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Yoga Teacher Talk (YTT) is authenic yoga conversation with your favorite yoga mentors, trend-setting yoga teachers, and wellness experts who are changing the paradym on traditional instruction. YTT invites you add to your 200 or 500-level yoga teacher training and elevate your presence as an instructor. Host Becca Schmidt, E-RYT5000/YACEP, has more than 20 years experience on the lead mat, having taught more than 10,000 classes, workshops and wellness retreats. This show, formerly, The Language of Yoga, offers a fun, engaging platform for yoga teachers of all branches of yoga to gain confidence and continue their YTT for years to come.
Bethanne Interview 2.0
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Becca: Welcome to the Language of Yoga. I'm your host, Becca. Well, my guest today is an insanely popular wellness professional. Her name is Beth Ann Weiss. She's an author, blogger, motivational speaker, and the founder of Beth Ann Wellness and Club Uni. She has a, a phrase, she coined the phrase, and I think it's just so much fun.
More joy, less. O welcome, Beth Ann, please explain this adorable little, uh, phrase you have.
Bethanne: Well, first of all, thank you for having me here, Becca. I appreciate it. I'll go on a lot longer about more joy, less oy, but that kind of replaced my last catchphrase. Move your assets from the chair, not the bank. I'll explain a lot more about Oy in a bit and where it comes from, but let me just say this about oi.
It amongst many other things. It is that noise that belts out of people [00:01:00] when they can't get themselves up out of a chair or other sitting instrument, or they fall into one, they go O
Becca: and that's
Bethanne: not a good thing. I'll explain later,
Becca: I absolutely love that. Well, Beth Ann, you literally wrote the book on joy focused wellness. It's called Move Your Assets from the Chair, not the bank. Right now, you have, , quite a expansive offering. You are out in, uh, corporations, conferences, and also of course you're still running your f unique studio.
But let's talk a little bit about, , why you wrote the book. Let's go right into your book. Tell us about it and, uh, what was the, the, the story behind that?
Bethanne: Move your assets from the chair, not the bank. Exactly how it sounds was my 50th birthday present to me as well as the world, because I went through many years of Oy, which includes the Oy inside my [00:02:00] head, which we all have, but lots of pains in the assets and other places. Lots of. People that are pains in the assets in other places, and we all go through this Oy, and we have to find the pearl in the oyster shell.
And going to doctors and therapists and all that stuff never really helped me, and I found the pearl in my own oyster shell. So I am a recovered joister. I'm a recovering oyster and a joister, that's what I call it,
Becca: And something you say, , I think it's in the description of the book for a fraction of the cost of one Manny Petty. You can show people how to get fit and, and have the sense of wellness.
Bethanne: Exactly. 'cause people will spend more money on a drink, A mocha choa. But when it comes to their own fitness, they have to kind of think about it. You know, their own souls container, but they'll pour lots of crap into their own souls container.
Becca: . So Beth Ann, you know, this podcast is really [00:03:00] for yoga instructors, but I wanted to have you on the show because you are so dynamic in a group fitness atmosphere and a lot of us who, who teach yoga are te basically teaching group fitness.
, Can you share some of your secrets in a group fitness class? Hmm.
Bethanne: I don't know if I should reveal my secrets right here, but, you know, one thing I could say when people ask me similar questions is, you just gotta be yourself. You really just have to be yourself. And the other thing, and, and as far as yoga itself, I feel like if you translate a lot of the. Movements, which are thousands of years old into something usable today.
For example, hand movements that we, we didn't have to worry about what we did to our little texting tech fingers thousands of years ago, but people love hearing how to incorporate some of the yoga moves [00:04:00] into some of the postures that we are experienced today. We were not hunched over like we were. They love that.
