May 12, 2025 • 21 mins
The journey from burnout to vibrant health is rarely a straight line, but Kavita's transformation from investment banker to wellness advocate offers a roadmap worth following. When her son began habitually completing her sentences with "tired," she realized she didn't want exhaustion to define her legacy. This moment sparked a profound shift in how she defined success – prioritizing feeling amazing over financial achievement.
What followed was an exploration into natural healing modalities that began with essential oils and expanded into yoga, Ayurveda, and aromatherapy. As Kavita experienced the transformative benefits of these practices, she recognized a critical gap in wellness resources for women in midlife. The hormonal changes of perimenopause and menopause create unique challenges that had long gone unaddressed in mainstream healthcare conversations.
This realization birthed Vibes Tribe, a platform specifically designed for midlife women seeking natural approaches to anxiety, inflammation, and hormonal balance. In just over a year, the community has grown to nearly 8,500 members who access hundreds of classes across various modalities, from breathwork to Ayurvedic medicine. What sets Vibes Tribe apart is their commitment to authenticity – every class and teacher undergoes rigorous vetting by the team who personally experiences each offering before sharing it with members.
The results speak volumes. Members report life-changing benefits from simple daily practices: one woman overcame debilitating anxiety through breathwork, another eliminated prescription medications by following an anti-inflammatory diet. Perhaps most importantly, the platform provides community validation that many midlife symptoms aren't imagined – they're real, shared experiences that can be addressed with the right tools and support.
Ready to redefine your relationship with vitality? Visit vibestribeco.com for a free ticket to their monthly workshop or join their "Holistic Anxiety Relief for Women" Facebook group to connect with like-minded women on similar journeys.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Well, hello and welcome back to the Healthy
Living Podcast.
My name is Joe Grumbine, yourhost, and today I have a very
special guest and her name isKavita, which is a very
interesting name and I love it,and we've got a great story once
again of transformation.
She came from an investmentbanking background and she went
(00:25):
through her own personal journeyof health, healing and health
and you know that's where we tieinto this podcast and she's got
certified in yoga, ayurveda,aromatherapy and much more.
Kavita, welcome to the show.
How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Good, good.
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Welcome to the show.
How are you doing today?
Good, good.
Thank you so much for having me.
Well, it's always a pleasure.
I love to hear people's storiesto health, and we've all got
such a unique one.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'd sure love to hear yours.
Yeah, absolutely so.
You know, I spent the firstpart of my I would say life in
hustle mode, which, you know, atthe time was like a badge I
wore of honor, like, yeah, Ionly slept four hours last night
because I was working I'm socool, you know and that really
dictated, I think, a lot of whathappened to my health, which is
(01:15):
to say that I drank more coffeethan water and I maybe in 10
years, had five home cookedmeals.
So really just set up aotherwise very healthy mind and
body for disaster.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Absolutely.
I think we've.
Many of us have been there,that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Right, but at the time, you know, there wasn't
that much knowledge.
You know, I feel like or maybeit's as I got into the industry
there was a lot more knowledge,but at the moment I, it was like
I was like why is this bad?
Why is this lifestyle not theright way to live?
I was like why is this bad?
Why is this lifestyle not theright way to live?
And I think I just I had thismoment when my son actually said
(01:52):
he they started completing mysentences and I'd be like, oh,
I'm, and they're like, let meguess, tired and I'm like that's
not how I want to be remembered.
I don't want to be remembered astired, and I think I just
shifted my goal from or reallymy definition of success, from
making the most amount of moneyor fame, if you will to just
feeling amazing.
So I just made that my new goal, and that's where all the
(02:14):
certifications came in, becauseI was like I actually care more
about feeling amazing andvibrant and energetic than I do
about anything else, not to sayI don't care about those other
things but they became secondaryand this became the new goal.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So where did you start?
You're in this corporate world,you're in this grind, you've
got a kid, whatever else youhave going on in your life and
then, all of a sudden, did youalways have experience with this
other stuff?
Or did it all of a sudden youread a book or saw a sign, or
what happened?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, no, nothing Like I said, I lived the most
non-organic, non-healthylifestyle.
What happened is I sort of hadthis moment of you know I don't
know if you want to call itbreakdown or whatever it was,
but I sort of rage quit and Iwas sort of one of those people
also probably still am who Iwould have conversations with
(03:08):
random people all the time.
And so I ended up meeting thiswoman and I was telling her how
I always was tired and I wasforgetting things all the time
and I had post-it notes and Ijust had this crazy brain fog
and lack of clarity and I didn'tknow what was going on and all
my blood work was reflecting avery healthy and different story
from what I was actuallyfeeling.
