Ballet to Business

In this episode, Kristie Zurmehly describes how she taught herself the ins and outs of brand + web design to help boost small businesses all around the country. What I love about this episode is how …

How Vanessa Woods used her background as a professional ballet dancer with St. Louis Ballet to create, Vitality Ballet, an artistic exercise program designed to share the benefits of ballet with the …

It’s hard to believe, but 9 years ago, in October of 2010, Instagram emerged onto the scene.

Serendipitously, at the same time that Instagram was undergoing its development process, our guest on toda…

Happy 3 Months of the Ballet to Business Podcast!

We are taking a pause from the regular interview format this week and answering some of your questions! 

QUESTIONS:

3:10 - How do you handle when b…

From an outsiders perspective, you can't help but admire a dancer's grace and effortlessness. However, if only people knew what was actually going on in that dancer's mind...

"That was horrible. I'm…

As a 23 year old woman living in New York City and freshly departed from ballet, Allison Parc began going out on dates. But on these dates, she found herself being extremely nervous because she didn’…

When Rachel Cossar entered into working in major gift fundraising at Harvard University right after her career with Boston Ballet, she quickly realized not everyone in the corporate world had this aw…

When our guest on today's episode of Ballet to Business, Jordan Fry, revealed that one luxury wedding cake she had been working on took her 70 hours to complete in a week, my jaw was on the ground. 

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Dancing 'En Pointe' requires years of training in precision and excellence, strength paired with refinement, and superior technique matched with artistry. And according to our guest on today episode,…

Co-Working Spaces as we know them today, originated in non other than San Francisco in 2005. With that being said, it's no surprise that the energy was buzzing around the city for this new way of ent…

Inspiration is one of those mysteries that can’t be planned or controlled or forced, it can only be experienced. And often inspiration comes in the unlikeliest of times and through the unlikeliest of…

As graceful and effortless as ballet may appear, there’s no denying that this art form takes a serious toll on the body. There have been many times, probably more than I’m proud of admitting, where I…

From dancing on pointe to inventing a pointe shoe insert worn by dancers around the globe. Meet Kelly Schmutte, Founder of PerfectFit Pointe Shoe Inserts!

When Kelly first when on pointe as a young b…

As a pre-professional, devoted ballet student, Kathleen McGuire Gaines left home at 14 years old to train in classical ballet. She moved further away from home at 17 to continue her training, only to…

Growing up in Millis, Massachusetts, Carly grew a determination to pursue ballet from an early age. Training at Boston Ballet and overcoming a brutal achilles injury while at CPYB, Carly continued to…

East Coast native, Jess Spinner, trained extensively in classical ballet from a young age up until she left home for college to attend Butler University. Upon graduation, Jess went off to dance with …

As a professional ballet dancer with First State Ballet Theater, Molly Rooney, did not expect this opportunity to come knocking at her door. But when she was offered the opportunity to be the Directo…

Sisters Chelsea Early & Heather Walker trained extensively in classical ballet. After both sustaining injuries, they had to set their sites on a new dream. In 2015, they founded Luckyleo Dancewear & …

Welcome to Ballet to Business! I'm Jordan Nicole & on this introduction episode I'll be sharing the inspiration behind the podcast, who Ballet to Business is for, and more of my story in training to …