They love the eyes and girls front lifting and the opening up your hands and stop death, gripping your steering wheel. We didn't have those thousands of years ago, but I noticed that participants love that. So whether they're in a yoga class, a Pilates class, or I'm in front of a group of 1500 caregivers, they love these and they love to perform them and feel the benefits from them and see
Becca: them. So, so one of your missions, it sounds like, is to, uh, put a relationship between maybe the old traditional ways, like when I think of hands, I think of the energy and am mudra. So that's kind of the old. Technique. But when we bring it to maybe in front of your conferences, you have them, uh, understand that there is certainly energy in the hand, the old, you know, mudra, but also that our hands are used differently than they were, you know, in [00:05:00] ancient times.
Exactly right. Our poor thumbs are index fingers. They're just caught up in texting and typing.
.. You have an extensive background in fitness. You have a degree in marketing, exercise science from the State University of New York at New Paul's. You're certified by the American Council on Exercise in group and personal fitness, nutrition, coaching and behavior change. Uh, you are also, this is interesting to me.
You're also an American Posture Institute certified. Ergonomic. Ergon.
Bethanne: Gon close
Becca: Ergon. That's what I meant to say. And Age Safe America Certified Senior safety specialist. So I love this. And then, oh, down here in your bio it also says, , you were way back in the eighties, certified as a step, Reebok.
Instructor fun. [00:06:00] I just wanna see a picture of that. I wanna see your, uh, workout outfit. Did it involve leggings? I have that and a leotard.
Bethanne: I do have that thong on the outside thing going on, but right before that, which is why it's weird that I ended up the way I did. I have a mohawk, a cigarette. I'm sitting on a motorcycle and I'm about 50 pounds chunkier than I am now. Punky, chunky bethy.
Becca: Ah. Well, my next question is what got you into the industry? Is that related?
Bethanne: It is.
Becca: Go for
Bethanne: Believe it or not. Long story short, I didn't expect to end up this way. I thought I was well. My father told me I wanted to be an accountant 'cause I was really good at math back in the day, but that didn't work..
Becca: I ended
Bethanne: up in my third year of college, I left and joined the army. Not too many Jewish girls from New York do that. So I was made fun of,
and
I didn't last too long because of the freaky feet I was born with and I should have never made it. And I was told by the way that I wouldn't be walking, let alone doing what I'm doing at this age because I [00:07:00] really was born with really weird feet.
They're actually upside down and my arches are underneath, so they're painful all the time. But I also needed more discipline and I thought the army was the way to go. It didn't work out too well. Obviously I ended up back in school my, and in my junior year in college I signed up for a class called Strength Training for Women.
And I was so outta shape and the guy who led this class, coach Joseph Owens, changed my life. He is in the book. He didn't know, he changed my life. He was the funniest guru that I've ever met. And he used to coin phrases like, stop. Uh, you don't need to get on the scale. Just take the jiggle test.
Becca: And
Bethanne: was funny.
And one day I was trying to jog and I could not jog because I was so outta breath. And he said, Rosenthal, go take the jiggle test. And he said, you're jiggling. And that just woke me up because I didn't know where all this stuff came from. That was all
over
Becca: It was a positive motivation. It [00:08:00] was though. Yeah.
Bethanne: then I ended.
Becca: up.
Bethanne: Taking all the classes with him.
I, I minored in exercise science because it was so much fun and it just totally changed my life. I quit smoking, I got a thong on the outside of my spandex and I started teaching High impact. Jane, she's a maniac, maniac, those kind of aerobic classes,
Becca: I love it
Bethanne: and it changed everything.
Becca: So you obviously, from the very beginning saw a couple of things. One, how important the instructor can be for their students, but also that it should be a fun experience and not, uh, the bootcamp. Right.
Bethanne: Yeah, I don't know what would've happened if I would've stayed there, but no pun intended when I say, but by the way, uh, you know, everything happens for a reason.
Becca: Mm-hmm.
Bethanne: Unfortunately, I started the fitness world and then I got sick for many years and no one could figure out what was wrong with me, which [00:09:00] is why I became my own advocate when no doctors or therapists, nobody could figure out why I had chronic pain, chronic dizziness.
