Podcast Interview Questions for Johanna Alper

1) So, you’re a pioneer. You taught mindfulness and compassion meditation in the 70s, and you’ve been practicing acupuncture since 1981, long before these became popular. What inspired you and drew you to meditation and 5 Element acupuncture?

2) I can’t believe you’re almost 74 – you’re so upbeat, funny and perky. How are you living with so much vitality?

3) How did you go from being a healer and teacher to coaching healers, therapists, and entrepreneurs?

4) Your forthcoming book is called The 5 Elements Advantage: Practical and Magical Keys to Business Success for Healers, Therapists, and Heart-Centered Entrepreneurs. Magical Keys? Do you see yourself as magical? Please tell me what’s magical about the 5 Elements.

5) Why is it so important to connect our personal health with our business health? And why do you call it business health? Is that different from business success?

6) How do you weave meditation and your healing practice into business coaching?

7) How is coaching sensitive and introverted healers and therapists different than coaching other groups?

8) Do you have any advice for women entrepreneurs in their “third act” of life?

9) Given the immense challenges holistic healers and therapists face, do you feel pessimistic about the direction our country, and the world, is going in?

10) What else are you inspired and passionate about at this time?

11) What can our listeners do to have a sense of fun and humor?