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 community support and the business training, aspects that were missing from the other programs she had investigated.

Prior to YHC, Natasha was working a “dead end” job that she did not find fulfilling. Getting laid off allowed her to pursue her passions: yoga and health. She now makes her own schedule, and she feels like she’s growing every day. Helping her clients and seeing her business grow while continuing to learn more in YHC is a rewarding experience that brings her happiness on a daily basis.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How YHC differs from other health coaching programs.
• Why you WANT to go through Body Thrive before, during, and after YHC.
• How YHC can help you find your way to a dynamic, rewarding wellness career.

Links:

• Have a Conversation with Grace
• Body Thrive
• Natasha’s website
• Natasha’s FB page

Show Highlights:

• 6:00 – One of the standout aspects of Yoga Health Coaching going through Body Thrive before beginning the training.
• 7:00 – YHC has three components: 1. Ayurvedic health study, 2. Coaching training, and 3. Business course.
• 8:00 – The community aspect of YHC provides multiple levels of support that sets YHC apart from most other online, web-based, “distance” programs.
• 12:00 – While YHC is structured, there is enough flexibility within the structure that if you “fall behind,” it’s not an issue.
• 14:10 – Often, YHC allows people to transition out of unfilling jobs into meaningful, dynamic careers.
• 19:00 – In YHC, you get to uplevel your own health in a sustainable way. Each time you go through Body Thrive and each time you teach the habits to your clients and go through it with them, you experience another evolution of you.
• 23:00 – Body Thrive and YHC change the way you show up in relationships. Your capacity for communication improves, and when you live the habits, you lead by example and people begin to see you as an authority.

Favorite Quotes:

• “There’s no good or bad. There’s just an evolution of better.” — Grace Edison
• “You think you reach a peak or an edge, and then you look over the edge and there’s even more.” — Natasha Gayl

Guest BIO:

Natasha is a Boston-based yoga teacher and health coach. She has always been interested in the effects that food, herbs, and exercise have on the human body. Through her studies of Ayurveda and Ancient Chinese Herbal Medicine, She has honed her interest in Ayurvedic habit science, food, and exercise into expertise that can help you live in line with your inherent wellness. Connect with Natasha on her FB page Natasha Wellness.

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.

In today’s episode, Cate and Grace talk about all the ways we disqualify ourselves, and how we can break out of these limiting beliefs and outdated patterns to design the person we want to be, the business we want to create, and the life we want to live. You don’t have to be a certain kind of person to do the things you want to do. You don’t have to wait for someone else to give you permission or encouragement. You can have it all, but you have to decide you want it, and change the way you think to get it.

So tune in to find out how you might be limiting yourself, and how you can change to unlock the person you want to become next.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why you are never too old (or too young) to make a change
• What you’ve written off, and why you should reconsider
• How to break free from your sanskaras and design the life you want

Links:

• Jill Runnion Website
• Plan your 2018 Webinar
• Check out McIntosh Wellness essential oils suggestion by Lori

Show Highlights:

• 0:30 – You are never too old to make change! In fact, it might actually be easier to learn new things because of the years of wisdom you have to learn from.
• 7:20 – Sanskaras are like ruts or grooves in neural pathways: they are unconscious replays of the same mental pattern. By shifting those thoughts, you’re already breaking out of those grooves, you’re already making progress.
• 11:30 – Get into a group that’s propelling growth, and that can be your support system for your own personal evolution.
• 13:30 – Don’t wait for someone else to tell you to do something. Whatever you want to do, whoever you want to become next, you can do right now, without someone else’s permission.
• 15:30 – The more complex you become physically, mentally, and emotionally, the simpler your lifestyle becomes, and the more you can experience bliss and joy.

Favorite Quotes:

• “How do you design for what you want, instead of just the replay?” – Cate Stillman
• “You know a lot of these things about yourself, but sometimes they almost become blind spots, and it takes somebody else to come and say [it].” – Grace Edison
• “There’s a practice of becoming who we want to be. It’s just a practice.” – Grace Edison
• “I remind myself that I have so much more to learn, and that’s exciting. It doesn’t disqualify me. It doesn’t mean I can’t do it.” – Grace Edison
• “Stop waiting for someone else to tell you how great you are before you do what you really want to do.” – Cate Stillman

Her story inspires professional healers to follow their heart’s calling. Paula did this over and over throughout her life. She now coaches actors, musicians and artists in the habits of Body Thrive. In her words, “Artists are the most courageous people. You have to lay your heart out on the line.”

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How daily habits keep you grounded?
• Why do artists, musicians and actors greatly need the habits of Body Thrive?
• How daily habits can help your teenager?

