Check in with J - "I Closed the Yoga Center, Now What?"
J. Brown Yoga Talks
J. Brown
4.3 • 710 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2026
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
J takes a moment to check in with listeners and reflect on the closing of his yoga center, the state of his professional career, and his plans for the future. He discusses the factors that led to letting go of his commercial space and moving his weekly classes into his living room, sober assessments and hard truths regarding personal brands and business marketing, contradictions between career pursuits and paternal responsibilities, expanding ones perspective to be open to new possibilities, faith in God, and remaining rooted in the wonder of being.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, here we are. |
| 0:12.7 | This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. |
| 0:15.9 | My name is Jay Brown. |
| 0:17.9 | And this week, we're having a proper check-in. If this is your first time listening to the show |
| 0:24.6 | today, you may not be familiar with the usual format, which consists of two different things, |
| 0:33.1 | I'd say. One is me talking like this in the intro and the outro. I share about things that are going on |
| 0:42.0 | with me. I reflect on things that I'm thinking about. And then the other portion is me having a |
| 0:49.7 | guest on where we discuss different topics. |
| 1:00.0 | And there's quite a bit of interweave between what gets talked about in the intros and then what the conversations are. |
| 1:03.4 | Sometimes the reason I'm reaching out and talking to different people is because I want |
| 1:07.2 | to have conversations about some of the things I'm mentioning in the intros and |
| 1:10.5 | intros. |
| 1:12.5 | Well, some years back, I started doing a year-end check-in where I would give myself permission |
| 1:22.0 | to not have a guest, and I would just sit here in front of the mic and spout out for a while, |
| 1:28.2 | reflect on everything that had happened over the last year. |
| 1:33.1 | And then I started adding a few more when there were different milestones that happened |
| 1:40.1 | or significant events occurred that I wanted to mark on the show. |
| 1:44.4 | Like, I'm going to do a check-in because this has happened and I want to discuss it. |
| 1:50.1 | And that happened almost two years ago. |
| 1:54.3 | In July of 2024, I did a check-in like this because I decided to take a commercial lease and open a yoga center in my neighborhood. |
| 2:06.8 | And I was launching a fundraising campaign to help me do it. |
| 2:12.2 | And I did a check-in where I talked all about why I was deciding to do it and why I was asking for help. |
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