Mercede Hittmeier is a yoga instructor with over a decade of teaching.

In today's episode, Mercede shares her story of how following her intuition led her to pursuing careers in modeling, massage, barre, and finally guided her to yoga. Along the way, she lived all over the world and gained valuable insights about what it looks like to follow her calling along the way. Can't wait for you to hear her stories.

Key Moments and Insights:

• Nicaragua yoga retreat
• How do you bring back lessons after traveling?
• Moving to New York City
• Handling burnout and knowing when to pivot
• Discovering yoga
• The value of community and Home

Mercede's yoga class was a blessing for me in my first year of business, and her contagious energy is something that I've wanted to find a way to emulate since I've met her. Can't wait for you to hear her story!

Thanks for listening.

Be Where Your Feet Are.

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Show Chapters:

00:00 Nicaraguan Yoga Retreat

04:35 Vacationing As A Mom

06:24 Bringing Home Lessons

09:11 Origin Story

13:12 Acts of Service

16:20 Burnout And Barre

20:43 New York

26:53 Trust And Support

31:00 Manifestation Without Expectations

33:41 What Matters

39:42 Coming Home

41:16 Embrace the Suck

42:20 Trust Opportunities

46:58 Conviction Over Opinions

50:40 No Option to Quit

52:42 The Importance of Community

57:19 Billings, MT

01:00:06 Black Orchid Community

01:03:08 Finding Yoga Everywhere

01:08:28 Why I Instruct

01:13:16 Serving Through Teaching

01:17:19 Lessons & Blessin's