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Danielle's ballet career spanned her early twenties between an undergraduate dance & chemistry double-major at Smith College and medical school at University of Colorado.  While dancing, teaching ballet to kids and teens showed her how the mind-body medical connection can impact child development. So when she was ready for a steadier career, she applied to medical school to become that crucial caretaker that can make or break a child's recovery with a holistic view. Now, she is a resident physician in Tufts Medical Center's pediatrics, psychiatry, and child/adolescent psychiatry triple-board certification program. She fosters a growing interest in dance movement therapy and has a passion for humanizing doctors through her instagram @dancindrdanielle.

Danielle and host Benjamin Goodly geek out about science, including a special shout out to the collaboration at Yale University between dance professor Emily Coates and particle physicist Sara Demers. Discover the Higgs boson through their work: https://vimeo.com/82400379

Waeli Wang was recently appointed as Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at University of Kansas. In her interview, she describes phasing in and out of different dance experiences throughout her twenties. She fell in love with teaching as a pole instructor and competitor, but after struggling to identify with the commercial dance world in LA and the dance department at her undergrad university, Waeli left dance to become a filmmaker in NYC. Then through a context-shifting experience, she rediscovered experimental theater and movement as tools for identity research. Her awakening then blossomed into a passion for auto-ethnography, leading her to an MFA at the University of California at Irvine and a choreographic fellowship in the bay area before her latest academic appointment.

You can learn more about Waeli at www.waeliwang.com

Heather Britt established a thriving freelance career in San Francisco with several modern dance companies before returning to her hometown of Cincinnati to teach, choreograph, and start a family. She talks about breaking all the rules and turning her unique vision of health, happiness, and connection through dance into her business DANCEFIX.

Learn more about Heather at heatherbrittdance.com and dancefixcincinnati.com, and join in the experience with her new online offering DANCEFIX Live.

Also check out womenofcincy.org/home/heather-britt for even more interesting stories of Heather's resilience and rule-breaking, including quitting dance before finding it again on her own terms in San Francisco.

Reginald danced with Ballet Austin and River North Dance Chicago after trainee positions at Pennsylvania Ballet and Pacific Northwest Ballet. He talks about starting his career in social work based on a personality test, then finding ways to work upstream to the root of the problem as a patterns emerged in his work. Now, he's taking his career to the next level with a campaign for Cincinnati City Council.

You can learn more about Reginald at:

incontxtadvising.com

reggieforcincinnati.com

Welcome to the Count 9 podcast! In this solo episode, host Benjamin Goodly tells his own career transition story, talks about his new career venture becoming a published author, and describes the motivation and format for the show.