Former Pro Snowboarder Katie Brauer on her Transformation to Yoga Teacher & Entrepreneur
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2019
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Katie Brauer joins us this week for some straight talk. She shares about her background as a professional snowboarder turned yoga teacher, money mindset, and how she's using her insights to help other teachers bust through their money blocks and create sustainable businesses.
Here are some highlights:
* Katie talks about her time as a professional snowboarder, what she learned from her experiences, and how she's using that to help other yoga teachers
* How she overcame several injuries to come back to snowboarding and why she finally decided to retire from that life and become a yoga teacher
* The lessons she applied from her time as a athlete that helped her have a successful yoga business
* The biggest mistakes new yoga teachers make when they're building a business.
* How to overcome the money blocks that many teachers struggle with.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 142 of Yoga Land. Today my guest is Katie Brower. |
| 0:15.0 | Katie has a fascinating life story and that's one of the things that drew me to her. |
| 0:20.0 | She started skiing as a baby in a sling on her mom's back before she could even walk. |
| 0:25.6 | She grew up in a skiing family and at the age of 17 she became a professional snowboarder in Australia. |
| 0:33.3 | She's originally from Australia. |
| 0:35.8 | So she had a lot of passion, she had a lot of fire. |
| 0:38.8 | She obviously knew how to find her way in life. But snowboarding really took a toll on her body. She had, in the |
| 0:48.2 | course of seven years of being a world-class competitive athlete, she had seven surgeries, including several on her knees, |
| 0:56.6 | and she talks us through that in the podcast. |
| 1:00.1 | So even though she had this seemingly amazing career, |
| 1:04.3 | she was really struggling mentally |
| 1:06.4 | through each injury with the recovery process, |
| 1:09.1 | not just the physical recovery process, |
| 1:10.8 | but with the mental and emotional recovery process. |
| 1:13.8 | And that's how she got deeply into yoga. |
| 1:17.5 | She started yoga as just a physical practice, |
| 1:20.3 | something to help her rehab. |
| 1:21.9 | But with each injury and each surgery she drew |
| 1:26.0 | more and more deeply from yoga and eventually completely changed her path and |
| 1:32.1 | completely changed her path and completely changed her life. |
| 1:34.4 | So now she is a yoga educator, a mentor |
| 1:38.8 | at the intersection of yoga and entrepreneurship. |
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