Podcasts about yoga health coaching

Muneera is an Ayurveda Practitioner and Coach with almost 25 years of experience in Ayurveda. She is passionate about helping people reconnect with their innate body-wisdom to be empowered in their health.Muneera has a combination of traditional and accredited training in Ayurveda. She began her learning in 2001 with a clinician of Ayurveda at the Pacific institute of Wholistic Living, Vancouver BC, in the traditional Indian “gurukul” style. She then moved on to formal certifications first as an Ayurvedic Health Counselor, and then as an Ayurveda Practitioner from Kerala Ayurveda Academy, California in 2009 and 2022 respectively. She acquired her coaching skills through Yoga Health Coaching in 2019. Muneera runs a coaching practice that blends Ayurvedic wisdom with habit-change science to help people cultivate better daily “habits”. She offers programs and workshops that teach people how to live Ayurveda simply in their everyday lives.Muneera is a faculty member at Vancouver School of Healing Arts for their Yoga Teacher and Yoga Therapy Trainings. One of her passions is to share the Ayurvedic Indian culinary arts through cooking classes, and community workshops with partners such as UBC Farm. You can join her for an immersive Ayurveda Yoga experience at one of her weekend retreats. Muneera lives and coaches on the unceded lands of the Coastal First Nations, on Salt Spring Island.  You can find her here https://www.radiantlivingvancouver.com/womenshealth.htmlThank you so much for listening! I use fitness and movement to help women prevent and overcome pelvic floor challenges like incontinence and organ prolapse. There is help for women in all life stages! Every Woman Needs A Vagina Coach! Please make sure to LEAVE A REVIEW and SUBSCRIBE to the show for the best fitness and wellness advice south of your belly button. *******************I recommend checking out my comprehensive pelvic health education and fitness programs on my Buff Muff AppYou can also join my next 28 Day Buff Muff Challenge https://www.vaginacoach.com/buffmuffIf you are feeling social you can connect with me… On Facebook https://www.facebook.com/VagCoachOn Instagram https://www.instagram.com/vaginacoach/On Twitter https://twitter.com/VaginaCoachOn The Web www.vaginacoach.comGet your Feel Amazing Vaginal Moisturizer Here

Welcome to Wellness Pro Academy, formerly known as Yoga Health Coaching. In this podcast episode, Cate Stillman is joined by Uschi Inkofer, a coach based in Germany near Munich. They discuss Uschi's coaching experience and her niche, which focuses on women aged 45 and above going through menopause. The conversation revolves around the challenges of getting new members into her program.   What You'll Get Out of Tuning In Learn about the common obstacles faced by women in Uschi Inkofer's niche when considering joining her program. Gain valuable insights on reverse engineering decisions to achieve long-term goals. Understand the importance of building trust in oneself and in the coaching program. Discover the true value of making positive changes in their lives and overcoming resistance to change.   Highlights Uschi's coaching niche: Women aged 45 and above experiencing menopause. Challenges in getting new members into the program. The importance of reverse engineering decisions based on long-term goals. Helping clients identify specific and valuable goals for themselves. Understanding the significance of trust in making transformative decisions. Strategies to handle time objections and overcome resistance to change. The role of trust in breaking the flight or fight response to create lasting change.   Quotes "If she just keeps going on her own, making decisions according to her current beliefs and her current assumptions, things are not probably gonna get better." "What beliefs and assumptions do they have right now that would need to change for them to become a member?" "Their health is more important. How they feel every single day in their body, how their habits are forming their future is simply more important." "Trust is a really, really important thing today because all people are in such a flight and fight state, and they need to trust that they can come out of this." "This is short-term decision making, whereas long-term decision making leads to greater time freedom and being present and available."   Links Get access to Uplevel Your Life here. Use promo code: UPLEVEL37 Get access to Lead Your Club here. Use promo code: LEAD37   Tune in to gain valuable insights and inspiration for your personal growth journey and business endeavors.  

ABOUT: Cate Stillman is an entrepreneur, teacher, author, and thought leader in the Ayurveda space. She's the founder of Yogahealer (established in 2001), and Yoga Health Coaching (established in 2012), designed to help wellness professionals grow more both within their yoga practice and also on the business side. She has grown Yogahealer.com to the top 2% of women-owned businesses by 2016, and the company continues to grow each year. Cate also leads thought leaders and wellness pros in leading their own member journeys and company growth. STAY CONNECTED: Yogahealer Website: https://yogahealer.com Yogahealer Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yogahealer/ Instagram: @yogahealer Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZuCiGCy6yx8i-DcdQdNng __________________ Thank you again for joining us today! If you know anybody that would benefit from this episode please share it with them and help spread the knowledge and motivation. Don't forget to show your support for the Rise Up For You Podcast by writing a review on iTunes. Your feedback helps the success of our show and pushes us to continuously be better! Check out www.riseupforyou.com for more podcast episodes, webinars, events, and more to help you get to the next level in your personal and professional life! You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Youtube @riseupforyou Looking for more support? Grab your free coaching call with our team completely FREE! Bring your questions about Confidence, Leadership or Business and we will assign you the best coach to provide customizable support. SCHEDULE YOUR FREE CALL HERE riseupforyou.com/coaching

Podcast Intro: Coach of the month, Marcella Fulco, is an MD from Italy who went down the research path to study biochemistry and molecular biology.  Her life path has led her to America to work for the National Institute of Health, marriage, and motherhood, teaching yoga, back to Europe, and now to Yoga Health Coaching! Join in on this informative conversation where Anna gets the inside scoop on Marcella's unique journey- transitioning from teaching part-time, leading her course in another language, successes her group members are experiences, her future goals for her business model, and so much more. What you'll get out of tuning in: Why it can be nice to have a small community. How to modify the course to another language. Where to incorporate your unique wisdom into the course. Links/CTA: Design the Journey You're Meant to Lead - Lead the Journey for Wellness Pros Check out the latest episodes Group Membership Coaching: Difficult Members, Difficult Situations DM'ing to Boost Your Sales for Wellness Pros Marcella Fulco links: https://www.instagram.com/marcellafulco_yoga_lifestyle/ https://www.marcellafulcoyoga.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcella-fulco-616579a/ Highlights:  Marcella talks about how saying “yes” to new things led her to now. Marcella talks about her MD background and bringing science into her course.  Marcello tells us about her training in Yoga for Stress and Anxiety. Timestamps: [4:18 min]- Journey into the YHC business model. [8:02 min]- Leading a unique journey from the YHC model.  [11:05 min]- Adapting the course to another language.   [13:30 min]- Course members' experience. [17:09min]- Growth goals. [22:05 min]- Biggest shifts and breakthroughs Quotes: “I started to feel the pressure that now I needed to transfer this knowledge into the world.”  “I did the three-month body thrive and it was incredible.  I shot through so many of the limiting beliefs that I had.”  “Just experiment for a few days and you'll see the results.”  “Being small, it has benefits because people really know each other and they are sort of becoming friends and really supporting each other in the journey so they don't feel alone.” “I notice that as the confidence grows, the ability to charge more [grows].” Guest Bio: Marcella Fulco I graduated with an MD in Palermo, Italy, and right after, during my residency program, I moved to Rome to do research in a laboratory molecular biology. I decided then that my career would be in science and I did a Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, which I completed in the States at the NIH (National Institutes of Health), Bethesda Md. I remained at the NIH for 10 years, first as a postdoc and then as a Staff scientist. My family then relocated to San Diego, where I took a pause from working and discovered Yoga, I became a Yoga teacher and a Yoga Therapist. In 2006 we moved back to Europe, and I live now in Munich, Germany, with my husband and 2 children (12 and 17). I tried to make a living as a Yoga teacher, but it was not so easy, and eventually, I decided to give a spin to my career and I made the leap of faith of joining YHC.

Podcast Intro: Healing and self-growth can be a profoundly inspiring path to a life of harmony, purpose, and joy. Emily Glaser, who provides Ayurvedic clinical care, personalized Jyotisha (Vedic Astrology) therapy, and transformational education, is our guest for today's episode. What you'll get out of tuning in: Next level Wellness Pro: with Emily Glaser, Ayurveda What happens when healers get the business model right What happens when that evolves into 2.0 How to name results, speak to results, recruit to results Links/CTA: Check out Yoga Health Coaching's related podcast episodes: Why Your Wellness Business MODEL Matters YHC – A Proven Business Structure for Successful Custom Course Yoga as a Business: Outlining Your Terms Emily Glaser: https://www.tejasveda.com/ Highlights: Emily talks about letting people articulate her avatar Emily discusses how toxicity leads to inaccessibility to joy Emily shares what Ayurveda is about Timestamps: [8:27] Internalizing Transformation with Cate and Emily [13:55] Identifying VIP Price Point [19:42] Yoga Health Coaching Business Model Quotes: “The world needs relationships with connections that lasts.” “In order to have a great experience every day, you must emulate it. Because of this, you will regain your sense of well-being.” Guest BIO: Emily Glaser A practitioner of Ayurveda and Vedic astrology – the ancient art of divination. Emily was trained by mystical doctors and healers who guided her to fine-tune her capacity to perceive the many levels of reality that make up our human experience.

Episode SummaryFounder & CEO of YogaHealer & Yoga Health Coaching, Cate Stillman joins the show to discuss her work as an innovative Ayurvedic practitioner, yoga teacher and health coach. Cate is the author of four books, including Body Thrive and Master Of You. Today, Harry and Cate engage in a rich dialogue on digital content marketing, positive stressor habits and what it means to be living on purpose. Cate expounds on her work guiding people to live their unique greater purpose, how she's grown as a podcaster and one of her most exciting focuses currently, urine therapy. Episode SponsorFocusrite –http://pcjk.es/focusrite ( )http://pcjk.es/vocaster (http://pcjk.es/vocaster) FullCast –https://fullcast.co/ ( https://fullcast.co/) Key Takeaways06:33 – Cate Stillman joins the show to discuss Digital Content Marketing, her podcast origin story and her passion for yoga 15:23 – How Ayurvedic wisdom and yoga teachings transformed Cate's life 20:19 – Big awakenings and the problem with conventional culture 29:20 – Problematic messaging surrounding Covid and tips for reducing inflammation 38:36 – Intermittent fasting 44:13 – Other positive stressor habits to form 48:34 – How Cate has grown as a podcast host and interviewer 53:12 – Evergreen content & Cate's books 1:03:15 – Harry and Cate discuss rebranding 1:07:22 – Something Cate has changed her mind about recently and the most misunderstood thing about her 1:11:09 – Harry thanks Cate for joining the show and let's listeners know where they can connect with her Tweetable Quotes“So, in the East, that responsibility is on you. You're the Divine. You are in the seat of the Creator. What are you gonna do with it? And, because you are the Creator, who you are is intrinsically evolution. So you are the whole and you are separate.” (16:39) (Cate) “If we actually look at the habits of modern culture - or what I call conventional culture - the habits of conventional culture leads to chronic inflammation which leads to chronic disease which is the number one killer worldwide.” (24:48) (Cate) “The people who are already turned on got more turned on. There are a few people who are getting turned on who got more turned on. The problem was that the narrative in the media globally was the message that you're the victim of a virus, which is largely known as Germ Theory.” (30:39) (Cate) “These habits that re-wild us are the ones that really turn on our physiology and our neuroplasticity. They're called positive stressor habits. Not all stress is the same. Some stress is when you do the hard thing and that hard thing makes you smarter and more able to do hard things in your life, which really changes the outlook of your future.” (44:39) (Cate) “Urine therapy goes way back. The Buddha talked about it. It's in the three main ancient Ayurvedic texts from about 2,000 years ago. It's one of those things that once you're in the know and you get it, you see the entire world differently.” (1:08:30) (Cate) Resources MentionedYoga Healer Website – https://yogahealer.com/ (https://yogahealer.com/) Cate's LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/cate-stillman/ Cate's Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/yogahealer/ (https://www.facebook.com/yogahealer/) Cate's Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/yogahealer/ (https://www.instagram.com/yogahealer/) Cate's YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZuCiGCy6yx8i-DcdQdNng (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXZuCiGCy6yx8i-DcdQdNng) Cate's Podcast: Link to Live Events – https://yogahealer.com/our-events/ (https://yogahealer.com/our-events/) Link to Cate's P Book – https://yogahealer.com/p-book (https://yogahealer.com/p-book) YogaHealer – https://yogahealer.com/podcasts/ (https://yogahealer.com/podcasts/) Cate's Books: https://www.amazon.com/Cate-Stillman/e/B017T8RWAG%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share (https://www.amazon.com/Cate-Stillman/e/B017T8RWAG%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share) Read It Later App –...

Your health and wellness has a big impact on your business and there are a lot of opinions about what being healthy looks like. Social and cultural norms often take precedence, along with quick fixes.   The truth is that change and evolution, both in business and in your health and wellness, take time. This week on the podcast, Cate Stillman is sharing her expertise around integrating changes into business, doing hard things, getting uncomfortable so you can evolve, designing your lifestyle, taking care of chronic issues, and so much more.    What Cate has to say is controversial for many because it goes against everything the masses believe in our culture. But isn't that an even better reason to have this conversation? It's important to open minds to new ideas and ways of doing things and to truly look at the science behind why we feel the way we feel and do the things we do.   I hope you'll tune in with an open mind and think about how you can let go of some of the challenges that might be holding you back. About Cate Stillman: Cate founded Yogahealer in 2001 as an avant-garde dialogue in ancient wisdom for modern humans. The Yogahealer community has depth, span, and breadth. Over 20 years, Cate Stillman has corralled the conversation towards relevance, resilience, rewilding, rewiring & results for modern humans to thrive in their bodies and achieve their life goals.   Cate is an evolutionary thought leader, global tribe builder and author in the field of rewilding humans, orienting towards meaning and purpose, and getting deeply invested in life. Cate developed the course curriculums and mentoring community for Body Thrive, Master of You, Living Ayurveda Course and Yoga Health Coaching.   Cate splits her time between the mountains in Teton Valley, Wyoming and Punta Mita, Mexico. She is an avid mountain biker, skier and surfer, and mother of 1. Links and Resources: Body Thrive by Cate Stillman Master of You by Cate Stillman Body Goals Crash Course - Email her at help@yogahealer.com and ask for it for free Jordan Peterson Mark Mattson on intermittent fasting Yoga Healer Podcast Yoga Healer Facebook Group Time Stamps: [4:14] Using the right words to describe your business [5:00] Circadian rhythm really matters  [6:00] Goal - personal planetary thrive [6:20] Chronic inflammation leads to chronic disease [7:48] Seeing changes take time [9:00] Community belonging is important and it's a long game [10:10] Without a timeframe, you won't solve the deeper issues [12:08] Ego slows the growth process [13:01] Do the hard things in the short term that you know are good for you in the long term [15:30] Negative bias is worse than glass half empty [17:08] Be in environments with people of positive habits [18:32] If you're not uncomfortable, you're probably not evolving [28:12] The adventure is important [28:41] Lifestyle design; goal opportunities close quickly [30:15] You're either decaying or you're learning new things to grow [32:30] Chronic inflammation feels like shit every day [33:06] It's risky to force yourself to step into opportunities [34:44]The more you stack positive stressor  habits the better [36:38] If we're in constant problem solving mode, we move to anxiety; it's exhausting [37:50] Growing a biz relies on your body, your focus and mind [41:50] What's causing distraction for people [43:24] What you experience as hunger isn't really hunger [47:08] We've lost the understanding of nuance

Podcast Intro:  Dr. Marie Weitbrecht isn't new in the Yoga Health Coaching world.  In her five years in the YHC community, she has experienced her personal marketplace change so much, making it hard to connect with the people that need her the most.  This has inspired her to revive her marketing plan and start new conversations to expand into new areas where she is needed most. Listen in on this coaching gym where Cate and Marie get specific on her digital avatar, niche market, and next steps on how and where to start conversations.  This talk will inspire marketing experimentation as a habit in authentic ways, to continually be most helpful in the ever-changing market. What you'll get out of tuning in:  How to evolve your marketing plan in a changing world Why get specific on your digital avatar and niche market. How to test a new marketing language. Why use open conversations as marketing research. Where to find helpful copywriting tools. Links/CTA: Upcoming Workshops: Yoga Health Coaching – May 4 Master of You Workshop – May 12 – 13 Body Thrive – May 5 Living Ayurveda Course – June 9 Join Cate's LIVE Workshops: Lisbon Live Event (Lisbon, Portugal) – June 3 – 5 Alta Live Event (Alta, WY) – July 28 – 30 Dr. Marie Weibrecht site: https://drmarieweitbrecht.com/ LEADERSHIP LAB: Writing Beyond the Academy 1.23.15 Highlights: Cate tells a story about how a person checked her out on the internet before a meeting and how we all have digital avatars these days. Cate talks about the importance of being approachable and understanding what that means culturally.  Cate tells a story about her first marketing coach describing the process as throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks. Timestamps: [2:25] - Specifying niche market. [3:35] - Developing copywriting skills. [6:33] - Creating an avatar from a past iteration of self. [10:42] - Pain points of a niche market. [13:44] - Marketing funnels. [17:15] - Copywriting to hook people in. [19:17] - Digital Avatars. [21:40] - Understanding approachability with culture. [25:30] - Creating coded language. [28:42] - Starting conversations in Facebook groups.  [32:33] - Evaluating marketing engagement.  [35:28] - Scheduling marketing as a habit. Quotes: “Keep thinking, ‘This is the person I'm solving this problem for.'” “The more you get clear with these different pain points, they each have a story and they each have a breakthrough.”  “We all have digital avatars.” “Marketing is, you keep throwing spaghetti at the walls. Guest BIO: Dr. Marie Weitbrecht With her background in Theatre Studies, book editing and a PhD in Media Studies Marie has been striving to merge her spiritual side with the professional. She has been working as a coach for 9 years, integrating Embodiment and Ayurveda into her work.

