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. After watching Cate’s work for a couple of years, and with a passion for ayurveda, Amarylis took the plunge into Yoga Health Coaching, despite her doubts about whether or not she could afford the cost of the program.

Amarylis enrolled in YHC during a time of huge transition. Her marriage was dissolving, She didn’t have much of an income from her yoga teaching or her work with nonprofit organizations, and she knew she would have to figure out how to support herself and her daughter. She was done with the scarcity mindset and knew she wanted to make more money.

Amarlyis has enrolled nine members in her YHC pilot, and she has paid off her tuition. She knew she could serve others in a bigger way; she just wasn’t sure how to do it. Yoga health coaching is that way. Amarylis did the work and trusted that her members would show up, and they did. She has learned that the investment of money translates into an investment in yourself.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why investing in Yoga Health Coaching sometimes involves a change in mindset about “spending” money.
• How Yoga Health Coaching is just the right combination of growth mindset and solid business practices.
• Why sometimes the only obstacle you really need to overcome is your mindset.

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• Catch Yogahealer Black Friday Sweet Deal-EXTENDED!
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Amarylis’s website

Show Highlights:

• 0:00 – Amarylis is getting ready to launch her pilot coaching group. As a prenatal yoga teacher, she 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. After watching Cate’s work for a couple of years, and with a passion for ayurveda, Amarylis took the plunge into Yoga Health Coaching, despite her doubts about whether or not she could afford the cost of the program.
• 6:08 – Amarylis enrolled in YHC during a time of huge transition. Her marriage was dissolving, She didn’t have much of an income from her yoga teaching or her work with nonprofit organizations, and she knew she would have to figure out how to support herself and her daughter. She was done with the scarcity mindset and knew she wanted to make more money.
• 9:40 – Amarlyis has enrolled nine members in her YHC pilot, and she has paid off her tuition. She was enrolled in Living Ayurveda at the same time and was able to schedule her pilot during a time that made sense for her.
• 13:40 – Amarylis has learned that the investment of money translates into an investment in yourself. The power of yoga health coaching lies in the support and accountability of your group.
• 15:25 – Yoga Health Coaching is just the right combination of growth mindset and solid business practices. Amarylis knew she could serve others in a bigger way; she just wasn’t sure how to do it. Yoga health coaching is that way. Amarylis did the work and trusted that her members would show up, and they did.

Your Favorite Quotes:

• “I finally had a conversation with Grace. And I was like, ‘Yes, sign up!.’ And I remember distinctly telling her, ‘I’m signing up for this, but I want you to know that I am terrified.’ And she was like, ‘Good! You’re in the right place!’” — Amarylis Fernandez
• “I just decided that I need to make more [money]. Not just that I need to make more, but I want to make more. And I believe that I can make more; I just don’t know how. And I’m going to find those people who do know how . . . . I’m going to start surrounding myself with those people who do have that same mindset.” — Amarylis Fernandez
• “It feels so good. And it feels so fulfilling. And it’s creating a model for the people who you want to serve. And creating a structure that makes it available for them. . . . There’s just so much power in the structure of Yoga Health Coaching.” — Carly Banks
• “I knew that I needed the structure and the step-by-step model that Cate has laid out for Yoga Health Coaching so that every single week I know exactly what I need to be working on.” — Amarylis Fernandez
• “It’s very empowering when you get to step into your own dharma and your way of serving in the world.” — Amarylis Fernandez

Guest BIO:

Amarylis Fernandez is a yoga teach, a yoga health coach in training, and a mother. Not so long ago, Amarylis was totally frazzled, ungrounded, and desperate for change. And she realized things wouldn’t change until she did. So she did.

Now, Amarylis is on a path to guide women into vibrant living amidst the beautiful chaos children can bring. She spent a transformative month living at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health getting my 200 hour yoga teacher certification. She earned her 85 hour pre/postnatal certificate through the Bhaktishop in Portland, Oregon. She’s trained more than 200 hours in Ayurveda with Cate Stillman of Yoga Healer, and specialized in Ayurveda for pregnant mamas and new mothers through Sacred Window’s Ayurvedic Doula programs.

Amarylis believes the transition into motherhood is a wild and wondrous ride that can be aided by yoga in all forms: postures, breath work, meditation, mantra, and help from your tiny guru(s)! She also knows the potent life transformations that occur when the wisdom of Ayurveda is incorporated into daily rhythms. Connect with Amarylis on her FB page and get more info on Amarylis’s website.

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 both businesses, but something wasn’t right. Rachel was working 60+hours a week.

Following the birth of her son, it became obvious that her work schedule would not foster the connection she wanted to build between them. This was the spark… the moment where she accepted something needed to change. She took the leap and enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching.

In this interview, Rachel is super honest about how her mindset can stop her from moving forward. It almost always comes down to fear. But in this community we get comfortable with our fears. We play the edges of them, and seek new truths so we can overcome them.

Three years into her YHC career, Rachel is now making the same income she was while working 60 hours a week, except now she only works 20-25 hours a week. Same money. A THIRD of the hours. Doing work that really fills her up on her own terms. And the flexibility to be with her family whenever she sees fit.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How our fears keep us in our comfort zones.
• How YHC provides the structures and systems we need to be successful.
• How YHC is a platform for both personal and professional growth.

