What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• You’ll know what a mastermind group is and how it differs from a club.
• You’ll learn the key ingredients for a successful mastermind group.
• You’ll understand the value of a mastermind group and how each member can contribute in different ways.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Think and Grow Rich
• Have a conversation
• Discover more about Body Thrive 
• Join October Yogidetox

Timestamps: 

• 1:00-4:20 – What are mastermind groups?
• 5:45-8:41 – Cate’s key ingredients for a successful mastermind group: qualifications and shared desired outcomes.
• 10:14-13:38 – Cate’s key ingredients for a successful mastermind group: clarity of communication, guidelines, and commitment.
• 14:29-16:41 –  Cate’s key ingredients for a successful mastermind group: willingness to experiment and vulnerability.
• 18:00-20:45 – Vulnerability and clarity of communication. The difference between a club and a mastermind group.
• 20:46-24:12 – Cate gives an example of how the success of one or two members of a mastermind group can benefit everyone in the group.
• 24:13-28:33 – How each member of a mastermind group can contribute in different ways.
• 28:34-30:25 – What Cate has learned from her mastermind group.
• 30:26-33:44 – How you can create a mastermind group if you’re not currently enrolled in a Yogahealer course.
• 36:52-39:29 – How often mastermind groups meet and how one-on-one connections with members can be beneficial.
• 39:30- – Influencers within and around your mastermind group.

Favorite Quotes:

• “Respect the idea that a mastermind group has a definite purpose, a spirit of harmony, it’s going somewhere, and there’s a quality that it needs to surrender to a greater mind.” — Cate Stillman
• “As leaders, it’s huge that we help our people self-lead and self-organize, that we give them the structure and the training.” — Cate Stillman

Guest BIO:

Since 2001 Rachel has been supporting others through body, mind and heart-based yoga classes, trainings, mentoring and workshops. Her goal is to share how these practices have helped her shift into a more conscious, vibrant and easeful relationship to life and to support anyone who is ready to do the same. She’s been a serious practitioner and student of yoga from a young age and has thousands of hours of teacher training, immersions, workshops and retreats with phenomenal and inspiring teachers. In 2011 Rachel answered a deep calling and began her studies of Ayurveda with Cate Stillman at Yoga Healer. That same year, she began intensive studies with Paul Muller-Ortega of Blue Throat Yoga on the practice and theory of meditation and embraced a daily meditation practice that changed her life. These simultaneously launched her into a clear vision and daily approach of what she needed to do in order to thrive in the modern world. She now offers Ayurvedic Living immersions to help you to get light in your body, clear in your mind, and thrive in your life.

Developing a whole new curriculum for second-year students isn’t always necessary. Letting the second-year students mentor and lead the first-year students might be a better solution. Year 2 is an unknown product. Year 1 is proven. Don’t sacrifice the known for the unknown.

Another solution might be year-two mastermind groups: mentor-run courses written by the yoga health coach. The curriculum can be original content written by the yoga health coach, or curated content from other sources. Mentors run Facebook groups and setup mastermind groups, exchanging their services for course enrollment.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• What happens at the end of an annual pass
• How to continue to serve your course members without doubling your time spent serving them
• How to identify good mentors

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• • Yoga Health Coaching
  • Body Thrive
  • Lael Petersen website
  • Watch the Masterclass NOW

Show Highlights:

• 0:00 – Lael started the Yoga Health Coaching course 15 months ago. Since then, she has transformed her business, her business model, and her family life. Lael is a therapist who has been working in the mental health field for nearly 20 years. She is preparing to launch her third round of her version of Body Thrive, and she looking forward to establishing a continuity program for her current members after their annual membership expires.
• 4:50 – Developing a whole new curriculum for second-year students isn’t always necessary. Letting the second-year students mentor and lead the first-year students might be a better solution. When course members teach what they know, they hold themselves to a higher standard.
• 9:18 – Year 2 is an unknown product. Year 1 is proven. Don’t sacrifice the known for the unknown. Year-two mastermind groups are self-run courses written by the yoga health coach. The curriculum can be original content written by the yoga health coach, or curated content from other sources. Monthly or semi-monthly meetings can be “field trips” and/or coaching. Mentors can run Facebook groups and setup mastermind groups. Mentors exchange their services for course enrollment.
• 26:00 – The best mentors are those who just want to stick around and keep learning. They are supporting, nurturing and accountable. They are not creators; they are reinforcers. But they can help co-create with you.

Favorite Quotes:

•  “What do good leaders do? They nurture leaders. They turn other people into leaders. That’s what good leaders do.” — Cate Stillman

Guest BIO

Lael is a therapist and YHC in training. She started YHC with BT in May 2017 and then YHC in August 2017. She’s scheduled to take her certification exam Sept 6-7.

Lael has been transitioning her business from traditional 1:1 therapy model to a group/community model over the past year. She is about to start her third round of the habits and currently has sold over 20 year long memberships. Course members are beginning to inquire about what happens after the first year, so Lael is now designing content and structure for those who want continuity.

Lael lives in Portland, OR, is married to her super supportive partner Josh and together they have two girls who are almost 9. Connect with Lael on her website and Facebook page.