by Amanda Kingsmith | Feb 22, 2016 | Personal Development, Show Notes
Do you believe in making yoga accessible around the world? Do you want to give back through yoga? Curious about the Africa Yoga Project? Then, this episode is for you!
Banff based yoga teacher, Tara Koenig, shares her journey as a Baptiste power yoga teacher, and how she has become involved with the Africa Yoga Project (AYP). She shares what she has learned through her involvement with AYP, how it has changed her life, and how it has helped her to become a better yoga teacher.
Enjoy!
Business Lessons
- Yoga can be accessible for anyone
- Put yourself out there and let people know that you want to teach
- Be excited about what you do!
- Find your maximum for teaching a week so you don’t burn yourself out – it’s not the same for everyone
- Having a part time job that you enjoy can be a great way to keep your energy and money up while teaching
- Self-practice is key & doing a variety of styles is also important
- Stop comparing yourself to others
- Giving back through yoga is amazing, but fundraising can be challenging
- Money is an ebb and flow – it will always come and go
- Yoga is for anybody with any body
- “You have to be willing to show up and suck to show up and shine” – Baron Baptiste
- Ask for help when you need it!
- And much more… Here’s the episode!
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Feb 15, 2016 | Blog, Business
When you think about turning up the music and dancing until you’re so exhausted that your mind finally slows down, how do you feel?
Relieved.
Rejoiced.
Free.
This is exactly what Tara Newbigging aims to achieve with her fitness program, BooTy.
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Feb 15, 2016 | Niching, Show Notes
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Business Lessons
- It’s possible to do something different – you aren’t limited to what other people are doing
- Surround yourself by people who support you
- Find a mentor in the industry who can help you get to the next level
- Do what feels right for you – there is no “shouldn’t”
- Self-study is key to being successful
- Channel the things that you’re good at into a career path that you’re passionate about
- Learn to trust people as you expand your business
- Don’t be afraid to make mistakes
- Be vulnerable – this is where you will learn!
- Just go out and do it – get out in front of a variety of groups of people
- Be prepared for your classes
- Your energy should be 10x higher than the average of the class
- Your not a failure if teaching isn’t for you
- Vulnerability leads to creativity
- You don’t need a business degree to start a business!
- Get professional help for the things you don’t enjoy doing with your business
- And much more… Here’s the episode!
Connect with Tara
by Amanda Kingsmith | Feb 10, 2016 | Blog, Business
Ryan Ferguson has been my best friend and partner in crime for the last 7 years. We met while in business school at the University of Calgary, and since then, have traveled for over 12 months together and have moved to 3 different cities. Ryan shares my passion for travel, yoga / movement, and the written word.
If you want to learn more about Ryan, visit his personal blog here. He has some great pieces on self-development, economics, philosophy and much more.
Enter Ryan…
You were a yoga teacher. You worked at a studio, taught twice a day, five days a week. You were paid per class, $45 a time. It didn’t matter if there were thirty students, twenty students, or three students, you always made the same amount. When you started out classes were always full. The yoga studio was pretty busy. Everything was good and easy, but things started to go wrong.
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by Amanda Kingsmith | Feb 8, 2016 | Blog, Business
I had never met Lauren Roegele before we connected on FaceTime to do an interview for the M.B.Om podcast. We were scheduled to talk at 3pm EST, and around 3:05pm I sent Lauren a quick text to confirm that everything was all good on her end. She was having troubles with Skype and couldn’t get logged in. “No worries”, I told her, “I’ll FaceTime you instead”. We connected on FaceTime, and as we settled in to begin the interview, my computer froze and shut down. Nearly 10 minutes later we were back on the phone ready to go.
What a start to the interview, I thought to myself. Technology didn’t not seem to be on our side.
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