Podcast Intro: Yoga Health Coaches, Patrick Heffernan, and Emily Cole were on many different journeys two years ago when life events and the state of the world catapulted them into a new direction.   While Patrick has an acting and yoga background and Emily leads wilderness adventures to at-risk youth, both are now on a similar journey as Yoga Health Coaches, leading others into transformation and being “Digital Nomads” (Emily's term)! Listen in on this entertaining and enlightening conversation about finding and crossing new thresholds, overcoming mainstream culture, feeling into identity evolution, and so much more! What you'll get out of tuning in: How to step confidently over new life thresholds. How to optimize habits through a big change. Why work through cultural beliefs in our communities. When to find flexibility with the habits. How to guide others out of a fixed mindset. Links/CTA: Join our Wisdom+Wealth Facebook Group Gap vs Gain by Dan Sallivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy Emily Cole Socials + Website: Emily Cole IG: @wild.within.coaching Emily Cole website: Wild Within Coaching Patrick Heffernan Socials + Website: IG: @heff_patrick Twitter: @pat_Heffnyc Website: www.patrickyoga.com Jordan Peterson Highlights: Emily shares her story of honoring her identity evolution at a recent Mexican Fiesta. Patrick talks about his experience with the Wild Habits challenge and the Fast mimicking diet. Patrick tells us about helpful practices for liminal thinking from Jordan Peterson. Timestamps: [3:40]- Understanding our own story as an important self-study.  [8:40]- Willingness and awareness around thresholds. [11:42]- Kaizen approach to habits in new locations.    [13:35]- Overcoming cultural beliefs around new habits. [14:10]- Honoring our desires when culture doesn't. [16:00]- YHC Community support.    [19:01]- Building body wisdom through habits. [21:23]- Consciousness and flexibility in habits. [24:02]- The Identity evolution of being in choice and releasing judgment.  [29:09]- Shining the light of consciousness onto the trigger. [30:43]- Spirituality in the business journey. [35:00]- Collaboration in looking within vs. outsourcing wisdom.  [38:40]- Guiding others out of a fixed mindset.   [40:15]- The push/pull dynamic of identity evolution Quotes: “I just need to be present right here, because I don't know where else to be.” -Emily “Every time I change locations, I get a chance to reset my habits.” -Emily It's one thing to make the decision just to go against culture, but then you are going to get little kind of continuous pushback or reminders or friction or resistance in all these different forms and it's going to show up in our relationships.  Our relationships, I think, are a real big part of identity evolution.  It shows how much I am evolving based on how much the people around me are reacting to what I'm doing.” -Patrick “Now there is this pull of I know, my body knows and I know in all layers of myself, how good it feels to feel good and I know that that can keep getting better.” -Emily “When we can shine light of consciousness onto the trigger, that's as much of a win as changing the habit of letting the thing go.” -Patrick Guest Bio: Patrick Heffernan and Emily Cole Emily Cole: As the founder of Wild Within Coaching, Emily believes in, supports, and models going deep within ourselves for a wild journey. With a decade of wilderness guiding experience, she knows intimately the transformative power of adventure and how good it feels to be centered in oneself. Through coaching, she has seen the same process of people coming into their own guidance, wisdom, and power and loves supporting and guiding these exciting journeys too.   Patrick Heffernan: Patrick Heffernan is a wellness professional based two hours north of NYC in the Hudson Valley. He leads the dynamic community, Journey to You, where he coaches his members on how they can live a life more aligned to the rhythm of nature and tap into their best health and best selves. He also founded the online yoga community, Journey to the Peak, where he leads monthly online yoga immersions themed towards a peak pose and/or yoga philosophy.

Today's guest has been an innovative teacher and wisdom leader of Ayurveda establishing Yogahealer.com in 2001, and Yoga Health Coaching in 2012 for wellness professionals. Her books include Body Thrive, released by Sounds True (March 2019), and, Master of YOU (March 2020). She is a leader and author in the field of Ayurveda, Peak Performance, Habit Evolution, and Dharma. She is a global online community leader at Yogahealer with her podcast - The Yogahealer Show has 3M+ downloads and a newsletter that reaches 40k+ people. She leads Yogahealer with her remote team and is an avid recreational athlete with skiing, mountain biking, whitewater paddleboarding, and surfing with her family in the mountains of Wyoming, USA, and Punta Mita, Mexico. Please welcome today's guest Cate Stillman! Top 3 Amplifiers: How to avoid chronic inflammation that drags you down Why investing in your body is an investment in your business Why building a solid foundation in your expertise is critical to business success To listen, find other episodes, access the show notes, and find out more go to www.amplifyto7figures.com Connect with today's guest: Website: https://yogahealer.com/ Coaching: https://yogahealthcoaching.com/ Podcast: https://yogahealer.com/podcasts/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yogahealer/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Yogahealer Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yogahealer

Podcast Intro: Coach of the Month, Lana Svien is a recently retired Physical Therapist/Academic/Ayurvedic Practitioner and now Yoga Health Coach AND Body Thrive Team Leader.  She started her journey in YHC in 2019, has made huge GAINS, is an essential part of the community, and has so much to celebrate!   Listen in on this conversation between Lana and Anna Berklemans as they discuss her journey, celebrate her many GAINS since she got on the YHC path, and what amazing things are next for her!   After listening you will think “Wow! She has led a fascinating life.”, and will be inspired to lead one of your own. What you'll get out of tuning in: How to create a meaningful life in retirement How to measure joy Why being in a community is so helpful How to age vibrantly and lead a fascinating life How to find more ease while living your dharma Links/CTA: Check out our latest events here >>>  https://yogahealer.com/our-events/ Gap and Gain Highlights: Leah talks about how you completely lose your identity in retirement. Leah tells about how the YHC Community and Mastermind group keep her on track for what's next. Leah tells us about her future action plan which includes aging vibrantly, mission work, and outdoor adventure trips. Timestamps: 2:14- Growth path from Yoga Health Coaching to Body Thrive Team Leader 3:38- Transitioning to retirement 6:28- Secrets for easeful living.   9:15- Identity evolution through retirement. 12:17- The importance of the YHC structure and mastermind groups.  13:20-  Measuring GAIN and Keeping a structure in retirement. 15:24- Importance of a nurturing, growth-oriented community.  16:30- Intergenerational community structure.  17:50- Next steps for next level of growth. 18:23- An action plan for the future. Quotes: “The biggest thing, of course, is transitioning from the health profession side of things, where we really look at the problems that clients and patients come in with, to the health coaching side of things, where you are actually allowing that client or that individual to tap into their own self-healing and see their actual potential.” “I have designed a life that really brings great joy and ease.” “How are you going to measure the gain? That was a pivot for me….  It really rang with me, how are you going to measure whether you've achieved something if you haven't put metrics to it?  If you don't have a way to measure it, you're never going to achieve it.” “I have created a very meaningful life in retirement.” “I will just stay connected to this community because it will pull me into that next transformation.”

Podcast Intro: Aileen McGinnis and Suzanne McCahill Perrine Yoga Health Coaches, Aileen McGinnis, and Suzanne McCahill Perrine have been Accountability Partners since 2019.  At this point, it's so much more than an Accountability Partnership.  It's a strong friendship as well as a great business partnership, so much that they are leading a retreat together!  Listen in on this joyous conversation between the Accountability Partners and Cate as she detects what makes their connection so successful, the power of live events, as well as details on their upcoming Sacred Living Women's Eco Retreat in Ireland!   While there's lots of work and love that goes into their lasting partnership, they both agree that “bringing on the fun” and “saying yes to what you want” is a driving force of their success. What you'll get out of tuning in: How Live Events excel your growth  Why Accountability Partnerships are so important How to find Accountability Partnerships What steps to take to have a successful Accountability Partnership How to work with others and lateral mesh network Links/CTA: Check out our ONGOING FREE Masterclasses at Yogahealer.com Ep. 155 - How to Coach your Groups About an Anti Inflammatory Lifestyle Check out activities and retreats below: The Center Downtown Centered Living with Suzanne IG: @centeredlivingwithsuzanne Dan Sullivan's10x Talk Highlights: Cate talks about an article she read about how to smell inflammation. Aileen and Suzanne talk about their Ireland retreat details. Cate talks about Dan Sullivan's 100x Club where 10xers get together. Timestamps: 1:00- Their backstories 3:15- What works as accountability partners 6:11- Community benefits from live events 7:15- Continuing growth in an Accountability Partnership  9:52 - Investing into a network experience 12:45- Synergy of communities collaborating together 15:46- Retreat details 18:05- Advice for a successful Accountability Partnership    21:55- Summarized steps for Accountability Partners 25:25- Vulnerability and perfection as a Yoga Health Coach 29:27- Acting on “yes's” 32:00- The intimacy and acceleration of live events. Quotes: “The more people do live events and interact with other members, the more trust they have in the community, and the more strength they put into their accountability partnerships.” -Cate  “Your network is your net worth.” - Cate  “When we invest, then that investment can go up and down of course, but it can grow exponentially…. in Yoga Health Coaching you sign up and think you are going to be doing this one thing, and certainly we are, we become Yoga Health Coaches and we change our business and our business model, but the growth we couldn't have seen ahead of time are these kinds of connections.” - Suzanne “Like any relationship….  Those times when you start to feel separate from each other, the number one thing that is going to get you back on track is communicating again, showing up, and prioritizing time together.” - Suzanne “When you collaborate with someone, the sky's the limit.  You can do so much more than on your own.” -Aileen Guest BIO: Aileen McGinnis Born in Ireland and based in Tuscany with her family, Aileen has been practicing yoga for over 20 years, completing her first YTT with Marie Quail in 2002 after having a deeply inspiring and transformative experience in ‘The Expanding Light Retreat Center' (California) This Retreat Center /Ashram shares the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda to uplift world consciousness). Her rich training experience hails from Ireland, Italy, India, UK, Spain, and Bali with various inspired teachers, most notably Cate Stillman, Uma Dinsmore Tuli (Yoni Shakti, Mother's Breath etc), and Leyolah Antara (Kundalini Dance). Aileen is a , a good-humored, big-hearted, enthusiastic teacher offering nurturing yoga classes, sacred, ecstatic dance experiences, and down-to-earth Ayurveda lifestyle coaching in her transformational group program; ‘AWAKEN TO THRIVE'. Aileen's message is about LOVE & UNITY Consciousness. You can find out more about her at aileenmcginnis.com Join her Facebook group: Embrace Natural Health and Immunity. Guest BIO: Suzanne McCahill Perrine is the founder/director of The Center, Harrisonburg's first dedicated yoga and Pilates studio. Suzanne, E-RYT 500, YACEP, Certified Health Coach, and Pilates teacher, began teaching Yoga in 2005. Inspired to connect to others in her community and spread the joy and healing potential of yoga, she opened The Center Yoga studio. After years of study in the Anusara tradition with teachers, Desiree Rumbaugh, Christina Sell, Elena Browner, Amy Ippoliti, Moses Brown, Bita Jenkins, Suzie Hurley, John Friend, and Douglas Brooks, she eventually started teaching others to teach, starting the Center School of Yoga. Suzanne encourages her students to have fun, relax, and enjoy the splendid journey that yoga offers them both on their mats and in their lives. More recently, Suzanne has studied under Cate Stillman offering yoga & Ayurveda health coaching as a way to collaborate with clients who wish to feel more connected to life, honor their true nature, and reclaim their health. She continues to find more joy in her life since discovering Yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda and sharing it with others.

In this episode, Kathy Gruver and I have a fun conversation around acknowledging all the parts of you, living your dreams and following the breadcrumbs to your life's purpose.  Tune in for a light-hearted conversation filled with practical wisdom that will leave you laughing and motivated to be more authentic version of yourself and more present in each moment of your beautiful, amazing life.  Kathy Gruver is an award-winning author, professional speaker, and former actor with over 30 years of experience in mind/body medicine and human behavior. An entertainer and educator imbuing all of her programs with practicality and passion.  With a West Coast mentality and an East Coast delivery her humorous, down to earth and engaging style has captivated audiences on four continents, three cruise ships and a handful of islands. It's been her true honor to have delivered two TEDx talks.Kathy has written seven books which have garnered 12 awards, hosted a TV series based on her first book, developed a stress reduction program for the US military, and cohosts the Fire and Earth Podcast. She has penned countless articles and appears regularly as a guest on radio, TV and in in print media. She recently appeared on the Dr. Phil Show. She has earned her PhD in natural health and has studied mind-body medicine at the famed Benson Henry Institute for Mind-Body Medicine at Harvard. Kathy currently lives in Santa Barbara, California with her boyfriend, her guinea pig Listo and her cat Aleister. For fun and stress relief Kathy does flying trapeze and plays dungeons and dragons.To connect with a free mini meditation from Kathy click here.You can connect with Kathy through her website, coaching services, IG, Linked In, Facebook and Twitter.Lindsay Miller, host of the Stress Nanny podcast, teaches classes and offers coaching where she brings high-impact solutions to clients who are looking to restore physical, mental and emotional health.  Lindsay has a Bachelor's degree in Marriage, Family and Child Development as well as certifications in Yoga Health Coaching with an emphasis in Ayurveda, RYT200 (Yoga) and 200 IMTA (Mindfulness) certifications.  Using research-backed methods she facilitates private sessions for clients seeking holistic solutions (like yoga, mindfulness and healthy habits) for complex problems. Her background in autoimmune illness, infertility, loss and relationship conflict allows her to beautifully support clients navigating those experiences.  She also works with kids in virtual sessions using mindfulness and yoga to promote confidence, focus, strong relationships and emotional awareness.  She teaches  a weekly virtual class where clients learn key principles of self-care in a safe and supportive setting.  She loves empowering clients with solutions that promote healing and a sense of wholeness. Visit her website for more information on her podcast, coaching and courses.

Get your free weight loss resources here: https://www.bsbtribe.com/resourcesAre you in survival mode? Running off of adrenaline, without any routine or structure in life? Do you have a routine and connect with your spiritual self? In today's episode, I interview Cate from Yoga Healer about how to thrive in life instead of living in survival mode. Cate Stillman has been an innovative teacher and wisdom leader of Ayurveda establishing Yogahealer.com in 2001, and Yoga Health Coaching in 2012 for wellness professionals. Her books include Body Thrive, released by Sounds True (March 2019), and, Master of YOU (March 2020). Cate is a leader and author in the field of Ayurveda, Peak Performance, Habit Evolution and Dharma. Cate is a global online community leader at Yogahealer with her podcast - The Yogahealer Show has 3M+ downloads, and newsletter that reaches 40k+ people. She leads Yogahealer with her remote team and is an avid recreational athlete with skiing, mountain biking, whitewater paddleboarding, and surfing with her family in the mountains of Wyoming, USA and Punta Mita, Mexico. Social Media links:https://www.facebook.com/yogahealerhttps://instagram.com/yogahealer/https://www.linkedin.com/company/yogahealerGet your free weight loss resources here: https://www.bsbtribe.com/resourcesSubscribe & Review in iTunesAre you subscribed to the Fit Moms Squad Podcast? I want to encourage you to subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Mammas, let's help each other out! I would really appreciate it if you left me a review over on iTunes. Reviews help other mamas find my podcast. Just click on “ratings and reviews” and “write review” and let me know what you like about the show!You can also join my free FB group, Fit Moms Squad! I'm also on IG @eatbefitexplore so come say "hi" there! Thank you!

Identifying Ayurvedic imbalances can be tricky, especially when it comes to the issue of weight gain. When we think of weight gain, we think of kapha dosha: heavy and cohesive. But when the underlying cause of weight gain is anxiety, we must look to pacify vata dosha. Listen in to this short conversation as Cate and Grace unravel the subtleties of vata masquerading as kapha by discussing Grace's recent experience with a vata imbalance.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to determine whether weight gain is caused by a kapha imbalance or a vata imbalance. Why you should always suspect vata if stress is involved. Why normal weight-reducing practices don't work if the cause of weight gain is a vata imbalance.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Be a coach Have a conversation Discover more about Body Thrive  Body Thrive Book   Show Highlights: While warmth is pacifying to both kapha and vata, the dryness of many kapha-reducing foods and herbs can exacerbate an underlying vata imbalance. Distinguishing vata from kapha comes down to an underlying feeling of being "alright." Kapha is contentment, while vata is stress, anxiety and nervousness. When it comes to weight gain, kapha weight gain comes from lethargy while vata weight gain comes from a need to be grounded and insulated.   Favorite Quotes: "It's very, very common for the body to put on weight, and to put on weight quickly, like a security blanket, when vata is out of balance." --- Cate Stillman "As the practitioner, instead of trying to get her to exercise more and do all these fat-stripping things, instead I just want to soothe her. --- Cate Stillman "If we can start to analyze ourselves when we're looking at is this a vata imbalance or is this a kapha imbalance and know that one of the cool things about vata is that it's so mobile, it's so adaptive, it can look like the other doshas. . . . If you're ever wondering, assume vata is involved. In the modern age, because of stress, if stress is involved, I KNOW vata is involved." --- Cate Stillman   Guest BIO: Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She's a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team.

In this episode, Cate coaches Kelly Gardner through designing an annual pass that capitalizes on the wealth of knowledge and skills she already possesses. Kelly Gardner is "certifiable." She's a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Yoga Therapist, a yoga teacher trainer, and a Yoga Health Coach. Kelly excels in building, analyzing, and refining systems, and she wants to learn how to build and offer signature courses. She's currently coaching the third round of her 12-week yoga health coaching course and is getting ready to launch her annual pass. For a Yoga Health Coach, the annual pass is the ticket to a good lifestyle. Offering multiple courses means more work for the coach. More is not better. In fact, more is worse. The key is to roll what you already know into your annual pass that so you only need to market and enroll for one course - your signature annual pass. To simplify things even more, you only need to design first next quarter. Let your course members help you design your next quarter and you can be sure you're providing them with the experience they want.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why one annual pass is better than multiple shorter courses. How to design your annual pass based on your particular knowledge and skills. Why you only need to design the first quarter of your annual pass.   Links Mentioned in  Episode: Kelly's website Kelly's Facebook page Discover more about Body Thrive  Body Thrive Book Show Highlights: 0:00 - Kelly is "certifiable." She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Yoga Therapist, a yoga teacher trainer, and a Yoga Health Coach. She's currently coaching the third round of her 12-week yoga health coaching course and is getting ready to launch her annual pass. Kelly excels in building, analyzing, and refining systems, and she wants to learn how to build and offer signature courses. 6:12 - For a Yoga Health Coach, the annual pass is the ticket to a good lifestyle. Offering more courses means more work for the coach. More is not better. More is worse. For Kelly, the answer is rolling everything she already has into her annual pass. 13:00 - By figuring out your market differentiator, you can figure out your marketing strategy. If you're still struggling to figure out what your annual pass should look like, go back and listen to "What Should Be In My Annual Pass?" in the YHC course hub. Each quarter of the annual pass goes deeper into your differentiator. 22:00 - After mapping out the annual pass, the next logical step is to organize retreats or live events. For Kelly, the idea of organizing a retreat is overwhelming. She offers her course online and her course members are scattered around the Eastern US. Cate suggests that Kelly have her course members come to her, build the retreat into the annual pass, and invite members to bring a friend who might enroll in the next round. 25:50 - When things get hard, get excited for your future members, for their transformation. Kelly's next step is to detail her A to B transformation and refine her messaging around that. It's important to speak in the language of the "A"s. 31:10 - You only have to design your next quarter. If you let your members help you design it, then they really are getting what they need from it, and you're not overbuilding it. We're selling connection, not information. We're building a container for transformation.   Favorite Quotes: "Having more to offer means having more to market. . . . More is not better." --- Cate Stillman "It's really important when things get hard to be excited for your future members." --- Cate Stillman "A lot of what people actually want is access. They don't want more information." --- Cate Stillman "I just figured out that the habit course I'm teaching isn't about the habits. . . . It's about building the container for them to go be who they want to be." --- Kelly Gardner   Guest BIO: Hi, I'm Kelly Gardner.  I'm a Memphis girl. I was born and raised in Memphis and my family has a strong history of working to make this city great.  So, I am doing my part as a Licensed Professional Counselor in both Tennessee and North Mississippi. I also serve as a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT and 500 E-RYT) in clinical mental health settings.  When I am on the road, I am leading yoga teacher trainings as a Senior Master Trainer for YogaFit Training Systems or I am leading personal development workshops. I am currently in the thick of my Yoga Health Coaching certification which builds on my previous Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist training.  And if you need a personal trainer, I've got that covered too. I believe that yoga is great for EVERYONE and I love introducing people to how yoga can change their lives.  (Yes, it can work for you too.)I am a guide for others to learn how to make strides toward the kind of life they really want to live.  I do not believe that anyone was born to be unhappy and it's my dharma to help others help themselves. Connect with Kelly on her website and facebook page.