Now the feet we can explain because I was, but it was everything else I had. Fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and all this stuff that impaired my life for many years.
Becca: And were you able to still, , be your, you said you were becoming your own advocate, but were you still able to do some physical things despite your limitations? Were you out there? I was walking or,
Bethanne: yes, I was moving as much as I can, but the rest of the time I was horizontal and not vertical, but
Becca: but
Bethanne: I was eating crap. I wasn't taking care of myself. When I say crap, that refers to empty calorie foods, which 99% of the world does today. Even people they think they eat healthy are not getting nutrients, and I didn't realize till many years later that I wasn't getting nutrients and I was not moving my body enough with tiny tweaks teaching [00:10:00] three or four aerobics classes a week out of 168 hours.
Did I do the math right? Yes. Think about
that. I'm not sleeping. How am I really getting healthy and energized? And that's what's wrong with most of us today. People don't move.
Becca: Did you have any sort of mentor or, uh, therapist or journaling? How are you coaching yourself through some of those challenges?
Bethanne: Well, that's a great question and I can tell you this. I do believe in writing everything, and now with the best use for my phone is a recording device. I record myself. When I have joyful moments, I record it and I let that go. I do not keep that on my phone when I have joyful moments. Not only do I use that and put it down on paper, that is how I wrote the book.
That is how I write a lot of my blogs and a lot of my podcast and a lot of my presentations for people. But things come to me because I believe you don't have to go to the far reaches of the [00:11:00] world in caves and Tibet. You can find everything right in here if we pay attention. I'm pointing to my head peeps because most people don't listen to themselves.
They listen to the oysters,
. Well, they say that, and all those people don't listen to their own heart and soul. So I did and I started realizing that I have to treat my body better. I have to, and, and that doesn't mean cutting down on wine.
You don't have to do that. But most of the stuff that comes in your body, you can't vape, you can't smoke and expect that you are gonna have a healthy outcome and you're gonna feel
like
a joister all the time. And you gotta also clear the mental oil out of your head ahead.
Becca: So you wrote this book and, uh, explain to our, hopefully everybody will go out and get your book. It is a wonderful book, but explain what the cover of Move your Assets looks like.
Bethanne: Well, it's funny
Becca: because, and why
Bethanne: I'm actually
wearing a wedding dress because I fit into it at 50 years young. [00:12:00] After all that stuff I went through and there's a chair being kicked to the curb by me because we don't need the chair. We need it right now though I did record my own podcast, standing and with a glass of wine.
Of course, I never sat during my podcast.
Becca: but the point is, is that, uh, you know, just getting fit is, is so mental that you make the, uh, all these decisions just to do better, uh, every opportunity, right? That's kind of what I got from the book.
You just make a series of great choices and, uh, you just move.
Bethanne: You are exactly who you believe you are. So it better be positive thoughts because for many years I didn't believe that all this good in me was there and everybody has it, but the. The powerful vortex of oi is so powerful that it sucks us in and we can't find the joy. And, and I'll say it again. You are everything you believe you are.
If you believe you are stuck, if you believe everything's over, [00:13:00] if, if you believe you're never gonna be fit and healthy, you will not. So why not believe the opposite? I am healthy and when, and I remember one of my mantras when I was feeling that pain all the time was, I am healthy and and strong and I could do anything I believe I can do.
And I kept saying it over and over and here we are, and I just turned 60 ish. I am six. So, and I'm getting better every day now because it's all start, it all starts in your mental and your psyche and your soul's container there.
Becca: So. Anything is possible. Everything is possible. And then, and then things come about like parents who are aging. And I know that that was very pivotal for you
so tell us your journey and how your journey with, , caring for your aging parents, how that shifted, maybe your, , your mission, [00:14:00] your, um, you know, your future in, in what you do.
Bethanne: It did. It really did. It was probably one of the gross, most grueling, , episodes of my life. It was worse than any pain I ever went through, and I had two back surgeries. I think during, but um, yeah, it made me realize the importance of taking care of ourselves. 'cause there are so many people out there, others depend on you.
