By forming peer groups we have a better ability to overcome our negative thoughts and habits. We gently nudge our egos out of the way in order to stay on our true paths towards connection and growth. In listening to the feedback our peers give us, we are able to build trust and gain confidence in ourselves and grow at a rapid rate, breaking through our glass ceilings. When we take the time to pause, listen, and reflect on feedback we are given, we are able to see the habits we’ve created that we need to change in order to move onto our next level of self-growth.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Where do our egos get in the way?
• How do peer groups help us to grow?
• How do we receive feedback well?

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive Book
• YHC Have a conversation
• Sign-up for the FREE live Living Ayurveda Masterclass series now!

Show Highlights:

• 1:10- From pissed to empowered! How our ego keeps us from connection and growth. We talk about working with our ego in order to own your actions and thoughts and realize your recurring patterns and change them.
• 9:50- We discuss how to use feedback from your peers or in peer groups. How to get to the point where you are super honest with yourself and with others and how to take feedback and use it to grow.

Favorite Quotes:

• “She thought she could, so she did.” – Grace Edison
• “A very strong accountability group will generate an entire energy where they can see the key strengths that every member can bring, and they leverage those strengths.” – Grace Edison
• “We open our hearts, we collaborate rather than compete, we take action.” – Grace Edison
• “Stop being pissed and be empowered.” – Cate Stillman

Guest BIO:

Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She’s a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• What is online fitness coaching, who does it work for, and why do it?
• What is it like to be an entrepreneur?
• How to use social media to grow your tribe.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive Book
• YHC Have a conversation
• Chris and Eric Martinez Facebook page
• Chris and Eric Martinez Website
• 5 Tips to Save Time and Be a Healthy Entrepreneur
• 5 Tips to Creating a Micro Movement within your Coaching Business
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

Show Highlights:

• 1:50- Chris and Eric describe what it is like to work as a fitness professional with an online business. What are some of the challenges and what are the benefits in this online fitness and entrepreneurial world?
• 8:00- Cate asks the bothers how they capture their lessons learned in order to leverage them into strengths on the entrepreneurial path.
• 11:00- Where are things going in terms of Personal Trainers? What are some emerging niches within fitness?
• 17:20- How the bothers use social media to grow their tribe and to keep their members informed.

Favorite Quotes:

• “A mind full of conclusions leads to no room for expansion.” – Eric Martinez
• “Whether you are in person or online, it is all about the relationship. It is all about care, connection, follow through, and small incremental improvement.” – Cate Stillman
• “It’s about these long term supportive relationships where we can see growth over time.” – Cate Stillman

Guest’s BIO:

Chris and Eric Martinez, also known as the “Dynamic Duo” operate a world class Online Fitness and Lifestyle Company by the name of “Dynamic Duo Training.” Chris and Eric are also Business coaches that own “The Dynamic Inner Circle” where they help fitness enthusiasts grow their online coaching businesses. Along with being #1 International Best Selling Authors and Speakers, Chris and Eric have worked with thousands of people online and in person to help them look better, feel better, perform better, and live a dynamic lifestyle. They do this through training, nutrition, mindset, personal development, and lifestyle practices. Chris and Eric practice what they preach on a daily basis; they live a dynamic lifestyle, continue to evolve in their training and nutrition, and never become complacent. Their attitude is to be excited every morning and reach for the stars- you deserve it! Connect with Chris and Eric on their Website and Facebook.

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 planning. If we want make a bigger impact by helping more people, we need to develop professional career habits that systematically grow our business so that it’s easier for people to find us.

To start, we need to develop a larger perspective by identifying and quantifying 3 aspects of our career growth: impact, revenue, and lifestyle. A wellness pro with pro career habits is doing annual and quarterly planning that includes actionable steps that will help her hit her targets in all three areas. Using a project management tool streamlines the process and provides a structure for automating pro career habits.

Getting into integrity with being a wellness pro involves creating habits that increase our levels of skill and challenge so that we remain in flow throughout our careers and avoid hitting a plateau.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to determine whether you have slacker career habits or pro career habits.
• How you can start to develop pro career habits.
• How you can stay in flow throughout the length of your wellness career.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive Course
• Body Thrive Book
• YHC Have a conversation
• Stay Hydrated with Copper H20
• Flow

Show Highlights:

• 0:30 – A lot of wellness pros are great at what they do, but it’s not enough. They still have slacker habits when it comes to their careers. They’re in reactive mode and haven’t automated the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual habits they need to turn pro. To start, they need to develop a larger perspective.
• 5:13 – We can start by identifying and quantifying 3 aspects of our career growth: impact, revenue, and lifestyle. A wellness pro who has pro career habits is going to be doing annual and quarterly planning that includes actionable steps that will grow her career.
• 8:50 – With slacker habits, the impact extends beyond ourselves and our businesses to those people we weren’t able to serve because we were slacking.
• 9:30 – For many, careers plateau at a certain point when skill exceeds challenge, but we can only remain in flow if our skill and challenge are both high. Using a project management tool is a pro career habit that helps us streamline the process of upleveling our skill and our challenge to grow our business by creating actionable steps and identifying lead and lag indicators.
• 25:20 – Getting into integrity with being a pro involves creating habits that increase your skill and your challenge in order to grow your business.

