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Special Guest Sam Hersch doesn’t call himself a dancer, but he supports the dance community in many ways.  Has he found a way that the dance community can better support itself? When he started www.questionsfordancerstoday.com that is what he was aiming to do.  Listen in as Dana answers some of Sam’s 35 “Questions Worth The Asking”, and answer along for yourself as we try to get to the bottom of the the big question: how is social media influencing the dance industry and individual dancers’ lives?

Dana: Before we get into the good stuff!  We’d like to announce our Instagram Contest winners! The following 5 “demi” prize winners will be receiving a Words That Move Me Shoe Bag, to keep the shoes funky and keep the rest of your gear  funk free!

Our 5 demi-prize winners are: @renatogames_ @sydneycheri @megansarbaugh @fridadawson @chlo_withtheflow

Our Grand Prize winners each receive one hour of rental space in “The Kitchen” at The Hub NoHo, Thanks to our contest sponsor , The Hub NoHo Our 4 grand prize winners are: @cardincn @rileyroberts  @laurencarterhaines  @alexarhs 

And our Suber Duper “Booked and Blessed” Award– A 5 class card to The Movement Lifestyle, thanks to our contest sponsor @goesmovement.lifestyle — goes to: @sandami.sinley

Thanks everyone and congrats! Now, Let’s got to it!

Dana: Today I’m going to share little bits of a conversation that I had with a very special guest, a special guy named Sam Hirsch. Now I have known Sam since I think 2012 but this conversation was sparked because I ran into him recently. Uh, while I was teaching a class at movement lifestyle, I was making a mad dash for the restroom, like in the middle of class, had the moment, had to do it. And I saw Sam in the lobby and he handed me this flyer, like a full page flyer with a lot of words on it. And I was like, Sam, Oh man. Good to see you. Can’t read this right now. Send me an email. So later that night I had an email from Sam. It was a couple of attachments, um, a user guide and then a questionnaire. Now this is something that he’s been working on since June of 2019 and the purpose of the questionnaire is to get to the bottom of the question, how is social media influencing the dance industry and an individual dancers life?  

So I opened the attachment for the user’s guide, which was 12 pages long and I flashed back to the lobby area moment where I was like, Sam, I don’t have time for this in this moment. Email me. And then the email moment was another moment. So I asked Sam if he would be willing to come onto the podcast and just hash this out over a microphone, um, and see what we can uncover about that massive question. How is soci

There are certainly dark corners and terrible evils at work behind the curtains of the social media-sphere, but places like Instagram, and Youtube are also a great (and free) place to share your work and connect with a global audience.  This episode digs into ONE approach to a happy and healthy relationship with social media. After all, you get to choose who you follow, you get to choose what you share, shouldn’t you also get to choose that it’s kinda FUN to build the place where the world can go to find you?

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Quick Links:

Join the WTMM Ears Out Contest!: https://instagram.com/wordsthatmovemepodcast?igshid=1l4tj0jgvyu8q

Transcript:

Intro: This is words that move me, the podcast where movers and shakers like you get the information and inspiration you need to navigate your creative career with clarity and confidence. I am your host, master mover, Dana Wilson, and if you're someone that loves to learn, laugh and is looking to rewrite the starving artist story than sit tight, but don't stop moving because you're in the right place.

Dana: Hello. Hello. Hello. I am Dana. Welcome to the podcast. I am so glad that you are here right now. I am excited to talk to you today. Whoa, this is a big one. All right, so with the Words that Move Me Instagram contest going on right now, Oh, right now, by the way, is the last couple of days of February and heading into March. Oh my gosh. It's almost March. I can't really handle it. Time is flying so super fast. Anyways, it's the last couple of days of February heading into March and until March 9th Words that Move Me has an Instagram contest happening, so make sure you go check out our Instagram page to get all of the details on how you can be involved, how you can win and what you can win.  

It's all very exciting stuff, but because of the contest, social media has been on the brain and actually to be honest, contest aside, social media has been on the brain. There's a lot of talk around this right now. It seems kind of an unavoidable subject. It's like this part of our lives now. It seems to be. Anyways, I'm sure that there is a small contingent, possibly very, very small. Maybe just a few of my listeners that still exist completely handle free and hats off to you. I actually would love to know what that is like. Um, I haven't checked, but I'm very curious about how many hours a day. I know on average I spend a little over three hours a day on my phone, but out of that, I wonder how much of that is inside of Instagram, which is my preferred social media platform. I digress.  I'd say that the sweeping majority of humans, probably age 16 to maybe 40, uh, have social media of some sort, whether it's Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, YouTube or all of them. Oh, tik tok. Oh my goodness. Which I don't have, but I hear that I quote need people tell me this like, Oh my God, you need to tik tok. And that's very funny because I feel totally fine without one. But then again, I have never had one. It is very possible that I haven't even lived yet because I don't have tik tok, tik tok. Am I, am I sounding ridiculous? The tik tok? Do you use the tik tok? I'm cracking myself up anyways. 

I think that social media for the most part gets a bad reputation for a lot of really good reasons. For example, it is literally designed to devour your attention.  There are engineers who are paid to think of ways to keep your eyeballs on the screen longer so that they can show you more ads so that you can click more clicks so that they can make mor

Episode 9 will leave you feeling fine. Personal trainer to the stars, Jason Bonner is on the podcast to talk motivation and excellence.  These words will help you take your work to the next level whether you’re in the gym, in the studio, on screen, or on stage.  Warning, you may leave this episode feeling very VERY motivated to make things happen.

