Todd McLaughlin is a longtime yoga teacher and co-founder of Native Yoga Center in Juno Beach, Florida. With over 30 years of practice, he shares yoga as a pathway for mental clarity, resilience, and self-discovery. Todd is also a licensed massage therapist and certified in traditional Thai massage from Thailand. He hosts the Native Yoga Toddcast podcast and mentors aspiring teachers, blending traditional yoga wisdom with practical tools for modern life. He helped save Coach Fergies life by introducing him to Yoga, Top 5% globally ranked Native Yoga Toddcast Podcast. Offers online yoga

Coach fERGIE’S tOP 5+ Knowledge Nuggets and Take-Aways
- The best approach meets people exactly where they are, not where others think they should be 🧩
- True strength is built by connecting breath with movement, not just going through motions 💨
- Real learning happens through experience, not just information 📚
- Resetting the body through correct Yoga practice can unlock healing that other workouts cannot provide 🔁
- Regulating the nervous system is key to staying calm and performing at a high level ⚖️
- Hands-on work with the body can unlock deeper healing than passive approaches 🦾

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- 🕒 00:04:00 – Powerful moment sparks commitment
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- 🕒 00:14:00 – Practice over theory matters most
- 🕒 00:16:00 – Community amplifies growth
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Brian Mudd: [00:00:00] Are you ready to level up? Do you wish to live a life of options and not obligations? You’ve come to the right place? Thank you for stopping on by to hear knowledge nuggets from Coach Fergie and his top tier guest to help you lean into your ultimate. Human potential. Now let’s level up with Coach Fergie.
Coach Fergie: Hey. Hey, Verity Squad. Welcome back to another powerful edition of Level Up Conversations with Coach Bergey. With Time to Shine Today Coaching. I’m your host, Scott Ferguson. Blessed to be your gap coach, specialize in performance mental conditioning, working with business leaders, entrepreneurs, entertainers, athletes, C-Suite, and students to help them bridge their success gap. <<READ MORE>>
Coach Fergie: Hey. Hey, Verity Squad. Welcome back to another powerful edition of Level Up Conversations with Coach Bergey. With Time to Shine Today Coaching. I’m your host, Scott Ferguson. Blessed to be your gap coach, specialize in performance mental conditioning, working with business leaders, entrepreneurs, entertainers, athletes, C-Suite, and students to help them bridge their success gap. <<READ MORE>>
To live a life of options and not obligations in this platform where you’re stoked to bring you high performers who are not just chasing and attaining success. But defining it through, providing above and beyond service and our really quick knowledge I get this week folks, is you ever notice how the moment.
Things get intense. Most people speed up, they rush, they force, they react, and that’s exactly why they lose. Most of the time. Stillness isn’t weakness. It’s a weapon. I had a coaching client, high performer, crushing it on paper, but every [00:01:00] time pressure hit, he’d start spiraling, overthinking, forcing bad decisions, trying to outwork the moment instead of control it.
So I didn’t give him more strategy. I gave him space. When I told him, when it gets loud, let’s get quiet. Before big calls, before competition, before tough conversations. He had one job. Slow his breathing down, lock in and create separation between what’s happening and how he responds. At first, it felt wrong to him like he was falling behind, but what actually happened, he started seeing things clear, making clear decisions, executing without hesitation, because pressure doesn’t break you.
It exposes whether you can stay in control when it matters most. Most people train action, very few train composure, and the ones who can stay calm, present, and locked in, when everything around them is chaotic, they’re the ones who win. So next time, if life speeds up for you, don’t match it. Slow it down because stillness isn’t backing you off.
It’s you taking control and talking about stillness and some of that’s really helping me with my life and getting still and really taking control in the right way. And I’ll just say, if you [00:02:00] ever. Meet someone who doesn’t just talk about transformation. They live it, breathe it, and pull it out of you whether you’re ready or not.