In this "Coach of the Month" interview, Amanda Rae talks with Kattie Maffeo, Yoga Health Coach of the Month, to discuss her path, her practice, her goals, and her successes with Yoga Health Coaching. Kattie and Amanda chat about how experiencing depression and anxiety in Kattie's 20's led her to meditation and yoga. Kattie is currently teaching what she loves -- Yoga and Ayurveda -- and through Yoga Health Coaching she has been able to leverage her time and experience a free yet grounded lifestyle, splitting her time between Florida and Maine. Kattie has now found a wonderful community of people to immerse herself in who help her to uplevel herself and her wellness career.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why you shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes  How to embrace Kaizen as a go-to coaching skill  How YHC can bring you into better integrity Kattie's best advice for new or prospective yoga health coaches     Links: Kattie's website  YHC Have a conversation Discover more about Body Thrive      Show Highlights: 2:15- In her 20's Kattie experienced issues with depression and anxiety. She was on prescribed medication, but was also self-medicating with alcohol. Kattie talks to us about how her journey with yoga and Ayurveda led to her regaining her health. 5:11- Kattie talks about her desire for more freedom in her life, a better self care routine and more integrity with herself and her time. She explains how Yoga Health Coaching has helped her to find this.   14:58- Kattie speaks in detail about the YHC course and how it has affected her life. Her habits and patterning have become more dialed in, she has purged old emotions, and has grown into a different person than she was in the past. 30:16- Would Kattie tell someone else considering the YHC course to make the investment? Heck yes! If you sign up for YHC, you are not only making the investment in yourself but in your career, and so much more. The YHC course is life- changing. Join us and find out for yourself!   Favorite Quotes: "I have a little more control with how I spend my time, which I think has been one of the biggest changes and shifts in my life in the past year (with YHC)." - Katie Maffeo "I really enjoy doing what I am doing. I love the teachings of Dinacharya. I think that the more we live in rhythm and in tune with nature the more healing can occur in our lives". - Kattie Maffeo   Guest BIO: Kattie Maffeo is a health crusader and enthusiast who shares her love for Ayurveda and Yoga with her community. Kattie discovered Yoga and Ayurveda over a decade ago when she was going through a challenging time in her life; she found the practice healing and transformational. She decided to deepen her studies and completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in her hometown. This brought her to the discovery of Ayurveda and from here everything fell into place. Wanting to expand her impact and have more flexibility with how she spent her time, Kattie enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching. Kattie is a Yoga Health Coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 200 RYT 500), and Yoga Therapist. Connect with Kattie here or join her community on Facebook and Instagram.     Show host: Amanda Rae is a life-long student and practitioner of life; she is interested in helping others to thrive versus just survive. She began practicing yoga 18 years ago and immediately fell in love with the effects it had on her relationships, mind, body and mood. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Communications and a Master's degree in Education. Amanda is a 200 hour certified Yoga Instructor and has traveled to India, Costa Rica, and Greece to study Ayurveda, health and longevity, herbal medicine, and culture. Amanda recently joined the Yogahealer team and immediately felt that she was pursuing her dharma. She is excited to connect with new peeps in the Yogahealer community and help others find the tools they need to thrive in their lives and in their wellness career. Connect with Amanda here or join our community on our Facebook group Yoga Health Coaching Wellness Pro Challenge.  

In this Yoga Health Coaching Coaching Gym, Cate sits down with Alec Hurley to talk about how yoga teachers can use their public yoga classes to generate interest in their habits courses and get people to schedule strategy sessions. While Alec has started reaching more people with podcasts and videos, he's still struggling with getting people to schedule strategy sessions with him. Cate quickly identifies that Alec isn't using his public yoga classes to their full potential, which is probably the case for a lot of yoga teachers who are also yoga health coaches. We look for new leads before we effectively mine the ones who are right in front of us on a weekly basis. The easiest way for yoga teachers to more effectively draw people into strategy sessions is by theming yoga classes with the habits of ayurveda. Move your yoga students through a curriculum week by week that relates to the habits you teach as a yoga health coach. Use a scarcity mindset and offer free strategy sessions related to your curriculum to the first 3 people who schedule with you after class. Specificity, scarcity, and value are key!   What you'll get out of tuning in: How yoga teachers can use their public yoga classes to generate interest in strategy sessions. Why subbing other people's yoga classes is an outstanding opportunity for yoga health coaches. How to use specificity, scarcity, and value to fill your courses!   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Body Thrive Yoga Health Coaching Living Ayurveda Show Highlights: 0:00 - Alec has started reaching more people with podcasts and videos, and he wants to know how to get more of those people to schedule strategy sessions with him. Cate quickly identifies that Alec can use his public yoga classes to more effectively draw people into strategy sessions by theming his classes with the habits of ayurveda. 13:00 - We have to help people connect the dots between their health concerns and what we're offering through yoga health coaching. Once we've exhausted the potential of the people who are in front of us on a weekly basis, we can start to look at secondary sources: the people who know the people who we know. Ask for referrals! 19:50 - Once we've identified our target audience, we can get really specific about who we're offering sessions to: for example, people who are constipated. Plan the theme of your yoga class to coordinate with the theme of your strategy sessions and ask your yoga students to refer people to you. Offer incentives for referrals. 22:22 - The wellness market is moving toward guided evolution, and that's what yoga health coaches do! Point out the value of a strategy session. Move your yoga students through a curriculum week by week that relates to the habits of Body Thrive. Use a scarcity mindset and offer free strategy sessions related to your curriculum to the first 3 people who schedule with you after class. Specificity, scarcity, and value are key. 31:45 - Cate also suggests offering yoga classes only to your annual pass members or offering your annual pass members benefits that aren't available to students who only attend your public yoga classes. In this way, you build interest in your annual pass and perhaps end up with people on a waitlist to join your course. Invoke curiosity. 33:25 - Subbing other people's yoga classes is another easy way to generate leads. Start with an introduction that tells the students what you do in your habits course: "I help people . . . ."   Your Favorite Quotes: "If someone is coming to you to feel better in their body, and they're overweight and they have an autoimmune issue and they're eating their main meal of the day past 6 pm, I don't care what you do in your yoga classroom, you cannot help them until you address that as a habit." --- Cate Stillman "This is where the market's going too, is to guided evolution. . . . That's what we do! We do guided experiences." --- Cate Stillman   Guest BIO: Alec Hurley is a yoga teacher in the San Diego area and a life long surfer. He is the founder of Higher Self Wellness and an avid practitioner of ancient wisdom and spiritual practices which he infuses into his public yoga classes and group program "The Art of Connection". He is professionally trained as a Chef and incorporates the ancient wisdom of "food as medicine" into his culinary creations. Currently enrolled in the Yoga Health Coaching program, Alec is adding the practices of personal and planetary alignment into his modern healthy lifestyle toolkit to help shift the collective into deeper states of connection. You can download a Free guided meditation here to get a deeper sense of what he is all about.

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with fellow Amarylis Fernandez, yoga health coach in training, to discuss overcoming fear and obstacles to invest in your own prosperity. Amarylis is a prenatal yoga teacher who was looking for a way to continue to work with her students after they delivered their babies and support them in the early years of motherhood. After watching Cate's work for a couple of years, and with a passion for ayurveda, Amarylis took the plunge into Yoga Health Coaching, despite her doubts about whether or not she could afford the cost of the program. Amarylis enrolled in YHC during a time of huge transition. Her marriage was dissolving, She didn't have much of an income from her yoga teaching or her work with nonprofit organizations, and she knew she would have to figure out how to support herself and her daughter. She was done with the scarcity mindset and knew she wanted to make more money. Amarlyis has enrolled nine members in her YHC pilot, and she has paid off her tuition. She knew she could serve others in a bigger way; she just wasn't sure how to do it. Yoga health coaching is that way. Amarylis did the work and trusted that her members would show up, and they did. She has learned that the investment of money translates into an investment in yourself.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why investing in Yoga Health Coaching sometimes involves a change in mindset about "spending" money. How Yoga Health Coaching is just the right combination of growth mindset and solid business practices. Why sometimes the only obstacle you really need to overcome is your mindset.   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Catch Yogahealer Black Friday Sweet Deal-EXTENDED!     Yoga Health Coaching Amarylis's website Living Ayurveda Show Highlights: 0:00 - Amarylis is getting ready to launch her pilot coaching group. As a prenatal yoga teacher, she was looking for a way to continue to work with her students after they delivered their babies and support them in the early years of motherhood. After watching Cate's work for a couple of years, and with a passion for ayurveda, Amarylis took the plunge into Yoga Health Coaching, despite her doubts about whether or not she could afford the cost of the program. 6:08 - Amarylis enrolled in YHC during a time of huge transition. Her marriage was dissolving, She didn't have much of an income from her yoga teaching or her work with nonprofit organizations, and she knew she would have to figure out how to support herself and her daughter. She was done with the scarcity mindset and knew she wanted to make more money. 9:40 - Amarlyis has enrolled nine members in her YHC pilot, and she has paid off her tuition. She was enrolled in Living Ayurveda at the same time and was able to schedule her pilot during a time that made sense for her. 13:40 - Amarylis has learned that the investment of money translates into an investment in yourself. The power of yoga health coaching lies in the support and accountability of your group. 15:25 - Yoga Health Coaching is just the right combination of growth mindset and solid business practices. Amarylis knew she could serve others in a bigger way; she just wasn't sure how to do it. Yoga health coaching is that way. Amarylis did the work and trusted that her members would show up, and they did.   Your Favorite Quotes: "I finally had a conversation with Grace. And I was like, 'Yes, sign up!.' And I remember distinctly telling her, 'I'm signing up for this, but I want you to know that I am terrified.' And she was like, 'Good! You're in the right place!'" --- Amarylis Fernandez "I just decided that I need to make more [money]. Not just that I need to make more, but I want to make more. And I believe that I can make more; I just don't know how. And I'm going to find those people who do know how . . . . I'm going to start surrounding myself with those people who do have that same mindset." --- Amarylis Fernandez "It feels so good. And it feels so fulfilling. And it's creating a model for the people who you want to serve. And creating a structure that makes it available for them. . . . There's just so much power in the structure of Yoga Health Coaching." --- Carly Banks "I knew that I needed the structure and the step-by-step model that Cate has laid out for Yoga Health Coaching so that every single week I know exactly what I need to be working on." --- Amarylis Fernandez "It's very empowering when you get to step into your own dharma and your way of serving in the world." --- Amarylis Fernandez   Guest BIO: Amarylis Fernandez is a yoga teach, a yoga health coach in training, and a mother. Not so long ago, Amarylis was totally frazzled, ungrounded, and desperate for change. And she realized things wouldn't change until she did. So she did. Now, Amarylis is on a path to guide women into vibrant living amidst the beautiful chaos children can bring. She spent a transformative month living at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health getting my 200 hour yoga teacher certification. She earned her 85 hour pre/postnatal certificate through the Bhaktishop in Portland, Oregon. She's trained more than 200 hours in Ayurveda with Cate Stillman of Yoga Healer, and specialized in Ayurveda for pregnant mamas and new mothers through Sacred Window's Ayurvedic Doula programs. Amarylis believes the transition into motherhood is a wild and wondrous ride that can be aided by yoga in all forms: postures, breath work, meditation, mantra, and help from your tiny guru(s)! She also knows the potent life transformations that occur when the wisdom of Ayurveda is incorporated into daily rhythms. Connect with Amarylis on her FB page and get more info on Amarylis's website.

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with Tracey Thiele to discuss the personal deep dive we take on our journey as coaches. As a yoga health coach in training, the last year has been very intense for Tracey. She started Body Thrive in 2017 feeling pretty depleted. She went to the Yogahealer retreat in March 2018 during a time of introspection, knowing that the changes she was experiencing in Body Thrive and YHC meant that she needed to let go of some things in her life that no longer aligned with her identity. What happened during and after the retreat amounted to a deep dive into long-held beliefs, doubts, and shadow issues. Tracey's transformation culminated when she was ready to fill her pilot program. She filled 10 spots in one week! She attributes her success to living the habits of Body Thrive. What Tracey and many other yoga health coaches have found is that Yoga Health Coaching is so much more than a business course. Because we go through the program we are learning to teach, our own personal growth is exponential. If you think YHC might be for you, your first step is talking to Grace.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How personal growth leads to professional success. How Yoga Health Coaching evolves our identities. How the service provided by yoga health coaches is far more valuable than any "quick fix."   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Body Thrive Yoga Health Coaching Yogahealer Shop Catch Yogahealer Black Friday Sweet Deal Why it's Better to Gift Experiences to Evolve Show Highlights: 2:48 - As a yoga health coach in training, the last year has been very intense for Tracey. She started Body Thrive in 2017 feeling pretty depleted. She went to the Yogahealer retreat in March 2018 during a time of introspection, knowing that the changes she was experiencing in Body Thrive and YHC meant that she needed to let go of some things in her life that no longer aligned with her identity. What happened during and after the retreat amounted to a deep dive into long-held beliefs, doubts, and shadow issues. 9:30 - Tracey's transformation culminated when she was ready to fill her pilot program. She filled 10 spots in one week! She attributes her success to living the habits of Body Thrive. 14:35 - Yoga health coaching is service. You're not selling a product. You're guiding others through a process that facilitates self discovery. Sometimes that can be a hard sell. Not everyone is willing to step outside their comfort zone and put in the work. 18:00 - When it comes to the Yoga Health Coaching course, taking the long view is extremely important. Knowing we don't have to do everything at once or know exactly how things will work out is calming and liberating and allows for our own personal growth. If you think YHC might be for you, your first step is talking to Grace.   Your Favorite Quotes: "This process of doing the work . . . you have to do the work; you have to look inside; you have to peel back your layers. And it hurts, and it's hard . . . but the depth is so beautiful! And what you can uncover, and how you can grow from being in that depth is something that I never could have expected." --- Carly Banks "It [yoga health coaching] is service. And it's service in the most clean way. You're not buying anything. . . . There's no quick fix. It's not easy. You're creating practices and it's a process." --- Tracey Thiele "I signed up for a program that would help me build a business. What I got was a program that changed my personal life." --- Carly Banks    

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks sits down with Rachel Peters www.rachelpeters.yoga to talk about the beliefs and fears one need to overcome when stepping into entrepreneurship. Prior to YHC, Rachel was working at a job that showcased many of her innate skills: organization, structure, opportunities to speak and to lead. She also owned a brick and mortar yoga studio. She excelled in both businesses, but something wasn't right. Rachel was working 60+hours a week. Following the birth of her son, it became obvious that her work schedule would not foster the connection she wanted to build between them. This was the spark... the moment where she accepted something needed to change. She took the leap and enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching. In this interview, Rachel is super honest about how her mindset can stop her from moving forward. It almost always comes down to fear. But in this community we get comfortable with our fears. We play the edges of them, and seek new truths so we can overcome them. Three years into her YHC career, Rachel is now making the same income she was while working 60 hours a week, except now she only works 20-25 hours a week. Same money. A THIRD of the hours. Doing work that really fills her up on her own terms. And the flexibility to be with her family whenever she sees fit.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How our fears keep us in our comfort zones. How YHC provides the structures and systems we need to be successful. How YHC is a platform for both personal and professional growth.   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Body Thrive Yoga Health Coaching Show Highlights: 0:00 - As moms, sometimes it's hard to define what a good work/life balance is. For almost 20 years, Rachel worked as a liaison between land management agencies and a local college. She often put in over 40 hours per week. She also owned a yoga studio and taught 8-10 classes per week. After the birth of her son, her heart wasn't in her work anymore, and she found herself talking more and more about yoga and health. 6:50 - Becoming a parent changes your priorities. Even when you're really good at your job, you might start to wonder whether it still suits your identity and whether it's in line with your dharma. Rachel realized that in order to do the work she really wanted to do, she had to step out from behind the desk. 10:50 - Many of us have been taught that we need a job with a "benefits package." For Rachel, it was hard to break away from that mindset . . . until she realized that the benefits package wasn't benefitting her. So she started making a list of all the things that were holding her back, and she began to realize that most of it was fear. 16:20 - Identity evolution is an ongoing process. Even after we make a big leap, there is always more work to do; there's always a next step in our evolution. The 10 habits of Body Thrive help us ease through those transitions. 18:20 - Rachel was part of the first group of yoga health coaches. She recalls sitting down with Cate for a strategy session and making a plan. It took Rachel another two and a half years to leave her desk job. But she "followed the breadcrumbs" and put in the work. She no longer works a desk job. She no longer owns a yoga studio. She works between 20 and 25 hours per week and this year her income will be what it was when she left her 40+ hours a week desk job. 21:40 - When we learn and practice the habits of Body Thrive, when we do the work in YHC, we start to get really clear on what matters most. We experience personal and professional growth simultaneously.   Your Favorite Quotes: "The work that I'd been doing so long . . . became the thing that I hid behind." --- Rachel Peters "I still am working on really believing in myself and that I can do this. And that I really can help people." --- Rachel Peters "You create new patterns in your thoughts by repeating the new truths to yourself." --- Carly Banks "Which one feels better? Fly the desk, or like . . . fly?" --- Carly Banks "One of the beautiful things of YHC is to learn the steps, that it's a system and it works." --- Rachel Peters   Guest BIO: Rachel's – As a Certified Yoga Health Coach and the Founder of Embody Ease and the Easeful Living Community, Rachel leads women on a yearlong journey to dissolve perfectionism and embody daily habits that promote clarity, ease, and inner connection. She is a wife, mom, and lover of wild places and contributes to her local community as a yoga teacher and teacher trainer in Prescott, AZ she also serves as the leader of the Coaching Team at Yogahealer. Check her website and facebook page.

