Enjoy!

Business Lessons from this Episode: 

• Say yes to every opportunity you can when you’re a new teacher
• Watch your energy levels when you teach and how teaching a yoga class makes you feel
• Allow yourself to learn from you experiences in the yoga industry
• Take what works for you and leave what doesn’t
• The first step to leading a big event is to find a place!
• Set dates & then start finding teachers
• Create a basic website and start sending out save the dates
• There are a lot of backend little details that go into a yoga festival or big event
• Having help is essential to a successful event
• Be prepared to lose money or break even on your first event. It’s a long road to grow a big event!
• Take time for self-care after the event
• Steady growth is better than substantially growth so that you can adjust things to the schedule
• What Jess is learning from expanding into New Orleans
• Get support from people on things that aren’t your strengths and make sure you ask for help when you need it!
• Create events because you’re passionate about it, because it’s a lot of work!
• Have connections in your community before you start your event or festival
• And much more… Here’s the episode!

Connect with Jessica: 

Dirty South Yoga Fest

Not Quite a Sutra Podcast 

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