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Dancer's Choice
by Dancer's Choice Podcast
A podcast by dancers, for dancers where no topic is off limits! Hosts, Riley Goudy and Dawsen Saley, break down life after college as professional dancers and all the things that come with it. Dancer’s Choice Podcast is rooted in the mission to start much needed conversation in the dance community. We believe change begins with the individual and this podcast is our way to start. We cannot expect the dance industry to change its ways if we do not start within. Be the Change or Stay the Same…Dancer's Choice.New Episodes every Thursday!! xoxo
Episodes
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Hope in Hopeless Situations …with unveiled productions’ Gio & Melissa Gotay!
Hey yall! We are back this week to share a special episode with guests, Gio & Melissa Gotay of Unveiled Productions! Unveiled Productions is a videography company based out of Nashville, TN with a mission to create compelling stories through dance and film with messages of finding hope in…
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All Things Nutrition w/ ALLY MILLER!! - macro tracking, cortisol, strength training, sleep & MORE!
You loved her before, so we brought her back for a part two! In this episode, Dawsen and guest, Ally Miller, dive deep into all things nutrition. We go everywhere from macro tracking and how it can be a helpful tool to sleep and its importance in our daily lives (and secret: you're probably not...
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THROWBACK THURSDAY!!! Nutrition + the NFL with Ally Miller!
WELCOME BACK to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! In the spirit of the holidays, food, and football we thought there was no better episode to share again other than that with the lovely ALLY MILLER- Nutritional Therapy Practitioner! This episode is JAM PACKED with advice on how dancers can adequately...
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THIS ONE IS FOR THE DANCE MOMS: advice, gratitude, and lessons learned
If you're a dance mom, LISTEN UP! This week Riley and Dawsen asked THEIR MOMS what advice they'd give to current dance moms and share on the podcast what their moms wish they knew before diving into the competition world. & on the other end, the girls sit down to share what THEY LEARNED from…
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Learn from the Littles: A Message for Competition Dancers with Malea Boggess!
Hey y'all! Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Riley and Dawsen sit down with fellow dance judge and choreographer, Malea Boggess, to discuss her upbringing from performing to coaching at competitive dance teams. Malea has been dancing since the age of two, and is now a...
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Interconnectedness of Dancing on a Cruise Ship - Personal Life to Professional Life
In this episode, Dawsen sits down to discuss how your personal life and professional life connect while working/performing on a cruise ship. From not having much privacy to most of the crew knowing whats going on in your/the cast's life, its pretty hard to separate the two. We know that having a...
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Dance Doesn't Have to Be the Main Attraction: A Chat with Creative, Vanessa Eirekat!
WELCOME BACK TO THE DANCER'S CHOICE PODCAST !!! This week Riley sits down with creative, Vanessa Eirekat, to discuss what life looks like exploring different medias and career paths outside of simply dancing. If you're interested in becoming an entrepreneur, mentoring young artists, creating a...
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How Dance Prepared Us for the Real World
Welcome back all! This week Riley & Dawsen are inspired to sit down and reflect on everything dance has taught them and how it applies to the real world and stages of life they are in now. We've all heard a teacher say it before..."even if you don't dance professionally, ______ will help you in...
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What Value Are You Adding? All Things ADJUDICATION with Jason Pickett!
CALLING ALL DANCE COMP JUDGES, ADJUDICATORS, & FRIENDS OF THE COMPETITION WORLD !!!! Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast :) This week, Riley and Dawsen sit down with Dance Professional, JASON PICKETT, for a part two discussion about the competition dance scene- specifically the role…
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Game Day Q+A: The Transition Dancing from Cruise Ships to Stadiums
WELCOME BACK FRIENDS !! It's officially football season which means it's officially TOPCAT SZN !! This week the girls sit down to unpack Dawsen's FIRST GAME DAY as an NFL Cheerleader (go panthers). Riley's asking all the questions we want to know and Dawsen answers opening up about all the...
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Stop Blaming Dance for Your Problems! A Heartfelt Discussion with Kaley Jensen @mindsettomove !!
Another Week, Another GUEST! This week the girls are THRILLED to be bringing on a phenomenal professional in the industry- KALEY JENSEN! Kaley Jensen, a wife and mother, is also a professional dancer, adjunct professor, Pilates teacher trainer, choreographer, cross-fitter, and creator of the...
