Rachel Brathen: Staying True to Your Values in the Face of Success

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Yoga, Yogaland, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2016

⏱️ 57 minutes

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You might know Rachel Brathen as "Yoga Girl" on Instagram -- she's one of the original yoga insta-stars and has 2 million followers. Two million! That's crazay! And yet, despite this quick rise to fame, Rachel is incredibly down-to-earth and not afraid to say that the superficial side of social media can suck the life out of a person from time to time. I wanted to know what makes Rachel tick, so I tried to dig into how she's become the teacher (and student) she is today.Shownotes: yogalandpodcast.com/episode22/

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0:30.0	Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 22 of Yoga Land.
0:34.4	I am so excited for today's episode.
0:41.7	My guest is Rachel Braithan also known as
0:44.8	Yoga Girl on Instagram. I've been following Rachel for several years and there's two
0:50.9	things that I've always admired about her.
0:53.0	First is her transparency.
0:54.6	She's very, very honest, always brutally honest in her posts
0:58.0	about how she truly feels about things.
1:00.4	And I think that's pretty refreshing in the yoga world.
1:03.0	Also, her business acumen at her young age,
1:06.0	right now she has, she's building a yoga studio on Aruba.
1:10.0	She has 108 TV.com, which has yoga and sort of holistic health videos.
1:16.0	She has a pet adoption service and she has a non-profit organization that does projects all over the world benefiting people all over the world
1:24.8	and she has a SEP yoga business so she's just really quite amazing I think she's
1:31.8	about 27 years old now and she's accomplished a lot. I think it's also pretty
1:36.7	phenomenal just to talk to someone who has 2 million Instagram followers and to ask them what that's really like and kind of some of the shadow sides.
1:46.6	So we had a great talk.
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