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Yoga Teacher for the Wise Woman, Nadine Kelly (part 2)

Episode Summary

Today’s episode is the 2nd part of the conversation with Nadine Kelly, Yogi MD. If you haven’t listened to the 1st episode yet, you still can go ahead with this episode and go back to the first part later. Nadine is a retired medical doctor, turned freelance Yoga teacher and health coach because she wasn’t fully happy about the angle of her contribution to the health and to the well-being of her patients. With Yogi MD, she improves in so many meaningful ways, the quality of lives of the Wise Women, women with aging bodies and cancer survivors. In the 2nd part of our conversation, she will explain why her business truly fills a void and how she uses her sense of creativity to adapt her yoga sessions to cater for women with very specific needs. She will also explain how her passion for her work, her sense of reward from doing the right thing for the people who need her very special skill set help her overcome all the negative thoughts in moments of doubts. And finally, in addition to her podcast, she will share with us the new development of her business, in order to touch more lives and to serve even more Wise Women. As I said in the introduction of the 1st episode, Nadine is a gift. Stay tuned and enjoy the rest of our conversation with Nadine Kelly

Episode Notes

02:00 Nadine adapts her offering as she discovers what the Wise Woman’s needs are.

04:30 Teaching is a two-way street. To be creative and adapt is part of the joy of teaching.

07:00 Nadine is missed when she moved her yoga classes to another location as she is filling a void

10:00 Why Nadine doesn’t own a yoga studio. She goes where the Wise Women are instead of making them come to her

13:30 The business challenge of shifting from being a medical doctor in a hospital to becoming a freelancer

17:00 Helping people as a doctor vs helping Wise Women as a yoga teacher, in the world of prevention with a delayed gratification mindset

19:00 Her passion for her work, the reward from doing the right thing for the people who need her very special blend of skills help her overcome the negative thoughts in moments of doubts

21:00 Aging is beautiful. There is a sense of freedom with aging

22:00 Project of launching an online course to touch more Wise Women

NUGGETS:

  1. Fine-tune your product offering as your business and customers’ needs evolve
  2. Teaching is a two-way street
  3. Learn to adapt and be more creative for higher impact teaching
  4. Use the reward from doing the right thing for people who need you to kill the voices in your head in moments of doubts
  5. Aging is beautiful. There is a sense of freedom with aging

To find out more about Nadine and Yogi MD https://yogimd.net/

Host: Leekei Tang

Contact: hello (at) betterbusinessfounder.com

Music credits: Mister Sunny Face by Wayne Jones / Blue Skies by Silent Partner / Happy Ukulele by Scott Holmes