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Dancer MUST-KNOW'S Before Pursuing a Career in Fitness!
Hey y'all! Solo episode with Riley this week calls for a much needed chat about the current trend on the market- WHY IS EVERY DANCER AND THEIR MOM PURSUING FITNESS COACHING RIGHT NOW ??? Is it just us or does it seem like every dancer is taking on the "side hustle" of a working at a fitness...
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANCER'S CHOICE !!! 1 year of the podcast + a whole lot of life to catch up on :)
THE PODCAST TURNS 1 !!! We have made it to ONE WHOLE YEAR of Dancer's Choice! In today's episode, Riley and Dawsen sit down to unpack what the last year has looked like, celebrate this new milestone, and share many other milestones that have happened the last few months recording together!…
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Irish Step, Ballroom, Studio-Ownership, & BREAKING DOWN THE EGO with Mina Witte!
Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week we are joined by the one & only, Mina Witte @minapro!! In today's episode, the girls break down the importance of collaboration, as all artists truly all share their styles with one another. From Irish Step, touring internationally, moving…
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You Are Never Too Late- A Testimony of Divine Timing with Myles Canonge!
Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! Today, the girls are blessed to sit down and chat with artist, Myles Canonge! Myles Canonge is a dynamic artist whose faith in Christ is the cornerstone of his life and work. Originally from Dallas, Texas, Myles honed his craft at Point Park University...
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Can Dance Teachers ACTUALLY Make a Full-Time Living? A Sit-Down Chat with Angela Cole!
FIRST GUEST OF SEASON TWO WOOHOO!!! Welcome ALL to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! Today, Riley & Dawsen have the privilege of sitting down with Angela Cole! Struggling paycheck to paycheck? Have you always been told you can't make a living dancing? Want to teach, but don't know WHERE or HOW to…
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WELCOME TO SEASON TWO !!! A Re-Introduction with Your Hosts, Dawsen Saley & Riley Goudy!
WE ARE OFFICIALLY BACK!!! Welcome EVERYONE to the Dancer's Choice Podcast- the podcast BY dancers, FOR dancers where NOTHING is off limits! Today, Riley & Dawsen take the time to sit down and reintroduce themselves and the podcast- sharing their goals for the show, changes coming this season, and...
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Mental Health Awareness Month: How Dancers Can Help Break the Stigma + Additional Resources
Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast + welcome to the LAST full episode of Season 1! This week, to acknowledge & respect May as Mental Health Awareness Month, Riley and Dawsen sit down to not only share advice based on their own mental health journeys, but open up about what we as a dance...
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Audition Season Chit-Chat Part 3: I'm not auditioning...
Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Riley sits down to open up about the other side of audition conversations...the choice to not. Are you auditioning for the wrong reasons? How do you know what it is you truly want? Is it okay to stop going to auditions when so young? Are you...
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Audition Season Chit Chat Part 2: Pro-Sports Dance with Dawsen!
Welcome back to the solo episodes everyone! We've missed ya! It's been a hectic month but we're getting excited for season two coming up! In today's episode, Dawsen sits down to discuss some audition tips for your pro sports team auditions - or any audition truthfully. She goes into some…
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Leadership, Serving, & STAYING IN THE ROOM- A Discussion with Dance Educator & TEDx Speaker, Jadell Lee!
WELCOME BACK to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Riley & Dawsen are sitting down with the CEO of Elevate Convention, Jadell Lee! Curious about the business side of dance? Curious how to get IN the room, but also STAY in the room? Want to know how you can better prepare yourself for a...
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So You Want to Move to LA? Everything You Need to Know with Hollywood Dance Intensive's, CHI LOPES!
Y'ALL!! Welcome Back to the Dancer's Choie Podcast! We are SOOOOO LUCKY to be joined by Special Guest, CHI LOPES on this week's episode! Chi, CREATOR of Hollywood Dance Intensive, has had an extensive career in the arts. She moved to L.A. and started working as a professional dancer. From TV…
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Audition Season Chit-Chat Part 1: How to Handle the "NO"
Welcome to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! Audition season is among us and this week Riley & Dawsen sit down to chat about their personal audition experiences and open up about their biggest lessons, eye-opening moments, and mindset shifts discovered in doing so. From their best auditions to worst...
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NFL Pro Dance, Cross Training, Body Image & MORE with Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, ALLY MILLER!
