Virtual Coffee Date

Hey!

How are ya? I started this series last month after loving Casey’s virtual coffee date posts that she writes on her blog. As much as I love reading food blogs and finding new, fun recipes to grace my dinner table, sometimes it’s nice for a straight talk check-in. So that’s what this is!

Do you have your coffee in your hand? If not, grab some now! Or tea…or hot chocolate…or white wine. Except not really white wine if it’s, like, 6am where you are. That would be weird and I would just have to assume you had either a really good Friday night or a really, really bad one.

Moving on.

If we were having coffee together, I would share with you about the overwhelmingly powerful team and leadership building workshop I attended all last weekend. From Friday night to Sunday night, I pretty much sat in a circle on the yoga studio floor surrounded by fellow staff and teacher apprentices (what I am!), sharing our hearts to each other. It was real, raw and deep. Lots of tears, hugs and stiff backs from sitting cross legged for so long. It took me a little bit to warm up to the whole “sharing everything in the deepest part of my soul” sort of thing but by Sunday morning I was totally drinking the kool-aid. And guess what? I totally confronted my fear of speaking in front of a large group! On Sunday morning, I was “forced” (and I say “forced” in the best way possible) to get up and teach a twelve minute segment of a power yoga class with 40 students! Real students, too! Students that actually pay to come to the studio…not just my friends looking for a free practice. I was BEYOND nervous getting up there, projecting my voice to fill the room and teach the triangle series, but you know what? I survived and it.was.AWESOME. Probably one of the more awesome things that I’ve ever done, to be honest.

If we were having coffee together, I would share with you that I am moved to the point of big, fat tears on your responses to far to my book! Seriously. Many of you have taken the time to email me after you finished reading, telling me you loved it and couldn’t put it down…..and I really can’t even put into words what that really means. Just know that it means a lot. A whole lot.

If we were having coffee together, I would share with you that I’m {still!} so pumped about the Influence conference coming up…soon! There are still tickets available for sale and I would love to see you in Indianapolis in October! It’s going to be such a fabulous weekend with inspiring women. I can’t wait.

If we were having coffee together, I would share with you that you might start to see some funky changes happening here on ELR. Please bear with me. We are working around the clock all weekend on this site  {wahoo! holiday weekend!} and there might be some weird stuff that pops up. I don’t know! I just appreciate you guys bearing with me during this transitional stage.

{yummy homemade pain au levain!}