Wellness Pro Show

In the Coach of the Month episode, Cate chats with Jamie Lynn Worster about her journey into Yoga Health Coaching. Prior to YHC, Jamie was a birth and post-partum doula, a mom, and had a part-time admin job. What she loved most about her work as a doula was taking women through a transformation. What she didn't love about it was being constantly on call and staying awake for labors that could last...

In this episode, Alex Biondo and Rachel Peters talk about the ways in which Yoga Health Coaches are becoming community leaders.  Alex and Rachel rap about how leadership is a natural evolution of a Yoga Health Coach's journey. Rachel shares how she became comfortable with stepping into the role of leader by recognizing and aligning with her natural strengths. As someone who's been known for years...

In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Cate and Grace discuss how wellness pros can use webinars to build community membership.  While there are good online courses that teach you how to do a webinar, it's important that you do it in your own way, in a way that is meaningful to you. An easy way to get started is simply to talk about the things you enjoy talking about, things that are meaningf...

In this Changemaker Challenge career conversation, Carly Banks chats with Yoga Health Coach in Training, Amarylis Fernandez.  All too often, potential pro healers fall into lives and patterns that society deems "normal" only to find themselves years later unhappy, burnt out, and unfulfilled. Such was the case with Amarylis. She thought she was doing everything "right." She had a husband, education...

In this episode of the Changemaker Challenge, Cate and Grace discuss how to thrive while nourishing your tribe.  Most wellness pros or "pro healers" have experienced some version of frustration or burn out. Often that comes down to whether or not we are living in integrity what we're teaching others. If we are living in integrity, the next step is to uplevel to thrive. The first step toward thrive...

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace rap about what happens when you use your career and your tribe as your evolutionary growth path.  For changemakers, quite often what happens is that our yoga, the path we start on for self care, leads us to lead others. Sometimes it feels irrational, and sometimes it feels like it's coming from ego, but if we allow ourselves to follow desire, w...

In this Coach of the Month interview, Cate chats with Candice Claire Oksenhorn about her personal and professional growth path. Candice began her career in media sales but felt a yearning to be in a career that resonated with her in a meaningful way and could help others. She started learning about meditation and Ayurveda.  Despite Candice's prior training in Ayurveda, she describes Body Thrive (t...

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace, fresh from the Yogahealer retreat in Mexico, discuss how to step into and own the role of wellness leader.  You have a responsibility to lead! In order to own your role as a wellness leader, you need to take stock of your skills and resources, be aware of how others see you and know how to leverage your strengths. Armed with this information,...

In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Cate and Grace rap about utilizing a membership model to simplify and upgrade your wellness career. Too often, we believe that we need to have a huge social media marketing campaign in order to attract and secure our wellness clients. The fact is, as a pro healer, your potential clients or course members probably already know you, and since those people...

In this Changemaker Challenge interview, Carly Banks chats with Yoga Health Coach Carolyn Pask about how her personal health evolution path led her to her bigger dharma. Following in her father's footsteps, working at the family bike shop, Carolyn was just going through the motions. Her life was lacking passion, and she didn't feel like she was living her true potential. Facing epilepsy since her...

In this podcast, Rosie Tait talks to Duika about her conscious community building with the Station Masters Garden. Duika Burges Watson is a Lecturer at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. She may well blow apart all your preconceptions about academics. This is a very practical woman who loves getting her hands dirty. By day she works on research focused on the altered eating habits of individua...

In this Coach of the Month interview, Cate chats with Suzanne Lynch about her personal evolution path from yogi to Catholic chaplain to yoga studio owner and finally to yoga health coach. Suzanne began studying Iyengar yoga in her 20s, but found herself struggling mentally and emotionally. She began meditating and describes the experience as going from seeing her life in black and white to seeing...

In this Spotlight Edition of the Yoga Health Coaching podcast, Grace Edison hosts Yoga Health Coach in Training Alec Hurley. Alec teaches yoga in San Diego and is the founder of Higher Self Wellness.   Before Alec began YHC, he was working as a professional chef and noticed his interpersonal relationships and intrapersonal connections fading away. He stepped deeper into his yoga practice and found...