Today’s guest is that guy, my dude, Todd McLaughlin, who is the co-owner of Native Yoga Center, right here in South Florida, in Juno Beach, and he’s been in the game for over 30 years, not dabbling. Mastering this man has dedicated his life to helping people sharpen their minds, build resilience, and reconnect with who they actually are.
Not who the world told them to be. He’s not just a yoga teacher. He’s a human performance guide, licensed massage therapist, certified traditional time massage, straight from Thailand, mentored to the next generation of teachers and the host of the Native Yoga Podcast. A globally top 5% in the World Squad, globally ranked podcast is impacting people all over the world.
But here’s what makes this one different for me. Todd didn’t just teach me yoga. He helped me save my life. He introduced me to Ashtanga yoga. I did a whole. 30 minute on what Todd’s did for me on another one of my podcasts, and he’s just totally transformed my life with that, and I don’t say this lightly.
He’s taken [00:03:00] ancient wisdom, stripped out the fluff, and turned it into something real. Something you can actually use when life hits, when pressure shows up, when your mind starts trying to take you out of the game. And if you think yoga is just stretching on a mat, you’re about to get a wake up call. This conversation about discipline, clarity, control under pressure, and finding strength, or most people never even look.
So Varsity Scott, welcome to my good friend Todd from Todd cast. Todd Laughlin native yoga. How are you brother?
Todd McLaughlin: Oh man, I’m doing so good. Yeah, thank you, Scott. I’m really happy to be here.
Coach Fergie: It’s it’s been too long to really get you here. You’re one of the first people I thought about and the schedules finally matched up, which is awesome.
You’ve been in the yoga world for over 30 years, so what was the very first moment where you thought, all right, this is more than just stretching.
Todd McLaughlin: I was in a position where I wanted to level up and better myself, right? And there was, I wanna say, in 2000 I stepped into a yoga class that was structured and had a sequence.
And the feeling that I got in the [00:04:00] experience was so powerful that it just hit me that, okay, I really need this. So I think I. I had been involved and interested, but there was a moment where it really just I felt this is it and this is what I want to focus on. And, it was a, I’m so grateful.
Coach Fergie: And I had planner facia so bad. Like when the in Shannon? Yeah. She moved outta State. I thought of her. Yeah. Yes. But she moved outta state and she was the assistant for. The person who was in the office next to me and she’s go to native yoga. So I show up there, I’m like this 300 pound guy kinda walking in and you took me in and said, I’m thinking there’s gonna be a class leader and I’m not gonna be able to keep up.
But like what you do in especially if it’s a my source session, which my source is your own practice.
Todd McLaughlin: Yes.
Coach Fergie: With an Ashtanga. And I like to say Ashtanga is eight limbs.
Todd McLaughlin: That’s the literal translation of the word.
Coach Fergie: In squad to me, Ashton. Because I’m like a former bodybuilder athlete.
It’s almost like a bodybuilding yoga in a sense to where there’s a sequence and if you and I were to train together or do yoga together, you are way past the secondary. Like [00:05:00] I’m still stuck in three quarters of primary.
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah. Yes.
Coach Fergie: But that’s what’s awesome about why ang.
Todd McLaughlin: I had that as an evolutionary process where I was, my wife and I had co-owned a studio in San Diego.
That’s right. Yeah. Prior to opening up native yoga center in Juneau. And so we’re about to celebrate our 20 year anniversary next week. Let’s give her a shout out. Thank you. You’re wife thank you is awesome. Yes, she is my rock. And I wouldn’t be doing it without her
Coach Fergie: random
Todd McLaughlin: places. Oh yeah, that’s okay.
What’s up? And we were working with a certain specific style that wasn’t really speaking to us. And we had heard about the method called Angia Yoga. We knew there was a, the head teacher’s name was Patabi Joyce. He was in a town called Miso in India. At that time, the internet was just starting to work and we went on and found that there, that he was there and we just decided, let’s let’s go try this method. I had really wanted to go to India and learn from the source Yeah. Of where yoga was, originally inspired from, and in the process of going to India and getting [00:06:00] engaged with the culture and then signing up to take practice and study with
Coach Fergie: Right.
