Passion for Dance
You train extensively as a dancer, but what about mental training? Have you ever trained your mental skills like confidence, focus, or resilience? When you tune in to Passion for Dance, that mental training is precisely what you get. You can learn from a sport psychology expert who understands the dance industry and can teach you how to elevate your performance and truly thrive on and off stage.
Welcome to Passion for Dance, where your host, Dr. Chelsea, will bring the science of sport psychology into the dance studio. Each week, you will learn actionable strategies and new mindsets to build happier, more successful dancers.
Dance teaches us to push through the pain to reach our goals, and we are used to criticism, tears, bleeding toes, and sore muscles. But now, psychological research has taught us more about mental health and resilience than ever before, and it's time to change our industry for the better. Being a dancer teaches us critical life skills, but that doesn't mean we have to suffer before we can build ourselves back up. Dance can teach us self-discipline, teamwork, confidence, grit, and resilience without destroying our self-esteem.
The path to personal growth is full of joy, self-discovery, and challenging roadblocks, but we don't have to figure it out alone. This podcast is for all of us to connect, learn, and share our passion for dance with the world.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 22 minutes
- Episodes
- 225
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
63. When Do I Teach My Dancers About Mental Skills?
It’s summer, which for me as a mental performance consultant means busy season! Lots of dance studios and coaches want to focus on mental skills training in the summer, which is great. It’s our “off-…
62. How I Plan My Dance Season
Summer is often a time of vacations and relaxing, but also, intensives and summer camps, and usually whole love of planning! If you are someone like me who loves a good planner, color codes everythin…
61. The Positive Coaching Framework
We know that being a dance coach with a positive impact is more than teaching dance skills and helping your dancers perform well and achieve competitive success. But how? What are the coaching strate…
60. Do You Know How to Give Tough Love 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 …
59. Advice from Passionate Dance Educators Joe Nickel & Michelle Tolson
58. Never Regret a Day
Coaching and teaching dance is hard, it’s really rewarding, but hard. It’s easy to feel beat down sometimes. When your dancers aren’t listening, when the parents are pushing every last button, when y…
57. How to Prepare your Captain to Become an Influential Leader
This episode is a continuation of last week where I talked about 3 of the key qualities to look for in a captain. If you choose to have formal leaders, I believe choosing a captain is one of the firs…
56. 3 Key Qualities of an Effective Dance Team Captain
55. Coaching Advice Inspired By My Darkest Moments
54. How to Stay Motivated After Competitive Success
53. 1 Big Reason Team Conflict Isn’t A Bad Thing
Positive team culture doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn’t happen without a lot of effort and intentional team building. But in today’s episode, I want to share the 4 step process of how to go fr…
52. The Mindset of a Dance Boss with Erin Pompa
Have you ever thought about using your dance experience and education to do something other than teaching dance? Now, if you are a dance educator out there who loves what you do, I’m certainly not th…
51. Hard-Working Dancers have Teachers Who Do These 3 Things
We all want dancers who are hard working. Dancers who show up and stay focused during class, Dancers who put in 100% effort even if the teacher isn’t looking. But how do you create an environment whe…
50. My Dance Story and How it Shaped Me: The Birthday Episode!
49. LSU Tiger Girls: The Coach’s Story
What if we were “Like a Boy?” Would you treat us differently if we were male athletes? The LSU Tiger Girls had a clear and powerful message in their recent hip hop routine, the choreography was top-n…
48. Fueling for Competition: Advice from Registered Dietitians Melisa and Yasi of MY Dance Nutrition
Do you know the difference between a dietitian and a nutritionist? My guests this week are both, and the distinction is an important one becuase it means they have the education and training, plus th…
47. Coaching and Mentoring for Professional Dance Teams featuring Sabrina and Amira of the Cultivate Code
Today's guests are Pro Dance Team Coaches and Founders of the Cultivate Code, Sabrina, and Amira. These women have a wealth of knowledge about dancing in the NBA or NFL and I think a lot of our conve…
46. Love Languages for Dance Team: How to emotionally connect with your dancers in record time
45. 5 Mindset Lessons from Dance Team Nationals
Why do we compete? If you have dancers who take on big national championships every year, why? Have they lost track of why? Throughout my consulting career, I’ve had the privilege to travel to a few …
44. Confidently Amplify Your Personal Brand with Sonja McCord
Do you think that being a professional dancer is out of your reach? I definitely thought so as a young dancer, but my guest today taught me a lot about chasing your dreams through being yourself. Joi…