In this "Coach of the Month" interview, Megan Pintus sits down with Carly Banks: YHC Coach of the Month. Following the birth of her second child in 2016, Carly found herself in the depths of postpartum depression. A visit from her long-time friend, Grace Edison, put her on the path to yoga health coaching and transformed her body, mind, and life. Embracing the 10 habits of Body Thrive triggered a chain reaction in Carly's health and wellbeing. The key to Carly's success has been her willingness to show up in a real and authentic way that values connection. She loves that the Yoga Health Coaching model allows her to show up and be vulnerable not only with her YHC colleagues, but also with the people she coaches. Carly's transition into coaching started with mentoring first for Grace's members and then for Cate's. She loves that she was able to start coaching without having to face her fear of selling right off the bat. By the time she ran her pilot, she had been through Body Thrive six times and felt comfortable stepping into her authority. Carly's best advice to new yoga health coaches is to lean back and lead with your heart as opposed to your head. Adopt a beginner's mindset, always. And don't forget how far you've come already.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why you don't need to be an expert to be a coach. How authenticity and vulnerability can make you a better coach. Carly's best advice for new or prospective yoga health coaches. Links: Check out Carly's free checklist of super simple habits to support your thrive   Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation   Show Highlights: 0:00 - Following the birth of her second child in 2016, Carly found herself in the depths of postpartum depression. A visit from her long-time friend, Grace Edison, put her on the path to yoga health coaching and transformed her body, mind, and life. The key to Carly's success has been her willingness to show up in a real and authentic way that values connection.  6:00 - Embracing the 10 habits of Body Thrive triggered a chain reaction in Carly's health and wellbeing. She admits she's still in process and sometimes falls back into old patterns, but she's developed a mindfulness and curiosity that she didn't have before. She loves that the Yoga Health Coaching model allows her to show up and be vulnerable not only with her YHC colleagues, but also with the people she coaches.  12:30 - Carly's transition into coaching started with mentoring first for Grace's members and then for Cate's. She loves that she was able to start coaching without having to face her fear of selling right off the bat. By the time she ran her pilot, she had been through Body Thrive six times and felt comfortable stepping into her authority.  15:25 - Carly's growing edge now is structure and automation. Her hope is that she'll free up time and money that she can give back to her community. Growth and creating a container for others people growth lights her up.  22:22 - Carly's best advice to new yoga health coaches is to lean back and lead with your heart as opposed to your head. Adopt a beginner's mindset, always. And don't forget how far you've come already.     Favorite Quotes: "It was just the biggest relief I've ever experienced to stop looking outward for the answer, to stop looking for the pill, to stop looking for that supplement . . . that's supposed to fix you. There is no Band-Aid. At first that was frustrating, and now it's liberating." --- Carly Banks  "I have faced some demons by doing this, and so I can speak to it because I know that it works." --- Carly Banks  "You don't ever stop learning from these little changes. There's always another evolution around the corner. There's always another layer of ourselves to be discovered. And there's always a new horizon to be approached." --- Megan Pintus  "It's been an honor to do a job where I am fascinated by the work. " --- Carly Banks  "I feel like you're helping people see the things they already know about themselves but maybe just don't believe yet." --- Megan Pintus   Guest BIO: As a working mom of two, Carly Banks knows how easy it can be to put yourself last. For years she showered herself in "shoulds", feeling guilty for not taking care of herself, and wishing she had more time. Sometimes, there just isn't more time. But there is always a different perspective. Instead of focusing on how far away she was from big goals and big habit changes, Carly switched her focus to the little goals, and little habits she could create with ease. With this change in perspective, step by step, Carly's changed her entire life. Connect with Carly on her website, Facebook and Instagram. 

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks sits down with fellow yoga health coach Dana Skoglund. Dana broke the $100K mark with her yoga health coaching income this year, working an average of 25 hours per week! Prior to YHC, Dana was making $18K teaching 6-8 yoga classes per week. To try to make more money, she would lead a ton of workshops, but that left her exhausted. Dana now works 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. Her evenings and weekends are free to spend with her family, and she loves the freedom of creating her own schedule. Yoga Health Coaching also provides Dana with the freedom to travel because she can work from anywhere. Dana's success is due in great part to her ability to understand the value of investing and reinvesting in her self and her business skills. Simultaneously, she's investing in the growth of the people she can serve. Her goal for next year is to double her income. With an income that exceeds her basic needs, Dana is able to reinvest in her business skills, design the life she wants to give herself and her family, all while leading others to permanent positive change.     What you'll get out of tuning in: Why investing in your business skills is the best investment for you, your family, and the people you serve as a wellness professional. How Yoga Health Coaching allows you to design the type of life you want to live. How income and impact go hand in hand.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Dana's Website Body Thrive Yoga Health Coaching   Show Highlights: 0:00 - Carly and Dana live in the same city. Rather than being competitive, they meet up on a bi-weekly basis, share ideas and resources, and collaborate. 2:20 - Dana has broken the $100K annual income mark as a yoga health coach! Prior to YHC, Dana was making $18K teaching 6-8 yoga classes per week. To try to make more money, she would lead a ton of workshops, but that left her exhausted. Dana now works 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. Her evenings and weekends are free to spend with her family, and she loves the freedom of creating her own schedule. 6:50 - Yoga Health Coaching also provides Dana with the freedom to travel because she can work from anywhere. One of the reasons she set her sights on making more money was so she could travel more, and she has been able to do so this past year. Her goal for next year is to double her income. 9:00 - Dana's success is due in great part to her ability to understand the value of investing and reinvesting in herself and her business skills. 11:00 - Inspired by Dana's success, Carly is setting her sights for her own success higher. She knows that investing in her personal and professional growth is the best investment   Your Favorite Quotes: "It's a great combination of having the freedom to be in your home and doing your work at your computer on your own time and then also be out in the community and connect." --- Dana Skoglund "I've continuously realized I need to invest more in being able to share my work with more people. You can't just be a good teacher to do that. It takes way more than that." --- Dana Skoglund "I could continue to just play comfortable, but growth feels way more interesting." --- Carly Banks "When we play small, we're actually stealing from other people because we're not helping as many people as we could be helping." --- Dana Skoglund     Guest BIO: Dana Skoglund is a Certified Yoga Health Coach, Yoga teacher, and mother of two rambunctious young boys. She's been studying Yoga since 2000 and teaching since 2004, and she has over 1,000 hours of training in the styles of Jivamukti, Anusara, and Sridaiva. Her desires to take her health and well-being into her own hands and to learn how to keep her family healthy led her to Ayurveda in 2011. After implementing daily routines from Ayurveda and noticing the profound impacts they had on her energy and happiness, she began coaching clients into these better body habits in 2013. She aims to inspire others about the importance of health habits in crafting the lives of their dreams. Dana is also deeply passionate about travel, adventure, learning, movement of any kind, and the arts.

In this Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with Cindy Marshall, who is in the first quarter of the Yoga Health Coaching course, about time management and how to set yourself up for success. Cindy is a mom to two girls. She and her husband own and operate a brick oven pizzeria. She spent the first five years of the business ownership in "survival mode," getting very little sleep. Her mental health was suffering and she went on a quest to help herself naturally. She started practicing many of the Body Thrive habits on her own and a friend subsequently told her about the program. Through Body Thrive, Cindy was able to fine tune those habits and improve her health even more. A lot of the work we do in Yoga Health Coaching revolves around time management and schedule integrity. Cindy has also found that technology skills she has learned such as online calendaring, online schedulers, and web design have streamlined her days and made her life so much easier. Learning the science behind habit-building gave Cindy the "why"s she needed to stick to the changes she was making. Knowing, for example, that neuroplasticity peaks during the hours that we are waking and going to sleep helps Cindy set herself up for successful, positive days. With Yoga Health Coaching, Cindy is inspired and excited to help other people find their way to natural health.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How Yoga Health Coaching teaches us how to set ourselves up for success. How Yoga Health Coaching combines personal thrive with professional thrive. How structures and systems lead to massive evolution.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Yoga Health Coaching   Show Highlights: 0:00 - Cindy is a mom to two girls. She and her husband own and operate a brick oven pizzeria. She spent the first five years of the business ownership in "survival mode," getting very little sleep. Her mental health was suffering and she went on a quest to help herself naturally. She started practicing many of the Body Thrive habits on her own and a friend subsequently told her about the program. Through Body Thrive, Cindy was able to fine tune those habits and improve her health even more. With Yoga Health Coaching, Cindy is inspired and excited to help other people find their way to natural health. 9:00 - A lot of the work we do in Yoga Health Coaching revolves around time management and schedule integrity. Cindy has also found that technology skills she has learned such as online calendaring, online schedulers, and web design have streamlined her days and made her life so much easier. 16:45 - Cindy also learned how to set up her environment for who she wants to become next. Moving her workspace from the kitchen table to a proper desk changed her identity. She also learned other tips and tricks for keeping herself organized and on task. 23:25 - Learning the science behind habit-building gave Cindy the "why"s she needed to stick to the changes she was making. Knowing, for example, that neuroplasticity peaks during the hours that we are waking and going to sleep helps Cindy set herself up for successful, positive days. 28:00 - Cindy's self awareness has also increased thanks to the habits of Body Thrive. She now feels responsive rather than reactive.   Your Favorite Quotes: "We commonly have people who are already ayurvedic practitioners and yogis coming into this program and learning the ten habits of Body Thrive and going, oh my gosh, it's the structure that precedes the massive evolution." --- Carly Banks "When you learn to automate, then you simplify your life." --- Carly Banks "We think we can do it with willpower alone, but we need systems." --- Cindy Marshall "I don't want to be reactive; I want to respond, not react." --- Cindy Marshall   Guest BIO: As an owner of a family restaurant, with experience teaching art for the Art Museum and community art center, Program Director of The Boys and Girls Club, youth development coordinator for a middle school, co-founder and teacher of Girls Rock Camps (teaching girls how to play instruments, write songs then perform to large audiences!) and recently, a teacher to disabled seniors, yoga health coach in training Cindy Marshall gives a lot to her community, her 2 kids, her husband and her siblings. Through her constant effort over the last few years, she learned the hard way that self care had to move up in the list of priorities if she was going to avoid burnout. She needed to create structures around her time, and her focus on self, that would allow her to do the work she wants to do in the world without losing steam. The habits of Body Thrive have brought her ease in her full days, and she is excited to say that the tools learned in Yoga Health Coaching are really so simple. All you need to do is start. Connect with Cindy on her Facebook page.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks sits down with yoga health coach Hannah Levin to talk about her ongoing evolution into yoga health coaching. Hannah started out as an art teacher. After going through yoga teacher training, she stopped teaching art, went to ayurveda school, and opened a private ayurveda practice. Having a private practice was challenging prior to yoga health coaching. Hannah was "scrambling," teaching 10 yoga classes a week in addition to seeing ayurveda clients privately and working other jobs as well. She wasn't having the kind of impact she wanted to have either.  Enrolling in Yoga Health Coaching was a big leap of faith. The financial investment was scary, but not as scary as her self doubt. As she prepared to launch her pilot program, she realized that all of the work she had done up to this point had prepared her for the work she would do with yoga health coaching. Hannah feels as though she is still in transition, but she sees the time coming to where she won't be teaching as much yoga or seeing as many private clients, which will allow her more time to support her group and get back to pottery.    Although Hannah started in February of this year, by September, she had enrolled enough members to pay off her YHC tuition . . . and she's not even certified yet! Even better, she's having the impact she wants to have.     What you'll get out of tuning in: Why YHC is the business training every wellness pro needs. Why the YHC financial investment isn't as scary as it seems. How everything you've done up til now has contributed to your potential success as a yoga health coach.   Links Mentioned in this Episode: Qualify yourself for a spot in Awake Living  Yoga Health Coaching Heartfeltwellbeing   Show Highlights: 0:00 - Hannah just returned from the Yogahealer retreat in Salt Lake City where she discovered more opportunities for growth. Hannah started out as an art teacher. After going through yoga teacher training, she stopped teaching art became a full time potter and yoga teacher. She then went to ayurveda school and transitioned away from pottery to open a private ayurveda practice. Having a private practice was challenging prior to yoga health coaching. Hannah was "scrambling," teaching 10 yoga classes a week in addition to seeing ayurveda clients privately and working other jobs as well. She wasn't having the kind of impact she wanted to have either. 6:00 - Enrolling in Yoga Health Coaching was a big leap of faith for Hannah. The financial investment was scary to her, but not as scary as her self doubt. As she prepared to launch her pilot program, she realized that all of the work she had done up to this point, including teaching art and leading outdoor programs, had prepared her for the work she would do with yoga health coaching. She now has 21 people enrolled for a year. Her growing edge now is being more location independent. She'll be travelling over the next several weeks and will be running her coaching group online from different locations. 9:30 - Hannah still feels as though she is in transition, as she is still teaching yoga and seeing private ayurveda clients in addition to coaching her group. But she sees the transition coming to where she won't be teaching as much yoga or seeing as many private clients, which will allow her more time to support her group and get back to pottery.   11:15 - Although Hannah started in February of this year, by September, she had enrolled enough members to pay off her YHC tuition . . . and she's not even certified yet! Even better, she's having the impact she wants to have. She knew her pre-YHC business model wasn't working. Now she knows she's getting the business training she needs to be successful. 12:50 - A happy by-product of YHC is that coaches get their own daily habits solidified, even those who were previously trained in ayurveda. 14:50 - Each yoga health coach brings his or her own particular strengths and interests into their coaching programs. Hannah includes quarterly art projects. Carly focuses on decluttering and creating "zen" spaces in her clients' homes.   Your Favorite Quotes: "This is really the best business degree that I ever could have hoped for." --- Carly Banks     Guest BIO Hannah grew up in an artistic/health-conscious family in the mountains of NC. She learned early on that health has many components.  As a young adult, she struggled with chronic sinus infections and digestive issues. Through changes in diet and lifestyle, and taking (and making) herbal medicine, Hannah rebuilt her vitality and realized that she was drawn to alternative health modalities. She became a yoga teacher, studied herbalism, and delved into exploring the body/mind connection. Hannah has now dedicated her life to learning about individual health and empowerment through wellbeing practices and sharing them with others. She brings this integrated knowledge to working with each of her clients as individuals on a unique path toward integration and healing. Connect with Hannah on her website and Facebook.  

Cate sits down with yoga health coach Lael Petersen to talk about what happens after the first year of yoga health coaching. Lael is a therapist who has been working in the mental health field for nearly 20 years. She started the Yoga Health Coaching course 15 months ago. Since then, she has transformed her business, her business model, and her family life. Lael has stopped accepting new therapy clients and only has office hours two and half days a week. The majority of her time is now spent supporting her current course members and doing course development. She is preparing to launch her third round of her version of Body Thrive, and she's looking forward to establishing a continuity program for her current members after their annual membership expires. Developing a whole new curriculum for second-year students isn't always necessary. Letting the second-year students mentor and lead the first-year students might be a better solution. Year 2 is an unknown product. Year 1 is proven. Don't sacrifice the known for the unknown. Another solution might be year-two mastermind groups: mentor-run courses written by the yoga health coach. The curriculum can be original content written by the yoga health coach, or curated content from other sources. Mentors run Facebook groups and setup mastermind groups, exchanging their services for course enrollment.   What you'll get out of tuning in: What happens at the end of an annual pass How to continue to serve your course members without doubling your time spent serving them How to identify good mentors   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Lael Petersen website   Show Highlights: 0:00 - Lael started the Yoga Health Coaching course 15 months ago. Since then, she has transformed her business, her business model, and her family life. Lael is a therapist who has been working in the mental health field for nearly 20 years. She is preparing to launch her third round of her version of Body Thrive, and she looking forward to establishing a continuity program for her current members after their annual membership expires. 4:50 - Developing a whole new curriculum for second-year students isn't always necessary. Letting the second-year students mentor and lead the first-year students might be a better solution. When course members teach what they know, they hold themselves to a higher standard. 9:18 - Year 2 is an unknown product. Year 1 is proven. Don't sacrifice the known for the unknown. Year-two mastermind groups are self-run courses written by the yoga health coach. The curriculum can be original content written by the yoga health coach, or curated content from other sources. Monthly or semi-monthly meetings can be "field trips" and/or coaching. Mentors can run Facebook groups and setup mastermind groups. Mentors exchange their services for course enrollment. 26:00 - The best mentors are those who just want to stick around and keep learning. They are supporting, nurturing and accountable. They are not creators; they are reinforcers. But they can help co-create with you.     Your Favorite Quotes:  "What do good leaders do? They nurture leaders. They turn other people into leaders. That's what good leaders do." --- Cate Stillman     Guest BIO Lael is a therapist and YHC in training. She started YHC with BT in May 2017 and then YHC in August 2017. She's scheduled to take her certification exam Sept 6-7. Lael has been transitioning her business from traditional 1:1 therapy model to a group/community model over the past year. She is about to start her third round of the habits and currently has sold over 20 year long memberships. Course members are beginning to inquire about what happens after the first year, so Lael is now designing content and structure for those who want continuity. Lael lives in Portland, OR, is married to her super supportive partner Josh and together they have two girls who are almost 9. Connect with Lael on her website and Facebook page. 

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with Jenny Faulkner Campbell of Enneawake to discuss the adaptability of the Yoga Health Coaching business structure. Jenny is a spiritual guidance practitioner who has been teaching Enneagram since 2009. Until now, her work was more of a hobby than a career. There was very little structure to what she was doing, and she always felt like she didn't have enough time. Now in the second quarter of Yoga Health Coaching, Jenny is learning and applying the YHC business structure to her own signature program. She's blending the group model with her one-on-one model and loving it! With more structure to her weeks, Jenny is excited about her work and feels like she now has the time to do all that she needs to do. Her income has tripled. Her workshops are lead generation for her course. And even though she doesn't teach the habits of Body Thrive, what she's learning in YHC is directly applicable to her work: how to coach, how to lead dynamic groups, and how to enroll.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How the YHC business structure can benefit anyone offering a wellness course. How to adapt the YHC coaching model to your and your clients' needs. How the YHC course provides plenty of opportunities for members to share ideas.   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Enneawake Show Highlights: 2:00 - Jenny is in the second quarter of Yoga Health Coaching. She is learning and applying the YHC business structure to her own signature program. Jenny is a spiritual guidance practitioner who has been teaching Enneagram since 2009. Until now, her work was more of a hobby than a career. There was very little structure to what she was doing, and she always felt like she didn't have enough time. 6:35 - Through the habits of Body Thrive, yoga health coaches learn how to structure their days to be more easefully productive. Like many wellness pros, Jenny felt drained by one-on-one sessions with clients. In YHC, we learn how to maximize our time and our impact by working with groups.  Jenny is blending the group model with the one-on-one model and loving it! With more structure to her weeks, Jenny is excited about her work and feels like she now has the time to do all that she needs to do. 10:20 - Jenny offers a 9-month group course. Her income has tripled. Her workshops are lead generation for her course. And even though she doesn't teach the habits of Body Thrive, what she's learning in YHC is directly applicable to her work: how to coach, how to lead dynamic groups, and how to enroll. 15:18 - YHC content isn't limited to the course work. Live calls and an online forum provide plenty of opportunities for members to share ideas.   Your Favorite Quotes: "I think it's totally adaptable. I've just been plugging in my thing. It's been easy for me." --- Jenny Faulkner Campbell   Guest BIO Jenny has a Psychology degree from Middlebury College. She has been teaching the Enneagram since 2009, and has been Certified and Authorized by Don Riso and Russ Hudson of the Enneagram Institute. She also has a Certificate in Spiritual Guidance from Rowe Camp and Conference Center. Jenny offers Enneagram teaching and Spiritual Guidance over the phone, via Skype, or in her office in Holliston. Jenny is available to travel and offer a program designed specifically to meet your needs.

