Sometimes good clients go bad.

And especially if you've been teaching yoga or doing your healing work for some time, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You sign a new client, they're really excited to work with you. You begin your work together, everything is going well and then boom, you get an email or an awkward text message from them saying it's not working out and they can't continue. How do you handle this?

Today’s podcast episode focuses on how these detrimental patterns sneak their way into your life and inhibit your ability to go after your goals in a big way. If you want to stop sabotaging your success, you’ve got to clean up your own energy first. I’m thrilled to welcome Bianca Passiglia (Bianca Lotus), an expert in balancing masculine and feminine energies, back to the podcast today to show you how you can identify and break your own toxic patterns and go on to build supportive, powerful habits instead.

In addition to facing a global pandemic, we're also facing an "infodemic" as we constantly sift through news stories and social media, looking to separate facts from sensationalism. It's exhausting. 

On today's podcast episode where we're calling a spade a spade here and taking a solid look at burnout. And I'm not here to mince words, I'm not here to pat you on the back and tell you that it's all okay if you're feeling burnt out. That's not what we're doing. We are taking an honest look at what burnout really is and steps that you can take today to avoid it.

Here's the thing guys. If you are listening to this podcast, chances are you are in the business of health, wellness, stress management, and if you are burning out, you're out of integrity with your message and what you're selling. I'm not here for that and neither are you.

So let's get really clear on some of the sneakier ways burnout has crept into the yoga community and healing community because it has in a big way. It's almost a buzzword now and it's something that really needs to be taken seriously.

In this episode Sara Intonato discusses why your personal practice is the most imporatnt business activity that you do. You can find out more at

https://sarayoga.com/why-your-practice-is-the-most-important-business-activity-youll-do/

On today's podcast episode we're diving into the question I am asked more than any other, which is, “Sara, how do you balance your lengthy yoga practice with running a business, raising a family, and advocating for your special needs child?”

I'm so excited to answer this question. 🖤

I can honestly say that both running a business and being a parent make me appreciate my spiritual practice even more than I did when life had fewer responsibilities. In fact, having them has encouraged me to stay on course even when the going gets tough, because I know my practice helps me show up stronger and more powerfully for everyone else in my life. Today, I'm taking you behind the scenes to share all of the details around how I actually make this happen with you. 

On today's podcast episode we're diving into how to run your life and your business effectively when LIFE is LIFEING. In other words, how to overcome feelings of overwhelm with ease and with grace. 

If you're like me, life is probably coasting for a while. Everything is dialed in, it feels good, and then boom, something intense happens. Maybe a relative gets sick, maybe you're in a car accident, maybe something in your house breaks and it needs to be renovated completely and you weren't expecting that job or that expense. I want you to know, I hear you, I see you. You're not in this alone. One of the reasons I'm qualified to give guidance on this topic is because I've lived it.

Not only have I lived it, but I've lived it with a special needs child. Everything could be going well in my life and then all of a sudden my husband's business, because he's a business owner too, requires him to step up in a different way and I need to be more present at home. Other times I need to take care of sick children. Other times I need to be an advocate for my special needs kid, which if you've ever done it, you know is basically like having a full-time job in and of itself. 

So whatever is thrown your way, I want you to know I get it and we're going to dive in today to talk about how to handle it with grace and ease and actual tools, five strategies that you can use right now to release feelings of overwhelm and step into a greater level of functioning in any area of your life, not just your business.

On today's podcast episode where we're diving into a topic that is not only important, but incredibly close to my heart, and it is how to be successful as a special needs parent.

If you are not a special needs parent, but just a regular parent, this episode will be incredibly supportive of you as well. If you don't yet have a family but you're thinking about it, I encourage you to listen anyway because this episode is all about how to be laser-focused with your time and find the right supports for yourself in the form of habits, people, practices, that allow you to thrive even in the midst of challenge.

If you've been tuning into this podcast for quite some time, you may not know that much about me as a mother, and it might be a surprise to you that I have two children, they're 18 months apart, a boy and a girl. And my son, Rocco, who is my eldest, who is 10 years old, is also a special needs child. He is on the autism spectrum and an incredible kid, though life with him is quite different than what I imagined life as a mother would be.

I'm sharing this today even though it's something I previously kept quite private, because the numbers are only increasing. Children with autism in the world grow as a population every single year, and as a result, more special needs parents are born every single year as well. Almost everyone who I speak to, including yoga teachers who I mentor, have children who have some type of difference, whether it be a sensory processing issue or an attention deficit issue, there are all different kinds of special needs.

What I've seen in this population is that these parents feel isolated, they feel ashamed, and they put themselves in a box in terms of placing limits around what's possible for them simply based on these societal messages. I'm here to turn that notion on its head and show you that you can thrive, but you have to be laser-focused in how you spend your time and your energy in order to do it all