Paloma Marin on the Yoga Lifestyle, Entrepreneurship and Mental Health

Today my guest is Paloma Marin. Paloma, also known as @palo.yoga on instagram, is a yoga instructor and a content creator with over a million followers on Instagram, TikTok and Youtube. Paloma has an online yoga studio called Prayana, and is a host of the podcast “Lo Que Te Mueve.” By training she is also a chemical engineer even though right now she focuses all of her energy on sharing yoga.  If you are tuning in today, you will get a bit of a behind the scenes look at Paloma’s journey, starting with finding yoga and moving to becoming a yoga entrepreneur. Other topics you’ll hear about include: dealing with instability as a yoga entrepreneur, leadership in the world of influencing, tapping into creativity, mental health tools, the yoga lifestyle, and the most important “investment” that we can make in ourselves as teachers.  Timestamps:  13:00 Starting to teach yoga. 16:00 How Paloma got to where she is today, quitting her job and turning to a new purpose. 23:00 Dealing with instability as an entrepreneur.  26:30 Getting in touch with creativity.  30:00 Mental health: 3 tools Paloma uses personally.  35:30 On burnout, experiencing the yoga lifestyle, and finding benefits through your practice as an individual.  38:30 Investing in yourself as a teacher and a leader. 40:00 On authenticity. 43:00 What makes an exceptional leader?  44:30 A moment of pure joy, and the billboard question.  Find Paloma on instagram: @palo.yoga Paloma’s online studio: https://www.prayanayogastudio.com/ Message me on instagram: @shawnakru My website:  https://shawnakru.com/