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And here we are.

This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast.

My name is Jay Brown.

Welcome to you if you're new, and big what up.

If you're a returning listener, how is everyone?

I am back.

I am returned from my trip to Japan, if you were listening in the last two weeks, and it was a

wonderful trip. As I mentioned, it was not really a financial success so much, but on every other

level, like on the yoga level, on the real reason why I do any of

this in the first place, it was a fantastic success. Like the smaller group lent itself to a more

profound experience.

Everybody clicked into what we were doing,

and the people there, as I said, are just wonderful.

And so it's a strange paradox, the way it can be a success on a soul level, but maybe not so much on a financial level. And I know

that is often the dilemma that we face in the yoga profession. And I want to say more about that

today, but first, let me tell you about today's episode with Skylar Grant because she sheds

light on this too. I didn't really know Skyler so directly. We definitely ran in some same

circles and I actually learned through this conversation how much we paralleled each other, even more than I

suspected before we had the talk. But what was awesome is as soon as we started talking,

it was like we immediately locked in. I feel like Skyler and I have like a similar vibratory quality or something,

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