In this episode, Anna speaks with Suzanne about what methods have worked for her on her road to success as a Yoga Health Coach.

Suzanne shares what has worked for her and what has not worked for her along the way.  You may also get inspiration on how to play around with the model to find what best suits you in creating the most epic ride for your members.

What you’ll get out of tuning in

• How to recognize when you begin to embody the practices
• Understanding that following the business model works
• Inspiration and ideas to customize your program

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Centered Living with Suzanne
• Instagram: @centeredlivingwithsuzanne

Highlights:

• The benefits of free talks – getting enrollments and people on the emailing list 13:37
•  It wasn’t until LA and Body Thrive that you put the theory into practice… even the yama and niyamas became real 3:03
• The business model really is a simple structure 13:05

Timestamps:

• “The Living Ayurveda course blew my mind” 2:20
• “If I can get them into a 1:1 talk we’re pretty good to go” 14:00
• “If you’re thinking about it and there’s a deep calling follow it…you don’t know how capable you are until you step into” 16:32
• “Income is so related to impact, two sides of one coin” 21:52
• “Self care is non-negotiable” 24:07

Guest Bio:

Suzanne McCahill Perrine is the founder/director of The Center, Harrisonburg’s first dedicated yoga and Pilates studio. Suzanne, E-RYT 500, YACEP, Certified Health Coach, and teacher trainer began teaching Yoga in 2005. Inspired to connect to others in her community and spread the joy and healing potential of yoga, she opened The Center Yoga studio. After years of study in the Anusara tradition with teachers, Desiree Rumbaugh, Christina Sell, Elena Browner, Amy Ippoliti, Moses Brown, Bita Jenkins, Suzie Hurley, John Friend, and Douglas Brooks, she eventually started teaching others to teach, starting the Center School of Yoga.

Suzanne encourages her students to have fun, relax, and enjoy the splendid journey that yoga offers them both on their mats and in their lives. More recently, Suzanne has studied under Cate Stillman offering yoga & Ayurveda health coaching as a way to collaborate with clients who wish to feel more connected to life, honor their true nature, and reclaim their health. She continues to find more joy in her life since discovering Yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda and sharing it with others

For Monica Biasiolo Yoga Health Coaching changed everything. Suffering from a chronic illness, Monica refused to fall into victim mode and decided to invest in her health by joining the Yogahealer community. She experienced firsthand what changing your habits can do for your health, and brilliantly transitioned from student to mentor, leading her own health coaching business.

Monica believes difficult journeys can be done with ease and believes that anyone can start healing themselves and find their dharma while they are at it.

Listen to the episode to learn more about Monica’s inspiring journey from self healer to professional health coach.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to get out of victim mode
• How to motivate people to change
• How to be patient with yourself

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Watch the Free Masterclass
• Connect with Monica
• Have a free Career Conversation

Show Highlights:

• Healing yourself from a chronic illness
• Experiencing the habits in your body
• From self healer to professional healer

Timestamps:

• 1:26 Finding your dharma from a place of discomfort
• 7:59 Transforming the difficult into easy
• 15:07 The journey from student to mentor
• 25:34 Being successful and experiencing ease

Guest Bio:

Monica is a certified Yoga Health Coach who loves to give back to the Yogahealer community. Being a Body Thrive Assistant first and a YHC peer mentor, an opportunity to give back to the community that changed her life.

Monica is also a Forrest Yoga and Mindfulness teacher. She recently moved back to Rome, her hometown, after living as an expat for 20 years in four continents. Traveling with her family, visiting new places, and learning from different cultures is what her kids and herself love. In her free time, she likes to read books, paint, use her hands to create handcrafts or recycle materials to make a piece of art, dance with the music of the 70 and 80 and walk in nature.

Monica has two grown children (a son 23 years old and a daughter 21 years old) and a son 9 years old. Her identity evolution is centered on nurturing herself so she can be present for her kids, lead with integrity and enjoy good connections in her relationships. She is responsible, always ready to listen and help others, and loves to honor her commitments.

Her growing edge is time management and project management so she can work more productively and have free time to do things she loves with her family and learn new tools for my identity evolution. The role of leadership of YHC empowered Monica and taught her how to connect with people at a deeper level to help them manifest their dharma.