Todd McLaughlin: Patabi Joyce, that’s where it really opened up for us and we’re like, wow, this is an incredible method and this is the direction that we wanted to go in.
Coach Fergie: Yeah, and it’s I have been to India and I’ve seen yogis doing their thing there. Some of them almost look, and I’m not saying this any derogatory way, but like an animal.
Yeah. The way they move, the way their feet can just grab and become part of the earth. It’s insane. It’s
Todd McLaughlin: insane.
Coach Fergie: Yeah. It’s crazy. So it is, a lot of high performers, I’m blessed to coach. And a lot of people out there that are listening right now, that tune in to WJ O, they hear yoga and they think slow, passive, or even soft.
So how do you reframe yoga? As a tool for discipline control and performance under pressure,
Todd McLaughlin: each person has a certain capacity or level that they would wanna enter into the yoga world. And so I, now, my teaching has evolved where I still teach Tonga Yoga six. Days a week and offer that method.
And then I also do cater to those that need a more gentle practice, and I teach [00:07:00] gentle yoga as well. So I cater to the absolute beginner. Where
Coach Fergie: was
Todd McLaughlin: that when I started? And I know, right? I know. I, people have changed over the last, you, the last 20 years has been an evolutionary but, so in terms of Ang though, when people do think about the gentle, slow style they think that’s what yoga will be. That I won’t get my heart rate up. That I won’t sweat and that it’ll be maybe people sitting and chanting om or Right. Doing something that maybe will conflict with their religious ideals or spirituality.
But Ashtanga really is just based on breath and coordinating breath with movement.
And the movements can be made as challenging as we want. So if we want it to be. A like tri triathlon level athletic experience. Sure we can make that, we can make that happen. But if you come in and you have an injury or you have plantar fasciitis and maybe go into down dog and we notice your heels are way off, off the floor and you’re, and we wanna start stretching, we can put a little wedge under your heel and I can start gently coaching you to stretch that out and open that up so you know, we meet you where [00:08:00] you’re at.
And we bring it, either down to a level where it feels comfortable for you. Yeah. Or if you’re saying, Hey Todd, I wanna be challenged. I really want to excel and I want to change my body. I wanna change my mind, or I wanna really grow and empower, then we can, we can do that.
And that’s what’s so fascinating about that method, this method of strong yoga, is that it has that ability to meet us where we’re at.
Coach Fergie: And I I actually call it bodybuilder yoga. It’s because everything is used in every movement. Pretty much, and I just remember my first down dog, I couldn’t get my heels to the floor because of the plantar fasciitis between you and Katie, your sister, right?
Todd McLaughlin: Yep. Yeah.
Coach Fergie: Like getting in front of me and just pushing my, my, the top of my butt, like
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah.
Coach Fergie: And getting the heels to
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah.
Coach Fergie: Touch it. When I first got him to touch it, it was like victory. Yeah. And I actually cut out. Everything for about seven months. Any kinda working out anything and concentrated on yoga.
Now it’s a staple two mornings no matter what.
Todd McLaughlin: Yes. Yeah.
Coach Fergie: But it was like I cut out everything and that’s what really reset me. Like it’s a resetting also.
Todd McLaughlin: That’s actually a really good way to do it because a lot of [00:09:00] times if we have a lot of different physical exercises that we’re engaged in sometimes it’s good to an elimination diet where you just.
Pull everything out and you start adding things in to see how does each food affect me?
If we let go of all the workers that we do, and to start with some yoga and do that for a little while and heal some of the injuries that we have. Let the body we work on alignment as we work mobility. Helping to work with the alignment of the body, then that’s something that we are able to really improve upon. And then you can start reintegrating other, the other exercises that you do and figure out what’s triggering these injuries and what can I do to actually heal from these injuries and
Coach Fergie: puts a packet in alignment.
Yeah, that’s one thing I noticed is my body became aligned.
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah.