WELCOME BACK to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week the girls have the privilege of being joined by former NFL Cheerleader and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Ally Miller! Ally previously danced for the Commanders and is now bringing her passion for Nutrition into the industry by helping…
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Answering Your Questions- studio dance, college auditions, body confidence, finding jobs, training ruts & MORE!
Welcome (or welcome back) to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Riley & Dawsen sit down for a little Q+A chat- answering all your biggest questions about competition dance, college dance, the industry, and MORE! How do you keep up with training after school? How do you apply/audition for...
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Dancing at WHAT COST? A Transparent Conversation with Dancer & Creative, JASON PICKETT!
WELCOME FRIENDS to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Riley & Dawsen had the upmost PRIVILEGE to sit down and talk with Dancer & Creative, Jason Pickett! Could you be the reason your students are burnt out? Are kids sacrificing too much to compete? What age should you start teaching? Are...
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Should You Get a Degree in Dance?
Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Dawsen & Riley sit down to answer one of your biggest questions- "SHOULD I GET A DEGREE IN DANCE?" The girls openly discuss what you questions you should ask yourself and things to consider when making this decision. What kind of college...
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Hot Takes in Dance: What Happened to Respect?
Welcome to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Riley & Dawsen sit down to share some "hot takes" on what's happening in the industry today. More so now than ever lack of respect, etiquette, and professionalism is present (or should we say not present) in the industry and we've got some…
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Seeking Help is Not Weak: #NEDA Eating Disorders Awareness Week
Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week in honor of the NEDA Eating Disorders Awareness Week, Dawsen & Riley believed it was an appropriate time to shine light on the subject in the dance world- their experiences, insight, advice, and information to better understand exactly what…
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Realities of a Professional Dancer
Welcome (or WELCOME BACK) to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Riley & Dawsen are laying it all out- the TRUTHS and REALITIES of being a professional dancer! Inspired by the honest conversations they had in school, the girls share their own lists of what they have learned as they begin a...
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Friendly Reminder from a Fitness Coach
Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week, Riley is here to share some friendly reminders from a fitness coach, regarding motives for working out, mentalities to take into the gym, and the realities of what's going on in the fitness industry today. Riley has been a Pure Barre fitness...
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Tips for Dealing with Injury + Time Off Dance
Welcome back to another week of Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week, Dawsen & Riley sit down to share their experience of taking time off dance and how to navigate that season of your life both physically, mentally, and emotionally. Whether you're dealing with a sprain or tear, twist or break,...
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Recapping Pro NFL Cheerleading
Join Dawsen as she recaps the audition process for the Carolina Panthers TopCats and discusses her plans for this upcoming season! It's a short and sweet episode but you'll be pleasantly surprised to find out some things about the Pro Cheer world that you may not have known before!
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Unpacking UDA College Nationals: The Dancer's Superbowl
Welcome to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week, Riley and Dawsen unpack the talk of the town- the 2024 UDA College Nationals. In honor of Superbowl weekend, it only seemed fair to acknowledge the "superbowl" of dance. Riley & Dawsen share their biggest takeaways from watching routines,...
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10 Lessons in 10 Months: What I've Learned Post-Grad
Hi friends, WELCOME (or welcome BACK) to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! Riley is back this week for a mini episode sharing 10 LESSONS she's taken away from the last 10 months of post-college life. Too many points to wait til we got to a full year so here you go! In a season of auditioning left and...
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How to Improve Your Relationship with Food & Body
Welcome to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Dawsen & Riley are sitting down to shine light on what has helped them in their own healing & recovery journeys. Whether you are a dancer or not, you have probably felt the effects of today's world heavily glorifying diet culture. With lack of...
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Dance Teacher Do's & Don'ts
Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Riley & Dawsen sit down to reflect on their experiences with dance teachers- what worked and what didn't. Being at the age to step into teaching positions themselves, the girls compile a list of what they believe to be the "Do's/Don'ts" when…
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How to Rest When You Don't Have a Day Off- Riley Mini Episode
Happy Tuesday friends! Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week, Riley sits down to discuss the neglect of rest days when in a busy training season of dance. Inspired by her college and conservatory dance schedule, she shares ways you can gift yourself more rest and recovery time…
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The Dancer "5 Year Plan"
Welcome to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! 'tis the season for college dancers to be mapping out their road maps (#iykyk) and with that fear of the unknown in the air, Riley & Dawsen decided to sit down and reflect on their own 5 year plans. Ringing in the new year, they discuss where they were 5...
