We recently connected with Casey Berglund and have shared our conversation below.

Alright, Casey thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Let’s start with a story that highlights an important way in which your brand diverges from the industry standard.

I am a former registered dietitian and yoga teacher who now works in the coaching industry, supporting noble leaders with doing their world changing work in the world while scaling their 6-, 7-, and 8- figure businesses.

As a dietitian, I did things differently. I learned, very quickly, that my clients didn’t need another set of rules to follow in order to achieve their nutrition and wellness goals. They had become experts at outsourcing their power around what to do with their wellness practices, and that was actually perpetuating their struggles.

What they actually needed was to reconnect with their bodies’ inherent wisdom to make decisions about food, movement, sleep, and being well. It benefitted them to relearn their bodies’ unique cues for hunger, fullness, and rest, for example. When I worked with clients, instead of giving them a diet plan, I would guide them to become aware of their bodies and the sensations they were experiencing, and then help them understand the language of those sensations, so that they could make purposeful and aligned decisions.

Through reconnecting my nutrition clients with their bodies’ wisdom, they would stop dieting or engaging in disordered behaviours, and rather, heal their relationships with food and their bodies. What I didn’t expect was that their bodies’ wisdom would also guide them to get out of abusive relationships, quit jobs that weren’t serving them, reprogram their minds after years of conditioning, start businesses, and take steps toward their dream lives.

This intrigued me. I wondered, “how might ‘body consciousness’ guide others to their most purposeful and fulfilling lives and businesses?”

I furthered my training and sought-out a coaching certification, deeper experiences in yoga and meditation, and mentorship from somatic practitioners and energy workers.

I noticed in my coach training, that the body’s wisdom was left out of the equation, similar to how it was left out in my dietetic training. Certainly, I gained wonderful skills to help the leaders I serve bring awareness to their thoughts, feelings and behaviours, so that they could set and reach their goals; but I noticed, that this was still a “neck up” approach and nobody was talking about the truth and wisdom stored in the cells of the body.

I sought to transform the way coaching was done. Currently, when I work with someone privately, I attune to their whole mind-body system and support them with meeting me in that space. Once grounded, and connected with their body, I coach and guide. When they bring their body on board, they get to their truth faster and make moves that are far more purposeful and effective. Because the body and nervous system store past trauma, they also get to have an experience of healing from the past, while they move into their desired future.

In 2019, I shared a TEDx talk called Let Your Body Lead that invites people to explore the power of their bodies’ wisdom. Since then, I developed an integrative methodology called the Let Your Body Lead™️ Method, which combines skills in coaching and embodiment with tools from ancient wisdom and science. I train other coaches and practitioners with this methodology, so that they can facilitate deeper transformational change with their clients and build businesses in an expansive and unique way.

I believe that the future of business and leadership is NOT cookie cutter. Embodiment is key to living and working in alignment with one’s own unique set of gifts and talents. It is a great honour to bring this work to the noble leaders I serve.

Casey, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I am a TEDx speaker, esteemed podcaster, founder of Worthy and Well, creator of the Let Your Body LeadTM Professional Certification, and co-author of The Mind-Body Way: The Embodied Leader’s Path to Resilience, Connection, and Purpose.

I am an award-winning leader, trusted coach and sought after advisor for noble leaders who are here to change the world with their purpose-driven work while scaling their multi 6-, 7-, or 8- figure businesses.

These leaders of a new paradigm partner with me to experience my clear channel, be activated into the depths of their bodies’ wisdom, and make the aligned power moves that assure their next level of success, without burning out or neglecting their relationships.

When I am not directly working with clients or on creative projects, I am traveling the world with my partner, strength training, or learning from the magical energy of horses.

You can learn more at letyourbodylead.com.

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

Small business owners are among the most resilient people I’ve ever met. It takes a lot of courage to continue to run businesses while also navigating the important details of life.

Within the last six months, my dad passed away, I fell in love with someone who feels like “my person”, moved back to my family’s farm temporarily to support the transition after losing our dad, and then moved to Barcelona, Spain (from Canada) to be with my partner, all while running my online business.

My body and nervous system could handle these big life changes because I have been prepped through the journey of entrepreneurship. I have moved through big business and life changes before — like pivoting in business and navigating a pandemic as a business owner — and can function well through challenging circumstances.

We often hear about learning lessons – but just as important is unlearning lessons. Have you ever had to unlearn a lesson?

I had to unlearn that there is a “right” way to run a business. When I first started my business, I naturally sought out mentors and coaches to teach me systems and techniques for running it, online. As business has evolved and as I’ve deepened in my practices of trusting my body and myself, I’ve realized that many of those systems and techniques aren’t right for me or the business I run. Business owners are creative and innovative and I have had to ground into the truth that it is best for me to create and innovate the business structures and practices to BEST suit what is in alignment, and that means doing things different from how they’ve been done before.

Key to success is big faith in the vision and a level of self-trust to guide innovative approaches.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.letyourbodylead.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/caseymayberglund
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/caseymayberglund
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caseyberglund/
• Other: The Purpose Map Podcast: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-purpose-map/id1586663768 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7feqUpmF1oIZCz7gkhbUFn?si=e515d82f7e134011 Website: https://www.letyourbodylead.com/podcasts/the-purpose-map

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