And so she introduced me to abotanist who lived in an
(03:30):
adjacent town, who had abusiness in the essential oil
world, and so that was my firstintro into sort of a natural,
healthy living.
Now, of course, as a botanist,she had a whole very healthy
lifestyle, but you know, myfirst intro was really into oils
and even though I had thembefore, I never really
understood the difference thatformulation makes.
So essential oils can really bea form of medicine, and so
(03:53):
whatever she created for me, Istarted to already feel better
within a couple months and hercompany needed some help.
So it kind of just worked thatI came and ended up taking a job
working as her CEO and learning, and that's where my first
certification in aromatherapycame in.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Wow.
So you had a beautiful weavingof your experience with this
thing that you needed and youwere able to really get immersed
in it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Exactly, exactly.
And then, once I started tofeel a little better, like I
said, as I shifted thatdefinition of what success
looked like, I just, you know, Istarted to explore yoga and
Ayurveda and really come back tomy roots, as I'm Indian by you
know, cultural but none of thisreally was appealing until I was
like, wow, I feel so good, Likethis is why all those yoga
(04:44):
hippies are so like happy.
There's something to it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Absolutely so.
So from this point now you'renow you're running a company
that's doing the thing that'shelping you.
Where do we go from here?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, exactly.
So I think I felt like all thisinformation was so disjointed
and I really had to go out andlearn and get all these
different certifications andseek out, and I felt like there
needed to be a platform thatmade it that all easier, and so
that's where the idea for VibesTribe came in, and what's great
is I get to continually collectamazing teachers and learn about
(05:19):
these different modalities,because what works for one
person might not work foranother.
I know, on my journey I met arunner and I tried running and I
think I like killed my adrenals, like it was a total disaster
for me, but for her it wasamazing.
It brought her so much energy,and so I do really think that
people need to experiment withwhat works for their energy and
(05:39):
their body and find what worksfor you, because sometimes the
first thing you try doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Isn't that bizarre?
How you know, in this healthworld, I put quotes around it
because there's so manycharlatans and people that and
right in the midst of thesincere people that are actually
doing the healing, and yetthere isn't a one hit wonder.
There isn't one answer foreverybody.
You know, one person findsbeauty and relief in one thing,
(06:07):
the next person finds it toxic.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Correct, correct, exactly Like even with the oil.
Some people swear theyshouldn't have it in their skin
products and I swear that thatshould, you should bathe in it
with the proper solution, right.
So it just.
I think the important thing isto look at it as with some joy
and fun and say, okay, I'm goingto try.
And it's like something coolwhich you know you get to a
certain age, how many cool newthings you get to try.
(06:30):
So it's like I'm going to trythis modality.
The other day I was feeling verystuck in my house in terms of
like how it was, and we actuallyjust had a feng shui expert
come in to help create calmenvironments and sacred spaces,
and so it was just a fun new wayto look at cleaning my house,
which I had to do but didn'twant to, and it made it fun and
I did feel better, right, likeenergetically.
(06:51):
Once everything was clear andflowing, I felt better as well.
So I think it's just that kindof thing where it's bringing in
new modalities for fun,experimentation and then seeing
what works best for you.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Nice, so tell me about this project.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
About Vibes Tribe.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, so you know, it started because, again, I felt
like there was this need tobring a platform together, and
it is for women in midlife,because I do feel that there is
a unique set of needs in ourhealth that happens that's never
been addressed, like no one,not for very, very long time,
did even people talk aboutmenopause or what was happening
(07:29):
to our brain and body duringthis time, and so I felt like
bringing in all those resources,especially a lot of the
different natural modalitieslike breath work and meditations
and even like more gentle yoga,specifically for it was going
to be really important tokeeping women sane, because I've
really seen a lot of friendslike going crazy, right, because
(07:52):
your brain, it really affectsthe brain and it causes anxiety.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You get to a certain age where it all comes flying
apart, right.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
All of a sudden you're like, oh, like I feel
like I'm going through you knowthe beginning of hormones all
over again.
Right, like I'm a teenager.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Only the bad way, yeah over again.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
right, like I'm a teenager.
Yeah, exactly.
So I just saw that there wasreally this need to help people
recenter reclarify, get theirpurpose and do it in a way that
was really dictated for them.
Like you know, women speakingto women of the same age kind of
experience sharing, as well asproviding all these different
tools, and so the project is tocontinue to grow that platform
(08:34):
so that those voices can beamplified and brought to the
right audience.
What's great is it's beengrowing amazing.
We're almost at eight and ahalf thousand members.
Yeah, so it's.
