Episode 141: How Dance Teachers Can Find Harmony by Ignoring Work-Life Balance Summary: Do you feel like you have a good work-life balance, or do you feel like the dance side of your life can sometimes tend to take over? If you feel like you have too many passions and it’s impossible to do it […]
Episode 118: 4 Mental Toughness Myths That Could Be Holding You Back Summary: If you’ve ever talked to your dancers about taking the floor with a confident mindset or using visualization before a competition, you probably understand the importance of mental skills training. But do you have any beliefs about mental toughness that are holding
How to Handle Those Big Life Changes as a Leader and Role Model If you are a dance educator long enough, you will go through some big life changes that will impact your career and your dancers. When you have something big happening in your life like a wedding, a medical issue, the birth of
The Most Important Conversation You Need to Have With Your Assistant Coaches Are you an assistant coach? Do you have an assistant in your program? Maybe you’re in the school setting and lucky enough to be an assistant coach. Or maybe you’re a head coach doing everything alone and wishing for some help! While this
Panel Discussion with Exceptional Coaches (Part 2) Last summer, I hosted an online conference called the Confident Dancer Summit, where 20 different dance educators came together to teach a short course on different aspects of confidence. It was a great weekend and I decided to share one of those inspiring conversations with you today. One
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Panel Discussion with Exceptional Coaches (Part 1) Last summer, I hosted an online conference called the Confident Dancer Summit, where 20 different dance educators came together to teach a short course on different aspects of confidence. It was a great weekend and I decided to share one of those inspiring conversations with you today. One
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It’s the key to dealing with those nasty parent emails 😉 Do you have a teaching or coaching philosophy? Personally, it took me years to come up with my own personal teaching philosophy that was really specific to me and not just words you say on a job application. It took years of experience, challenges,
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What Every Tired Dance Teacher Needs to Know About Burnout As a coach or a teacher, we’ve all been through the challenges that come with the end of the season. You’ve been training your competition routine for months, it’s rounding to the end of the season and it’s time to push through those last few
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To the Sensitive Dance Coach with an Aching Heart During Tryouts As dance educators we often have to make difficult, emotional decisions. It might be tryouts for a school team, or a studio making decisions about company level, who is in which routine… there are many times where we have to make decisions that we
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