Coach Fergie: Meaning I would sit taller. And then I did attend a couple of your pranayamas and just the breathing that yes, to this day, my breathing and believe it or not, is. Like Wim Hof like I can do some crazy stuff with my breath now and start it in your studio.
Todd McLaughlin: Oh, that’s awesome. Yeah. For those that don’t know what pranayama [00:10:00] means, that just means breath control.
So the word pranayama is just breath control. We’ll, inhale and practice holding the breath for a few seconds. Exhale. And this has a really effective way of controlling the nervous system.
Yes. Like in your intro, you’re talking about. We feel like when we’re under pressure that we need to now exert more energy to rise up to the situation. And what you’re pointing out is that by slowing down and paying attention to the breath, we can regulate our heart and our nerves.
Coach Fergie: Yes.
Todd McLaughlin: So that we’re not frazzled and coming in with sweaty palms, we can actually come in feeling like, I got this. Yeah. I’m in control of my energy. And my energy and, yeah. Yeah.
Coach Fergie: And a lot of times people listen to react. And what with yoga has really taught me, Todd, is to listen. To internalize first.
Yeah. And what they’re saying. Yes. And then respond.
Todd McLaughlin: Yes.
Coach Fergie: And not react. Yeah. That’s one thing that I gots. Great Point. Got so much better at. Yeah, that’s a good point with that.
Todd McLaughlin: That’s a great
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Coach Fergie: Alright Steve, thank you so much for the awesome update and yeah, the [00:13:00] rates are a little crazy right now, but thank you so much for the update and I’m so blessed for your sponsorship. Todd, you helped me personally in a massive way, which I’ve said over and over again, but when someone walks into your world, in, in this yoga center, struggling mentally or maybe even emotionally, what are the first things you look for to start working with them?
Todd McLaughlin: You know the, my first goal is to help you feel welcome. Like that, you’re not intimidated. I know it can be intimidating. I was intimidated when I walked into the yoga room in India. I was really nervous Oh, India, about, about what was gonna happen. And it was a little scary and it seemed like everybody else knew what they were doing.
And I just felt like a fish outta water.
So I. I think that the first thing really is just to help you feel comfortable. And so whether that’s just here, just put your shoes over here, right? If I even get a sense that somebody doesn’t really wanna fill out paperwork right, then I’ll be like, let’s just do all that after.
Let’s just go ahead and go in the room. Yes. Let’s get you set up. Let me give you a little [00:14:00] time to get organized and then, the first thing too is to, I don’t wanna overwhelm you with information. I figured let’s just get the ball rolling. Get you breathing. And get your move, get you moving.
I’ll just explain the three main things, like we’re gonna breathe through the nose. We’re gonna coordinate our breath with the movement, right? And I’m gonna show you everything that you need to know. Okay? Let’s come to the top of the mat, bring your feet together, and let’s start. Here you go.
Inhale and I’ll stand next to you. Yes. Do And demonstrate it with you. And that way you’ll be able to, you follow. So you’re learning through the visual. The monkey c monkey do aspect, right? You’re, I’m using words, so I’m coaching. You’re picking up auditorially. Yes, sir. Yeah.
And then the kinesthetic component, yoga is all about kinesthetic component because you’re feeling it. This is what’s really important. A lot of us wanna read about it.
And there’s this theoretical component to yoga. But practice and actual engagement with practice, is where the real benefits come from in my opinion.
Coach Fergie: You did a podcast on kinesthetic, like just, I think dedicated that, if I’m not mistaken.
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah.
Coach Fergie: Like I [00:15:00] understood it more when I listened to that package. But you had used that word before.
Todd McLaughlin: Yes.
Coach Fergie: Yes. And it’s amazing. And then with also you being. A d dumb it down like a teacher that can make people, teachers, instructors, right? Yes.
Brian Mudd: Yeah. Yep.
Coach Fergie: And what was awesome about your place and is that what is awesome about your place is with my, so a lot of times you’re practicing on your own. Yeah.
Brian Mudd: Yep.
