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A Dancer's Mindset

A Dancer's Mindset

By: Ballet with Isabella
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This podcast, hosted by ballet dancer, Vaganova graduate and international coach Isabella McGuire Mayes @balletwithIsabella For all the dancers out there with a desire for more and to reach their highest potential. Isabella will build your confidence, self esteem and self belief so you can make it to the top. There are many stories from Isabella's training days, tips to improve your mindset, special guests and more!! Giving you a winning dancer's mindset! Explore BWI - Your secret weapon to excellence. www.balletwithisabella.com Email hello@balletwithisabella.comBallet with Isabella Personal Development Personal Success
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  • EP. 167 Failures & Mistakes Are Not Your Identity!
    May 20 2026

    Hey Everyone!

    We need to talk about failure.

    Not in a "dust yourself off and try again" motivational poster kind of way. Really talk about it. Because so many of us — especially as dancers — have spent years quietly believing that every mistake we make says something about who we are.

    A wobbled pirouette, a bad audition, a class where nothing went right. And instead of letting it go, we become it.

    This episode is about untangling that.

    Failure is not your identity. It is information. It is redirection. It is, honestly, one of the most powerful tools you have — but only if you stop running from it and start getting curious about it.

    In this episode we're talking about:

    🎙️ Why we attach our sense of self worth to our mistakes — and how to stop

    🎙️ The difference between having a bad experience and being a failure

    🎙️ How embracing mistakes (rather than burying them) is what separates dancers who grow from dancers who plateau

    🎙️ Practical ways to reframe failure in the moment — on and off the dance floor

    🎙️ Why the most successful, most celebrated artists in the world have failure woven all the way through their story

    Because here's the truth — the mistake doesn't define you. What you do with it does.

    Whether you're a dancer, a student, a creative, or just a human being navigating life, this one is for you. Pull up a chair. Let's get into it.

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    20 mins
  • Ep.166 Day 7: Becoming the Confident Dancer
    May 9 2026

    Hello Everyone!

    You made it to Day 7. And something has already shifted — even if you can't quite name it yet.

    This final episode is about bringing everything together. The work you've done this week — facing the performance anxiety, stepping out of comparison, separating your worth from your results, quieting the overthinking, releasing the fear of being seen, finding your way back from burnout — it has all been leading here.

    To you. The confident dancer. Not the perfect dancer. Not the fearless dancer. The one who knows herself, trusts herself, and shows up fully anyway — on the hard days, in the difficult rooms, under the lights, and in the quiet moments when nobody is watching but her.

    Confidence is not a destination you arrive at and stay forever. It is a practice. A daily decision. And in this episode we talk about exactly how to keep making it — so that everything you've reset this week becomes not just a moment, but a new standard.

    This is not the end. This is where you begin.

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    19 mins
  • Ep. 165 Day 6: Burned Out? "Why Am I Even Doing This?
    May 9 2026

    Hello Everyone!

    Welcome to Day 6 .

    You used to love this. You used to live for it — the classes, the rehearsals, the music, all of it. And somewhere along the way something shifted and now you're showing up out of habit or obligation or guilt, going through the motions, wondering when it stopped feeling like yours.

    If you have ever stood in the studio and genuinely asked yourself why you're still doing this — this episode is a safe place to land.

    Today we talk honestly about burnout in dance — what it actually is, how it creeps in, and why it is so often misread as laziness or lack of passion when it is actually the opposite. We talk about how to find your way back to yourself and back to the love that started all of this. And we talk about what it looks like to rebuild your relationship with dance on your own terms — not the terms of a schedule, a syllabus, or someone else's expectations. The love is still there. Today we go and find it.

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    24 mins
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