Effective Defects

Guest: Karlo Borja

Recorded: October 6, 2019

Guest: Kunle Oladehin

Recorded: October 5, 2019

Guests: Karlo Borja, Ilya Leyzerov

Recorded: May 23, 2019

Guest: Ilya Leyzerov

Recorded: April 6, 2019

Guest: Alessandra "Ali" Marconi

Recorded: March 31, 2019

Show Notes:

- What is clogging?

- How Ali started dancing.

- Why kids like tap and clogging.

- Why Ali walked away from dance for a while.

- How Ali found more patience and discipline through Taekwondo.

- How Ali practices patience and discipline now.

- Why Ali chose to rebel through ballet.

- Ali as the only dancer in her family and her family’s artistic background.

- Ali’s parents’ careers.

- Expectations of Ali.

- Why Ali chose to go to major in fields other than dance.

- How Ali’s survival job built a performance career while college.

- Ali's experience waiting tables.

- Taking a side job as an artist/creative.

- Why cocktail waitressing is where the money is.

- Creative jobs and taxes.

- Does Ali believe that living off your art sucks the passion and creativity out of your art?

- How Ali chose dance over journalism.

- The different parts of Ali's creative career.

- How Ali balances all of your interests and ventures at once.

- How managing different projects in a day fuels Ali.

- How Ali prevents burnout and how she has experienced burnout.

- What is Ali's longest project to date?

- Why Ali chose to move to New York City.

- Ali's parents take on Ali's traveling.

- Where Ali would like to establish roots.

- How does Ali get gigs?

- How Ali started work on Harry Potter on Broadway.

- Getting burned in past gigs.

- What Ali learned from pitching her own work.

- Ali and self care.

- How Ali manages anxiety.

- How Ali gets out of dark moments.

- Emotional constipation.

- Depression and victimization.

- Ali's foundation in self-exploration.

- How Ali got into cooking.

- Ali's relationship to social media.

- Ali's phone awareness.

- Comparison.

- Ali and Hustle dance.

- How Ali met Crazy Smooth.

- Ali's relationship with street dance.

- How makes a good Hustle dance.

- Repeating in dance.

- Ali's creative process and collaboration approach.

- Ali’s playwriting process.

- "Lily Pond".

- Ali’s struggles with writing her first play.

- What Ali has planned for the future.

Guests: Karlo Borja, Ilya Leyzerov

Recorded: March 27, 2019

Show Notes

- Why Karlo thinks winning is easy.

- Karlo’s formula to winning.

- Why Ilya doesn’t like to follow formulas.

- Ilya, call outs, and battles.

- Battling, present-state awareness, and connection.

- Battling and cyphers.

- Ilya’s plans for a May 2019 battle.

- The many variables of battles to consider.

- Why Karlo would make a good dad.

- Karlo and dating app trends.

- Karlo’s dating app strategy.

- The optimizing business that Karlo would create.

- Ilya and following the gut.

- How often do Karlo and Ilya do things based on gut feeling versus logical reasoning?

- Karlo, risk aversion, his own opinions, and others’ opinions.

- What’s the difference between a gut feeling and an impulse?

- Why Ilya thinks going with your gut to act on impulse is okay.

- Where does emotion play in to Ilya's gut?

- Is it possible that your gut is not actually what comes first?

- Is gut feeling nature or nurture?

- Karlo and the subconscious.

- Karlo and ancestral knowledge.

- Ilya and turning down a job with Overwatch.

- Ilya and the use of the past.

- Karlo and using the past for good lessons.

- The podcast format.

Guests: Karlo Borja, Ilya Leyzerov

Recorded: March 27, 2019

Show Notes:

- Do Karlo and Ilya get more energetic or more sleepy after sex?

- How Karlo learned to last longer in bed.

- Ilya’s approach to lasting longer in bed.

- Karlo’s analogy of choreography retention and maintaining endurance in bed.

- Ilya’s search for the mental secret to sexual endurance through pain.

- Why Ilya’s methods don’t work when he’s in a relationship.

- Why sexual endurance is more for the man than it is for the woman.

- Others’ opinions of our dance versus our opinions of our art.

- How good are we at being our own self critics?

- How Karlo reviews his dance footage.

- How Ilya reviews his dance footage.

- How Ilya chooses what videos to post and how he edits them.

- How Karlo and Ilya collaborates balance internal and external expectations in dance.

- How an artist can use consistency to be understood.

- The difference between audience understanding street dance/freestyle versus choreographed dancing.

- Karlo explains how to use goals to achieve consistency.

- Ilya’s experience in the California street dance and battle scene.

- The formula to winning street dance battles/jams.

- The answer that Karlo hates to hear from famous dancers and dance teachers.

- Karlo’s alternative answer to “just to feel it”.

- “The Funk” in Popping.

- Why famous dancers and dance teachers give the answers they give.

- Just practice.

- Do you have to be a good teacher and give good advice when approached at a dance event?

- Why it’s detrimental to give too much advice.

- What does it mean to win? What does it mean to not win?

- How Ilya organized dance events for those who lose.

- French Poppers and the way they train.

- Karlo’s approach to choreography competitions.