Cate sits down with Neeta Bhushan, international speaker and author of the book Emotional Grit, to talk about emotional leadership. Neeta Bhushan has had a lot of transformation in her own life. After overcoming adversities that occurred early in her life, she built a million dollar cosmetic dentistry practice. She sold her practice to pursue her inner truth. She's now an advocate for emotional health and a leadership coach. Neeta's medical career was very much a masculine, "follow the rules" model. She didn't learn business, empathy or basic communication skills. Her business skills came from the emotional grit she developed through the adversities she had faced early in life. The biggest challenges for her was communication and how to lead as a female. With a thriving practice, Neeta found herself burnt out and "emotionally dead." She realized she didn't know who she was. So she left her practice and her abusive marriage and went on a journey of self discovery. She found that when it comes to leadership, emotional resilience, or "grit," is key. In her book Emotional Grit, Neeta uses "GRIT" as an acronym: grow, reveal, innovate, and transform. In her work, Neeta teaches leaders tools to help them lead with authenticity, vulnerability, curiosity, and compassion.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How the definition of "leadership" is evolving. Why emotional resiliency is the key to effective leadership. What you can do to help build your emotional resiliency.   Links Mentioned in Your Episode: Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Awake Living Living Ayurveda Show Highlights: 0:00 - Neeta Bhushan has had a lot of transformation in her own life. After overcoming adversities that occurred early in her life, she built a million dollar cosmetic dentistry practice. She sold her practice to pursue her inner truth. She's now an advocate for emotional health and a leadership coach. 2:00 - Neeta's medical career was very much a masculine, "follow the rules" model. She didn't learn business, empathy or basic communication skills. Her business skills came from the emotional grit she developed through the adversities she had faced early in life. The biggest challenges for her was communication and how to lead as a female. 5:45 - With a thriving practice, Neeta found herself burnt out and "emotionally dead." She realized she didn't know who she was. So she left her practice and her abusive marriage and went on a journey of self discovery. 9:06 - When it comes to leadership, emotional resilience is key. The ten habits of Body Thrive help to build that emotional resilience, which is why members of Yoga Health Coaching, Living Ayurveda, and Awake Living start with the Body Thrive course. Resilience comes down to your ability to adapt to circumstances that are beyond your control and then to learn, innovate, and create action in the face of those circumstances. In Emotional Grit, Neeta uses "GRIT" as an acronym: grow, reveal, innovate, and transform. Transformation is the action we take. 14:40 - The idea that a leader has followers is a bit outdated. In today's world, leaders collaborate with those who are on the same mission. Fear-based leadership, the idea that we have to scare people into loyalty, and hierarchy are also outdated. In her "School of Grit TV,", Neeta unravels that by encouraging leaders, through stand up comedy, to laugh at themselves and not take themselves too seriously. At Yogahealer retreats, course members participate in improv exercises to help get them out of the boxes they put themselves in. 25:00 - In a world that is more and more global, we are all involved in the evolution of what leadership looks like. Neeta teaches her clients to do a daily "emotional resiliency check-in" in order to become more aware of how often they are experiencing different emotions and where the emotions are coming from. From an ayurvedic standpoint, reflection allows for digestion, it allows us to evolve, and it creates empathy for others.   Your Favorite Quotes: "We're all in this together. The whole planet is going through this evolution together where we're learning how to be much more emotionally evolved as leaders." --- Cate Stillman   Gues BIO: Dr. Neeta Bhushan is a former cosmetic dentist turned best-selling author, international speaker, social entrepreneur, the advocate of emotional health, and leadership coach. Neeta left her million-dollar dentistry practice to pursue her inner truth; a journey which saw her spend over 15 years across 45 countries researching and immersing herself in the field human behaviour, as well as studying the works of classical philosophers and modern psychology. Her pursuit of knowledge to understand human behaviour in order to create positive life transformation is sparked by her own life experience to overcome multiple extreme adversities, which includes being orphaned at a young age, surviving an abusive marriage of domestic violence, and facing homelessness. Neeta's approach seamlessly blends the emotional grit she developed to overcome personal adversity with the understanding of human behavioural patterns. The power of her coaching and message has transformed the lives of thousands across the world and set the bar for a new form of emotional leadership. Connect with Neeta on Facebook or Instagram

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace sit down to discuss how fear gets in the way of us stepping into our potential and how to navigate that fear. As a Yoga Health Coaching enrollment coach, Grace Edison hears a lot of different versions of fear getting in the way of stepping into potential. On an evolutionary path, fear arises because inevitably, a part or parts of you have to die in order for you to step into your potential. When we realize that fear is normal and that fear can be a good indication that we're where we need to be, it becomes easier to navigate through the fear. A lot of wellness pros find themselves repeating the same patterns rather than advancing on an evolutionary path, and sometimes they don't even realize it. Yogahealer enrollment coaches, like Grace Edison, are experts at recognizing those patterns and helping potential course members recognize them too. Recognizing the patterns and being willing to change them, even in the face of fear, creates a peak performance mindset that can catapult you into your evolutionary journey. Are you ready for an evolutionary journey? Talk to Grace!   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why fear arises when you're on an evolutionary journey. How many wellness pros get in the way of their own professional growth. What steps you need to take to get out of your own way.   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Yoga Health Coaching Show Highlights: 0:00 - As a Yoga Health Coaching enrollment coach, Grace Edison hears a lot of different versions of fear getting in the way of stepping into potential. On an evolutionary path, fear arises because inevitably, a part or parts of you have to die in order for you to step into your potential. When we realize that fear is normal and that fear can be a good indication that we're where we need to be, it becomes easier to navigate through the fear. 4:55 - A lot of wellness pros find themselves repeating the same patterns rather than advancing on an evolutionary path, and sometimes they don't even realize it. Metrics are useful indicators of where you are: income, impact, network, and integrity metrics are particularly useful. 10:25 - Because Grace speaks to yoga health coaches before they decide to enroll, and she is able to witness their growth through the program, she has a unique advantage when it comes to determining what makes a person successful in YHC. It simply comes down to the person's ability to recognize that they are in a repetitive pattern and to be willing to change that pattern, no matter how much fear they experience. This creates a peak performance mindset. 15:33 - The role of Yogahealer enrollment coaches is to make decisions from a peak performance mindset. Part of that involves pointing out how, where, and when people are getting the way of their own potential. 23:00 - Thinking that you need to prove you can do something before you get help with it is a common way of getting in your own way. It's a backwards way of thinking. If you align to a proven process, like Yoga Health Coaching, you'll prove it to yourself along your growth path. And if you're with a group of people going in the same direction you want to go, your growth will happen so much faster.   Your Favorite Quotes: "The more you're in a peak performance mindset, the better able you are to take risk. So rather than it feeling risky, it feels like stepping into potentiality. It feels like stepping beyond and through the patterned self." --- Cate Stillman "Like Marcus Aurelius said . . . , the obstacle is the way. Where you're in your own way, that's the way." --- Cate Stillman "No one ever got out of their own way alone. Ever." --- Cate Stillman "Before it's a skill set, it's a process. . . . It's developing a process. It's breaking down the inertia of the old pattern and the old way of doing things." --- Grace Edison "The quickest way to evolve is to get with a group that's going in the direction where you want to end up." --- Cate Stillman   Guest BIO: Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She's a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks sits down with yoga health coaches with backgrounds in Western medicine to talk about integrative medicine. Integrative medicine is an approach to health care that addresses the full range of factors that can affect a person's health: physical, mental, emotional, environmental, etc. Ayurveda is the perfect complement to allopathic medicine, which focuses very little on the prevention of illness and disease. While health care in the United States is starting to offer more wellness-based services and alternative healing modalities, the delivery is hit or miss and far less meaningful than the work we do as yoga health coaches. With the implementation of new laws and fear of malpractice, nurses have lost touch with what their scope of practice encompasses. It encompasses teaching and educating the public.  Nurses CAN discuss diet, lifestyle, supplements and medication. So nurses can educate in line with what we learn in Yoga Health Coaching. For nurses, Yoga Health Coaching is a fulfilling return to the reason why they got into nursing in the first place. Yoga Health Coaches in the medical field can start to bridge the gap between Western medicine and Ayurveda, between a treatment-based system and a prevention-based system. What we learn in Yoga Health Coaching demystifies ayurveda and makes it accessible to everyone.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why Ayurveda is the perfect complement to allopathic medicine. How teaching patients about Ayurveda will  help future generations. How Yoga Health Coaching provides nurses with the structure to effectively educate patients and client about the foundations for health.   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Show Highlights: 0:00 - Integrative medicine is an approach to health care that addresses the full range of factors that can affect a person's health: physical, mental, emotional, environmental, etc. 2:15 - Annette Schellnbarger worked as a bedside nurse for over a decade. She discontinued her work a couple of years ago in order to complete her training as an Ayurvedic Practitioner. She sees ayurveda as the perfect complement to allopathic medicine, especially in the area of mental health. 3:55 - Nancy Plunkett has been a hospital nurse for over 22 years. What she noticed about allopathic medicine was how little emphasis was placed on prevention. As a yoga health coach, she now feels a sense of fulfillment because she is able to help people prevent illness and disease. Her fear is that as an R.N., she's not able to treat or diagnose anything, so she'll have to be careful with how she approaches her patients. 6:30 - With the implementation of new laws and fear of malpractice, nurses have lost touch with what their scope of practice encompasses. It encompasses teaching and educating the public.  Nurses CAN discuss diet, lifestyle, supplements and medication. So nurses can educate in line with what we learn in Yoga Health Coaching. 10:00 - For nurses, Yoga Health Coaching is a fulfilling return to the reason why they got into nursing in the first place. Nancy is hopeful that she and other Yoga Health Coaches in the medical field can start to bridge the gap between Western medicine and Ayurveda, between a treatment-based system and a prevention-based system. That will require educating and collaborating with medical doctors. 18:10 - Teaching patients who are being treated for disease or illness about the wisdom of ayurveda will help that wisdom filter down to future generations who may be able to avoid the disease process. What we learn in Yoga Health Coaching demystifies ayurveda and makes it accessible to everyone. 25:35 - If you are in a medical field, Yoga Health Coaching provides you with the structure to teach your patients or clients the foundations for health. While health care in the United States is starting to offer more wellness-based services and alternative healing modalities, the delivery is hit or miss and far less meaningful than the work we do as yoga health coaches.   Your Favorite Quotes: "There are so many laws, and we have been put in such a place of fear that we have lost touch with what is our scope of practice. And our scope of practice involves teaching and educating the public." --- Annette Schellenbarger "We have to allow people to be in charge of their health because what we're ultimately doing is teaching them how to become self aware." --- Annette Schellenbarger "This is the fulfilling part of Yoga Health Coaching for me is that I can do what I was supposed to do in the first place, what I was taught to do." --- Nancy Plunkett "Imagine if we can teach those people who are acute about disease prevention, then in another generation or two, that knowledge will carry down." --- Paige Pearman "As a nurse . . . , I have worked with very, very ill people. And 80% of the reason why they're there, even the cancer patients, were due to lifestyle and food choices. Every single one of them. And so ayurveda to me was like this lifeline." --- Annette Schellenbarger   Guest BIO:  Paige Pearman is an Ayurvedic Health Counselor through the California College of Ayurveda and Yoga Health Coach.           Internationally known Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, Marma Therapist, Herbal Rasayanist, Registered Nurse, Massage Therapist, and Registered Yoga Teacher, Annette Shellenbarger, is the original founder of Chandra Ayurveda.   Annette brings long-term balance and health to her clients that range from next-door neighbors to yogis in Europe. Annette is also a leader in bridging Western and Eastern healing modalities, and restoring Ayurveda to its authentic, spiritual and most effective roots, and is an innovator in applying Ayurveda as a complimentary system of well being, wellness and health. Annette works with western doctors to support clients and provide a well rounded, holistic system of healing. Annette teaches and lectures at yoga studios, hospitals, community centers, and has a successful online program teaching Ayurveda to medical professionals, health coaches, yoga teachers, Registered Dietitians, and functional medicine doctors.   Nancy Plunkett is a registered nurse, yoga teacher, yoga health coach, yoga nidra facilitator, Take A Breath facilitator, and facilitator on yoga sailing retreats.    

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with fellow yoga health coach, Mariko Lavender Jones to discuss how the 10 habits of Body Thrive have personally affected her. Mariko is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and yoga health coach who has been running her own business since 2006. The habits of Body Thrive have made it easier to strike a balance between work life and home life, between caring for others and self care. By waking before dawn to practice self care, Mariko is able face each day with a positive mindset. Body Thrive and Yoga Health Coaching help us understand who we are and get grounded in our being. We refine our days and find time for learning and creativity. And there is no endgame. We continue to grow and deepen our practice. We're not satisfied with "good enough." Our goal is "extraordinary." If you're done with "good enough" and ready for "extraordinary," have a conversation with one of our coaches.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why "good enough" is no longer good enough. How the habits of Body Thrive make it easier to strike a balance between self care and caring for others. How Yoga Health Coaches find time for learning and creativity while working and caring for their families.   Links Mentioned in Your Episode: Yogidetox Mariko Yoga Yoga Health Coaching Awake Living Show Highlights: 2:00 - Since going through Body Thrive, Mariko has aligned her daily activities with the Ayurvedic, or "dosha," clock in order to maximize her days. She wakes before dawn to practice self care and do some creative journaling. This enables her to face each day with a positive mindset. 8:45 - Mariko has been running her own business since 2006. Ayurveda, and particularly dinacharya, makes it easier to strike a balance between work life and home life, between caring for others and self care. 11:04 - Having a predominantly vata constitution and having moved from Tokyo to Singapore to London, establishing a daily routine was key to Mariko feeling grounded and focused. 13:47 - Body Thrive and Yoga Health Coaching help us understand who we are and get grounded in our being. We refine our days and find time for learning and creativity. And there is no endgame. We continue to grow and deepen our practice.   Your Favorite Quotes: "We talk with Cate [Stillman] about the difference between having a life that's good enough and having a life that's extraordinary, and I feel like this Ayurvedic shift is the difference." --- Carly Banks "Cate talks about spanda, meaning pulsation. . . . In my mind, balance is like this: an infinity mark. If you go to one extreme, you come back to center, and you go to the other extreme and come back to center. You need both, don't you? All work is not good. All play is not good." --- Mariko Lavender Jones "I believe there is no really final end, you know? It's always changing. We are always changing." --- Mariko Lavender Jones   Guest BIO: Mariko discovered her passion for yoga in 1995. After relocating from Tokyo to Singapore in 2002, Mariko gained her 'Diploma in Teaching the Science and Art of Yoga', certified by Svastha Yoga and Ayurveda, under the guidance of Sri A G Mohan. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, yoga was a key influence in her journey to recovery. Mariko continues to study under guidance of her teachers and mentors and completed one the most comprehensive level of yoga therapist training at Functional Synergy Yoga Therapy in June 2016, which is accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Now living in London, Mariko teaches Therapeutic yoga privately, as well as Hatha and Yin group yoga classes, both in English and Japanese. Connect with Mariko on her website and Facebook page.  

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks sits down with Chantel Alcaraz, a yoga health coach in training, to talk about her experience with Body Thrive. Chantel started traveling at the age of 22. For 12 years, she explored the world. Life was good, but yet, something was amiss. She eventually realized that with all of her traveling, she was having trouble connecting to her inner rhythm. Like many of us, Chantel was settling for feeling "good" or "okay," until she started to suspect the potential for more. Even while studying and teaching ayurveda in India, she had trouble applying and transferring the knowledge in a way that was relatable, digestible, and DOable. Chantel's experience in Body Thrive gave her the tools she was missing for thrive. Her life went from super cool to incredible. She's grounded, clear, and able to receive (and to pass on) the ancient traditions of Ayurveda and yoga using tools so simple to implement, her body is breathing sighs of relief. She knows now that all of her experiences prepared her for Yoga Health Coaching.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How Body Thrive makes the habits of Ayurveda simple and digestible. How the Body Thrive habits free up time and energy and allow us to get beyond the stress of day to day living. How Body Thrive teaches us what our bodies already know.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Yoga Health Coaching Living Ayurveda Show Highlights: 2:00 - Chantel started traveling at the age of 22. For 12 years, she explored the world. Part of her time was spent in India, learning ayurveda and yoga. She eventually realized that with all of her traveling, she was having trouble connecting to her inner rhythm. She knows now that all of her experiences prepared her for Yoga Health Coaching. 5:30 - Like many of us, Chantel was settling for feeling "good" or "okay," until she started to suspect the potential for more. Even while studying and teaching ayurveda in India, she had trouble applying and transferring the knowledge in a way that was relatable and digestible. She found that Body Thrive does that in a way that taps in to what our bodies already know. 10:00 - Rather than taking up more time, the habits of Body Thrive free up time and create space for us to get beyond the stress of daily living. Chantel has found a different, easeful mindset with her daily self care routine. She feels lighter and clearer. Even on the occasions when she strays from the habits, she's able to bounce back quickly. And the longer she continues to practice the habits, the more insightful she is about what makes her body feel its best. 16:50 - Body Thrive has changed Chantel's relationship with food. She no longer feels controlled by the highs and lows of blood sugar, and she's grateful for the more relaxed approach she takes toward eating.   Favorite Quotes: "If I did not have the basic, foundational habits of an Ayurvedic lifestyle under my belt, there is no way that I could run a business. I couldn't show up for myself the way that I need to. I couldn't show up for my family. Couldn't find balance. Couldn't honor my priorities." --- Carly Banks   "I do know that that movement and that lack of having any structure or rhythm in my daily life really kind of ran havoc on my body." --- Chantel Alcaraz   "I was settling for 'good' when there's really much more potential." --- Chantel Alcaraz   "We already know these things. We just forgot how to be in rhythm because we're so busy." --- Chantel Alcaraz   Guest BIO:   Chantel Alcaraz is the founding owner and mentor at Abhasa Yoga and Wellness in Mosier, Oregon. She took her first yoga class at the age of 18, resisting each and every moment. She wanted to run, or hike or bike, not just sit and "waste" her time on the mat. Fifteen years later, Chantel can't imagine her life without her practice, her awareness and understanding, her love for nature. She sees herself in the world and the world in herself. That is what aims to share.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks and Carolyn Lang discuss their experiences with Body Thrive. Carly went through her first round of Body Thrive while working two jobs and raising two young children. Six months later, she had lost 35 pounds and was keeping it off. She felt better in her body and was better equipped to handle her day-to-day life. For Carly, the self care she learned in Body Thrive had to come first, before she could even consider starting her own business as a yoga health coach. At the age of 52, Carolyn has worked in farming, banking, retail, and dental assisting. She retired this past February to focus on her health and her dharma. Carolyn gained 20 pounds following a knee surgery. Body Thrive helped her get back to where she was pre-surgery and has eliminated aching and cracking joints, which she had experienced for several years. Carolyn is picking up more and more self care habits with each round of Body Thrive and has found that her body responds well to intermittent fasting. Having solidified her habits and her health in the Living Ayurveda course, Carolyn has her sights set on upleveling her dharma in Yoga Health Coaching.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why Body Thrive is a prerequisite for finding your dharma. How physical self care leads to easeful living. Why putting off self care until retirement is the WRONG approach.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Yogidetox Yoga Health Coaching Show Highlights: 0:00 - For Carly, the self care she learned in Body Thrive had to come first, before she could even consider starting her own business as a yoga health coach. Carolyn gained 20 pounds following a knee surgery. Body Thrive helped her get back to where she was pre-surgery and has eliminated aching and cracking joints, which she had experienced for several years. Having completed the Living Ayurveda course, her next goals include building her self confidence as she begins the Yoga Health Coaching course. 3:30 - At the age of 52, Carolyn has worked in farming, banking, retail, and dental assisting. She retired this past February to focus on her health and her dharma. 8:00 - Carly went through Body Thrive while working two jobs and raising two young children. Six months later, she had lost 35 pounds and was keeping it off. She felt better in her body and was better equipped to handle her day-to-day life. But it doesn't all happen at once, and we sometimes experience setbacks. In Body Thrive, we implement small steps toward better self care with the support of our online community. 10:00 - Carolyn is picking up more and more self care habits with each round of Body Thrive and has found that her body responds well to intermittent fasting.   Favorite Quotes: "That's the kind of mindset that we get, right? You're going to go to work. And you're just going to work and just do it and keep pushing until you reach that moment where you can retire and then you're going to focus on self and then you're going to relax. Well, sometimes before you even get to that point of relaxation, your body runs out of steam because you're pushing too hard. You're not listening to it." --- Carly Banks "My circumstances had not changed whatsoever. But the way I felt inside my body and my ability to function and take on responsibility had amplified tenfold." --- Carly Banks, (post Body Thrive)  

