This week's episode is the last episode of 2018! As usual, I'm reflecting on the last 12 months and everything that I've accomplished throughout the year.
I start this episode by sharing where I spent this year. My year was split between 5 months in Mexico, 5 months at home, and 2 months in the United States. By the time this episode airs, I'll be on a plane to Mexico to finish off the year exactly where I started it, in Mexico City.
This year I've felt a lot of accomplishment. I spent the first half of 2018 doing a lot of personal development and working on my money story to allow money to flow into my life and my business. The second half of the year, I worked my tail off to save for my 300 hour YTT that I'll be doing in early 2019. I said "yes" to every project that came my way, and because of that I am looking to find more ease in 2019. My intention moving forward is to work smarter, not harder.
My other successes for 2018 include releasing 50 new episodes of the podcast, talking to amazing guests from around the world including Jason Crandell, Diane Bruni and Amber Sears. I doubled my podcast downloads, released my signature course, Yoga Business Bootcamp, and grew my private Facebook community, Yoga Business Badasses a ton. I am so grateful for this community, and I couldn't have done any of that without you guys, so thank you for listening and supporting me!
Finally, I talk about some of my failures and room for improvement in 2019, where the first half of the year is taking me, and more.
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This week on the podcast I am joined by the co-founder of The Yogis Journal, Matt Kowald. Matt joined me all the way from Ontario, Canada, although you'll hear right away in the podcast that Matt is originally from Australia.
On this episode of the podcast we talk about where the idea for The Yogis Journal came from and what the process for creating a journal was like. We also talk about creating new, positive habits and how to create habits that will last in the long term, not just the short term. Matt shares how to create a successful morning and evening routine, as well as tips for breaking bad habits that aren't serving you anymore. Finally, Matt talks about the power of a daily journaling habit and how The Yogis Journal can help yoga teachers build a daily journaling habit!
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BLISSED is an online wellness platform and community, which offers programs to help you feel fully ALIVE! Their Simply Awaken Program is a 21 Day commitment for a total mind, body and soul Reset… It’s a great program to kick off the New Year and take control over your health. For 21 days, you complete an elimination diet while increasing fat and vegetable intake with the beneficial practice of intermittent fasting. Everything is organized and planned for you with weekly grocery lists, meal plans and delicious recipes. Enjoy access to a full library of yoga video’s for different styles, energy levels and time commitments with a focus on cleansing. In addition, there is a mindfulness library with guided meditations and journal prompts to track your progress and go deeper into Self awareness. This is NOT a one and done program.. its to teach you to notice how different foods and practices effect you. Simply Awaken encourages you to advocate for a higher standard of health in your life. Go to welcometoblissed.com and use promotion code: iamblissed (all one word) for 25% off their program. What do you think…. just 21 days to reclaim your health and your life.
This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout offeringtree.com/mbom.
This week on the podcast I am joined by Kara Seymour from Liv Kundalini, who is joining me all the way from Portland, Maine. She is a yoga teacher, a studio owner and a mother. Kara started practicing yoga as a single mom, and after falling in love with the practice she decided to become a yoga teacher. Throughout Kara's journey, she's followed the "winks" from the universe that she's received, which has inspired her to open not one, but two yoga studios. Kara shares what it's been like opening a kundalini yoga studio in a state where there isn't much kundalini yoga practiced, what she's learned through the process, advice for new yoga teachers and more.
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BLISSED is an online wellness platform and community, which offers programs to help you feel fully ALIVE! Their Simply Awaken Program is a 21 Day commitment for a total mind, body and soul Reset… It’s a great program to kick off the New Year and take control over your health. For 21 days, you complete an elimination diet while increasing fat and vegetable intake with the beneficial practice of intermittent fasting. Everything is organized and planned for you with weekly grocery lists, meal plans and delicious recipes. Enjoy access to a full library of yoga video’s for different styles, energy levels and time commitments with a focus on cleansing. In addition, there is a mindfulness library with guided meditations and journal prompts to track your progress and go deeper into Self awareness. This is NOT a one and done program.. its to teach you to notice how different foods and practices effect you. Simply Awaken encourages you to advocate for a higher standard of health in your life. Go to welcometoblissed.com and use promotion code: iamblissed (all one word) for 25% off their program. What do you think…. just 21 days to reclaim your health and your life.
