Welcome to Sleep Eat Perform Repeat Episode #14. Today we spoke to Candela Ebbesen, Dancer with Les Ballets de Monte Carlo & CEO of Ballerina Productions. We spoke about her journey to becoming one of the top performers in the Ballet industry, including her injury history to date. We discuss what a typical week for a professional dancer looks like, unwinding strategies, the competitive environment of professional dancing, pre-event nerves, the particular physical challenges of certain routines, mindset preparation, striking a balance between mental stress and physical fatigue, the defining physical and psychological characteristics needed to make it as a professional dancer, living in the ‘dancer’s high’, and the accuracy of black swan. A very interesting listen with lots of valuable insights and lessons for anyone in high performance sport.