What you’ll get out of tuning in: 

• How to use your own “why” to attract the people you want to work with.
• How to increase your income without increasing your workload.
• How to create more value in what you offer your clients.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Colleen’s Facebook
• Colleen’s Website
• Wellness Pro Challenge
• Master of You – Check it out!

Show Highlights:

• Cate explains the simplest way to get your income where you want it.
• Cate talks about her own “why.”
• Cate explains how the Netflix show “Queer Eye” is a great example of design thinking and how you can use their methods to add value to what you offer.

Timestamps: 

• 0:26-5:10 – Colleen feels like she doesn’t have enough time to do everything when it comes to her business and she’s not where she wants to be in terms of income.
• 5:10-10:10 – Cate asks, “Where is your income currently and where do you want it to be?” and talks about the easiest way to get there.
• 10:45-16:19 – Cate asks, “Who do you want to work with the most and who do you think you can help the most.”
• 16:19-23:07 – Cate asks Colleen what her experience with the habits has been, what she can personally speak to, and how she can use her own “why” to attract the people she wants to work with.
• 25:30-29:17 – Cate explains why more training and education don’t translate into greater income, impact and lifestyle design.
• 29:17-33:49 – Cate explains how to create more value for your annual pass.

Favorite Quotes:

• “A life of purpose doesn’t expire. It inspires.” — Cate Stillman
• “If you’re not in connection with the deeper ‘why,’ the what and the how, . . . you can’t actually transact a deeper level. . . . The reason in Yoga Health Coaching we’re able to convey the depth of how this can change someone’s life . . . is because I have a very deep why. And I just come from that place. It matters to me that wellness pros figure out how to make a living that works for their lifestyle and that they can have a lucrative lifestyle.” — Cate Stillman
• “Trust the process. It’s a tenet of design thinking. Trust the process.” — Cate Stillman

Guest BIO:

Colleen Hieber lives in Newport Beach, CA when she’s not adventuring through Canada or Mexico on foot or bike! She started YHC 3 years ago and never wants to leave. Her background is in professional dance and yoga teacher training but she’s always been obsessed with how to experience mind-boggling endorphin-gushing health that makes you scream, “It’s good to be ALIVE!!!”

Chantel started traveling at the age of 22. For 12 years, she explored the world. Life was good, but yet, something was amiss. She eventually realized that with all of her traveling, she was having trouble connecting to her inner rhythm. Like many of us, Chantel was settling for feeling “good” or “okay,” until she started to suspect the potential for more. Even while studying and teaching ayurveda in India, she had trouble applying and transferring the knowledge in a way that was relatable, digestible, and DOable.

Chantel’s experience in Body Thrive gave her the tools she was missing for thrive. Her life went from super cool to incredible. She’s grounded, clear, and able to receive (and to pass on) the ancient traditions of Ayurveda and yoga using tools so simple to implement, her body is breathing sighs of relief. She knows now that all of her experiences prepared her for Yoga Health Coaching.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Body Thrive makes the habits of Ayurveda simple and digestible.
• How the Body Thrive habits free up time and energy and allow us to get beyond the stress of day to day living.
• How Body Thrive teaches us what our bodies already know.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Living Ayurveda

Show Highlights:

• 2:00 – Chantel started traveling at the age of 22. For 12 years, she explored the world. Part of her time was spent in India, learning ayurveda and yoga. She eventually realized that with all of her traveling, she was having trouble connecting to her inner rhythm. She knows now that all of her experiences prepared her for Yoga Health Coaching.
• 5:30 – Like many of us, Chantel was settling for feeling “good” or “okay,” until she started to suspect the potential for more. Even while studying and teaching ayurveda in India, she had trouble applying and transferring the knowledge in a way that was relatable and digestible. She found that Body Thrive does that in a way that taps in to what our bodies already know.
• 10:00 – Rather than taking up more time, the habits of Body Thrive free up time and create space for us to get beyond the stress of daily living. Chantel has found a different, easeful mindset with her daily self care routine. She feels lighter and clearer. Even on the occasions when she strays from the habits, she’s able to bounce back quickly. And the longer she continues to practice the habits, the more insightful she is about what makes her body feel its best.
• 16:50 – Body Thrive has changed Chantel’s relationship with food. She no longer feels controlled by the highs and lows of blood sugar, and she’s grateful for the more relaxed approach she takes toward eating.

Favorite Quotes:

• “If I did not have the basic, foundational habits of an Ayurvedic lifestyle under my belt, there is no way that I could run a business. I couldn’t show up for myself the way that I need to. I couldn’t show up for my family. Couldn’t find balance. Couldn’t honor my priorities.” — Carly Banks
• “I do know that that movement and that lack of having any structure or rhythm in my daily life really kind of ran havoc on my body.” — Chantel Alcaraz
• “I was settling for ‘good’ when there’s really much more potential.” — Chantel Alcaraz
• “We already know these things. We just forgot how to be in rhythm because we’re so busy.” — Chantel Alcaraz

Guest BIO:

Chantel Alcaraz is the founding owner and mentor at Abhasa Yoga and Wellness in Mosier, Oregon. She took her first yoga class at the age of 18, resisting each and every moment.

She wanted to run, or hike or bike, not just sit and “waste” her time on the mat. Fifteen years later, Chantel can’t imagine her life without her practice, her awareness and understanding, her love for nature. She sees herself in the world and the world in herself. That is what aims to share.