Show Highlights:

• 02:26 – Paula talks about how her life was chaotic when her father died while she was raising two kids and working and how that led to more transformation in her life including Yoga Health Coaching.
• 05:39 – Paula discusses how reluctant she was to give up acting as it was part of her identity and she was torn between that and yoga and her dharma.
• 08:35 – Paula talks about how the 10 daily habits have helped her find a “through line” to keep coming back to and help her stay grounded.
• 09:42 – Cate and Paula discuss how the daily habits can help teens and young adults with scheduling.
• 12:22 – Paula discusses how she brings what she’s learned in Yoga Health Coaching that could help actors, musicians and other creative people.
• 15:26 – Cate discusses how the 10 habits help build body integrity and self acceptance.
• 18:15 – Paula discusses her experience mentoring and stepping into a leadership role through Yoga Health Coaching

Favorite Quotes:

• “The only real difference between between the people whose lives seem so simple and easy on the outside is the choices that they made about the attitude [with which] to approach life” – A letter to Paula from her father
• “The habits themselves are so intrinsically integrity building” – Cate
• “Without the habits we cannot expect to have cellular acceptance” – Cate
• “We’re able to surrender so much more when we have the habits to whatever’s going on in life” – Cate
• “Beating yourself up is a waste of time” – Paula
• “Artists are the most courageous people. You have to lay your heart out on the line.” Paula Pister-Eliot

BIO:

Paula’s been teaching yoga for nearly 16 years, is a mom of 2 amazing smallish people, an actress, retired costume stylist and “occasional” jewelry designer. Soon to be certified “Yoga Health Coach”, and student of Ayurveda, Paula is loving the direction her life is taking in her 40’s -circling her back to her roots.

Paula spent 20 years as a wardrobe stylist helping people to look better on the outside, now she gets to help them feel better on the inside, create healthier habits and live a life more aligned- way more fun!

She loves horses, the outdoors, feeding her family healthfully and delving deeper into the Ayurvedic lifestyle and learning more & more.

Still trying to find her way back to her hometown of Vancouver, Canada- Paula’s enjoying the lifestyle, yoga community and sunshine in Los Angeles.

Connect with Paula  on Facebook, Instagram, watch out for her Website COMING SOON- Please feel free to keep the conversation going through Email.

Her story inspires professional healers to follow their heart’s calling. Paula did this over and over throughout her life. She now coaches actors, musicians and artists in the habits of Body Thrive. In her words, “Artists are the most courageous people. You have to lay your heart out on the line.”

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How daily habits keep you grounded?
• Why do artists, musicians and actors greatly need the habits of Body Thrive?
• How daily habits can help your teenager?

Show Highlights:

• 02:26 – Paula talks about how her life was chaotic when her father died while she was raising two kids and working and how that led to more transformation in her life including Yoga Health Coaching.
• 05:39 – Paula discusses how reluctant she was to give up acting as it was part of her identity and she was torn between that and yoga and her dharma.
• 08:35 – Paula talks about how the 10 daily habits have helped her find a “through line” to keep coming back to and help her stay grounded.
• 09:42 – Cate and Paula discuss how the daily habits can help teens and young adults with scheduling.
• 12:22 – Paula discusses how she brings what she’s learned in Yoga Health Coaching that could help actors, musicians and other creative people.
• 15:26 – Cate discusses how the 10 habits help build body integrity and self acceptance.
• 18:15 – Paula discusses her experience mentoring and stepping into a leadership role through Yoga Health Coaching

Favorite Quotes:

• “The only real difference between between the people whose lives seem so simple and easy on the outside is the choices that they made about the attitude [with which] to approach life” – A letter to Paula from her father
• “The habits themselves are so intrinsically integrity building” – Cate
• “Without the habits we cannot expect to have cellular acceptance” – Cate
• “We’re able to surrender so much more when we have the habits to whatever’s going on in life” – Cate
• “Beating yourself up is a waste of time” – Paula
• “Artists are the most courageous people. You have to lay your heart out on the line.” Paula Pister-Eliot

BIO:

Paula’s been teaching yoga for nearly 16 years, is a mom of 2 amazing smallish people, an actress, retired costume stylist and “occasional” jewelry designer. Soon to be certified “Yoga Health Coach”, and student of Ayurveda, Paula is loving the direction her life is taking in her 40’s -circling her back to her roots.

Paula spent 20 years as a wardrobe stylist helping people to look better on the outside, now she gets to help them feel better on the inside, create healthier habits and live a life more aligned- way more fun!

She loves horses, the outdoors, feeding her family healthfully and delving deeper into the Ayurvedic lifestyle and learning more & more.

Still trying to find her way back to her hometown of Vancouver, Canada- Paula’s enjoying the lifestyle, yoga community and sunshine in Los Angeles.

Connect with Paula  on Facebook, Instagram, watch out for her Website COMING SOON- Please feel free to keep the conversation going through Email.