Kathleen McGuire Gaines is the Founder of We are Minding the Gap. She is a former dancer, a writer, and a mental health advocate for dancers. Her organization, We are Minding the Gap, aims to see mental health being regarded with the same seriousness as physical health in dance culture. In this episode, she shares her background, how she got in love with dance, a setback she encountered at a young age that crushed her dancing dreams and led to major depression, how she channeled the energy into writing and addresses the issue of dancers’ mental health today.

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About Susanne Puerschel

Susanne, Founder of Pointe To Rise, an Empowerment society for dancers and other artists, Wellness Entrepreneur, podcast host, former international ballerina, and an experienced principal chief executive officer had the privilege to grow up behind the iron curtain in Berlin, Germany.
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