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Break Up with Your Apple Watch... You're Bored. - MINI Episode #5
Break Ups with your Apple Watch... yeah yeah... cause you're bored. In this mini episode, Dawsen talks about her recent break up with her Apple Watch and why she feels its so important not only for people in general, but for dancers too. Tune in to listen to her top reasons why you need to break…
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Passion & Truth with Special Guest, Kiesha Lalama!
Welcome all to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week we are THRILLED to be joined with Special Guest, Kiesha Lalama! Former Senior Executive for the Pittsburgh CLO, Point Park University Dance Professor, Jimmy Award's Choreographer, Mother, Wife, and current Managing Artistic Director of the...
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A Mental Health Chat: "What Do You Do for Your Spiritual Health?"
Hi friends, welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast. This week, Riley sits down to open up about her mental health journey and share a message that has been weighing on her heart for quite some time. With many dancers struggling with mental health and our industry starting to advocate for the...
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Ins & Outs of 2024
Welcome to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! Our first episode of 2024*** (not 2023 lol) and we had to hop on the Ins/Outs trend. Riley & Dawsen share what they're leaving behind in 2023 and bringing into 2024- some serious, some not so serious. We hope this lighthearted episode helps you ring in the...
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Your Workout Routine Should Be SUSTAINABLE- Riley Mini Episode #3
New Years Resolutions influencing you to get into a new routine? To start up a new fitness regimen? To get out of your seasonal workout rut? Don't worry- we feel you! This week Riley shares some quick tips/steps to get consistent with your workout routine or start a new one in a way that is...
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Reflecting on 2023 + Our Thoughts on 2024
Welcome Friends! We are here to wrap up the FINAL EPISODE OF 2023! The year that started it all! This week Riley and Dawsen sit down to talk about the year they just had and share their thoughts on New Year's Resolutions. Between being out at sea, navigating college, and the making of Dancer's...
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The Girls Are Girlie-ing! Ways I Supported My Period Recovery - Dawsen MINI SERIES Ep. 2
The girls are officially girlie-ing! We told you that once this happens we would make an episode about it! Dawsen tells all on how she supported her period recovery - from prioritizing protein to managing her stress levels and even decreasing her training! Tune in to get some great information…
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College, Broadway, & the Reality of Life on Tour w/ Chelsea Mitchell-Bonsu
Hello lovely people! Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week we are blessed to be sitting down with yet another SPECIAL GUEST, Chelsea Mitchell-Bonsu! Chelsea is currently dancing in MJ The Musical's FIRST National Tour and took the time out of her tour to share her story with us....
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How to Create Boundaries with Social Media- Riley MINI SERIES Ep. 1
Welcome to our NEW MINI EPISODE SERIES!!! Dawsen & Riley were wondering how they could get more content to you and THIS became the answer! Don't worry- Dawsen & Riley are still recording episodes together, but will be recording separate smaller episodes to give you TWO EPISODES A WEEK as…
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Presence, Process, & Progress with Alvin Ailey Dancer, ASHLEY GREEN!
Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week, Riley and Dawsen had the privilege of being joined by Point Park Alumni and Alvin Ailey dancer, Ashley Green! Ashley shares her story about growing up in competition dance, the importance of not labeling yourself, how to stay present in...
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Navigating Burnout- how to stay fulfilled, create balance, and find purpose outside of dance
Hey friends! Welcome back to the Dancer's Choice Podcast! This week Riley and Dawsen sit down to talk about dancer burnout. We dancers throw the word "burnout" around a lot, but what exactly is it? From learning to take a step back when needed, say no, find other hobbies outside of dance, and...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A podcast by dancers, for dancers where no topic is off limits! Hosts, Riley Goudy and Dawsen Saley, break down life after college as professional dancers and all the things that come with it. Dancer’s Choice Podcast is rooted in the mission to start much needed conversation in the dance community. We believe change begins with the individual and this podcast is our way to start. We cannot expect the dance industry to change its ways if we do not start within. Be the Change or Stay the Same…Dancer's Choice.New Episodes every Thursday!! xoxo
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A podcast by dancers, for dancers where no topic is off limits! Hosts, Riley Goudy and Dawsen Saley, break down life after college as professional dancers and all the things that come with it. Dancer’s Choice Podcast is rooted in the mission to start much needed conversation in the dance community....
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