Episode 19

BEHIND THE COMBO | EP 19 — with Kathy King 🎙️✨

This one is for every educator who's ever shown up to teach and wondered where their spark went 👇🏻

In this episode, I sat down with Kathy, a Dance Educator with nearly 25 years in the classroom, to talk about keeping joy alive in your studio and in your career, even when the grind is real.

Because recital season is wild. The years stack up. And nobody talks about what it actually takes to protect your joy through all of it.

We explored:
✨ How Kathy defines joy in the studio room and how that's evolved over 25 years of teaching
🎭 How to protect the energy in your studio room when recital season has you running on fumes
🪞 What it looks like to keep your joy as an educator
💛 What to do when you hit a season in your career where the joy feels completely out of reach
🌀 Whether the dance world is actually treating joy as the non-negotiable it deserves to be

This one is for the teachers who pour everything into their students and forget to refill themselves. Because you can't teach from an empty cup 💜

Watch the replay and share in the comments what keeps the joy alive in your teaching!