Baudy Movement: Dance Fitness with Heart with Sarah Baudner

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03/22/21 • 75 min

Sarah Baudner is a 32 year old woman with ambition based out of Vancouver Canada who has always had dance and fitness as a big part of her life and created her dance fitness brand, Rock Your Baudy. In an effort to connect with her friends from the eastern coast during the early days of the worldwide pandemic, she created her virtual dance fitness brand, a combination of HIT cardio with modern dance moves with an upbeat playlist to get her participants sweating and moving. Her classes are held weekly and soon, she hopes to expand to outdoor classes in Vancouver to connect and build a stronger sense of community with in-person classes.
Rock Your Baudy is an energetic class blend meant to build confidence within one's body to feel inspired and motivated. Sarah loves building personal relationships with all who participate in her classes.

Sarah’s feature is And You Will Dance’s first international guest!
Episode Highlights:

Sarah combining her love for dance in fitness with creating Rock Your Baudy
Creatives in the family
Getting placed into dance at a young age
A Common Love for Musical Theatre
First to start her high school dance team
Combining Dance and Fitness
Creating Rock Your Baudy
Discussing taking dance classes in Los Angeles
- How is your self-confidence when dancing in classes with professionals?
How loss changed her
- Difficulty in saying when she was not okay
Sarah’s Gift
Ariana and her “why?”
Taking a Chance

To book a class with Rock Your Baudy:

https://www.rockyourbaudy.com

Follow Sarah on IG: @rockyourbaudy

Sarah’s feature is And You Will Dance’s first international guest!
Episode Highlights:

Sarah combining her love for dance in fitness with creating Rock Your Baudy
Creatives in the family
Getting placed into dance at a young age
A Common Love for Musical Theatre
First to start her high school dance team
Combining Dance and Fitness
Creating Rock Your Baudy
Discussing taking dance classes in Los Angeles
- How is your self-confidence when dancing in classes with professionals?
How loss changed her
- Difficulty in saying when she was not okay
Sarah’s Gift
Ariana and her “why?”
Taking a Chance

To book a class with Rock Your Baudy:

https://www.rockyourbaudy.com

Follow Sarah on IG: @rockyourbaudy

Previous Episode

Create from Truth with Ariana

In this episode, Ariana recollects the feeling of self-doubt and the pressure of the creative process. After receiving a message from a friend, her self-doubt in the creative process began to unfold and reveal the importance and the realness to the meaning "Create from Truth", as quoted by Kobe Bryant. The episode serves as a reminder that all that you need is already within you.
Instagram: @andyouwilldance; @ari_sanchez

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Off the Sidelines, to the Front Page with Emily Leibert

Emily Leibert is a writer, journalist, reporter, former NFL cheerleader, former public relations professional and dancer who is originally from Southern California and is now based out of New York City and is currently attending New York University in pursuit of her Master’s Degree in journalism.

Emily previously attended USC, where her peak interest into the world of entertainment began and she studied broadcast journalism in the Public Relations field. After three years of experience as a professional cheerleader with the Los Angeles Rams while balancing her traditional college career, she was quick to realize that she was meant to pursue a career in writing and applied for the Master’s program at NYU during the pandemic in 2020.

With the experiences in the world known organizations like the Los Angeles Rams, Dreamworks Animation and working red carpets in Hollywood on the PR side, Emily has gained knowledge and first-hand experience to include in her writing.

Emily is fueled by her passion for social change and is hopeful for a brighter future not only in the NFL cheer organization, but in social issues such as women’s rights, gender roles and women in the arts. Emily also has experience grant writing for dance companies. She's always hoping to tell stories of gender inequity with empathy, compassion, and trust.
If you have a story that deserves to be told, you can send news tips or interview ideas to [email protected] or reach out to her on Twitter @by_emilyleibert.

You can connect with Emily on Instagram as well: @emilyleibert

Visit these sites to see some of Emily's work:

LINDSAY ROSENBURG IS CHANGING HOW PRO CHEERLEADERS ARE SEEN ONE PHOTOGRPAH AT A TIME
- https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lindsay-rosenberg-pro-cheerleaders
HOW THE NFL RISKS THE HEALTH OF CHEERLEADERS
- https://jezebel.com/how-the-nfl-risks-the-health-of-cheerleaders-its-harde-1846199936
THE CL!CK - NEW YORK UNIVERSITY’S JOURNALISM ONLINE MASTERS PROGRAM
- https://theclick.news/emily-leibert/

Episode Highlights

Creativity rooted from Dance
Broadcast Journalism at USC turn Public Relations - life as the multi-professional
- What kept her from exclusively picking journalism?
Roles as a publicist
- A defining moment that ultimately put into question - am I aligning with my purpose?
NFL Cheerleader Life
- The 3 year moment - hanging up the pom poms
- Balancing NFL rehearsal schedule + Daily life
- Mental and Physical exhaustion
- The progression of the career
- The loose unofficial requirements
- Pushback for expressing concern for fundamental rights in sports industry in regards to women
- The Second Full time job
  - Optimism about the future of the industry
Furloughed during the pandemic
- “Pandemic Guilt”
Hopeful for the industry
- Highlight article in Teen Vogue - highlighting female photographer of NFL cheerleaders
- Understanding the ramifications for speaking up
Emily’s “Dance” and her Gift