The Blissful Biz Podcast

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Welcome to the Blissful Biz podcast! I'm Susanne Rieker, and this show is for yoga teachers who are ready to turn their wisdom into an online business they actually love. Each week I share practical strategies, honest behind-the-scenes stories, and real talk about what it takes to grow sustainably online — without burning out or selling out. If you're tired of trading time for money and want to build something that creates true freedom, you're in the right place. Find me at www.susannerieker.com or connect with me on Instagram @susannerieker .

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August 17, 2026Episode 30619 min

Why I Bet My Business on Community: Behind the Scenes of My Membership for Yoga Teachers

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

August 10, 2026Episode 30544 min

Is Substack Worth It for Yoga Teachers with Jo Hutton from Yoga for Tired People

Is it still possible to grow an audience organically and build a real online business as a yoga teacher? Jo Hutton is living proof that it is. Jo spent over 16 years teaching yoga in Newcastle, ran her own studio, and trained more than 50 yoga teachers. Today she has one of the most engaged wellness communities in the UK, with over 46,000 subscribers on Substack. But the path there was anything but a straight line. In this conversation Jo shares the burnout that completely stopped her in her tracks, the quiet shift that slowly brought her back to life, and the video that got seen 8.6 million times and changed her business almost overnight. We talk about how she actually builds engagement, why she stopped treating Instagram like a shop front, the surprising thing that made creating content feel so much easier for her, and how she turns casual followers into a warm email list that genuinely buys. If you've ever felt stuck on what to post, or quietly wondered whether you missed your window to grow online, this episode is going to give you a lot to think about. Follow Jo on Instagram, where she talks all things yoga: @johuttonyoga Check out her Substack: https://happyyoga.substack.com/subscribe 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

August 3, 2026Episode 30416 min

"Help, Nobody's Buying Anymore." Here's Whats Really Going On

Have you caught yourself thinking "nobody's buying anymore"? Maybe a launch landed with a quiet thud. Or maybe that fear is the exact reason you keep putting off creating a digital offer in the first place. Before you decide the moment for digital offers has passed, listen to this one. Inside the episode I share what actually changed in the online yoga world, and why the way most yoga teachers learned to sell digital offers quietly stopped working. I also get honest about what happened in my own business when my signature program started getting harder to sell, and the two things that were really going on underneath it. Then I walk through the one shift that makes a digital offer sell again, and the single question worth asking before you build anything at all. Plus why the demand for what you do is bigger than ever, even if it looks completely different from a few years ago, and why yoga teachers are actually early to this, not late. If you have ever wondered whether it is simply too late to sell online, this episode is your answer. Free $1K Honey Flow Challenge, live August 10th to 13th ➡️ https://susannerieker.com/challenge 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

July 27, 2026Episode 30317 min

Here's What I'd Do to Add $1,000 to My Monthly Income As A Yoga Teacher

What would you actually do if your goal was to add $1,000 a month to your income, online, without teaching a single extra studio class or private? That's the exact question I'm answering in this episode. Because an extra thousand dollars a month is genuinely life changing for so many yoga teachers, and it's also the doorway to everything that comes after it. But how you go about it matters enormously, and most teachers reach for the option that quietly keeps them stuck. I'm walking through the different ways you could get there, including the two most people try first, and why they so often lead to lopsided months and a lot of stress. Then I'll show you the approach I'd actually choose if I were starting today, the numbers that make it feel doable instead of overwhelming, and the simple system running quietly in the background that turns it into steady, consistent income. If you've been wondering where to even begin, this is the episode I'd want you to hear first. Free $1K Honey Flow Challenge, live August 10th to 13th ➡️ https://susannerieker.com/challenge 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

July 20, 2026Episode 30218 min

Is the Fear of Selling Keeping Your Yoga Business Small?

Do you have something you could sell right now? A course you created a while ago, a workshop recording, a small offer sitting quietly on your website. And every time you think about actually promoting it, something stops you. In this episode, I'm getting into what's really behind that silence. Because for so many yoga teachers, the online business doesn't fail, it just quietly goes to sleep while the in-person schedule takes over. And the reason has nothing to do with your audience size, the algorithm, or your offer. I'm walking you through the three mindset blocks that keep yoga teachers from selling, what avoiding the sale is actually costing you, and the reframe that changes how selling feels. If your online business has been on pause for months or even years, this episode might be the nudge you've been waiting for. 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

July 13, 2026Episode 30126 min

Why I stopped selling what business coaches told me to (and what I'm doing instead)

A few years ago I was living what most business coaches would call the dream. A six figure year, six months in a campervan, barely working, all of it carried by one premium program I sold for $5,000. I don't sell that program anymore. And in this episode, I'm telling you why. I'm taking you inside the rooms most coaches never talk about. The $20,000 mastermind where I learned to sell high ticket. The program I paid $1,200 a month for that gave me maybe five minutes of actual coaching per call, and what it taught me about who really carries the risk when you invest in a program. If you've ever spent money on a program that disappointed you, if you've ever felt that icky feeling around selling and been told it's a mindset problem, or if you're building your own offers and wondering how to price them without becoming everything you can't stand about this industry, this episode is for you. JOIN THE FREE 4-DAY CHALLENGE From August 10 to 13 we're building the foundation of your online business together, live. Real work, real progress, one step at a time, and completely free. ➡️ susannerieker.com/challenge 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 . 🙏❤️