Chronic inflammation is modern society’s greatest health threat. Studies state that three out of five people alive today will die due to chronic disease. But even though chronic inflammation can trigger genetic diseases, it is not in itself inevitable.

The habits from Body Thrive can work as a reminder of what you need to teach, as a coach, in order to effectively prevent and fight chronic inflammation. It will take a great deal of honesty, and some habit change, but chronic inflammation can be prevented both with physical, mental, and emotional habits.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about chronic inflammation, the power of mind over body, and the potential of easeful living.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to identify the habits that are a problem
• How responsibility can reorient you
• How challenges enable future ease

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Learn about chronic inflammation
• Listen more about not bouncing back
• More about the Find the Money Course
• Watch the free Masterclass

Show Highlights:

• Fear and worry acidify the blood faster than alcohol
• Thoughts and emotions influence the self
• Choosing to live outside the stress pattern

Timestamps:

• 2:24 Chronic Inflammation and its prevalence 
• 11:17 Honesty and the power of a breakthrough
• 19:01 The effects of mind over body
• 26:33 Easeful living as the potential



What challenges are you facing as a health coach? The path to becoming a successful coach is not always easy. There are many factors to consider when building a program that differentiates you from other coaches.

Sales are an incontornable side of coaching, and often the most challenging part of it. As a health coach, getting good at converting leads into sales, means you can help more people thrive, in their bodies and their minds.

Listen to learn more about falling in love with sales, getting prospects clear on their desires, and how to have hard conversations that change everything.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to understand your members’ challenges
• How to have the hard conversations
• How to better serve through sales

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• More about the Find the Money Course
• Watch the Free Masterclass
• The Closer’s Survival Guide by Grant Cardone
• The Metrics of Human Consciousness by Richard Barrett

Show Highlights:

• Cate reads about complexity from “The Metrics of Human Consciousness”
• Sales are about having hard conversations
• The better you get at sales the fewer leads you will need

Timestamps:

• 1:24 Asking your members what their challenges are
• 10:56 The worth of the change you offer your members
• 20:37 Building someone’s excitement and potentiality
• 28:30 Refusing to get good at sales is refusing to help more people



Over the past year, many yoga studios were forced to close their doors due to COVID-19. Being unable to teach in person, forced many yoga teachers to pivot online, unsure of how to create their own space and make a profit.

Having walked the same path herself, a decade ago, Cate knows how pivoting online can be a challenge when you compare yourself to the immensity of yoga teachers teaching online for free. Why would someone pay you for an experience they can have for free with someone else?

Listen to the podcast and learn more about setting yourself apart, making money online without any marketing experience, and leading your students to their health goals.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to make money online as a yoga teacher
• How to get clear on your career goals
• How to lead a group online

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• More about the Find the Money Course
• Watch the free Masterclass
• Schedule a free career conversation

Show Highlights:

• Embracing capitalism as well as the yogi path
• Getting students committed to their results
• Working online without being a marketing expert

Timestamps:

• 2:35 Making money in Yoga and doing your best work
• 12:07 Engaging your edge and nurturing your identity 
• 21:32 Addressing body and mind chronic inflammation
• 22:18 Designing a business model that gets people results
• 34:35 Introducing the habits that change everything

Intermittent fasting is becoming increasingly popular, but for all the yogis and yoginis out there intermittent fasting is not a new trend. In Ayurveda, we call it space eating and it is one of the pillars for a healthy life. Recently science caught up with the 4 millennia wisdom behind space-eating, and several studies have supported the health benefits of this practice.

