More Than Dance

In this episode, I talk about the one skill that will instantly make you a better performer, whether you’re dancing, speaking, or showing up in any room where eyes are on you. I introduce the idea of anchoring to an audience member. I share stories from performing on stage, including how easy it is to get so dialed into your performance that you lose awareness of what’s happening around you, and h...

This episode is all about how dance makes you a better decision-maker, and ultimately, a better person. I break down six ways dance trains your brain and nervous system to move through life with more clarity, confidence, and trust, even when you don’t have all the answers. We start with instinct. Dance teaches you how to trust yourself, to mess up, go for it, and commit fully. You learn to rely on...

This episode is about learning how to love something on purpose as opposed to the way we think we should love something: instantly As a dancer, I’ve always learned how to love music. If it doesn’t hit immediately, I don’t write it off. I already know I want to love it, and that changes how I listen.  I can’t tell you how many times we finish a song in class and someone says, “I didn’t like this at...

This episode is about knowing yourself well enough to build a life that actually feels good to live in using an activity called the Wheel of Life (or life pie) and why you are never just one thing even when you accidentally live like you are. We talk about how it’s easy to base your worth on one slice of the pie (work, fitness, dance, productivity), without realizing how much the other slices are...

This episode is for you if you’ve tried journaling and found it intimidating or hard to keep up with… If you don't currently have a journal practice.. If you love making lists… Or if you wish to have some moments of reflection at the end of the year.  In this episode, I completely rewrite what journaling gets to look like. I share my own journaling journey and how it never looked like the per...

This episode is all about choosing a Word of the Year (WOTY), a practice I have done for 7 years and why it can be even more powerful than setting a long list of goals. I walk you through how a WOTY has helped me stay centered when goals feel overwhelming, and why a word gives you something to come back to every day. Goals can feel scattered. A word brings focus. I share the story of how the word...

This episode is a reminder to slow down and remember what a gift dance really is. We talk about gifts in all forms the obvious ones, the unexpected ones, and the quiet ones we forget to name. The gift of being able to move. The gift of returning to dance. The gift of music. The gift of your body showing up for you today. And the deeper idea that you are the gift, whether or not you fully believe t...

In this episode, we talk about how reflection becomes a tool for self-trust instead of self-judgment. I walk you through how to reflect in a way that makes you your own biggest cheerleader. I share how to write thoughts down without judgment, how to process what comes up in a way that feels supportive. You’ll hear some of my own reflections as examples, plus flexible end-of-year questions you can...

In this episode, I teach you my favorite strategies for setting goals and staying on track for the year. I briefly go over how I do my reflection at the end of the year, choose my word of the year, how I break up my year into quarters (90 day sprints), and  how I achieve gigantic goals with this small trick and shift.  When review goals and how to differentiate between a goal that you want, and a...

This episode is about creating a ritual around the thing you say you want to do... in this case, dance. When you don’t do it, the only person you’re really screwing over… is you. I talk about how ritual turns discipline into something that actually feels good. The makeup you do before class, the stretch that signals “we’re doing this.” The playlist, the snack, the little pre-dance routine that mak...

This episode is all about shifting out of the “I’m starting over” story and into the truth: you are not starting over, you are simply continuing. I talk about one of my dancers who’s getting back into class after an injury. From the outside, she’s doing everything right. Internally, though she hears a whole messy conversation telling her she’s “behind,” “not like she used to be,” “wasting time,” a...

This episode is about the skill nobody talks about when it comes to consistency: learning how to toggle your intensity level. Most people think consistency means going hard, full-out, all the time… and then they wonder why they burn out and disappear for weeks. In this episode, I break down how I teach my dancers (and myself) to stay consistent without destroying your nervous system or your joy. N...

Think of this episode as the follow-up to Episode 34, Why the Costume Matters, but this time we’re getting practical, playful, and a little rissky. In this episode, I walk you through exactly how I build my dance outfits: how I search for pieces, why textures and layers matter, how to balance comfort with confidence, and how to pick outfits that actually support your movement. We talk backups (and...