From an unhappy marriage, addiction, and a cancer diagnosis, to health, happiness and a growing business, Lael shares her breakthrough moments, and the habits she's harnessed to thrive in her life and business. Eighteen months after the birth of her twins, Lael was close to burnout and harboring resentment in her marriage. She and her husband started couples therapy where Lael was forced to confro...

As wellness pros, we sometimes find ourselves thinking we are in a limited market, that there are only a certain number of people looking for the services we're offering, and if someone else is offering the "same" services, our market is even more limited. In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Cate and Grace discuss how competition can be a asset to our careers. Knowing there are others in o...

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks chats with Yoga Health Coach Paula Pister about the evolution of her habits and her career. As a yoga teacher, actor, and mother of two with a husband who's on the road a lot, Paula was struggling to make it all flow. She felt overwhelmed, stuck, resentful, and angry. Then the bottom dropped out with the loss of her dad, and with him, the loss of...

Grace chats with yoga teacher and Yoga Health Coach Natasha Gayl about her decision to become a yoga health coach. Natasha has always been interested in health and wellness and often used herself as a guinea pig for different modalities. After completing her 200 RYT yoga teacher training, she started researching health coaching programs. She found YHC and chose to study with Cate because of the co...

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks talks with Yoga Health Coach Heather Hodgson about her pathway to thrive. Heather is a YHC blogger with an upcoming blog entitled "The Un-Busying of an Over-Scheduled Life." Prior to YHC, Heather was leading an overscheduled life, much like many wellness pros. She was running a yoga studio, teaching yoga, trying to build her busines...

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Cate chats with Yoga Health Coach Dana Skoglund about how building a signature system or leveraging an existing signature system can propel your wellness career to the next level. Building a signature system involves codifying your life's work coupled with what you've learned from others into a system that is succinct and easy to integrate. Dan...

In this Changemaker Career Clarity session, Carly Banks chats with Brodie Welch about the value of establishing a tribe. Brodie is a Yoga Health Coach and Chinese medicine practitioner who has recognized how much easier and faster her clients evolve when they are supported by a group of their peers. As a coach, working with a "tribe" makes her job easier and much more enjoyable and allows her to w...

Getting in our own way happens. To everyone. But it doesn't have to continue to happen. We can take the time to step back and observe our patterns, be open to changing how we converse with others, and develop practices for becoming more clear on noticing it happening, and taking steps to let go of those beliefs and habits. When we observe, open to change, and implement practical steps towards thos...

Hello, it's Cate on this month's Coach of the Month podcast! Today we have Yoga Health Coach Melody Rogers joining us from Charleston, South Carolina. I'm just really thrilled that she is Coach of the Month. I remember our initial strategy session and her first year in YHC, but it wasn't until she came to the Titan Retreat that I got to experience the Melody in full effect that I've come to know a...

Carly and Rikki discuss mentorship from the perspective of being mentored as well as from the perspective of being a mentor. Rikki talks about the benefits she has reaped from having a mentor in the YHC certification program. Mentors can help ground you and support you when you feel like you're "falling off the rails," overwhelmed, or just unsure of what your next steps are. Mentorship can also be...

Hello everyone! Today's podcast is another episode from the Changemaker Challenge with Grace and Cate, who discuss moving from stress to ease in marketing your business. Some of the big questions Cate and Grace tackle focus on where to invest your time and money: from blogs, to podcasts, to writing a book, to opening a brick and mortar location, there are many options for you to grow your business...

Today's episode is a Career Clarity session with Lori McIntosh, hosted by Carly Banks. Lori is a Yoga Health Coach, and an incredibly inspiring person in the YHC community. She works with horses, and clearly has an immense emotional connection to her animals. Watch how emotionally stable Lori is, it's clear that there's a connection in doing something that's bigger than yourself, and having a conn...