And if you can't take care of your own souls container, as I like to call it, physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, there is no way you're gonna survive. Taking care of someone else, and too many caregivers are getting sicker than their caregiver, and there isn't a week that goes by where I'm not hearing about someone who's been diagnosed with an illness that's taking care of someone else or has an issue with a body part that's failing or has fallen.
And these people are not taking care of themselves. And that was my pivotal part of my life. I took care of my parents for seven years, and it was grueling every [00:15:00] day.
Becca: I.
Bethanne: I lost a lot of, uh, friends during it because you don't hear yourself
Becca: Mm. Wow. And is that when you realized the changes, did you kind of make those changes at, you know, I won't, don't wanna say on the fly, but just while you were going through that experience, you started knowing, oh, I need to, uh, slow down, I need to eat better, I need to watch how much time I'm spending.
What did that look like?
Bethanne: Well, good question. I was already, I was already in my healthier stages in my fi in my fifties ish. I already got healthy. It was in my thirties, twenties, thirties and forties where I was, um, physically sicker. But what it, you don't realize this till after you're going through that powerful vortex of caregiving.
Oy, is how much you learn about how resilient you really are. You really do. And I remember one day looking down at the floor when I was freaking out about, I can't believe this thing with my [00:16:00] parents. I had two phone calls at the same time. They both fell at different locations and I looked down from where I was and Mother Theresa's quote was on the brick right under me about, God doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
I went, oh my
Becca: gosh,
prophetic. There's a
Bethanne: why that's right there, but it really is true. You've gotta go through all this stuff. And it will make you stronger. It'll knock you down, but you gotta get up one little tiny tweak at a time. That's what I always say. And you just keep doing that. And you can't give up.
You cannot. And that was probably, hopefully that'll be the most grueling part of my life and it won't get, but you never know. You just, it'll make me very prepared if more oily comes into my
Becca: Wow.
Bethanne: that toxic. And it really was.
Becca: And I notice a lot of, in, just in your bio, you have, , programs for seniors. , Tell me what they learned from you.
Well,
Bethanne: Well, as far as the regular classes, I teach Monday through Friday at 9:00 AM I teach a class in my private [00:17:00] studio. I call it Club Nik Total body. That's in my studio, in my home in Longwood, and it's by invitation only 'cause it's in my home. I can't have the world in
Becca: Mm-hmm.
Bethanne: But that is a unique combination of everything that your body needs to do, whether it's strength, mobility, yoga,
Pilates,
core.
We use all kinds of fun tools. Stepping
Becca: cans, soup, anything you want. I remember that from way back when we first
met. Yes, that's
right. Pick up a couple of soup cans.
Bethanne: right. 'cause that was during COVID where there were no weights for sale anymore. So seriously, and people avoid going up steps like the plague when climbing is one of the best things you could do for your assets.
Literally, it prevents no acetol disease, . You need to climb stairs and without holding on for with a death grip or else your body is not gonna be able to balance.
Standing on one leg is not the go-to for balance. That's what the gurus always teach, and believe me, I have a balance problem. Standing on one [00:18:00] leg will not prevent a fall,
will not on
Becca: its
own. You have to turn it into mobility. Yes. Balance and mobility together.
Yeah. I think, you know, just in my experience, , and even I would say I'm guilty of it when I teach like a, a chair yoga class or, you know, balance class, sometimes I underestimate what we can do with the brain.
You know, we may not change directions just because I. Say, oh, it'll be just easier if we do the stand on one leg or we walk on a tight rope or something. But I think we, we, as you know, fitness professionals and certainly in, in the yoga field, we can challenge our students to add more brain power in there.
Exactly. Rights and lefts, forward, backward, different gaze. So yes. A little, little challenge for people listening
Bethanne: they love
Becca: doing
math. Yeah. Challenges.