For the past month, Cate has been joined by several members on the Yogahealer Challenge, a fast track program, specially designed to help people overcome mediocrity to become an exceptional person and lead an exceptional life. How? By reviving the habits that make us smarter and more vital humans, such as Intermittent Fasting.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about the Yogahealer Challenge, the benefits of intermittent fasting, and what foods you should be eating when breaking your fast.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to communicate clearly online
• How to develop a relationship with clients
• How to make the most of your skillset

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• More about the Find the Money Course
• Watch the free Masterclass
• Find out more about Jessica’s program

Show Highlights:

• The loneliness of leadership
• Overcoming money trauma
• Evolution and easeful living

Timestamps:

• 1:15 Communicating directly with your ideal client
• 5:16 Sales and developing relationships with clients
• 10:40 Understanding different communication styles
• 16:18 Utilizing your unique skillset

Guest Bio:

Jessica’s journey started in 2009 with an attempt to nurture a rock-climbing injury. While taking yoga classes, she experienced an endless adventure towards self-awareness aligned with nature’s rhythms. Having suffered and recovered from various sports injuries, Jessica has an understanding of how to offer what the body needs to recuperate.

In the last decade, she has completed workshops certifying for Physical Therapy Aide, Massage Therapy Aide, Certified Nursing Assistant, Yoga Heath Coaching, and over 200 hours of yoga teacher training. Coupling her love of habit evolution and body mechanics, she is passionate about coaching others through Ayurvedic principles towards their unique pursuit of an active and balanced lifestyle.

Outside of coaching, Jessica either spends family time in nature with her loving partner and son, creates wildcrafted art, tends to her plants, or dances.

After a career in biology and public health, Lesley Pereira turned to wellness after battling anxiety and postpartum depression. An overachiever, Lesley felt she was living by someone else’s  rules and not being true to herself.

She decided to join the Yoga Health Coaching program in order to help women who are having trouble managing their day to day anxiety, develop healthy habits. Lesley focuses her program on her members nervous system, and helping them achieve the necessary groundeness to achieve their goals.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about how about how women can overcome stress by becoming better at time management and adjusting to the different cycles of life.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to listen to your body and be true to yourself
• How to overcome anxiety with the right habits
• How to set the right goals

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Find out more about Lesley’s program
• More about the Find the Money Course
• Watch the Masterclass

Show Highlights:

• Listening to your body instead of external sources
• The pandemic’s effect on women and the household
• The connection between your menstrual cycle and your energy

Timestamps:

• 1:17 From overachiever to your true self
• 8:09 Focusing on the nervous system and being grounded
• 19:58 The importance of time management for anxiety

Guest Bio:

Ever since Lesley was a little kid, she felt a deep personal connection to nature. It’s always been her spiritual home- the forest, the lake, the trees, the sky, the animals. The woods by her house were where she went to feel safe, connected, creative, peaceful.

Lesley has also ALWAYS been a seeker, wanting to understand the bigger picture, digging down into the deeper root cause of it all. She has always been a connector, an “old soul”, empath, sensitive to energies, seeker of deeper connections and meaning, the one who people turn to to confide in for advice, guidance and processing, asking the hard questions and holding space with empathy.

Are you struggling with sales? Sales can be hard to master. Afterall, when dealing with sales, you are also dealing with rejection. But there are some steps you can take to successfully fill your program and make sales with ease.

The key to sales is learning to overcome your prospective client’s objections. And the most common objection is money. But is it that someone doesn’t have the money to invest in your program? Or that your program doesn’t feel like a priority to them?

Listen to the Yoga Health Coaching episode to learn how to overcome objections and how to ask the right questions.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to deal with sales objections
• How to ask the right questions
• What is the cost of not making a change?

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Find out more about Yvette’s work
• Learn more about the Find the Money Course
• Watch the free Masterclass

Show Highlights:

• Nurturing before making a sale
• Explaining the value of your program
• Speaking directly with the financial decision maker

Timestamps:

• 3:06 Understanding the objections behind the money objection
• 8:48 Taking someone deep into their desire
• 15:20 The cost of not investing in yourself
• 22:01 The Know, Like and Trust factor

Guest Bio:

Ivette grew up in a house where food was used to celebrate everything — birthdays, holidays, the first day of school. Her mother loved to cook, and Ivette loved to help, and also loved to eat. This is where her passion for food and cooking began.

As a teen with very little outlet for her own emotions, Ivette became an emotional eater. Chocolate was her go-to, she ate when anxious, and even when she was bored.

As life evolved, Ivette found herself at the center of her own family, very little focus went to prioritizing her needs. She managed the household, worked while still waking up for the 5am boot camp, volunteering for the school, and giving back to the community.

