Wellness Pro Show

Carman Murray, the newest certified Yoga Health Coach, sits down with Amy Roderer to talk about what she loves most about YHC. Carman shares her tips for listening to your intuition, and the best ways to strengthen that muscle. Amy and Carman also talk about live events and why they are so important for growth and showing up in the Yogahealer and Yoga Health Coaching communities.    What you'll ge...

In this episode of the Yoga Health Coaching Podcast, I sit down with Rachel Peters to discuss some key aspects of being a successful wellness professional. We break down the tools we need to help Yoga Health Coaches have an impact on a bigger scale. Tune in to learn what skills you need to cultivate in order to scale your leadership and your membership.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Cate and...

Do you know the difference between spending and investing? Today I sat down to talk to you about the value of investing in your future self, and exactly how to do that. Not only will you learn how to make smarter decisions today, but also how to save yourself money in the long run by aligning your present with your future self.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Understanding the difference betwe...

Prior to Yoga Health Coaching, Neve Grace Fletcher was teaching a lot of yoga - as many as 12 classes a week. But she still wasn't earning enough money to survive. She was living out of integrity with herself, not caring for herself and engaging in some bad habits. Despite that, she knew she was having an impact on her yoga students, and she knew she could offer them even more. Neve joined Body Th...

Mary Sullivan is a lifelong learner and researcher who has been studying with Cate since 2004. She's a mentor in the Living Ayurveda course and a blogger for Yogahealer. Prompted by her love of learning, Mary took steps to understand how to use social media to promote her business more efficiently and effectively. She recently shared what she learned in a blog for Yogahealer, and in this podcast e...

Wellness pros have a bad habit. They often downplay the kind of impact they can have and end up justifying a lower income. In her conversations with wellness pros, Grace Edison has noticed a "stickiness" around income. All too often, she hears, "It's not about that." They're gifted at what they're doing, but without the proper business model, packaging, and pricing, they're not able to have the im...

Before Nancy Wind enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching, she was a part-time yoga instructor and full-time speech language therapist. She learned about Yogahealer from her yoga teacher. She read Body Thrive in 2016 and decided to form a book group. She ran four rounds of her book group in a year and a half before she enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching in May 2018. The Yoga Health Coaching course has tran...

We are living in a VUCA world: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Wellness pros sometimes think that doesn't apply to what they do, but it does. Navigating a VUCA industry requires shoshin - beginner's mind and adikara - studentship. In this episode, Cate and Grace discuss how an open mind and an online community course can help you design a wellness career that aligns with your vision a...

Suzanne Lynch has coached at least 10 rounds of her coaching program and she is in her second round of serving as a mentor in Yoga Health Coaching. One of her biggest lessons learned is to get help when she needs it. She also learned that she doesn't have to run her course in the same way that Cate runs Body Thrive. She can put her own spin on it and include activities that her course members want...

As a wellness pro, how do you get people to commit to real transformation? If you want to effect real change, you need to cultivate a dynamic group full of people who have skin in the game. They have to be financially invested. Stop trading your hours for dollars. Give your people an opportunity to really grow and evolve with a more effective business model. Yoga Health Coaching is holistic busine...

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 r...

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...

In this YHC Coaching Gym, Cate Stillman sits down with Carly Banks to talk about coaching family members and loved ones. Carly has led three very close friends through her 10-week program, The Habit. She has found that resistance that she could easily coach a stranger through results in defensiveness from her loved ones. Carly acknowledges that part of the problem might lie with her reaction to th...

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 Yo...

In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Cate chats with the members of Body Thrive about one of the "Ground Rules for Dynamic Groups." Good communication is the bedrock of dynamic groups. When it comes to communication, most of us gravitate towards either care or candor. In a dynamic group, we learn to consciously practice both care AND candor. Care creates a feeling of trust and support in a...

Winter is a great time of year to look back on the past year so we can effectively let go of the old and bring in the new. As we enter the darker months and the year draws to a close, there is a powerful opportunity to focus on proper reflection. Talya and Cate discuss their strategies for reflecting on successes, failures, and all that comes in between. Often we find ourselves stuck reflecting on...

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 ide...

Carly Banks sits down with yoga health coach Alexandra Kreis to discuss family values and involving your family in the habits of ayurveda. When your family notices the self empowerment that is the product of the habits of ayurveda, they start to get curious about what you're doing. Alexandra's partner started to embrace some of the habits that she teaches to her course members and she wanted to fi...

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. A...

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 t...

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 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...

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...

Fern Olivia found herself at rock bottom when she fainted in a New York City subway and was rushed to the hospital. She now interprets this event as her soul wanting her to know that she was in misalignment with herself. After finding that the standard medical prescriptions weren't healing her, she began a journey of investing in herself and her health through yoga and Ayurveda. Now, free from Has...

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 men...