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Enter our instagram contest!

https://instagram.com/wordsthatmovemepodcast?igshid=ctagczvve4kf

Transcript:

Intro: This is words that move me, the podcast where movers and shakers like you get the information and inspiration you need to navigate your creative career with clarity and confidence. I am your host, master mover, Dana Wilson, and if you're someone that loves to learn, laugh and is looking to rewrite the starving artists story, then sit tight but don't stop moving because you're in the right place. 

Dana:  Hello, hello friends. Welcome to the podcast. We'll come back if you're a recurring listener and welcome, welcome for the first time. If this is your first time listening, I'm stoked to be talking to you today. I'm very excited about this episode, but before I get into that I want to talk about something else that I am very excited about and that is the Instagram contest that we are having right now. We definitely are wanting to spread the words that move me and make sure as many people find the podcast as possible. So to do that we're having an Instagram contest and I would like for you to take a look at all the details @wordsthatmovemepodcast on Instagram. It's in our story. It has a special little album there. I think I'm using the right words all of a sudden I am not the master of Instagram anymore. I'm learning and I'm right there with some of you as I learn. Anyways, I'm very excited about the contest in order to see all the terms and the ways that you can win and also the things that you might win. Make sure you follow us on Instagram. That's going to be the best way.. Well it's the only way to be a part of the contest. Um, and it's the best way to make sure that you are playing by the rules. Although occasionally I do recommend breaking them. Okay. So in addition to the contest, I also want to clear up a few things. Cause the other day I ran into a human being, an actual human in the flesh and she was like, Oh my gosh, I'm doing the daily challenge and I absolutely love it. I was like, that's great. What's your handle? And she told me her name, she told me her handle and I didn't recognize it. I was like, I don't think I've seen your project out there. And then through a little bit more digging, we discovered that she had been hashtagging “daily doing” instead of hashtagging “doing daily” And honestly you guys, I think I've probably said it both ways from the start of the podcast until now and this is something that is definitely worth a little clarification and carving out a special place for this. I want to see your daily projects.  

So I have decided to create a special hashtag, a bucket that we can put all of those beautiful things and that is #doingdailyWTMM as in words that move me. So if you are a daily doer, which is confusing cause I do say that a lot. If you're a daily doer then you are hashtag doing daily. Yes. It feels really good to have that cleared up. Excellent. If you have no idea what I'm talking about right now, that is probably because you haven't listened to episode one or episode two where I pose the challenge to all of my listeners to take on a daily creative act every single day

Show Notes: Quick Links: Bobby Dacones (Commercial Shots): https://www.instagram.com/bobby11dacones/?hl=en Taylor James (Editorial Shots): https://www.instagram.com/taylorjjames/?hl=en Gia Harris (Makeup Artist): https://www.instagram.com/missgiamakeup/?hl=en Retouching: www.digitalheadshotretouching.comdigitalheadshotretouching@gmail.com Printing: www.photocitylabs.com [email protected] Pink Hair Dye: https://us.kryolan.com/product/color-spray#D30 Favorite Red Lipstick: https://www.sephora.com/product/cream-lip-stain-liquid-lipstick-P281411?icid2=products%20grid:p281411 Transcript: Intro: This is words that move me, the podcast where movers and shakers like you get the information and inspiration you need … Continue reading "Ep #8 Why My Headshots Won’t Suck"

A headshot is a picture of your head and Episode #8 takes a look at what is going on inside of it on a big shoot day.  From hair & make up to mind set.  From backdrops & wardrobe to wide angle distortion.  We get to the bottom of why the getting great headshots can be challenging, and you’ll learn how to make your next shoot the best day of your life.  If you’re not careful… This episode might turn you into someone who loves being photographed. 

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Quick Links:

Bobby Dacones (Commercial Shots): https://www.instagram.com/bobby11dacones/?hl=en

Taylor James (Editorial Shots): https://www.instagram.com/taylorjjames/?hl=en

Gia Harris (Makeup Artist): https://www.instagram.com/missgiamakeup/?hl=en

Retouching: www.digitalheadshotretouching.comdigitalheadshotretouching@gmail.com

Printing: www.photocitylabs.com [email protected]

Pink Hair Dye: https://us.kryolan.com/product/color-spray#D30

Favorite Red Lipstick: https://www.sephora.com/product/cream-lip-stain-liquid-lipstick-P281411?icid2=products%20grid:p281411

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Intro: This is words that move me, the podcast where movers and shakers like you get the information and inspiration you need to navigate your creative career with clarity and confidence. I am your host, master mover, Dana Wilson, and if you're someone that loves to learn, laugh and is looking to rewrite the starving artists story, then sit tight. But don't stop moving because you're in the right place.  

Dana: Good day. Good people. How are you out there? I hope this podcast finds you fabulous on this lovely day or night. I don't know what it is for you right now. I do know that it is morning time for me and this is kind of an impromptu podcast. Today is headshots day. I am getting two different rounds of head shots taken in one day. In the early afternoon. I'm going for the commercial stuff, the clean, fresh, super cute. "Let me sell you things", head shots. And then in the afternoon I'm getting my super artsy fartsy editorial. "I'm an artist with creative ideas" headshots, and those really are two very different things. Um, and I'm excited. I'm excited about both of them, but I did wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. So I did a little journaling and started digging up what I thought could be a really cool podcast episode, a look inside my head on headshots day. So you'll be able to see what my head looks like on the outside as well as what's going on in here today. So, uh, if you don't mind, I'm going to get right into it since I am on a bit of a sscheduley.  

Okay. The inner dialogue that happens on the morning of headshot day is not so dissimilar from the dialogue that happens on any big shoot day. So if you don't have headshots on the books coming up, don't discount this episode. There's a lot of big lesson in here and I hope you get big value out of it. Okay, let's start at the beginning. This morning I woke up to kisses, which is incredible. But al