Gift-Led: Sustainable Careers. Meaningful Lives.

Gift-Led: Sustainable Careers. Meaningful Lives.

Hosted by: Tara Alperin

In this show we unpack how our unique gifts are the key to a financially sustainable, fulfilling yoga career and a meaningful life.

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How to Build a Sustainable Yoga Career That Lights You Up | A Conversation with Cody Schmidt

Cody Schmidt has built a career around the parts of yoga and Ayurveda that most energize him, from intimate classes to deeper one-on-one client work. In this conversation, we talk about the small studio he runs with...
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Are We Teaching Yoga Teachers the Wrong Marketing Strategies?

Are we teaching yoga teachers marketing strategies that are already becoming obsolete? As AI changes the way we create and consume content, many of us are seeing how we’re entering a trust recession. Information is...
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From Crime Reporter to Yoga Teacher- Rethinking the Career Ladder | A Conversation with Sonia Azad

Sonia Azad did what a lot of people here dream about doing: she left a successful career to teach yoga full time. After more than 20 years as a TV journalist and crime reporter, Sonia made the leap into becoming a...
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How to Grow Your Yoga Business in the Age of AI

What if doing less is the key to success in an AI world? In this episode, I explore an idea I heard in a really top-notch yoga class: life happens in the margins. Yoga teaching is creative work. And as AI makes it...
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Great Yoga Teachers Need Great Studios: How Better Leadership Creates Better Careers | A Conversation with Shannon McCasland

What could the yoga industry look like if studios were run as professional communities, with strong leadership, clear expectations, and real support for teachers? In this episode, I sit down with Shannon McCasland,...
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5 Ways Teaching Off the Mat Explodes Your Confidence

If you want to become the best yoga teacher you can be, you have to learn to step off your mat. Over years of coaching yoga teachers, I’ve seen this one major shift fast-track confidence and completely transform...
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Can You Really Make a Full Time Living Teaching Yoga? Here's What's Missing

Many yoga teachers deeply want to spend most of their work time teaching, but struggle to figure out how to actually make it work. The problem is most end up teaching broad populations at yoga studios and gyms, and...
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Building a Sustainable Yoga Career: Learning from Other Fields | A Conversation with Maryssa DeBonee

This week I sat down with Maryssa DeBonee to talk about her recent transition from food scientist to full time yoga teacher, what it's really like to build a sustainable yoga career, and what the yoga industry can...
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Why Most Yoga Teachers Lack Confidence (And How to Build It Fast)

In this episode, I break down the 3 things I see help yoga teachers every day build confidence and why simply teaching for years does not automatically create it. We explore: Why so many yoga teachers struggle with...
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Why Most Yoga Teachers Never Build a Sustainable Career

How do we teach yoga that truly helps our students while also building a career that supports us?  In this episode, we explore the challenges many yoga teachers face as they try to create meaningful, sustainable...
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The Money Mindset Holding Yoga Teachers Back from Living Meaningful Lives

Why do so many yoga teachers struggle to make a sustainable living? In this episode, I break down the money mindset that is holding yoga teachers back from building sustainable careers and living meaningful lives. (no...
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Yoga Philosophy Says You SHOULD Make Money. Here's How.

Most people think yoga could never be a real job. We hear things like, "Yoga can never pay enough for me to quit my job," "You shouldn't charge for yoga," and "I would never want to be a full-time yoga teacher because...
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