Favorite Quotes:

• “The truth for people who have pro career skills is they know that every challenge is an opportunity to grow their skill.” — Cate Stillman
• “This isn’t about adding more to-dos. This is about getting in integrity with being a pro in our career habits.” — Cate Stillman
• “I need wellness people to act like wellness pros. We need to have pro career habits or we can’t have the kind of impact [we want to have] because at the end of the day, it’s all about impact.” — Cate Stillman

Guest BIO:

Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She’s a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team.

What is the cosmic pulse?

Inner pulse

Everything in and around you is in a rhythm. Let’s begin with you and your body. There is a wisdom within your body — call it a divine intelligence — governing you, me and our shared world. It is the supporting wisdom behind your living and breathing body. A regular practice of dinacharya promotes harmony within our bodily systems. Dinacharya is the synchronized daily routine which promotes wellness and includes practices for a nourished body, balanced mind and connected spirit. Placing these routines with intention in your day helps to restore balance and connection to your inner pulse.

Outer pulse

The larger rhythms around you such as the circadian (light and dark) cycle, seasonal cycle and lunar phases are among the biggest. These are the members of the divine orchestra reminding you when to sleep, eat, play and take time to do nothing at all. Throughout evolution, humans have been living in harmony with these cosmic pulses, that is until the recent advancements of technology, artificial lighting and food grown out of it’s natural season. This shift is driving humans offbeat and likening the experience of physical disease and emotional distress.

Syncing the beats

Why it is important.

The relationship of your inner and outer pulse greatly influences the overall health and wellbeing you experience. Ayurveda is perhaps the oldest tradition exploring the relation of inner and outer rhythms. When I began to go deeper into Ayurveda and explore my relationship to the larger pulse of life I had many questions. Why does an arhythmic schedule cause stress? What is the importance of sleep? How does eating out of the seasonal rhythms affect my meditation? And then something clicked. We are nature and are born into the beautiful cosmic dance but it is the lifestyle we live and choices we make that bring us in or out of this rhythm.

The roadmap for balance

To thrive as a human you need a balance between rest and activity. A balance between eating and digesting. So we look to the rhythmic structure of Ayurveda to guide us on the path to restoring a balanced, healthy life.

Are you familiar with the doshas? These are the three combinations of the five states of matter.

Vata = air + ether  ～  Pitta = fire + water  ～ Kapha = earth + water

The doshas are the governing qualities on the human physiology, biorhythms and influence behind mental/emotional tendency. They represent the movement of the energy and are shown on the dosha clock. The dosha clock is the cyclical roadmap of the day focusing on what is happening in relation to the sunrise and sunset. The clock runs on two 12-hour cycles, each 12 hour cycle is divided with the three doshas. Simply put, honoring the rhythmic nature of the doshic clock gives us insight for balancing our daily routines with the present attribute.

Restoring your balance through rhythm

Do you want to learn to live in balance with nature’s rhythms? If you desire to restore balance in your body, mind and cosmic connection, then it is time to evaluate where your routine can evolve to support you on your path. Begin with simple dinacharya during specific times of the clock to find the balance with the current dosha such as exercising in the morning and eating your largest meal in the heat of the day. Come back to basics and honor the diurnal nature of life. Setting a bedtime for yourself and your electronics to limit stimulus during the evening. An evening dinacharya like a self foot massage, helps you let go of the day by creating time for your rejuvenation. With proper time to rest and recalibrate, the nervous system can return to homeostasis and ease of life is restored. Inviting curiosity is a great way to evaluate where your rhythms are supporting you and where they could be upgraded. Are you ready to refine your rhythms? Here a few questions to ask yourself. Remember to invite curiosity about areas that could use an upgrade. Do I feel natural energy upon waking in the morning? Where was the food on my plate grown? What would help me charge my internal battery? From a scientific perspective, being in sync with the natural rhythm is how we recharge our cells. Like charging your cell phone battery, your cells need to be in sync with these larger cycles to optimize their functions. With charged cells and relaxed nervous system, the microbes in the body are able to perform their jobs well, supporting the the detox and digestive systems. When out of sync, your cells are overworked and your body and mind become stressed. If this persists, stress induced digestive diseases and a whole grocery list of other symptoms may enter the scene.

