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September 25, 2025 65 mins

Guests - Tracey Boon and Rachel Perlman

Hosted By - Courtney Ortiz and Lesley Mealor


This season on Making The Impact - A Dance Competition Podcast, we're throwing it back to episodes we loved from previous seasons! Today on the podcast, we are headed back in time to 2021 with a topic that is still relevant now - how to develop a competitive mindset. This episode originally aired on May 6, 2021. 


Topics Include:

  •  Ideas to encourage the development of a competitive mindset
  •  How to keep your competitive mindset from hindering your success
  •  Goal setting and re-focusing so that your biggest competitor is yourself



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  • Rachel Perlman - @fuelmovesweat



This episode is sponsored by:

YoungArts
Applications are open for the 2026 National YoungArts Competition, available for artists ages 15-18 or in grades 10-12. Deadline to apply is October 8th, 2025. Learn more at www.YoungArts.org


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