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Today we are joined by Mary Page Nance! A New York City based performer amongst many other talents, you may have seen her as an original cast member in The Great Comet or Finding Neverland on Broadway! I worked with Mary Page during a summer show at Radio City Music Hall a few years ago, and her passion and energy for what she does is out of this world. If I’m honest, I remember being drawn to her energy in the rehearsal space. Mary Page is one hell of hard worker. You’re going to hear all about her career up to this point as well as how Mary Page founded her own business throughout quarantine called A Page of Mary. Let’s get to growing on the go with Mary Page Nance!

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Celebrating fourteen years of living in New York City on this very special day of June 2, 2021! This episode is a mini reflection of my life in the Big Apple over the last decade and some change. Grateful to be here each and every day, and I hope you continue to grow on the go with me throughout each and every day of life!

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Today we are joined by Rick Tjia! As a man of many trades, Rick has been a talent scout for Cirque du Soleil for many years. He's also the co-founder of a company called Choreography Online, and he's graced many stages as a professional dancer throughout his career. You’ll hear all about Rick’s journey that led him to where he is living in Canada today. I think it’s extremely important to take a moment and recognize that we all have our very own special path in life. What we think may take us to one place in life may actually be preparing us to go elsewhere. Life has this amazing way of working things out for us when we show up for ourselves. Rick’s journey is a reminder of exactly that, the hard work and determination, and I remember how kind he was to me as a younger dancer as he helped shape my journey almost a decade ago. Let’s get to growing on the go with Rick Tjia!

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Today we are joined by Allie Christensen! Allie is a movement expert and founder of Align Fitness by Allie. She’s also the creator and host of Beyond The Pointe Podcast! Growing up, I killed myself in dance class after dance class always hoping to get stronger as a dancer, but somewhere along the lines I feel like I sort of plateaued and didn’t understand what it would take for me to get to the next level in my training. It was almost as if I was beating a dead horse without realizing that overtraining was going to take a toll on my body. Looking back, there was a smarter way to go about it, but I just didn’t know what that was.

In my book, a dancer is an athlete. There’s no way around it! And it’s so important for athletes and people of all natures to train smart rather just as hard as we can, in my opinion. Allie helps people, dancers to be specific, do exactly that. She helps dancers create a solid foundation to build upon throughout their training whether they want to become a professional dancer or not. As a younger dancer, Allie saw herself dancing professionally when she got older. While she didn’t necessarily set out to help other people get the most out of their dancing initially, an injury in life later led her to doing exactly that. I am absolutely fascinated by Allie and her passion for what she does, and I can’t wait for you to listen to this episode. Not to mention the major pivot, there’s that word again, she had to make during quarantine. I’m a firm believer that dance can teach us more than just how to use our bodies, and in this case — I was right. Dancers, if we’re lucky to become a professional one day, don’t have as long of a professional career as our bodies are our instruments we aren’t able to perform at peak capacity up until we’re fifty-five to sixty years old. The years we are able to perform in our prime are so extremely special, and we have to do everything we can to protect our bodies and stay in the game if we wish to dance as long as we can. I wish I had known just how important strength training and fueling my body were back when I was fifteen. There’s a lot to unpack here, but I’m so grateful Allie took the time to make this conversation. Let’s get to growing on the go with Allie Christensen!

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Today's guest is Claire Wasserman, the founder of LADIES GET PAID! Ladies Get Paid is a global organization of OVER 75,000 women, a community, and it also happens to be a book that Claire has authored to help women do exactly that: GET PAID! Claire is all about helping women advance personally, professionally, and financially all the while feeling empowered to do so. The current wage gap has continued to fuel Claire in her mission to help women, and she’s spending her days taking the taboo out of talking about money. When is the last time you had to to negotiate for yourself regarding your salary, your paid time off, or maybe even your freelance rates? I find myself doing some of these things more often than not as I’m making career changes, and honestly — I wish I had more of these tools in my back pocket as well as some of the extraordinary confidence Claire has as I started out in the professional world many moons ago. I’ve learned quite a bit over the last decade, but advocating for myself still has yet to come easy. We’ll call it a work in progress! The more we do it, hopefully — the easier it gets. If we’re not advocating for ourselves, who will? I’ve followed Claire via social media for a while as her confidence in this area has drawn me in and made me realize that the only person who can speak up for me is me! Happy growing on the go with Claire Wasserman!