In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Cate and Grace discuss the mindsets of highly successful wellness pros.   Mindsets are mental habits. In her enrollment conversations for Yogahealer, Grace sometimes gets the sense that something is "squashing" the urgency to evolve, to be successful. She feels that something is often mindset problems: doubt, fear, lack of knowledge, lack of network, old wounds.   Highly successful people have a big picture view of where they want to go, and they're constantly reverse engineering that back into the day to day, focusing on what they can accomplish right now that will get them to the future they so clearly vision. For that reason, their day-to-day is constantly changing and evolving.   Another key mindset of successful wellness pros is that they invest in where they're going and they invest bravely. They invest in where they're going; they don't invest according to who they've been or how they invested in the past; they're continually upleveling how they invest.   What common mindsets do you see among highly successful wellness pros? How does your mindset differ from theirs? Grace would love to have a conversation with you about it. Go to Yogahealer.com/have-a-conversation to schedule your conversation today.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How highly successful wellness pros invest in themselves. Why the day-to-day habits of highly successful people are constantly evolving. How your mindset might interfere with your success.   Links Mentioned in the Episode: YHC YH Have a Conversation Show Highlights: 0:00 - Your network is your net worth. A network is conversations. Our conversations are relationships. When we start to figure out which conversations get us where we want to go next, our relationships start to become very intentional. 3:00 - Mindsets are mental habits. One of the habits of highly successful people is asking themselves really good questions. What common mindsets do you see among highly successful wellness pros? How does your mindset differ from theirs? Grace notices that highly successful wellness pros focus on opportunities rather than problems. 7:15 - Highly successful people have a big picture view of where they want to go, and they're constantly reverse engineering that back into the day to day, focusing on what they can accomplish right now that will get them to the future they so clearly vision. For that reason, their day-to-day is constantly changing and evolving. 9:33 - According to evolutionary enlightenment theory, in the ground of being, everything is already happening beyond time and space. There is no contraction of time or space. That is why meditation is one of the habits of highly successful people. Evolutionary impulse creates the sense of urgency that causes us to act. 12:52 - In her enrollment conversations for Yogahealer, Grace sometimes gets the sense that something is "squashing" the urgency, the evolutionary impulse. She feels that something is often mindset problems: doubt, fear, lack of knowledge, lack of network, old wounds. Cate explains why you don't really want to have the skills you need to meet the challenge right now. What's more important is mindset: Who do you need to become in order to get where you want to be? 15:15 - Another key mindset of successful wellness pros is that they invest in where they're going and they invest bravely. 17:00 - Uncompromising self care is another habit of highly successful wellness pros. While self care is an investment of time, the monetary investment can be quite low. Highly successful wellness pros also possess a strong belief in what they're doing. They're willing to do the "hard stuff" to reach their goals, including long term planning and learning the skills they need to get to where they want to go.   Favorite Quotes: "You don't really want to have the skills to meet the challenge right now." --- Cate Stillman "This is another key mindset of successful people . . . They invest in where they're going. All the time. And they don't invest according to who they've been or how they invested in the past. So they're continually upleveling how they invest." --- Cate Stillman "That's what it feels like with investment: It feels like you need to be brave." --- Cate Stillman Guest BIO: Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She's a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team.

In this Coach of the Month interview, Cate sits down with Heather Stoken, a YHC Mentor who is currently enrolled in YHC Mastery. When your uniqueness leads you to your niche, opportunities start to unfold. Heather started with Synergy Bloom, her basic habits course based on Cate's Body Thrive model. Her husband's career as an airline pilot led her to target people in the airline industry who live a very alternative lifestyle that is not conducive to health and wellness. The importance of working with this niche population centers around the potentially fatal consequences of airline staff who are often sleep deprived and living an unhealthy lifestyle that is out of sync with their circadian rhythms. Comparing Heather's websites, Synergy Bloom is a typical Yoga Health Coach's website. It's Heather in her element being Heather. Her niche website, Fit Fly Movement, is very different. Heather used a "5 words exercise" from the YHC course to determine what that site would look like. It's clean, concise, corporate. It's meant to appeal to a niche that has little to no knowledge of or interest in yoga or ayurveda. Heather's advice to new or prospective yoga health coaches is that you don't have to know your endgame to get started. YHC provides the information, the content, and the skills you need to succeed. Book your free coaching call today: https://yogahealthcoaching.com/be-a-coach.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to use what you already know to find your niche How to market to your niche Why you don't need to know your endgame to start Yoga Health Coaching   Links: Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Related YHC Podcast Related YHC Blog   Show Highlights: 0:00 - When your uniqueness leads you to your niche, opportunities start to unfold. Heather started with Synergy Bloom, her basic habits course based on Cate's Body Thrive model. Her husband's career as an airline pilot led her to target people in the airline industry who live a very alternative lifestyle that is not conducive to health and wellness. 7:50 - The importance of working with this niche population centers around the potentially fatal consequences of airline staff who are often sleep deprived and living an unhealthy lifestyle that is out of sync with their circadian rhythms. Pilots and flight attendants themselves have an injury rate higher than that of construction workers. 8:45 - Comparing Heather's websites, Synergy Bloom is a typical Yoga Health Coach's website. It's Heather in her element being Heather. Her niche website, Fit Fly Movement, is very different. Heather used a "5 words exercise" from the YHC course to determine what that site would look like. It's clean, concise, corporate. This website is sent to airlines in a request to get them to include the course in their mandatory monthly training. 13:45 - Injuries and illnesses that prevent staff from working have a personal cost to the individual but also a cost to the company (or airline). In the airline industry, there may be a direct correlation between the time spent working and the likelihood of illness or injury. Drugs prescribed for injuries, particularly opiods, can lead to addiction, which further diminish work performance and quality of life. 22:15 - Yoga Health Coaching gives us the tools and the plan we need to discover our niche and market to that niche. Heather started by asking individual pilots and flight attendants to fill out a survey for her. From the survey responses, she started to form the focus of her program. 30:10 - Heather is a Yoga Health Coaching Mentor who is currently enrolled in YHC Mastery. Her advice to new or prospective yoga health coaches is that you don't have to know your endgame to get started. YHC provides the information, the content, and the skills you need to succeed.   Favorite Quotes: "What happens with niching, and what happens the more you own your uniqueness, different opportunities start to unfold." --- Cate Stillman "I had this philosophy that everybody needs to move better in their body, know their body better, be an advocate for their own body before they outsource their healthcare." --- Heather Stoken "There are so many skills and so much information in the Yoga Health Coaching program. It's so rich in content." --- Heather Stoken "You don't necessarily have to know what your endgame is to start the game." --- Heather Stoken   Guest BIO: Heather Stoken is an herbalist, Yoga and Yoga Tune Up® teacher, and student of Ayurveda. She has been practicing transformative work for the last 10 years in beautiful Portland, Oregon and on retreats and workshops throughout the Country. Heather is passionate about her yoga both on and off the mat, and integrates fun as well as anatomical understanding into her teaching. Off the mat, Heather is a mother, a novice artist, poet and chef, as well as a lover of travel and the great outdoors.

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with Yoga Health Coach Colleen Hieber about the prerequisite to Yoga Health Coaching: Body Thrive. Body Thrive is the prerequisite to Yoga Health Coaching, and it is the model we learn to coach. Prior to Body Thrive, Colleen was overwhelmed - teaching a lot of yoga and bartending at night into the early morning hours and sleeping til noon. Dinner was often between 9 and 10 pm and getting out of bed in the morning was really difficult. The first habit of Body Thrive (Earlier, Lighter Dinner or "ELD") was the hardest habit for Colleen. ELD often involves a whole recalibration of family values and long-held habits and beliefs. To get it to work, she had to change her schedule, which is the case for a lot of us. There were also some emotional and compulsive eating factors that she needed to address. Her conclusion is that there is always a workaround for any of the habits that challenge us. Each habit is very simple, but emotional issues and self-sabotage  issues often get in our was, which is why we need the support of group. If you suspect you might need the support of a group. Have you experienced the ten habits? Check out the details here https://bodythrive.com/ Ready to dive in? Time to talk to the team.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why we need to be in a group in order to successfully evolve our habits. Why and how yoga teachers are often living out of alignment with what they teach. Why the Body Thrive annual pass is so valuable.   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Colleen's website YHC Have a conversation YogiDetox Fall Show Highlights: 0:00 - Body Thrive is the prerequisite to Yoga Health Coaching, and it is the model we learn to coach. Prior to Body Thrive, Colleen was overwhelmed - teaching a lot of yoga and bartending at night into the early morning hours and sleeping til noon. Dinner was often between 9 and 10 pm and getting out of bed in the morning was really difficult. 6:48 - The first habit of Body Thrive (Earlier, Lighter Dinner) was the hardest habit for Colleen. To get it to work, she had to change her schedule, which is the case for a lot of us. There were also some emotional and compulsive eating factors that she needed to address. Her conclusion is that there is always a workaround for any of the habits that challenge us. 9:00 - Each habit is very simple, but emotional issues and self-sabotage  issues often get in our was, which is why we need the support of group. 11:15 - Because Body Thrive offers a year long pass, we repeat the course 4 times, giving us an opportunity to learn, rebel, return, and recommit. 12:40 - Because Earlier, Lighter Dinner (ELD) is such a keystone habit, Cate offers a free ELD Challenge. 14:10 - ELD often involves a whole recalibration of family values and long-held habits and beliefs. 16:40 - If you're interested in learning the habits of Body Thrive or in Yoga Health Coaching, go to https://yogahealer.com/conversation/   Favorite Quotes: "There's always a workaround [for Earlier, Lighter Dinner], but the workaround was like a "come-to-Jesus" moment: That schedule does not work. I think that's the hard truth. You hear people talk about what their schedule is and how they can eat dinner and you're just like, 'Well there's a part of that that's going to have to change.' And we dance around it a little bit, but that's what ends up happening." --- Colleen Hieber "Every single one of the habits is so simple. . . . The reason we why we have to go through these programs in a group and have all this accountability is because of that emotional bit and that self sabotage bit and that discounting bit and our crazy amounts of justifications we come up with for why we CAN'T do the thing. When at the end of the day, something has to change." --- Carly Banks   Guest BIO Colleen Hieber. As a professional dancer, I was first drawn to Yoga as a reliable method for physical therapy that I could practice on my own. Eventually, Yoga became so much more - I was hooked to its alignment principles, philosophy, mindfulness, and meditation. I also found a community of people on a similar path to personal growth. I made teaching Yoga my path in life, after experiencing the healing power of this practice, during a particularly traumatic event. I have never looked back. It is the greatest gift to share this practice with students and new teachers. Currently, I am leading Yoga Alliance approved 200-Hour Yoga teacher trainings at Spectra Yoga in Costa Mesa, CA and 85-Hour Ma Yoga® Prenatal Teacher Trainings internationally throughout the year. I have a deep and abiding call to bring the teachings of yoga to all different types of people. The lessons of yoga are universal. There is an innate intelligence and inherent power in the human body that is both accessible and transformational. I can give you the tools to dig deep and realize the power of grace. Connect with Colleen on her website.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Neve Grace Fletcher and Suzanne Lynch chat about what they have learned about creating fun, authentic, in-person experiences for their course members. Neve was inspired by a training call with Cate that revolved around designing an annual pass that was both fun and transformational. She started organizing in-person meet-ups for her course members. When Neve posted pictures of her course members having fun together in person, it inspired Suzanne to start organizing meet-ups for her course members as well. Suzanne's online coaching group consists of people from all over the world; however, she does have a large local contingent with whom she organizes monthly meet ups that revolve around her own strengths and interests. She also hosts open houses on Friday evenings that are open to anyone: friends, neighbors, local public figures. Those help get the word out and generate interest in her course, although that wasn't the original intention for them. She has also added retreats to her annual pass. Neve's advice is to make sure you as a coach are having fun. When you're having fun, you'll naturally attract new members and it elevates the entire experience for everyone. Are you ready to help your clients in a creative and connected way?Have a chat with Grace Edison about it.    What you'll get out of tuning in: How important fun and delight are in the process of getting happier and healthier. How creating an open sense of community makes marketing effortless. How yoga health coaches serve their members using their own unique strengths and interests.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Neve's facebook page Suzanne's website YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series    Show Highlights: 0:00 - Suzanne's online coaching group consists of people from all over the world; however, she does have a large local contingent with whom she organizes monthly meet ups. Suzanne was inspired by Neve's posts of her group meet ups, but her meet-ups revolve around her own strengths and interests. 4:50 - Neve was inspired by a training call with Cate that revolved around designing an annual pass that was both fun and transformational. 7:00 - The sense of connection that comes from in-person meet-ups supports course members' wellbeing. They will often start to meet up on their own in pairs or small groups with their coach. They also start to come up with their own ideas about what to do for group meet-ups. 9:30 - Suzanne has also added retreats to her annual pass. She also hosts open houses on Friday evenings that are open to anyone: friends, neighbors, local public figures. Those help get the word out and generate interest in her course, although that wasn't the original intention for them. 13:24 - Suzanne firmly believes that in this day and age, community is very needed. She sees providing community as part of her mission. She also partnered with a local yoga studio to provide space for her course members to practice with her in person; she opened those classes to the public, which is a benefit to the studio, but also to Suzanne as it serves to cross-pollinate her course. 16:25 - Neve's advice is to make sure you as a coach are having fun. When you're having fun, you'll naturally attract new members and it elevates the entire experience for everyone.   Favorite Quotes: "I didn't really understand how much fun and delight are really, really important in the process of getting happier and healthier." --- Suzanne Lynch "I feel like my life has been really enriched by the meet-ups. I'm having a blast." --- Suzanne Lynch "In this day and age, community is so needed. . . . Part of my mission is to provide community." --- Suzanne Lynch "That's what we get to create as health coaches - a community where we get to make healthy fun." --- Neve Grace Fletcher   Host BIO: Neve Grace Fletcher has been a yoga practitioner off and on since 2003. After several car accidents, it became apparent to her that she would be practicing yoga the rest of her life in order to maintain her health. She received her RYT 200 teaching certificate in Hatha alignment-based yoga at Health Advantage Yoga Center. Neve has studied many different styles of yoga under various senior teachers.  She is drawn to Ayurveda and Tantra as they teach all of life is sacred. She also loves practicing acro-yoga and slack-lining. With 14 years of teaching experience, Neve enjoys guiding her students along the yoga path of self-discovery. Her classes tend to be playful in nature yet with an element of reverence for the Divine. Connect with Neve on her facebook page   Guest BIO: Suzanne has been helping people get out of pain, and live happier, healthier lives for over 25 years. She has a special talent and affinity for habit evolution and deep listening. Suzanne loves helping clients feel better than they have in years. Suzanne has been a meditator for 30 years, and was certified by the NACC as a Catholic Chaplain in 2001. She worked for the Red Cross after The Trade Center bombings, as well as in hospitals, and in Hospice. She's a long time student of yoga and started back in 1989. Suzanne lives in Saratoga with her husband, Bruce and her dog Argos. She is a mother of two grown children. Connect with Suzanne on her FB page and get more info on Suzanne's website.

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with Yoga Health Coach Alec Hurley to discuss the difference between fitness instructors and transformational teachers. Alec was trained professionally as a chef. For years, he led a very arhythmic lifestyle working as a chef and managing kitchens. He realized he needed to make a change. He went back to and dove deeper into his yoga practice and started to enjoy life a bit more. Around the time he started teaching yoga, he found the Yogahealer Real Life Show podcast and realized there were changes he could make in his lifestyle that would better support his wellbeing. He started making those changes and it made a huge difference, not only in how he experienced his day to day life, but also in how he was able to show up for others. So he enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching as a way to take control of his career as well as his physiology. Alec weaves lifestyle lessons into his yoga classes, calling them "warm-ups for life" and reminding his students that while they refine their breathing, their attention, and their awareness during class, the real practice starts when they leave the studio. In this way, he differentiates himself from fitness instructors. The 10 habits of ayurveda that we learn to teach in Yoga Health Coaching assist in the implementation of taking our yoga off the mat. Implementing and automating the 10 habits is even more important for yoga teachers, who are often keeping arhythmic schedules and running from place to place to teach. Post YHC, Alec has been able to design a schedule for himself that helps keep him in a state of ease and flow.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How YHC makes you a solopreneur while providing you with a network of colleagues and "coworkers." How yoga teachers differ from fitness instructors. How the 10 habits of Ayurveda are the tools that help us live our yoga off the mat.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Alec's webiste YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series    Show Highlights: 0:00 - One of the benefits of being a yoga health coach is that while we are all solopreneurs, we have a network of colleagues or "coworkers" that span the globe. 2:26 - Alec was trained professionally as a chef. For years, he led a very arhythmic lifestyle working as a chef and managing kitchens. He realized he needed to make a change. He went back to and dove deeper into his yoga practice and started to enjoy life a bit more. Around the time he started teaching yoga, he found the Yogahealer Real Life Show podcast and realized there were changes he could make in his lifestyle that would better support his wellbeing. He started making those changes and it made a huge difference, not only in how he experienced his day to day life, but also in how he was able to show up for others. So he enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching as a way to take control of his career as well as his physiology. 6:35 - Alec weaves lifestyle lessons into his yoga classes, calling them "warm-ups for life" and reminding his students that while they refine their breathing, their attention, and their awareness during class, the real practice starts when they leave the studio. In this way, he differentiates himself from fitness instructors. 8:46 - The 10 habits of ayurveda that we learn to teach in Yoga Health Coaching assist in the implementation of taking our yoga off the mat. 10:14 - Implementing and automating the 10 habits is even more important for yoga teachers, who are often keeping arhythmic schedules and running from place to place to teach. 12:22 - In addition to teaching and coaching, Alec still works as a chef, cooking privately for people, in a more relaxed environment and with a sense of ease that helps keep him in a state of flow.   Favorite Quotes: "We can't really gives something that we don't have a full and true understanding of ourselves." --- Carly Banks "Over time, I've been able to create my own schedule to where it supports me in deeper ways. . . . So I have these really key points in my day that help anchor me into what I'm trying to create this day, who I'm trying to serve this day and how can I better support myself along this journey while supporting others." --- Alec Hurley "We can be doing our dharma . . . but stress and tension come from being out of alignment with self." --- Carly Banks   Guest BIO: Alec Hurley is a yoga teacher in the San Diego area and a lifelong surfer. He is the founder of Higher Self Wellness and an avid practitioner of ancient wisdom and spiritual practices which he infuses into his public yoga classes and group program "The Art of Connection". He is professionally trained as a Chef and incorporates the ancient wisdom of "food as medicine" into his culinary creations. Currently enrolled in the Yoga Health Coaching program, Alec is adding the practices of personal and planetary alignment into his modern healthy lifestyle toolkit to help shift the collective into deeper states of connection. You can download a Free guided meditation here to get a deeper sense of what he is all about.

