Pilates Business Podcast

🌟Leading up to the event, I’m interviewing Momentum Fest presenters whose insight can inspire improvements to your teaching, business, and life.🌟  In this episode of our MomentumFest series, I’m joined by Tasha Edwards, who you may know better as @HipHealthyChick! Tasha believes everyone deserves the chance to be happy, healthy, and whole and has dedicated her esteemed career to making wellness...

When it comes to marketing your studio, most business owners place their marketing focus on attracting new clients.🙋 That piece of the puzzle is vitally important, of course. 🤗 But if you focus all of your efforts on generating new business, you might be missing a major marketing opportunity.😳 In today’s episode of the Pilates Business Podcast, I’m going to talk about creating a marketing plan...

You've invested a ton of time and energy to become the teacher you are today. And, what you do works - your clients are stronger, happier and healthier!   But when it comes to marketing, do you feel like you're spinning your wheels? You are not alone.  Let’s face it - marketing is a beast! And no one ever taught you how to market yourself or your studio. But, it's time for that to c...

As the owner of a pilates or other boutique fitness studio, you have expertise and passion for teaching others and helping them achieve their wellness goals.  🙋Guiding your clients and delivering results-driven sessions feels natural and easy.  🙅But what about marketing? Does it feel easy, too, or do you get stuck before you even get started? In today’s episode of the Pilates Business Podcast, I...

I’m joined by a very special guest today - Lana Sealy, owner and founder of Body Mekanix, a boutique studio on the island of Barbados. Lana has built a successful business helping her clients all over the world access movement despite their limitations and has developed unique ways of working with her clients to keep them consistent. We talk about: How to use different platforms to optimize the bu...

Instead of delivering a never ending schedule of weekly sessions, have you thought about packaging what you do into an exclusive signature offering? In today’s episode, we are going to cover the whys and hows of designing and offering a signature program that gets real results, not just for your studio, but for your clients, too.  I will share 3 big considerations to make when designing your progr...

Having a website is a given in today’s world, except not all website are created equal! What you want is a  website that is designed to bring you business  Today I’m joined by Connie Holen of Pixality Design and we’re talking all about how to turn your website into a sales machine including the most important elements to include on your site, what trend is NOT here to stay, and what you need to kn...

Being clear with your messaging and being heard above the noise is a real challenge, but it is one that all boutique fitness studio brands face.  Those who can talk about what they do, consistently and clearly, will build authentic connections with their clients and fill their class schedules week after week.  In this episode of the Pilates Business Podcast, I’ll be sharing some tips for talking a...

When everyone has an opinion… what’s the one thing we can all agree on? Yep - you guessed it: our love of movement and the Pilates Method! And thanks to my guest today we can all share in this as a community.  I’m joined by Benjamin Degenhardt founder of 360 Pilates and creator of March Matness - an online event that happens every March where participants share images and videos of the original 34...

Social media is a touchy subject for some studio business owners. It can conjure up dread, overwhelm, and disappointment. You can spend significant time day after day or week after week posting to various social channels with little to no real impact to your business. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Today you are going to learn how to get more visibility for your studio from your efforts on so...

As a former pilates teacher and now as a studio business consultant, the question of pricing is one that comes up again and again. Pricing is a bit of an art and a science for service-based businesses, making it a tricky challenge to take on. We are going to tackle this issue of pricing in today’s episode of The Pilates Business Podcast and by the end of the show you are going to know: 💲the perso...

As a business owner, a big part of what drives your success is not necessarily the strategies you use 👀 Before strategies can be successful, you have to have the right mindset.  On the podcast today,  I invited my friend and fellow business coach Miranda VonFricken to talk with you all about self-leadership and motivation.  We discuss: → Why everyone has a personal brand → What self-leadership me...

As a studio business owner, you know that you have to pay attention to the money coming into and going out of your business but so many boutique fitness business owners are not quite sure which numbers to watch or what those numbers really mean for their business.  We are going to clear that up in this episode of the Pilates Business Podcast. In it, I will reveal: 🚀why it is so important to track...

