Behind the Scenes at Team Diet Doctor
What’s happening behind the scenes at Team Diet Doctor? Here are three things you may find interesting about us!
We sometimes spend day AND night together!
Once a month Team Diet Doctor all travel to Karlstad, Sweden, and work hard together for three days. The unusual thing is this: most of us spend the nights together too!
This probably sounds worse than it is as our office is a large apartment with a few separate bedrooms where most of us sleep, but Simon (our Creative Director) sleeps in the video studio, Johan (our Head of Technology) sleeps in the living room, and I sleep in the conference room!
Crazy? Perhaps, but it’s true.
We’re not all Swedes
Another thing you may not know about Team Diet Doctor is that not all of us are from Sweden and we live in different cities.
Most of us live in Sweden though. Kristin and Andreas live in Karlstad, Inger lives in Linköping, Simon lives in Jönköping, and Johan and Alex lives in Stockholm.
But me, Bjarte? I live in Bergen, Norway, by far the nicest place of the five. ;)
We spend three days a month deciding what to do next!
For three days every month we all go to Karlstad to discuss the question of questions: What would you, our dear members and visitors, love if we did next?
To answer this question we do different things. For example, we read your feedback (on posts, guides, recipes, success stories and the get-started challenge), we speak to you directly on the phone, at conferences, and at the Low-Carb Cruise, we ask those of you who are members weekly questions on the membership site, we look at our website traffic to see what you click the most and least, and we think about what we would love to make that you might love too.
On Monday the 23rd of May it’s time for Karlstad once again. Check out what we’re going to do below:
Preparation
(Everyone in the team does this)
1. Write one sentence that summarizes what Diet Doctor current does for Janet and Ken (the two people we keep in mind when thinking about what to do next)
2. Suggest three products: What are, or should be, the core products of Diet Doctor?
Agenda
Monday:
- 16:45 – 17:45: Discuss progress on priorities (Andreas)
- 17:45 – 19:45: Dinner together
Tuesday:
- 06:00 – 09:00: Sleep or do individual work
- 09:00 – 11:00: What are our products and how do we make them insanely great? (Bjarte)
- Break
- 11:15 – 12:00: Decide our top three priorities, 1/2 (Andreas)
- 12:00 – 13:00: Lunch and coffee
- 13:00 – 14:30: Decide our top three priorities, 2/2 (Andreas)
- 14:30 – 17:00: Do individual work
- 17:00 – 20:00: Dinner and Social (Johan and Bjarte)
Wednesday:
- 06:00 – 09:00: Sleep or do individual work
- 09:00 – 11:00: For each priority, what do we aim to get done this month, 1/2 (Bjarte)
- Break
- 11:15 – 12:00: For each priority, what do we aim to get done this month, 2/2 (Bjarte)
- 12:00 – 13:00: Leftovers and coffee at the office
- 13:00 – 14:00: What one thing sucks most about our company? (Bjarte)
- 14:00 – 15:15: Discuss various topics, for example Low-Carb Sweets, Low-Carb Desserts; Low-Carb Snacks, Wild ideas, Low-Carb Cruise 2017 etc. (Bjarte)
- 15:15 – 15:30: How can we improve our Karlstad days? (Bjarte)
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I agree that Bergen, Norway is by far the nicest place. I would love to go back and visit it again...it's beautiful!
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I love that your good work and outreach on this critical topic is crowdfunded by our membership dues. Keep all the amazing news and content coming!
A lot of people always ask me when they hear we don't eat bread or pasta in our Paleo / Low Carb Healthy Fat lifestyle ~ "but what do you feed your children?" ( in an almost panicky voice :) ) I've written a small piece on my Facebook page so I can just refer them to that and I normally tell them that it couldn't be easier. We simply make 'too much' food for the previous evening meal and give our son the leftovers for school the next day. Or breakfasts ~ "what do you eat if you don't eat cereals?" I have the feeling though that people can do with some help, especially around their children. Depending on the country, they don't know what to pack for their children for school. Countries like France have meals included, but in Canada where we live it's mostly every family's responsibility.