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks chats with Yoga Health Coach Lynda Spieser about finding your dharma later in life. For 38 years, Lynda Spieser worked in facilities management for a national food company, leading a team of 20+ people in a deadline-based, high pressure environment. During that time, Lynda developed an autoimmune condition that manifested in her early 40s. She started to question the way she was living and working and took her first yoga class at the age of 55. The benefits were so profound that within two years, Lynda started teaching yoga so that she could share the benefits with others. From there, she went into yoga therapy training where she was introduced to the Body Thrive book. She read the book in one night and knew that it would shape the next phase of her career. Lynda markets her yoga health coaching course to women 50 and over because she understands that transitional phase that they're in and how the habits can help them mitigate that with grace and ease. Her program is called "CLAS: Clear Living Awake Space," so named because the realization that she left no space in her day for herself was what led her to yoga and ayurveda. But that's not the case anymore. Now in her 60s, Lynda is living her dharma on her own terms and she's enjoying her journey! Are you ready to support the growth of others by stepping into your dharma? Talk to Grace EdisonIf you've never looked into the Habits of Body Thrive, and structure of the course - it's well worth your time. Check out the details here   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why it's never too late to change your career. How your past experience can lead you to and support you in your dharma. Why your niche is what you know.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Lynda's website Lynda's facebook page Body Thrive YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - For 38 years, Lynda Spieser worked in facilities management for a national food company, leading a team of 20+ people in a deadline-based, high pressure environment. During that time, Lynda developed an autoimmune condition that manifested in her early 40s. She started to question the way she was living and working and took her first yoga class at the age of 55. The benefits were so profound that within two years, Lynda started teaching yoga so that she could share the benefits with others. From there, she went into yoga therapy training where she was introduced to the Body Thrive book. She read the book in one night and knew that it would shape the next phase of her career. 5:33 - Upon joining the Body Thrive course, the first thing Lynda realized was how sleep deprived she had been. The difference in the way she feels now compared to how she felt before she started practicing the habits is profound. The skin condition caused by her autoimmune disease is 80% resolved, but it didn't happen overnight. She's learned to appreciate slow, small steps, and she's learned to enjoy the journey. 9:20 - The longer we've been practicing "bad" habits, the longer it takes for us to get the full benefit of better habits. That's why Body Thrive is a year-long course with multiple iterations. With each round of the course, growth occurs in both breadth and depth. Although Lynda is over 60 years old, she's in awe of quickly the body responds to better habits. 11:20 - Behavioral science plays a big role in Yoga Health Coaching. Identity evolution is a huge part of Body Thrive. When you start to see yourself differently, you start to behave differently. 13:30 - In her previous career, Lynda had been coaching groups. Now she combines the skills she developed there with the skills she learned in Yoga Health Coaching to teach something that is meaningful to her. In fact, we all bring previously developed skills to our coaching, and it seems to many of us that everything we've done and learned up to this point has been preparing us to coach the habits. 15:37 - Lynda markets to women 50 and over because she understands that transitional phase that they're in and how the habits can help them mitigate that with grace and ease. Her coaching program is called "CLAS: Clear Living Awake Space," so named because the realization that she left no space in her day for herself was what led her to yoga and ayurveda. Favorite Quotes: "YHC has very much given me permission to take my time and let it unfold." --- Lynda Spieser "Much of what pointed me in the direction of yoga and ayurveda was realizing that I left no space in my day. And I was preprogrammed the whole time. So I was living on the surface of feeling and sensing." --- Lynda Spieser   Guest BIO:     I experienced overwhelm, a component of which was the corporate environment. Coincidentally, I designed, built and managed corporate office work environments for over 25 years. I am uniquely positioned to see the challenges through both lenses AND to coach individuals to a more spacious place and business to support that shift by enhancing their environments. I understand the pull towards success AND I know that getting there is facilitated by taking care, body and mind, today to be productive and thriving tomorrow.  I am excited to also bring clear living awake space to individuals in their homes. Connect with Lynda on her website and facebook page. 

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss the ways the doshas affect our self-limiting behaviors and how we can use our natural tendencies as assets. Vatas are very sensitive and naturally self-isolate in their own insecurity. They get excited about things but often change direction. Coaches and course members need to let vatas know that they are valued members of the group. Coaches also need to teach vatas how to recognize when they start to withdraw and self-isolate so that they can pivot and lean in to the group. Pittas are fiery. They're mentally sharp but can be critical and irritable know-it-alls. They struggle with "beginner's mind." Because they're so in their heads, they can lose connection with their hearts and with the group. If coaches can help pittas can come to terms with the fact that while they might know a lot about something, they probably don't know a lot about everything, they can start to pivot and lean into the group. Kaphas are stable and compassionate. They're loyal, bonded, and loving, but can be stuck in their comfort zone. They resist change and can be complacent. But if kaphas can spark their desire and get themselves into a group that is going in the direction of what they want to experience next, it becomes easy for them. We all have one of these tendencies. No one is exempt. Get to know what your tendency is; flip it, and it becomes an asset.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How we disqualify ourselves from evolutionary groups. How we can use ayurveda to understand the ways we self limit. How knowing your dosha can help you turn tendencies into gifts.   Links Mentioned in Episode: YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - As an enrollment coach, Grace notices the different ways that the doshas exhibit self-limiting behaviors. She can make a pretty good guess just based on one's tone of voice or rate of speech. 2:00 - Vatas are very sensitive and naturally self-isolate in their own insecurity. They get excited about things but often change direction. Coaches and course members need to let vatas know that they are valued members of the group. Coaches also need to teach vatas how to recognize when they start to withdraw and self-isolate so that they can pivot and lean in to the group. 10:00 - A new question Grace has been asking to gain information about how members would NOT feel supported is to ask, "What would piss you off?" 12:40 - Pittas are fiery. They're mentally sharp but can be critical and irritable know-it-alls. They struggle with "beginner's mind." Because they're so in their heads, they can lose connection with their hearts and with the group. If coaches can help pittas can come to terms with the fact that while they might know a lot about something, they probably don't know a lot about everything, they can start to pivot and lean into the group. 23:30 - Kaphas are stable and compassionate. They're loyal, bonded, and loving, but can be stuck in their comfort zone. They resist change and can be complacent. But if kaphas can spark their desire and get themselves into a group that is going in the direction of what they want to experience next, it becomes easy for them.   Favorite Quotes: "We really have to self identify first and figure out how is this showing up for us . . . if we don't want to remain isolated and stuck and constantly subjecting ourselves to our own BS." --- Grace Edison "Some of these things, they really become your greatest gifts. So if you get yourself, . . . if you put yourself with the right group of people that's going in the direction of what you want to experience next, it's easy for you." --- Cate Stillman "All you need to do is get yourself in the right group of people." --- Cate Stillman "We all have one of these tendencies. No one is exempt. . . . Get to know what your tendency is; flip it, and it becomes an asset." --- Cate Stillman   Guest BIO: Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She's a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks "gets naked" with newly certified yoga health coach, Kelly Gardner. Before Yoga Health Coaching, Kelly Gardner was teaching A LOT of yoga. She is also a licensed professional counselor offering mental health counseling and yoga therapy. She is gradually replacing time spent in those pursuits with Yoga Health Coaching, including offering her course both online and in clinical settings, working with people who are ready to move forward. Through the habits of vedic tradition, she's offering her groups fundamental techniques for self healing when they need it most, emphasizing how healing the body can help heal the mind. Kelly describes how many people move throughout their days as "having an out-of-body experience" where we get caught up in "shoulds" and other negative self talk. She believes that if we can learn to stop "shoulding" on ourselves, we would understand that we can always start over. Pulsation is part of the healing process and it's part of habit evolution. Are you ready to bare it all, and show up as your awesome, supportive, community building self? Time to talk to Grace Edison. https://yogahealer.wufoo.com.mx/forms/zg2nt9y19mkqk5/ What you'll get out of tuning in: How Yoga Health Coaching can help you stop shoulding on yourself and start enjoying the pulsation of healing body and mind. How Yoga Health Coaches show up "naked" for their course members and for each other. Why we need to heal the body before we can heal the mind.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Kelly's website Kelly's Facebook page YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - In Yoga Health Coaching, members show up as their true selves: we're vulnerable; we're supportive; we're real. 1:55 - Before Yoga Health Coaching, Kelly Gardner was teaching A LOT of yoga. She is also a licensed professional counselor offering mental health counseling and yoga therapy. She is gradually replacing time spent in those pursuits with Yoga Health Coaching, including offering her course in a clinical setting, working with people who are ready to move forward. 3:48 - Kelly ran two pilot groups before becoming fully certified as a Yoga Health Coach: one online group with 9 members and one in-person group in an outpatient mental health counseling setting. She has enjoyed running two groups at once and witnessing the transformation of her group members. In her mental health group, she emphasizes how healing the body can help heal the mind. 8:00 - Kelly describes how many people move throughout their days as "having an out-of-body experience" where we get caught up in "shoulds" and other negative self talk. 10:47 - We've all experience some sort of trauma. Pulsation is part of the healing process and it's part of habit evolution. We need to be able to go into and come out of it as many times as we need to until the process is complete or the habits are automated.   Favorite Quotes: "The mind follows the body. So we've got to get the body feeling best before we can have the mind feeling best." --- Kelly Gardner "If we can stop having this all-in-our-minds experience and actually get into the body, we can let go of some of those stories or at least take a time out from them." --- Kelly Gardner "Pulsation is a big piece in anything. The reason we can't take all 10 habits and immediately have it is because we can't change all that much at once. So we have to be able to go into it and come out of it and go into it and come out of it." --- Kelly Gardner "The course, the habits are forgiving. The body is forgiving. We can always start over, but we've got to be able to open our minds to that." --- Kelly Gardner     Guest BIO: Hi, I'm Kelly Gardner.  I'm a Memphis girl. I was born and raised in Memphis and my family has a strong history of working to make this city great.  So, I am doing my part as a Licensed Professional Counselor in both Tennessee and North Mississippi. I also serve as a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT and 500 E-RYT) in clinical mental health settings.  When I am on the road, I am leading yoga teacher trainings as a Senior Master Trainer for YogaFit Training Systems or I am leading personal development workshops. I am currently in the thick of my Yoga Health Coaching certification which builds on my previous Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist training.  And if you need a personal trainer, I've got that covered too. I believe that yoga is great for EVERYONE and I love introducing people to how yoga can change their lives.  (Yes, it can work for you too.) I am a guide for others to learn how to make strides toward the kind of life they really want to live.  I do not believe that anyone was born to be unhappy and it's my dharma to help others help themselves. Connect with Kelly on her website and facebook page.

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with Yoga Health Coach and Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor Nicole Matthiesen. Six years ago, Nicole was working long hours and not taking very good care of herself. She ended up getting sick and was diagnosed with IBS. Western medicine provided her with no relief, so she started looking for alternative treatments and found ayurveda. Ayurveda healed not only her IBS, but other things as well, including seasonal allergies, rashes, anxiety, depression, and PMS. The impact was so profound, she knew she had to share it with others, and she started studying to be an ayurvedic wellness counselor. While working for world-renowned Vedic teacher Acharya Shunya, Nicole encountered Cate Stillman, who sent them her book, Body Thrive. Nicole learned that, in contrast to the teachers she was currently working with, Cate took a very mainstream approach to ayurveda without losing the spiritual aspect of it. She was so impressed with Body Thrive and with Cate's webinars, that she decided to enroll in Yoga Health Coaching. Nicole became a Certified Yoga Health Coach in May 2018. She in now in YHC Mastery. She has found that with each iteration of Body Thrive, with the help of the behavioral science that we learn, she is taken to a deeper place in her ayurveda practice.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How ayurveda addresses whole body wellness as opposed to treating a condition. How Yoga Health Coaching differs from traditional ayurveda training. Why the Body Thrive annual pass is the best way to automate the habits of ayurveda.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Nicole website's Nicole facebook page YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - Nicole became a Certified Yoga Health Coach in May 2018. She in now in YHC Mastery. She started studying ayurveda in 2013. Prior to that, Nicole was working long hours and not taking very good care of herself. She ended up getting sick and was diagnosed with IBS. Western medicine provided her with no relief, so she started looking for alternative treatments and found ayurveda. Ayurveda healed not only her IBS, but other things as well, including seasonal allergies, rashes, anxiety, depression, and PMS. The impact was so profound, she knew she had to share it with others, and she started studying to be an ayurvedic wellness counselor. 4:10 - While working for world-renowned Vedic teacher Acharya Shunya, Nicole encountered Cate Stillman, who sent them her book, Body Thrive. Nicole learned that, in contrast to the teachers she was currently working with, Cate took a very mainstream approach to ayurveda without losing the spiritual aspect of it. She was so impressed with Body Thrive and with Cate's webinars, that she decided to enroll in Yoga Health Coaching. 6:45 - While she thought she was practicing dinacharya, Nicole quickly realized that with each iteration of Body Thrive, she was taken to a deeper place in her practice. What she has found as a coach is that different members are opened up in different ways with each round of the 10 habits course. 8:50 - Through her YHC coursework, Nicole was able to work through some issues with self-confidence so that she could confidently lead a group through a transformational process. 12:00 - One of the more powerful aspects of the Body Thrive model is the behavioral science we use to help automate the habits of ayurveda.   Favorite Quotes: "Every time I go through the habits or work through the habits, they just take me to a deeper and deeper place." -- Nicole Matthiesen Guest BIO: After spending many years in the corporate world, Nicole Matthiesen became a Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic Health Counselor, and Wellness Coach. She was led to the sister sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda in her search for a healthier and more fulfilling life. The deep healing and transformation she experienced by embracing these traditions have inspired her to share this knowledge and support others on their own journey towards more balance, better health, and happier lives. Connect with Nicole on her website and facebook page.

In this podcast episode, Cate talks with August Coach of the Month, Brooke Bailey, about marrying eastern mindset with western mindset, left brain with right brain, masculine with feminine. Brooke is a certified Yoga Health Coach, ParaYoga© Level 1 Certified Teacher, Four Desires Trainer, and a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. She also happens to have an MBA in International Management. The common ground that Brooke has found between her business background and her wellness career is connection: connection with self and connection with others. The benefit of her two diverse backgrounds (business and yoga) is that she can help others find a balance between the two. Living, working and studying abroad for several years provided Brooke with the opportunity to broaden her understanding of others through cross-cultural experiences. Using these experiences, she developed a coaching and teaching approach that is easily accessible to students from a variety of different backgrounds. Brooke is able to draw on her academic education to deliver her course in a practical manner that is accessible to people of different backgrounds who may not have any experience with yoga or ayurveda. As a YHC Mastery mentor, Brooke is interested in watching the dynamics of the peer mentoring ("mastermind") groups and witnessing the coaching and listening skills members develop. Personally, she is currently focusing on "Easeful Living" and balancing right brain and left brain.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Where the common ground lies between business and yoga. How group dynamics engender self trust. Why longer online courses are more successful.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Brooke's website Brookes' facebook page YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - Brooke started practicing yoga for stress relief. What she found was that her time spent on the mat led her to start questioning her choices off the mat. With an MBA in International Management, Brooke is able to draw on her academic background to deliver her course in a practical manner that is accessible to people of different backgrounds who may not have any experience with yoga or ayurveda. 5:05 - The common ground that Brooke has found between her business background and her wellness career is connection: connection with self and connection with others. The benefit of her two diverse backgrounds (business and yoga) is that she can help others find balance between the two. 8:30 - The group dynamic of Yoga Health Coaching can be a challenge for Westerners, but Brooke has noticed in her groups that the practice of listening to others can lead one to more fully trust one's own intuition. The end result is that the entire group is elevated by the experience of connection. 12:52 - One of Brooke's coaching success stories involves a woman who wanted to lose weight. Brooke explained that her ability to lose weight was tied to her ability to process emotions. The woman lost 20 pounds within her first 12 weeks of Brooke's annual program and felt her results were worth more than the investment she'd made in the program. 15:05 - The benefit of the annual pass is that there is a continuum of breakdown to breakthrough. Within a year, the likelihood is that one will either backslide or face a new challenge or both. And chances are that life circumstances will hit hard during that year. Being able to lean into the support of the group helps solidify the habits and lifestyle. 16:38 - Brooke's course members take the habits and the dynamic group guidelines into their work environments. Automating the mindset is just as important as automating the habits. 18:16 - All of the Yogahealer course are at least a year long now, and some are getting longer because people want to stay in the group. This is the opposite of what is happening with other online courses. The length of time allows for depth of growth. 23:20 - As a YHC Mastery mentor, Brooke is interested in watching the dynamics of the peer mentoring ("mastermind") groups and witnessing the coaching and listening skills members develop. 28:27 - Brooke is currently focusing on "Easeful Living" and balancing right brain and left brain.   Favorite Quotes: "To me, business is about people. And it's about connection." --- Brooke Bailey "You're not just learning habits. You're learning a different way of approaching your life." --- Brooke Bailey "You don't really want to go anywhere, and you get that depth takes time." --- Cate Stillman "Anything we practice in Yoga Health Coaching applies to the rest of your life. It applies to your business. It applies to your relationships." --- Brooke Bailey     Guest BIO: Brooke Bailey holds a BA in Management from Tulane University and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, where she graduated with honors. Brooke is a certified Yoga Health Coach, ParaYoga© Level 1 Certified Teacher, Four Desires Trainer, and a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. Brooke works online with clients across the globe through her 10-week group coaching course, Journey to Thrive. Using the tools of Ayurveda, Behavioral Science and yoga she guides individuals to identify which goals are aligned with their unique purpose shows them how to create a lifestyle that supports those goals and teaches them a process for experiencing more joy and ease in their daily lives. Working with Brooke opens more than just your body, she opens your mind and spirit to its greatest potential. Connect to Brooke to oh her website and facebook page.

