Have you ever looked at other online business owners with all their funnels and automations and wondered if that’s the piece you’re missing to finally grow?

I wondered the same thing this year, so I joined a business program to learn how to do it all. It took me very little time to realise something I didn’t expect, and it changed the direction of my business and what I want to teach you.

In this episode I’m pulling back the curtain on what I’m focusing on to grow Blissful Biz to multiple six figures in 2027. I’ll tell you how many members the Hive has right now and how much it actually brings in each month, which might surprise you, and why that number made me completely rethink how I create recurring revenue. I’ll also share how one premium program made more than $250,000 while I spent half the year travelling in my camper van, and why I’m bringing that kind of offer back in a very different way.

If you’re a yoga teacher who wants to grow without taking on more tech and more complexity, I think this episode will feel like a big exhale.

FREE MASTERCLASS: How to Build a $5K/Month Yoga or Wellness Business on Skool

Join me live on Thursday, October 15th. I’ll walk you through the Skool Profit Path, show you how a paid community and a premium membership fit together, and share more about the Blissful Biz Accelerator, where I’ll be working closely with a small founding group of experienced yoga teachers and wellness entrepreneurs.

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Inside the Blissful Biz Hive you'll build your Honey Flow: the exact system yoga teachers are using to add $1k or more to their monthly income with one small digital offer, without needing a big audience or pushy tactics.

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What does it really take to build a yoga business when you don't want a nine to five, you live between countries, and the money doesn't always come in when you need it?

In this episode I'm talking to my sweet former student Bobbi Paidel, a yoga teacher from Canada with more than 20 years of study in yoga, meditation and non-dual philosophy, who now splits her year between Sweden and India. Bobbi shares what it has looked like behind the scenes to build a business from classes, retreats, an online membership and her podcast A Curious Yogi, and why she has learned to be okay with the slow burn while it all grows.

She's also really open about the parts that didn't go to plan, from the yoga collective in Sweden that left her hitting the wall to the moment she had only five people registered for a retreat in Norway two weeks before it started. We talk about how she went from believing yoga is for everybody to knowing exactly who she's speaking to, and what it looks like to build a life and business across three countries when there's no plan B.

CONNECT WITH BOBBI PAIDEL

Website: https://bobbipaidel.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobbipaidel/

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If you’re trying to build an online yoga or wellness business, it can feel nearly impossible to stand out.

Because if you’re offering generic online yoga classes, you’re competing with thousands of free videos on YouTube, yoga apps, and established teachers with huge personal brands. If someone doesn’t know you yet, why would they choose you?

In this episode, I’m sharing a different way to think about your offer: start with a real-life problem your people actually want help solving, and then use yoga, breathwork, meditation, Ayurveda, or whatever your tools are to help them get there.

I’ll share a few things I would personally pay for right now, from help getting back to sleep at 3am to short strength workouts for women over 50, plus examples of entrepreneurs on Skool who are building successful communities around specific problems and desires.

We’ll also talk about how to identify a problem you could become known for solving, how to get beyond vague promises like “feel more balanced” or “reduce stress,” and why you don’t need to have your perfect niche figured out before you start.

FREE TRAINING: How to Turn Your Yoga Wisdom into Consistent Online Income

In this free training I'll walk you through the Honey Flow Method: the exact system yoga teachers are using to add $1k or more to their monthly income with one small digital offer, without needing a big audience or pushy tactics.

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JOIN THE BLISSFUL BIZ HIVE 🐝

Inside the Blissful Biz Hive you'll build your Honey Flow: the exact system yoga teachers are using to add $1k or more to their monthly income with one small digital offer, without needing a big audience or pushy tactics.

➡️ https://www.skool.com/blissfulbizhive

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Almost every time I launch something, at least one person tells me that yoga shouldn't be a business. If you've ever felt that quiet discomfort around selling your work, this conversation with George Kao is going to feel like a relief.

George Kao has been coaching heart-led entrepreneurs since 2009, and he's spent all of that time working out one question: how do you market and sell without manipulating anyone or losing yourself in the process. His answer is that authentic marketing is really just telling the truth in service of the people you want to help, or as he puts it, making friends at scale. In this episode we get into what that looks like in practice, and why it tends to work better over time than the pressure tactics so many of us have been sold.

We also talk about the tension that comes up for so many yoga teachers around money, including where the belief that spiritual work shouldn't be paid even comes from, and why George thinks it no longer serves us. And we spend a good while on AI, because George has automated most of his admin as a solopreneur and has a refreshing view on it: that using AI well frees you up to be more human in your business, not less. If you've been feeling the trust recession, or the quiet worry that being authentic means staying small, this one will leave you with a calmer, clearer way forward.

CONNECT WITH GEORGE KAO

🌐 Website: https://www.georgekao.com/

🤖 George's free guide to working with AI: https://www.georgekao.com/ai

THE BLISSFUL BIZ HIVE 🐝

The Blissful Biz Hive is the membership for yoga teachers who are ready to build a profitable online business without the overwhelm, guesswork or hustle.

Inside, you'll build your Honey Flow: a simple, step-by-step system that helps you create an offer people love to buy, grow your audience, and make consistent sales month after month.

➡️ https://www.skool.com/blissfulbizhive

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You’ve probably used ChatGPT to help with captions, emails, or class ideas, but have you ever thought about using AI to actually build something for your yoga business?