She woke up one morning and could not get out of bed – her body ached in extreme pain and she felt physically and mentally exhausted. All the stress, running around, eating sugar for energy, drinking caffeine to stay awake, and drinking wine to soothe had taken its toll on Ivette’s body.

I realized all the negative thoughts and food addictions contributed to low energy, gut issues, hormonal imbalances. She became a health coach and began helping women like herself prioritize themselves, slow down, nourish their bodies, and really, truly heal.

Natalie’s Yoga Health Coaching experience has been one of intensive growth and expansion. As a wilderness instructor and tiny house enthusiast, she entered YHC with a lot of limiting beliefs about money.

Now in her fourth quarter of YHC, Natalie is successfully enrolling people into her program and working on scaling her business. She has been leading her members to align to the habits, by using nature and her outdoors knowledge.

Even though her coaching plans had to be adjusted because of the pandemic, Natalie was able to create deep connections with her group, and the results have been incredible.

Listen to the episode to learn more about reconnecting to your why, creating a safe place for your members, and outsourcing tasks outside your zone of genius.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to reconnect to your why
• How to overcome limiting beliefs about money
• How to create connection online

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Learn more about the Find the Money Course
• Watch the Masterclass
• Learn more about Natalie’s Program

Show Highlights:

• The experience of growing out of your own skin
• Creating a safe place for people to be themselves
• Adjusting your course due to the pandemic

Timestamps:

• 3:25 Engaging in quality growth and expansion
• 8:12 Coaching Groups vs. Individual Coaching
• 15:54 Measuring impact and keeping to metrics
• 21:30 Outsourcing what you are not passionate about

Guest Bio:

Natalie is your go-to girl for vibrant health & simple living – as a certified Health Coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and YogaHealer and a Wilderness Instructor – she believes it is her mission to help willing individuals to get unstuck, regain their health, reset negative thinking and reduce anxiety so they can experience their own self-empowerment and intuition.

Today, Natalie helps people discover their ability to self heal through Yoga and Ayurveda, behavioral science, mind-body connection within a high-vibe community of others seeking the same balance.

Natalie is also a tiny house designer and builder who believes we are in collaboration with the Universe to create the lives of our dreams.

In 2014, Jill decided she was done with her corporate job as a party planner, she wanted to be a full-time yoga teacher. The road to a successful and fulfilling career as a wellness professional was, however, harder than she anticipated.
Feeling depleted, Jill decided to enter, once again, the corporate world. But it wasn’t long before she realized she couldn’t go on living a corporate life. That’s when she entered Yoga Health Coaching.
Two years on, Jill is living her dream life, and is the YHC Coach of the month. Listen to the podcast to learn how living the habits changed Jill’s life and led her to create a successful coaching business.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to transition from a corporate to a wellness career
• How to be comfortable experimenting with your business
• How to turn overwhelm into action

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Learn more about the Find the Money Course
• Jill’s website
• Jill’s Instagram

Show Highlights:

• Jill talks about her postpartum depression
• Jill shares how she is making her program evergreen
• Jill explains how saying no became a superpower

Timestamps:

• 1:24 From corporate mess to a successful Yoga Health Coach
• 10:16 Implementing Easefull Living and the Habits
• 21:50 Experimenting and adjusting your business
• 32:41 Advice for people contemplating joining YHC

Guest Bio:

Jill is a yoga teacher, certified yoga health coach, and soon-to-be mom of 3. Her mothering journey began with burn out, postpartum depression and anxiety, and tons of mom guilt as she fell into the common trap of feeling like being a mom meant being a martyr.
Reconnecting to her yoga practice, incorporating Ayurveda into her daily routine, and connecting with women who were also putting themselves back on the radar were the keys to healing and reconnecting with her own power and desires. Her company Life By The Moon is what came of this transformation from burnt out cog in the wheel to creatrix of a life driven by passion and joy.
She walks with women as they awaken to their innate ability to be energized and vibrant in their bodies, patient and loving with their families, passionate in their work, connected and trusting of their intuition, delighted in the playful curiosity of wondering how GOOD life can be, and choosing a daily experience in full alignment with their own power and desires.