Beginner’s Mind for Wellness Pros
We are living in a VUCA world: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. Wellness pros sometimes think that doesn’t apply to what they do, but it does. Navigating a VUCA industry requires shoshin – beginner’s mind and adikara – studentship. In this episode, Cate and Grace discuss how an open mind and an online community course can help you design a wellness career that aligns with your vision and values.
What you’ll get out of tuning in:
- Why the first step to upleveling your wellness career is to admit that there might be a better way.
- How an open mind and an online community course can help you design a wellness career that aligns with your vision and values.
- Why having a conversation with someone else can help you identify what’s working and what’s not working in your wellness career.
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Show Highlights:
- Grace talks about how she’s been guilty of a know-it-all mindset, assuming that her way is the best or only way.
- Cate talks about how the wellness pros she sees personally don’t have a business model that enables her to get what she needs and them to get what they want.
- Cate and Grace discuss the power of community and the advantage of having a conversation that helps you identify what’ working and what’s not working in your wellness career.
Favorite Quotes:
- “If anyone really wants to be on a hard-core spiritual path, all they have to do is start their own business and be self-employed because it’s going to bring up every issue in the book. It’s going to bring up all your dirt. It’s going to bring up all your shadows.” — Cate Stillman
- “Talk to Grace, if you haven’t already, because it just starts you thinking in a more productive way on what’s working and what’s not working so you can overcome what’s not working.” — Cate Stillman
- “There’s no reason to give up on what your deeper dreams are.” — Cate Stillman
Guest BIO:
Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She’s a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team.
Cate Stillman
View All Articles »Cate Stillman founded Yogahealer.com in 2001 to guide Yoga people into Ayurveda and Ayurveda people into yoga. Built on the value of both personal and planetary thrive and a deep connect to one’s ecosystem, community and body, Yogahealer grew into a team, 2 podcasts a week, regular blogging, an arsenal of courses to guide people into their potential, an a professional community + certification program Yoga Health Coaching. Cate wrote and self-published Body Thrive: Uplevel Your Body and Your Life with 10 Habits from Ayurveda and Yoga, an Amazon #1 Bestseller in Ayurveda, which helps people who dig yoga take a giant leap forward in their wellness trajectory with Ayurveda.
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