Thrive with Cate Stillman Podcast

Setting goals for 2021 has not been an easy feat for Jen. She struggles with always wanting to do more and can only think of one thing she wants to achieve - Freedom. She wants to have the freedom to travel more. But can freedom in itself be a goal?

During a Coaching Gym session, Cate breaks down Jen’s desire for more freedom and explains the importance of differentiating feelings from goals, setting metrics for your goals and choosing meaning over comfort.

Listen to the Yogahealer Podcast to learn more about the Steps to Achieve Your Life Goals in 2021!

• How to set the right goals
• What load do you want to carry?
• How much work is too much work?

• More about the Change your Life Course
• How to Decide What to Create
• Jordan Peterson’s work
• Dharma & Achieving Goals
• Get some free resources

• Discriminating between the BS and the goal
• Focusing on what you need to achieve what you truly want
• Meaning is more important than comfort

• 4:54 The importance of carrying a load
• 11:42 Building metrics into your goals
• 26:12 The difference between goals and feelings

Jennifer Allen teaches alignment-based yoga with an emphasis on finding ease in the body, coaches people on developing healthy habits and guides people into their unlimited potential through Ayurveda.

She discovered Ayurveda in 2013. Her Ayurvedic studies have been influenced by John Douillard, Sarah Hutchinson and Cate Stillman. Jennifer completed an 18-month Yoga Health Coaching certification program to deepen her knowledge of Ayurveda and habit evolution techniques in 2018. 

She has been leading hikes at the Grand Canyon since 2013 and is an outdoor educator and Certified Interpretive Guide for the Grand Canyon Conservancy.

Cate and Andy Stillman have known each other their entire lives. As cousins, they witness each other grow and have successful careers on opposite sides of the spectrum. Cate in the health and wellness space, and Andy in Wall Street. That was, until a few months ago, when Andy decided he needed a change and joined the Yogahealer team.

Listen to Cate and Andy talk about how your habits and health investments ultimately compound in a conversation about identity evolution, personal investment and automating your habits for compounding success.

• How to start investing in your goals
• How time influences your return on investment
• How to evolve your identity in order to achieve success

• Learn more about the Change Your Life Course 
• Learn more about finding the money to invest
• Send us an email with your investment questions 
• Get some free resources

• Learning to invest in what you want to achieve
• Cracking your shell and moving towards your goals
• Identifying issues, developing strategies and executing them

• 2:46 Intentionally investing for long term goal achievement
• 13:57 Having the right role models and community
• 31:40 Evolving your identity in order to make more money
• 40:26 Automating your habits for compounding success

Andy has over 30 years of experience successfully helping businesses improve by developing and executing meaningful strategies focused on the long term success of the business. Andy has held senior roles in a number of large multinational corporations including: E*Trade, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale and Coopers & Lybrand (PWC) - often as a Chief Operating Officer or an in-house consultant. 

 As he was recently looking to pivot away from large companies and become more entrepreneurial, he has now partnered with his cousin, Cate Stillman, to help grow Yogahealer - leveraging his skills and experience. He is motivated by helping others and finds intrinsic value in solving complex issues large and small - putting the business in a better place and better positioned to grow. 

He enjoys working across multiple levels of the organization. He approaches problems with no preconceived notions and relies on a data-driven approach. His orientation is towards simplification, transparency, holistic pragmatism, leveraging tools and managing risk effectively.

What habits are keeping you down and what habits are pushing you forward? Being honest and aware of your habits is the first step to developing better ones. Like in other areas of your life, the emotions behind your habits are key to why you developed them and why you can’t seem to let them go. 

In this podcast episode Cate compares the work on habits of William James and James Clear, 100 years apart, in order to underline the similarities between them. If you truly want to start changing your life by developing better habits, this is a must listen episode.

• How to be honest about your habits
• How to mentally rehearse a new habit
• What are the emotions behind your habits?

• Schedule a body goals session
• More about the Living Ayurveda Course
• Get some free resources
• Daily Rituals by Mason Currey
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Habit by William James

• Reflecting on and reviewing your habits 
• Creating habits that create a mental shift
• The abrupt acquisition of a new habit

• 02:31 Self-awareness is the key to better habits
• 7:42 Incremental changes and noticing the little things
• 17:55 Consciously deciding what habits best serve you
• 26:20 Why you should never miss a habit two days in a row

What is your purpose? And what do you need to change to meet it? Our personalities are constantly evolving, but are you consciously changing to achieve your goals?

In this episode, Cate guides you through an identity evolution exercise, in order for you to better understand your past self and reflect on who you want to become next. 

What habits does your future self have? Listen to find out more!

