In this episode of Yoga Biz Camp, host Michael Jay is joined by special guest Stephanie Breaux Bradley to discuss the importance of self-care for yoga studio owners. Despite some technical difficulties during the recording, Michael and Stephanie dive into the topic and share their personal experiences and insights.
The conversation begins with a humorous anecdote about Stephanie's unconventional lighting setup for the podcast recording. Michael commends Stephanie for her consistent commitment to self-care, even with a busy schedule and various responsibilities. They acknowledge the challenges faced by studio owners in finding balance and managing both the business and personal aspects of their lives.
Stephanie reflects on her journey as a studio owner and how she sometimes neglected her own self-care during that time. However, she emphasizes the noticeable impact that consistent self-care has on her overall well-being and how it affects her interactions with others. Michael jokingly highlights Stephanie's dedication to fitness, remarking that it helps prevent her from resorting to drastic measures!
Throughout the episode, Michael and Stephanie touch on the importance of finding a consistent self-care routine, the benefits it brings to studio owners, and the positive influence it has on their overall mindset and approach to life.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley
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Michael Jay - Yoga Biz Champ
Michael Jay, the Yoga Biz Champ, stands as the go-to Yoga Business Consultant, embarked on a mission to elevate yoga studios from mere survival to genuine thriving.
With a rich background as a yoga teacher, former studio owner, marketing expert, and yoga studio business coach, he possesses the insider knowledge necessary to elevate your yoga venture to new heights.
His passion for yoga, combined with a sharp business acumen and a sincere desire to see studio owners excel, encapsulates his professional ethos. Michael is not one to offer one-size-fits-all advice; instead, he's dedicated to providing tailored guidance, tangible outcomes, and supporting your studio to emerge as the next Yoga Biz Champ in your community.
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In this episode of Yoga Biz Camp, host Michael Jay is joined by special guest Stephanie Breaux Bradley to discuss the importance of self-care for yoga studio owners. Despite some technical difficulties during the recording, Michael and Stephanie dive into the topic and share their personal experiences and insights.
The conversation begins with a humorous anecdote about Stephanie's unconventional lighting setup for the podcast recording. Michael commends Stephanie for her consistent commitment to self-care, even with a busy schedule and various responsibilities. They acknowledge the challenges faced by studio owners in finding balance and managing both the business and personal aspects of their lives.
Stephanie reflects on her journey as a studio owner and how she sometimes neglected her own self-care during that time. However, she emphasizes the noticeable impact that consistent self-care has on her overall well-being and how it affects her interactions with others. Michael jokingly highlights Stephanie's dedication to fitness, remarking that it helps prevent her from resorting to drastic measures!
Throughout the episode, Michael and Stephanie touch on the importance of finding a consistent self-care routine, the benefits it brings to studio owners, and the positive influence it has on their overall mindset and approach to life.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley
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Michael Jay - Yoga Biz Champ
Michael Jay, the Yoga Biz Champ, stands as the go-to Yoga Business Consultant, embarked on a mission to elevate yoga studios from mere survival to genuine thriving.
With a rich background as a yoga teacher, former studio owner, marketing expert, and yoga studio business coach, he possesses the insider knowledge necessary to elevate your yoga venture to new heights.
His passion for yoga, combined with a sharp business acumen and a sincere desire to see studio owners excel, encapsulates his professional ethos. Michael is not one to offer one-size-fits-all advice; instead, he's dedicated to providing tailored guidance, tangible outcomes, and supporting your studio to emerge as the next Yoga Biz Champ in your community.
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Michael Jay: [00:00:00] I'm starting recording.
God, I'm crying, I'm sweating. I just asked Stephanie, I've got a new piece of software that I'm using to record my my podcast video recording. So I just asked Stephanie, do you have another lie? Can you brighten it up a little bit so we can, she went into the closet, I was expecting a ring light to come out and she bought a big ass standing living room lamp.
I don't
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: even know if they make these anymore.
