Mastering the Business of Yoga

This week on the podcast I am joined by Heather Ivany. Heather is a holistic practitioner and teacher of yoga, meditation, and Akashic reading. For over 20 years, she's led teacher training, mentorship programs and retreats. In this episode, Heather shares her background with yoga, meditation and Akashic records and how her practices have led her to teaching others. She also shares what a sacred s...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Nyk Danu. Nyk is a yin yoga teacher, a yoga business mentor, and the founder of Yoga for Misfits. In this episode of the show, Nyk shares 7 ways to market your yoga business that aren't social media. While social media is a great tool for your yoga business, it's not the only one! Nyk has some amazing (and mostly free or low cost) tips to share, as well as h...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Victoria Albina. Victoria is a Master Certified Life Coach, UCSF-trained Family Nurse Practitioner and Breathwork Meditation Guide with a passion for helping women realize that they are their own best healers, so that they can break free from codependency, perfectionism and people-pleasing and reclaim your joy. In this episode of the podcast we dive into why...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Jessica Hastings-Lesperance. Jessica is a yoga teacher, fitness enthusiast, as well as an advocate for mental health. She is also the owner of Cedar Wellness Studio. In this week's episode of the podcast, Jessica shares how the loss of a family member and grief led to her becoming a yoga teacher, what it was like to start a fitness business facility with 200...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Erin Wimert. Erin is a yoga teacher and the founder of Panacea Retreats. Erin has been teaching yoga for 13 years and after years of teaching 15-20 classes per week, Erin started teaching retreats. She found that teaching retreats gave her financial freedom to drop classes and has been running retreats for the last 8 years. She created Panacea Retreats to he...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Shannon Crow. Shannon is a yoga teacher, the host of The Connected Yoga Teacher podcast, and the founder of Pelvic Health Professionals. Shannon is passionate about pelvic health and how important this is for any individual with a pelvis. In this episode, Shannon shares her own journey with pelvic health, and how her healing led to her specializing in helpin...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Finka Jerkovic. Finka is an author, international speaker, workshop leader and coach. She consults with clients in areas of personal branding, leadership, sales, client experience and employee engagement. Finka believes when you bring authentic leadership and a mission-based mindset to business, you can achieve inner fulfillment, outer success, and leave a t...

Today on the podcast, I'm chatting with Kristin Zucaro! We actually had this conversation at the start of 2020 and since this conversation, Kristin has shifted from focusing on teaching yoga towards empowerment and life coaching. Despite that change, I think this episode will be very valuable for all new yoga teachers. Kristin talks about her experiences with transitioning into a career as a yoga...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Racheal Cook. Racheal is a business strategist on a mission to help entrepreneurs build businesses without the hustle and burnout. She's the founder of The CEO Collective, a podcast host, and a best selling author. In this episode, Racheal shares her background with entrepreneurship, how she helped yoga entrepreneurs with their businesses, why she pivoted he...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Leya Van Doren. Leya is a creativity coach, podcast host, seeker, and collector of stories and seashells. She hosts creativity workshops to help creatives nurture their inner artist, break free of their creative blocks, and be in community and connection. In this episode of the show, Leya share hers journey with yoga, becoming a yoga teacher and then shiftin...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Lisa Haggis. Lisa helps service-based entrepreneurs position their businesses as one-of-a-kind in their field for higher visibility, impact, and earning potential. Leveraging 18 years of experience in marketing and business strategy, she is committed to cracking the code on what makes a business innately interesting and worth mentioning. She is the founder o...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Carolyn Boldt. Carolyn has been working in the commercial interior industry for 40 years and has a passion for holistic health and wellness, and is an outspoken advocate that the environment of your space impacts your success. In this week's episode, we are talking about how to set up a yoga space - whether it be a brick and mortar yoga studio, an online spa...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Laura Munkholm. Laura is the president and co-founder of Walla Software, an all-in-one business management platform for boutique fitness studios. As one of only two female executive leaders in FitTech, Laura is highly unique in that she deeply understands the Walla user. Not only has Laura taught yoga herself, she's also led a boutique studio chain in doubli...

This week on the podcast, I am joined by Danielle Hayden from Kickstart Accounting. This short and sweet episode originally aired on MBOm: Behind the Scenes and I am very excited to be sharing it with you today. In this episode, Danielle and I are talking about money, money mindset, how to start thriving and accepting money, and why it's super important to know your numbers, including profits, los...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Ashley Sondergaard. Ashley is a self-care coach, yoga teacher, astrologer, and host of the Yoga Magic podcast. For over 10 years, she has studied yoga, meditation, astrology and mindfulness practices that prioritize self-care and self-discovery. In this week's episode of the show, Ashley shares how we can use our astrological birth charts to help us add an a...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Iszabel, an Ecstatic Dance DJ, Movement Medicine Teacher, Sound Technician and Sound Therapist. She holds classes, workshops, retreats and ceremonies around the world and hosts a monthly radio show on OpenLab, 'Music Medicine', and runs an online DJ course – 'DJ Mystery To Mastery' is a heart-based approach to the art of mixing music. In this episode, we are...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Brit Kolo from Marketing Personalities. Brit first joined me on the podcast back in 2019 to talk about how to use your Myers Briggs personality type to decide what type of marketing to do in your business. In this episode, we're taking it one step further to talk about how to make strategic business decisions that feel aligned. Often times when we're not mak...

This week on the podcast we are talking about burnout, boundaries, and the importance of rest in your yoga business. Burnout often happens when we aren't setting boundaries and aren't making time for rest, so in this episode, we talk about how to identify burnout and how to elevate it by setting boundaries, making time for daily self-care practices and adding in more rest to our days. I share some...

This week on the podcast, I am joined by Joanna Sapir. Joanna is a sales expert who works with entrepreneurs to help them with their businesses. This episode originally aired on M.B.Om : Behind the Scenes, and in it, Joanna is teaching us how to get out of the mindset of freelancer or contractor and start considering ourselves business owners and entrepreneurs. As yoga teachers who work for themse...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Katie Arnold. Katie is an RYT-200 vinyasa and restorative-based yoga and meditation instructor helping women reconnect with themselves and stress less through movement and mindset practices. After years of burning the candle at both ends, she discovered the five habits that helped her reconnect with herself every single time. These 5 components of connection...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Patti Montella. Patti is a yoga and meditation teacher and a best-selling author of the book "Becoming Unshakeable: Wisdom Learned on the Journey to Inner Freedom". In this episode, we talk about Patti's journey and career with yoga over the last 3 decades, what her own practice has taught her about being unshakeable, and how we can use our practice to be un...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Joy Ravelli. Joy is a yoga teacher, as well as the owner of an accredited IAYT Yoga Therapy School called Purusha Yoga School where they run 200 and 300-hour yoga teacher training programs. Joy also runs her own online business offering yoga therapy, mentoring and more. In this episode of the podcast, Joy shares her journey and career with yoga, including wh...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Renee Clair from the Productive Wellnesspreneur. Renee is a yoga and meditation teacher, as well as a project manager who supports yoga teachers with their productivity. This episode originally aired on MBOm: Behind the Scenes and is a short and sweet episode where we'll be talking about how to automate and batch in your business. Automation and batching are...

This week on the podcast, I am joined by Dagmar Spremberg. Dagmar is a 500 hr E-RYT and the founder of Montezuma Yoga in Costa Rica. In this episode, Dagmar shares what brought her to Costa Rica 20 years ago, what it was like starting Montezuma Yoga, how she pivoted her business and her studio during the pandemic, and ultimately what has lead to closing down the studio. Dagmar also shares some of...