Wellness Pro Show

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Cate and Grace discuss the "boring stuff" that is essential to the evolution of your wellness career. "The boring stuff" is not the same for everyone. Some wellness pros are super creative and dislike mundane tasks. Others are very organized and detailed oriented and love creating the infrastructure that is necessary for success. Setting up inf...

In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Carly Banks sits down with Alison Miller to discuss "ripping off the Band-Aid" - coaching when you're not sure you're ready to coach. Coaching before being fully certified is one of the most valuable aspects of the Yoga Health Coaching course. With the support and guidance of Cate, our mentors, and other course members, we practice our skills and gain pr...

On today's podcast I talk with Kevin Kramer, CEO of US Cryotherapy, about the use of cold temperatures on our bodies as a holistic health and wellness approach.  Cryotherapy, or cold therapy, is becoming increasingly popular in the past few years with much emphasis on Wim Hof and his findings that extreme cold can improve mental and physical health and prolong life. Cold therapy has been found to...

Grace Edison and I dive into today's spicy and edgy topic on how to move from a place of feeling pissed to a place of empowerment. We discuss our egos and how they have a tendency to bring us down with the 4 D's of defense, distraction, discounting, and denial.  We discuss taking action and standing up to ourselves by making connections with our peers and forming strong and honest bonds. By formin...

Alexandra Kreis comes from a traditional yoga background where the guru doesn't 'advertise'. When she moved back home to Germany from Ireland, her struggle against burn out ended up worsening. Searching for a way to create community for her long-term clients, she stumbled across the Body Thrive book club program. With that success under her belt, she started the Yoga Health Coaching program. Alexa...

CALLING ALL YOGA INSTRUCTORS!! This beautiful soul has got it figured out!! Are you ready to have FUN in your BUSINESS? Are you ready to create programs and workshops WITH JOY? Are you ready to feel like THIS IS SOOOOO EASY?!!! Today I chatted with Suzanne Lynch of saratogaspringsyoga.com and Suzanne Lynch Wellness. After three years as a Yoga Health Coach she's developed a custom program that sui...

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss tribe growth: How to Take Your Tribe from Zero to Hero. Cate is an expert at building and nurturing a tribe. For wellness pros, a tribe is the community of people we are working with: clients, students, members, participants, etc. It's becoming more common for wellness pros to adopt a community membership model, but they sometimes fall...

Do you ever dream of writing your own book? Do you feel a strong pull to share your story, but don't know how or can't seem to find your voice? How do you know when you are ready to share your creation with the world? If these questions resonate with you, listen in on today's podcast with editor, Carolyn Bond. She shares her stories working with clients in their creative processes on the road to g...

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with fellow yoga health coach Heather Stoken, creator of Fit Fly Movement. In Yoga Health Coaching (YHC), we learn how to teach our own versions of Cate Stillman's Body Thrive course. But some yoga health coaches, like Heather Stoken, take it one step further and create their own unique courses using the basic business str...

On today's show Carly Banks talks with Davina Clauer, a Yoga Health Coach in training and mother of two, about Davina's experience in Yogahealer courses. Both Body Thrive and YHC courses opened up so much time and space in Davina's days and brought health and ease to her and her family. She is currently working her full time job, pursuing her Yoga Health Coach certification, and starting her new c...

Fitness training used to be a business that was only accessible in person, with personal trainers or nutritionists in a gym or office setting.  Nowadays, this is a thing of the past. I chat with twin brothers Eric and Chris Martinez, who tell us how and why their online fitness training business works well and why a virtual personal trainer is the way to go. We hear what life is like as an entrepr...

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss organic, grassroots pro-healer careers: how to step into your power and grow your impact and income on a shoestring budget. When it comes to growing an organic, grassroots pro healer career. Cate wrote the book. From living in a trailer during ayurveda school to running her first Yogidetox in yurt with 6 paying members, it's fair to say...

