In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace, fresh from the Yogahealer retreat in Mexico, discuss how to step into and own the role of wellness leader. You have a responsibility to lead! In order to own your role as a wellness leader, you need to take stock of your skills and resources, be aware of how others see you and know how to leverage your strengths. Armed with this information, you can start to build a structure that supports your evolution. When your structure is in line with your natural leadership style, you experience less stress and anxiety. When you understand how you lead differently than others, you can actively start to attract your tribe members. As someone who has benefitted from teachings of gurus, Cate asks us to recognize that we, as wellness pros, are that guru for other people. Our job then is to make the make their transformation easier, faster, and more enjoyable than ours was. The best way to do that is through a tribe. Being a member of your own tribe and letting other leaders naturally emerge makes your job a lot easier too.

What you'll get out of tuning in:

• What information you need in order to own your role as a wellness leader.
• Why it's important to understand your unique leadership style.
• How to experience less stress and anxiety while leading others through transformation.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Yogahealer
• Yoga Health Coaching
• How to Build a Tribe webinar

Show Highlights:

• 1:00 - You have a responsibility to lead! In order to own your role as a wellness leader, you need to take stock of your skills and resources, be aware of how others see you, and know how to leverage your strengths. When you understand how you lead differently than others, you can actively start to attract your tribe members.
• 5:20 - When you combine an accurate assessment of your skills, strengths, and persona with your dreams and goals, you can start to build a structure that supports your evolution.
• 7:20 - We all lead differently. When your structure is in line with your natural leadership style, you experience less stress and anxiety.
• 10:30 - It's important to strike a balance between growth and depth. Yoga Health Coaching provides a structure that promotes that balance and imparts traction.
• 12:45 - In an upcoming webinar, Cate will be talking about tribe-building and leading people to change. As someone who has benefitted from teachings of gurus, Cate asks us to recognize that we, as wellness pros, are that guru for other people. Our job then is to make the make their transformation easier, faster, and more enjoyable than ours was. The best way to do that is through a tribe. Being a member of your own tribe and letting other leaders naturally emerge makes your job a lot easier too.
• 17:45 - As a yoga teacher and studio owner in a small town, Grace Edison has made this tribe model work for her. Rather than having students drop in and out of her yoga classes, she now has 50 core people that have gone through her course and stuck around and are now leaders in her small community. Together, Grace and her core community are building what comes next for them. Grace knows she can deliver whatever comes next because she's learned the structure through Yoga Health Coaching.

Favorite Quotes:

• "The more we can articulate our desire of what we want to happen in the world, of who we want to help, how we want change to happen, then we can match that up, actually owning who we are . . . then all of a sudden other people can locate us . . . they can find us . . . and we actually start to feel like the leader that we've wanted to be." --- Cate Stillman