We were lucky to catch up with Lola Scarborough, Ph.D recently and have shared our conversation below.

Lola, appreciate you joining us today. Let’s talk legacy – what sort of legacy do you hope to build?

To help shine the light in people’s life where there is darkness. To help people experience their own inner divinity in a joyful way. To write books that create awareness about health and spirituality.

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

Lola Scarborough, PhD, ERYT-500 Author
500-HR Expert-level Registered Yoga Teacher
Fitness Coach
Life, Business, and Nutritional Coach
Ayurveda Consultant
Teacher and Wellness Program Designer
Social Entrepreneur

My name is Lola Scarborough, social entrepreneur and small-business owner. I have a Ph.D in Comparative Religion, a degree in Ayurveda, a 500-HR Expert-level Registered Yoga Teacher certification, and am a Life, Business, and Nutritional Coach, an Ayurveda Consultant, a Teacher and Program Designer, and an Energy bodywork/Reiki healer. I am the Managing Partner of The Health Hut which opened its doors in 2008, Gamechanger Life Coaching, and the Crystals and More Store. Prior to 2008, I worked in the business world for over 30 years as a training program developer, lead trainer, mentor, project manager and teacher. I managed projects with companies big and small, including a number of Fortune 500 companies, and directed the work of teams of up to 20 people. This background was what allowed me to open and successfully run and manage my own businesses.

I have dedicated my life and talents to helping people alleviate suffering and move forward in every area of their lives. Over the last 22 years, I have co-created with clients of all ages, helping them enrich their lives and reach their goals through Energy bodywork/Reiki, yoga, meditation, exercise, nutrition, and improved life skills. I have also authored numerous books, spoken on many podcasts, and created videos related to nutrition, health, and healing in order to reach out and improve the lives of people everywhere. It is my joy and passion to motivate people of all ages to engage in new behaviors and learning experiences that take them out of their boxes and allow them to really grow.

I have 24+ years of experience in the physical health field a yoga teacher and Ayurveda consultant. It is a deeply profound experience to watch clients transform in front of my very eyes as they learn about and integrate wellness practices into their diet, their lifestyle, and/or their emotional outlook. I am very grateful to have the opportunity to be one of the game changers in their lives.

I have been an energy healer for over 48 years. I have been helping people and pets cope with life events and illness through energy work most of my life. I have seen with my own eyes what energy healing sessions can do for people and am in awe and amazement at how powerful a tool this is for health, happiness and wellness.

I have been coaching people my entire life but started doing it on a professional level in 2005. What I do as a Life Coach is very specific – I work with clients as they are to help them restructure self-limiting behavioral patterns that prevent them from optimizing their lives. As a coach I am motivating, liberating, and original. My background in yoga, meditation, astrology, the Enneagram, and nutrition only add to the wealth of tools I employ when I work with a client. My objective is not to change who clients are, but instead to help them find and pull forward latent talents and gifts that propel them towards their goals. Our work together is a journey of discovery and self-liberation! Over the years I have helped over hundreds of clients embrace new habits which lead to more fulfilling lives.

Have you ever had to pivot?

Our biggest shift as a company came as a result of COVID. There were other shifts as well, of course, over the history of our 17 years in business, but COVID seriously tipped the boat over. Like all other fitness businesses, we were shut down and then limited for quite a while as COVID rolled through our community. Because we are so small, there was no federal money to help us out – like so many others, we were on our own financially throughout the 2020-2021 craziness. We made it through and had plenty of time to contemplate a change of business plan.

Before COVID, we operated as a full-fledged public yoga studio and our focus was largely on being just that – a yoga studio with classes and yoga certification trainings. Although it took us a long to recover after Harvey flooded our area and we lost almost of our students, we had recovered and were thriving as a yoga community again before COVID wiped us out.

In 2021 we restructured our entire business and renamed ourselves. We moved away from being a yoga-centric business into becoming a more health and holistic-based service. Yoga became a much smaller part of our overall offering. We changed our name from Yoga Lola Studios to The Health Hut, which we felt better reflected our offerings of Reiki, astrology, nutrition, and life coaching. In 2022, we also opened our Crystals and More, A Metaphysical Store, and now offer crystals and metaphysical items as a part of our business model. In this way, if another COVID-type happening occurs, our business can now become more on-line and zoom-based.

Last but not least I returned to writing and published my second book in January 2023, titled “Super-Natural Health, Super-Natural Wellness.” I plan to write additional health and wellness books over the next 4-5 years. I am excited to share what I know with a much larger audience through my writing.

We’d love to hear about you met your business partner.

My co-founder and business partner, Kevin Post, is also my husband. Kevin is also a certified yoga teacher and a healer in the Reiki tradition. We met at a sweat lodge ceremony almost 20 years ago and connected on a deeply spiritual level. We teamed up romantically, discovered that we could work together not only as husband and wife but as business partners in the wellness industry and as they say “the rest is history!”

Contact Info:

• Website: www.thehealthut.com
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thehealthhuttexas/
• Other: www.gamechangerlifecoaching.com