Melissa Adao (MEL) represents 20+ years of dance education, community building, and self-empowerment. She’s a Professor at Grossmont and Mesa College. MEL performs and creates work all over Southern California ranging from award-winning repertoire to corporate flash mob entertainment. MEL is currently training towards her dream of earning a qualifier spot in any international breaking competition, most notably Freestyle Session, Red Bull BCOne, or Outbreak. As an educator and community member, MEL uses her gifts and talents to mentor individuals to help them get jobs in their desired field, graduate community college, and develop life skills to be professionals and positive contributors in their communities.

In this Episode, we touch on:

How to be a Great Teacher The underlying relationship between good teachers and good leadersWhy she’s unafraid and even proud to disclose her age at 40 years old How to train a more positive outlook on lifeAdvice she’d give to her 20 y/o self And much more!

Warning! Due to a dying recorder, the episode quality drops around the 1-hour mark. The camera audio, however, was able to capture the rest, so we inserted that! Sorry about that, my bad! It won't happen again -Kai

You can follow Mel on:

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IG @melissaadao_mel