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A Dancer's Mindset

Ballet with Isabella www.balletwithisabella.com
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.com
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Episodes

A Dancer's Mindset - Ep.18 Athletic diet and why it's important!

Hello Everyone! Welcome back to another Episode of a dancers mindset. Today, I will be sharing with you how I learned to fuel myself like an athlete and what a difference it made! it might surprise you just how much I ate as a student. Despite being super slim, I was feeling myself like a horse! Please rate and review! it really helps :-) Enjoy!

Apr 18, 202218 min

A Dancer's Mindset - Ep.16 Deliberate Practice

Hey Guys! Today we are going to be talking about deliberate practice! I've been really excited about sharing this one with you. As you all know I adore practicing and think every dancer should do it. Are you practicing in the smartest way? Let's see how you can do that! Below is the link to the book I mentioned In the podcast Enjoy! https://www.amazon.com/PEAK-Anders-Pool-Robert-Ericsson/dp/0099598477/ref=sr_1_7?crid=14WDEXJSNEAAK&keywords=peak+book&qid=1647760939&sprefix=peak+book%2...

Mar 21, 202212 min

A Dаncers Mindset - Ep.15 Overcoming Your Anxiety

Hey guys! Welcome back to another episode of a dancers mindset with myself isabella. Today we are going to be talking about a real thing. The things which makes you feel like you can’t breathe, the thing that makes you forget what you’re supposed to be doing, the thing that makes you doubt yourself and the thing that makes you think you’re worth nothing and that you should just stay home and hide. This is Anxiety! What is it? Why do dancers experience it? and how do we overcome it? please rate a...

Mar 14, 202216 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.14 From Ballet to Boss!

Hello everyone, Today we will be talking with one of my favourite people Alexandra McMaster. Alex, after having a great career in the ballet industry has made the brave decision to do something else with her life now and I couldn't be happier for her. Doing something different takes guts and determination and this girl has it all. This episode is all about what it's like making a change, how life is different and how you can be happy and thrive no matter what you do in life! For amazing food and...

Mar 11, 202227 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.13 Injury Strategy. Recover like a champion!

Hello Everyone, Today on a dancers mindset I'll be talking you through some of the major injuries I had and had to recover from. Тhis took a lot of mental and physical strength from me and it's something I am proud of myself for overcoming. Here I will talk about what mental attitude helped me the most and strategies that worked best for me to keep my head above water and come back stronger! Please subscribe to the podcast and leave a rate and review! I appreciate you all! Isabella xo...

Feb 14, 202210 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.12 Stop People Pleasing

Hello Everyone! Thank you for joining me for another episode. Today we will be discussing strategies on how to stop people pleasing and where this pattern of behaviour even stems from because it often comes from childhood and is learned. Ballet is particularly something which invited wanting to people please as we are constantly trying to please our teachers and parents maybe. Here we discuss it and try to learn ways we can keep it under control Please follow the podcast for more and I appreciat...

Feb 07, 202211 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.11 Set intentions!

Hello Everyone! today we will be talking about how to set intentions for yourself which will keep you accountable and catapult you into doing things to help you succeed! Please follow the podcast, leave a rate and review in order to help this podcast grow. I appreciate you all! xo

Feb 01, 20228 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep. 10 Stop Expecting things to go wrong!

Hi Everyone! In this episode I will cover why we have to stop always waiting for that moment for everything to fall apart! stop attracting that. What happens if it all goes right? if it all went our way?! Let's discuss. I appreciate you all and hope you're having an incredible day If you're new here, please subscribe to the podcast so you never miss another episode and leave a rate and review! it would make my year :-)

Dec 27, 20218 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.9 Be Consistent. Law of 100

In this episode, I will be sharing the amazing productivity tool that is the law of 100 and what we can do to be consistent and to keep the momentum going For the next few episodes I will be giving you tools that will give you a kickstart in motivation for the New Year ahead! Enjoy! Please share the episode and subscribe!

Dec 22, 20217 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.8 Keeping motivation high

Hey Everyone! Thank you so much for all the support listening to my podcasts! Today we are going to be talking about how to keep motivation high, why it's normal to feel low sometimes and like you just don't want to continue .I will share tips you can do to help you keep it up. Mindset shifts as well as positive mantras and self talk are just some of the things we can do. Enjoy and please subscribe and share! Isabella x

Dec 13, 202114 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.7 Improve your body image

Hey guys welcome back to a dancers mindset with myself isabella, as ever, thank you so much for the support and love surrounding the bwi community and this podcast. Today we are going to be talking about how to improve our body image I get alot of messages from you guys saying you worry about your weight, worry about putting on weight, worry you aren’t skinny enough, or as skinny as someone else and this all leads to a damaging way of thinking, eating disorders, low bone density, lack of female ...

Nov 29, 202114 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.6 How I got into Vaganova!

Hello Everyone! I am excited about this episode as I am answering a much asked question of how did I get into the Vaganova? It's not such a simple story of sending a video so I will share all here and I hope you enjoy!

Nov 22, 202112 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.5 The Importance of a Coach/Mentor

Hey Guys! In this episode, I will be sharing with you the importance of having that special coach/mentor guiding you through your journey to greatness. We all need some who gives us undivided attention and exclusive corrections as well as someone who builds us up in confidence. Do you have that person? If not here's my advice of who to look for and my experience with my most favourite coach Irina Sitnikova.

Nov 15, 202111 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.4 Vaganova vs Bolshoi

Hello Everyone, In todays episode we have a very special guest! Soraya Schulthess who is a very close friend of mine and studied with me at The Vaganova Ballet Academy. She is a very special person as she's one of the only people I know to have experienced BOTH Vaganova and Bolshoi! I thought while she's here with me in London, what a perfect opportunity for us to sit down and hear about some of the experiences she's had from both schools. We'll also be covering some thoughts on what its like go...

Nov 01, 202130 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.3 Perfection isn't real

Hello Everyone! Welcome back! In this episode, I will be discussing perfectionism and how it's not really helpful for you in the long run! it can cause anxiety, self doubt, stress and giving up prematurely. I will share a lot of research I discovered on the subject and how changing our mindset of how we train and think and react can help us reach our fullest potential! Enjoy and I appreciate you all! Keep growing!

Oct 25, 202116 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.2 Stop Comparing yourself to others

Hello Everyone! In this episode I will be talking about something very important namely, how to combat comparing yourself to other people. It's something we all do and it's something we all need to overcome. You need to realise how amazing you are as a person and you are your own unique self who has so much to offer the world! In this podcast I will be taking you through many ways to combat this and help you realise there's no point to letting something like comparison to others hold you back in...

Oct 18, 202114 min

A Dancers Mindset - Ep.1 Overcoming Fear and Self Doubt

Oh my goodness it's happening! I have started a podcast and I couldn't think of a better name than A Dancers Mindset because I am here to try and help you reach your highest potential as dancers and human beings and making sure your mindset is golden is a good place to start! We are going to get more confident and feel amazing like never before. This Episode is all about overcoming fear and self doubt. Something we all struggle with right? I know I have. Here I share stories as well as why we fe...

Oct 11, 202118 minEp. 1

A Dancers Mindset - Trailer

Guys coming not soon enough my new podcast! Starting next week Monday 6pm UK time! Expect Vaganova stories, confidence building chats, motivational talks and more! I am so passionate about helping young dancers reach their highest potential and this podcast is all about helping you get there! Welcome to A Dancers Mindset!

Oct 08, 20211 min
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