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Are you ready to close a chapter in your life? Sometimes, the only way forward is by letting go. In this episode, I reflect on the 20th anniversary of the business and community I built. After 16 years of leading Verge Yoga, I realized my work there is complete—the story has been told, and it's time to move on. Where is your work complete? What chapter are you ready to close? And what new doors could open as a result? Tune in to explore these questions.
Today I speak wit Cara Bradley about what it really means to live in the present moment, how to experience flow and how we can train our minds and bodies to return to these states even in the midst of our busy lives. Cara Bradley, a seasoned mind-body expert and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience, is widely acknowledged for her transformative wellness and performance keynotes, coaching, and consulting. Specializing in mindful movement, mental fitness, and the science of flow, Cara has earned the trust of high performers and organizations seeking optimal performance and well-being. Her influence extends to CEOs, Fortune 100 companies, and top-ranked sports teams. Cara provides top wellness brands with a grounded and evidence-based approach to mind-body content and programming. Her career highlights include authoring "On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine" and founding the award-winning Verge Yoga and Meditation Center. She has been recognized as one of the "Top 12 Most Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement" by Mindful.org. Cara has collaborated with numerous award-winning global brands such as Virgin Pulse, LVMH, Intuit, Goldman Sachs, The Core Club, the LA Galaxy, and Villanova University Men's Basketball. In addition, her work has appeared in top media outlets, including Oprah.com, Shape, Self, Men's Fitness, Redbook, and Billboard. Cara's dedication to excellence and advancing mind-body education draws from her experience as a D-1 college athlete, a professional figure skater, and a professional in-line skater for Team Rollerblade. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Cara now lives in Portland, Maine, with her husband and is the mother of two adult daughters. Cara's Website https://www.carabradley.net/ Cara's Book https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608683753?keywords=%20cara%20bradley&qid=1452540964&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1 Cara's Podcast is called Daily Whispers https://open.spotify.com/show/6fzfIb4wx6gl4NAofZCuKZ Find Me Here! https://linktr.ee/momonthevergepodcast
Seems like everyone is doing yoga today - and there are almost 50k studios, just in the U.S. But owning a studio is not as easy as it looks. Sure, your yoga class is busy, but then what? You still have to pay rent on the other 22 hours a day! Verge Yoga owner Carole McKeon shares her journey from fitness guru to yoga instructor and studio owner, and the joys and challenges along the way.
On today's Unveil Podcast, Victoria Fenton chats to Cara Bradley. Cara is a leading authority of mental fitness. Her signature strategies include mindful movement, nervous system training and gut-brain optimization. She shares body-mind training with Fortune 500 companies and college sports teams. Cara is the producer of the Mental Fitness Bootcamp, author of On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine, and founder of Verge Yoga. She hosts Daily Whispers - a mental fitness podcast and, in 2020, was named one of the “Top 12 Most Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful Magazine. During this episode, Cara and Victoria discuss: The landscape of healing and how simple - and free - nourishing practices can be The nature of mental fitness, emotional resilience and self-optimization - and what people miss Working with Type A, driven individuals and moving them towards more connection to self Health practices found in nature The gut - brain connection and how to optimize wellbeing by focusing on the most important connection we have - to our own gut (and why people don't think about this, or don't want to include it in their work And so, so much more… For all the information discussed in this week's episode - the links are below. Check out Cara's recommended gut-brain protocols - https://www.carabradley.net/mental-fitness-products/ More on Cara https://www.carabradley.net Daily Whispers Podcast Follow Cara (@carabradleylife) And, as always - Like, Subscribe, Share with a Friend - and Leave Us a Review...! For a full transcript of this episode, click here.