December has this way of pulling us into giving, doing, hosting, wrapping, organizing, running around… and suddenly the things that make us feel alive get pushed to the bottom of the list. We tell ourselves, “I’ll get back to it in January,” when really we are setting ourselves up for a big disappointment when we do get back to what makes us us.  This episode is a big reminder that dance isn’t som...

The weirdest thing that ever happened in my 8 years of DJing happened during a wedding and I was shook. If you're anything like me, you beat yourself up when things don't go according to plan .. and this night, the plan was not this.  It was a moment of pure curiosity.  I see this come up the most in dance when people make mistakes. We know its not right, we beat ourselves up, we wonder...

This is the first episode where I talk about dance the least but this is the most "More than Dance" episode because dance and my studio are the reasons why I was lead to my Joshy! This episode is all about my story with Josh and the era I call my bomb-ass-b*tch era  I was "doing me,”  I talk about how I got really honest with myself about what I actually wanted and how that pushed m...

This episode is all about role models and how they show us what’s possible long before we’re ready to believe it for ourselves. I talk about the first time, I had a role model before I even knew what the concept what. Watching the "big girls" (the older girls) at dance. They had better costumes, bigger energy, boobies (let’s be honest), confidence, power and moves that made me think, oh…...

You ever notice how fast we say it? “I’m so bad at that.” It rolls right off our tongue  like we’ve accepted it as part of who we are. “I’m bad at balance.” “I’m bad at remembering things.” “I’m bad at organizing.” We say it so often that it stops sounding like a temporary struggle and starts becoming our identity. In this episode, I unpack what really happens when you keep repeating that story. O...

This episode is about one of my least favorite phrases: “I’m too old.” and some other common excuses I hear at the studio: “I’m too old to dance,” “too out of shape,” “too young to start that.” These stories keep us small. I share how I once thought I was too young to open a dance studio because I pictured only older people doing that.  We talk about where these limits come from, why we hold onto...

This episode is all about the second layer of the ripple effect, the power of helping, accepting help, and how those tiny gestures create energy that lasts way longer than the moment itself. I share the story of helping a woman set up her tent on the beach, how it instantly shifted her whole day, and how that one act somehow turned into a full-circle moment later (yes, even involving a mystery sme...

This episode dives into the magic of the ripple effect. Something I LOVE to talk about! How tiny, intentional actions can spark joy, connection, and momentum in ways we don’t realize. I share a story from Martha’s Vineyard that reminded me how small gestures can shift someone’s day and even ripple into unexpected moments of positivity. On the dance floor, the ripple effect is just as powerful. I t...

Practicing at home can feel messy, frustrating, or even overwhelming. In this episode, I break down a step-by-step approach to making the most of your solo practice and turning your space into a real training ground.  You’ll learn how to  Find your space: understand your surroundings, your space, your floor and the level at which you can safely and effectively practice, so you can move freely with...

There are so many reasons we get shook throughout the day, a text, a look, a shift in energy, and how you move through it determines whether you stay stuck or come back to power. In this episode, I walk you through simple, grounded ways to process those moments instead of spiraling through them: Feel the feeling and take time with yourself to understand what your gut is saying and name the reactio...

When have to and need to become get to everything shifts! In this episode of The Word Shift Series , we’re talking about the quiet power of shifting “have to” (or “need to”)  into “get to.”  When you start to say “I get to,” it reminds you that you worked hard (or are working hard) to build the the life you are living. These opportunities and challenges and the way you speak about them can reconne...

When you use the word “should,” you create pressure where there doesn’t need to be any. Should is not desire based; its approval based.   It’s a word that pulls you out of the present and into judgment what you should’ve done, what you should be doing, or who you should be by now. In this episode, I break down how “should” keeps you disconnected from your actual desires and aligned action. I share...