I think that the need wasclearly there.
I was not the only person, andmy friends are not all the
people going crazy in this stageof life.
How does it work?
(08:55):
Is it a website?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It's a place.
How's it go?
To hundreds of different typesof classes and modalities, as
well as different affirmationand positive products and we
call it the pink rebate.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So instead of things being expensive, we sell them
basically at cost we can do as apart of the membership.
So just kind of reminders thatyou know we're stronger than the
storm, it's one of our bestselling shirts and that sort of
thing to keep the positivity.
Because, like I said, I thinkit's very easy to get in your
head when you're a little bitimbalanced and kind of go down
(09:36):
this windfall.
I know that that was happeningwith me.
I was making kind of mountainsout of moleholes, right,
everything was overwhelming.
Preparing meals for the weekwas overwhelming, and so trying
to bring back that sort ofclarity and that like balance of
like okay, it's not that big ofa deal, it's more that I'm not
in balance, I'm not grounded.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
So, as somebody who's dealing with a platform like
this, you get approached bypeople all the time and, as I
was saying, there's good peopleand bad people.
What do you do to sort offilter out?
You know, how do you raise thebar and keep it with this
product.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, so one the experts that I take is mostly
only, I would say, on referralor somebody we've like seeked
out because we really like lovetheir, what they're teaching.
I'm big on education.
I feel like you have to studythe matter to be talking about
it, and then we take andexperience the classes as a team
to see if we feel like whatthey're saying works, because
(10:36):
look, a lot of these-.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You push yourself in the actual product before you
just go and-.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Correct, exactly.
So we'll take the course, we'llgo through it, we'll discuss
did we feel like it was helpful?
Is it going to be useful to ourmembers?
And then, if it is, if theanswer is yes, then we put it on
, and it's not just like yes,it's like a hell, yes, yeah,
yeah, good, good.
This is a definite greataddition, and we have multiple
people on the team.
Do it because, like I said, noteverything works for everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, and I think that's really important.
You know, it's a, in some ways,you, you let a team guide
things and you just drift around, but at the other side, if you
have some leadership and a team,you can actually stake a course
and go down it and maintain it,and I think that there's real
power in that.
(11:24):
I like what I'm hearing.
You know, we didn't really knoweach other much before you came
on and I said, well, let's just, let's just learn this as we're
going.
And I think a lot of the thingsthat I like to talk about have
to do with the holistic approach, rather than a single minded
answer to things.
You know, Western medicinelikes these single molecule
(11:45):
answers for everything, and youknow, in certain cases it works.
But then they try to put it allin this giant envelope and say,
well, it'll work for you, it'llwork for all these people.
And then you have all theseproblems that come whereas a
holistic approach.
You take the problem and yousay, well, let's see what might
fit in that, and you have allthese things and you start to I
(12:05):
don't know operate with a littlecommon sense.
And so from now, from theclient point of view, I suspect
you've had a lot of growth.
How did it all begin?
Tell me about some of yourfirst clients that came through.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I mean, my first clients were friends, so it was
like it was friends and family.
And then we sort of spread word.
We have a Facebook group whereit's called holistic anxiety,
and so through that we reallygrew pretty quickly because we
were offering live breath work,live classes so people could
experience some of the expertsand teachers that we had.
And then again, it's likewhatever resonated and then we
(12:43):
kept the price really affordablebecause, again, we wanted
people to be able to.
It was really this plight of Iwant everyone to have this,
these tools, because I feel likeas a world and society we will
just all be better off if we'rea little bit more grounded and a
little less reactive.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Absolutely so.
It's growing organically.
You go from a Facebook group.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, we run ads now too.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
but yes, right, right right, but I'm just trying to
walk through it and then at onepoint, you create this platform.
Now, that's a nightmare to alot of people.
I mean, there's so manyplatforms and I don't know, I
don't know how many webmastersin my life, and most of them
have been a disaster.
How do you, how did you find ayou know, a system that worked
(13:33):
for you?
I mean, it's a little technical, but it's kind of important to
me anyways.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Sure, well, I'm all about, you know, using tools
that are already out there.
I'm not trying to reinvent thewheel.
So we host the platform onkajabi, which is a online
platform to help host classesnice things like that so it's
really great.
It can be interactive and so Ithink some of the teachers have
like quizzes and pdf downloadsand you know different things,
but I again, not aboutreinventing that's good.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Get something that works and just use it yeah
exactly, exactly I suspect youprobably got some stories that
just are remarkable.
You know, when you, when youdeal with a group of people
which is I don't know half theworld's population, and then you
deal with a subset of thatpeople, which is maybe an eighth
of the world's population, youprobably have some dramatic
(14:23):
impact.
