Mastering the Business of Yoga

This week on the podcast I am joined by Manu Molina. Manu is originally from Andalusia, Spain but has lived in many places and spent most of his life as a globetrotter. He is on a mission to help yoga and wellness professionals to radically transform their marketing and biz game so that they can navigate the industry fearlessly, with clarity, and achieve sustained success. A big part of Manu's focus is on retreats, both organizing ...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Amy Ippoliti. Amy is the co-author of The Art & Business of Teaching Yoga and cofounder of Vesselify (formerly 90 Monkeys), an online resource for yoga professionals. She teaches on YogaInternational.com and has been a presenter at the Omega Institute, Esalen, and Kripalu, as well as the Telluride Yoga Festival and Hanuman Festival. In this episode of the podcast, we're diving into Amy's back...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Maria Waag. Maria is a yoga, meditation and mindfulness teacher with more than 19 years of experience with yoga, and 11 years of mindfulness.

She decided to change her career path and become a teacher after almost losing her life. Now, she runs her own yoga and mindfulness business, and loves to bring yoga out of the studios, to where people are, and has been teaching in a variety of settings...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Renee Clair. Reneé takes woman-owned businesses from chaos to clarity using her holistic 3-pronged approach: Streamlined Business, Motivational Mindset, and Clear Purpose. With a Masters Degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and decades of experience across marketing, sales, operations, and wellness, Reneé brings a diverse skill set to her work. Drawing from expertise in recruiti...

This week on the podcast I am talking all about the process of self-publishing my book "How to Master the Business of Yoga". I released my book in September of 2023 and wanted to share the entire process from idea to creation to actually publishing it. In this episode, I talk about what the writing process was like, why having help was key for me to actually getting this project done, editing the book, finding someone who could for...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Brett Larkin. Brett is the founder of Uplifted Yoga and the author of Yoga Life: Habits, Poses, and Breathwork to Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos. Her training has set the standard for quality online certification since 2015 and has matriculated thousands of yoga teachers. Brett’s award-winning YouTube channel with over half a million subscribers and Uplifted Yoga Podcast empowers listeners to a...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Mary Bugg. Mary is an accomplished Yoga teacher, neuro-muscular therapist and reiki master. She is mum, wife, friend and sister. Having spent 25 years in the film industry as a producer Mary brings her rich experience to all her teaching. She understands we may all come from different directions, but ultimately we are all aiming for the same outcome, happiness with acceptance. Mary has run mu...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Amanda Hughes. Amanda is a brand photographer based in Scotland, UK. She works with all types of small businesses, including yoga teachers. In this episode, we're talking about why it's important to have great brand photos for your yoga business and the benefits of hiring a photographer. Amanda also shares some of her top tips for getting great photos for the yoga teachers just starting out w...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Michelle Leotta. Michelle is a yoga teacher turned health coach! She’s spent the past 13 years as a practicing, certified health coach while acting as a mentor for health coaches, a presenter at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and partner of Primal Health Coach Institute. In this episode of the podcast, we're talking about Michelle's journey as a yoga teacher, why she pivoted from tea...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Kaya Mindlin. Kaya is a trusted teacher guiding many of today’s yoga teachers and longtime practitioners. Yogic seekers from around the world resonate with her authentic and mothering approach that threads the mystical and practical. She integrates the full-spectrum of the Vedic tradition in her work including Therapeutic Yoga, Mysticism and Philosophy, Storytelling, Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Alexandra Charles. Born and raised in Sydney Australia, Alexandra has been a professional dancer her whole life, with her performance career bringing her to the USA in 2014. Alexandra found yoga early on to help heal some injuries, and meditation to assist in centering and finding balance. Her approach to both is with wholistic real world tools and practices, and most of all to make things en...

Welcome back to another season of M.B.Om! We're kicking off 2024 and this new season by doing some goal setting and manifestation work for the year. We start with a series of prompts to help you brainstorm your goals in various areas of your life and business before diving into brainstorming a word that can act as your theme or intention for the year. Finally, we end this episode with various tips for how to actually achieve your g...

It's that time of year again! I'm sitting down to reflect on 2023! In this episode, we cover this year on the podcast, including the new format of the show and that went. I also share some career updates, what I worked on this year, what went well in my business, and things that I let go of. I share where I spent this year and how my travels went, what it was like self-publishing my first book, as well as a bit about what to expect...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Eddie Arpin. Eddie has been helping people achieve their goals through technology for over 15 years. He is currently helping thousands of wellness and fitness business owners as a co-founder of OfferingTree. OfferingTree is an all-in-one software platform that takes the headache out of running your business. Eddie loves to help people who are new to OfferingTree solve their tech problems and ...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Jaffer Hussain. Jaffer is a yoga teacher based out of Toronto, Canada who teaches in person classes and has his own online membership. Jaffer came on the podcast in June 2021 to share how he created a unique yoga membership offering audio classes, and now more than 2 years later he's back to share what he's been up to and how his business has evolved. One of the biggest additions that Jaffer ...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Dania Valladares. Dania is the co-founder and CEO of CoachPals. Dania's love for science and yoga led her to discover her passion of using technology to make an impact on people's health and wellbeing. As a computer scientist, mother, and human being, Dania is committed to developing innovative features and leverage cutting-edge technology to support an environment that focuses on empowering ...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Tad Hargrave. Tad is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned to be a hippy again). Over the last 10+ years, Tad has become one of the first, full-time ‘conscious business’ marketing coaches (for hippies) and created a business where he could share that marketing can feel good. You don't have to choose between marketing that works but feels awful, or marketing that feels ...

This week on the podcast I am joined by Crystal Gray. Crystal supports women in developing a daily yoga and spiritual practice to help them navigate transitional times of life. She's been teaching yoga for almost 18 years and has owned a yoga studio, but now focuses on supporting women with online courses and group coaching as well as in-person events on her 20 acre organic vegetable farm and retreats! In this episode of the podcas...

This week on the podcast I'm joined by Denise Vernieri. Denise is a former educator with a Masters in English Literature and Writing, turned multi-6- figure business coach helping other soul-driven entrepreneurs, like coaches, yoga teachers, and wellness practitioners, create businesses in alignment with their purpose and vision of impact while working with their soul-aligned clients. She's wildly passionate about helping soulful e...