What if the digital chaos around us is actually clearing the path for something better?
In this episode, I break down five major trends shaping the future of the internet—through a yogic, heart-centered lens. From the collapse of social media as we know it to the rise of trust-based business models, this is your roadmap to staying aligned, ethical, and empowered in an online world that’s shifting fast.
You’ll learn:
🔹 Why Google, search, and content marketing are being split by AI
🔹 How social media is declining—and why that’s a blessing in disguise
🔹 The rise of digital minimalism and paid, intentional platforms
🔹 How conscious creators are building trust-based businesses (without the algorithm grind)
🔹 What yogis and healers need to know about the future of AI and tech
If you’ve felt overwhelmed by tech or disconnected from your digital presence, this episode will help you reimagine your online life—from a place of clarity, values, and genuine connection.
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Transcript:
Brett:
It’s time for you to walk through the world with the confidence and serenity of someone who’s deeply tethered to their inner wisdom. If you have this insatiable hunger to uplift your personal life and make a bigger impact in your wellness career, leveraging yoga’s ancient wisdom, welcome. I’ve certified thousands of yoga instructors online, I teach to over half a million subscribers on YouTube, but I still haven’t remotely quenched my thirst for more yogic knowledge.
I’m Brett Larkin, founder of Uplifted Yoga, and this is the Uplifted Yoga Podcast, where yoga enthusiasts and teachers transform their lives for the better. Let’s get started. What if the digital chaos all around us is actually clearing the path for something better? In this episode, I break down five major trends shaping the future of the internet through a yogic, heart-centered lens, from the collapse of social media as we know it to what I’m calling the rise of trust-based business models.
This podcast is your roadmap to staying aligned, to staying ethical, and to feeling empowered in an online world that’s shifting very, very fast. You will learn why Google Search and content marketing are being split by AI and completely revolutionized. You’ll learn how social media is declining, but why that’s actually a blessing in disguise for yogis and healers like us.
I’m going to talk about the rise of digital minimalism and paid intentional platforms, and how conscious creators like you can build trust-based businesses without having to dance and grind for the algorithm anymore. There are big changes happening, everyone. And this episode is really about what yogis and healers need to know about the future of AI and tech.
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Now, let’s get into today’s episode. Hello, yoga family. Today, I am sharing five major trends I see happening in the future of the internet.
And while that might sound super techie or overwhelming, I promise this is actually a heartening yogic episode. So stay with me. We are living in a moment where the digital world feels very chaotic.
The algorithm overload, we have AI now, social media fatigue. But I want to show you how when we look beneath the surface, what’s emerging is actually something that’s going to be more human, more embodied, and more aligned with yogic principles than ever before. So this is not your average trend report that I’m going to do today.
This is the future of the internet seen through the lens of yoga and consciousness and heart-centered business, all things which I hope you are interested in. So let’s dive into this. The first trend that I wanted to call out and shout out, and again, I’m sharing this because many of you, I’m hoping, are yoga teachers like me or conscious creators or wanting to step into that kind of role.
So I want you to have whatever insights you can into what I see is coming. And I do not have a magic ball, but I have had a pretty good track record when it comes to forecasting trends. For example, really foreseeing the online education trend and putting yoga teacher training online five, six years before anyone else was doing it.
In fact, when I did it, people were ridiculing me and telling me that I was not just insane, but not ethical and irresponsible. And then flash forward five years, not only is every single yoga school online because of COVID, but then after that, we’ve moved into a world and a model where it’s unthinkable that you couldn’t do yoga teacher training or any sort of certification or professional development online. Most major universities, I think actually all major universities now have online courses and components.
And this is now just a huge industry that’s not going anywhere. Even further back than that, right when I finished college, I was really early on the trend of blogging. Unfortunately, I was not blogging about yoga, but I was probably one of the first couple thousand people I think in the world using Blogspot, which I don’t even know if any of you can remember back that far.
I’m probably dating myself, but basically I had a blog and was thinking about search engine optimization and what creates a fun article way back before this was commonplace. Unfortunately, my entrepreneurial skill set was not quite sharpened enough back then. And it’s kind of funny because when I look back, someone who was writing about the same things that I was writing about back at that time, but who was a little bit further along in her entrepreneurial skill set, meaning being savvy about marketing and business and accounting and growth.