Michael Jay: Hi Steph. I don't, we weren't really prepared to start here, but we're, here we are. Here we go again. My good buddy, Stephanie Bro Bradley is joining us for another episode of Yoga Biz Camp with myself, Michael J. And we are going to be talking today about self care for studio owners. Enjoy. [00:01:00] Please note that we had a ton of technical issues recording this.
Mostly on Stephanie's side. We're crappy internet and a whole bunch of things going wrong. So the episode's a little bit choppy and there's a little bit of an echo on Stephanie's side. Oh
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: god, okay.
Michael Jay: Welcome, this is my good friend, my, my business consulting wife, Stephanie Burr Bradley. Hey Steph. Hey guys, what's up?
You always make me laugh. Ah, I knew that. Never fails. Thank you so much. Speaking of laughing, hey, this is Yoga Biz Camp. That's not my usual opening.
I'm Michael J. Just in case you're logging out to this. All so funnily enough, we're laughing our heads off here. And our conversation today is about self care for studio owners. So Stephanie and I are both Have been studio owners. We [00:02:00] both work with studio owners on a daily basis But this conversation is actually coming out of yours and Ike our conversation where I sat down with you on day and I'm like You I'm so impressed by No matter what's going on in your life.
You've got kids you've got I mean you've got a lot going on right in your life Okay, we're recording So this podcast came out of you and I having a personal conversation and I looked at how you, no matter what you've got going in on your life, you are consistent with your healthcare. You like your fitness and you're working out.
Like you never let that falter. And I feel like I am being very ADHD. I'm. All in, or I'm not, right? [00:03:00] So I go through spurts and you and I both have had, health scares. We can talk about that in a little bit, but I want to know about your consistency and. How you stick at that, because I know there's a lot of studio owners out there that struggle with balance of life.
All the responsibilities of a studio and all the people stuff that they have to deal with. So I'm curious about your consistency into your own self care.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: It's funny that you bring that up because as I reflect back it, I think that my most inconsistent time of self care was when I was a studio
Michael Jay: owner.
Me
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: too. Yeah. Interesting. Like that was the reason why I got into it. It's because I got so much from the particular modality that I chose to, Go down and then I found myself. Oh my god. This is the perfect fit I can own a place where I can work out like this is great And then I found that my practice had fallen to the wayside because there were so many [00:04:00] other things to take care of That being said It is very noticeably to myself and those that quote unquote love me and around me when I am NOT in a consistent practice Because it affects my demeanor, my mood, my attitude, the way that I deal with it.
Well,
Michael Jay: let's be honest. You said if you didn't, if you didn't work out, you'd kill somebody.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: Yeah. It's I need to go run over somebody on purpose, which is not something to joke about. So please know that we're being sarcastic, but it is my, it's, it started off in my life as being that mental release, right?
Like when life gets really hard. And you just did a plank for two minutes. It's shit, bring it on. I can handle anything. And then, as you mentioned before about the health scare, I feel like me keeping up with my practice and then developing a connection of mind to body is what helped me during that whole process.
It helps me connect [00:05:00] with my body to really listen to it. When it says something's off, I need you to pay attention and it helped me journey through it all. So for me, it's not a choice. It's like a duty, but I don't look at it as a duty because I really do get a lot out of it. So
Michael Jay: when you're in that, when you're in that mood, when you're in that mood of I just don't, I just don't feel like doing it today.
How'd you get yourself there?
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: Sometimes I don't, sometimes I choose a different outlet because as we know, which I think is really important as studio owners to keep in mind is that, especially in the women in this area, the place where you work out tends to be like your third safe space. Like you have your home, you have work and then you have the place that you go for your outlet to work out.
And I think for a lot of us, sometimes we need a shift in our life or in our journey or in our day to day [00:06:00] routine. So it took me a while when I was a studio owner and now that I'm on The End, I think that a lot of us, especially women, sometimes we need a shift in what we're doing because we feel stuck and there's something that needs to change.