You know, when you deal withsomething like menopause and you
know you add to it all thelife's traumas and issues, I
suspect you probably have sometransformative stories.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, no, it's been.
It's been truly amazing towatch.
You know, we had one member sayit was sort of her last chance,
like she.
It was like she was completelylost.
And I think we we do do amonthly free workshop where
anyone can kind of come on andwe coach and provide it.
(14:55):
And so you know, she joined thebreathwork class and she said
that she literally couldn't.
She was always shallowbreathing, like she couldn't
take a deep breath.
She was so anxious all the timeand just had like really lost a
lot of hope in life.
And through just the breathworkclasses she's like I was, I was
finally able to clear thatweight, you know, and it wasn't
(15:17):
like oh, now I'm all better, butshe was like I now feel like I
understand the steps I need totake to get better.
And I think to me that was justone of those examples of like
it doesn't have to be a lot, itdoesn't have to take hours,
right, it's a matter of taking10 minutes a day, committing to
doing that for yourself.
Just honoring that commitmentkind of feeds a cycle of belief
(15:39):
in yourself, right and then andfeeling better.
And we have the same thing withsomeone who is really, really in
a lot of pain, and we have aAyurvedic doctor who talks about
inflammation and how to reliefit on our platform as well, and
through her diet program thatshe had suggested she was out of
pain, like she was off allprescription meds.
Like I thought that was soincredible to be able to do it
(16:01):
naturally.
So there are so many sort ofheart touching stories and
what's great is people also findsupport with each other.
Like it's like, oh my God, I'mdepressed and anxious, and
someone will be like yeah, metoo, but I don't know why.
Like I don't know why either.
Like nothing in my lifesuggests that I should be this
way.
I just am.
And so I think just providingthat thing of it's OK, wherever
(16:21):
you are, it's OK, but what isthe next step forward?
Like what's the next positivestep you can take?
And don't do it alone, do it incommunity, do it with other
people and other women.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But you have group sessions where different clients
are able to interact.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Absolutely yeah.
So once a month we do a livesort of community workshop where
people can come on and they canget coached if they want.
We'll do a breakout room if wefeel like we need to help a
certain subsect, but if not,it's really just leading through
one of the modalities thatwe're teaching.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I find that to be some of the most powerful tools
and, as a person who's in aninstructor role or an admin role
, I think you can often gain alot of insight as to what the
group needs as far as directionor you know.
Sometimes you learn a thingyourself that would be kind of.
My next thing is you'veprobably had some epiphanies
(17:17):
through this.
Why don't you share somethingthat you've gained?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, I mean I learned.
I learned so much from thecommunity and the teachers.
I would say one of the biggestthings I learned is I didn't
have from the community and theteachers.
I would say one of the biggestthings I learned is I didn't
have the best morning routineand I know everyone talks about
it being like the pivotal thing,but it really was for me.
So changing to do a little bitof.
I always meditated a little bit, but more like intentional.
(17:43):
And with journaling I felt likethat was, and we have a
journaling course that I'd takenfrom Dan and who who does a lot
of the classes, and I justfound it to be, you know, super,
super illuminating on what'sreally important and what I'm
really worried about, cause sooften we think we're worried
about one thing but then when westart going down the path of
(18:04):
journaling, all the differentcomponents were like, oh no,
it's actually that I'm worriedabout this, right, like it's
actually-.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Good to hear you more .
When I consult clients, that'sgenerally the first thing I say
is well, let's figure out whereyou're at, start writing it down
.
And then, all of a sudden,people are if they do it, it's
more work than most people willdo.
But if you do, it will do.
But if you do it all of asudden, you're like, oh wow, I
didn't see that and and you knowit's.
(18:30):
It's a powerful, powerful tool.
So you've been at this for howlong?
When did this begin?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
This has been so.
I mean I've been on the healthjourney for a longer, but Vibes
Tribe's been a little over ayear.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh, okay, wow, that's a that's.
It's moving quick.
So where do you see?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
where it's moving quick so where do you see it
headed?
You know the goal is to be thenumber one trusted platform for
women in midlife.
So I also get a lot of is.
Sometimes even I get lazy withwhat it is and the joy and
sometimes I get that reminder oflike wow, this works Right.
So every time someone's like,oh my God, I feel so much better
, you're like, oh yeah, likethis works If the goal is to be
(19:21):
vibrant and live a vibrant,healthy life, you know,
practicing different natural,healthy modalities works.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I love it.
I love it.
Well, this is that magic momentwhere you get to give your
pitch and let everybody know.