Her business actually ended up really, really blowing up in a good way and being purchased by, I think New York Magazine or some very big publication. So that’s an example of where I had the foresight. I had the trend early and I was doing it, but I didn’t have the life experience, the entrepreneurial skill set to make that work.
Luckily, when later the online education bubble came around and the YouTube bubble came around it’s crazy because when I started YouTube, I thought I was late to YouTube and that was in 2012. Turns out I was still in the wave of like the earliest adopters and I had had a bunch of different jobs and life experience by that point to be able to capitalize on it, monetize the trend much more efficiently than I did much earlier. If you’re in my yoga teacher training programs, we talk about building your skills as an entrepreneur, building your skills as a business owner.
That’s something that takes time to develop, but it’s absolutely essential. I think if you know what’s trending or what’s coming and you have also the skills to be able to grow and monetize and really help others and make an impact, that’s really where the magic happens. When you have the right skills and you also have an awareness of the trends that are coming.
Of course, there’s many trends all the time. We see this in social media keywords and things that are blowing up at a certain moment. Remember at a certain point, everyone was really interested in the ice bucket challenge and cold plunges.
Now we’re talking about how fasting is actually bad for women, not good for women after everyone talking about how it was good for women for two years. There’s also micro trends within a lot of pockets of the internet but what I want to focus on today is these really big changes that I see happening because if you listen to not last week’s episode, but the one before I talked about how I feel like we’re in this huge cultural moment where the internet is about to change in a huge way and things are about to shift culturally in a huge way. I think I gave the analogy in that podcast that it’s almost like we’re living through something as big as the Industrial Revolution or the Renaissance.
I truly believe that we’re in a cultural moment where the way we’re going to interact with one another, the way we’re going to make purchasing decisions, the way we’re going to use the internet is going to change in such a big way and it’s already happening. It’s already happening. So let’s go through my trend list.
I hope this can be helpful for you and again if it starts to sound glum, do not dismay because this has a happy ending. I think all of this is actually really good news. I feel really lit up and really excited.
So the first trend that I wanted to shout out is that Google search is over. It’s dead and we’re moving into what I call the split internet. So Google search used to be really the oracle, the go-to for things that we needed and you probably remember that ad a long time ago where someone was searching for a dating website and then they’re searching for a wedding vendor and then they’re searching for a crib and it’s kind of showing how all these different things we need throughout our life, we Google the answer.
We Google to find out, do I have allergies or the flu? We Google how to find the best crib, how to find the best wedding vendor. It’s this thing that we use throughout our whole life and Google search would surface different websites and different vendors and then we would get the information we needed. Well, all of that is about to change or it is changing and you might notice that when you Google things now, what do you get? You get what’s called an AI blurb.
You get a little description to whatever you were searching for. So instead of seeing actual different websites that sell cribs like Toys R Us, they probably don’t exist anymore, but different websites that would offer a crib, you are seeing a little AI blurb that might say something like, people tend to like cribs that are like this and like that and that’s basically going to give you the solution or if you’re Googling, what’s the difference between, do I have a cold or do I have allergies? It’s not going to surface WebMD for you as a website anymore. It’s going to give you an AI blurb, a little description that says, well, when you have allergies, your mucus is usually clear and when you have the flu, it’s usually like this.
And then say you scroll down past that AI blurb, what are you going to see? Ads. So you’re going to see the pay-to-play websites that are paying to have that position, which doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best crib or the best information about your allergies. It’s just who’s ever paid the most to appear in that position.
So we have an AI snippet, then we have ads and then what I call below the fold or what’s known as below the fold, meaning you have to actually take action, you might see if you keep scrolling down the number one organic search results, which is what used to actually just show up right at the top. So what this means is that real voices and real websites are buried below the fold and ads, AI blurbs and SEO floss basically are going to dominate the top of search. What’s really crazy is that these AI blurbs that we’re seeing are taking all their information from where? The top organic websites.
So this means that if you create really great content or you have a blog, I have a blog, which I think has some great content on it and I’ve worked really hard to create incredible content about Anjali Mudra, for example, or Nauli Kriya. Instead of Google now showing me in the organic search results where I think I rightfully belong and most other business owners do too if we’re a domain expert on a particular topic or thing. Instead, Google’s just scraping all the content we’ve ever written from our blog and using that to inform its AI snippets, which basically means that no one is going to see my website or my content, but Google’s AI is going to benefit from basically stealing.
