Justine Cohen and Michael Ponte - "Weathering the Storm"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Justine Wiltshire Cohen and Michael Ponte, owner and manager at Down Under Yoga School of Yoga in Boston, talk with J about what how things have been going since Justine was last on the show three years ago and what they are doing to meat the challenge of the pandemic crisis. They discuss Down Under’s transition to making their teachers employees, responding to the needs of teachers and staff, important keys to their success, efforts they are making to survive the shut down, and the core principles that are guiding their choices.

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0:00.0	Okay, the little red light is on.
0:13.1	You know what that means.
0:14.7	The time has come.
0:17.4	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.
0:20.6	My name is Jay Brown.
0:22.3	If you're new, welcome.
0:24.9	Everyone else, how are you holding up?
0:28.6	I'm sure I'm not the only one who continues to experience a roller coaster of emotions and thoughts, like waves of grief and fear, joy.
0:49.2	It's all quite overwhelming at times.
0:56.6	And I'm going to share a little bit about some of the things that have been happening to me.
1:04.2	But first, let me just mention that my guests today are Justine Wilshire-Cohen and Michael Ponti from Down Under Yoga in Boston.
1:16.4	And longtime listeners might remember, Justine was on the show almost three years ago.
1:21.4	We were talking about yoga teachers being either independent contractors 1099 or employees, W-2s.
1:33.8	And we do revisit that, you'll hear.
1:36.3	We first catch up.
1:40.1	But the real reason I reached out to them was, from what I could tell, they were doing as good a job as anyone I knew at tackling this new crazy situation.
1:56.4	So I was really happy that they were willing to come on, and they were very gracious to be quite
2:04.4	transparent and share what they've been doing. And I think you're going to appreciate this
2:10.2	conversation as much as I did. Let me also mention that I'm going to follow up next week
2:16.3	with another conversation with some yoga
2:18.9	center owners, smaller scale operation, certainly some differences in how they're handling things.
2:26.1	But a lot of same themes, it seems to me, I found both of the conversations really helpful
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