And for me right now, it's re evaluating where it is I am going to work out. Maybe that is the shift. And I bring this up because I think this is such an important topic for us to talk about. Because when someone chooses, for whatever reason, to lose, to leave your space, I always feel like it's really important to have them leave as graciously with open arms.
So when they're ready to come back, those arms are there. Because a lot of the time it has nothing to do with you.
Michael Jay: 13 years of owning a yoga studio, I can't tell you the cycles of people coming and going. And it is, and actually my I used to take it super personally and my partner was a hairdresser and said, [00:07:00] just do a great job.
They'll go try somewhere else. They'll go do something else, but if you just keep doing a great job, they'll come back. And I took that on into my own business and it's okay, no problem. And sure enough, over the years, sometimes people came back seven times.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: You want to alleviate any awkwardness because they're on a journey to find something.
Yeah. And sometimes it's the routine, the daily routine or the weekly routine. That's a great
Michael Jay: point. Yeah.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: Yeah. But for me it is also, I mean like entrepreneurship can be lonely and so sometimes for me that one hour that I venture out from my computer on my desk or on my calls is that connection that I need.
Michael Jay: Yeah. Do you have community where you go? I do.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: I do. Yeah.
Michael Jay: Sometimes. Is that a fact? Is that a factor in you where you choose to go?
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: Oh my God, absolutely. I've been to places where I loved the exercise, but it wasn't my people. [00:08:00] Yeah. Yes, I do think it definitely plays a role.
Michael Jay: Yeah. My therapy, so I went through in the summer, I had a week where, let's just say I had a lot of triggers and in that week.
I didn't, I lost myself. I didn't know who I was. Like it was like my, the things that were coming out of my mouth, the thoughts I was having, the responses I was having to loved ones. It was like, who is this? This is not yoga, Michael at all. Yeah. And also on that note, as a yoga studio owner, there was always a lot of pressure to be.
You were held up as on a pedestal of, the assumptions that you eat properly, that you don't eat, I had people in the grocery stores Looking in my basket going. Oh, I didn't realize that you ate chocolate chip cookies I
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: think it's the lamp. [00:09:00] I think it's the
Michael Jay: lamp Steph keeps cutting out
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: It's the electricity. Cause I didn't go work out this morning.
Michael Jay: Yeah Anyway, I, so I had this week where I was not myself and my, I like, I got to do something about this. And I have an amazing therapist and if you don't have a therapist, I really do recommend and I don't go very often, but there was a time where I went weekly, I did a lot of work.
And but now because this therapist knows me so well, it's fantastic. It's the best money spent because I don't have to go tell my backstory. I literally go there. This is what's going on, let's dig into it, and I leave feeling better, right? So it's maybe once every six months or so, I'll do a little, a check in when I need that external.
But, what he said to me, because as a very ADHD person, I'm... There's trouble with HADHD, and there's also, it's a superpower, and the superpower is that you can get hyper focused. So if you want to do a project, [00:10:00] or you want to launch a website, or whatever, do a client project, it's like you're all in, and that's all that exists.
The downside of that is... For me, everything else goes to shit. So it's if I'm if I'm working on a rebrand on myself where you're like intense and working long hours, trying to do all this I'm not able to balance. I have a hard time balancing that. Self care, they're getting outside for roller skating, all of that stuff goes, just goes to the wayside.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: And... But doesn't that all come down to time management and stuff also?
Michael Jay: It does, and we'll get there, actually, we'll get there. But his advice to me was, which has stuck with me, is that... Put yourself first. We all know that. We all hear it, but he said, just put yourself first, your health and your wellbeing first.
Schedule that first. And then everything else will fall into place. So I'm trying to live by that right now. And it's not easy.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: You know what? I would [00:11:00] open my eyes to it. And I'm trying to remember the exact test that it was called, but it was basically when it comes to work performance, what are the hours that you are most productive by answering a series of questions?
