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This week on the podcast I am joined by Michelle Linane. Michelle is a yoga teacher, yoga business coach, former studio owner, and the host of the popular podcast, Love Teaching Yoga.

On this episode of the podcast Michelle and talk about what it was like to own a yoga studio, including business lessons she learned through studio ownership. We also talk about being a podcast host, running a successful yoga business, and tips for new yoga teachers teaching at yoga studios and looking to expand their yoga businesses.

Enjoy!   

Business Lessons in this Episode:

• When you are a studio owner and a yoga teacher, you need to give yourself time to transition between these 2 different roles
• Don’t carry the stress of being a studio owner into the class where you’re supposed to be holding space for other people
• When you own a business, you need separate business from yoga teaching
• Get to know people in your community
• Burnout can happen really easily as a studio owner and it can get in the way of progressing a yoga studio
• Be honest with yourself about how you feel with aspects of your business
• Pat Flynn from Smart Passive Income is a great resource for podcast hosts starting out!
• Amy Porterfield and John Lee Dumas are also great resources for podcasting and online business
• Jump into to something you want to do – you need to learn by doing!
• It’s important to recognize yourself as a yoga teacher and a business owner, and be honest about what you want out of your yoga career
• It’s important to identify your teaching as a business
• Remember that you don’t know everything – it’s important to sit in the seat of the student and always keep learning
• Always be humble
• To be effective with what we do, we need to meet people where they are
• You don’t need a yoga studio to teach yoga
• As a yoga teacher, we are there for the students and we’re there to serve them
• As a studio owner, you need to help your teachers thrive
• And much more… Here’s the episode!

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