How do you find this vibe tribe?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, so it's a vibes tribeco and on our website
there is a link for a freeticket and you can join our
monthly event.
That way it's always a greatway to kind of get an intro into
the tribe.
Or you can join our Facebookgroup and obviously you'll be
all in the know there as well,which is holistic anxiety relief
for women.
But those are the two placesand I'd love to see everybody.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Beautiful, beautiful.
Well, Kavita, it's been anabsolute pleasure to have this
conversation and I would have tosay I would highly recommend.
If I was a menopausal woman, Iwould definitely want to
investigate this, but certainlyI know plenty of you and I would
I would highly encourage it.
Well you.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Beautiful.
This has been the HealthyLiving Podcast.
Again, I'm your host, JoeGrumbine, and we will see you
next time.
Well, hello and welcome back to the Healthy
Living Podcast.
My name is Joe Grumbine, yourhost, and today I have a very
special guest and her name isKavita, which is a very
interesting name and I love it,and we've got a great story once
again of transformation.
She came from an investmentbanking background and she went
(00:25):
through her own personal journeyof health, healing and health
and you know that's where we tieinto this podcast and she's got
certified in yoga, ayurveda,aromatherapy and much more.
Kavita, welcome to the show.
How are you doing today?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Good, good.
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Welcome to the show.
How are you doing today?
Good, good.
Thank you so much for having me.
Well, it's always a pleasure.
I love to hear people's storiesto health, and we've all got
such a unique one.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I'd sure love to hear yours.
Yeah, absolutely so.
You know, I spent the firstpart of my I would say life in
hustle mode, which, you know, atthe time was like a badge I
wore of honor, like, yeah, Ionly slept four hours last night
because I was working I'm socool, you know and that really
dictated, I think, a lot of whathappened to my health, which is
(01:15):
to say that I drank more coffeethan water and I maybe in 10
years, had five home cookedmeals.
So really just set up aotherwise very healthy mind and
body for disaster.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Absolutely.
I think we've.
Many of us have been there,that's for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Right, but at the time, you know, there wasn't
that much knowledge.
You know, I feel like or maybeit's as I got into the industry
there was a lot more knowledge,but at the moment I, it was like
I was like why is this bad?
Why is this lifestyle not theright way to live?
I was like why is this bad?
Why is this lifestyle not theright way to live?
And I think I just I had thismoment when my son actually said
(01:52):
he they started completing mysentences and I'd be like, oh,
I'm, and they're like, let meguess, tired and I'm like that's
not how I want to be remembered.
I don't want to be remembered astired, and I think I just
shifted my goal from or reallymy definition of success, from
making the most amount of moneyor fame, if you will to just
feeling amazing.
So I just made that my new goal, and that's where all the
(02:14):
certifications came in, becauseI was like I actually care more
about feeling amazing andvibrant and energetic than I do
about anything else, not to sayI don't care about those other
things but they became secondaryand this became the new goal.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So where did you start?
You're in this corporate world,you're in this grind, you've
got a kid, whatever else youhave going on in your life and
then, all of a sudden, did youalways have experience with this
other stuff?
Or did it all of a sudden youread a book or saw a sign, or
what happened?
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, no, nothing Like I said, I lived the most
non-organic, non-healthylifestyle.
What happened is I sort of hadthis moment of you know I don't
know if you want to call itbreakdown or whatever it was,
but I sort of rage quit and Iwas sort of one of those people
also probably still am who Iwould have conversations with
(03:08):
random people all the time.
And so I ended up meeting thiswoman and I was telling her how
I always was tired and I wasforgetting things all the time
and I had post-it notes and Ijust had this crazy brain fog
and lack of clarity and I didn'tknow what was going on and all
my blood work was reflecting avery healthy and different story
from what I was actuallyfeeling.
And so she introduced me to abotanist who lived in an
(03:30):
adjacent town, who had abusiness in the essential oil
world, and so that was my firstintro into sort of a natural,
healthy living.
Now, of course, as a botanist,she had a whole very healthy
lifestyle, but you know, myfirst intro was really into oils
and even though I had thembefore, I never really
understood the difference thatformulation makes.
So essential oils can really bea form of medicine, and so
(03:53):
whatever she created for me, Istarted to already feel better
within a couple months and hercompany needed some help.
So it kind of just worked thatI came and ended up taking a job
working as her CEO and learning, and that's where my first
certification in aromatherapycame in.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Wow.
So you had a beautiful weavingof your experience with this
thing that you needed and youwere able to really get immersed
in it.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
Exactly, exactly.
