a content platform, or just wondering if it's time to try something new. Takeaways: Your past expertise is fuel for what's next. Ana spent years building SEO and content skills for other brands. When she launched GLP-1 Hub, she applied every bit of that knowledge to her own platform, and it paid off fast. Read the tea leaves. There's a difference between a normal business dip and a fundamental market shift. If you've exhausted every strategy and the numbers keep dropping, it might be time to pivot... not push harder. Start before you're ready. Ana's early YouTube videos weren't polished. She edited them herself and they weren't perfect. But one of those early sponsored videos has 18,000 views and is still generating results. Go where the audience already is. Instead of building from scratch on soc… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-growth-show-with-whitney-bateson-6840525/episodes/ep-109-when-your-business-stops-working-how-ana-reisdorf-pivoted-to-40k-downloads-month-with-glp-1-hub/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-growth-show-with-whitney-bateson-6840525/ep-109-when-your-business-stops-working-how-ana-reisdorf-pivoted-to-40k-downloads-month-with-glp-1-hub.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.