July 6, 2026Episode 30020 min

Why your freebie isn't bringing you students (and how I set up my new freebie funnel, step-by-step)

I just got back from nearly three weeks in the Dolomites, travelling with my dog Luna in a campervan, and my freebie funnel kept running the entire time without me touching it. No big team, no weeks of preparation, just a handful of emails scheduled in advance and a system that was already built to work on its own. In this episode, I break down exactly how that funnel works. Why a freebie has to solve one specific problem and lead naturally into your paid offer, what I put on the thank you page the second someone signs up, why I stopped waiting weeks before making an offer, and the email sequence I built that gives people two honest chances to say yes instead of one. I also talk about why so many yoga teachers give up on their freebie or their funnel too early, and why in almost every case, it's not the funnel that's broken. It's a traffic problem. If your list is growing but the sales aren't following, this episode walks through what to check first. 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 💖 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 . 🙏❤️

June 15, 2026Episode 29918 min

The advice that built yoga businesses in 2021 is breaking them in 2026

If you've been doing everything right — the freebie, the online course, the social media content — and it still feels like nothing is adding up, this episode is for you. Not because you're doing it wrong, but because the landscape has genuinely shifted, and most of the advice people are still following hasn't caught up yet. In this episode, I'm talking about why the old model (create a course, do a big launch, repeat) is creating so much frustration right now, what I call the trust recession and why it changes everything, and what a business built for 2026 actually looks like. We cover: ➡️ Why your freebie, your offer, and your content aren't creating momentum even when each one is good on its own ➡️ The trust recession and why the jump from a freebie to a $1,000 program has become a much bigger ask than it used to be ➡️ The "easy yes" offer (between $27 and $97) and why it's the missing piece for most yoga teachers right now ➡️ The sales momentum piece most teachers skip, and why it's what makes everything else work RESOURCES MENTIONED 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. ➡️ https://susannerieker.com/training 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 💖 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 . 🙏❤️

June 8, 2026Episode 29819 min

5 Ways Yoga Teachers Can Make Money on Skool

If you've been hearing about Skool everywhere lately, you're not imagining it — it's one of the fastest-growing platforms in the online business world right now. But what I find most interesting about it isn't the hype. It's the flexibility. Because Skool isn't just one business model. There are actually several different ways yoga teachers can use it to build income, and they look quite different from each other. In this episode, I'm walking you through five of them — from a paid membership with monthly recurring revenue, to a popup community you run once to sell your premium offer. Some of these I'm using myself. All of them are worth knowing about. In this episode: Why Skool is worth paying attention to right now, and what makes it different from a Facebook group plus a course platform Model one: the paid membership with a monthly subscription, what makes it work, and the honest truth about what it requires Model two: a free community with a paid tier, and the mistake that quietly killed my conversions (and how to avoid it) Model three: a free community with standalone products in the classroom — and why this is one of the most underrated options for yoga teachers with an existing body of work Model four: a private community exclusively for your existing students, and how it transforms the experience of buying a course Model five: the popup community for a summit or challenge, and why it's one of the fastest ways to build trust and sell a premium offer RESOURCES MENTIONED 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. ➡️ https://susannerieker.com/training 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 💖 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 . 🙏❤️

June 1, 2026Episode 29751 min

The Legal Essentials Every Yoga Teacher Needs to Know w/ Conscious Counsel

If you're building an online yoga business, legal protection is probably not the first thing on your mind. But as Chad Sonkin from Conscious Counsel explains, the question isn't whether you'll ever need it, it's whether you'll be prepared when you do. Chad has been working with yoga and wellness entrepreneurs for almost 10 years, and in this conversation he walks us through the legal essentials every online yoga teacher needs to have in place, from waivers and service agreements to privacy policies and media releases. We also get into some really practical questions. What's the difference between a waiver and a disclaimer? Do you need people to sign something before they access your online course? What do you actually need on your website? And what happens if someone steals your content or your brand name? If you've been putting the legal side of your business on the back burner, this one's for you. JOIN THE BLISSFUL BIZ HIVE What if your yoga wisdom was bringing in an extra $1k/month, even on the days you don't teach a single class? Inside the Blissful Biz Hive you'll build your Honey Flow: a simple, aligned system for growing your audience and selling digital offers without the overwhelm, tech confusion, or guesswork. What's inside (worth $2k+) ⬇️ ✅ Step-by-step trainings to build your Honey Flow ✅ Done-for-you templates, email sequences and Canva layouts ✅ Showit website template to make you shine online ✅ Tech tutorials created with beginners in mind ✅ 30-Day content plan so you always know what to post ✅ Weekly calls with me & daily community support Cancel in 2 clicks. 14-Day Money Back Guarantee. With Susanne Rieker, who's spent the last 10 years helping 1,600+ yoga teachers build and grow their online business. 🔥 👉 https://www.skool.com/blissfulbizhive/about 💖 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 . 🙏❤️