This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout www.offeringtree.com/mbom.
This week on the podcast I am joined by Zahra and Chrissy from Blooming Happy Yoga. At Blooming Happy Yoga Zahra and Chrissy offer by-donation yoga classes in the park. So far, they are offering classes in Berlin, Germany and Melbourne, Australia.
On this episode of the podcast, Zahra and Chrissy share their yoga stories, what inspired them to create Blooming Happy Yoga, how they change their language and sequencing to make their all levels classes in the park feel welcoming, how to ask for donations in a way that feels authentic, the business lessons they've learned through creating Blooming Happy Yoga and more!
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BLISSED is an online wellness platform and community, which offers programs to help you feel fully ALIVE! Their Simply Awaken Program is a 21 Day commitment for a total mind, body and soul Reset… It’s a great program to kick off the New Year and take control over your health. For 21 days, you complete an elimination diet while increasing fat and vegetable intake with the beneficial practice of intermittent fasting. Everything is organized and planned for you with weekly grocery lists, meal plans and delicious recipes. Enjoy access to a full library of yoga video’s for different styles, energy levels and time commitments with a focus on cleansing. In addition, there is a mindfulness library with guided meditations and journal prompts to track your progress and go deeper into Self awareness. This is NOT a one and done program.. its to teach you to notice how different foods and practices effect you. Simply Awaken encourages you to advocate for a higher standard of health in your life. Go to welcometoblissed.com and use promotion code: iamblissed (all one word) for 25% off their program. What do you think…. just 21 days to reclaim your health and your life.
This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout www.offeringtree.com/mbom. Again, check out www.offeringtree.com/mbom to create your new website today.
Kelly DiNardo & Amy Pearce-Hayden are mothers, yoga teachers, yoga studio owners, and the co-authors of "Living the Sutras: A Guide to Yoga Wisdom Beyond the Mat". They met in Madison, Wisconsin and connected over both being yoga studio owners and yoga teachers. One thing led to another, and after discovering their mutual love of the yoga sutras, they decided to write an easy to digest book on the yoga sutras that will help people learn the yoga sutras and take them off the mat and into real life.
On this episode, Amy and Kelly share their yoga stories and how they met, they share lessons they've learned as yoga teachers and studio owners, the process of co-authoring a book, what "Living the Sutras" is all about, some of their favorite sutras and how to apply them off the mat and in real life, the biggest business lessons they've learned through their careers and more!
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This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout www.offeringtree.com/mbom.
This week on the podcast I am joined by Amy McDonald from the Abundant Yoga Teacher. Amy joined me all the way from Australia, where she runs a business helping yoga teacher create abundant and successful yoga businesses. She runs yoga retreats around the world, and also has her own podcast, The Abundant Yoga Teacher.
On this episode, Amy and I dive into all things yoga business! We talk about what she learned running a (at home) yoga studio, tips for running a successful yoga retreat, why it's okay to mix business and spirituality, why we deserve to make bank, tips for new yoga teachers and more!
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This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout www.offeringtree.com/mbom.
This week on the podcast I am joined by Trish Tutton from Banff, AB! I met Trish back in 2014 when I started working for lululemon and she was the Banff store's ambassador. Since then, I've had the pleasure of seeing Trish step into her niche of corporate mindfulness and really grow her business.
On this episode we talk about Trish's journey as a yoga teacher, discovering her love of meditation and mindfulness, how she has taken her business into local corporations, tips for become a corporate yoga and mindfulness teacher and much more.
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This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout www.offeringtree.com/mbom.
This episode of the podcast is also brought to by YogaBossBabe. YBB is a monthly lifestyle subscription box for passionate and motivated female yoga entrepreneurs who want to build and grow their business. Each month you receive a box of goodies to keep you on track and feeling inspired with your business. For more information, please visit www.yogabossbabe.com and use promo code MBOM15 to get 15% off your first box.
This week on the podcast I am joined by Vanessa, Rosler the founder of All You Can Yoga. Vanessa joined me all the way from Miami, where she is currently based, to share how she got into yoga and becoming a yoga teacher, where the idea for All You Can Yoga came from, what the brand is, how she's grown it and much more.
In this episode, Vanessa shares what it's taken to build a global yoga brand, the business lessons she's learned along the way, as well as tips for new yoga teachers.