Coach Fergie: And you have the teachers that are in there, so you feel supported. Yeah. Every time.
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah.
Coach Fergie: Like again, the intimidation factor went out the window.
Yeah. Because I think it was Katie Polly, a couple other people.
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah. Yeah.
Coach Fergie: Polly. Yeah.
Todd McLaughlin: She was here today. She was here this morning practicing. Yeah. She tell where I sent a little, I will. That’s awesome that you remember her,
Coach Fergie: but you’d have people going around. It was just kind it just, you laughed.
It was just, it was amazing time.
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah.
Coach Fergie: I, to make people feel welcome.
Todd McLaughlin: That’s, I appreciate you mentioning that. I think that. What’s one of the big benefits of yoga practice and just any physical practice where we’re taking care of ourselves. And we’re stepping into a room with other people is that you enter a community
Joel Malkin: Yes.
Todd McLaughlin: And there’s a lot [00:16:00] of support in community.
And I think that’s hugely important right now for, to get. Around people. And get feedback and have to interact. I think that’s probably one of the greatest parts about how being involved in a community experience like the yoga studio, right?
It’s just having the comradery and when I feel down or don’t have a lot of energy, the moment I walk into the room and I feel another person putting some effort into it, you pick it up. Yes. And you just wanna go for it. So I think that’s really important. To yeah. With, I love doing online.
I have a YouTube channel, native yoga channel. I was just gonna say this, native yoga, and I make yo, I make videos every week. Yes. And I’m constantly doing instructional stuff, but as you probably noticed, when you practice at home and you practice with the computer, it’s totally different. Yeah.
When you walk into a room with other people where you’re held, it’s heated up. It’s he level. There’s a little bit of warmth. We’re in Florida we have a little bit of humidity here. Yeah. But and you’ll sweat, that’s part of the idea is sweating, helps you to feel good.
Would lose a little weight in it. A hundred percent you feeling a little more flexible. And all that stuff. It’s I think the aspect of the community [00:17:00] component is huge.
Coach Fergie: Absolutely. And talking about community, you didn’t leave them hanging during COVID.
Okay. We, so we did not, when it hit,
Todd McLaughlin: we did not,
Coach Fergie: A lot of people were bombed that, you couldn’t go anywhere.
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah.
Coach Fergie: And we’re, all I know is that when I went to LinkedIn, I went to different places. There’s Todd having yoga class.
Todd McLaughlin: Not
Coach Fergie: mine.
Todd McLaughlin: I feel really blessed to have been living in a place where we were only forced to shut down for nine weeks.
Sure. But during that nine week period, I, we got into front of a camera. You did. And we post, we made our Zoom videos available, so we were able to keep our community together. Yes. Through that. And then the moment they said we could open our doors, I was in there. Yeah. And just here, I’m here you guys, if you wanna come in, I’m here.
And I hear that a lot from folks actually that you, that they’ll say you actually stayed here the whole time through. And I feel like those sort of things are what really keep a community together. I was born and raised here, so I’ve been here 52 years. Yeah. And I really value my community a hundred percent [00:18:00] and I love this area so much.
So it feels good to be able to just hold a place real steady
Coach Fergie: Yes.
Todd McLaughlin: For people to come through and just and I have people who come in who’ve been with us for 20 years, and they won’t come for 15 and they’ll come back in. And that feels really good to see people return after that amount of time.
Coach Fergie: Absolutely. Yeah. Especially when my roots are there.
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah.
Coach Fergie: And like squad, you notice what he said about I coach a lot on winners. Make adjustments, mediocre people. Or if you wanna be mean about it, losers make excuses. You made adjustments. And that’s, that was amazing. That’s, thank you. Thank you for doing that for your community, keeping the community together.
Thank you. You trained in Thailand uhhuh and studied traditional time massage. Yes. Which I’ve been blessed to get one. Amazing.
Todd McLaughlin: Yes.
Coach Fergie: What did that experience teach you about the body that most people in the US miss?
Todd McLaughlin: Time massage Thai traditional time massage is. How to explain it. So it is a combination.
