Episode 152: How to Unleash Your Roaring Resilience with Josephine Lancuba Summary: This episode is an incredible story of resilience and how one woman went from leaving an abusive home at 14 to creating a life for herself as a performer and business owner. Our guest today, Josephine Lancuba, is an award-winning performing arts business […]
Episode 130: Mental Skills of Auditioning and Performing in NYC with Courtney Ortiz Summary: In this episode, I’m talking with New York City-based professional dancer, Courtney Ortiz. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to audition and perform in New York City, she shares some great advice on the mental aspects of being a professional
Episode 126: The Mental Strength to Return to Dance with Miller Daurey Summary: My guest today is inspiring the dance world by documenting his return to dance. Miller Daurey is a former professional team dancer who quit dance at 19, just when his career was really taking off. He has a new docuseries called Back
Episode 105: Why the Best Leaders Always Share the Credit Summary: As teachers, studio owners, and coaches, we often don’t get credit when things are going well. If our dancers are doing well at competition, they are praised, and rightfully so. If we have a recital that goes off without a hitch, teachers might be
Episode 104: How to Build Positive Team Culture in Your Studio Summary: Building team culture takes hard work. The question is, what must we do in order to actually build a positive team or studio culture with our dancers or how do we turn a negative team culture around? In today’s episode, I’ll be interviewing
How One Studio Owner Teaches Important Life Lessons Without Competing with Chasta Hamilton Do you feel like competing is an important part of your dance life? My guest today is Chasta Hamilton. She is the author of Trash The Trophies: How To Win Without Losing Your Soul, and the owner and artistic director of Stage
