Category: Friday with Friends

Jillian Turecki is a yoga teacher, life coach, and all-around stellar human being. After a series of setbacks in life, including a divorce and the death of her mom, she was introduced to the world of coaching and found her second calling. She got her certification, attended live events, and totally immersed herself in the world of coaching.

She has learned so much about how to help others deal with the burdens life throws at all of us. Over six years of coaching people, she’s developed so much content that she created a membership site to make this information as accessible as possible.

Resources:

• jillianturecki.com
• Instagram: @jillianturecki

Sarah Scharf is the author of “Holding Space,” which takes us through  step-by-step investigation into how the words, tone, volume, and intention of our speech meld together to create communication.

She originally wrote the book for yoga teachers, but anyone can benefit from learning how to communicate better, use their voice, and find their breath. Holding space for yourself as a teacher is important, because you need to have confidence that what you are teaching holds value, and today, you’re going to get a crash course.

Resources:

• sarahscharf.com
• Read: “Holding Space”
• Instagram: @sarahscharfyoga
• Facebook: facebook.com/YogawithSarahScharf

Ellen Boeder and Jayson Gaddis are a married couple, both psychotherapists, and they practice LYT™ Daily! Jayson is the founder of The Relationship School, as well as the host of The Relationship School Podcast, and he has a lot to say about becoming a good partner.

Ellen Boeder, MA, LPC is a psychotherapist and coach for couples in Boulder, Colorado, who has been interested in how relationships actually work for as long as she can remember. Studying with innovative researchers and cutting edge practitioners in the field of psychology, relationships, and yoga for over 20 years has helped her integrate her approach to working with people in a sensitive, straightforward, deeply informed and embodied way. The most high-level training she does is usually at home with her husband and two young children, as she finds her way through the real, raw, and beautiful experience of being deeply intertwined with others. Ellen is also a faculty member for The Relationship School, a long time yoga practitioner, and writes a blog that incorporates her studies in psychology with her life experience as a mother, called Rearranged by Motherhood.

We talk about their relationship, Jayson’s development of a relationship school, and being trained as a trauma-informed yoga practitioner. We also dive into what happens when one person in a relationship starts changing, and the other person gets left behind.

Resources:

• relationshipschool.com
• Listen: relationshipschool.com/relationship-school-podcast
• Instagram: @jaysongaddis | @ellenboeder

Sunny Bonnell is the co-author of the groundbreaking career and business book “Rare Breed: A Guide to Success for the Defiant, Dangerous, and Different.” Sunny and her co-author Ashleigh Hansberger are also the founders of a popular YouTube series and the game-changing leadership and culture consultancy, Motto.

While working as a branding agency, Sunny realized that many businesses wanted to hire the rebel… but they didn’t actually know how to work with the rebel. She set out to make sure that people knew how to leverage their unique gifts—and that businesses knew how to embrace them.

Resources:

• wearemotto.com
• Instagram: @sunnybonnell
• Read: “Rare Breed”
• Take the Quiz: rarebreedquiz.com
• @thisisrarebreed
• @wearemotto

Craig Ramsay is here to uplift us all. He’s a genuinely talented individual, and is known as one of the most entertaining fitness experts in the industry. Colin Farrel once called him “genius,” and Sharon Osborne said he is brilliant. He’s also listed as one of People Magazine’s Top Fitness Experts.

Craig noticed, when he started bringing fitness for the masses, there was a sense of alienation there. He decided to strive to lighten the mood energetically, bring people to enjoy working out and enjoying their bodies. He manages this by making working out fun again, by incorporating stretches with wine tasting and running with slot machines. He’s tapping into the things that will actually motivate someone to incorporate fitness into their lifestyle, and it works!

Resources:

• craigramsay.com
• Instagram: @craigramsayfit
• Facebook: facebook.com/CraigRamsayFit
• Twitter: twitter.com/craigramsayfit

Jordan David, otherwise known as @Conscious_Muscle on Instagram, is an online vegan trainer, super jacked, and a man with a heart of gold. He was always into fitness and personal training, and one of his clients went vegan and started talking about all the benefits of it. His first reaction was to laugh. She bet him that if he could give her a few paragraphs of why veganism doesn’t support her health, she’d give him $500 and quit being vegan. She knew exactly what she was doing.

After delving into everything he could find, Jordan came away with the realization that the way he was eating was not going to give him the life he wanted as he got old and his kids grew up. Then he was exposed to the ethical consequences of eating meat, and he immediately went vegan and never looked back.

We touch on the changes he noticed in both physical and spiritual realms, how he incorporated veganism into his body building brand, and how to supplement your diet.

Resources:

• consciousmuscle.net
• Use LYT15 for 15% off your entire order at checkout
• cmsupplements.com
• Instagram: @conscious_muscle

Ryan Orrico is a former yoga teacher and he has a lot to say about his experience. He’s fascinating, entertaining, and a slightly polarizing figure in the yoga world.

Instagram tends to be so curated and professional, so it’s incredibly refreshing to see someone drop the filter and stop taking things so seriously. He wasn’t a big fan of the way most yoga teachers used Instagram—it felt very fake—but he also didn’t feel great about putting himself out there. Eventually, he started posting short, 60-second videos to help him get over his fear of being on camera. Quickly the videos became more interesting than the yoga he was teaching!

In one of his videos, he paused to give people a chance to drink some water, and a student said “we’re not allowed to drink water in ashtanga classes,” and this really annoyed him. He made some posts throwing rocks at the idea of this, and it got a lot of attention! People had such a strict perception of what a yoga teacher acted like and he started to break the mold.

Resources:

• Instagram: @ryanorrico

Dr. Marc Robinson is a doctor of physical therapy with a couple of different projects: Active Atoms, a nutrition company that focuses on health and fitness, and Evercore, a physical therapy company that focuses on injury recovery.

Marc started to realize as he was working with patients that people’s sleep, nutrition level, and their stress level had a huge impact on their pain level. Nutrition plays such a vital role, particularly in inflammation. He became incredibly interested in the anti-inflammatory properties of turmeric, but he couldn’t find anything that gave a high enough dosage to make a difference. This led to him founding Active Atoms and his maximum strength turmeric formula.

Marc suggests a few movements that everyone should be doing:

• For the neck, do neck retractions. We’re spending so much time at our desks, on our computers, that our necks aren’t getting a lot of variety of movement. Make sure to pull the neck back and tuck your chin in.
• For people who sit too much, lay on your stomach and bend your back and arch it. We are sitting so much, we need to extend the spine and even it out.
• Doing sit-to-stand squats every few hours is going to give you so many benefits. It’s one of the movements that can produce the most value.

Resources:

• linkedin.com/in/marcrobinsonevercore
• activeatoms.com
• evercorelife.com