Sustainable Service Packages and The Myth of Passive Income with Amberly Kelley-Dotson [On Air Coaching Call]

About this episode

This episode features a live coaching session with Amberly Kelley-Dotson, focusing on restructuring her yoga business to avoid burnout and move away from the myth of passive income.

Yoga teachers often find themselves with a business model that leads straight to burnout. In this live coaching session, yoga teacher Amberly Kelley-Dotson opens up about the exhaustion of the one-on-one grind. Amberly is caught in a cycle of high-touch services and hidden, unpaid labor. In this episode, we work through a real-time restructuring of her business, moving away from the "passive income" fantasy and toward sustainable, concrete alternatives. EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:02:51 Amberly’s journey from injury to therapeutic yoga06:32 The unpaid labor of private practice11:04 Packages and multiple levels of service20:03 Marketing Without the Info Dump24:55 Courses, Retreats, and Reusable Content30:42 Next Steps & Wrap-Up EPISODE LINKS & RESOURCES: Amble WellBeing Follow Amberly Kelley-Dotson on Instagram @amblewellbeing Follow Amberly Kelley-Dotson on Facebook LINKS AND RESOURCES: Follow YTR on Instagram @yoga.teacher.resource Join the Yoga Teacher Resource email list Join the Yoga Teacher Resource Facebook Group Learn more about the Impact Club Leave a review on iTunes Ask a question for the podcast on the Yoga Teacher Resource website or on SpeakPipe

People in this episode

Host: Mado Hesselink

Guest: Amberly Kelley-Dotson

Topics covered

• sustainable business models
• burnout in yoga teaching
• passive income myth
• coaching
• service packages
• marketing strategies

Keywords

• yoga business
• coaching call
• service packages
• burnout
• marketing
• passive income
• yoga teacher

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amble WellBeing, Yoga Teacher Resource

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