752. Hot Seat: Retreat with Meg

Fearlessly Failing Hot Seat with Yogi Meg

Can you handle the heat? In this rapid-fire episode, podcast host Lola grills rising yoga teacher Meg with quick questions to uncover her most honest thoughts on life, laughs, and finding your unique voice. Get ready for lots of gems dropped at warp speed.

1:23 - Meg shares her favorite city (LA!) and nature escape (Joshua Tree). Both places align with the retreat location.

2:45 - Honesty and communication are non-negotiables for Meg in relationships. She can't stand avoidance and flaky behavior.

4:12 - TikTok cracks Meg up lately. Humans are frustrating yet hilarious.

5:34 - Legs up the wall is Meg's go-to yoga pose for a chill nervous system reset.

7:01 - Advice for new teachers: find your unique voice and style. Confidence comes from teaching in your own way.

8:22 - Having head teachers watch your class is nerve-wracking! But focus on your students and it'll go smoothly.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to Fearlessly Failing hot Seat. In this EPP, I
fire rapid questions at one of our fearlessly failing guests.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
PS.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm not so good
at the rapid part. I get too intrigued by the
awesome answers. Now a new app is going to drop
every Wednesday, so enjoy this shortest style episode of Fearlessly
Failing Hot Seat. Welcome to the hot Seat, Yogi, Meg,
Can I call you that?

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Absolutely? Okay? Do you have a favorite city city? Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:36):
Man, that's so hard. I've done a lot of traveling
in my life. Oh yeah, I mean it's so hard,
but La is probably it's just.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Home for me. Really. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I love la I love all the diversity. I love
all the different foods. I love the different areas of
the city. It's a very special place. I also love
to leave it though, Yeah, so you know, who knows?

Speaker 2 (01:05):
What about?

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Do you have a favorite nature spot or a place
you go to experience nature?

Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, Joshua Tree is one of my is genuinely one
of my favorite places to escape the city. Even if
I wasn't in California, I would probably still want to come.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Back because it's just so special and so beautiful there.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Well, that's a nice segue. That's where our retreat is.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Is where our retreat is.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
That's part of the reason why I think both you
and I separately have such a bond with that space.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
So that's part of the reason why we chose it.
And what is the discount code for anyone that books this?

Speaker 3 (01:42):
By the way, everyone, if you want to book it
is chill fifty to get fifty dollars off this week only?

Speaker 2 (01:49):
How good do you have? A non negotiable honesty? Oh? Yeah,
that's my way? And communication? Yeah right?

Speaker 3 (02:00):
That for me, it's not about like I think a
lot of people when it comes to communication that their
issue is they don't want to let people down.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
I'm not.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
I don't mind being let down. I'm like, I'll get
over that. I just want communication and honesty. Yeah, I'd
rather be let down and you communicate and be honest.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Yeah, I agree, you know, I feel you on that one.
I have a motto and it's to be relentlessly honest. Yes,
And if I'm ever nervous about something or apprehensive, I'll
just like think of that and be like it's niver
gonna let you down.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think that's why we connected from the beginning.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
It was because we're both so honest and so like
that is such a value for both of us that
we were like, okay, yeah, we vibe.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, what is something? And I told you that I
wrote this questions for you. I want something that annoys you.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
People who are not honest, people who are flaky.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Like, I just think that we are not here for
very long, and we owe it to ourselves especially and
to everyone else to just be fully authentically ourselves. So
for me, it is it drives me crazy when I
am around people who are not that, because I'm like, what,

(03:22):
who are you pretending for?

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Like, what are we doing here?

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Why are we even Like, what is the point of
all of this if we're not honest, if we're not
authentically ourselves?

Speaker 2 (03:31):
Yeah I feel yeah that and fuck boys, Yeah that's
would be healthy. But who doesn't.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
What is something that makes you laugh or has made
you laugh recently?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Man?

Speaker 3 (03:47):
You know, I love TikTok because of the for that reason.
Sometimes when I'm just frustrated, I just go on TikTok
for laughs, Because as much as humans might be so frustrating,
and annoying.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
We're also so fucking cool and funny.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Yeah, so, I just I love going on on YouTube
or I mean anytime we're together.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
Honestly, I feel like we're always laughing.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
We like this is bas let's fix this, Let's do this,
solve all the world's problems. Okay, do you have a
favorite yoga pose?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Oh yeah, legs up the wall, hands down? Oh fair.
I could do it anytime anywhere. Not enough. I don't
teach it either. It's hard because well, you need what
you would like wolves.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
You like walls essentially. I mean I do have people
lift their legs up a lot.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I do.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
I will say I do that a lot, But personally
it's my it's my absolute favorite.