We have learned a lot about creating better shows, and have had great exchange and support among the YHC Podcaster community. We would like to give a big thanks to all YHC Podcast members: Brooke Bailey, Rosie Tait, Annie Barrett, Andrea Bachman, Michele Summers Colon, and Grace Edison.

If you are part of the Yoga Health Coaching community, and especially if you are in YHC Mastery, feel free to apply here for our new YHC Podcast season.

Here’s to a prosperous 2018 behind the mic!

In order to celebrate our successes from the last year, here are our most successful shows in 2017:

1. Learn to Time Bend with Dana Skoglund + Annie Barrett with Dana Skoglund, Annie Barrett

Yoga Health Coaches juggle a lot of responsibilities, and many of us admit to feeling like we lack integrity with time. In this episode, Annie Barrett and Dana Skoglund – both Yoga Health Coaches – discuss how Dana has mastered the Yogi superpower of bending time. Dana shares her best strategies and tips for being productive and effective as a yoga teacher, Yoga Health Coach, mother, and entrepreneur.

2. The Habits for Hope in Healing with Annette Shellenbarger with Cate Stillman and Annette Shellenbarger

Listen in for Annette Shellenbarger’s tips about understanding, trusting, and loving the Ayurvedic habits. Learn how to integrate Ayurvedic habits into your own life, and see them change the lives of those around you. Cultivate your own mental, emotional, and physical thrive, influence others in your life without nagging or telling them what to do, and teach clients what they need to do to help themselves more effectively.

3. From Fibromyalgia + Chronic Fatigue to Yoga Health Coaching with Lynn Taylor with Cate Stillman and Lynn Taylor

Lynn Taylor, YHC’s Coach of the Month, provides tips on using your journey to help others find their Thrive. Help your clients fall into their own rhythm by adopting lifestyle habits, ask AWE (And What Else) to encourage them to share more, and leverage financial sacrifice to help people commit to upleveling their habits through your course.

4. Hashimoto’s Autoimmune Disease: Healing with Yoga Health Coaching, with Gin Burchfield and Cate Stillman

Gin was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s autoimmune disease four years ago. Since then, she has set forth on a journey to learn exactly what works for her body, not only to eliminate her symptoms, but to Thrive. She shares how the habits of Body Thrive have helped her get in touch with her body, ensuring that she gets exactly what she needs while staying away from things that will push her out of balance and toward inflammation. Tune in to find out why it’s important for all people to get in touch with their bodies’ needs, how the habits help day-to-day energy levels, and how group work can help orient toward connectedness and thrive.

5. YHC Personal Evolution Paths with Grace Edison + Dr. Michele Colon, with Grace Edison and Dr. Michele Colon

Name any trendy diet, and there’s a good chance Grace Edison has tried it — without lasting effects — over the years. Even with all that practice, she was stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of losing and gaining the same 50 pounds over and over again. Eating was a form of self-harm and emotional solace through difficult periods in her life, but on her personal evolution path, she broke free of old patterns that kept her body from changing. In this episode, Grace shares how the habits of Body Thrive helped her body figure out where it really wants to be, and how she has used her personal transformation and evolution to inspire and help others live in bodies they love.

6. COM: Step into the Fire with YHC Coach Alexandra Epple, By Cate Stillman, with Cate Stillman and Alexandra Epple

Alexandra Epple shares tips for encouraging students to step into the fire to enjoy the transformation they desire, understanding the importance of tailoring course offerings, and shifting from victim to creator mode. Tune in to learn how to nurture your career, get rid of your perfectionism, and focus on results.

7. 7 Ways Family Meetings Harmonize Our Lives, with Annie Barrett

In this episode of the Yoga Health Coaching Podcast, Yoga Health Coach Annie Barrett raps about how her family is evolving their health and connectivity with weekly family meetings. Annie talks about how she got her husband and two teens on board with weekly meetings, and how it improves their connectivity, communication, habits and health. This episode is for you if you care about evolving not only your own habits, but also the habits of your family and core peeps.

8. What to do for an Overweight Vata, with Cate Stillman

The majority of Western society is overweight. As a practitioner or student of ayurveda, it is difficult to assess whether excess weight is a vata or kapha issue. Cate shares her advice on how to tell the difference between vata weight and kapha weight, as well as how vatas can work to bring balance (and weight loss) into their lives. Cate provides helpful information about self massage, sipping warm water, and chewing gum to help combat these imbalances and lean in toward Thrive.

9. Creative Ways to Bring Healthier Habits to the Corporate World, with Brooke Bailey

When we approach our health holistically, we experience profound benefits in our personal and professional lives. Naturally, we want to share these benefits with others. Whether you work in a large corporation, a small business, or as an independent contractor, if you want to see a reduction in the pervasively high levels of stress in the workplace, then this episode is for you. Brooke Bailey, a former member of the Rat Race but now soon-to-be Yoga Health Coach, invites Eve Gaudet, her client and Executive Coach, to discuss how we can approach both large and small organizations about making healthier habits an integral part of their wellness programs.

10. The Ayurveda of Podcasting with Cate Stillman and Andrea Bachman, with Cate Stillman and Andrea Bachman

All your podcast followers are influenced by their Ayurvedic constitution: because of their dosha, they are more inclined to focus, process, or space out when listening. Tune in to learn how you can lead engaging, collaborative conversations that cater to everyone’s needs, whether audio, visual, or kinesthetic, to engage anyone listening.