Overcoming Imposter Syndrome (& Building a YouTube Empire) with Brett Larkin

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You might look at yoga teacher Brett Larkin, with her 500K YouTube followers and think it all came easily and naturally to her. Not so — over the course of a decade, Brett slowly but surely kept publishing videos while working full-time as a game developer job and mothering her two small boys.

On this episode, Brett shares the details of how she overcame imposter syndrome with the help of her online yoga community and ultimately created a thriving online teacher training business.

She also shares gems from her new book, Yoga Life: Habits, Poses, and Breathwork to Channel Joy, which helps you create a personalized practice that fits into the chaos of your daily life.

About Brett Larkin

Brett Larkin has twenty-five years of ballet and modern dance training and is Ballet Barre certified. While still in college at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Brett studied in both New York and India with her first teacher, the original co-founder of YogaWorks, Yogiraj Alan Finger. She’s completed multiple Yoga Alliance, KRI and prenatal certified trainings with teachers who inspire her like Gurmukh, Rod Stryker, Elena Brower, Kia Miller and Guru Singh. Brett is also a Massage Therapist specializing in myofascial release and unwinding under physical therapist John Barnes.

In her IT career, Brett studied human movement and created fitness and dance videogames that have sold thousands of copies. She’s taught yoga in studios and at Silicon Valley’s hottest companies. Her 450K+ subscriber channel won Youtube’s “Next Up” award in 2015 as one of the top emerging yoga channels on Youtube. Brett’s yoga classes are streamed for over 4 million minutes each month.

Brett Larkin’s YouTube Channel

Learn about Brett’s trainings and memberships here: www.brettlarkin.com

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