Cirque Du Soleil Star- Melvin Diggs

We are taking todays podcast on the road!

We packed up the studio and joined the circus with the amazing opportunity to watch, get a backstage tour, and spend some time with the cast of LUZIA; the new Cirque Du Soleil show touring Australia.

Luzia feels like Mardi Gras! From the minute you walk in, bright costumes and colours greet you with tricks and feats that transport you to another time. With a breathtaking Waterfall that opens from the ceiling and disappears into the stage making magical watery shapes as they fall, there is not a part of you that isn't mesmerised by LUZIA.

But it’s the humans that are just extraordinary, the strength and fitness of these incredibly talented humans will blow your mind. You wonder why we ever thought animals at the circus was a great idea because humans and what we can do without our bodies, some hoops, ropes, a swing and an enormous treadmill is phenomenal.

My favorite part was watching Millies face. She’d never seen a Cirque and a few minutes after starting she looked at me and said ‘WHAT IS THIS!” in utter wonder.

Which leads us to todays Mama Mentor. It is one of the phenomenal Hoop Divers in the show, and we fell a little in love. His name is Melvin Diggs. He is the perfect Mama Mentor because as you will hear he almost didn’t have this extraordinary life touring the world and delighting audiences with his amazing hoop feats. He was expelled from school, hanging with the wrong friends, and could have ended up in jail! But at 15 years old, he was offered a lifeline and with the help from angels along the way he turned his life around and joined the most successful circus in the world.

A little warning that we recorded this under the Big Top, so there is some background noise. Just a few planes landing at the Brisbane airport, we hope everyone had a great flight.

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Thankyou to www.rydges.com for the wonderful stay to watch the show and record the podcast. We highly recommend staying there.

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