What would you say if I told you that your boutique fitness studio could generate $100k, predictably, confidently, and consistently? Would you think I was dreaming? I’m not and neither are the studio business owners who have done just that or better yet, have generated their next $100k!  Inside Thrive (my group coaching program for boutique fitness studio owners) you get access to tried-and-tested...

So many of us struggle with how to move clients through a sales funnel, if we even have a sales funnel to move them through!  But here’s a little secret: Selling your studio’s services doesn’t have to be intimidating or difficult. It can actually be fun!  Tune into today’s Pilates Business Podcast and you will learn 4 tactics for making sales much easier and comfortable for you, just in time to gi...

Have you tapped into your local network as best you can?  There is probably a big opportunity for you to increase your visibility amongst your local community.  Today, we invited Melisa Rose to talk about how you can do some simple and fun collaborations with other businesses. We discussed about: How to work with other businesses to grow network and increase visibility  Talking to immediate networ...

In this year-in-review episode of the Pilates Business Podcast, I take you inside our members-only group, Thrive, to share what worked for us in 2021. I will share info about: Email marketing Bringing clients back to in-person sessions Doubling or even tripling studio revenue  Running challenges and workshops Marketing strategies outside of social media FREE GUIDE: Revenue Growth Roadmap For Your...

You know what they say about the oxygen mask on the plane, right? You have to take care of yourself before you can take care of anyone or anything else–including your business! This time of year, the lists seem to go on and on. So I want to know, where are YOU on that list? If you are like most studio owners, you are way at the bottom, if you make the list at all.  Let’s change that, together, so...

If you are a pilates studio owner, you know how vitally important it is to your business that you retain your clients.  Successful studios are sustained by regular, recurring, referring clients who keep classes full and revenue coming in the door.  Are you doing everything you need to do to stop clients from leaving?  In this episode I will share 5 reasons that clients leave, all of which can be a...

Today I’m joined by book-keeper to studio owners, Diana Gleason. We dive into the need-to-knows when it comes to managing your financial accounts AND money mindset. We dive into: Taking risks and generational money mindset Financial mistakes to avoid What reports you need to look at  How to plan for Tax season  Good habits for book-keeping And, if you’re thinking about hiring a book-keeper? Diana...

In this episode of the Pilates Business Podcast you learn how incredibly important annual planning is to the success of your studio business. I will share: My top 5 tips for setting yourself up to plan successfully The process I recommend following to put together a comprehensive annual plan Where you can go to get the help and guidance you need to do this work Despite all that we have been throug...

Join me as I interview my guest Sue McCarroll, Founder and CEO of Opal Wellness Studio and host of the Well2You Podcast. As an online studio owner, program creator, podcast host and the owner of a new brick and mortar space, Sue shares the behind-the-scenes of what it looks like to build a business with real purpose. Listen in to this candid and honest conversation where we talk about: 👉The chall...

You may feel like taking it easy once the hustle and bustle of the holidays gets under way but we all want to generate strong revenue numbers every month of the year, including December.  In this episode of the Pilates Business Podcast, we are sharing some tried and true tips and strategies for boosting year-end revenue with one simple product: Gift Cards! Tune in and take notes to learn some spec...

Today I get to chat with Molly Niles Renshaw of Phoenix Classical Pilates in Santa Monica, California. Molly trained as a teacher under Romana Kryzanowska nearly 22 years ago and shares her journey to becoming a business owner after working inside other studios for 17 years! Listen in and hear how Molly who called herself a “reluctant Studio Owner” built a business she loves including: 🌟How Molly...

If you become better prepared as a studio business owner, you can make things easier on yourself and avoid some common pitfalls that so many business owners face. And that’s our goal with today’s episode of the Pilates Business Podcast. We are going to learn 4 of the real reasons studio businesses fail and offer up solutions to make sure you can avoid these mistakes. We will talk about: ✅ Keeping...