• How to leave your past self and grow
• How to define your purpose
• How to cultivate habits that serve your future self

• More about the Living Ayurveda Course
• Get some free resources

• Identity evolution can happen unconsciously
• Understanding the role of personality tests
• The importance of being psychologically flexible

• 1:14 Adjusting your personality to your future purpose
• 10:44 Listing your past and future traits
• 17:15 The habits do you need to cultivate to achieve your next self

Do you remember your first musical experience? Were you forced to learn an instrument as a kid? For most of us, learning to play an instrument was a formal occasion we couldn’t wait to get out of. But that’s because Nate Shaw was not our teacher.

With an incredible 30 year long career, which has included playing jazz for the US State Department in Europe and writing music for Oprah, Nate created an innovative way to teach music to both children and adults.

Nate believes music to be an universal experience we should all engage with, especially as a family. Listen to the episode and find out more about how you can reconnect with music and bring it into your home on a daily basis.

• How to unlock your inner musician 
• How to normalize the music experience
• How to bring music into your family routine

• Get your family band going 
• Get the Big Music Games App
• Check out the Living Ayurveda Course
• Get some free resources

• Playing music without any skills
• Getting people to move past the fear of exposure
• The physicality of learning how to play an instrument

• 2:43 The universality of the music experience
• 15:21 Having fun and being social by learning to play music
• 31:46 Using your environment to learn music
• 44:26 Experiencing music as a family during the holidays

Nate is an entrepreneur, musician and teacher. For the past 30 years he has been bringing his mission of building community through music to the world. Whether it’s playing jazz for the US State Department in Europe, writing music for Oprah, or leading 20 faculty at the school he co-founded in 2009, the Brooklyn Music Factory, Nate is dedicated to inspiring new relationships, and deepening existing ones. At a time when people find themselves isolated more and more by technology and the pandemic, Nate’s mission is to inspire a renewed focus on human connection.

Working with tens of thousands of students in his 30 year teaching career, Nate is recognized as a visionary of music pedagogy and has built a robust, game-based music curriculum used by thousands of students in New York and around the globe. So far, the Brooklyn Music Factory has published hundreds of BLAM (Big Lessons About Music) Games, 2 levels of a guitar book, a group piano course, a Mini Keys curriculum and an iOS app: Big Music Games. As a band leader, he has released ten records and guested on many more.

Samantha received her first autoimmune diagnosis at age thirteen. Growing up in a family dedicated to allopathic medicine, Sam followed the same path and became a nurse. At thirty, however, after being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, Sam opened up to the wellness world and eventually became a member of Yoga Health Coaching.
Recently Samantha tested positive for COVID 19. She was amazed by the resilience her immune system had built over the past 10 years. With very few symptoms, she was mostly fine, which was not the case with some of her coworkers.
Listen to the episode to learn more about building your immune system, fight inflammation and the importance of healthy habits.

• How COVID affects people differently
• How stress impacts the immune system
• How to design your immune system

• Tai-Chi shaking video
• Learn more about the Living Ayurveda Course
• Get some free resources
• Find out more about Sam

• Dealing with autoimmune diseases and thyroid cancer
• Supporting your lymphatic system after testing positive for COVID 19
• The impact of being Kapha to your immune system

• 2:44 Facing multiple autoimmune diagnosis and testing positive for COVID
• 11:20 The impact of fear on your immune system
• 25:18 Focusing on your potential and adjusting your habits to it 
• 28:48 Reorganizing and designing your immune system

Sam Norman decided to shift gears from western nursing to ayurvedic healing about ten years ago when she saw the power of the whole body treatment modality to heal chronic illness in her own body. She is the owner and creator of Family Healer a virtual community where she guides clients on seasonal cleanses twice a year and teaches others the foundation of ayurveda as a framework for lifestyle and consequently healing in her Become Your Own Healer Course.

How is it you want to feel on new year's day? How do you want your holiday journey to go? Close your eyes and picture it in your mind. Got it? Over the course of the next few weeks you can design your holidays and new year to be exactly as you pictured it. But it will probably involve some changes.
I know what you are thinking. But what about the other members of my family? For many people, the holidays are a trigger to indulge in bad habits. The way to contradict that is by becoming a leader. If you assume more collective responsibility, you’ll start setting the pace for the people around you.
Learn more about how you can begin the new year feeling empowered, grounded and ready to achieve your goal on the latest Yogahealer Podcast episode.