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This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout www.offeringtree.com/mbom.
This episode of the podcast is also brought to by YogaBossBabe. YBB is a monthly lifestyle subscription box for passionate and motivated female yoga entrepreneurs who want to build and grow their business. Each month you receive a box of goodies to keep you on track and feeling inspired with your business. For more information, please visit www.yogabossbabe.com and use promo code MBOM15 to get 15% off your first box.
This week on the podcast we're doing something fun! I'm reading a section from "She Means Business" by Carrie Green. This has been one of the most influential business books I've ever read, and it helped me break through a lot of my fears and challenges that were holding me back.
In this section we'll talk about why YOU are the biggest thing holding you back and how to stop holding yourself back from success. We'll talk about being curious in the pursuit of following your dreams and creating a successful career, creating a journaling practice, creating positive affirmations, and changing your posture and how all of these things can help you break through your fears to create the life of your dreams, and much more.
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This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout offeringtree.com/mbom. Again, check out offeringtree.com/mbom to create your new website today.
This week I am joined by Nick Combs who is a yoga teacher, a yoga studio owner and the founder of M3 Yoga. Nick was formally a full-time nurse and discovered yoga after dealing with a back injury. Yoga helped heal him and he decided that he wanted to share his love of yoga with others. Nick started by teaching donation based yoga, and then slowly went through the process of recognizing his worth as a yoga teacher and decided to open his own studio, M3 Yoga. Now, M3 Yoga has a second location in Athens, GA and is running successful workshops and trainings.
On this episode, we talk about how Nick went from being a full-time nurse to a full-time yoga teacher and studio owner, the mindset shifts he had to go through to become a successful yoga teacher and studio owner, the business side of running a successful yoga studio, and much more.
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This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout offeringtree.com/mbom. Again, check out offeringtree.com/mbom to create your new website today.
This week on the podcast I am joined by Chioma (Chi) Njoku from The Mindful Bookkeeper. Chi is a business woman turned yoga teacher. After 6 months of teaching yoga full-time, Chi found that she couldn't create a sustainable living just off of her studio classes. She was frustrated and disheartened by the yoga industry.
Then, after hearing too much "You can't make money in the yoga industry" and "I'll just do it for free", Chi decided to start her own business - The Mindful Bookkeeper - to help people begin to understand the power of money stories, relationships with money, and that it's okay to make money in your business!
On this episode, we talk about the money side of the yoga industry, why it's okay to make money as a yoga teacher, how to overcome your money stories, and much more.
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This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout offeringtree.com/mbom. Again, check out offeringtree.com/mbom to create your new website today.
This week on the podcast I am joined by Nate Guadagni from BoYoga. If you've been listening to the podcast for a while now, you'll remember Nate from a few months ago. We did an awesome episode on growing your business through your email list and how to get an email list of 1,000 people!
In this episode, Nate and I talk about how to grow your yoga business through serving baby boomers or people in an older population. He shares how he's grown his business this way, ways that you can start diving into this market, how teaching an older population is different than a younger market, and much more.
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This episode of the podcast is brought to you by OfferingTree. Most wellness professionals struggle with creating a website and a digital presence, so OfferingTree created easy to use software that guides yoga teachers through the process in about 30 minutes. That’s right, you can have a website in 30 minutes! OfferingTree’s website tools allow teachers to put their schedule on their own branded website and allows their students to book classes and even pay online. Your OfferingTree website will have a whole host of other tools to help you be a successful teacher like newsletter and a blog, website traffic analytics, search engine optimization, client communication tools and more. OfferingTree really does make it simple to have a website and takes care of the tech side of teaching. So if you’ve been putting off creating a website because you think it will be a headache, you should really give them a try. To get started on your website today checkout offeringtree.com/mbom. Again, check out offeringtree.com/mbom to create your new website today.
This week on the podcast I’m joined by Destinee Berman. Destinee has been called the secret visionary behind today’s most recently recognised online schools in the intuitive arts and spiritual healing spaces. She spent 15 years in Silicon Valley managing clients like Twitter, HP and Microsoft before she headed into her own spiritual path in 2014. Now she’s the launch manager behind Ashley Turner and Sianna Sherman’s wildly success Urban Priestess Mystery School as well as Debra Silverman’s Applied Astrology Online School.
