Pointe To Rise

Natalia Sanchez is a young ballet dancer and professional dance instructor pursuing her Master’s in Nutrition and Dietetics in an effort of becoming a registered dietician. She attended Orlando Ballet School from the age of 13 to 18. Natalia’s love for travel led her to audition with the Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, where she ended up getting a contract and spent 2018 onboard traveling and dancing with them. Natalia began taking a class at Pure Barre, Julington Creek in September 2017, where she later became an instructor.

In this episode, Natalia shares more about her journey and background, the challenges and demotivation she’s had to overcome, her love for traveling, her experience with dance school and dropping out, and generally her personal growth and development.

Other topics she discusses include:

• Her experience with Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
• Self-worth
• The power of positive affirmations
• Pure Barre
• Importance of sleep for dancers
• Importance of staying grounded
• Her pursuit of being a registered dietician.
• Food and nutrition and making the right food choices
• Importance of note-taking and journaling
• Her work with the N.A.T.I Podcast
• Her love for Spain

Resource Links

• Natalie Sanchez Instagram
• The N.A.T.I. Podcast Instagram
• Pure Barre Website
• Pure Barre Facebook

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So much ♥,

Susanne

In this episode of Coffee Chat, Susanne Puerschel talks about the perplexing structure that we have put in place in ballet companies in terms of how corps, soloists, principals, and up the ring are getting paid. She expresses displeasure at the chasm in pay between corps, soloists, principals, and artistic directors. She questions if it’s a helpful incentive for people to rise to their best potential or if it’s hindering them. Susanne devises means of turning performing arts into a sustainable model that people can actually have a living, citing R.I.S.E Media as a potential industry game changer.

Other talking points include:

• A comparison between the pay of artistic directors in A-level ballet companies and C-level executives of World Food Program and World Health Organization.
• The role of platforms like Patreon, Buy Me a Coffee in solving this issue.
• R.I.S.E Media, its vision, and the example its setting.
• Creating opportunities for yourself as a performing artist.
• Tapping into media and advertisement for performing artists.
• R.I.S.E Media crowdfunding campaign launching on November 9
• Serendipitous comparison between R.I.S.E Media crowdfunding campaign and the Berlin wall coming down on November 9, 1989.
• Building a different structure and way of doing performing arts.
• What’s next for Pointe to Rise.

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So much ♥,

Susanne

• R.I.S.E Media

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In addition, we talk about:

• The role of the reticular activating system of our brain is our filter as it only lets through certain kinds of noises or triggers.
• How ‘what if’ questions are literally a limiting belief to how beautiful and unique and how important it is for us dancers to embrace our uniqueness.
• The need to start changing our beliefs into powerful beliefs that won't hold us back since we can do whatever our minds can create.
• How we need to know what we want in life in order for us to activate our filter and see all the possibilities.
• The fact that opportunities will fully open for us when we embrace our uniqueness.
• How whatever we're experiencing in our life is because we are a magnet and our beliefs create that magnetic field.
• Inquiring within and inquiring without about our strengths as a starting point.
• The need to know our value as the basis to shift our beliefs since beliefs are everything.
• What tapping into new beliefs will feel like since we have not primed our brains to believe something different.
• How the mind will default into low vibration beliefs if we are not working on it.

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So much ♥,

Susanne & Gina

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Susanne shares a conversation she had with a client around routine. How once the perspective is inline how the possibilities open up to your field of view. This comes as a result of having a simple yet ongoing morning routine to set your mind up to see those opportunities.

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So much ♥,

Susanne

Erin is the CEO of Dance Boss LLC. She is also the host of the Dance Boss podcast. She is also a former choreographer, leader, and crew director. Erin helps dance specialists create 5k consistent months with a signature long term virtual group training program. She has been featured in dance magazines like Dance Business Weekly and Dance Media. She is a Jersey girl all the way. Graduated from Montclair State University with a BFA in dance and received her Master's in Dance Education from New York University. Erin is on a mission to help dance professionals build wealth financially, spiritually, and emotionally.