Hundred percent. Yeah. And I'm most productive from 10 a. m. to 2 p. m., which makes a hell of a lot of sense. And I feel like after taking that test, it gave me some permission. You can work out in the morning, because you're not really going to be generating your best quality work until 10 a. m.
anyway, so you might as well work out before. And in a weird way, that gave me permission for it being okay for putting myself first. So I usually go work out in the morning and that way in my most productive time I'm sitting here getting it all done I am not an afternoon worker outer. It sounds good in my head Yeah, and I will figure out a way to talk myself out of it so Everyone who did not have a late cancel or a no show policy needs to install it for this reason because you have to sign up ahead of time to get a spot, right?
I go to a studio that has reformers so there's limited capacity. [00:12:00] I'm not going to want to cancel if there's a charge that's going to come to me. Yeah.
Michael Jay: Yep.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: So that is also a thing that I need to make the appointment. I know that there's going to be a consequence if I don't, and I always feel better after.
Michael Jay: Yeah. My yeah I actually quite, I spent a lot of time with my yoga studio owners. I spend a lot of time talking to my studio owners about time blocking and I'll even share my calendar because I do, as an ADHD person, systems work for me. So I need systems. I need to know that there's a hook for my keys when I come in the door.
And, else you're never going to find those keys. By the way, I have an AirTag on my second system. I have an AirTag tracking device on the keys on my wallet. You don't have the clapper? Did your lamp go off? Light went off.
But I actually have, I do that really is the time blocking and I have different colors for, and I actually block in [00:13:00] health care and I'm the same way, knowing the best way you work and building your life around that. So I am 8am to 2pm. I'm good. You're not getting the best of me at 3pm pacific time in the afternoon, but you're getting the best of me in
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: the morning.
Make sure that whoever's listening does not think that. We figured out a system at tie in tight and like it's a process and a journey starting off every Monday and you tweak it. Like you're like, okay, this is working for awhile. I need to make some adjustments kind of thing because right now as we're having this podcast, I'm in a lull and I haven't worked out for a handful of days cause I was traveling and now I'm starting to feel the effects of it.
So I should apologize ahead of time if I offend anyone cause I'm due for a class.
Michael Jay: What's a good time to get you on. All right. I'm going to go through a few things we're going to talk about discussion topics, mindfulness and meditation. [00:14:00] Do you do anything around that?
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: I would love to learn how to meditate.
I have a really hard time turning my brain off. My tiptoeing into that was I realized a couple of months ago that one of my loves is reading and I couldn't remember the last time I had read a good book. Yeah. So I went on Reese's Book Club and then Amazon and ordered a whole bunch of books and now that's starting off my meditation routine.
There's a certain time of day when I take a bath, candles, incense, you got it going on and I sit in my bathtub and I read. And my hope is that I'm creating a space and a routine, so that can also lend itself to starting a meditation practice by just starting to create what the atmosphere needs to look like.
And I also realize that when I stick to that routine, I sleep better. I don't know if [00:15:00] it's the journey of turning your brain off and focusing on something else. Because for me to start out the meditation program is when I, it's complete silence, my head's just going. So how do I train it to not keep going and right now it's losing myself in a book.
Michael Jay: That's great. Yeah. I like the and I am on the Goodreadtoons. I do actually like the Calm app. That's my British accent. I think I even have some of that now. C A L M. Yeah, but the reason I like that, because as an instructor, you're always leading, those things as a, especially as a yoga teacher.
So it's so nice to be led and directed through, through a meditation and I
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: also think that. This is my goal now that since I'm living in Louisiana, we're just now getting off of habitating on the sun. I always feel better after an evening walk.
Michael Jay: Yeah. I love going for a [00:16:00] walk. I think it's good for
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: cortisol levels and all that kind of fun stuff.
It's just, I want to get back in that practice also.
