Closing The Wellness Gap with Nicole Cardoza Ep.16

Nicole is one of those people that I definitely felt was way too cool to talk to me, especially since we scheduled the interview, Nicole is now the face of Nike's Spring 2020 Yoga campaign. Not to mention her plentiful accolades, multiple not-for-profit businesses and the fact that she is an all around changemaker in wellness - I felt truly lucky to have the opportunity to speak with her. I first learned of Nicoles work, sadly, due to the mess that Yoga Journal made after her cover shoot last June. 

Since that time, I’ve been watching Nicole spread her message of reclaiming wellness, closing the wellness gap and making wellness accessible to all.  She’s taken what could have been a career defining controversy, and parleid it into a launch pad for equity and justice. #impressed

ABOUT NICOLE

Nicole is a serial entrepreneur passionate about the reclamation of wellness. As the founder and Executive Director of Yoga Foster, a national nonprofit that empowers educators with yoga and mindfulness resources for the classroom, she’s re-invested over $2.5M in resources from the wellness community to increase the health equity of schools across the country.

After controversy with Yoga Journal over her cover feature for their August / September 2019 issue, Nicole’s work and mission went viral. From that experience, she launched Reclamation Ventures, a fund that invests in high-potential, underestimated entrepreneurs making wellness more accessible in their communities.

In today's show, Nicole and I discuss:

• What the Wellness Gap is
• Why inclusivity is deeper than who you put on your marketing materials
• How to make your business truly inclusive, and bring wellness to all
• Why true inclusivity starts with the people behind the business 
• A concrete way to start unpacking our own blind spots, and do the work to create inclusivity from the inside
• Intention vs. Impact
• A definition of Intention
• A definition of Impact
• The best analogy of intention vs. impact I’ve ever heard
• Spiritual bypassing in the yoga community to avoid accountability
• Community Care & Healing Justice
• Building community into every part of your practice
• How the wellness industry operates within capitalism 
• Unpacking what community really means
• Starting a social impact organization
• Deciding on a not-for-profit or for profit business structure
• Understanding not-for-profits
• Mission creep - what it is, and how to prevent it

FIND NICOLE

• Nicole’s Website
• Nicole’s Instagram
• Yoga Foster Website
• Reclamation Ventures Website

FIND CORA

• Cora's website
• Cora's Instagram
• The Teaching Yoga Podcast - LIVE in Melbourne
• The Teacher's Club Waitlist

Find the full show notes, and links to everything we discuss on my website

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