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9 to 5ish with theSkimm

Sarah Larson Levey, CEO of Y7 Studio: “There’s no good time to start.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

ICYMI, we’re on tour for “How To Skimm Your Life” (https://theskimm.com/book). While we’re away, here’s a quick chat we had with Sarah Larson Levey. She’s the co-founder and CEO of Y7 Studio, the yoga company she founded with her now-husband in 2013. Back then, she worked in fashion full-time. And their studio was a small weekend pop-up in Brooklyn. Now, she’s built it into a national chain. On the Couch, she talks to us about turning her side hustle into a main hustle (3:00), working with her husband (8:31), and scaling her brand (11:45). We’ll be back next week with more “Skimm’d from the Couch.”

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0:00.0

I think the biggest thing that I would say to people is like there's no good time to start.

0:05.2

Like you're never going to feel like you have enough money, you're never going to feel like you're ready enough,

0:08.6

you just kind of have to, and it'll work itself out if it's meant to be.

0:14.0

I'm Carly Zaken.

0:16.0

I'm Danielle Weisberg.

0:17.0

Welcome to Skim from the couch.

0:18.0

This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.

0:22.0

From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.

0:25.0

To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary

0:28.0

and giving or getting hard feedback.

0:30.5

We started the skim from a couch,

0:32.0

so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch?

0:36.0

So please welcome Sarah Larson Levy to the couch.

0:46.0

Sarah originally moved to New York to work in fashion in 2009 and like a lot of people in the city

0:51.5

she started taking fitness classes to stay in shape.

0:54.4

But after a while she got fed up with the traditional workouts and yoga classes.

0:58.4

So in 2013, she and her now husband Mason started their own yoga company, Y7 Studio.

1:06.0

And over the past six years it's gone from a small weekend pop-up in Brooklyn to a national chain.

1:12.0

Y7 has been named one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S.

1:16.0

and it's definitely a favorite here at Skim HQ.

1:20.0

So we're going to talk about how she did it and what she learned along the way.

1:23.2

Sarah, welcome to the couch.

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