Michael Jay: Yeah. I'll add one more into that one. And my good friend, Coach Ki, that's been on a few of my podcasts, she said to me once, Just try not to always be inputting. So that is, because I'm always listening to podcasts, music, YouTube, learning, all of this stuff.
She said, just go for a walk and turn it off and let your thoughts come. And honestly, God, the most creative times came through those times where you just turn it all off. The input.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: Don't you think it depends on. Your space, like it's really odd for me. If I go in a certain space, it's very easy for me to decompress.
Where if I go in certain other spaces, it's very difficult. Like I don't need to be in a room with a TV cause I'm a think it needs to be on. But if I'm like on the porch or somewhere, [00:17:00] people are going to know I'm from the South cause I have a porch just zoning out, then it's easier for me to just be, because I think we do run, I think nowadays it's you always have to feel like you have to be on something, not drugs. Like stimulation, like when you're sitting in the doctor's office, normally you would just look around. Now everybody's like face down. I don't know. Now you've got TikTok on. There's really not a lot of time to be, exactly. And you're doing a, yeah.
Michael Jay: Yeah, for sure. What about nutrition?
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: That's a big one for me. I didn't realize how much what I ate affected me. Until I went through my health journey and good, bad, or indifferent, I can't eat a lot of things I shouldn't eat anymore because of the way my body reacts to it. But I am naturally feel better if I make good choices.
Do I make good choices all the time? No. [00:18:00] And I'm okay with that. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely balanced. But as a whole, I feel better. Yeah. My one go to always is, Drinking a lot of water.
Michael Jay: Yeah, mine's going to a chocolate cookie.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: I am making cookies this afternoon for my son. I do have a sweet tooth. Okay, if you walk away with nothing from this podcast today, the key to a good cookie is using cake mix.
Michael Jay: Ah, maybe we're gonna drop it. Should we drop your drop your recipe in the show notes?
I
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: don't think so because I think I stole it from someone, so I have to figure out who I stole it from so that I make sure I give them credit.
Michael Jay: Do you want to record this podcast today. Choppy internet, Steph dropping in and out. It's like the
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: But we have light, people.
Michael Jay: All right. We've got a dog barking in the background. I had a gardener here earlier before. All [00:19:00] right. We've gone over time management. We've gone over physical exercise, a bit of nutrition work life balance.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: I think you know what I think it comes down to. I think it comes down to getting out of your comfort zone.
Michael Jay: Tell me more about
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: that. I'm just thinking out loud as we're talking. If you go do something that you normally do, then your mind has the chance to wander into all of the things that could be else's territory. You're very Upsetting you, stressing you out in your life, and not allow you to just decompress.
If you go do something that's out of your comfort zone, that you don't know a lot about, then you're invested, your mind and body is invested in learning what that journey is, and you're paying attention to either A, not make an ass out of yourself or hurt yourself, or B, to try and really connect with whatever activity it is.
I
Michael Jay: think most people joining some type of fitness facility, [00:20:00] are going through those kind of concerns.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: But like for me right now, I think I'm looking for something new because mine is like maybe too much of a routine. That can especially
Michael Jay: happen in some types of yoga where it's a set routine, it's a set sequence, but there's also a beauty to that too.
I
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: came in. Exactly. And I think you ebb and flow. I think that's why this circles back to what we started off saying, when someone is in their journey, it could have nothing to do with you. It could do listen, I just need to break out of my routine for a hot second. Yeah. Type of thing.
Michael Jay: Because when I first started yoga, I went through the Ashtanga door and the Ashtanga it's a set sequence, right?
You learn a set sequence. Is that a Bikram? It never changes. No. Bikram is the same kind of thing. It's a set sequence. They're 26 postures done twice, I believe. But no, this is but it's a set, it's a set. sequence. But what I've enjoyed about that in back in the day was it is a [00:21:00] meditate. That is a meditative practice because you don't have to think, what's coming.
You just go through that. But I do like the thought about, challenging yourself to do something different because that, because it's about the brain too. And you're emotional.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: Wellbeing. And what can you learn from something else, some other modality, some other teacher to allow you to be a student again and take that back in your journey of practice, whatever you decide to do.