Is that the right word? I’m not sure. Scraping that information and then feeding it to the user. So for many users this is helpful.
I often find it helpful because I just Google my question and then there’s an AI snippet telling me the answer. But we have to think about how true is that AI snippet? How accurate it is? What sources did it pull from? But most of all, if you’re a content creator, you’re starting to wake up and realize that your search traffic is way, way, way, way down because no one’s seeing organic search results anymore. And unless you have very deep pockets to pay for lots of advertisements, which I don’t, nor do I want to give my money to Google, people aren’t going to find you through Google search in the same way because the way search is working has completely changed due to AI and ads.
So the trend that I’m seeing is a lot of content creators are putting their best writing behind paywalls, meaning on platforms like Substack or Patreon or on private blogs. And what the big trend, I think, where we’re headed is that the Internet’s actually splitting. There’s going to be the free Internet that is extremely shallow with AI information that you don’t know where it came from that may be useful to you sometimes, but it’s very unclear the actual sources or where that data came from and whoever gave the data is getting no credit and no visibility.
This free Internet is going to be full with ads and kind of SEO fluff, like top 10 lists that are all sponsored content. So essentially, incredibly shallow and not great authenticity or transparency. And then the other half of the Internet is going to be paid.
It’s like to get really meaningful content, you’re going to have to pay for it. And this is where we’re seeing Substack. More and more people I’m just seeing are starting Substack accounts.
So a year or two ago, I might have advised people like start a blog, start a blog. You know, SEO is so important because my blog’s been such a big driver for my business for so many years, but I’m starting to see now all of that is over. No one’s going to see my blog posts anymore.
No one’s going to see my enrollment pages anymore. No one’s going to see anything anymore except AI snippets and then ads on Google, unless they choose to scroll down or click through multiple, multiple pages. And let’s be honest, no one’s going to do that.
If you want really quality information from trusted sources, you’re going to pay for it. That is my prediction for the next 5 to 10 years. That’s the split we’re going to see.
I’m trying to think of an analogy, you know, those like late night shopping networks or just like terrible infomercials where you’re like, who’s watching this? I mean, I’m sure people are. And if you love those, no offense, but it just feels so dated and strange and shallow and kind of artificial. But the feeling of that, that’s how I think the whole internet, the free internet is going to feel in like 5 to 10 years from now.
I’m seeing more and more creators sending newsletters. So instead of putting their meaningful content into blog posts, which will then like AI will crawl, take the content and you’ll never have get credit or traffic or anyone seeing it. I’ve seen a lot of creators move to long form newsletters, because obviously if you’re emailing directly your students or clients, long form content, you’re still connecting with them.
But the Google bots that are going to just feed it all to the AI and take whatever you wrote are not going to see it because it’s in a private email. I’m also seeing a lot of people use Substack. And if you’re a little unhappy about all of this, like I am, a great thing you can do is just stop using Google.
So I’ve stopped using Google search. Use DuckDuckGo. I’ve made that my default browser on my phone because if you don’t want to move towards this sort of dystopian reality where Google is curating everything you see and you don’t know where from, there are alternative search engines that work the way search engines used to work, like DuckDuckGo that you can opt into and also have really high privacy and let you know when sites are tracking you and things like that.
And if I had to pick a yogic word to summarize this first trend, this idea of Google search kind of dying, the start of what I’m calling the split internet, I would call it viveka. Viveka in Sanskrit is that discernment, right? Yoga teaches us to really filter through illusion and to seek the truth. So think about that as you look at what algorithms are surfacing for you.
Okay, trend number two is that I think social media is dying and that we actually secretly want it to. At least I want it to. So I think all of us are aware that these platforms amplify polarization in our society, that we’re not genuinely connecting with people on social media anymore.
It’s not connection, it’s these algorithms feeding us content that’s very similar to the content we already like or reaffirming our current worldviews and making us more outraged or just seeing more of the same of what we’ve already told it it liked and that it’s doing this in very sophisticated ways to get us as addicted to it as possible. At this point, we all know that it’s addictive. I think we all know that so much of the polarization and difficult political situation we find ourselves in the States, like everyone can’t find a middle ground anymore because these big tech companies and the algorithms have so clearly divided us.