In this episode, Erin shares her journey from experienced dancer, to dance teacher, to business coach. She talks about how professional dancers and artists struggle with fears and other challenges that keep them from growing and shares a few tips on how they can finally take action and develop themselves as individuals and their businesses.

Other topics we chat about:

• Collaboration with other dance teachers
• Her experience with finding a coach
• Addressing fear as artists
• The relationship between growth and environment
• Taking action as an individual
• Business advice for dance studio owners

Resources for Erin:

• Instagram
• Website
• Facebook
• Podcast

Thank you for listening,

So much ♥,

Susanne

In this episode of Coffee Chat, I dissect the habits of billionaires such as Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffet, what it takes to be a millionaire/billionaire and the reasons performing artists are not there.

In addition, I talk about:

• The belief that being an artist equals struggling and the need to re-write that story.
• The amount of time put to reading as the number one habit for billionaires and it being a representation of continuous learning and knowledge acquisition.
• Quick decision making as a way to conserve brain and physical energy to be utilized elsewhere.
• How billionaires are conscious about getting enough rest and whether or not performing artists get enough rest.
• Envisioning our future, what on our agenda on a daily basis to get us there.
• Setting clear boundaries on who and how we spend our time, as a habit by successful people.
• The starving and lack mentality as the reason as to why performing artists believe they cannot be billionaires and why only a few make a really good living at it.

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So much ♥,

Susanne

• Christy Little
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In this episode, Gina and I discuss the phenomenon of Our roots and how we can find peace and knowledge. We analyze the nourishment of our roots, their source, our investment in our roots, and what it means to have a strong root system. We discuss some of the things that uproot us as dancers and the idea that we should stop doubting ourselves and everybody else and just lean into that deep-rooted love that is in us.

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So much ♥,

Susanne & Gina

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Susanne has found as the time of year has brought on more work and time commitments. The importance of really understanding how you need to rest, recover and give yourself time to rest should be at the forefront of your planning.  She shares how she has found certain activities actually allow her to be more creative whilst resting her mind which allows her to show up fully recharged.

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So much ♥,

Susanne

Salisha Thomas is a Broadway star and a former Miss California. She was most recently in rehearsal for Once Upon a One More Time; the new Britney Spears musical. She was also previously seen in Beautiful, the Carole King musical on Broadway and on tour. Some regional credits include; Trevor The Musical, Once on This Island, Dream Girl and she is the host of Black Hair in the Big League on the Broadway Podcast Network, where she has sat down with stars from every major show on Broadway, and most recently has created The Salisha Show. The Salisha Show can be watched via YouTube or stream both podcasts on Apple, Spotify, and every other platform where you can stream podcasts on.

Resources for Salisha:

• Website
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Youtube

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So much ♥,

Susanne

In this episode of Coffee Chat, I dissect how consumer behaviors have changed in the thick of the pandemic, drawing a bridge and connection to the performing arts.

In addition, I talk about:

• What life was before the pandemic, with human beings living as a collective, focusing on the 9-5 daily rat race with the main priority as bringing food to the table.
• How thanks to the pandemic, everybody has experienced self-reflection into reorganizing and changing priorities to things that matter.
• How society has adjusted how and with whom we are spending our time.
• How consumer behaviors have changed. Now, on purchasing, consumers focus not only on the product but how and by whom it’s made. Consumers have shifted their main drivers from price and quality, they have revised their main purpose and what’s important in life.
• The change in consumer behavior has given rise to ‘re-emerging consumers’.
• Four points that best explain the wants of these re-emerging consumers and the pressing and urgent need for the performing arts industry to align to this new group of consumers.

Getting to Know the ‘Reimagined’ Consumer

Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/built-for-change/id1561378348?i=1000536231949

Thank you for listening,

So much ♥,

Susanne & Christy

• Christy Little
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