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Janene Verabian, CHt, CLC, CWK, is Clinical Hypnotherapist and Relationship Expert! You’ll hear the story of how Janene and I met last summer, and I’m excited to bring this conversation to you as we've all learned the power of communicating in new ways over the last year. I’ll be honest in that I didn’t know much about hypnosis or hypnotherapy prior to our conversation, and it was extremely eye-opening to hear more about Janene’s day to day experience with her work. We discuss her work, and we'll also discuss the power of listening. I think that there’s so, so, SO much power in the act of listening. It’s changed my day to day, especially over the last 4.5 months of talking less and listening more. So, let’s dive on in and grow on the go with Janene Verabian!

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This final episode of 2020 takes a look back on a the conversations with a few of the guests that joined us this year, and we focus on the 'why' that drives each individual as they continue chasing their dreams. While each of the episodes has something special to offer in this extremely challenging year, I hope that you'll carry these episodes with you into the future as inspiration as you navigate your own path and continue to grow on the go!

Lauren Renck Manning is the founder of Stagesmith Dance Training as well as a Radio City Rockette, and the listings editor for Dance Magazine at Dance Media Publications. Lauren and I met during our time with the Rockettes, and I asked her to sit down with me and talk about being a performer amongst many other things during a year that’s taken the performance abilities, for the most part, away from us. The dance industry has been detrimentally affected by covid, and I wanted to talk to someone that I’ve watched navigate and create a new normal during the covid pandemic. You’re going to hear how Lauren set herself up to do many different things that she loves, and in a year of unknowns, she’s found success in various ways because of consistently showing up for herself and making things happen. So, happy growing on the go with Lauren Renck Manning!

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Today, we are joined by the founders of the non-profit Girl Powerful, Tedi and Sonya Serge! Tedi and Sonya founded Girl Powerful with the mission to make all girls feel seen and heard through the support of social and emotional skills that will support teen girls in feeling their most confident selves. The founders have created an after school enrichment program that is supported through their girl powerful journal which helps students balance their life outside of academics and improves their well-being and social progress. In a trying year with this pandemic, Girl Powerful has been able to thrive as the company has moved everything online and still continues to show up each and every day for their community. Happy listening!

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SPONSOR: Obé Fitness is an online streaming platform that offers 22 live classes a day and has an on demand library with thousands of classes to choose from. Whether you’re into yoga and pilates or you’re interested in dance cardio and HIIT training, you’ll find everything you need at Obé. Normal classes are 28 minutes, and you have options to level up to a 45 minute class or squeeze in a 10 minute express session along the way. Obe is giving my members a complimentary month with code ONTHEGO. Head over to obefitness.com to get started and let me know if I can help in any way!

Today we are joined by the Editor in Chief of Dance Media Publications, Jennifer Stahl! If you’re anything like me or you’ve ever been a dancer, you may have special memories of growing up reading magazines like Dance Spirit or Dance Magazine. These publications, among a few others under the Dance Media umbrella, helped shape my youth and allowed me to believe in the possibility of becoming a professional dancer at some point in life. I reached out to Jennifer in hopes of having a conversation that may inspire younger generations wanting a professional career in the dance industry. I also wanted to talk to her about being a dancer that chose a professional career combining a love for dance as well as journalism. I love Jennifer’s story about how she ended up where she is today, and I think she’s truly doing her part to have and print the hard conversations needed in the dance industry and beyond right now. In a year that has been detrimental to performers across the board, Jennifer’s doing her part to not only open the floor for discussions but to also support artists along the way. Happy growing on the go with Jennifer Stahl!

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SPONSOR: Obé Fitness is an online streaming platform that offers 22 live classes a day and has an on demand library with thousands of classes to choose from. Whether you’re into yoga and pilates or you’re interested in dance cardio and HIIT training, you’ll find everything you need at Obé. Normal classes are 28-minutes, and you have options to level up to a 45-minute class or squeeze in a 10-minute express session along the way. Obe is giving my members a complimentary month with code ONTHEGO. Head over to obefitness.com to get started and let me know if I can help in any way!