And then, once I started tofeel a little better, like I
said, as I shifted thatdefinition of what success
looked like, I just, you know, Istarted to explore yoga and
Ayurveda and really come back tomy roots, as I'm Indian by you
know, cultural but none of thisreally was appealing until I was
like, wow, I feel so good, Likethis is why all those yoga
(04:44):
hippies are so like happy.
There's something to it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Absolutely so.
So from this point now you'renow you're running a company
that's doing the thing that'shelping you.
Where do we go from here?
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, exactly.
So I think I felt like all thisinformation was so disjointed
and I really had to go out andlearn and get all these
different certifications andseek out, and I felt like there
needed to be a platform thatmade it that all easier, and so
that's where the idea for VibesTribe came in, and what's great
is I get to continually collectamazing teachers and learn about
(05:19):
these different modalities,because what works for one
person might not work foranother.
I know, on my journey I met arunner and I tried running and I
think I like killed my adrenals, like it was a total disaster
for me, but for her it wasamazing.
It brought her so much energy,and so I do really think that
people need to experiment withwhat works for their energy and
(05:39):
their body and find what worksfor you, because sometimes the
first thing you try doesn't.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Isn't that bizarre?
How you know, in this healthworld, I put quotes around it
because there's so manycharlatans and people that and
right in the midst of thesincere people that are actually
doing the healing, and yetthere isn't a one hit wonder.
There isn't one answer foreverybody.
You know, one person findsbeauty and relief in one thing,
(06:07):
the next person finds it toxic.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Correct, correct, exactly Like even with the oil.
Some people swear theyshouldn't have it in their skin
products and I swear that thatshould, you should bathe in it
with the proper solution, right.
So it just.
I think the important thing isto look at it as with some joy
and fun and say, okay, I'm goingto try.
And it's like something coolwhich you know you get to a
certain age, how many cool newthings you get to try.
(06:30):
So it's like I'm going to trythis modality.
The other day I was feeling verystuck in my house in terms of
like how it was, and we actuallyjust had a feng shui expert
come in to help create calmenvironments and sacred spaces,
and so it was just a fun new wayto look at cleaning my house,
which I had to do but didn'twant to, and it made it fun and
I did feel better, right, likeenergetically.
(06:51):
Once everything was clear andflowing, I felt better as well.
So I think it's just that kindof thing where it's bringing in
new modalities for fun,experimentation and then seeing
what works best for you.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Nice, so tell me about this project.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
About Vibes Tribe.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, so you know, it started because, again, I felt
like there was this need tobring a platform together, and
it is for women in midlife,because I do feel that there is
a unique set of needs in ourhealth that happens that's never
been addressed, like no one,not for very, very long time,
did even people talk aboutmenopause or what was happening
(07:29):
to our brain and body duringthis time, and so I felt like
bringing in all those resources,especially a lot of the
different natural modalitieslike breath work and meditations
and even like more gentle yoga,specifically for it was going
to be really important tokeeping women sane, because I've
really seen a lot of friendslike going crazy, right, because
(07:52):
your brain, it really affectsthe brain and it causes anxiety.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
You get to a certain age where it all comes flying
apart, right.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
All of a sudden you're like, oh, like I feel
like I'm going through you knowthe beginning of hormones all
over again.
Right, like I'm a teenager.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Only the bad way, yeah over again.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
right, like I'm a teenager.
Yeah, exactly.
So I just saw that there wasreally this need to help people
recenter reclarify, get theirpurpose and do it in a way that
was really dictated for them.
Like you know, women speakingto women of the same age kind of
experience sharing, as well asproviding all these different
tools, and so the project is tocontinue to grow that platform
(08:34):
so that those voices can beamplified and brought to the
right audience.
What's great is it's beengrowing amazing.
We're almost at eight and ahalf thousand members.
Yeah, so it's.
I think that the need wasclearly there.
I was not the only person, andmy friends are not all the
people going crazy in this stageof life.
How does it work?
(08:55):
Is it a website?
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It's a place.
How's it go?
To hundreds of different typesof classes and modalities, as
well as different affirmationand positive products and we
call it the pink rebate.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
So instead of things being expensive, we sell them
basically at cost we can do as apart of the membership.
So just kind of reminders thatyou know we're stronger than the
storm, it's one of our bestselling shirts and that sort of
thing to keep the positivity.
Because, like I said, I thinkit's very easy to get in your
head when you're a little bitimbalanced and kind of go down
(09:36):
this windfall.
I know that that was happeningwith me.
I was making kind of mountainsout of moleholes, right,
everything was overwhelming.
