Jun 22, 2018
In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss organic, grassroots pro-healer careers: how to step into your power and grow your impact and income on a shoestring budget.
When it comes to growing an organic, grassroots pro healer career. Cate wrote the book. From living in a trailer during ayurveda school to running her first Yogidetox in yurt with 6 paying members, it’s fair to say that Cate grew her business from a shoestring budget. When it came to schooling and training, Cate was most interested in ayurveda and very much about the ROI (return on investment). Within a year of starting ayurveda school, Cate was making 50% of her income from ayurveda, even before she was certified. Yoga Health Coaching works the same way. We earn while we learn.
Before we can recognize, articulate, and step into our dharma, there’s some processing we need to do, processing of dysfunctional and/or outdated parts of ourselves with our eyes wide open. The Yoga Health Coaching community provides a safe space that facilitates this processing while providing feedback that comes from a place of care and love AND provides support for identity evolution and dharmic upgrades.
When you book a career conversation with Grace, you’ll explore your wants, your needs your desires, your dharma. Grace has been through it. She’s been where you are, and she’s not so far ahead of you that she can’t relate.
What you’ll get out of tuning in:
- How Yoga Health Coaches earn while we learn
- What needs to happen before we can fully step into our dharma
- Why we need to stop judging ourselves for wanting to make money
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Show Highlights:
- 1:00 - From living in a trailer during ayurveda school to running her first Yogidetox in yurt with 6 paying members, it’s fair to say that Cate grew her business from a shoestring budget. When it came to schooling and training, Cate was most interested in ayurveda and very much about the ROI (return on investment).
- 4:50 - Within a year of starting ayurveda school, Cate was making 50% of her income from ayurveda, even before she was certified. Yoga Health Coaching works the same way. We earn while we learn.
- 5:25 - Cate started out in environmental policy but her interest shifted to human consciousness when she realized that policy wouldn’t change until human consciousness changed.
- 9:05 - Cate is in the process of writing her next book, Awake Living, a dharma life-hacking system. In looking at what’s already been published on dharma, she found that the majority of it comes from a masculine point of view. In Cate’s view, before we can step into our dharma, there’s some processing we need to do, processing of dysfunctional and/or outdated parts of ourselves undertaken with our eyes wide open.
- 12:57 - Grace is in this process right now. While it’s difficult to recognize and receive honest feedback, it can be softened by recognizing the care and the love that underlies or envelopes the feedback. The Yoga Health Coaching community provides a safe space for us to give and receive feedback that comes from a place of care and love while providing support for identity evolution and dharmic upgrades.
- 15:30 - Shakti will lead the way through desire. It led Cate to impact and income. Money makes impact easier. It’s also a source of independence. For those reasons, we need to stop judging ourselves for wanting to make money.
- 18:15 - When you make an investment, look at the ROI. What’s missing from yoga teacher trainings and ayurveda school is training on how to be self employed, how to go pro in your wellness career.
- 20:18 - When you book a career conversation with Grace, you’ll explore your wants, your needs your desires, your dharma. Grace has been through it. She’s been where you are, and she’s not so far ahead of you that she can’t relate.
Favorite Quotes:
- “All of us are wounded healers at some point, and we’re in it for our own journey until we’re in it to help people.” --- Cate Stillman
- “There’s this whole underbelly of dharma that causes parts of ourselves that are dysfunctional or outdated . . . that need to get processed through agni.” --- Cate Stillman
- “For pro healers, shakti leads the way.” --- Cate Stillman
- “My dharma has a lot to do with the marketplace. A lot to do with helping pro healers in the marketplace. . . . Money makes impact easier.” --- 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.