Cara Bradley is an entrepreneur and leading authority of mental fitness. She shares body-mind training with Fortune 500 companies and professional sports teams. She is the producer of the Mental Fitness Bootcamp, author of On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine, and founder of Verge Yoga. Cara hosts a daily mental fitness podcast called On The Verge and was named one of the “Top 12 Most Powerful Women in the Mindfulness Movement” by Mindful Magazine. Here are Cara's Mental Fitness Protocols, the Mental Fitness book by Dr. Shawn Talbott, and the Amare Global's website, the mental wellness company Cara has partnered with. You can connect with Cara at https://www.carabradley.net/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/fit-to-lead/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/fit-to-lead/support
The intention of this short series is to offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the highs and lows of starting and running businesses. In this episode, I talk about my greatest professional accomplishment — Verge Yoga — my good, bad and brave moments. Thank you for listening to this series. Talking about the details of my career colored with failures and successes has been therapeutic for me. I hope it's been helpful for you. For more on Verge Yoga go to: https://vergeyogacenter.com The Entrepreneur Series was produced by Julianna Bradley
A verge is a boundary or edge. It's a threshold between being over here and over there. The verge is where shift takes place. It's also where we thrive. Tune in as Cara talks about big changes and edges as she transitions out of her business Verge Yoga.
You’re busy, they’re busy, we’re all busy—but what’s it all for? The social events, the long work hours, the need to do, do, do . . . for what? And how, after so much commitment, so much time and energy, has this busyness in your life not brought you complete fulfillment? Take a pause and listen in as Cara Bradley, leading authority on body-mind training, answers your heart’s biggest questions and sends you on a path to consciousness like never before. Cara has 30 plus years of experience helping others get out of their heads and into their bodies through her signature strategies derived from her past. As a once professional Rollerblade skater, competitive figure skater, and now flow extraordinaire, Cara shares her knowledge with Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurial spirits, and serves as a mental strength coach to over a dozen Division I collegiate sports teams. Most recently she’s the bestselling author of On The Verge: Wake up, Show up and Shine, founder of Verge Yoga, an award-winning yoga and meditation center in Philadelphia, and partners with the Flow Genome Project and Happify. Cara continues to inspire the best and brightest in human and leadership performance through her ongoing work. For our listeners, learn more about Cara and her work in the Flow State Series for free here and visit her website at www.carabradley.net. Get to know, understand, and fully commit to your why behind everything you do! Key takeaways: Your unsatisfied journey. Ever feel like you’re pouring your heart and soul into your life and nothing really seems to ‘click?’ You’re not alone. It’s completely normal to feel like you’re a-l-m-o-s-t there, but not quite, and then frustrated about it. The cause to the unsettled feeling you carry is THIS . . . [2:50]. Your reawakened self. What makes you feel fully alive? That’s the big question Cara asks everyone she crosses paths with. The answer may seem simple but it’s recognizing those moments that feel so complex. Why’s that? The secret to immersing yourself into what makes you feel most alive is found HERE . . . [6:58]. Your familiar feeling. Being in ‘flow’ is when your senses are lit. Remember a time when you once watched a sunset or you laughed until you cried? These are moments that dig deep, that are simply there without making them so. But how can you try and reconnect or even recreate that flow experience? Try THIS . . . [21:30]. Your curious mind. You’re a busy bee that’s thinking, doing, and constantly on-the-go. Where are your thoughts taking you? And how can you curve all this busyness of the mind back into your body to develop a healthy pattern that serves every bit of you? The ONE question you must ask yourself at any moment is . . . [32:42]. Tune in and turn the volume up for a dose of inspiration and life lessons. You're never more than One Idea Away from a whole, new reality. Thank you to our partners at iPEC Coaching! Custom tailor your coaching career to your passion and lifestyle with the support of dynamic business tools, a strong coaching network, and expert guidance from a team dedicated to your success long after graduation. Enroll in the most comprehensive coach training program available, and prepare to exceed your own expectations. Learn more at ipeccoaching.com/oia.
