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 Ayurveda course. At first, Jutta wasn’t interested in making money as a yoga health coach, but she was interested in how Cate was building her business and she loved being a part of the Yogahealer community, so she enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching. She ran her pilot coaching group and coached individuals for free.

After starting YHC, Jutta enrolled in Awake Living, and that is where her big breakthrough happened during a one-on-one coaching session with Cate. She realized she was running away from big opportunities, and her identity shifted immediately. She started charging for her services and requiring year-long contracts. The money she is making and the time that is available to her now has allowed her to start producing art again.

Now in her second quarter of Yoga Health Coaching, Jutta believes that all three courses (YHC, Living Ayurveda, and Awake Living) worked together to get her to her breakthrough.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why many wellness pros undervalue their services.
• How creating a container for growth makes those services valuable.
• How YHC is customizable to your way of working with people.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• YHC Have a conversation
• Discover Body Thrive
• YHC Have a conversation
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

Show Highlights:

0:00 – Like Carly, Jutta came to yoga health coaching without a yoga teaching background or any kind of tribe or following. She was a yogini with an interest in Ayurveda who started with the Yogahealer Living Ayurveda course. At first, Jutta wasn’t interested in making money as a yoga health coach, but she was interested in how Cate was building her business and she loved being a part of the Yogahealer community, so she enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching.

2:00 – For 10 years, Jutta undervalued and uncharged for her holistic wellness services. She ran her pilot coaching group and coached individuals for free. She knew it wasn’t right, so as her program evolved, and she translated it into German, she started charging for it, but she still felt uneasy about it. But the more she did it, the easier it got.

3:44 – After starting YHC, Jutta enrolled in Awake Living, and that is where her big breakthrough happened during a one-on-one coaching session with Cate. She realized she was running away from big opportunities, and her identity shifted immediately. She started charging for her services and requiring year-long contracts. The money she is making and the time that is available to her now has allowed her to start producing art again.

6:58 – Health coaches often undervalue their services because what we provide isn’t tangible. But holding space for and creating a container for the growth of others invaluable.

7:53 – For Jutta, it was important for her study business and ayurveda under an authentic woman like Cate. The support of the Yogahealer community was also very powerful for Jutta.

10:16 – Now in her second quarter of Yoga Health Coaching, Jutta believes that all three courses (YHC, Living Ayurveda, and Awake Living) worked together to get her to her breakthrough. She believes that YHC should always be combined with Awake Living. With Living Ayurveda, she began to look at the world differently.

13:45 – Jutta thought she was living the 10 habits of Body Thrive before she started her Yogahealer courses. What she found during her coursework was that she hadn’t been living them consciously. Being in the Yogahealer community changed that for her. She senses that her one-on-one clients are looking for a community as well so that they can share their experiences and live more consciously.

18:00 – Yoga Health Coaching is modifiable to any niche and any language.

Favorite Quotes:

• “Intellectually, you know the problem. But mentally and emotionally, I couldn’t break the barrier. I couldn’t make myself understand from an emotional and mental perspective that I have to change something here.” — Jutta Isabella
• “With this program, you can modify it for yourself like I did here in Germany. . . . You have this package and you have wonderful access to everything, but also if you are a foreign language speaker . . . it’s not a problem to translate it, actually.” — Jutta Isabella
• “I think more Europeans should do the program [YHC], too.” — Jutta Isabella

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 proficiency while we train. We emerge ready to coach and support our own course members.

Alison Miller went through Yoga Health Coaching while working a demanding full time job with Special Olympics Michigan. Alison is enjoying her work as a yoga health coach so much that she has set a retirement date for her job with Special Olympics Michigan, a job she truly loves. In the meantime, she’s able to do both by staying focused and organized.

Alison is now in Q4 of YHC and has finished coaching her pilot program. She’s getting ready for her certification exam, and her advice to new YHC members is don’t procrastinate! Keep up with your assignments and keep your certification record up to date.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Yoga Health Coaching prepares you for the meaningful, valuable, impactful work of health coaching
• Why coaching is the only way to prepare for coaching
• The best advice for new YHC members

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Alison’s website
• YHC Have a conversation
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

Show Highlights:

1:12 – Alison went through Yoga Health Coaching while working a demanding full time job with Special Olympics Michigan. She’s now in Q4 of YHC and has finished coaching her pilot program. She’s getting ready for her certification exam, and her advice to new YHC members is don’t procrastinate! Keep up with your assignments and keep your certification record up to date.