It’s unique. One way that we’ll say it’s called, we’ll say it’s either called Lazy Man or Lazy Woman Yoga,
Brian Mudd: right?
Todd McLaughlin: The idea is that there’s a mat, a comfortable [00:19:00] tie style mat on the floor, right? People come wearing comfortable style clothing, shorts, pants shirt, t-shirt, whatever, right? And I do assisted stretching with you while working Acupressure Point work.
So it is a perfect or complete blend of yoga and massage,
Coach Fergie: right?
Todd McLaughlin: The big difference between on the yoga part is you stay relaxed the entire time,
Coach Fergie: right?
Todd McLaughlin: What I hear most people say they love about time massage when they go for a regular massage, like you’re just laying on a table. And the therapist might move you around a little bit.
Time massage does a lot of joint mobilization. And so we’ll take the shoulder through a full range of motion and work acupressure points in all the tight areas. So I think the combination of the joint mobilization with the soft tissue pressure with the acupressure, that it just really seems to work great for people.
I feel like it’s really a. A version of physical therapy. Yes. Like assisted physical therapy. Even a more than just, I’m not a physical therapist, i’m not a pt, I’m a licensed massage therapy. But physical therapy really [00:20:00] it is a form of physical therapy that it’s just phenomenal.
And yeah, going to Thailand, I. Studied in 2001 with my teacher Chung called Set Ako. And I was able to go back in 2004 and take time, massage teacher training to teach people how to do time massage. So once I posted up here in 2000, after, I’ve been doing that since 2001, so for the last 25 years, yes. I have a fulltime job business.
I, I labeled that business Palm Beach time massage. But it’s, it exists within our native yoga center. Yeah. But I created a little separate entity there, but time massage is absolutely amazing and I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to study one of the greatest teachers in the world.
Coach Fergie: It almost feels like you’re part of it. While you’re getting it. You know what I’m saying? That’s what I love about it. And yeah. And talk about being part of it. Yeah. Like you mentor a lot of aspiring teachers. And what separates someone who just kinda learns yoga from someone who can actually lead and impact others?
Because anybody, sometimes I see people like, I’m going to lead a yoga class, and I’m like, good for you. I’ve just, but I just,
Todd McLaughlin: I think lived [00:21:00] experience translates into. Really sound instructional ability. Okay. So I say that meaning I’ve, I have lived experience, right? So I’ve spent a lot of time working and practicing and learning, and I keep going back and doing continuing education Yes.
With some of the best people I can find. So I think I’ve experienced a lot of challenges in my own life and because I’ve noticed how. Receiving and practicing yoga and time massage, that it has helped me so much so as I’ve witnessed and felt that in my own body and my own experience. Now, when I work with others, I feel like I can relate on an experiential level versus just an intellectual level.
If we come out of a training, we just graduate from school and we’re entering into the field. We’re coming in with intellectual Right. Understanding.
And then to actually apply that to the real world situation that takes a good 5, 10, 15 years to really get a grasp of all that.
So I think that is [00:22:00] what separates the teacher or instructor that, that really knows what they’re doing from that, the one that’s just getting started. But I encourage everybody who’s getting started. You just gotta get started. Yes. That was question. And don’t let that hold you back. Sometimes you’ll heal this kind of information, right?
Oh, how will I ever get there? You just start, you start and you’re not perfect and Oh my gosh. And you just start where you start.
Coach Fergie: I think you had me in Sun Salutations for my first four weeks. I don’t think it took me past time.
Todd McLaughlin: I think you’re right.
Coach Fergie: I remember that it was like the best thing ever happened.
’cause just everything compressed or decompressed. Yeah. It was amazing. So if someone’s listening right now. That is stuck physically, mentally, or maybe even emotionally. And they’ve never tried yoga. And maybe they’re curious. Yeah. A lot of ’em are curious out there. Yeah.
What would you tell them, like maybe to have them take the first time? I know you said just try it, but what might you tell ’em?
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah.