Social platforms used to connect us. If I think back to when I was in college, the start of my business, I’ve made amazing friendships and met people through social media. That doesn’t happen so much anymore.
Now I think we’ve really woken up to the fact that these platforms divide us and monetize our outrage. I think we’re aware that the algorithm feeds us what we already believe and that’s creating echo chambers that’s creating polarization and self-aware people. Yoga is all about raising awareness.
We’re waking up to this and most people are not saying anymore, how do I grow on Instagram, but do I even want to be here? We’re really realizing that our attention is currency and many of us, I think, are tired of handing it over to big tech. I think that’s something that more and more we’re going to see this essentially digital minimalism as a new counterculture. I’m really excited because there’s a podcast episode that I’m going to air in a couple weeks hopefully that is actually me interviewing a 19-year-old male about how he no longer uses tech in any way shape or form.
It’s a really fascinating episode. I learned so much from him but this upcoming episode with the 19-year-old who’s off social media off smartphones and off the grid, I think his choices seem extreme now, but they won’t in 10 years. The new rebellion is not going to be consuming more content, more dopamine, more scrolling, but the new rebellion is actually going to be doing that less and that we’re going to see tech-free Sabbaths, dumb phones, people wanting to go back to phones that don’t have all the technology attached journaling, gardening.
I think all of these things are going to surge and this is really like the original detox because the most radical thing you can do right now or moving into the future is actually just to be present and to be embodied. I’d say the yogic tie-in here or the word I’d invite in here, the Sanskrit word would be pratyahara, this withdrawal of the senses. Pratyahara is one of the sacred steps on the eight-limbed path of yoga.
We’re figuring out that we’re not here, we’re not meant to be hyper-stimulated 24-7, feeding our attention, our beautiful attention where your attention goes, energy flows, feeding and giving away our attention to these big tech companies who are monetizing it to then divide us and make us more outraged or reaffirm our current worldview even more so we’re less able to connect and find a middle ground with other people in humanity. Again, I’m seeing different creators actually taking a break from Instagram, saying that they’re closing their Instagram or stopping Instagram and switching to long-form emails and ways that they can genuinely connect with those who are interested. If you felt the pull to log off more, you are not alone, you are not lazy.
This is your deep internal wisdom coming back online because we’re really waking up to the fact that these platforms are not good for us and that they’re taking us out of our body, out of the present moment away from our families, away from our peace. Trend 3 I didn’t mention it, but is this idea of digital minimalism as the new counter culture. While I’m excited for you to hear later this season on the podcast, the interview with the 19-year-old who, again, I learned so much from the way I actually interact with technology.
It completely changed after I first met him because I met him in real life and then it took some time to get him on the podcast because he doesn’t really use technology or check email that often, but I did get him on.
What I really love about the episode with him, though, is he’s not saying that everyone needs to be as extreme as he is, but he actually gives a lot of tips about how you can choose intentional tech. And I think that’s something we’re going to see more and more moving forward. And my reflection for you, for this trend, this digital minimalism, as the new counterculture, would be to think about, take a moment right now, just think about what’s one place in your life where you could trade stimulation for stillness.
It’s interesting because this advanced somatic training that I’m taking this year, because I take two or three trainings every single year to try to enhance my own knowledge, but so much of what this course is teaching, this is like an $8,000 or $10,000 course, the majority of what is being taught is literally just how to daydream and look at your environment and kind of just be bored and do nothing and see your space around you and to be OK with that. And it’s hysterical to me in a way, because I’m loving the course and I’m loving what I’m learning, but it’s so basic. It’s kind of like what we used to do naturally, either when you were a kid or basically before you had a smartphone, you know, you just kind of gaze off into the distance or daydream or not need to be hyperproductive every second.
And you just sort of be OK with that. And it’s so extremely healing for your nervous system, so extremely regulating. And all of these tools are in the Embodied Yoga Life Coaching program.
Some of them are in the somatic training, but it’s so interesting because it’s like for our nervous system to heal and to move into parasympathetic rest and digest. We literally just have to rest. We just have to be bored.