Visability Marketing with David AvrinOne of the most in-demand Business Marketing/Branding Keynote Speakers in the world today, David Avrin, CSP is known as The Visibility Coach. With a surprisingly irreverent and entertaining style, David delivers a profoundly insightful and hard-hitting message to business audience across North America and around the world. A celebrated and energetic keynote speaker, David Avrin has presented to enthusiastic audiences of: CEOs, business owners, associations, entrepreneurs, leadership teams, sales professionals, account executives, human resources and more. http://www.visibilityinternational.comOn The Verge with Cara BradleyCara Bradley, a native New Yorker and former pro-skater for Team Rollerblade®, is a lifelong teacher, mental strength coach, and entrepreneur. She is passionate about feeling awake and alive and experiencing her life fully. As the founder of Verge Yoga, Cara has been in the trenches of personal transformation and mindfulness as a teacher to thousands including CEOs and professional athletes for over three decades. She is also the founder of Mindfulness Through Movement, a non-profit offering full year programs to schools in urban Philadelphia. http://www.carabradley.netOvercoming Adversity with Olympian John RegisterFrom All-American track star, to amputee to 2016 Paralympic Silver Medalist – John Register has never allowed adversity hold him back. He hurdled his adversity in leaps and bounds, and challenges his audiences to do the same as they create their new normal. A dynamic, engaging keynote speaker, Register commands his listeners’ attention with a mix of humor, emotion and enthusiasm. His relatable anecdotes about growing up are applicable to any audience. While his stories are presented in an amusing fashion- the life lessons to be learned and the outcomes achieved are easily recognized and powerful, with a lasting impact. In 2007, he was appointed by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as one of eight members to advise the Secretary on Foreign Policy Issues regarding disability and continued to serve in this capacity under Secretary Hillary Clinton http://johnregister.com
If you've wanted to feel more awake, alive, on purpose, and energized, then do we have the show for you. Today I'll be talking with Cara Badley, former team rollerblade pro skater, mental-strength coach, the founder of Verge Yoga, and co-founder of the non-profit Mindfulness Through Movement which provides mindfulness programs to schools in Philadelphia, host of the podcast Real Women, Courageous wisdom, and the author of On The Verge: Wake Up, Show up and Shine. Today we'll talk about how you can do just that, turn your life in a high definition, high voltage, on purpose experience. on purpose living with greater focus, energy, clarity and joy. That plus we'll talk about climbing mount cardigan, skating central park, how to problem solve through walking, what in the world are sticky people, what's a sloppy brain, crazy busy, and why you don't need to force a frog pose, in order to feel good about yourself. Questions and Topics Include: How do you teach Villanova football players yoga? What happened in her last track race as a Division 1 800 sprinter. What shifted her permanently? What athletes at peak moments are typically thinking about. What is a verge? What does ‘let me do' mean? What is a ‘direct experience'? What is living in High Definition How she went from a professional skater to an investment banker back to professionally skating (for Team Rollerblade) again. What is experiencing our life with high voltage energy What is a simple way we can get more into a high voltage moment What is skygazing? What's the importance of shivasana? Why Gentle is the New Strong Why You Can't Get to Peace through Push What we can learn from running to the bottom of the Grand Canyon What is a sloppy brain? What's a practice to ground yourself when you're in sloppy brain? What's the importance of letting go of judgment? What's the importance of the practice of being kind to yourself (with tenderness and humor) What Scott McBride taught her about being kind. What is the ‘finding your love object' practice What does it mean to show up right now? Why drama drains and focus fuels What are sticky situations and sticky people? Lessons from Cayman What does it mean to be fearless? What's the importance of loving yourself? Why loving kindness is the ‘essential oil' What advice for parents to help kids be more ‘on the verge'? Website: CaraBradley.net On site will be info for free On The Verge app Guided meditation primer practices Yoga Videos Moving Meditation A guided ‘be kind' meta meditation practice Cara Bradley on How to Feel More Awake, Alive & Energized!!! + Guided Meditation! Health | Fitness | Career | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Inspirational | Mindfulness | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com
