We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Suellen Stringer-Hye. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Suellen below.

Suellen, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today If you had a defining moment that you feel really changed the trajectory of your career, we’d love to hear the story and details.

It was 2016. My long, creative and fruitful career in academia didn’t seem inspiring any more. Even though I helped build the first web pages for the Vanderbilt library, wrote and published multiple articles in several fields, contributed to a book on the history of American Yoga, pioneered new technologies to enhance humanities research and established a Sanskrit Study group, I now felt my creative interests turning elsewhere. I wanted to move on to have a bigger impact and start teaching my first love, Yoga.

I have always had a variety of interests. To me they are all connected to Yoga. This comes from my ability to see a large context. Yoga helped me realize that my struggles with procrastination or lack of focus were not my fault. The inability to do mundane tasks was not because I was lazy. As I built a more flexible nervous system through Yoga these struggles began to lessen. Though I had a flexible body, my nervous system was often quick to overreact. I have learned many techniques over the years to maintain a regulated nervous system and wanted to share those as well. I also wanted to help entrepreneurs and creative people, especially those who felt that neurodiversity was getting in their way.

So I started a business to help anyone who wants to use the many Yogic tools available (not just the physical postures) to create a nervous system that helps them to accomplish what they want to accomplish, be who they want to be and live the life they feel in their heart they were meant to live.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

Lately I’ve been calling myself a “Yoga Adviser”. I see myself as different than a Yoga Teacher. If you go to a Yoga Class, you will get generalized instruction and maybe even some adjustments for your body but for the most part, this cannot be individualized because the teacher has too many students with too many different realities to make instruction specific to them. You could also have private Yoga instruction but this still tends to be mostly focused on the physical. I am not saying that taking a yoga class isn’t a great things to do. It is. And the benefits with time do accrue. But I work with people either 1:1 or in small groups to help create an individualized approach specific to their own situation. This saves years because it is tailored to the unique needs of the person. There are so many different kinds of yoga and it’s often hard to know which of them would be the most beneficial. I like to work with entrepreneurs and creative people to help them develop and maintain a flexible nervous system and regulate their emotions so they can they can maximize their potential, Many businesses have strategies for making money or succeeding in a career. But to truly succeed, you must know how to stay calm, focused, and self-confident. You have to learn to define success for yourself. I work with clients using the many techniques I have distilled over the years, drawn from yoga, meditation, hypnosis, breathwork, and other modalities. Together we co-create a customized program that fits each client’s unique nervous system and emotional blueprint. Stepping into your potential, reclaiming your power, becoming the person you know you are meant to be is not a one-size-fits-all activity. Each person has an individual set of energetic patterns that can get in the way of accomplishing what they want to accomplish. I help clients identify those patterns and find the right tools to enhance them.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

So many:>) I feel that much of my life is a process of unlearning instead of learning. Actually this is something that Yoga has taught me. Yoga doesn’t ask you to believe anything. It is a spiritual subject but it is the science of spirituality. It is all experimentally based. If a teacher tells you something you have to ask yourself, is this true? Is it true for me? I believe the same holds for entrepreneurship. There are many lessons I have learned about HOW to run a business, HOW to show up on camer.a, HOW to attract clients, WHAT platforms to use. On and On I find something helpful in each of these lessons but also many things that don’t work for me. When I first started my online business I was taught that running ads and hosting webinars was the key to success. I quickly found that this model didn’t fit my business. It’s not that the training and information was wrong. It was just wrong. for me

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

Well it’s become a cliche now that succeeding as an entrepreneur is 90% mindset. When I first heard that I didn’t believe it. One of my mentors once said that entrepreneurship was the greatest self-development course you could ever take. Now that I’ve been doing this for a while, I totally believe it I have had to put my own teachings to the test. Resiliency in the face of rejection. Equanimity in the face of difficulty. The ability to celebrate others success when you feel like you are not getting anywhere. Doing things when you don’t feel like doing them. Showing up on camera. Exposing yourself to criticism. These are all things that are essential if you are going to succeed. They require courage and self-belief.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suellen.stringerhye/
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• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stringerhye/