We just have to daydream, look out the window. And it’s fun that I’ve understood now and know all the neuroscience behind this, but this is so basic, my friends. And I’m really proud of myself because especially this past year, I’ve really developed this muscle and I can daydream and stare off into space or just watch my kids playing without doing anything now for longer and longer periods of time, like without that pull to, OK, I should go do something or I should check my email or I should, you know, God forbid, go look at my phone.
This is a muscle, a skill that we have completely lost that I think is going to come back and a lot of people are going to want to discover as part of this new countercultural around getting more off tech and off social media. OK, trend number four is what I’m calling the rise of the trust-based business. I think consumers on the Internet and our students, you know, they’re tired of like the bro marketing that was really what founded so much of online course sales and the early part of the Internet.
Buyers are wiser and more discerning than ever before. They can smell manipulation and like cheap marketing tricks a mile away. And if you’re a yoga teacher or healer or soulful entrepreneur, this is such good news.
What these trends are saying are that now you don’t need a giant audience. You need trust. That’s it.
Think about it. When we’re now in a world where when I Google something, I’m being fed essentially an illusion. I’m being fed not a real business, not a real website.
That’s fact-checked by doctors like WebMD. No, like I’m fed like an algorithm snippet and then ads from companies who have enough money to pay to manipulate to get those big ad spots, which are usually places with very deep pockets. Who do you trust? Like who do you turn to for actual real truth? Even if you’re like, I’m going to go because I do this sometimes.
I’m going to go scroll down to the organic search results and then start going back pages and pages in the organic search results. The issue we’re going to have is there’s just going to be so much content because AI has made it so easy for everyone to just make content and also make misinformation, which is very scary, but it’s just going to be too much to weed through, too much to shift through. You’re essentially just going to be at a loss.
And when the Internet’s no longer valuable for you to like make a decision about like what course to buy or what yoga pant brand is best or what crib to get your new baby, you’re going to ask a real person. You’re going to ask a friend or you’re going to ask someone who you feel like you trust and know and have a relationship with. And this is why this is the best news for those of you that are healers or yoga teachers or just starting your business or a soulful entrepreneur because you don’t need tons of money for ads.
You don’t need a huge audience. You don’t need to rank number one in organic search. All of those things are just gone.
The next evolution of online business is going to be slow, relational, value-aligned purchases that are honestly going to take more time. They’re going to be relationship-driven instead of that quick dopamine like, oh, something’s on sale or I need to grab it and acting quickly. I think people want depth and this is such great news because teachers and creators now you don’t need giant audiences.
You need genuine relationships and this is fantastic news for small brands and new teachers meaning if you’re willing to show up as you are, build slowly, prioritizing cultivating long-term relationships and leading with integrity, you are going to thrive in this new digital landscape because all the people that are currently searching online, that mountain of people, that mountain of eyeballs, they’re all going to move towards like real local people around them and they’re going to be saying, who can I trust or who do you recommend? It’s almost like this economy that’s existed online is going to move local with people asking them for advice. I’m seeing this in my own programs and trainings. I used to have so many people finding me because of Google search and now I’m seeing more and more people finding me through referrals, through word-of-mouth.
There was a trainee I was talking to in our 200 summer training yesterday and the yoga studio where she now goes in her small town, that yoga studio is owned by someone I trained, an alumni, from four years ago who told her to take our training. So the same thing is going to happen to you. It’s going to be a slow burn, you know, slow build, slow build, but if you have those genuine authentic relationships, whether it’s in the real world or with a small group of people who follow you via your email newsletter or video content that you send them, over time, that realness is going to become what people value more than anything else.
And the yogic principles I’d pull in here are satya and aperigraha. Satya is that truthfulness and aperigraha is non-grasping. It’s like letting go of those quick results and being like, I’m going to stop chasing and start connecting and it’s going to take longer and it’s going to be slower, but I’m going to be my authentic self and start developing those long-term meaningful relationships, knowing that whether through referrals or just the trust that’s built, it’s going to long-term result in real either sales or students or enrollments.
And I invite you, before we go to the last trend, trend number five, is to just start thinking about like everything I’ve talked about so far. Do you see any examples in your own life or people you know of some of these things already happening? For example, with social media kind of slowly dying, like they’ve reached max users at this point. Everyone’s on it, so it can only go down now.
