Text me Your email for my Booking Link In this episode of Yoga Biz Camp, Michael Jay and fellow business consultant Stephanie Breaux Bradley discuss fall planning for yoga studio owners. They cover topics such as the importance of planning ahead, having a fresh perspective on your studio, and how to make the most of the fall season. Some key conversation points include: The benefits of having someone else evaluate your studio experience The importance of having a plan for fall How to prepare for...
Aug 16, 2023•47 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Text me Your email for my Booking Link In this episode, Michael reflects on his experience working with yoga studio owners and the common fears they face, particularly related to showing up on Instagram and in public. He shares his appreciation for podcasts as a platform for genuine conversations and explains why he has avoided solo episodes in the past. However, today he decides to break that pattern and dive into the current landscape of studio owners and their challenges. Michael discusses th...
Jun 29, 2023•29 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Text me Your email for my Booking Link In this episode of Yoga Biz Camp , Michael welcomes Chris Appiah from The Sales Arms and Stephanie Breaux Bradley. They discuss the importance of intro offers in the yoga and fitness industry and strategies to convert those intro offers into long-term memberships. Chris explains that the three-class offer works best for someone who is new to fitness and is looking for structure and guidance. On the other hand, an unlimited intro offer works best for someone...
Jun 22, 2023•55 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Text me Your email for my Booking Link In this episode of the Yoga Biz Camp podcast, Sinead introduces Offering Tree for studios, an all-in-one software for wellness professionals to manage their business. Michael and Mitch talk about the pros and cons of starting your own brick and mortar fitness studio and purchasing one. They discuss the importance of doing research and homework to find the right location, understanding the market rates, and finding a space that can accommodate your capacity ...
Jun 13, 2023•53 min•Season 3Ep. 7
Text me Your email for my Booking Link In this podcast, Michael Jay and Stephanie Breaux Bradley discuss grassroots marketing strategies for fitness studios. They emphasize the importance of creating a marketing and events calendar throughout the year to focus on business process improvement, financial solutions, budgeting, training, and revenue growth. They suggest plugging in local community events, seasonal cycles of your studio, and partnering with like-minded businesses to promote retention...
Jun 07, 2023•57 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Text me Your email for my Booking Link Crystal's shares her transformation from being a certified fitness trainer to becoming a highly sought-after consultant. Throughout her career, Crystal has gained invaluable experience in various sports and coaching different teams, making her a true authority in her field. In this episode, Crystal dives deep into the realm of retention strategies, shedding light on the significance of keeping your customer base engaged. She emphasizes the importance of a c...
May 31, 2023•1 hr•Season 3Ep. 5
Text me Your email for my Booking Link In this episode, Michael Jay welcomes back Lisa from Tucson Yoga Pod, who talks about her journey of opening a yoga studio. Lisa retired for the second time and went back to work after traveling extensively and visiting yoga studios all over the world. She developed her vision for the perfect yoga studio, a beautiful spa-like and welcoming environment where yoga is demystified through exceptional instructors who lead students on a journey where yoga is acce...
May 25, 2023•51 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Text me Your email for my Booking Link Hear a 4 minute powerful episode where yoga studio owner Lisa from Tucson YogaPod shares her journey with Mental Health with our listeners and her students. This is an excerpt from an upcoming episode of Yoga Biz Camp Lisa Cutts, owner of Tucson Yoga in Arizona, shares her journey with mental health on the podcast Yoga Biz Camp. In 2009, she fell ill and ended up in the ICU, unaware of the mind-body connection. Yoga became her refuge, slowing down her racin...
May 23, 2023•8 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Text me Your email for my Booking Link This podcast episode featuring John Homyk, founder of Loopspark, provides valuable insights and advice for our yoga studio owners. The conversation covers various topics including how to automate processes and track staff duties, the importance of customer outreach, and the benefits of using a comprehensive CRM platform like Loopspark. John explains how automations can help staff focus on building communities and growing attendance and sales, by freeing up ...
May 17, 2023•59 min
Text me Your email for my Booking Link In this episode with a Red Sun Yoga studio owner Sarah Morgan discusses her experience with ClassPass and the challenges she faced in building a membership-based business with it. She found that community-building events and adding value to her services were more effective strategies to attract customers. When she encountered issues with ClassPass, such as not receiving contact information for clients and having clients cancel at the last minute, she decide...
