Hi there!
My name is Leah and I live in the Barossa Valley in South Australia.
I'm a yoga teacher, a whole foods cook, a mum to a 14 year old daughter, and overall nature lover. I enjoy taking photos of flowers, feathers, rocks and trees and posting to my Instagram account (@leah.cooper76).
In 2019 I started my YouTube channel where I began creating content for my yoga students. I've now got over 180 videos available that cover a variety of topics including yoga classes, cooking and whole foods, health and wellbeing.
In 2021 I started my podcast, The Wellbeing Room, where I share my own personal health and wellbeing stories and invite other people on as guests. If you'd like to be a guest on the show, please get in touch. I'd love to hear from you.
Hi there!
My name is Leah and I live in the Barossa Valley in South Australia.
I'm a yoga teacher, a whole foods cook, a mum to a 14 year old daughter, and overall nature lover. I enjoy taking photos of flowers, feathers, rocks and trees and posting to my Instagram account (@leah.cooper76).
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You're not "behind" 🙏🏼🧡
Most of us feel behind. Behind in numbers of followers... or income... or simply clarity about our business strategy and what we should be doing on a typical Tuesday afternoon when you're staring at your to-do list and nothing feels like the right priority. If that resonates, you're not alone. It's a common feeling among soulpreneurs! But let's reframe this—because feeling behind isn't helpful. It keeps us stuck in comparison and self-judgment, which drains the very energy we need to move forward. The reframe: You're right where you need to be. I know that might sound like a platitude, but I mean it practically. Wherever you are in your business journey, that's your starting point. And a clear starting point is exactly what you need to move forward with focus instead of overwhelm. The problem isn't that you're behind. The problem is that most business advice doesn't account for where you actually are. It throws strategies at you without helping you understand which ones fit your current situation. That's what we're going to fix. What's next: In the next lesson, I'll introduce the 5 Levels of Soulpreneur Business Development—a simple map that shows you the full landscape of building an authentic business. Once you can see the map and locate yourself on it, everything changes. You stop trying to do everything at once. You stop borrowing strategies meant for someone three levels ahead of you. And you finally know what to focus on—and what to let go of—right now. Let's take a look at that map... Feel free to comment below: Have you been feeling "behind"? What does that look like for you—comparison to a specific person? Pressure about a particular metric? Sometimes just naming it loosens its grip. 🙏🏼🧡
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Your favorite interviews: what are you learning about how they do it?
From now on, as you listen to / watch any interviews, especially from your favorite hosts or guests, ask yourself: What is the host doing well, that I can learn from? What is the guest doing that is effective? What are they not doing as effectively, that I can learn from? I welcome you to share your learnings below. Let's all become more effective hosts & guests, with our collective input!
I'm a big fan of Mel Robbins and her podcast. She interviews top people in psychology and personal development and the like. She is really direct with her interviews. At times she pauses and repeats things her guests and highlights them as teachable moments before going deeper with her guest.
George, For me I still have my day job and feel like I’ve only “dabbled” in my passion business when my day-job-projects have allowed me enough time and energy. So I can get sad and frustrated that I’m behind and will never be able to consistently focus and grow this to something bigger. But I remind myself how much I’m still learning and growing through this process. Like you said in the webinar, entrepreneurship is certainly a way to further our own self growth. I see that even with my micro business!
@Jennifer Kogut I felt the same way for a long time. I'm no longer working in another job and still feel 'behind' for so many reasons. It's good to have aspirations and every step, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction.
@Leah Cooper Thank you for your perspective and encouragement!
How might I reframe when I'm feeling behind:
Self talk: I'm on my own path. My journey is unique to me.
Feeling behind means that I want more. More out of life. More from myself. It's a reminder to stay on the path to a deeper expression of who I am. That there is potential to grow and learn.
Also knowing that people who appear 'ahead of me' probably experience a sense that they are behind too.
@Leah Cooper so true! Everyone always had people "ahead of them" to compare to. And I love your reframing that feeling behind means you want more/potential.
@Leah Cooper I love your framing the “behind” feeling as a call to stay for deeper expression. I think it’s easy to stay surface level in our culture, but deeper requires our own timing.
@Jennifer Kogut "but deeper requires our own timing" resonates as so true, and in my case, one of the biggest challenges has been to allow, accept, and embrace the UNPREDICTABILITY of my own timing.
@Laura Greiner yes! allow, surrender, accept, trust. and hilarious gifs -- thank you 😄
@Laura Greiner I love that! Unpredictability + humor = life :D