We’ve reached apex, so the only way now is down. Like my husband used to years ago, was really into Twitter and enjoyed being on that platform and now it’s called X and he’s no longer on it, but he does really, really like Reddit. And it’s interesting because unlike some of these other platforms where an algorithm’s showing you what to look at, Reddit is all users if you don’t know how it works, but users upvote certain things.
I think Reddit is going to, out of all of these platforms, do better for longer because there’s not some mysterious algorithm surfacing what you see. It’s actually other real people upvoting things and then you’re intentionally joining different communities around interests you have instead of being surfaced things that big tech know is going to addict you or pull you in or whatever. I also think of my mom.
My mom used to send me articles on the internet, either inspiring quotes or things she thought I’d be interested in, very sweet stuff. She doesn’t do that anymore. She still sends me stuff, but now it’s all substack articles.
So even she, as an older person, has clearly stopped using the web in the same way because you can’t really even get to websites anymore because Google Search is dead, aka trend number one. So she’s really deep in substack now and she follows some really interesting people and she has a paid account. And so when she’s sharing with me things on the internet now, it’s curated content from her substack.
So I’m just curious for you to think about your own life or people you know. Do you find yourself reading AI snippets at the top of Google instead of clicking through to actual websites? Like just see if you think any of these shifts are already in motion. You definitely don’t have to take my word for it.
Just observe. And if you would be interested in me doing an episode on how I’ve really reduced my screen time and social media time and email time and desk time in general, definitely let me know because I know a lot of this technology can be very addictive and many of us have patterns of hyper productivity and lots that we’re dealing with and I’d be happy to do an episode specifically on that if that’s something you all are interested in, like how to spend less time with your smartphone. And to wrap up this episode, trend number five is that AI is the most powerful and affordable it will ever be.
So my suggestion is to use it now. We are at the peak usefulness for AI. According to many smart engineers that I feel lucky enough to know who work at the big companies, okay, like Google and Amazon, AI has scanned already the entire internet.
It’s scanned the whole internet. It’s read everything already. So what we’re experiencing now actually isn’t going to get that much better, but it will get more expensive.
So because AI has already digested the entire internet, let’s just take a moment to absorb how intense that is. It’s eaten all the content. It’s digested all of it.
The marginal improvements on the AI models are going to be pretty small from this point forward, but we’re still in the kind of like the first hit is free phase to do like a weird drug analogy. But basically right now AI is cheap. There’s even free versions and it’s widely accessible.
But my prediction is that this is not going to last. Many experts, including open AI insiders, are predicting that the cost of this technology is going to rise, that there are going to be restrictions to the tools and maybe less access in the near future. So this moment we’re in now is what I’m calling the golden window for AI.
The tools are cheap, they’re accessible, and they still align somewhat. Again, you have to set up your settings correctly and still be incredibly careful, but they still align somewhat with values like privacy and creativity if you set it up the right way. And this is exactly what I teach in my AI course.
I teach you how to use AI to sound more like you, not less, to clarify your message, to speak straight to your dream client. This is not about what I call the extraction method of AI, which is like AI do stuff for me so I can extract more value out of you, or the automation, like outsource AI. This is not about manipulation or automating your way out of presence.
This is using AI to sharpen your message, clarify your vision, help you structure compelling offers, and serve with more heart. And the way you do this is by creating AI to be a mirror for you, which requires a lot of training, and that’s basically what the course walks you through. AI cannot replace your soul, but it can support you.
It can be your incredible writing partner. It can be your incredible co-intelligent business partner, especially if you teach it your human design and your values and what you really care about. It can almost serve, like for me, I have a certain area of my AI that really serves as like my North Star, almost like an oracle, because I’ve trained it so well on actually what I really care about, my true dreams, my vision, my values, my energetic blueprint.
It really knows all of that. And so when I’m thinking of doing, you know, because I’m human, right? When I’m like, oh, I’m distracted by this project, or I’m thinking of doing this, I go back. I go back to that oracle, and I’m like, does this align with my energy and my values? And it tells me.
It just like serves as a data point for me to tell me yes or no. So if any of this resonates, go check out my new AI course. It’s linked in the show notes.
