Mandy Moore: Playing Full Out & Living the Highs & Lows

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In this fast-paced, inspired conversation, Lisa speaks with Emmy Award winning choreographer Mandy Moore  about embracing the ups and downs, the creative process, resilience, burnout, imposter syndrome, working through a pandemic and lessons learned in her personal journey.

Highlights include:

"I'm like, either 100 miles an hour or  I'm like, face down zero. Yeah, I don't know how to do 30. I don't know how to do a Sunday drive."

"I can get knocked down 105 times and the next day I wake up and it's like it never happened."

"It's not about winning the Emmy it's about the journey that got me there."

About the pandemic:

"I don't think I've ever felt so non-essential."

"Honestly, I feel a lot of guilt for working."

Mandy is an American choreographer, dancer, producer, and dance instructor. She is known for her work on the United States reality television series So You Think You Can Dance, having appeared on the show every year since the third season, and Dancing with the Stars. She choreographed the 2016 film La La Land and has also worked on stage musicals and commercials. She has created dance numbers for the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Emmy Awards, and Grammy Awards ceremonies. She has been nominated seven times for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography, winning in 2017 for her work on Dancing with the Stars, in 2018 for her work on So You Think You Can Dance, and

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