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Yogahealer Retreat: Breakthroughs, Growth, and Stepping into Leadership

Carly Banks — Fri, 18 May 2018 13:07:00 +0000

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks chats with Yoga Health Coach Angela Hammond about the breakthroughs they experienced at the Yogahealer retreat in March 2018. Connection and communication happens quickly and deeply when you’re in person with people on the same path as you, people who “speak your language.” It’s an invaluable experience to wellness practitioners who often work alone. In the “pressure cooker” of the retreat experience, we help each other evolve as individuals and as wellness pros. The ability to stand in a room with your peers and see yourself as someone like them, someone who is making big shifts, someone who is being a catalyst for change, results in powerful identity evolution. Cate has an uncanny ability to relay information that, in the hand of another, could come off as heady and esoteric in a way that is relatable, digestible and manageable. Because of that, we get further faster in the retreat environment. We left with clarity about how to move forward with our businesses; we left feeling like the leaders that we are, and we left having made connections with other amazing course members who we might not have discovered or connected within the online community.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

How Yogahealer retreats facilitate rapid connection, insight, growth, and breakthroughs.
Why connection and communication happens quickly and deeply at Yogahealer retreats.
Why you should attend a Yogahealer retreat!

Links Mentioned Episode:

Show Highlights:

0:30 – Carly and Angela met at the Yogahealer retreat in Mexico in March 2018. So many of the practices done at the retreat facilitated rapid processing and lead to big shifts in the course members who were there.
2:27 – Connection and communication happens quickly and deeply when you’re in person with people on the same path as you, who “speak your language.” It’s an invaluable experience to wellness practitioners who often work alone. In the “pressure cooker” of the retreat experience, we help each other evolve as individuals and as wellness pros.
4:55 – The ability to stand in a room with your peers and see yourself as someone like them, someone who is making big shifts, someone who is being a catalyst for change, results in powerful identity evolution.
6:25 – The theme for the Mexico retreat was leadership, and by the end of the training, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that each of us was indeed a leader. We left with clarity about how to move forward with our businesses. For some, like Carly, that meant scrapping the business plan that they had formulated prior to the retreat, but rather than being tedious and tiresome, the process felt easeful and fun. For others, like Angela, it meant leaning into shifts from a head-forward business to a heart-forward business.
8:38 – Cate has an uncanny ability to relay information that, in the hand of another, could come off as heady and esoteric in a way that is relatable, digestible and manageable. Because of that, course members easily “speak the same language” and are able to get further faster in the retreat environment.
10:30 – The retreat experience also offers an opportunity to powerfully connect with other amazing course members who we might not have discovered or connected within the online community.
11:00 – There are now 1,700 members in the Changemaker Challenge forum. If you are one of those, and you haven’t talked to Grace about Yoga Health Coaching, do it now so that you can get in on the next retreat in Salt Lake City!

Favorite Quotes:

“There’s something about being in person. There’s an immediacy. There’s that energy exchange. And there’s that . . . recognition of yourself in others and vice versa that doesn’t always happen online. It’s hard to duplicate online.” — Angela Hammond
“We need to stop making ourselves feel small and look small.” — Carly Banks
“It the retreat really solidified my ideals of having a business that is also fun.” — Carly Banks

Guest BIO:

Angela Hammond is the owner of Main Street Yoga, the first yoga studio in Fairmont, West Virginia. Yoga found Angela about 20 years ago. She started practicing yoga in her living room with her three young sons running circles around her. After practicing on her own for years with books, VHS tapes, and DVDs, Angela completed her 200 hour yoga teacher training in February of 2016 and she is currently working towards her 500 hour certification at Asheville Yoga Center. After a short flirtation with Ayurveda years ago, Angela has found her way back to it through Yoga Health Coaching and is enjoying empowering other women to take charge of their health with the habits of Body Thrive. Contact her on website and her facebook page.

Competition, Collaboration, Innovation + You!

Cate Stillman — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 11:53:11 +0000

As wellness pros, we sometimes find ourselves thinking we are in a limited market, that there are only a certain number of people looking for the services we’re offering, and if someone else is offering the “same” services, our market is even more limited. In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Cate and Grace discuss how competition can be a asset to our careers.

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:

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