What are you a
Michael Jay: student of right now?
Patience. Patience. Yeah. I'm a very reactive person. It's a hard one, isn't it?
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: And it's very interesting too. Tell people that I'm more patient than I used to be in them going. Oh shit kind of thing, but I think Patience with others, but more importantly patience with myself. Yeah, [00:22:00] and I think nowadays Especially as we're talking to studio owners and this entrepreneurial journey where it's go and I've realized about myself that Hey, I have a hero complex.
I want to come in and save the day for everyone. And I need to be okay with the fact of downtime without being productive, because I equate not doing anything, being unproductive, being lazy and being not valued. And so I feel like I have to do stuff all the time. And sometimes you, as we all know, you need that downtime to fill your cup.
So you can be more productive. And that's where my patients that I'm working on right now. What does downtime look like? Cause it needs to be scheduled just like everything else is.
Michael Jay: True, right? I took a Friday and I'm in California right now. And so I took a Friday and, we're coming into Vancouver, [00:23:00] Canada, fall season, which means a lot of rain, a lot of months and months of gray.
So I took a day in California, we went to the beach to Laguna beach and just being under an umbrella, laying in warm sand, listening to the waves and there was nothing else. That was it for the whole day and it was just like magical. We both left feeling like totally rejuvenated and then you get into LA traffic and drive an hour and a half home.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: Hey, that's like SEC football games. You go to tailgating all day and you have a great time. You go to the football game and then you're like, wait a minute, I have to wait three hours to get home because everybody's getting in their car. Yep. Takes the phone out of it. I feel you. I feel you. So yeah, I struggle with the downtime because it's like I want enough downtime but not too much for my head to go down like a rabbit hole where it doesn't need to
Michael Jay: go.
And I think, where, I find that I, as an independent person, an independent person that runs their own life and their own business, [00:24:00] like we do, we have to. make a lot of decisions. And, but we also have to do a lot of learning, I find. We have to, I find that I'm constantly having to spend time on learning and upgrading.
What do you do to better yourself that way?
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: I'm trying to, I'm always in a constant state of finding places to level up and trying to take those like tidbits with anything that could do that and have me thinking a little bit differently. So right now I'm in a quest when it comes to podcast and you and I have talked about this, is there information or insight to be gained outside of this bubble of an industry?
Yeah. To then bring back and apply like a new way of thinking or a new way to decipher something. Cause I think [00:25:00] we get so ingrained in the bubble that we don't realize. Yeah. So that's and that I attribute to you, a conversation that we have what does it look like again, going back to thinking outside the box, what does it look like?
But also like when you want advice or you're thinking about something, you usually go to somebody who's in that industry. Which I think there's a lot of value to it, but I also feel like there's a lot of value to different perspectives and how the outside consumer or person views the industry that could get you to look at things a little differently.
Michael Jay: You could say that in the, what I'm seeing the yoga world looking at differently right now is the way that they're structuring. Their pricing. , their, direct to membership was never a thing in our world. It was always in the fitness, gym world. , it was never in, we never went direct to membership and now it's like direct to membership and we've got marketing and communication.
There's a lot more [00:26:00] tools now
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: because I'm realizing for me, one of the in my journey of life and every either job, whether it was like a volunteer position or a paid job or whatever, One of the things that would frustrate me when I was learning something, and I would ask a question of why if the reason was told to me, because that's how it's always done.
No, no kind of thing. And so I think we as an industry owe it to ourselves to think outside. Is this, are you doing it this way? Because it's the best way to do it for your business model. Are you doing it? Because this is how it's always been done. For
Michael Jay: example someone looking, yeah, like I, I hear every single day, my pricing is this because my neighbors, the neighboring studio is this price.