May 11, 2023•52 min•Season 3Ep. 1
Text me Your email for my Booking Link On this episode I talk with Valerie Kiser from Sunrise Yoga, we talk about how important human touch points are in winning back the trust of lost clients. This is a timely discussion that I think all studio owners will get something out of! Valerie Kiser Valerie Kiser has been the owner of Sunrise Yoga Studio in Clemmons, North Carolina for 19 years. She has been teaching for 23 years and has the titles of ERYT500 and C-IAYT (certified yoga therapist) in ad...
Aug 02, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Text me Your email for my Booking Link On this podcast we speak about: How Jennifer got started in yoga during the peace movement of the 70’s and was influenced by the Beatles She started with Sharon Babtiste Her trips to India and the Ganges river moved her so deeply that she pursued yoga and left the corporate and professor world A benefactor invested under a million dollars to open her studio on Los Gatos California . She opened big with a 2 room studio running 50 classes with a teahouse and ...
Jun 20, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Text me Your email for my Booking Link Yoga Pod Tucson - LISA CUTTSIt all started back in late 2017 when Brian and Lisa Cutts started planning for Lisa to retire for the second time (not one to sit still, Lisa went back to work after 18 months of retirement once before). As a corporate executive in the enterprise software space, Lisa traveled extensively and was able to visit yoga studios all over the world. During this time, she developed her vision for the perfect yoga studio … a beautiful spa...
May 12, 2022•57 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Text me Your email for my Booking Link Jill Agonias is a young entrepreneur fueled by a passion for seemingly impossible challenges. As a yoga teacher, rock climber, surfer, world traveler, and philanthropist, Jill’s motivated to share her love of yoga, obsession with adventure, and advocacy for equity through Sol Seek Yoga Studio. Before owning Sol Seek, Jill helped lead Vitamin Angels’ marketing strategy - a global nonprofit that gives lifesaving vitamins to underserved populations. After near...
May 06, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Text me Your email for my Booking Link This is such a fun story for me to share. This a magical experience of how 4 people connected and made a yoga studio open in 4 months with zero obstacles to opening : An experience ashtanga yoga instructor A hipster lawyer that cares for the Hudson valley A business Consultant @yogabizchamp And and astrologer that weaved it all together! In 4 months we: Renovated a studio / Buildout Created Mission Vision Values Hired and entire team Created onboarding syst...
Mar 24, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Text me Your email for my Booking Link Connie Holen is a web designer, digital strategist and Mindbody Certified Business Consultant. Her boutique web design agency, Pixality Design, works with yoga and fitness business owners to create search engine optimized, Squarespace websites that are easily found, are easy to update and provide visitors with an amazing online experience. Connie is also a retired Air Force Pilot, mom to 4 boys and lives just outside of Lincoln, Nebraska with her husband of...
Mar 14, 2022•43 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Text me Your email for my Booking Link Danielle Barbeau is the owner and CEO of The River Yoga , an independent studio with three locations, in Denver, CO. On this episode of Yoga Biz Camp with Michael Jay we explore: How Danielle implemented her leadership skills and how that translates to building her team up to help them love their job to feel seen heard, known and lovingly challenged. The Importance or Mission, Vision and Values for a Yoga Business. How the River onboards new team members by...
Feb 15, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Text me Your email for my Booking Link WELCOME TO SEASON 2 OF YOGA BIZ CAMP I am so excited to kick of the year with Jennifer Pahl from Twist Yoga. Jennifer gives some amazing tips on how to she runs her studio, what KPI's she tracks, how she gets students, how to retain students. Put your headphones on, get your notebook out because this episode is packed with sound advise! About Jennifer Pahl: After many years spent dabbling in every fitness style known to womankind, Twist Yoga founder Jennife...
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Text me Your email for my Booking Link My most downloaded podcast of 2021 was Buying and Selling a Yoga Studio with Mitch McGinley. I welcome Mitch back to talk about 2022. Buying, Selling and FINANCING a yoga studio. Mitch talks about how he is starting to see movement with SBA Financing in the US . MITCH MCGINLEY Mitch McGinley is a Business Broker, Consultant, and Advisor, specializing in the health and wellness industry. Mitch began his career as an Operations Manager with Omni Hotels, and w...
Dec 16, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Text me Your email for my Booking Link On this episode I welcome my friend and fellow yoga geek back - Rachel Scott. We have a casual chat about what we are seeing in the industry, what opportunities are available for yoga businesses and how to create a successful yoga course. Rachel is a teacher trainer, author, and education expert, and is committed to helping teachers and studios manifest their vision, passion, and potential. With a MSci in Instructional Systems and Learning Technologies, she...