On this episode of the podcast we talk about the spiritual side of running a business, shifting your perspective around making money, how to grow your following online through marketing and how she incorporates systems like astrology in her business, plus more.
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This episode of the podcast is also brought to by YogaBossBabe. YBB is a monthly lifestyle subscription box for passionate and motivated female yoga entrepreneurs who want to build and grow their business. Each month you receive a box of goodies to keep you on track and feeling inspired with your business. For more information, please visit www.yogabossbabe.com and use promo code MBOM15 to get 15% off your first box.
This week on the podcast, I am joined by Shannon Crow from The Connected Yoga Teacher for a conversation on hands on assists. This conversation spurred from a prompt in my private Facebook community, Yoga Business Badasses, around the topic of doing adjustments or assists in class. Shannon commented and we decided to turn conversation into a podcast episode for everyone to enjoy!
In this episode, we discusses our thoughts and opinions on hands on assists, how to stay within scope of practice, if yoga teachers should be trained before they touch their students, why you should always make sure you have permission before you touch someone, and much more.
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This episode of the podcast is also brought to by YogaBossBabe. YBB is a monthly lifestyle subscription box for passionate and motivated female yoga entrepreneurs who want to build and grow their business. Each month you receive a box of goodies to keep you on track and feeling inspired with your business. For more information, please visit www.yogabossbabe.com and use promo code MBOM15 to get 15% off your first box.
This week on the podcast I am joined by Amber Sears from Epic Self! Amber is a mind, body, spirit transformation and business coach. Her mission it to empower people to dramatically upgrade their personal and professional lives with mind-body fitness, peak performance nutrition, lifestyle design, and conscious business.
Amber specializes in producing deeply healing and empowering retreats and teacher training programs around the globe. She also work intimately with new and established health & wellness entrepreneurs to help them build their dream businesses, so they can make massive impact on those they serve.
On this episode of the podcast, Amber shares her journey in dance, pilates, and yoga, as well as some of her biggest learnings through leading international retreats and trainings around the world, how we can reframe the concept of money to build sustainable businesses, how she created her business online, and so much more.
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This episode of the podcast is also brought to by YogaBossBabe. YBB is a monthly lifestyle subscription box for passionate and motivated female yoga entrepreneurs who want to build and grow their business. Each month you receive a box of goodies to keep you on track and feeling inspired with your business. For more information, please visit www.yogabossbabe.com and use promo code MBOM15 to get 15% off your first box.
If you've been listening to the podcast for a while now, you know that FavYogis has been sponsoring the podcast! After 6 months of using the app and working with them, I had the chance to interview the founder and CEO, Temitope Sonuyi.
Temitope is a yogi, yoga teacher, and a programmer! After experiencing challenges in his own yoga business he decided to design an app to solve those problems. As he started talking to more and more yoga teachers, he realized that he wasn't alone in his need for an app that allowed people to see your schedule at all yoga studios.
FavYogis launched just over a year ago and since then, the app has changed a lot. They've add functions including students being able can pay right from the app, allowing push notifications to your followers, a personal page that your students can look at without the app, the ability to add the app to your website, and so much more.
Of course, Temitope also shares some of the biggest lessons he's learned through his career!
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This week on the podcast I am joined by Mark Walsh, the founder of Embodied Yoga Principles, The Embodied Facilitator and Integration. Mark joined me all the way from Brighton, UK to talk about his journey as a yoga teacher and yoga business owner.
On this episode of the podcast we talk about how to market yourself and your business, how to find your target market, niche and tribe, the importance of getting paid for your work and how to deal with challenges around money, and much more.
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This episode of the podcast is also brought to by YogaBossBabe. YBB is a monthly lifestyle subscription box for passionate and motivated female yoga entrepreneurs who want to build and grow their business. Each month you receive a box of goodies to keep you on track and feeling inspired with your business. For more information, please visit www.yogabossbabe.com and use promo code MBOM15 to get 15% off your first box.
This week on the podcast we're doing something a little bit different! I am joined by DJ Taz Rashid who works in the yoga and wellness space creating music and playlists for yoga classes and yoga events.
