DSO Connect - By & For Dance Studio Owners

Robin and Casey catch up this week and discuss a few smaller topics that have been brought up in the DSO Connect Community group lately: separating personal and business, pros and cons to re-opening your studio's lobby, and employees behaving badly.

Dance educator and school psychologist Angela DeMarco joins Casey and Amanda this week to talk about mental health, from performance anxiety to learning disabilities, and how to create a dance environment that's healthy for our minds, too!

Jazz dance expert and Owner and Executive Director of the 360 Dance Festival Richard Smith joins us this week to talk about everything from his early days of dancing at recess with his schoolmates to the evolution of the dance industry post-COVID, and so much more! You don't want to miss this fascinating conversation!

You know and love her for her contagious enthusiasm and high-energy teaching style; this week Robin and Casey interview the one and only Julie Kay Stallcup! They talk about some of her proudest accomplishments, the sale of her dance studio, and what's next!

Our first Q&A episode! Have questions for us, or want to let us know how you've implemented some of our ideas at your studio? Or share something that made YOUR heart happy! Email us at [email protected]  We can't wait to hear from you!

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This week, it's all about the love! How do you show your love and appreciation to your team? This week we sit down with Amanda Cacciotti who tells us all about how she utilizes her staff's love languages to effectively show them how much they mean to her.

Robin and Casey have just under two weeks of the new dance season under their belts, so they discuss hiccups and pleasant surprises they've encountered so far. Plus, they both have some creative ideas for events and performances to keep your whole dance year exciting.

Membership in the DSO Connect Member Vault closes at the end of September, 2020! Don't miss out on our great monthly content that will help you get your studio running like a well-oiled machine. To learn more and be the last DSO to get in on our membership for several months, visit our website at www.dancestudioownerconnect.com. 

With all the change going on in our lives and in our businesses right now, it's a great time to crack open the books and take a good hard look at our numbers. This week we revisit Episode 8, in which Robin tells us all about Profit First and how this budget strategy can help drive our businesses to success.

The Member Vault doors are closing at the end of September! Don't miss out on all the great monthly content! Go to www.dancestudioownerconnect.com to join us!

After all the talk the last two weeks about the pitfalls of competitions, we wanted to shine some positive light on this side of the dance world this week! Casey sits down with Holly, who runs a wildly successful competition program at her studio, to talk about how to do competition the right way.

Our Member Vault closes at the end of September! Don't miss out! To learn more and sign up, visit our website www.dancestudioownerconnect.com and click on the "Membership" tab.

This week we continue our conversation with Chasta Hamilton, author of Trash the Trophies: How to Win Without Losing Your Soul. To learn more about Chasta and to purchase her book, visit her website at www.chastahamilton.com