{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65d4445a7e29af00164868b8/6aaefcf30a12e91774b2a8a4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ep. 140 - How to Run Meta Ads in Health & Nutrition (Without Getting Flagged) with Priscilla Zaehringer","description":"<p>If you've ever been told you can't run Facebook or Instagram ads because you work in health, this episode is going to change how you think about that. Priscilla Zaehringer — who writes the ads, builds the graphics, and submits the campaigns for Whitney's done-for-you funnel clients — takes over the show to explain the one Meta policy that trips up practitioners most: personal attributes. The rule isn't that you can't talk about menopause or GLP-1s or anxiety. It's that a cold ad can't behave like it already knows something private about a stranger. Priscilla walks through two ads running right now for clients, shows the \"easy\" version she rejected in each case and why, and then gets into the part most people skip — that she can write compliant hooks because by the time she reaches the ad, she's been inside that practitioner's business for weeks.</p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Takeaways:</strong></h5><ul><li><strong>Recognition, not identification.</strong> Priscilla's framing for the whole episode: you want the right person to recognize herself in your ad, without the ad assigning her a condition, a diagnosis, or a medication. <em>\"A guide to nutrition during menopause\"</em> is about a topic; <em>\"Struggling with weight gain in menopause?\"</em> is about a person.</li><li> <strong>Ban lists of forbidden words miss the point.</strong> Priscilla doesn't like the <em>\"words you can't use in Meta ads\"</em> lists that circulate, because the word isn't the problem - the context is. The same term is fine describing a topic and a problem when it's aimed at the reader.</li><li> <strong>Move the question from what she has to what she's dealing with.</strong> Instead of naming the condition, Priscilla asks what situation the person is in, what she's trying to figure out, and what question the practitioner hears over and over. That's where <em>\"the plate that works on a low appetite\"</em> came from, in place of a line naming a medication and a side effect.</li><li> <strong>Friction can do the work a callout would have done.</strong> <em>\"Add food, don't take away\"</em> stops the right reader because it contradicts what she's been told for decades — no diagnosis, no scale number, no doctor's orders, and she still recognizes herself.</li><li> <strong>The hook is the last five percent.</strong> Priscilla writes the ad last - after the half-hour onboarding intake, the client's old blog posts and guest appearances, the lead magnet, and the emails. By then she isn't hunting for a line, because the line is already sitting in that pile and she just has to dig for it. Which is also why she doesn't think a list of approved phrases would help anyone.</li></ul><p><br></p><h5><strong>Resources Mentioned</strong></h5><ul><li>Whitney's free live training, <em>The List Building System That Brings in Clients While You're Off Social Media</em> — Monday Sept 21 at 12pm ET / 9am PT, repeated Wednesday Sept 23 at 1pm ET / 10am PT: <a href=\"https://whitneybateson.com/training\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">whitneybateson.com/training</a></li></ul><p><br></p><h5><strong>Connect with Priscilla:</strong></h5><p><a href=\"https://priscillazaehringer.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">priscillazaehringer.com</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Connect with Whitney</strong>:</h5><p>Follow Whitney on Instagram<a href=\"https://instagram.com/whitneybateson\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> @whitneybateson</a></p><p><br></p><h5><strong>Subscribe &amp; Review:</strong></h5><p>If you’re enjoying the podcast, don’t forget to follow and leave a review! Your support helps others discover the show.</p>","author_name":"Whitney Bateson"}