Episode 07: Listening to Your Intuition & The Health Benefits of Retreats with Polly Moore
Polly Moore is a retreat venue owner, retreat leader, business and mindset coach. She works with other retreat leaders to help them build successful businesses that not only have an impact on their clients, but also ensure they make a profit from their retreats.
In this episode, Polly joins Nicole to discuss how we can listen to our intuition, as well as the health benefits that attending retreats can bring! Polly also shares her story before emerging into the retreat industry and the big change Polly experienced that led her to where she is today.
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Timestamps:
[02:00] Polly’s life before retreats and working in the film industry
[03:19] The impact that the busy-career lifestyle had on Polly
[09:20] Being in nature and time for big change
[18:25] The seismic transformation Polly experienced
[24:21] Stopping the stressors and being nourished on all levels
[28:17] Why making the time to reset and relax is crucial
[30:44] What retreats can enable us to do when we return back to ‘life’
[31:53] Finding our own rhythm and working with it
[35:10] Polly’s advice for people thinking of doing a solo retreat
[41:23] What a retreat looks like and what’s involved
[47:53] Letting others take care of you
[50:31] How people feel after a retreat and the experience of eating fresh and nourishing food that you wouldn’t usually choose
[51:41] The important wake up call Polly and her partner Shaun had that led to creating a restoration programme
[55:19] Finding the perfect retreat space
[1:01:07] Helping other retreat business owners scale their businesses
[1:02:24] The future of Erth Retreats
[1:03:49] Polly’s advice for people wanting to make a change in their life
“Being with a group of people wanting to do the same thing as you; hearing their stories is a great way of realising and signposting where you are and what you need to do.”
Essential learnings from this episode…
Making a big change and taking the leap to change
The importance of taking time out and doing something different
Why setting time aside to reset and relax is vital for us
The transformations people have experienced from retreats
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Important links & mentions from this episode
Connect with Polly on Instagram as a Retreat Leader
Follow Erth Retreats on Instagram
Connect with Nicole on Instagram
Visit the Goode Health Website
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