Episode 122: Do Your Dancers Have Grit? Summary: Grit is in the dancer who works so much harder than the naturally-talented dancer who slides by. Grit is in the dancer who doesn’t quit on a new skill and in the dancer who gets back up every time she falls. Even if you’re not familiar with …
Episode 121: 6 Ways to Teach Accountability Summary: In today’s episode, I’ll be tackling one of the biggest issues I hear about all summer: accountability. I hear from teachers and coaches who feel like it’s gotten so much harder to get their dancers to follow through on expectations lately. I hear from dancers whenever we …
Episode 119: How to Use Summer Reflection to Achieve Your Personal Vision Summary: Each year I set a word of intention rather than a New Year’s resolution, and I usually stop and do a deep reflection on my intention at the end of the year. Like most of us, I’m always learning and growing, and …
Episode 102: 3 Tools to Increase a Dancer’s Resilience Summary: This episode is part two of the Positive Coaching Framework Series where we’ll discuss how to be a dance coach who truly makes a lasting positive impact on your dancers. If you’ve been teaching for a while, you might agree with me that today’s dancers …
Episode 100: Small Moments and the Important People You Share Them With Summary: Welcome to the 100th episode of the Passion for Dance podcast! In honor of the 100th episode, I wanted to do something special. My passion has become a passion for so many of you who are listening, so thank you for continuing …
How Focused Mental Skills Can Support You After Injury Dealing with an injury can be devastating to a dancer. And it’s not just the physical pain, but the mental load that we deal with during recovery is substantial. As dance educators, many of us have been through this ourselves, or we’ve had our students struggle …
From World Renowned Dancers to Children’s Book Authors TAs you may know, one of the main themes of this show is resilience. I love talking with successful and talented dancers about their own resilience journey and to hear what they can teach us about perseverance and following your dreams. As for today’s guests specifically, they …
Ep. 74 – Stories of Resilience with Corky Ballas & Carolina Orlovsky Read More »
Without Hurting Your Dancers? In this episode, I talk about the need for a little tough love in coaching. I’m not telling you to be mean and rude, but there is a time and place when it is our job to challenge our dancers. It’s a common misconception that positive coaching means going easy on …
The Upside of a Dancer’s Stress Stress is something we all deal with, but today I want to share something with you that you might not have heard before… science has actually taught us that stress can be good for us! I know that sounds crazy but stick with me for this episode and I’ll …
Why Do I Always Focus on the Negative Side of Things? Why do we take a good performance for granted and seem to spend way too much time thinking about mistakes and performances we regret? Why do we naturally tend to focus on the bad side of things? Well, in this episode I share how …
Ep. 32- Why Do I Always Focus on the Negative Side of Things? Read More »
