Kathryn Budig is the author of Aim True and The Big Book of Yoga, a yoga teacher on Glo, founder of The Inky Phoenix Book Club, capsule designer for KiraGrace, and the co-host of the podcast, Free Cookies, with her wife Kate Fagan.
In this episode we talk about:
- getting introduced to yoga in college for musical theater
- using candles and crystals which may or my not have placebo effect
- moving to LA to pursue acting and landing at one of the best yoga studios in the country
- taking a teacher training to have a side hustle that she loved while auditioning in LA
- being a size 2 and being told she would only be able to book best friend parts if she was lucky
- the pressure and scrutiny those in the public eye deal with on top of being human and their own personal struggles
- how we are a society of moving goal posts and how we need to fully embrace the wins when they arrive
- the juxtaposition of being in Hollywood and being told she had to look a certain way and the yoga world of being taught she was whole as she was already
- uncovering that her father drove her to be successful and seeing that her success comes from being happy and not vice versa
- the yoga and fitness industry and the focus on they type of body and size of body
- seeing marriage as stability and how that led to her first marriage
- how you can’t get in the way of other people’s love stories and how they have to see it for what it is on their own
- seeing how her first marriage opened her up for finding love with her wife
- what inspired her to write a novel
- writing is an act of bravery and the discipline it takes
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
Find Kathryn at @kathyrnbudig and http://kathrynbudig.com
You can take her yoga classes at Glo.
Shop her capsule fashion line at Kira Grace
Listen to her podcast with her wife Kate Fagan Free Cookies
And her books! Aim True and The Big Book of Yoga
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Halsey acceptance speech
Kate Fagan What Made Maddy Run
My video on the fear of being judged
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