35. How to Win Without Losing Your Soul with Chasta Hamilton

10/07/21 • 25 min

Do you feel like competing is an important part of your dance life? What would it look like if your dancers didn’t compete? My guest today is Chasta Hamilton. She is the author of Trash The Trophies: How To Win Without Losing Your Soul, and the owner and artistic director of Stage Door Dance Productions. Chasta is reinventing the dance education model by focusing on character development and community involvement over the traditional competitive approach. Chasta and I agree that dance is a wonderful mechanism for teaching our dancers important life lessons, and I bet many of you agree with that too, but Chasta’s perspective on how dance teaches those life lessons is pretty unique.

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Book: Trash The Trophies: How To Win Without Losing Your Soul

Website: https://chastahamilton.com/

Nonprofit: Girls Geared for Greatness

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There are affiliate links below, which means I get a small commission if you follow the link to purchase Chasta's book. It's no additional cost to you, and supports both of us!

Mentioned in Today’s Episode

Book: Trash The Trophies: How To Win Without Losing Your Soul

Website: https://chastahamilton.com/

Nonprofit: Girls Geared for Greatness

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Previous Episode

34. How to Start Journaling with Your Dancers

Journaling has so many benefits for dancers including reducing stress, noticing progress to boost motivation, organizing your thoughts, improving confidence, and growing as a dancer and person. I often talk about the lessons I’ve learned after years of teaching and coaching and in this episode, I want to talk about one of those lessons, in the hope that you choose to integrate some of this strategy into your time with your dancers a whole lot sooner in your career than I did. If I had known then what I know now, I would have introduced my dancers to journaling right away.

In this episode, I’ll cover the benefits of journaling, what to expect, setting some ground rules, and how to get started.

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Next Episode

36. The Upside of a Dancer’s Stress

Let’s talk about stress. Stress is something we all deal with, but today I want to share something with you that you might not have heard before... science has actually taught us that stress can be good for us! I know that sounds crazy but stick with me for this episode and I’ll tell you all about it. Also, this episode is a little different... I’m going to speak directly to the dancers. Now dance teachers and coaches out there this is will certainly still be helpful for you, but I’ve had some requests recently to cover this topic in a way you could simply share with your dancers. So, this is that episode! Listen in, and then feel free to share with your dancers. This is my take on the upside of a dancer's stress.

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