Bedriye Hulya's guest appearances

Bedriye Hulya

Inspiring Social Entrepreneurs Podcast

The Finding Impact Podcast

Jonathan Lewis

Jordan Kassalow

Edith Elliott

Kevin Starr

Carne Ross

Nick Pearson

Eric Ries

Elizabeth Rossiello

Rob Mills

Seth Goldman

Joe Pulizzi

Jane Chen

Jonah Sachs

David Goldberg

Simon Dixon

OwlTail

This week on the Finding Impact Podcast, we are talking about burnout in the social sector, the third in our interview series, and we talk about Bedriye Hulya’s own experience, and how it took a very unique project that aims to promote the inner wellbeing for changemakers to help her get unstuck and make drastic changes in her life. Bedriye is founder of b-fit, which is a chain of women-only sport and health centers in Turkey, and uses a unique franchising model which empowers women.   On this podcast, you will learn:  More about her b-fit model. Profit versus social good: how Bedriye maintained the thin line / keeping the balance between focusing on maintaining a profit so you’re sustainable, but also keeping in mind that the social good is more important than the profit. When Bedriye started to feel symptoms of burnout.   She felt trapped, started getting angry at people, started to resent the company and her work, and started to feel an injustice of trying to do social good, but not feeling good herself.   About her experience with the Wellbeing Project, an intensive 18-month program for creating and supporting a culture of inner wellbeing for changemakers.   Bedriye particularly benefited from Gestalt Practice which made her realize she lost touch with herself and her feelings by burying things that she should have lived through.   How Bedriye loved founding the company but hated management and felt like she was forcing herself to fit into the role. Her advice to other social entrepreneurs stuck in the hamster wheel: take a sabbatical (if possible), do inner work (ie. Gestalt Practice, going to therapy, etc.) - anything looking into yourself to understand what processes are manifesting in your altered behaviors or thoughts or feelings. Afterwards you will learn your strengths and weaknesses and I recommend that people do their inner work.  Links to Resources:  The b-fit website https://b-fit.com.tr/en The b-fit model description https://www.ashoka.org/en-US/fellow/bedriye-hulya The Wellbeing Project http://wellbeing-project.org/ Gestalt Practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_Practice    Connect with Bedriye: E-mail: BedriyeHulya@b-fit.com.tr

This week on the Finding Impact Podcast, we are talking about burnout in the social sector, the third in our interview series, and we talk about Bedriye Hulya’s own experience, and how it took a very unique project that aims to promote the inner wellbeing for changemakers to help her get unstuck and make drastic changes in her life. Bedriye is founder of b-fit, which is a chain of women-only sport and health centers in Turkey, and uses a unique franchising model which empowers women. On this podcast, you will learn: <ul> <li>More about her <a href="https://www.ashoka.org/en-US/fellow/bedriye-hulya" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">b-fit</a> model.</li> <li>Profit versus social good: how Bedriye maintained the thin line / keeping the balance between focusing on maintaining a profit so you’re sustainable, but also keeping in mind that the social good is more important than the profit.</li> <li>When Bedriye started to feel symptoms of burnout.</li> <li> <ul> <li>She felt trapped, started getting angry at people, started to resent the company and her work, and started to feel an injustice of trying to do social good, but not feeling good herself.</li> </ul> </li> <li>About her experience with the Wellbeing Project, an intensive 18-month program for creating and supporting a culture of inner wellbeing for changemakers.</li> <li> <ul> <li>Bedriye particularly benefited from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_Practice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gestalt Practice</a> which made her realize she lost touch with herself and her feelings by burying things that she should have lived through.</li> </ul> </li> <li>How Bedriye loved founding the company but hated management and felt like she was forcing herself to fit into the role.</li> <li>Her advice to other social entrepreneurs stuck in the hamster wheel: take a sabbatical (if possible), do inner work (ie. Gestalt Practice, going to therapy, etc.) - anything looking into yourself to understand what processes are manifesting in your altered behaviors or thoughts or feelings. Afterwards you will learn your strengths and weaknesses and I recommend that people do their inner work.</li> </ul> Links to Resources: <ul> <li>The b-fit website <a href="https://b-fit.com.tr/en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://b-fit.com.tr/en</a></li> <li>The b-fit model description <a href="https://www.ashoka.org/en-US/fellow/bedriye-hulya" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ashoka.org/en-US/fellow/bedriye-hulya</a></li> <li>The Wellbeing Project <a href="http://wellbeing-project.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://wellbeing-project.org/</a></li> <li>Gestalt Practice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_Practice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_Practice</a></li> </ul> Connect with Bedriye: E-mail: BedriyeHulya@b<a href="http://-fit.com.tr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">-fit.com.tr</a>

FIP 098 Mental stress and isolation with Bedriye Hulya

Bedriye Hulya is the founder of B-fit, Turkey’s first national chain of women-only gyms. Bedriye is a serial entrepreneur, prior to setting up B-fit she set up a popular restaurant, two boutique hotels and an importing company. Bedriye opened the first branch of B-fit in February 2006 based on an idea she had come across when living in America.B-fit now has more than 250 gyms in a variety of socio-economic and geographic locations throughout Turkey-with more than a hundred and sixty thousand members-the majority of whichare run by women as franchisees. Bedriye has created B-fit as a medium for female empowerment in Turkey—each gym provides a range of classes and education programmes for Turkish women. Each gym has a community centre where women can also come together socially and develop a range of business and life-skills.Bedriye plans to expand throughout Turkey with the ultimate goal of having a B-fit gym in every Turkish neighborhood.In this interview, Bedriye talks about: Exercise as a tool for female empowerment The importance of economic empowerment through entrepreneurship How word of mouth has helped build B-fit grow The challenges funding a social business in Turkey Why Bedriye recruits people who are unhappy with the status quo The mix of patience and impatience that is key to success as a social entrepreneur

Bedriye Hulya is the founder of B-fit, Turkey’s first national chain of women-only gyms. Bedriye is a serial entrepreneur, prior to setting up B-fit she set up a popular restaurant, two boutique hotels and an importing company. Bedriye opened the first branch of B-fit in February 2006 based on an idea she had come across when living in America.B-fit now has more than 250 gyms in a variety of socio-economic and geographic locations throughout Turkey-with more than a hundred and sixty thousand members-the majority of whichare run by women as franchisees. Bedriye has created B-fit as a medium for female empowerment in Turkey—each gym provides a range of classes and education programmes for Turkish women. Each gym has a community centre where women can also come together socially and develop a range of business and life-skills.Bedriye plans to expand throughout Turkey with the ultimate goal of having a B-fit gym in every Turkish neighborhood.In this interview, Bedriye talks about:<ul> <li>Exercise as a tool for female empowerment</li> <li>The importance of economic empowerment through entrepreneurship</li> <li>How word of mouth has helped build B-fit grow</li> <li>The challenges funding a social business in Turkey</li> <li>Why Bedriye recruits people who are unhappy with the status quo</li> <li>The mix of patience and impatience that is key to success as a social entrepreneur</li></ul>

Episode 10: Interview with Bedriye Hulya, founder of B-fit