My job~ wait let me rephrase that... my passion that I get paid for

As a little kid, I always wanted to be a dancer... a famous one in fact, but when I was young, my dance teacher needed help with a class of little kids and I fell in love with teaching. I taught a ton of classes through high school and at that point decided that I was certain I wanted to run a dance studio forever. My family was awesome enough to dive into that adventure with me and so it began, Above the Barre Dance Academy was born. I'll give you the short version of how we got to today...



We looked for a building, found one we loved, lost it due to noise restraints, TRY AGAIN~ so we did, and found another location and loved it just as much, ordered ten thousand dollars in floors (YIKES), picked out paint colors, got our scheduling together, sent out advertisements, got delayed in our open date by 2 months, FINALLY opened and started teaching. Since then we've grown to almost 300 students, 90 of which are competitive and traveling all over the country and I spend somewhere between 30 and 70 hours a week making sure that it all runs smoothly. People always say to me, "man it must be nice to write your own schedule", to which I respond, "Yes, I get to pick which 60 hours a week I work!!!" My wonderful family still helps out every day... Dad cleans and does all of our maitenance, Mom does all of our night time desk management plus all of the financial things, and my sister still teachs 3 nights a week. It's truly a family affair!



It was a long process, A VERY LONG PROCESS, but we made it. After tears, sweat, and lots of laughter it has become my passion that I get paid for... my students brighten my day (most of the time), and I get to pass on my love of the art every day.

There's not very many people in the world that get to go to a job every morning that they love... I'm certainly one of the lucky ones!