I truly believe it’s the most aligned yogic way to partner with AI that is out there. I haven’t seen any course like this because it’s about a feminine relational, what I call the relational model with AI, which is very different from using AI to extract or outsource, which I think for a lot of us in this community feels like cheating. This is using AI as a mirror to reflect your truest values, your deepest wisdom, help you take action with more ease.
It’s about how you can create from a flow state. And if you’re curious about AI, I would say use it now. Use it now before it gets gated, really expensive, or out of reach.
This is the moment. It is going to get more expensive. All right, so to close, yes, the internet is shifting, but it’s not the end.
It’s the beginning. I think this is a call to create more intentionally, to consume more consciously, to connect more authentically. I feel like it’s almost like we’ve been in this dream world.
We’ve been so pulled in and held by this addictive orbit of this technology for so long. Like a big shift is happening right now. People are waking up.
People want something different. We want to go back to in-person experiences. We’re going to take longer to make purchasing decisions, but we’re going to do that with teachers and leaders that we feel like we really know, that we really feel aligned with.
So I want you to write this down. If you’re not driving, your truth is your strategy, and your values are your algorithm. Because if your students and your clients can see what your values are, and see you upholding those values, that’s what’s going to draw them to you.
And I’m going to be making big changes in my business in 2026. Let me tell you, I have, you know, I’m a small, small business, but I’m still bigger than just me. There’s a lot of different components to Uplifted Yoga, a lot of different people involved, which means I can’t just turn on a dime.
Some of these changes take longer to implement because I’m not a solopreneur. I have other people on my team and a lot of different factors to consider, but the changes are coming. And I want you to take a moment to really think about how liberating so much of this information is.
Do you know how liberated I feel that I no longer have to write blog posts that are like perfect for Google and perfect for SEO, and that instead I can change my strategy to just speak more from my heart and really put more resources into this podcast, for example? Do you know how exciting and liberating it is for me to think that like long-term, I’m not going to have to put so much of my energy towards Instagram and I’m going to be able to write and share longer form content from my heart through email newsletters? Basically all of this energy that I feel like I’ve had to spend and you might have felt this way too, to make these algorithms happy and to dance the right keywords for them and upload the right volume for them and do all the right TikTok dances for them. All of that energy we’re now going to get to put towards genuinely connecting with our tribe, sharing our authentic message, sharing our truth in a way that feels aligned for us because we’re not dancing for these algorithms anymore. I am so excited for this.
And like, yes, it’s going to mean some different business models, some different ways that I’m going to budget and think about my business. And no, I’m not going to shut down the entire blog or Instagram or some of my ads overnight, but long-term, you betcha, my focus is changing and I feel so excited and good about this future. It feels freeing.
It feels liberating because I want to genuinely connect with people. I want to help people and share what’s really on my heart instead of having to wrap it in a TikTok dance or wrap it in keywords or wrap it in some algorithm thing. And my guess is that if you’re here and you’re still listening, you probably feel the same way.
You probably feel just like me. So these changes, while they’re big, while they might seem scary, they are good news. Thank you so much for being here and listening all the way to the very end.
On the note of connection, if you would like to connect with Barbie on my team, she speaks to students. She is a resource for you. She’s sort of our uplifted mentor.
A lot of the programs that I offer are moving to application funnels, not so much to qualify you, although that’s part of it, but it’s more like so we can actually get to know you before you enroll and have a conversation to make sure that whatever we’re offering is a good fit for you, that you’re a good fit for us to actually have those human conversations, especially if you’re not sure what direction you want to take. So if that feels resonant to you, like you’d like to connect deeper, please book a Discovery Call. Barbie is one of my mentors.
She’s an absolutely fantastic resource. I learn so much every time I talk to her and you will as well. And if you’re interested in nerding out on all of this more and really learning about how to use AI authentically with integrity to amplify your messaging while all these tools are still free and available to us, definitely consider my AI course.
The moment to enroll is now because I’m going to be doing a live class. We’re all going to connect in real time in just a few weeks. So you want to move through that course before the live call so you can bring all your questions, questions you have about the fun challenges in the course, questions where you might be blocked in your business.
I’m really excited to connect with so many of you on that live event that’s happening as part of the AI course next month. I’m sending you so much love and until next time, take care of you. Thank you so much for being here and listening all the way to the very end.
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