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with fellow yoga health coach Lynne Taillefer to talk about the difference between giving advice and nurturing growth. The Yoga Health Coaching community has a way of revealing our shadow issues and encouraging us to work through them while providing us with the space and the tools to do so. Through her work in YHC, Lynne uncovered one of her shadow issues, something she doesn't like to admit needs work. Like many wellness pros, Lynne realized that in her urge to help others, she sometimes jumped the gun and went straight to giving advice rather than deeply listening to what others have to say. In Yoga Health Coaching, we learn deep listening techniques that allow our course members to explore their own stories. It's empowering for our course members and clients to first be heard and then to sit with their problems or questions so that they might have an opportunity to arrive at their own answers or solutions.   What you'll get out of tuning in: What common coaching tendency impedes our ability to coach more effectively. How yoga health coaches uncover and work through shadow issues with the candor and care of a dynamic group. How Yoga Health Coaching prepare us to provide space for deep transformation. Links Mentioned in Episode: Lynne facebook page Lynn's website YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series   Show Highlights: 0:00 - Our work as yoga health coaches often prompts some self reflection around how we've shown up in our personal lives. Sometimes we realize we need to make a shift. Lynne realized that in her urge to help others, she sometimes jumped the gun and went straight to giving advice rather than deeply listening to what others have to say. 6:15 - There's a lot of value in asking others if they would like your advice. It's also empowering for our course members to allow them to first be heard and then to sit with their problems or questions so that they might have an opportunity to arrive at their own answers or solutions. 9:04 - In Yoga Health Coaching, we learn deep listening techniques that allow our course members to explore their own stories. 10:22 - The YHC community has a way of revealing our shadow issues and encouraging us to work through them while providing us with the space and the tools to do so. Your Favorite Quotes: "As yoga health coaches, we have this immense opportunity to let our clients feel deeply heard and deeply nurtured in their growth path." --- Carly Banks "It's been incredible going through the Yoga Health Coaching program. We learn all kinds of really immensely positive deep listening techniques: opening your energy body to receive somebody's grief, for example, instead of filling uncomfortable spaces . . . and invite them to go deeper into their stories and invite them to uncover their own challenges. This model of coaching has just expanded my ability to connect with my clients a hundredfold." --- Carly Banks "I find that this wonderful, shining community brings up a lot of my . . . shadow issues, and that's what I want." Lynne Taillefer   Guest BIO: Lynne Taillefer, A.K.A. Mama Lynne lives in Québec, Canada  with her husband and their two young boys. She offers educational yoga and Ayurvedic workshops for yoga instructors and Yoga Teacher Trainings, who wish to deepen and continue their evolution as teachers and students. Lynne is a Certified Yoga Health Coach and she teaches an 11 week course as well as a 7 month Yoga Immersion course to help revitalize and rejuvenate other mothers and their families.  Connect with Lynn on her website and facebook page.  

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with Jutta Isabella, a yoga health coach living in Potsdam, Germany, to discuss personal breakthroughs around charging money for the services we provide.  For 10 years, Jutta undervalued and uncharged for her holistic wellness services.  She was a yogini with an interest in Ayurveda who started with the Yogahealer Living Ayurveda course. At first, Jutta wasn't interested in making money as a yoga health coach, but she was interested in how Cate was building her business and she loved being a part of the Yogahealer community, so she enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching. She ran her pilot coaching group and coached individuals for free.  After starting YHC, Jutta enrolled in Awake Living, and that is where her big breakthrough happened during a one-on-one coaching session with Cate. She realized she was running away from big opportunities, and her identity shifted immediately. She started charging for her services and requiring year-long contracts. The money she is making and the time that is available to her now has allowed her to start producing art again. Now in her second quarter of Yoga Health Coaching, Jutta believes that all three courses (YHC, Living Ayurveda, and Awake Living) worked together to get her to her breakthrough.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why many wellness pros undervalue their services. How creating a container for growth makes those services valuable. How YHC is customizable to your way of working with people.   Links Mentioned in Episode: YHC Have a conversation Discover Body Thrive Awake Living Sign-up for the FREE live Living Ayurveda Masterclass series now!    Show Highlights: 0:00 - Like Carly, Jutta came to yoga health coaching without a yoga teaching background or any kind of tribe or following. She was a yogini with an interest in Ayurveda who started with the Yogahealer Living Ayurveda course. At first, Jutta wasn't interested in making money as a yoga health coach, but she was interested in how Cate was building her business and she loved being a part of the Yogahealer community, so she enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching. 2:00 - For 10 years, Jutta undervalued and uncharged for her holistic wellness services. She ran her pilot coaching group and coached individuals for free. She knew it wasn't right, so as her program evolved, and she translated it into German, she started charging for it, but she still felt uneasy about it. But the more she did it, the easier it got. 3:44 - After starting YHC, Jutta enrolled in Awake Living, and that is where her big breakthrough happened during a one-on-one coaching session with Cate. She realized she was running away from big opportunities, and her identity shifted immediately. She started charging for her services and requiring year-long contracts. The money she is making and the time that is available to her now has allowed her to start producing art again. 6:58 - Health coaches often undervalue their services because what we provide isn't tangible. But holding space for and creating a container for the growth of others invaluable. 7:53 - For Jutta, it was important for her study business and ayurveda under an authentic woman like Cate. The support of the Yogahealer community was also very powerful for Jutta. 10:16 - Now in her second quarter of Yoga Health Coaching, Jutta believes that all three courses (YHC, Living Ayurveda, and Awake Living) worked together to get her to her breakthrough. She believes that YHC should always be combined with Awake Living. With Living Ayurveda, she began to look at the world differently. 13:45 - Jutta thought she was living the 10 habits of Body Thrive before she started her Yogahealer courses. What she found during her coursework was that she hadn't been living them consciously. Being in the Yogahealer community changed that for her. She senses that her one-on-one clients are looking for a community as well so that they can share their experiences and live more consciously. 18:00 - Yoga Health Coaching is modifiable to any niche and any language.   Your Favorite Quotes: "Intellectually, you know the problem. But mentally and emotionally, I couldn't break the barrier. I couldn't make myself understand from an emotional and mental perspective that I have to change something here." --- Jutta Isabella "With this program, you can modify it for yourself like I did here in Germany. . . . You have this package and you have wonderful access to everything, but also if you are a foreign language speaker . . . it's not a problem to translate it, actually." --- Jutta Isabella "I think more Europeans should do the program [YHC], too." --- Jutta Isabella

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Cate and Grace discuss the "boring stuff" that is essential to the evolution of your wellness career. "The boring stuff" is not the same for everyone. Some wellness pros are super creative and dislike mundane tasks. Others are very organized and detailed oriented and love creating the infrastructure that is necessary for success. Setting up infrastructure isn't always exciting, but it leads to exciting things. Likewise, creativity can be super exciting, but that doesn't mean that what you produce is good. What makes it good is refinement, which can be really boring. The more we get involved with the boring stuff, the more fascinating it becomes and the more success it begets. Sequencing (or krama) and efficiency are key to big career breakthroughs. Krama is divine order, the universal law of sequencing. Sequencing increases efficiency. Yoga Health Coaching teaches you the krama that has been tried, tested and proven to work. In Yoga Health Coaching, we show up with a beginners mind, with a willingness to be curious about our own krama and what is getting in the way of our success. Schedule a conversation with Grace. Her job is to help you see what is getting in the way of getting what you really want.   What you'll get out of tuning in:   How the "boring stuff" leads to the fun stuff How to evolve your neurology by getting interested in the boring stuff How sequencing and efficiency are the keys to big career breakthroughs. Links Mentioned in Your Episode: YHC Have a conversation Discover Body Thrive Awake Living Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - "The boring stuff" is not the same for everyone. Some wellness pros are super creative and dislike mundane tasks. Others are very organized and detailed oriented and love creating the infrastructure that is necessary for success. Some are really good at leading dynamic groups, and others have no experience with that at all. Some experienced practitioners are great at analysis, but aren't used to being a learning, vulnerable member of their own dynamic group. 7:00 - It's okay to change your mind in the face of new information! 9:00 - Setting up infrastructure isn't always exciting, but it leads to exciting things. Likewise, creativity can be super exciting, but that doesn't mean that what you produce is good. What makes it good is refinement, which can be really boring. The more we get involved with the boring stuff, the more fascinating it becomes, and you begin to evolve your neurology. 15:20 - Sequencing (or krama) and efficiency are key to big career breakthroughs. Krama is divine order, the universal law of sequencing. Sequencing increases efficiency. Yoga Health Coaching teaches you the krama that has been tried, tested and proven to work. 21:30 - Yoga Health Coaching and Body Thrive are also evolving with each iteration of the courses. New ideas are being tested and restested. We show up with a beginners mind, with a willingness to be curious with our own krama. 27:40 - Getting interested in the boring stuff leads to success in your wellness career. 31:00 - Schedule a conversation with Grace. Her job is to help you see what is getting in the way of getting what you really want.   Your Favorite Quotes: "The infrastructure, which to me . . . I would call that the business model piece . . . it's not always super exciting. But what it opens up is really fun, because life starts to get really fun because then the lifestyle starts to evolve." --- Grace Edison "What makes something good is refining it. And that can be so boring." --- Cate Stillman "Until we fall in love with that boring stuff, we don't get traction." --- Cate Stillman "YHC is better krama. Going through the Yoga Health Coaching course, . . . you don't need to try it a million ways. . . . We can give you the sequence." --- Grace Edison "When we think we already know it, that's when we're in the biggest trouble." --- Cate Stillman "When you're growing as a wellness professional, it starts where you want to leave it. . . . When you want to jump off, . . . it's about to get good." --- Grace Edison

In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Carly Banks sits down with Alison Miller to discuss "ripping off the Band-Aid" - coaching when you're not sure you're ready to coach. Coaching before being fully certified is one of the most valuable aspects of the Yoga Health Coaching course. With the support and guidance of Cate, our mentors, and other course members, we practice our skills and gain proficiency while we train. We emerge ready to coach and support our own course members. Alison Miller went through Yoga Health Coaching while working a demanding full time job with Special Olympics Michigan. Alison is enjoying her work as a yoga health coach so much that she has set a retirement date for her job with Special Olympics Michigan, a job she truly loves. In the meantime, she's able to do both by staying focused and organized. Alison is now in Q4 of YHC and has finished coaching her pilot program. She's getting ready for her certification exam, and her advice to new YHC members is don't procrastinate! Keep up with your assignments and keep your certification record up to date.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How Yoga Health Coaching prepares you for the meaningful, valuable, impactful work of health coaching Why coaching is the only way to prepare for coaching The best advice for new YHC members   Links Mentioned in Episode: Alison's website YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series   Show Highlights: 1:12 - Alison went through Yoga Health Coaching while working a demanding full time job with Special Olympics Michigan. She's now in Q4 of YHC and has finished coaching her pilot program. She's getting ready for her certification exam, and her advice to new YHC members is don't procrastinate! Keep up with your assignments and keep your certification record up to date. 4:30 - Coaching before being fully certified is one of the most valuable aspects to YHC. With the support and guidance of Cate, our mentors, and other course members, we practice our skills and gain proficiency while we train. We emerge ready to coach and support our own course members. 10:00 - Alison is enjoying her work as a yoga health coach so much that she has set a retirement date for her job with Special Olympics Michigan, a job she truly loves. In the meantime, she's able to do both by staying focused and organized.   Your Favorite Quotes: "If you waited until you were ready to coach, you would never be ready to coach. The only way to be ready to coach is to coach." --- Alison Miller "It [the habits program] facilitates all kinds of internal work. This isn't a diet program. This isn't an exercise program. It's everything. It's an entire life program. And it shifts your whole mindset." --- Carly Banks Guest BIO I'm Alison and I am a seeker of all-things health and wellness. I believe that my dharma, my purpose in life, is to help others be the best they can be through lifestyle (re)design that includes learning, practicing, and implementing healthy self-care practices.  The formula and principles are simple; the practice takes discipline; and the implementation and experience of a healthier life is just ahead. I'm not going to lie ~ I want to change the world by reaching as many people as I can and lead them into health by (re)aligning their lifestyle choices. Life can be SO much better when you make small adjustments to your daily habits including what you eat, how and when you move your body, and reducing your stress level. Connect with Alison on her website and FB page.

Grace Edison and I dive into today's spicy and edgy topic on how to move from a place of feeling pissed to a place of empowerment. We discuss our egos and how they have a tendency to bring us down with the 4 D's of defense, distraction, discounting, and denial.  We discuss taking action and standing up to ourselves by making connections with our peers and forming strong and honest bonds. By forming peer groups we have a better ability to overcome our negative thoughts and habits. We gently nudge our egos out of the way in order to stay on our true paths towards connection and growth. In listening to the feedback our peers give us, we are able to build trust and gain confidence in ourselves and grow at a rapid rate, breaking through our glass ceilings. When we take the time to pause, listen, and reflect on feedback we are given, we are able to see the habits we've created that we need to change in order to move onto our next level of self-growth.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Where do our egos get in the way? How do peer groups help us to grow? How do we receive feedback well?   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Sign-up for the FREE live Living Ayurveda Masterclass series now!   Show Highlights: 1:10- From pissed to empowered! How our ego keeps us from connection and growth. We talk about working with our ego in order to own your actions and thoughts and realize your recurring patterns and change them. 9:50- We discuss how to use feedback from your peers or in peer groups. How to get to the point where you are super honest with yourself and with others and how to take feedback and use it to grow. Favorite Quotes: "She thought she could, so she did." -Grace Edison "A very strong accountability group will generate an entire energy where they can see the key strengths that every member can bring, and they leverage those strengths." -Grace Edison "We open our hearts, we collaborate rather than compete, we take action." -Grace Edison "Stop being pissed and be empowered." -Cate Stillman   Guest BIO: Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She's a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team.  

Alexandra Kreis comes from a traditional yoga background where the guru doesn't 'advertise'. When she moved back home to Germany from Ireland, her struggle against burn out ended up worsening. Searching for a way to create community for her long-term clients, she stumbled across the Body Thrive book club program. With that success under her belt, she started the Yoga Health Coaching program. Alexandra and Cate discuss how the program created ease for her and her students. Having a guru curriculum, or "gur-icula" actually hearkens back to the old model of mentoring, rather than the burn-out-guaranteed model in the West today. Along with celebrating the structure and Alexandra's new life of easeful career, Cate and Alexandra discuss the profound power of the habits on family and community. For those in the health and wellness biz, the discussion on value and profound impact offers insights into connecting with potential clients and helping them better realize what investing in their health can do to their lives, families, and communities.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why you want to balance focus between the business and coaching side of the YHC program How to tune more deeply in to the value of the habits for the benefit of your clients and potential clients Why you want to focus your wellness programs on community support and encouraging members to speak openly with each other   Links Mentioned Episode: Alexandra's website Alexandra's facebook  Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 2:13 – Alexandra's initial training in her wellness career taught her 'not to sell', which led to burn-out and struggle to create a sense of community for her peeps. 6:28 – Out of her love of community and desire to create that for her students, Alexandra discovered the Body Thrive book club, which evolved into enrollment in the YHC program. 9:21 – Old guru communities, "guru-iculas" were community based...when the West adopted new wellness paradigms, they lost that value of community when they integrated those wellness paradigms. 15:17 – Cate and Alexandra discuss the differences between YHC 1.0 & YHC 2.0. 18:13 – There is no one-size-fits-all model for moving through YHC. Part of fully engaging with the program is deeply listening to how others are incorporating the YHC structure into their process, and being willing to listen to the data over our assumptions and biases. 27:19 – When our core people get pulled into the habits, we gain support and traction and culture is transformed. 29:57 – As wellness practitioners, a critical part of lead generation is understanding the profound impact of the rippling, life-positive effects of the habits of body thrive.   Favorite Quotes: "if you think to the guru communities of your past, they were built around long-term member sustainability. Get to know us, acculturate, become part of it. So the more we can mimic that, but have a financial structure to it that's sustainable, and gives us career thrive, gives us financial thrive." – Cate Stillman "Those who feel like they need a little bit more time for themselves in the whole thing, don't be shy to take that time, because the model works and it doesn't matter how quickly it works for you, it's the confidence you want to have with it." – Alexandra Kreis   Guest BIO: Since childhood, I have always felt happiest participating in the community in my external life and engaging in spiritual discovery in my private time. In the community, I experience myself through the reflection of others, whilst ensuring that I make time to connect inwards and maintain my roots. It is, therefore, no coincidence that my professional career has brought me into the deeper layers of self-awareness and discovery, whilst assisting others on their own path.  Connect with Alexandra on her Website and on Facebook page.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss tribe growth: How to Take Your Tribe from Zero to Hero. Cate is an expert at building and nurturing a tribe. For wellness pros, a tribe is the community of people we are working with: clients, students, members, participants, etc. It's becoming more common for wellness pros to adopt a community membership model, but they sometimes fall short of enrollment expectations. There's a skill to creating an infrastructure that facilitates growth and transformation through interconnectivity. People want to belong. They want a contract. They want to know what's expected of them. They want to know what they're going to receive. And they need to be continually reminded of the value of belonging. In the tribe model, the leader creates a space where members can easily and frequently connect. Tribe creates a sense of belonging, connection, unity and commitment. In a tribe, growth becomes more easeful as there is a give and take of support that is energizing rather than depleting. The more we give, the more we get.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to find and lead a tribe How to spark interest and foster engagement How to hack tribe interaction with ground rules for dynamic groups Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - Cate is an expert at building and nurturing a tribe. For wellness pros, a tribe is the community of the people we are working with: clients, students, members, participants, etc. Tribe creates a sense of belonging, connection, unity and commitment. In a tribe, growth becomes more easeful as there is a give and take of support that is energizing rather than depleting. The more we give, the more we get. 6:43 - There's a skill to creating an infrastructure that facilitates growth and transformation through interconnectivity. As wellness pros, we sometimes get in the way of our clients or students connecting with each other. In the tribe model, the leader creates a space where members can easily and frequently connect. To make it work most effectively, there has to be a financial commitment so that members know the value of their connection with you and with each other. 10:30 - It's becoming more common for wellness pros to adopt a community membership model, but they sometimes fall short of their enrollment expectations. People want to belong. They want a contract. They want to know what's expected of them. They want to know what they're going to receive. And they need to be continually reminded of the value of belonging. 14:04 - In the tribe model, people want to stick around long term. They want to earn a position in the community over time. Leaders start to emerge from the tribe and they bring in and help assimilate new members. The role of the primary leader then becomes maintenance and evolution of the infrastructure of the tribe. 16:28 - Creating a contract or policy or group guidelines or ground rules for the tribe adds a level of understanding and depth of meaning to tribe membership. It creates a shared context and vision and markers for success. Favorite Quotes: "We're all connected. And all of our actions, and even our thoughts and ideas are interconnected. So where you end and where I begin, in terms of what we're understanding, in terms of how we impact each other, in terms of thrive, these things are way more interconnected than assumed by a strictly Western thought perspective." --- Cate Stillman "When we see where there's been areas of massive growth and transformation or depth in our lives, we can see that it's tied to a number of other people. And then can we as wellness pros, can we actually leverage that to get people into thrive? So to me, tribe is more than just a vehicle or concept to do that. It's a necessity." --- Cate Stillman "In the guru model versus the tribe model, there is a missing level of humanity and vulnerability of the leader actually leading through their own growth." --- Grace Edison   Guest BIO: Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She's a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team.