Called a “power house yogi and rising leader” by Forbes, Katie Brauer is an international yoga educator, high performance coach, and mentor at the intersection of yoga and entrepreneurship.
She’s the creator of The Yoga Professional Incubator® , an online business and personal growth incubator for yoga teachers determined to make a difference without falling into the burned out ’n broke trap.
An Aussie native and former professional snowboarder, Katie’s been featured in TEDx, Wanderlust, Entrepreneur, FORBES, Origin, Mantra, Gaiam TV, and more. She was the creative force behind the fastest growing boutique yoga studio experience in the US and created 5-star ranked 200-hr and 500-hr Yoga Teacher Training Certifications that have graduated over 1100 leaders.
She’s happiest mentoring people ready to get shit done, make a real impact, and create their own destinies.
In this episode we talk about:
- how she was on the path to be an Olympic snowboarder but her injuries highjacked her dreams
- growing up in a competitive skiing family in Australia
- why she switched from skiing to snowboarding
- becoming a recovering perfectionist
- what triggered her realizing that she didn’t like being stuck in the self criticism of perfectionism
- the story she made up as a 7 year old that drove so much of her life
- how our stories drive us in positive ways but then end up
- how she got to using the motto done is better than perfect.
- our struggles with moving past perfectionism
- how she found yoga, how it healed her and why it inspired her to make it be her career to share it
- my story in finding and being immediately taken with yoga
- leaving a corporate job to become a yoga instructor
- knowing that she always wanted to not just each yoga, but teach people how to teach yoga by doing teacher trainings
- the programs she created to support yoga instructors to be able to support themselves and share their passion
- why making money doing something of service is necessary not evil
- people creating judgement on themselves by comparing themselves to others
- how she deals with receiving judgement and being burned
- expectation and dissapointment
- loneliness vs. feeling alone
- being an independant woman and needing to speak up and ask for support
- her 3 step process for checking in with herself
- re-parenting herself
- her framework for having difficult conversations
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
LINKS to other things/people/music we mentioned!
PS. If we mentioned something and I forgot to include it here leave a comment and I will track it down for you!
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