Balancing Opportunities – Live Alive


Dana Simpson

She loves the opportunities that the franchise has brought her because like most women, she wears many hats! She is not only a business owner, but a Stay Home Mother and aspiring Inspirational Speaker and lives to balance all 3 of them equally.
Some of what we talked about:
  • Buying a franchise bought her income and the ability to stay home and have a second baby
  • Her franchise location is about 1 1/2 hours from her home- she runs it from her home
  • She has a pay-for-performance program: Cleaners are paid by the ratings of their customers
  • Guarantees customer satisfaction
  • Dana only works about 9 hours per week on the business and has replaced her income to be very close to what she was making in the corporate world working 45 hours per week
  • Vulnerability is a gift
  • Works on balance daily
  • Admits when wrong
  • Live with action items

Here are her top 3 tips to Live Alive:

1. Choose to be happy – Surround yourself with positive influences. Also, be sure you are being that positive influence on others around you! Find 2-3 friends that you will ‘do life’ with. Let these women be your rock, who you will share your darkest secrets and biggest dreams. They will be your encouragement, when you don’t believe in yourself.
2. Deal with the Pain – If there is something you are holding on to and its seems to be holding you back, admit it and let it go. Whatever it is you are dragging behind you, is only slowing you down. Get the help you need, so you can be free. Your friends, you “do life” with will help keep you moving forward.
3. Love on Yourself – Not to love yourself, but to love on yourself. It is easy for us women to get caught up in the business of life, taking care of everyone else. Make sure to take time out of your schedule to love on yourself and do something that will fill you back up. It can be a simple change, like taking a new route to work, or put something on the calendar to look forward to, like date night or a girl’s trip. Whatever it is, do something for yourself. It will make you a better person and able to live more alive! No matter what life throws at you.

Website URL: twomaidsfranchise.com

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Two-Maids-A-Mop-of-Montgomery-383396051711801/

Instagram: @Danaforspeaker

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Living Mindfully in the Modern World


Mukunda Chandera das Michael Kohan

Michael Kohan, or Mukunda Chandra das (afectionately known as Mukunda) is dedicated to helping his clients and students find balance in all aspects of their lives—emotional, spiritual, mental and physical wellbeing. Mukunda is a Certified Health Coach, Certified Life Coach, a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher, Certified Vedic Thai Yoga Body Work Practitioner who works with others to help them restore balance in their lives by helping them to make healthier and more conscious lifestyle choices.

True harmony is achieved through developing a balanced cooperation between mind, body and soul. Living in this world can be tough at times, but when we learn simple spiritual tools for healing and maintenance, life can be much easier. Mukunda’s goal is to help clients and students to discover the skills to help them move forward in all areas of their lives. Mukunda feels that his purpose is to serve others through his teaching, by encouraging students and clients to become steadfast in their own practices, while integrating spiritual and mindful living into their day-to-day lives.

Mukunda met his spiritual mentor (Guru) H.H. Radhanatha Swami and after several years of formal study under his Guru, which included systematic reading of spiritual texts, dedicated practice of mantra meditation, rising early for morning services,and regulating his cooking and diet, Mukunda received formal initiation into his spiritual lineage in 2013.

Some of what we talked about:

  • Functioning addict who made major lifestyle changes
  • 3 sets of relationships
  • Family/friends
  • Social friends
  • Change friends that accept and support your change
  • How to set boundaries
  • How to be detached from the outcome
  • 65 pounds of weight loss from changing his lifestyle
  • Was sick, addicted, stressed and out of control and started yoga
  • Live the least harmful life you can possibly live
  • Crowded out the negative choices in his diet with positive choices
  • Need support to stay mindful
  • You are what you see and hear…that is who you become
  • The cycle of habits controlling your decisions
  • Create easier habits to overcome bad habits
  • Carry an apple or fruit to replace the pull for a donut for example
  • Listen..receive…try to understand other’s point of view…change
  • What are the 10 areas of imbalance in your live and how can we shift that?
  • 6 human needs
  • Accountability partnering
  • …And much more

He offers a free coaching to anyone who wants to evaluate their Circle of Life and discover areas of life that are out of balance. https://yourwellnessyogi.com/princess

Website URL: https://yourwellnessyogi.com/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/kohanmichael