• How to align to dinacharya
• How emotions can be triggered on the holidays
• How to lead your community by living aligned

• Learn more about the Living Ayurveda Course

• Cate talks about her course on changing winter traditions
• Cate explains how she realized she was a “grandfather’s clock”
• Cate talks about her soup quick and how it influences people

• 1:21 How do you wanna feel on new year’s?
• 3:50 Dealing with emotions triggered by the holidays
• 8:26 The difference between karma and akriya
• 12:02 Leading others to better habits and collective responsibility

About 20 years ago, Hilary was facing a problem, she kept getting hurt snowboarding and biking. As a trained herbalist she thought of a solution to help with the pain and healing her injuries - she started making balms.
Hilsbalm is a joint pain relieving balm, made with Escoba, Arnica and Saint John’s. Being aware of the effects of CBD, Hilary also created a CBD version of her hit joint balm. 
Listen to the podcast and learn more about making your one balms and plant infusions.

• How to make a fresh plant infusion 
• How to use CBD for your joint
• How to reconnect to the plants around you

• Find out more about Kannavita
• Learn more about the Living Ayurveda Course
• Get some free resources

• Hilary explains how to choose essential oils and their effect on circulation
• Hilary talks about people being CBD deficient 
• Hilary shares her personal recipe for an immune tonic
• Cate talks about empowering your health and becoming a self-healer

• 3:49 Escoba, Arnica and Saint John’s and their health benefits
• 10:42 Making your own fresh plant infusion
• 17:58 The impact of CBD and the various reactions to it 
• 29:50 The relationship between plants and people
• 44:17 The best oils to use on your face

Hilary Diana McCurry is an herbalist and body worker living in Carpinteria, California, with a strong love for tending her gardens of veggies, herbs and fruits.
In 1993, she graduated from UCSC with a BA in Community Studies focused on Environmental Education. Her growing passion for herbs took her to Boulder where she attended The Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies from 1995-98. The talented teachers and diverse curriculum provided an incredible education in material medica, plant identification, medicine making and clinical work. It was during this time that she formulated ‘The Balm’ to soothe the aches from hiking, mountain biking and snowboarding in the Rockies. She ended up teaching snowboarding in Snowmass for the next four winters.
In the Summer of 1999, she took my first massage classes and fell in love with bodywork. For the past 19 years she has maintained a successful and fulfilling massage practice.
In 2008, she lost her home in the Tea Fire. Her herb company, Sister Brother Botanicals, rose from the ashes and has been growing ever since. She offers a range of handmade organic herbal products including HilsBalm, CBD HilsBalm, Granny’s Garden Salve, Avery’s Lip Balms, Elderberry Syrup and Fire Cider available locally and in her website- HilsBalm.com

We often believe we need something outside ourselves in order to experience more ease. In reality, the solution to our issues is frequently found within. What if I told you it is even possible to self-medicate, using the five elements? Confused?
Experiencing the five elements of Ayurveda in your body, can be used as a powerful tool. One that enables you to feel your imbalances in a deeper manner, and directe the course, in order to design the experiences you want to have. By tapping into your imbalances, you can self-medicate with the element you need the most.
Ready to feel the Gunas and align with the five elements? Cate guides through a meditation to access each element directly.

• How the 5 elements of Ayurveda can help you tune into what you need next
• How to access each element directly through meditation
• How to self-medicate by experiencing the elements in your body

• Find out more about the Living Ayurveda Course
• Get meditations from Yogahealer

• Cate explains how the five elements can be used as self-medication
• Cate talks about the Gunas and the spectrum of what you feel
• Cate guides a meditation through each of the five elements

• 5:07 Ground yourself with the Earth element
• 9:27 Find your flow with the Water element
• 12:11 Focus your mind with the Fire element
• 14:46 Let the wind carry you with the Air element
• 17:00 Expand with the Space element

Coaching people who are overwhelmed can be extremely challenging. It tests your empathy, but also how grounded you are. There is a lack of grounded focus when someone is feeling overwhelmed, which is why the first thing you should do is BREATHE.
Over the course of this episode, Cate talks to Yoga Health Coaches about her experience working with overwhelmed people, and the root issues that should be addressed. What at first might be perceived as inability to implement Kaizen - small, incremental steps -, could also be an incapacity to escape herd mentality.
Learn more about keeping yourself grounded, and how to best lead your people to overcome feelings of overwhelm, during these trying times.

• How to deal with your personal relationship to overwhelm
• How to identify someone’s final goal
• How to take more calculated risks
• How triggers can help you follow through

• Asking the right questions
• Have a free Conversation 
• Get some free resources

• Cate talks about adrenaline addiction
• Cate explains how small steps are a safe route for more risk
• The impact of leading a breathing exercise before you start your coaching session

• 3:08 Strategies to calming overwhelmed people and focusing them on their goals
• 13:03 Organizing the chaos and escaping herd mentality
• 29:28 The resistance to becoming the “unicorn”
• 37:24 Being comfortable with the feeling of overwhelm

•  Go slow to go faster (this quote is about kaizen)