Cara Bradley is an author, yoga teacher, mental strength coach, former pro-skater for Team Rollerblade® and entrepreneur having devoted more than three decades to movement disciplines and personal transformation. She is the founder of Verge Yoga in Philadelphia and the co-founder of a non-profit Mindfulness Through Movement, providing full year mindfulness programs to more than a dozen schools in urban Philadelphia. She is the host of a podcast series for Women for One called Real Women, Courageous Wisdom. Her upcoming book, On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine (New World Library) will be available in April 2016. Cara reaches a nationwide audience through her Verge On-Demand Classes, workshops and retreats, and talks on human potential and presents at national conferences, corporations and universities. Learn more about Cara Bradley at www.carabradley.net Check out Cara’s amazing mobile app titled On the Verge! Like this episode? Click here to visit the show notes page! Please leave an honest rating on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them. P.S: Just takes a minute! :) SUBSCRIBE ON ITUNES Click here to leave us a rating & review on iTunes Follow us on social media: | Facebook | Twitter | Join our Facebook Tribe
For Life on Purpose Episode #52, my guest is author, yoga teacher, mental strength coach, former pro-skater, and entrepreneur Cara Bradley. Cara joined me for an inspirational conversation about her new book On the Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine and what it means to be "On the Verge": to show up in THIS exact moment and meet our potential to shine in all aspects of our lives. She empowers listeners to live from that place through practices and strategies designed to shift them out of their heads and fully into the present moment. “When you show up in this moment — when you are 100 percent engaged right here and right now — you arrive in a space where you are fully aware,” says Cara. “In this space, beyond your busy mind, you glimpse your naturally occurring state of being awake and fully alive. In this natural state your mind is clear, your body bright, and your heart open.” We also discuss the life-changing epiphany she had at her final college track race and how the question she asked then has shaped her life and work since. About: Cara Bradley is an author, yoga teacher, mental strength coach, former pro-skater for Team Rollerblade® and entrepreneur having devoted more than three decades to movement disciplines and personal transformation. She is the founder of Verge Yoga in Philadelphia and the cofounder of a non-profit Mindfulness Through Movement, providing full year mindfulness programs to more than a dozen schools in urban Philadelphia. She is the host of a podcast series for Women for One called Real Women, Courageous Wisdom. Her upcoming book, On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine (New World Library) will be available in April 2016. Cara reaches a nationwide audience through her Verge On-Demand Classes, workshops and retreats, and talks on human potential and presents at national conferences, corporations and universities. Known as a mental strength coach to athletes, she has been training teams and elite athletes, including professional athletes, for over ten years with her unique Fierce Focus Mental Strength Training Program. Teams include Villanova Football, Lacrosse, Soccer and Basketball, Penn State Basketball, University of Pennsylvania Soccer, St. Joseph’s Soccer and Field Hockey, and the USYSA Olympic Development Program. Cara competed as a figure skater and turned professional at the age of fifteen when she began teaching. As a pro skater for Team Rollerblade, a performance group for Rollerblade Inc., she performed shows in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. She created and starred in SkateFit: The Complete In-Line Skating Workout (ABA Productions, 1994) and co-authored In-Line Skate New England: The Complete Guide to 101 Tours (Countryman Press, 2003) with Cindy Copeland Lewis and Tom Lewis. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from New York University, B.S. International Business and Economics and has started a dozen successful businesses including Blade Skatewear and Camp Rollerblade. She is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) and is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher ERYT with Yoga Alliance. To learn more about Cara and her work, visit: http://www.carabradley.net/.
If you've wanted to feel more awake, alive, on purpose, and energized, then do we have the show for you. Today I'll be talking with Cara Badley, former team rollerblade pro skater, mental-strength coach, the founder of Verge Yoga, and co-founder of the non-profit Mindfulness Through Movement which provides mindfulness programs to schools in Philadelphia, host of the podcast Real Women, Courageous wisdom, and the author of On The Verge: Wake Up, Show up and Shine. Today we'll talk about how you can do just that, turn your life in a high definition, high voltage, on purpose experience. on purpose living with greater focus, energy, clarity and joy. That plus we'll talk about climbing mount cardigan, skating central park, how to problem solve through walking, what in the world are sticky people, what's a sloppy brain, crazy busy, and why you don't need to force a frog pose, in order to feel good about yourself. Questions and Topics Include: How do you teach Villanova football players yoga? What happened in her last track race as a Division 1 800 sprinter. What shifted her permanently? What athletes at peak moments are typically thinking about. What is a verge? What does ‘let me do' mean? What is a ‘direct experience'? What is living in High Definition How she went from a professional skater to an investment banker back to professionally skating (for Team Rollerblade) again. What is experiencing our life with high voltage energy What is a simple way we can get more into a high voltage moment What is skygazing? What's the importance of shivasana? Why