Speaker 2 (04:48):
It's the nervous system effect.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah and yeah, and it's just good to like it's
technically an inversion.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's like you're getting the same effects of an inversion. Nice.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
I always say when I teach legs up the wall
or like waterfall, legs in the air, I'm like, all right, guys,
let's get into this parasitic, pathetic, nervous system.

Speaker 2 (05:09):
I'm like, no one knows what you're.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Saying, Lola, And so I go this is the pose
that will help you sleep well tonight, because it's like
the thing that just brings out, brings everything kind of
like down and beah still like a spicy post.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
I definitely, I know. I teach my classes.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
I feel like I have pretty challenging classes, but ultimately
at the end of the day, I'm such a like
chill vibes person, like, yeah, there's my jam breath work,
like very chill, relaxed.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
Well. I think the coolest thing about those style of
classes is you get to see such a difference from
the before when people walk into the room on their phone,
stressed out, running late, and then when they walk out
of the room they can barely talk to you because
they're so like Zen and Yogi Stone that it took
me ages to get used to that with Yin because.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
I'm like, do they not lock me? And then I'm like,
oh no, it's they're just wrapped, yeah, literally floating out
of here.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
What advice do you have for someone that might have
justinished their first teat they want to be a yoga teacher,
but it all feels a little bit scary. The thought
of going from being a student to a teacher feels
a little bit much.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yeah, I think I would give this advice to anybody.
But ultimately is just finding your own voice. I think,
especially when you're first starting out at something, you're wanting
to mimic what you see or what you like of others,
which I think obviously that's how we find our voice.

(06:41):
But if we focus too much on Okay, this is
what yoga, this is what I think a yogi looks like,
and this is how they talk, and then I need
to talk like this, It's like that really doesn't help
us at all. I think it's super important for us
to really find our voice. How do you like saying
through certain things? What transitions do you like to do? Like,

(07:01):
we don't have to fit the same template as everyone else,
you know, Like there's so much that you can do
with yoga. So really just like finding your own voice,
finding your own way to sequence finding, you know, finding Like,
if you really really love music, then then really play

(07:22):
with music. If you really love astrology, bring astrology into
into your teaching. If you really love philosophy, talk more
about philosophy, you know, really finding your own unique way
of expressing it.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
And I think that off the back of that, because
I'm whenever a yoga teacher auditions or anything.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'm always looking for confidence.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
And I think when you found your own voice, figured
out the way that you love to teach, like what
the way you like to sequence music, all that totally,
then you're going to feel confident to be like, hey, yeah,
I do love what I'm doing right now. I feel
like I'm putting putting together a really great space for
people to move and feel connected.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
You can feel that in the teacher's voice when they're
really and even if it's like a set sequence. Some
teachers have set sequences, but you can feel when they're
really confident in sharing that information right, Absolutely, And I
think to me that's the difference between I truly difference
between a good teacher and a not as good teachers
is down to, yes, finding the voice, and then further

(08:21):
than that is.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
The confidence piece.

Speaker 1 (08:23):
Absolutely, because if you're confident, you're going to be clean
and be concise, You're going to have got the study
underneath to.

Speaker 2 (08:28):
Know like anatomy and whatnot.

Speaker 1 (08:31):
Which is my weakest point, but I still always teach confident.
I'm just like, nah, yeah, these people need to feel safe.

Speaker 3 (08:37):
Yeah, No, absolutely, the confidence piece is huge students can
feel that.

Speaker 2 (08:41):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, big time.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
And how hard is it when you're teaching and a
teacher sneaks into your room and you're like no, no,
because you get so I get scared that I'm being judged.
Like my last day I caught I had like a
head teacher in my class, and I was like, yeah,
give me feedback.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yeah, I'm like, it depends if I'm being judged. It's
a different thing.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
But yeah, yes, it's a hard one. But yeah, so Meg,
I could talk to you all day long now.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Thank you so much, lovely, thank you so much much
to the listener. If you want to come join our retreat,
use the code Chill fifty and that'll get your fifty
buckos off. Yeah all right, big love Bye