Bethanne: They love doing math. Like I'll have them move and count backwards
Becca: Yes. Mm-hmm.
Bethanne: From
eight, and then I have them [00:19:00] cut everything in half over and over again.
Becca: again.
Yes. So
Bethanne: little things like that, you could do that in
yoga
Becca: yeah. That's wonderful.
Bethanne: yes. And also a lot of older adults are afraid of turning,
Becca: Mm-hmm.
which I wanna
Bethanne: in my, yes, in my vestibular therapy classes.
I had to turn my head quickly so that I wouldn't get dizzy. It's a muscle just like anything else. So in a lot of my classes, I have people turning in one direction, following their punch around the world, I call it. And then you must go the other way. You gotta go both ways. But anyway, my point is that people avoid doing things. What's that? Are actually gonna prevent them from falling and from cognitively declining. And that's what people are, uh, blown away when they're like, I never thought of that. I never thought of
that. Simple things like eating with your other hand wakes up what I call your less dominant side, not your non-dominant.
'cause that's a fallacy. No non, there is no non-dominant side. [00:20:00] It's really just less dominant 'cause we avoid it,
Becca: Right. And which, yeah. I was just gonna add, I guess, reiterate that there are so many ways when we teach a yoga class, we, we can, , shift into some things that are, um, more challenging for the brain. You know, that just even the change in the drishti, you're looking straight ahead and now I want you to look down and now I want you to look to the right and to the left or to the, you know, that's great.
Uh, yellow wall. Then the green
Bethanne: they're doing vestibular therapy.
Becca: Yes. I don't know if that's in my wheelhouse, but, um,
Bethanne: I'll send you a text. Vestibular therapy.
Becca: So let's go to something maybe a little lighter now. So one of the, the things that I really admire about you is just that you are sort of unabashed.
You're very, very funny. You are, you don't seem shy at all. , You're very entertaining when you are in that, , group environment. I'm sure in the conferences that you,
Bethanne: hope so. I haven't gotten [00:21:00] tomatoes thrown at me yet, or the hook, but,
Becca: yeah.
Where does that come from? That's my question.
Bethanne: It's funny. In kindergarten, my mom was called up to the school because. I was so shy that I would stand in the corner and not wanna participate in every, in anything. And my kindergarten teacher told my mom to come up to school and please talk to me.
She said, every time I call on her, she's so afraid, but she always knows the answers. So she chose me to be in her first grade class too, so I did something right. But anyway, when I got to third grade, I wouldn't shut up. So they put me back in second grade for a week. So something I came outta the shell finally.
That's what they said. I was so shy and needed to come outta my shell, but then once I did, I just, yes, I had more fun and I guess I became more entertaining. I sing and I
Becca: Right. I've heard you sing.
You're
Bethanne: all
Becca: very talented. Yeah.
Bethanne: I don't know what to do with that, but you know. Okay. I, I sing in the shower and to my doggy, he likes it. My greyhound.[00:22:00]
Becca: I think that's what makes people so drawn to you because you are very comfortable in your own body, and then you help make people comfortable with what they're doing too.
You're, you're silly saying that, and you allow them, you allow yourself to make mistakes in front of people, right? Yeah. Yeah.
Bethanne: I hope I just made an entire mistake for the last 45 minutes,
Becca: right?
Bethanne: No,
Becca: No, but you're vulnerable. I think that might be a more trendy way of saying that you're not, uh, you're just not. You don't seem to be somebody that is afraid to have some fun.
Bethanne: But I used to be, I was a very self-conscious when I went through those phases with the punk rock and I was heavier and I smoked. I was very self-conscious. I mean, I had an eating disorder. I'm being honest. It's all in the book.
Becca: Yeah.
But
Bethanne: did, I had to go to a counselor and tell him that I make, that I'm bulimic, I make myself throw up and I'm just being honest.
