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.
