In Part 2 with Chelsea Early & Heather Walker of Luckyleo Dancewear, hear how the pandemic hit right at the time when they were about to move into their new workspace! And how they navigated the challenges of not only working from home for a season, but learning how to make masks for their community & the health care workers on the front lines. At the end of this video, look forward to a virtual tour of their new space to see their printers, cutting tables, fabric racks, and more!

In Part 1, hear how the founders of Luckyleo Dancewear, Chelsea Early & Heather Walker, navigated the physical and psychological challenges they faced during their careers as professional ballet dancers. And how through those challenges, they were able to gain a clearer perspective to the beauty of the art form as a whole.

Diana shares how she managed the unexpected change of navigating her business through the pandemic and how she became incredibly resourceful in order to fulfill the mission of her business in helping others.

Diana and I discuss her pathway from training in Paraguay, to landing a professional contract with the Washington Ballet. When Diana later moved on to dance for Boston Ballet, she shares a story of how she persevered through a challenging time of injury and how she became stronger as a person because of it.

Jordan shares how the current pandemic affected her original plans to create wedding cakes for her clients this summer. However, with the time Jordan has been given, she’s worked on expanding her blog & recipe tutorials on her YouTube as well as taken on some exciting projects she hadn’t seen coming!

When our guest on today’s episode of Ballet to Business, Jordan Fry, revealed that one luxury wedding cake she had been working on took her 70 hours to complete in a week, my jaw was on the ground.

Now the time it takes to create a stunning work of edible art also caught Jordan a bit off guard at the beginning. Once she became known as the ‘baker’ at Ballet West, where she currently dances, requests for wedding cakes started rolling in.

And as Jordan continued to get more and more requests, her husband, Adrian, couldn’t help but notice she was pouring countless hours into baking and encouraged her to start adequately charging for her time. It was in that moment that they both decided Jordan needed to turn her hobby into a business. Thus Ballerina Baker was born!

In Part 1: Jordan and I discuss two moments in her career as a corps de ballet member with Ballet West where she had to make a pivot that caused her to grow in tremendous ways.

Many dancer’s struggle with a negative mindset, and yet we fail to understand how these thoughts really cost us and actually limit our dancing.

But combating these negative thoughts is exactly where our guest, Kirsten Kemp, thrives.

In Part 2, Kirsten & I talk about perfectionism, learning as you go, and being willing to try and put yourself out there, all of which Kirsten has learned during producing content on her YouTube channel, Twin Talks Ballet, and through her mindset coaching business.

From an outsider’s perspective, one can’t help but admire a dancer’s grace and effortlessness.
However, if only people knew what was actually going on in many of our minds …
“That was horrible. I’m an awful turner. I’m never going to be good at that step.”
Many dancer’s struggle with a negative mindset, and yet we fail to understand how these thoughts really cost us and actually limit our dancing.
But combating these negative thoughts is exactly where our guest, Kirsten Kemp, thrives.
In Part 1:
Hear the story of how navigating her knee injury while dancing at Oklahoma City Ballet was absolutely necessary in giving her the wisdom and heart behind her coaching business for dancers today.
To know more about Kirsten visit kirstenkemp.com

Welcome to Ballet to Business Episode 1 a BalletProject.tv original series!