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks chats with fellow Yoga Health Coach Marcia Wilson. Marcia is a newly certified yoga health coach running her second pilot program and starting YHC Mastery. Marcia has been in the wellness industry for a long time, but she feels she has never had the level of impact on the people she has worked with as she has had with yoga health co...

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss the warning signs of slacker career habits. A lot of us wellness pros are great at what we do, but that's not enough to grow a business. Often we're reluctant to even think of the services we provide as a "business,"  so we have slacker habits when it comes to our careers. We're in reactive mode and do little to no long term business pl...

Still riding the "high" from the Yogahealer Mexico retreat in March, Carly chats with Gin Burchfield, who has taken her Yoga Health Coaching training and certification and created her own unique programs that serve kids and families. Gin has been a successful massage therapist for 16 years. For the last 12 years, she has also been providing Ayurvedic consulting on a one-on-one basis. What she's fo...

In this Changemaker Challenge career clarity session, Carly Banks sits down with fellow Yoga Health Coach Neve Grace Fletcher. Prior to Yoga Health Coaching, Neve was a yoga teacher who was helping run a non-profit, and she wasn't really making enough money to survive. She felt "stuck," and found herself in a victim mindset. Even though her method of teaching yoga requires more of a commitment tha...

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace pose the question: What is the growing edge in your leadership? Leadership training is intense and personal. When well done, it breaks down dysfunctional patterns. For that reason, growing edges look a lot like breakdowns. When we heed the call to lead, we are continually coming up against growing edges and breaking down shadow issues to deepen...

In this Coach of the Month episode, Cate chats with Yoga Health Coaching mentor, Anna Berkelmans. Anna is a mother of three children, a yoga studio owner and teacher, a registered nurse and a yoga health coach. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, so connecting with the Yogahealer tribe often means waking at 4 am for conference calls. Her success in Yoga Health Coaching is due to her prioritization...

In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Carly Banks chats with yoga health coach Luisa Doerstel about getting real, experiencing connection, and practicing integrity. Like many YHC members, Luisa is a yoga teacher who was running around with a full schedule, trying to make ends meet. She felt ungrounded, unstable, and frustrated, especially because she knew that she was out of integrity with w...

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks chats with fellow yoga health coach Tania Milliken about raising families with habits of Body Thrive. Tania spent her life serving others. As mom to eight children, including two with special needs, Tania's focus has been outward, nurturing others at the expense of her own self-care. The stress of raising children with complications...

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly chats with fellow Yoga Health Coach Kristen Polzien about the breakthroughs they experienced at the recent Yogahealer retreat in Mexico. Kristen went to the Yogahealer Mexico retreat thinking in the back of her mind that she would like to leave the retreat with a two-year exit strategy for her day job. What she found upon arrival is that...

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace rap about lifestyle design, signature systems, professional peer groups, and letting go of limiting beliefs.  As wellness pros, we've invested heavily in our wisdom, yet many of us have trouble asking others to do the same by investing in our courses. The reason why Yoga Health Coaching is so successful is that the Body Thrive system is effecti...

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks chats with Yoga Health Coach Angela Hammond about the breakthroughs they experienced at the Yogahealer retreat in March 2018.  Connection and communication happens quickly and deeply when you're in person with people on the same path as you, people who "speak your language." It's an invaluable experience to wellness practitioners who often work al...

In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Cate and Grace discuss trauma, turmoil, and evolving through transitions as a wellness pro. One week post-op major abdominal surgery, Grace Edison is glowing! Prior to her surgery, Grace made sure that her Body Thrive habits were solid, especially the ones she would be able to do post-op. Professionally, there wasn't much to be done. Her annual planning...

Over 20 million people in the USA are affected by thyroid disease, and in the UK 15 in 1000 women are affected. Hormone replacement is routinely prescribed without any reference or regard to underlying cause. But there is good news! For those who are prepared to look outside the traditional medical model, functional medicine has an enormous amount to offer. But much of what is offered is based aro...