When Your Gut Says “No” But You Do It Anyway

“Ding!” my computer popped up with a new notification. New email in the inbox.

Since I can’t go 3 minutes without checking my email, I went right to it.

It was from someone I’d been following online for a while about how to grow a Facebook group.

In that email, she introduced me to a guy named James Wedmore, who was running a free 3-day online business training.

I didn’t think it was relevant, so I hovered over the “delete” button when I heard the voice again.

“Click it,” it said.

I rolled my eyes, because my intuition and I were not on the best of terms at this point.

But I clicked it.

Even though I wasn’t doing online business.

I mean… I was teaching yoga on Zoom during the pandemic but I fully expected this whole online yoga thing to eventually be a distant memory.

I clicked it anyway, and I went through James’ 3-day training.

Something woke up inside me that week.

I was introduced to the idea that I could stop fighting against my circumstances (trying to make a business survive during a pandemic where people literally breathe and sweat on each other)... and I could surrender and work WITH my circumstances.

With nothing to lose, I decided to try.

I asked myself what inspired me the most about yoga.

I landed on what you see today.

I would want to teach people arm balances.

But more importantly, I would want to teach people how to break through their self-perceived limitations, how to believe in themselves and how to create confidence, power and freedom in their lives - THROUGH standing on their hands.

It was completely irrational.

“You’re gonna do WHAT!?” I heard the little gremlin voice of my brain ask.

Except this time, my gut was a hell of a lot louder than my brain.

In the shower one night, the name came to me.

Yogi Flight School.

Just like that.

And then, panic set in.

How can I possibly create something online? Sell to people I don’t know!? HOW!?

At this point I’d never sold ANYTHING online. Not a damn thing.

I had only ever sold something because someone walked into my place of business and said “Hi, I would like to buy a 10-pack of yoga classes” while handing me their credit card.

I was completely new to selling anything, to anyone. I was terrified.

More importantly, I didn’t want to be seen as someone who was just interested in SELLING THINGS.

But the truth is that our bills don’t get paid with thoughts and prayers. And my bills were piling high after months of pandemic-induced zero income.

So I took a deep breath.

I trusted the voice in my heart that said “there is something here for you…”

By the end of James’ free training, it was clear that he had a roadmap I could follow that would actually allow me to take Yogi Flight School out of my heart and into the world.

So I signed up for his paid program. With money I didn’t have. On a credit card.

And then I got to work.

My First Launch

It took me 3 weeks to set up my first “launch” of Yogi Flight School.

I would host my own 3-day [completely free] training where I would serve the shit out of the people who raised their hand to attend.

I would show them how capable and badass they are when they are in a community who lifts them up, and when they have fool-proof instruction.

I would help them make more progress in 3 days than they had in 3 years at their yoga studio.

And at the end of that training, I would make them an offer to join me and work with me on a deeper level inside my program.

When the doors to enrollment opened for the very first (paid!) cohort of YFS in September 2020, 37 people signed up.

37 incredible humans that were complete strangers to me before that.
37 badass ninjas who helped me make YFS what it is today.
37 souls that I would NEVER have met, had I not trusted this completely insane notion to teach arm balances online.

And….the part that blew my mind the most…

In 3 weeks, I made $10,000. From behind my computer, teaching what I am passionate about.

At that point I hadn’t made a single dollar in 6 months, since March 2020, when my yoga studio was shut down.

But the real painful truth?

As a yoga studio owner, I was LUCKY if I took home $3,000 a month.

I still had to run around town teaching 25 yoga classes a week at OTHER peoples’ studios to make ends meet.

And all of a sudden…. From my laptop in my pajamas…. I made almost 3 months worth of my salary, in 3 weeks.

I didn’t believe it.

So I turned around and did it again. I ran another free training for my next cohort of Yogi Flight School…. And this time over 60 people signed up. $25,000.

I still thought I was just lucky and that it was somehow just a fluke. So in December of 2020, I launched Yogi Flight School AGAIN and this time…. $22,000.

It wasn’t a fluke.

I had figured out, thanks to James’ step-by-step process, exactly how to take strangers who had never heard of me, show them what they’re capable of and enroll them into a paid program, repeatedly.

In full integrity. Leading first with generosity before ever asking for anything in return.

It felt fucking good.

I don’t need to tell you that when you have this skill, no one can take it away from you.

In my very first year doing this online thing, I went from making $0 a month, to $250,000 in one year.

At that point I hired a team, because I could no longer manage it on my own, and I continued to grow Yogi Flight School.

Because once I got a taste of the TRANSFORMATION that is available to people inside our program, and how amazing it is when strangers become instant community, I couldn’t stop there.

We are now 6 years into this little pandemic project.

We have served over 14,000 yoga ninjas inside our flagship arm balance program.

Peoples’ whose lives will never be the same now that they can quite literally hold their entire body up on their hands, on demand.

The company has generated over $6 million in revenue (I’m sorry, WHAT!? I still can’t believe it), and I now get to employ 4 women full time, who get to feed their families from the work that we do.

I’m able to support my 82-year old father.

I’m able to donate generously to causes I believe in.

All because I clicked on that email in my inbox that day. All because I signed up for James’ free training, and did what the man said.

Now, every year when James opens up registration for his annual free training, I tell my community about it.

Because the shift in my life that came from following the inkling in my heart and having proper guidance…changed everything.

And I know that if I was living against my own intuition for years, others are too. And I know that when we see what was possible for other people…. It helps us see what might be possible for us.

So if you’re struggling with the life you’re living...
If you know you’re meant for more but you aren’t sure what yet...
If you’re already in business but it feels way harder than it should be....

If the idea of being your own boss on your own schedule, making an impact on people from your laptop in your pajamas sounds sexy to you….

Then join me inside James’ 2026 training: The Business Breakthrough Experience.

He is hands down one of the most down-to-earth, heart-led and generous business mentors I’ve ever met.

Six years in, I am still extremely active in his community and I attend all his events (yes, I’m a groupie!) because the man changed my life.

Maybe he’ll change yours too.
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