Not only does DJ Taz share how he has successfully created his business, and some of his top business lessons, he also shares how using music can elevate your yoga business. Of course, not everyone likes to play music in their yoga classes and that is fine, but if you do, you can do it in a way that makes the experience for the student even better. DJ Taz shares how to create an intention and experience for the class using music, as well as how to allow music to be a solid part of your yoga brand. Taz also shares tips for creating a great playlist, how to choose great music, and more.
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A couple weeks ago, I had someone email in asking about how to build great relationships with studio owners, and how to leave situations that are negative or are not serving us anymore. This person continued to tell me that they are at a studio where they don't feel that they are being treated kindly, and personally, I am tired of hearing this. It is not okay for yoga teachers to just sit back and allow ourselves to be treated badly!
On this episode of the podcast, I talk about:
This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Yogabossbabe! Yogabossbabe is a monthly lifestyle subscription box for passionate and motivated yoga instructors who want to build and grow their yoga business. Every month you get a box of goodies delivered to your doorstep filled with things that will help you build and grow your yoga business.
This week on the podcast I am joined by Diane Bruni. Diane was the first female ashtanga teacher in Canada, a studio owner, a body worker, and now a teacher of functional movement.
On this episode, Diane shares how she first got into yoga, what the yoga landscape was like 20-30 years ago, owning a yoga studio, what it's been like shifting more towards functional movement, and what she's learned throughout her career.
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This week on the podcast I am joined by Trina Altman. Trina received her training through STOTT PILATES® and is an E-RYT 500. She’s the creator of Yoga Deconstructed® and Pilates Deconstructed®, which take an interdisciplinary approach to foster an embodied understanding of yoga and Pilates and their relationship to modern movement science.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk about Trina's journey as a yoga and pilates teacher, her approach to movement, anatomy and yoga, how she took her business online, and much more!
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This week on the podcast I am joined by the co-founder of Yoga Trade, Erica Hartnick. Erica discovered yoga after spending years as an athlete, and after slowly falling in love with the practice, Erica decided to teach. Soon after she become a yoga teacher, she started pitching companies, and hotels around the world to see if she could do a trade. In return for accommodation, she would teach yoga!
Erica did this for a number of years before the idea for Yoga Trade was a born! Why not create a platform where people can find traveling and teaching opportunities around the world? Fast forward 5 years, and Yoga Trade is the most popular online platform to find traveling yoga teaching opportunities.
On this episode, Erica shares how the idea for Yoga Trade was born and how she actually got it started with her co-founders. She talks about the struggles of creating an online platform and membership site, tips for other people who want to travel and teach or create an online business, as well as what she's learned through the process.
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Jason Crandell is an internationally recognized yoga teacher, who teaches workshops and trainings around the world. He is a San Francisco based yoga teacher, and also writes for Yoga Journal, and teaches on Yoga Glo.
In this episode of the podcast, Jason shares his yoga story with myself and listeners. Jason shares how he went from not enjoying his first yoga class to really enjoying the practice, and then becoming a teacher. He shares what it was like to be a yoga teacher 20 years ago, how the yoga world has changed, and how he's navigated the changing yoga landscape. Jason also share tips for new yoga teachers to stand out in a competitive industry, the importance of word-of-mouth and honing your skills, and so much more.
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Teaching demos are something that you will need to do before getting studio jobs! They can scary and intimidating, especially when you're first starting out. That's why I've created a FREE teaching demo checklist to help you prepare. Download your copy here!
This week on the podcast I am re-joined by Lauren Rudick! Lauren and I first connected about a year ago to talk about her journey in becoming an international yoga teacher. Now, on this episode, we dive into creating and growing an international yoga teacher training program.
Lauren shares tips for how she's made Yoga Academy International successful so far, some of the struggles with filling programs, including the changing Facebook and Instagram algorithms, as well as what sets her training apart.
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This week on the podcast I am joined by Jessica Murphy, who is a yoga teacher, podcast host, and the founder of the Dirty South Yoga Fest based out of Atlanta, GA. On this episode, Jessica shares her yoga story, what inspired her to create the festival, and what it takes to create and grow a successful yoga event or festival.
We talked about everything from finding a venue, getting teachers, promoting a big event, selling tickets, self-care when you're coordinating a big event, as well as what Jessica's learned through running the Dirty Yoga Fest! Enjoy!
Don't forget to check out the Dirty Yoga Fest this July!!