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.

For Annie, this last phase is happening in real time, and as it happens, it brings up a lot of identity evolution, risk-taking, and finding unstable ground, but also low-leverage vs. high-leverage activities and how it all aligns to dharma.

Join us as Annie walks us through her Yoga Health Coaching Certification path and how it has helped her discover her potential and live her dharma.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to uplevel your business to pursue your higher dharma
• How most people compartmentalize their lives, and why you should integrate yours for higher Thrive
• Why the Community Coaching model is the future of Ayurveda

Links:

• Annie’s Website
• Facebook Community
• National Ayurvedic Medical Association

Show Highlights:

• 3:20 – You can’t just meditate your way to good business! You have to actually build a skill set to take the necessary steps toward running a business.
• 6:20 – Developing your own signature system is key for creating a business model. In order to attract clients, you have to build your own strategic brand based on your passion.
• 12:10 – As you grow and change your wellness career, you may meet resistance even from previous clients who want the same services you’ve always had. But by leaning into your own dharma, you will be able to make a bigger impact on an even bigger scale.
• 16:00 – Most people are living segmented lives, where they compartmentalize their spiritual practice from their career, from their relationships, from contributions to their community, etc. This segmentation clogs the flow of prana, and creates excess ama! By becoming more integrated, you can rid yourself of ama and create a more vibrant life.
• 20:00 – Through a Community Coaching model, we can connect people to their ecosystem, their coaches, their peers, and themselves. By collaborating, we can create so much more than we ever could alone.

Favorite Quotes:

• “Is your yoga career actually just an expensive hobby?” – Cate Stillman
• “Somehow I thought if I just meditated long enough, the wisdom was going to come to me.” – Annie Barrett
• “What’s in it for the community?” – Cate Stillman
• “It comes down to this more and more intimate group setting that is highly transformative and highly community-based.” – Cate Stillman
• “What’s my body of work? Where do I take this?” – Annie Barrett
• “Women naturally collaborate… when we lean into each other’s strengths and give each other more voice, we all learn.” – Annie Barrett
• “When we start to get the power of collective leadership and co-creativity, it takes the pressure off!” – Cate Stillman
• “It stops becoming work and starts becoming quirk.” – Cate Stillman

Guest BIO:

As an educator, a Yoga teacher and teacher trainer, a Certified Yoga Health Coach, a spouse, and a mother of two amazing teens, Annie Barrett models and teaches folks how to thrive in body, mind, and spirit, and how to live purposeful, passionate lives. Annie has walked the householder Yoga path for 25 years, and she has a gift for making the wisdom teachings of Yoga fresh and accessible. She guides people into knowing themselves more deeply, embracing themselves more fully, and evolving into a state of well-being and expansive freedom. As a Certified Yoga Health Coach, she is trained and practiced in the daily habits and health principles of Ayurveda. She coaches and guides students into upleveling their health and reaching their full potential with proven habits for vitality, health, and happiness. Check out Vibrant + Soulful Living with Annie Barrett and join her community.