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• Yogahealer Shop
• Catch Yogahealer Black Friday Sweet Deal
• Body Thrive
• Yoga Health Coaching

 

Show Highlights:

• 0:00 – As moms, sometimes it’s hard to define what a good work/life balance is. For almost 20 years, Rachel worked as a liaison between land management agencies and a local college. She often put in over 40 hours per week. She also owned a yoga studio and taught 8-10 classes per week. After the birth of her son, her heart wasn’t in her work anymore, and she found herself talking more and more about yoga and health.
• 6:50 – Becoming a parent changes your priorities. Even when you’re really good at your job, you might start to wonder whether it still suits your identity and whether it’s in line with your dharma. Rachel realized that in order to do the work she really wanted to do, she had to step out from behind the desk.
• 10:50 – Many of us have been taught that we need a job with a “benefits package.” For Rachel, it was hard to break away from that mindset . . . until she realized that the benefits package wasn’t benefitting her. So she started making a list of all the things that were holding her back, and she began to realize that most of it was fear.
• 16:20 – Identity evolution is an ongoing process. Even after we make a big leap, there is always more work to do; there’s always a next step in our evolution. The 10 habits of Body Thrive help us ease through those transitions.
• 18:20 – Rachel was part of the first group of yoga health coaches. She recalls sitting down with Cate for a strategy session and making a plan. It took Rachel another two and a half years to leave her desk job. But she “followed the breadcrumbs” and put in the work. She no longer works a desk job. She no longer owns a yoga studio. She works between 20 and 25 hours per week and this year her income will be what it was when she left her 40+ hours a week desk job.
• 21:40 – When we learn and practice the habits of Body Thrive, when we do the work in YHC, we start to get really clear on what matters most. We experience personal and professional growth simultaneously.

Your Favorite Quotes:

• “The work that I’d been doing so long . . . became the thing that I hid behind.” — Rachel Peters
• “I still am working on really believing in myself and that I can do this. And that I really can help people.” — Rachel Peters
• “You create new patterns in your thoughts by repeating the new truths to yourself.” — Carly Banks
• “Which one feels better? Fly the desk, or like . . . fly?” — Carly Banks
• “One of the beautiful things of YHC is to learn the steps, that it’s a system and it works.” — Rachel Peters

Guest BIO:

Rachel’s – As a Certified Yoga Health Coach and the Founder of Embody Ease and the Easeful Living Community, Rachel leads women on a yearlong journey to dissolve perfectionism and embody daily habits that promote clarity, ease, and inner connection. She is a wife, mom, and lover of wild places and contributes to her local community as a yoga teacher and teacher trainer in Prescott, AZ she also serves as the leader of the Coaching Team at Yogahealer. Check her website and facebook page.

Leveraging an existing system requires a growth mindset – the ability to learn from and benefit from someone else’s work. Is your native genius to build and create your own system, or would you benefit more from leveraging your own system? Listen in as Cate and Dana discuss how Wealth Dynamics can help you determine your best course of action.

Once you’ve decided which course of action is right for you, using tools to develop and refine your system, allows you to see its strengths and weaknesses. Creating and emphasizing codified language around your system makes it easier for clients and course members to identify and understand key components of your system. Finally, the success of your system is dependent on your ability to constantly refine and upgrade the user experience.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How committing to a growth mindset allows you to see the value and wisdom in systems that are unfamiliar to you.
• How learning, using, and teaching someone else’s system can propel your career to the next level.
• How using tools can help you see the strengths and weaknesses in your own signature system.

Links:

• Body Thrive
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Changemaker Challenge
• Bowspring Yoga
• Wealth Dynamics
• Dubsado
• Mindset by Carol Dweck
• Draw Backwards
• Tint

Show Highlights:

• 1:00 – A system codifieds your life’s work coupled with what you’ve learned from others into a system that is succinct and easy to integrate.
• 1:40 – The ability to learn from and benefit from someone else’s system requires a beginner’s mind, a growth mindset.
• 12:40 – Is your native genius to build and create your own system, or would you benefit more from leveraging your own system?
• 18:00 – Using tools to develop and refine systems, allows you to see the strengths and weaknesses in your signature system.
• 22:19 – Creating and emphasizing codified language around your system makes it easier for clients and course members to identify and understand key components of your system.

Favorite Quotes:

• The more we already know something, the harder we make to really be able to receive someone else’s zone of excellence and zone of genius and their incredible insight. — Cate Stillman
• When you’re learning a system that you’re not familiar with, it’s uncomfortable in the beginning. — Dana Skoglund
• I find that knowing your system [Yoga Health Coaching], and having gone through that system and seeing what works about that system, allows me then to expand on it and create my own systems. — Dana Skoglund
• What are you learning right now that you need to just turn around and teach? And by that I mean today or tomorrow or within the next 24 hours? Because if you put a delay on it, it just means that you’re not going to be integrating what you’re trying to learn. — Cate Stillman
• You have to be always seeing what’s the next way I can make this better and how can we improve on the old system. — Dana Skoglund

Guest Bio:

Dana Skoglund is a Certified Yoga Health Coach, Yoga teacher, and mother of two rambunctious young boys. She’s been studying Yoga since 2000 and teaching since 2004, and she has over 1,000 hours of training in the styles of Jivamukti, Anusara, and Sridaiva. Her desires to take her health and well-being into her own hands and to learn how to keep her family healthy led her to Ayurveda in 2011.

After implementing daily routines from Ayurveda and noticing the profound impacts they had on her energy and happiness, she began coaching clients into these better body habits in 2013. She aims to inspire others about the importance of health habits in crafting the lives of their dreams. Dana is also deeply passionate about travel, adventure, learning, movement of any kind, and the arts.