Think long term and begin to identify where are you in sync and where could you enter the cosmic dance more harmoniously. Where is there potential to build momentum of health and vitality? Where could the cosmic pulse support you on your path? Coming back to the beating heart, you have reminders within and around you reflecting the pulse of the cosmos. As a human you can choose to align with these rhythms enhancing the quality of life you experience with deeper connection and well-being.

Duika explains how she allowed it to come to life and why it has now taken on a life of its own. The garden emerged as an offshoot to a spot of “guerrilla gardening” Duika undertook at a derelict spot of land next to a railway line. She subsequently managed to secure funding to create both a community garden and a yoga studio in the station, charmingly called the Yoga Station.

As an Aussie based in the North East of England Duika talks about the benefit of being an outsider when facilitating the emergence of a conscious community.She also talks about what she has learned from the experience and why none of us mere mortals should be afraid of grasping the nettle (Yes, that was deliberate).

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to effectively manage an evolving community
• What happens when a community you have created takes on a life of its own
• Why it’s never scary to be a changemaker

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Duika Burges Watson
• Station Masters’ Community Wildlife Garden
• The Yoga Station
• Yogidetox

Show Highlights:

• 3:00 – Duika lived opposite a train line where there was a patch of land that was unused. She started rescuing plants that were already growing there and then began cultivating other plants. She and other interested people formed the community garden organization, which was in need of funding. She set up a yoga studio alongside the garden and used the profits to keep the garden going. While the yoga studio was a success, it wasn’t making enough profit to fund the garden, so they set up a market to fund the garden. Now the garden simply exists for enjoyment without the need commerce or money-raising.
• 7:15 – Rosie draws a parallel between the season rhythms of gardening and the seasonal rhythms yoga health coaches teach their clients to follow. Duika recalls her realization that some of the people who came to the garden, like many people in the world today, understood very little about where their food came from. That disconnection between us and our food has impacted our health.
• 10:20 – Duika’s community was very diverse, and there were differing ideas about what should happen with the gardening space. So they undertook a community survey, compiled the results, and used them to design the garden around what the community wanted. Rather than a negotiation process, the development of the community garden became a community-building process.
• 13:30 – For Duika, the highlights of her endeavors come in small moments like a young person tasting a blueberry for the first time or smelling sage.
• 15:00 – Rosie was particularly impressed that Duika went in with the idea that she was going to create change. Duika says she just followed the process and trusted that everyone involved in the process had something unique to contribute, even if she wasn’t sure what it was. Part of the work became discovering people’s hidden talents and skills and encouraging them to use them.
• 17:10 – In Yoga Health Coaching, we build communities around shared values, but we often look at people like Duika, who appear to be almost superhuman in their ability to do so, and we doubt our own ability. But all we really need to do is gather our fears and find some courage and just do it. You don’t need to be superhuman. You need to leverage your strengths and find others to help you with skills you lack.

Favorite Quotes:

• “We’ve kind of lost the ability to know what’s good for our bodies because we go to the supermarket, and you smell the tomatoes and you don’t know where they come from. So, it’s been interesting watching the evolution of the local community as they start to understand some of these things in a very different way and become more interested in where their food comes from.” — Duika Burges Watson
• “Having a sense of humor helps a lot. So, I think laughing as much as possible is really helpful in developing community,” — Duika Burges Watson
• “It’s not about being superhuman at all. It’s about recognizing that there are lots of bits of superhumanness in everybody that you can draw on.” — Duika Burges Watson

Guest BIO:

Dr Duika Burges Watson is Lecturer in the Evaluation of Policy Interventions within FUSE, the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health – a UKCRC Public Health Research Centre of Excellence. She is most interested in food – from source to senses – and how critical geographic and qualitative methodologies can help reveal different ways of thinking about how we eat. Current research focuses on multi-modal flavor perception, altered eating and the implications of new understandings in relation to health and well-being. Previous research has included work with survivors of head and neck cancer explored the potential of progressive cuisine to enhance the quality of life; food growing and foraging for ‘free’; visceral geographies, urban agriculture and ultra-processed foods, and developments in UK food policy. She leads masters modules on policy analysis (in particular discourse analytic approaches) and the dynamics of evidence in Global Public Policy and Health focusing on contemporary food policy. She is also the patient and public engagement lead for Fuse – the Centre for Translational Research in Public Health. Connect with Duika on her FB page and get more info on Duika’s website.

• 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.