We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Liz Rutledge a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Liz, thanks for joining us today. What’s the backstory behind how you came up with the idea for your business?
I have a business called Sustainable Three, LLC where I teach mindfulness about ourselves, our community and our planet including tips for sustainable living. In 2018, I partnered with Cyrina Bullard (Catch Happiness, LLC) and we started doing wellness workshops that combined our expertise.
Cyrina is certified in the science of happiness and resiliency and is also a Life Mastery Consultant. I am a mindful sustainability educator. When we joined forces, we were able to provide people with Mindfulness, Resiliency, Happiness and Visioning wellness tools with sustainability tips sprinkled in there too.
We got a great reception from our workshop attendees. Students left with science-backed wellness tools and techniques.
Anyone, at any time, can go to YouTube and seek and find videos about mindfulness, happiness, resilience or vision boarding.
We have created an efficient presentation of all the wellness tools we teach (and more) in one place.
Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.
The world is more stressful than ever. Cyrina and I want to support people in navigating the inevitable challenges of this life with more ease and grace.
We partner as Sustainable Happiness Together. We have an online course collection for adults and just released a kids course for children in grades PreK-5. In addition to our online courses, we work with teams to support them in fostering a culture of wellness.
Our mission is to inspire people to live in flow. We are passionate about empowering people to love their lives and know that this life is a gift. We share curated, science-based tools from our combined 50 years of experience and training. The tools we teach support people to be more present, live more mindfully, introduce more happiness, be resilient to more effectively manage the challenges we face, and create a vision for a life of design, not one of default.
We teach about Mindfulness, Happiness and Resilience, Visioning and much more.
Here’s a sampling of what we provide in our courses and sessions with teams:
– Science-backed benefits of Mindfulness
– Sustainable tools to generate and experience happiness
– Scientifically-proven ways to strengthen your muscle of resiliency
– The best ways to create a life of design not one of default
– How to create a vision for your life you can turn into a reality
– Best techniques to find calm in the chaos
We’d love to hear about you met your business partner.
Cyrina and I met when we were seeking a speaker for a wellness for high schoolers series at my kids’ school. She was a friend of a friend who knew each other from our local Toastmasters group. Then, coincidentally (or not?) we were both up in Breckenridge, CO the following weekend and had fun connecting!
We started sharing about what we both do and a spark was created.
Her Catch Happiness plus my Sustainable Three became Sustainable Happiness Together!
How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?
Well, I’m sure this is the same for most people on the planet right now. But, when COVID-19 hit America and we all went into lockdown, Cyrina and I had to pivot and use all our wellness strategies (like resilience and growth mindset!) to come up with a new way to share our knowledge.
We quickly learned how to set up a green screen studio with lighting, lapel mics and camera and created an online version of our wellness workshops. We had to learn about video editing, putting our courses on a learning platform, creating downloadable pdfs, marketing, social media promotion, and more. Our course is called the Winning Wellness Experience course collection and you can find it on our website.
Another cool spark moment was created when we thought to reach out to some other wellness peeps we knew and invited them to co-create with us which added even more juicy goodness to our wellness courses.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.sustainablehappinesstogether.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sustainablehappinesstogether/
- Facebook: http://facebook.com/SustainableHappinessTogether
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sustainable-happiness-together-2209111b1/
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq9ijmMlZ8dbYV6F2O1id0Q
- Other: Our Online Course for Kids (PreK-Grade 5) is here: https://www.sustainablehappinesstogether.com/course/bright-butterfly-lessons Email us if you want us to connect with your kids’ school!: info@sustainablehappinesstogether.com TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sustainhappy Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/sustainablehappinesstogether/_created/
Image Credits
Image Credit: Rob Rutledge