A couple of really great ways to go are, whether you live locally or far.
Find somewhere. Step in do a little homework, do a couple little search and just show up.
[00:23:00] If you don’t gravitate or feel supported in that particular situation, don’t give up. Try another place. Another thing I recommend, if you are, love that. What I recommend is to my students, because I livestream all of our classes. That anywhere in the world can practice with us. Some people are nervous, so us take a livestream class, be at home.
That’s always, you don’t have to worry about performing. No one’s watching. The good thing about coming into a studio is we’re watching and we can give you advice.
Brian Mudd: Sure.
Todd McLaughlin: But being at home, it’s really nice to not have pressure on you. So that’s one way to take the pressure off is just start, with a video at home.
And and the main thing, the main takeaway I’d like to just add is that if you step in somewhere, and it is a little too, one way or another, if you’re not wanting super physical and it’s very physical. There is a way to practice it where it can be more supportive of what you need.
Coach Fergie: Yes.
Todd McLaughlin: And if you walk in somewhere, it’s a little, you can see thing, feel like, oh, it’s too spiritual or it’s a little too much. I want something more like concrete. Yes. With the physical.
You’ll there, there’s that too.
Coach Fergie: You gave me that, actually you gave me the book. David.
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah. David Swensen.
Coach Fergie: Nick Swensen, like yoga, [00:24:00] like he has every single asana for the post squad.
Broke down to where, here’s blocks. Put ’em under your legs. Here’s this so you can learn it. Like my whole coaching philosophy inch by inch at a center, right? Yeah. Yes. By the yard, it’s heart. Yes. It’s like that. That was like the best gift I think I’ve gotten ever. Yeah. So we kinda wind things down and Yeah.
This is my kind of canned question, but. How does Todd want his dash remembered that little line between your incarnation date and your expiration date. I might have asked this to you on my podcast before, but how do you wanna be remembered out there?
Todd McLaughlin: I just wanna be remembered as being a solid individual in the community that just was a hard worker and was willing to show. No matter how challenging it gets,
Coach Fergie: don’t care man. That’s the bottom line is like I, I went in there and I felt like you’ve known me forever. Like I was just like, okay. Very cool. Thank you Scott. Thank you so much. ’cause I dunno if you remember, there was a miscommunication when Shannon’s go to your place.
Todd McLaughlin: Yes.
Coach Fergie: And I showed up. They’re like, I don’t think it’s right for you. And it wasn’t even That works for you. I remember you telling
Todd McLaughlin: me
Coach Fergie: that. Yeah. There was another [00:25:00] person that was there. I’m like geez, then you called me right away. You’re like, oh, just come in and they’ll say, you got
Todd McLaughlin: the wrong information.
Coach Fergie: Just come in.
Todd McLaughlin: Yes. Yeah.
Coach Fergie: So how can we find you?
Todd McLaughlin: Website, native yoga center.com. YouTube at Native Yoga, Instagram at Native yoga. My podcast, native yoga podcast. Today I celebrate my six year anniversary. And so I think website probably just will give you the links to everywhere.
Coach Fergie: Yes. And everything will be in the show notes.
Todd McLaughlin: Yeah.
Coach Fergie: And also as a gift the first person that. Calls 5 6 1 4 4 0 3 8 3 0 5 6 1 4 4 0 3 8 3 0 and says Todd or text to that, I’m gonna pay for one month membership for them. Yes, if that’s okay with you. Todd, thank you
Todd McLaughlin: so much. Are you
Coach Fergie: kidding me? Awesome. That’s amazing. They can be found at 8 33 Donald Ross Road in Juno Beach in the Plaza Lair.
It’s just awesome. Go there, text me if you’re gonna go. I might even just show up as well. Yes. Todd, thank you so much for coming in, brother. Thank you,
Todd McLaughlin: Scott. You’re an inspiration.
Coach Fergie: They appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you to my producer, Brian Mudd, to WJ and o everyone, go out and have a great weekend.Level up. Love your [00:26:00] guts.
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