But my teeth were getting rotten. My father noticed 'cause he was a dentist. So I was very [00:23:00] self-conscious back in those days and, uh, I just pivoted somehow by taking care of myself and realizing that it doesn't matter what anybody thinks. It really doesn't. And that's why I don't wear anybody's name on my clothing except for my own brand.
Right, because I don't care. I don't care. And I walk around with gray hair, usually I just got it fixed. But if people say, you know, you need to get your hair touched up, that's their problem, not mine. If it offends them. And you know, most people don't look at it that way, right? It's if someone gives you some sort of criticism, it's really their issue.
It's not yours. And it took me a long time to realize that, that really it's what you think you are. Like I said before, you are everything you believe you are. Everything. And so believe you are the best or else no one else will, .
Becca: What a good role model. People in their fifties, sixties, some of them are very self-conscious, but I think when they come to [00:24:00] your class that that barrier hopefully
Bethanne: They get even worse when they come to my, no. Okay. I hope not.
Becca: Oh, gosh, no. I, I think that they feel comfortable with you because you're just, um. You're just one of them.
In some
ways, you're very well, not
Bethanne: always. It's funny that you say that. People tell me they're afraid to eat cookie and cake and, and.
Becca: and
Bethanne: Junky stuff in front of me, but I, I'm like, why I eat all that stuff. Like I can't have cakes in my house. 'cause I'll eat the whole freaking thing. I'll eat the whole icing off the cake. But people think, I'm like, I, I must blend shrubs and twigs and call it a meal.
But I don't though, I do eat healthy 85% of the time, and I didn't, back in those days where I was seeing shrinks for being bulimic, I, I was very unhealthy and I didn't move a lot.
Becca: Let's transition to some of your, uh, messages. Uh, I think that maybe the ones that I'm familiar with are the, the Tuesday tiny tweaks. ?
Bethanne: [00:25:00] Tiny tweaks Tuesdays.
Becca: tweaks Tuesdays. Yes. So what are those all about?
Bethanne: If you go on Tuesdays, I'll give you a tiny tweaks Tuesdays. So they're just a little, a little kind of easy peasy.
Anybody can do these fun little doable tweaks because they work. Giant leaps don't work.
Becca: Can you give us a, a couple of examples? Oh my gosh. What'd you do last Tuesday?
Bethanne: So for example, a tiny tweak to your eats, simple spices, not sauces because so many people are dieting. And how did that work out for you? Because you're on the same thing every year.
The same people tell me they're on a diet in January. Okay. But instead of sauces, 'cause people are so afraid of carbs and all that, it's.
Becca: The flavor,
right? It's
Bethanne: the, yes, it's the saucy stuff you're putting on there that's wasting thousands of a, a gazillion calories on stuff you can avoid. So instead, put some really good spices on there.
No calories. And a lot of [00:26:00] them have great probiotic and, and cancer-fighting benefits. Sauces have none. They just kind of look, if you can't wash it off your hands, you cannot wash it off your arteries. Okay? So think about that.
Becca: I think that's wonderful because, you know, I, I think it's like a friend, a message from a friend,.
Hey, have you ever thought of this? And I think that is very effective.
Bethanne: It is, but a lot of people don't wanna hear it, so I have to know my audience too, because a lot of people, they don't buy into themselves. They kind of get like, I'll give a little, can I suggest something? Well, some people will say, no, they do not want my help.
Becca: Mm-hmm.
Bethanne: But the ones that do sometimes get offended because it sounds like I'm coming down when really, and I'm not selling anything except for faith in
Becca: Right?
Yeah. Well the, the ones that I've seen recently are you out in your backyard with your dog and that's like very non-threatening atmosphere.
Like you're just [00:27:00] out in the backyard with the pop and uh, you know, you come up with a little piece of advice. I'm like, I would take that. It would, it would. It's so it comes across so friendly and non-threatening.
Well,
Bethanne: you for saying that. 'cause there are
Becca: Yeah, I really enjoy them. People said that.
Thank you. Mm-hmm.