I’ve been experimenting with Claude lately, and I’ve created interactive tools that I honestly wouldn’t have known how to build myself. In this episode, I’m sharing how I’ve been turning existing resources into more interactive freebies, and some of the ways I’m using AI behind the scenes to make running my business easier.

And if you’ve been wondering what AI could actually help you do beyond writing content, I hope this gives you a few ideas to experiment with.

Create your first AI freebie with me

If you’d like to see how this works, I’m hosting a free live workshop on September 15th, where I’ll show you how to create your first interactive AI freebie.

We’ll build a manifestation card together using Claude, and you’ll see how you can turn your own ideas into something you can share with your audience, without needing to know how to code.

Sign up here: https://susannerieker.com/ai

Links mentioned

Tiiny Host: https://tiiny.host/

Affirmations tool: https://susannerieker.com/affirmations

Progress tracker: https://susannerieker.com/progress-tracker

THE BLISSFUL BIZ HIVE 🐝

The Blissful Biz Hive is the membership for yoga teachers who are ready to build a profitable online business without the overwhelm, guesswork or hustle.

Inside, you'll build your Honey Flow: a simple, step-by-step system that helps you create an offer people love to buy, grow your audience, and make consistent sales month after month.

➡️ https://www.skool.com/blissfulbizhive

💖 If you liked this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts – your feedback really makes a difference.

📆 Never miss a new episode and subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

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🌐 Website: https://susannerieker.com/

📸 Instagram: @susannerieker

What really happens when you spend thousands on ads, bring hundreds of people into a free challenge... and the results aren't quite what you hoped for?

A few weeks ago, I hosted the $1K Honey Flow Challenge, a four-day live event designed to introduce a cold audience to my Honey Flow Method and ultimately bring new members into the Blissful Biz Hive.

In this episode, I'm taking you behind the scenes and sharing the real numbers, what worked better than I initially thought, what I would absolutely change next time, and some of the bigger business lessons this experiment brought up for me.

THE BLISSFUL BIZ HIVE 🐝

The Blissful Biz Hive is the membership for yoga teachers who are ready to build a profitable online business without the overwhelm, guesswork or hustle.

Inside, you'll build your Honey Flow: a simple, step-by-step system that helps you create an offer people love to buy, grow your audience, and make consistent sales month after month.

➡️ https://www.skool.com/blissfulbizhive

💖 If you liked this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts – your feedback really makes a difference.

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Arundhati Baitmangalkar, host of the popular Let's Talk Yoga podcast, never planned to build any of this. She didn't set out to have a studio, a podcast, or an online yoga school. She just wanted to teach. And yet here she is, more than a decade later, with something recognizable and lasting.

In this episode we talk about how you stay authentic to yoga while building a business online, in a world that constantly pushes you toward the opposite.

Because that's the real tension, isn't it? You want to reach more people and build something sustainable, but so much of the online advice asks you to perform, to post constantly, to make it all about you. Arundhati has found another way, and it's rooted in something she keeps coming back to: you're not the point, the yoga is.

We get into the reframe she uses when showing up online feels like too much, why she spends less than ten minutes a day on Instagram, and how she thinks about success in a way that has nothing to do with follower counts or full classes. She also shares the question she asks every teacher who feels behind, and why building slowly might be the most authentic thing you can do.

If you've ever wondered whether you can grow a real online business without losing yourself in the process, this conversation is for you.

FOLLOW ARUNDHATI:

https://www.instagram.com/letstalkyogapodcast/

https://www.instagram.com/arundhati_baitmangalkar/

THE BLISSFUL BIZ HIVE 🐝

The Blissful Biz Hive is the membership for yoga teachers who are ready to build a profitable online business without the overwhelm, guesswork or hustle.

Inside, you'll build your Honey Flow: a simple, step-by-step system that helps you create an offer people love to buy, grow your audience, and make consistent sales month after month.

✨ Free 7-day trial. Cancel anytime in just 2 clicks.

➡️ https://www.skool.com/blissfulbizhive

💖 If you liked this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts – your feedback really makes a difference.

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📸 Instagram: @susannerieker

A membership isn't the easiest way to make money. I'll be the first to tell you that. So why have I bet my whole business on one? In this episode I take you fully behind the scenes of the Blissful Biz Hive to answer exactly that.

The years of starting it, closing it, and starting it all over again. The three tiers I finally landed on, and the thinking behind each price that most people would never guess. And the platform I'm still completely obsessed with for building community, and why I think there's nothing better out there for it.

And if you've ever been unsure whether you should build a membership, a low-ticket offer, or something else entirely, stay with me to the end. Because I lay out exactly what I'd build if I were starting from wherever you are right now.

THE BLISSFUL BIZ HIVE 🐝

The Blissful Biz Hive is the membership for yoga teachers who are ready to build a profitable online business without the overwhelm, guesswork or hustle.

Inside, you'll build your Honey Flow: a simple, step-by-step system that helps you create an offer people love to buy, grow your audience, and make consistent sales month after month.

✨ Free 7-day trial. Cancel anytime in just 2 clicks.

➡️ https://www.skool.com/blissfulbizhive

💖 If you liked this episode, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts – your feedback really makes a difference.

📆 Never miss a new episode and subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.

✨ Share your biggest takeaway on Instagram stories - just be sure to tag @susannerieker so I can see them.

🎓 To learn more about how to work with me or to get instant access to freebies, trainings and more go to www.susannerieker.com. 🙏❤️

CONNECT WITH ME:

🌐 Website: https://susannerieker.com/

📸 Instagram: @susannerieker