Oh, okay. Do they have the same overhead? Do they have the, the same rent that you know it's definitely an interesting comparison. The one thing I want to touch on before we leave here is when [00:27:00] you get immersed in your studio life, for a yoga teacher, they start a yoga studio usually to serve and give back to the community and yoga is their passion.
And then something that happens along the way, and we stopped doing yoga.
Can you, do you have any correlation to that in your own experience as a studio owner, even though you weren't yoga?
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: Yeah. And I don't know, I think it's good and bad. And again, the timing of this is amazing. Like I'm in a space right now where class wise studio is modality. I'm ready to learn something different to.
I said before, to take that because I still teach classes, I teach the great classes and I always think that different things can be applicable. And I think. The best thing that we can do, although we don't always do it, is to continue being a student, but sometimes that's very difficult in the place that you own, so can you be a student somewhere else where you can walk in and not worry about if the towels are [00:28:00] folded, and not worry about if there's enough toilet paper, and not worry about the fact that the retail hasn't switched positions in three days kind of thing, because when you go in your own not that I always was great at it, but I think if you can be a student somewhere else.
Michael Jay: Yeah, I just had that. To keep it up. Yeah, I just had that. One of my studio owners was going through a tough kind of time personally and just didn't want to go face students every day at the studio and go be a student, but wanted to do yoga still.
So go be, go take classes.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: I think I'm in that journey now. It's just a combination of wanting to get out of my comfort zone, but then still wanting to make sure that I get a good workout if I'm paying for it. Yeah. Because we're snobs. Like you own a business and especially in this industry and you train and you teach.
And so you expect that level to be in every class that you go to. And
Michael Jay: yeah. Steph, [00:29:00] thanks for always coming on. Sharing
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: with all my technical capabilities and
Michael Jay: you're a big lamp. And I've had the technical issues today, so I'm going to have fun fun doing this podcast. Edit.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: I'm going to laugh if you're like, yes, it was all Stephanie's fault.
It wasn't the system at all. That was messed up.
Michael Jay: I'll do a real on Stephanie. I
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: fully expect to get that. Yeah, what did you do? Go ahead.
Michael Jay: Steph, tell people how they can find you.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: brobradleyconsulting. com. You can find my website or you can find me on LinkedIn. I'm on stephrobradley on Instagram. So yeah.
Michael Jay: And who do you serve?
The
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: greater good of the world.
I primarily work with Barr and Legree Studios. I don't think I think that's because I am more direct of a person. I'm not a sugar coder [00:30:00] and yeah, I like to work with people who want to think outside the box and. Bounce around in that area of gray enough to just not go to jail.
You should probably edit that out of the podcast.
Michael Jay: And most people don't know that you and I work together too. And I have in my, some of my packages that you work with me and. You will do an hour video meeting with my clients to go over KPIs, how to set them up, how to review them. So
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: I'm really excited about that collaboration because I think for you and I KPIs are going to paint the picture.
They're going to tell you the story of what's going on with your business. And they're just that they're just numbers. They're. And that story can change the next chapter, but it also needs to be approached from the human aspect of it. And so I really love the collaborations that we do when it comes to both of it.
And so for [00:31:00] those people who want a review of their pricing and a financial aspect, and also, the community social way. And
Michael Jay: I can't tell you the value of Stephanie being part of my team here with this, because we worked with one client and Stephanie, we went through all the numbers of an existing studio and she told them the magic number that they needed to hit to break even.
And that is so eye opening for people, right? To say that's the number you need to meet per class and and then we can set goals from there. So I'm really excited to be collaborating with you on this. And we're a good time. We are a good time. We are a good time.
Stephanie Breaux Bradley: It's important to have fun.
Michael Jay: I'm going to let you go. Got a busy day. Thank you. Thank you. You've got a, I see that you're on a thousand podcasts lately. My tour. Can we just say that I launched your career, your podcast career. Yes you can. Stephanie, thank you so much for being with me today. We'll talk again soon. Bye guys. [00:32:00] Hey there, yoga bizz champs.
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