Dec 09, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Text me Your email for my Booking Link Laura Munkholm is the President and Co-Founder of Walla, a new Studio Management platform for the next generation of Fitness Studios. She lives and works by the motto that happiness is the highest form of health. Her experience consulting for hundreds of studios around the world, along with managing a studio and teaching yoga for over 12 years, gave her a first-hand glimpse into the challenges and opportunities of running a boutique studio. This led her to ...
Nov 16, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Text me Your email for my Booking Link On this episode I am honoured to spend time talking to John Motz - Mindbody Online’s Senior Vice President & GM, of Fitness & Integrative Health John joined the Mindbody team in 2020. He is a technology-savvy leader with significant experience in SMB and Enterprise SaaS software. His management philosophy includes utilizing creativity to design strategies and execute solutions that create products and services customers love. During his time at Intu...
Oct 22, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Text me Your email for my Booking Link On this episode, Katie Santos - Fellow Mindbody Business Consultant and Fitness HR expert talks about why studios are switching from hiring contractors to employees. We also talk about the onboarding process and how to get employees all rowing in the same direction as well as her motto 'hire slow and fire slow' Katie Santos is the founder of Katie Santos Consulting and Fitness HR ™ - an internationally recognized Movement Teacher with a 38-year track record...
Sep 23, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Text me Your email for my Booking Link On this episode, Eric Pierra - Fellow Mindbody Business Champ and President of YogaBody Studios talks about their studio surviving the pandemic, the importance of building an amazing team and putting software automations into place that have made them the number one reviewed studio in all of California. Eric is part owner and President of YogaBody Studios in Southern California. Eric has 25 years experience in the Wellness industry as a Chiropractor working...
Sep 17, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Text me Your email for my Booking Link On this episode, Ingrid Thompson - Fellow Mindbody Business Consultant talks about how important keeping an eye on your business finances can save your yoga business. Ingrid talks about her upbringing and why finances became important to her and why she cares so deeply that people and health and wellness businesses thrive with a profit mentality. She give advice for yoga studio and solopreneurs starting up and how to overcome the mindset challenges around m...
Jul 20, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Text me Your email for my Booking Link This episode is for Yoga Studio Biz Champs! Communication for Yoga Studios. As we are reopening communication we should be spending a lot of time communicating with" - Existing Customers - Lost Customers - New Customers - and our Staff and Instructors ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Michael Jay - Yoga Biz Champ Michael Jay, the Yoga Biz Champ, stands as the go-to Y...
Jul 16, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Text me Your email for my Booking Link Welcome to Yoga Biz Camp with me Michael Jay. I'm a yoga business coach with 25+ years of experience as a creative and yoga business owner and some of you may know me from the Yoga Alliance Business of Yoga Webinars Every day, I help yogis turn their passion into a sustainable yoga business. For 13years, I ran and then sold a profitable yoga studio. I believe in sharing this experience to help others like me pursue their dream and actually succeed. In this ...
Jun 30, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Text me Your email for my Booking Link Welcome to Yoga Biz Camp with me Michael Jay. I'm a yoga business coach with 25+ years of experience as a creative and yoga business owner and some of you may know me from the Yoga Alliance Business of Yoga Webinars Every day, I help yogis turn their passion into a sustainable yoga business. For 13years, I ran and then sold a profitable yoga studio. I believe in sharing this experience to help others like me pursue their dream and actually succeed. In this ...
Jun 25, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Text me Your email for my Booking Link On this episode, I talk to one of my solopreneur yoga business coaching clients, Annette Arceneaux. Annette recently launched her virtual yoga signature yoga series to great success. She started with no audience and we worked together over a few months to find her purpose, find her ideal clients, create a registered yoga signature series that actually sells. Annette met and exceeded her goals and shares her experience on creating and marketing her signature...
Jun 18, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Text me Your email for my Booking Link I am thrilled to welcome Katie Donzanti a yoga studio owner in Orlando Florida and fellow Mindbody Champ. Today she shares what it was like opening a yoga studio with accessibility and inclusivity and at the forefront for her business model and how she walks the talk. She also shares her personal resilience as a studio owner making it through the pandemic and leaves us with some hope moving forward. Katie Donzanti is a wife, mother, rebel, change-maker, &am...
Jun 08, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 4