But
Bethanne: are other people that they listen and they pretend they don't. 'cause I've heard them repeat what I said. But you know, a lot of people just don't buy into, and I won't say me, you don't have to listen to me.
But they don't bite into themselves. They don't have faith. I always say replace your fear with faith, even if it's this big, even if it's a tiny tweak worth, but I think that's what I try to teach people and notice I'm not selling anything. If you wanna buy my book, go ahead For the $6 I make on Amazon, not even, go ahead, buy my book.
Becca: Let's just kind of look into the future a little bit. Uh, as a wellness professional, what do you think are some of the biggest challenges and , what can we, as fitness leaders or yoga leaders, help our [00:28:00] students?
Bethanne: Interesting. I think that word influencer it, I don't like
Becca: it. The say the old fashioned influencers
Bethanne: Well, no, but people say to me, you're an influencer. And I said, no, I'm not. Because to me, an influencer sounds like a brainwasher. Maybe I'm an inspirer, but I am not an influencer. And I think a lot of people get caught up with influencers that have no credentials to be prescribing what they're prescribing.
So I find that. As being a challenge because a lot of US health professionals that went to school and we've got certifications, there are kind of people out there giving advice that really shouldn't be. Maybe it helped them them, which is great. I love hearing how, how getting healthy helped you, but that's an issue because a lot of people are vulnerable and they listen to people with no credentials.
The other thing is like, I keep talking about this. People don't buy into themselves. They would rather take. The quick fix, the pill, the injection,
and [00:29:00] so many people do that. And oh, whether it's the latest and greatest potion to come out, the latest and greatest. Poison culprit. There's always a poison culprit every day. There's a new one, but people buy into this stuff and I don't see joy and peace coming out of them
Becca: What can we say in a class? Just could, could it be just, I'm so glad you showed up.
You're really, you're really doing great by just being here.
Bethanne: yes you can, but I don't believe that just showing up is enough. Woody Allen said 85% of it is showing up. That's bull. If you show up, you've gotta put your all into it
no
Becca: matter
what. So you worked hard today. Good
Bethanne: Yeah.
Or yeah, thanks for showing up and giving it your all or, 'cause all these people that come to my class in this cold, I mean, it's great and yes, it's great that you showed up, but I love that they stayed the entire time and they moaned and they oed, but they're still alive and well and ready
Becca: Mm-hmm. And ready to
mm-hmm. And they'll be back tomorrow. That's
Bethanne: right.
Becca: This has been such a [00:30:00] good conversation and I really enjoyed hearing that, the backstory, what brought you to where you are today and some of , , the things you're passionate about. I think that's wonderful. What's, what's on the plate for this year? 20.
Bethanne: Well, let me see. I, I have new fun stuff in my family. I have a new grand baby. I have a wedding coming up, so I have a lot of family focus too, but I am also working on pivoting to a place where I can bring peeps rather than my house. So, so, so more people can benefit from with more joy and less oil.
And I could do my tiny tweaks as a series somewhere. Instead of I, you know, me, I am not fond of doing online stuff. I'd rather, sometimes I'd rather watch paint dry, so I, I have a live place in mind that I'm gonna be starting possibly in April, in the spring,
Becca: Mm-hmm.
Good. But
Bethanne: my thing. I'd rather just wanna reach more people [00:31:00] and help them help themselves
Becca: Right. So
Bethanne: that there's more joy and peace in their lives.
Becca: Wonderful. Thank you so much. I think, uh, no matter what you teach, I think Beth Ann has given us some inspiration and maybe just some things to think about as we, uh, get there out in front of our students and just adding maybe something a little new, something different.
Thank you very much. I appreciate you being here today and I definitely wish you well in your expansion.
Bethanne: Thank you so much for having me. It sounds like a fun thing. Ah,
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Becca: Yay. Yes. . Thank you so much for listening to find out more about Beth Ann and what she's up to. We check out the show notes. There's everything you need to know, and also a link to how to buy her book.