In this episode, Angelica sits down with Jessica Butler, professional dancer, community leader, and marketing and public relations professional to talk about closed doors that turned into open ones, lessons learned from professional dance, and why age has never been a limit on what she was willing to try.
What you will hear in this episode:
- Why rejection is not a setback, it is redirection to where you are actually supposed to be
- How growing up in a military family teaches you to rebuild yourself in any environment
- The realities of pro dance that no one talks about — the judgment, the body image standards, and the rules that shift between organizations
- Making a solo cross-country leap to Texas with no job, no apartment, and no community waiting
- Why age is not a limit on what you can go do, even in an industry that says otherwise
- Building the Imara Project with her mom, sister, and aunt, and the confidence lessons she wishes had been available to her as a girl
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