Gentle is the New Strong Why You Can't Get to Peace through Push What we can learn from running to the bottom of the Grand Canyon What is a sloppy brain? What's a practice to ground yourself when you're in sloppy brain? What's the importance of letting go of judgment? What's the importance of the practice of being kind to yourself (with tenderness and humor) What Scott McBride taught her about being kind. What is the ‘finding your love object' practice What does it mean to show up right now? Why drama drains and focus fuels What are sticky situations and sticky people? Lessons from Cayman What does it mean to be fearless? What's the importance of loving yourself? Why loving kindness is the ‘essential oil' What advice for parents to help kids be more ‘on the verge'? Website: CaraBradley.net On site will be info for free On The Verge app Guided meditation primer practices Yoga Videos Moving Meditation A guided ‘be kind' meta meditation practice Cara Bradley (Mental Strength Coach to Villanova) Shares How to Wake Up, Show Up, & Shine in Life Through Mindfulness, Kindness & Compassion! Plus Guided Meditation | Business | Career | Fitness | Inspiration | Motivation | Health | Self-Help | Inspire For More Info Visit: www.InspireNationShow.com
This week on Relationships 2.0 my guest is Cara Bradley author of On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up and Shine About the book: In the final race of her college track career, Cara Bradley beat her personal best by a remarkable six seconds. Until then Bradley had been a so-so athlete hampered by pre-race jitters and self-doubt. But on this day Bradley was buoyed by a sense of calm confidence. She set about understanding how she could replicate this experience in every area of life. She has distilled what she found into four practices, four shift strategies, and a series of gut-check reminders for moving out of over-thinking and over-doing and into being fully awake and alive– clear, bright, confident. These techniques for settling busy mind, putting body and mind in sync, and cultivating awareness and strength are simple but require practice and attention, which Bradley coaches readers to apply daily. The reward is what she calls “high definition, high voltage living,” the ability to experience what Bradley did on the track not by accident, or in only a few memorable moments but on purpose, every day. About the author: Cara Bradley, a native New Yorker and former pro-skater for Team Rollerblade®, is a lifelong teacher, mental strength coach, and entrepreneur. She is passionate about feeling awake and alive and experiencing her life fully. As the founder of Verge Yoga, Cara has been in the trenches of personal transformation and mindfulness as a teacher to thousands including CEOs and professional athletes for over three decades. She is also the founder of Mindfulness Through Movement, a non-profit offering full year programs to schools in urban Philadelphia.
Join the LOVE Cafe Newsletter HERE Join the LOVE Cafe Facebook Group HERE Cara Bradley says You Are On The Verge of a Breakthrough in Life ! Live tonight with Scott Cluthe on LOVE Cafe Radio. A New World Library release. 7 PM EST-6 CST-5 MST-4 PST Call in: 347-308-8478 Cara Bradley eryt, cscs, is an author, yoga teacher, mental strength coach, former pro-skater for Team Rollerblade® and entrepreneur having devoted more than three decades to movement disciplines and personal transformation. She is the founder of Verge Yoga in Philadelphia and the cofounder of a non-profit Mindfulness Through Movement, providing full year mindfulness programs to more than a dozen schools in urban Philadelphia. She is the host of a podcast series for Women for One called Real Women, Courageous Wisdom. Her upcoming book, On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine (New World Library) will be available in April 2016. Cara reaches a nationwide audience through her Verge On-Demand Classes, workshops and retreats, and talks on human potential and presents at national conferences, corporations and universities. Known as a mental strength coach to athletes, she has been training teams and elite athletes, including professional athletes, for over ten years with her unique Fierce Focus Mental Strength Training Program. Teams include Villanova Football, Lacrosse, Soccer and Basketball, Penn State Basketball, University of Pennsylvania Soccer, St. Joseph’s Soccer and Field Hockey, and the USYSA Olympic Development Program.
Bill welcomes Cara Bradley to the show. Cara is an author, yoga teacher, mental strength coach, former pro-skater for Team Rollerblade® and entrepreneur who has devoted more than three decades to movement disciplines and personal transformation. She is the founder of Verge Yoga in Philadelphia and the cofounder of a non-profit Mindfulness Through Movement, providing full year mindfulness programs to more than a dozen schools in urban Philadelphia. She is the host of a podcast series for Women for One called Real Women, Courageous Wisdom. We will be discussing, among other things, her new book: On The Verge: Wake Up, Show Up, and Shine.
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Cara Bradley is a figure skater, runner, and MBA investment banker. She has found purpose in Verge Yoga her studio in suburban Philadelphia and Verge Athlete that offers mental strength training and yoga programs to elite athletes including professional and college sports teams. We talk about her awesome journey. Continue Reading→