4:30 – Coaching before being fully certified is one of the most valuable aspects to YHC. With the support and guidance of Cate, our mentors, and other course members, we practice our skills and gain proficiency while we train. We emerge ready to coach and support our own course members.

10:00 – Alison is enjoying her work as a yoga health coach so much that she has set a retirement date for her job with Special Olympics Michigan, a job she truly loves. In the meantime, she’s able to do both by staying focused and organized.

Favorite Quotes:

• “If you waited until you were ready to coach, you would never be ready to coach. The only way to be ready to coach is to coach.” — Alison Miller
• “It [the habits program] facilitates all kinds of internal work. This isn’t a diet program. This isn’t an exercise program. It’s everything. It’s an entire life program. And it shifts your whole mindset.” — Carly Banks

Guest BIO

I’m Alison and I am a seeker of all-things health and wellness. I believe that my dharma, my purpose in life, is to help others be the best they can be through lifestyle (re)design that includes learning, practicing, and implementing healthy self-care practices.  The formula and principles are simple; the practice takes discipline; and the implementation and experience of a healthier life is just ahead. I’m not going to lie ~ I want to change the world by reaching as many people as I can and lead them into health by (re)aligning their lifestyle choices. Life can be SO much better when you make small adjustments to your daily habits including what you eat, how and when you move your body, and reducing your stress level. Connect with Alison on her website and FB page.

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 Yogahealer through the podcast. After listening to the podcast for a couple of years, he decided to join YHC.

When transitioning from the job that he was trained for into yoga health coaching, Alec, like many YHC members, encountered fear and self doubt. He still works through some of that on a daily basis. Through his keystone habits, Start the Day Right and Sitting in Silence, Alec practices being present with himself so that he can grow into this new role and allow space for intuitive guidance.

As one of the few men in YHC, Alec sees the cultivation and balance of feminine and masculine qualities, or yin and yang, as the key to bringing more harmony into our culture. Alec cites Gay Hendricks’s book The Big Leap as one of the biggest influences on his ability to shift his identity and live a life more in alignment with his values.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Yoga Health Coaching can allow you to live a life more in alignment with your values.
• How Yoga Health Coaching provides opportunities for personal growth as well as support for working through growing edges.
• Why your gender is irrelevant to your ability to coach the habits of Body Thrive.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Yoga Health Coaching
• Body Thrive
• Alec’s Free Guided Meditation
• The Big Leap

Show Highlights:

• 4:00 – Alec took his time getting his pilot program off the ground. He wanted to explore his own relationship with the 10 habits of Body Thrive so that he could embody the habits and teach them from an deep, authentic place. Alec’s keystone habits are start the day right and sitting in silence, both of which have helped him cultivate deep presence within himself.
• 5:45 – Fear and self doubt were the two biggest obstacles Alec had to overcome in order to teach his pilot. Alec credits his keystone habit, sitting in silence, with his ability to be fully present and grow into this new role while allowing space for intuitive guidance. Reading Gay Hendricks’s book The Big Leap influenced his ability to shift his identity and live a life more in alignment with his values.
• 8:50 – Alec is one of the few men in YHC. He was introduced to the “feminine” practice of deep listening at a young age, and so was able to recognize that practice as a key component of coaching women. He sees the cultivation and balance of both feminine and masculine qualities, or yin and yang, as the key to bringing more harmony into our culture.
• 12:30 – Free talks have been a growing edge for Alec, as they are for many yoga health coaches. He uses them to explore his voice and share his understanding of the topics. He pushes himself even further out of his comfort zone by live streaming his free talks.
• 16:11 – What surprised Alec most about YHC is how open and collaborative the community is. Members are willing to share what is working and what is not working and help each other navigate their growing edges.
• 18:22 – Alec renamed his program after an insight about the art of connection. His unique approach to teaching the habits supports both physical and spiritual evolution and comes from his deeper connection to his higher self.