Preparing meals for the weekwas overwhelming, and so trying
to bring back that sort ofclarity and that like balance of
like okay, it's not that big ofa deal, it's more that I'm not
in balance, I'm not grounded.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
So, as somebody who's dealing with a platform like
this, you get approached bypeople all the time and, as I
was saying, there's good peopleand bad people.
What do you do to sort offilter out?
You know, how do you raise thebar and keep it with this
product.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Yeah, so one the experts that I take is mostly
only, I would say, on referralor somebody we've like seeked
out because we really like lovetheir, what they're teaching.
I'm big on education.
I feel like you have to studythe matter to be talking about
it, and then we take andexperience the classes as a team
to see if we feel like whatthey're saying works, because
(10:36):
look, a lot of these-.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
You push yourself in the actual product before you
just go and-.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Correct, exactly.
So we'll take the course, we'llgo through it, we'll discuss
did we feel like it was helpful?
Is it going to be useful to ourmembers?
And then, if it is, if theanswer is yes, then we put it on
, and it's not just like yes,it's like a hell, yes, yeah,
yeah, good, good.
This is a definite greataddition, and we have multiple
people on the team.
Do it because, like I said, noteverything works for everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, and I think that's really important.
You know, it's a, in some ways,you, you let a team guide
things and you just drift around, but at the other side, if you
have some leadership and a team,you can actually stake a course
and go down it and maintain it,and I think that there's real
power in that.
(11:24):
I like what I'm hearing.
You know, we didn't really knoweach other much before you came
on and I said, well, let's just, let's just learn this as we're
going.
And I think a lot of the thingsthat I like to talk about have
to do with the holistic approach, rather than a single minded
answer to things.
You know, Western medicinelikes these single molecule
(11:45):
answers for everything, and youknow, in certain cases it works.
But then they try to put it allin this giant envelope and say,
well, it'll work for you, it'llwork for all these people.
And then you have all theseproblems that come whereas a
holistic approach.
You take the problem and yousay, well, let's see what might
fit in that, and you have allthese things and you start to I
(12:05):
don't know operate with a littlecommon sense.
And so from now, from theclient point of view, I suspect
you've had a lot of growth.
How did it all begin?
Tell me about some of yourfirst clients that came through.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I mean, my first clients were friends, so it was
like it was friends and family.
And then we sort of spread word.
We have a Facebook group whereit's called holistic anxiety,
and so through that we reallygrew pretty quickly because we
were offering live breath work,live classes so people could
experience some of the expertsand teachers that we had.
And then again, it's likewhatever resonated and then we
(12:43):
kept the price really affordablebecause, again, we wanted
people to be able to.
It was really this plight of Iwant everyone to have this,
these tools, because I feel likeas a world and society we will
just all be better off if we'rea little bit more grounded and a
little less reactive.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Absolutely so.
It's growing organically.
You go from a Facebook group.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Well, we run ads now too.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
but yes, right, right right, but I'm just trying to
walk through it and then at onepoint, you create this platform.
Now, that's a nightmare to alot of people.
I mean, there's so manyplatforms and I don't know, I
don't know how many webmastersin my life, and most of them
have been a disaster.
How do you, how did you find ayou know, a system that worked
(13:33):
for you?
I mean, it's a little technical, but it's kind of important to
me anyways.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Sure, well, I'm all about, you know, using tools
that are already out there.
I'm not trying to reinvent thewheel.
So we host the platform onkajabi, which is a online
platform to help host classesnice things like that so it's
really great.
It can be interactive and so Ithink some of the teachers have
like quizzes and pdf downloadsand you know different things,
but I again, not aboutreinventing that's good.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Get something that works and just use it yeah
exactly, exactly I suspect youprobably got some stories that
just are remarkable.
You know, when you, when youdeal with a group of people
which is I don't know half theworld's population, and then you
deal with a subset of thatpeople, which is maybe an eighth
of the world's population, youprobably have some dramatic
(14:23):
impact.
You know, when you deal withsomething like menopause and you
know you add to it all thelife's traumas and issues, I
suspect you probably have sometransformative stories.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, no, it's been.
It's been truly amazing towatch.
You know, we had one member sayit was sort of her last chance,
like she.
It was like she was completelylost.
And I think we we do do amonthly free workshop where
anyone can kind of come on andwe coach and provide it.
(14:55):
And so you know, she joined thebreathwork class and she said
that she literally couldn't.
She was always shallowbreathing, like she couldn't
take a deep breath.
She was so anxious all the timeand just had like really lost a
lot of hope in life.
And through just the breathworkclasses she's like I was, I was
finally able to clear thatweight, you know, and it wasn't
(15:17):
like oh, now I'm all better, butshe was like I now feel like I
understand the steps I need totake to get better.
