Wellness Pro Show

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 coach...

Action learning is a super powerful problem-solving technique where we develop team Cate sits down with Dr. Bea Carson, author, speaker and expert in the field of Action Learning. Action learning is a super powerful problem-solving technique where we develop team skills and leadership skills while getting real work done. A major part of action learning is questioning and leaving everything open to...

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 c...

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 a...

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 he...

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 di...

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...

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...

On today's show, I talk with Backroads leader, Yoga instructor, and Tribe Scribe for Yogahealer, Sydney Doolittle about guiding active travel trips while staying mentally and physically healthy and grounded. As a hiking and biking guide, Sydney leads 6 day active vacations in across the country; it her job to safely lead her guests in outdoor pursuits while keeping herself and her guests in good p...

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....

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 learne...

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...

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...

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 s...

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 p...

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 int...

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Yoga Health Coach Marcia Wilson chats with Tania Milliken about how to plan for and approach conversations with networking resources who share our passions. When we're turning out passion into our career, we sometimes realize we need help, but we're hesitant to ask for it. As Yoga Health Coaches, we sometimes have to shift our identity and lean into growing e...

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 ear...

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. Co...

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...

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 ay...

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....

I rap with spiritual business coach and yoga teacher, Amy McDonald, about growing your business, making money, yoga, and spirituality and how to make a living doing what you truly love. We discuss the yoga instructor business model and what it looks like to make money with ease versus struggling to make a living as a full time teacher. We tackle questions such as, how do you know if it is time to...

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...

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...