Favorite Quotes:

• “Sometimes we can shift our identity, but those close to us are a little behind. . . . They’re used to that person who fit into the box that we created for ourselves or that they created for us.” — Grace Edison
• “I think it’s very powerful. I mean, there needs to be a balance of this masculinity as well as this femininity of being able to just listen and receive deeply what the other person has that they need to express. In my short experience so far as a coach, that’s been the most powerful lesson.” — Alec Hurley
• “Culturally, there’s so much . . . there’s a lot of stuff that’s out of balance. And it takes cultivation of both of these qualities, the yin and the yang, the masculine and the feminine. It takes cultivation and an understanding and a balance of both of those qualities to bring more harmony to our culture.” — Alec Hurley
• “This is the missing link in the law of attraction: getting the food body, the physical body, in alignment with the earth rhythms so that the negative inner dialogue starts to be reduced and the desires are more easily heard.” — Grace Edison

Guest BIO:

Alec Hurley is a yoga teacher in the San Diego area and a life long surfer. He is the founder of Higher Self Wellness and an avid practitioner of ancient wisdom and spiritual practices which he infuses into his public yoga classes and group program “The Art of Connection”. He is professionally trained as a Chef and incorporates the ancient wisdom of “food as medicine” into his culinary creations. Currently enrolled in the Yoga Health Coaching program, Alec is adding the practices of personal and planetary alignment into his modern healthy lifestyle toolkit to help shift the collective into deeper states of connection. You can download a Free guided meditation here to get a deeper sense of what he is all about.

Alec is also YHC Blogger in 2018, here is his first article.

Knowing there are others in our market doing a little (or a lot) better than we are lets us know what is possible. It also forces us recognize what sets us apart so that we can capitalize on our unique strengths. Collaborating with competitors allows us to create something that didn’t exist before, something that benefits everyone involved, including our clients and/or students.

We all have the capacity to create. When we recognize and optimize our unique strengths, competition becomes a means to our success. When you merge competition, creativity, and innovation, the possibilities are limitless. When you orient from that place, you start to understand your own value, and you’ll find there’s more than enough work for you to do.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How you can generate your own market by combining your creativity with the issues you truly care about.
• How authentic connection and collaboration with competitors benefits everyone.
• How to figure out what unique value you offer.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Wealth Dynamics
• How to Fascinate
• DISC
• Gallup Strengths Finder

Show Highlights:

• 1:00 – Some of us love competition. It gives us a way of “keeping score” and helping us to perform better. Knowing there is someone out there doing a little bit better (or a lot better) than we are lets us know what is possible. It forces us to see where our unique strengths are and what sets us apart, and we can use that to grow our business.
• 8:00 – Collaboration with our competitors makes it possible to create something within the pro healer market that didn’t exist before.
• 12:00 – When you combine your creativity with issues you genuinely care about, you’re generating a niche; you’re generating your own market.
• 17:00 – Even in small communities, what might seem like competition can actually be transformed into mesh relationships that benefit everyone: business owners, clients, and the community as whole.
• 21:00 – Collaboration must include authentic connection in order to be a successful two-way street.
• 23:00 – Your ability to connect and collaborate with other pro healers who offer things you don’t offer adds value and depth to your services.
• 25:00 – We all have the capacity to create. When we recognize and optimize our unique strengths, competition becomes a means to our success. When you merge competition, creativity, and innovation, the possibilities are limitless. When you orient from that place, you start to understand your own value, and you’ll find there’s more than enough work for you to do.
• 32:00 – If we continually show up and provide value, it allows people to mature in their own way, sometimes elsewhere, and then come back to you.
• 34:00 – In order to figure out what value you offer, combine your expertise with your personality strengths, and track your interests.

Favorite Quotes:

• “If anyone follows any kind of competitive sports, you’ll hear sportscasters talk about the assets and the weaknesses on each team. And it’s not that the team’s not aware of their own assets and weaknesses; it’s everybody’s really aware of who’s going to leverage what. And if we bring that into our careers as wellness pros, we can also see that.” — Cate Stillman
• “Human beings are inherently creative. We can’t not create.” — Cate Stillman
• “Those of us who have been damaged in our labeling, and we label ourselves as an uncreative person, you’re just out of touch with your own humanity.” — Cate Stillman
• “We are creative. We are designed to thrive. We are designed to connect. And that’s always going to be emergent.” — Cate Stillman
• “More than anything, for me, collaborating is fun!” – Grace Edison
• “One of the things you’ll start to realize, if you haven’t already, in pro healers, is that everyone’s making it up. If someone has a platform, they built that. If someone has a unique offering, they created that. We all have this creative capacity.” — Cate Stillman
• “Who you are is your advantage.” — Cate Stillman

• Pull out your potential through mentoring.
• Build close mentoring relationships by giving trust a chance!
• Network through mentoring.

Be a part of your own growing process!

Cate’s tips for Mentors:

1. Honor the mentoring relationship and use your own experience to mentor and guide.
2. Show that you care.
3. Don’t tweak out, reach out!

Eyes on the prize! Orient yourself and others – Get better results faster.