And I think to me that was justone of those examples of like
it doesn't have to be a lot, itdoesn't have to take hours,
right, it's a matter of taking10 minutes a day, committing to
doing that for yourself.
Just honoring that commitmentkind of feeds a cycle of belief
(15:39):
in yourself, right and then andfeeling better.
And we have the same thing withsomeone who is really, really in
a lot of pain, and we have aAyurvedic doctor who talks about
inflammation and how to reliefit on our platform as well, and
through her diet program thatshe had suggested she was out of
pain, like she was off allprescription meds.
Like I thought that was soincredible to be able to do it
(16:01):
naturally.
So there are so many sort ofheart touching stories and
what's great is people also findsupport with each other.
Like it's like, oh my God, I'mdepressed and anxious, and
someone will be like yeah, metoo, but I don't know why.
Like I don't know why either.
Like nothing in my lifesuggests that I should be this
way.
I just am.
And so I think just providingthat thing of it's OK, wherever
(16:21):
you are, it's OK, but what isthe next step forward?
Like what's the next positivestep you can take?
And don't do it alone, do it incommunity, do it with other
people and other women.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
But you have group sessions where different clients
are able to interact.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Absolutely yeah.
So once a month we do a livesort of community workshop where
people can come on and they canget coached if they want.
We'll do a breakout room if wefeel like we need to help a
certain subsect, but if not,it's really just leading through
one of the modalities thatwe're teaching.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I find that to be some of the most powerful tools
and, as a person who's in aninstructor role or an admin role
, I think you can often gain alot of insight as to what the
group needs as far as directionor you know.
Sometimes you learn a thingyourself that would be kind of.
My next thing is you'veprobably had some epiphanies
(17:17):
through this.
Why don't you share somethingthat you've gained?
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Yeah, I mean I learned.
I learned so much from thecommunity and the teachers.
I would say one of the biggestthings I learned is I didn't
have from the community and theteachers.
I would say one of the biggestthings I learned is I didn't
have the best morning routineand I know everyone talks about
it being like the pivotal thing,but it really was for me.
So changing to do a little bitof.
I always meditated a little bit, but more like intentional.
(17:43):
And with journaling I felt likethat was, and we have a
journaling course that I'd takenfrom Dan and who who does a lot
of the classes, and I justfound it to be, you know, super,
super illuminating on what'sreally important and what I'm
really worried about, cause sooften we think we're worried
about one thing but then when westart going down the path of
(18:04):
journaling, all the differentcomponents were like, oh no,
it's actually that I'm worriedabout this, right, like it's
actually-.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
Good to hear you more .
When I consult clients, that'sgenerally the first thing I say
is well, let's figure out whereyou're at, start writing it down
.
And then, all of a sudden,people are if they do it, it's
more work than most people willdo.
But if you do, it will do.
But if you do it all of asudden, you're like, oh wow, I
didn't see that and and you knowit's.
(18:30):
It's a powerful, powerful tool.
So you've been at this for howlong?
When did this begin?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
This has been so.
I mean I've been on the healthjourney for a longer, but Vibes
Tribe's been a little over ayear.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh, okay, wow, that's a that's.
It's moving quick.
So where do you see?
Speaker 2 (19:00):
where it's moving quick so where do you see it
headed?
You know the goal is to be thenumber one trusted platform for
women in midlife.
So I also get a lot of is.
Sometimes even I get lazy withwhat it is and the joy and
sometimes I get that reminder oflike wow, this works Right.
So every time someone's like,oh my God, I feel so much better
, you're like, oh yeah, likethis works If the goal is to be
(19:21):
vibrant and live a vibrant,healthy life, you know,
practicing different natural,healthy modalities works.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I love it.
I love it.
Well, this is that magic momentwhere you get to give your
pitch and let everybody know.
How do you find this vibe tribe?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah, so it's a vibes tribeco and on our website
there is a link for a freeticket and you can join our
monthly event.
That way it's always a greatway to kind of get an intro into
the tribe.
Or you can join our Facebookgroup and obviously you'll be
all in the know there as well,which is holistic anxiety relief
for women.
But those are the two placesand I'd love to see everybody.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Beautiful, beautiful.
Well, Kavita, it's been anabsolute pleasure to have this
conversation and I would have tosay I would highly recommend.
If I was a menopausal woman, Iwould definitely want to
investigate this, but certainlyI know plenty of you and I would
I would highly encourage it.
Well you.
Thank you so much for joiningus.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Beautiful.
This has been the HealthyLiving Podcast.
Again, I'm your host, JoeGrumbine, and we will see you
next time.
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