Jo Bee on Getting Out of Her Own Way: The Only Thing Stopping Me Was Me

Jo Bee had been teaching dance for twenty years when she started noticing something on her birthday. Not New Year, her birthday. Every year the same question would arrive: what happens now? She was good at her job. She knew she was good. She also knew, in a way she had never said out loud, that she had spent two decades adding a "but" to the end of every sentence about herself. Yes, I teach dance, but only in schools... yes, but. Then one birthday she stopped adding the but. What Jo describes in this conversation is not a career change. She did not leave dance; she asked dance for MORE. She started an Instagram account. She went back to being a beginner in someone else's class. She told a stranger she could choreograph, and when the choreographer dropped out, she choreographed a short film that screened in New York! None of it required her to be the best. That is the part she wants you to hear. Somewhere in the last three years she worked out that she does not have to be in order to be good at this, be successful at it, and love it. CHAPTERS 00:00 Meet Jo Bee: Dance Teacher, Choreographer and Founder of Jo Bee Dance 01:22 Twenty Years of Teaching Dance in Schools and Wanting Something More 02:42 Why Her Birthday and Not New Year Became the Reset Point Every Year 03:14 The Only Thing Stopping Me Was Me: Naming the Real Obstacle 03:38 Starting an Instagram and Deciding to Shoot Her Shot Everywhere 06:17 How Minimizing Your Own Achievements Keeps You Exactly Where You Are 07:39 Going Back to Class at Pineapple Studios and Ending Up Teaching There 09:11 Choreographing a Short Film That Screened in New York 12:00 I Was Not Unhappy, But There Was an Itch: Is There More Than This? 14:17 Why Dance Belongs in the Wellness Conversation Next to Yoga and Pilates 16:26 You Do Not Have to Be the Best: The Realization That Set Her Free 18:13 Teaching a Room Full of Corporate Women in Suits How to Dance 24:54 What Is Next: Wellness in the Wild, Corporate Wellbeing and New York 29:43 If You Do Not Ask, You Do Not Get: What Jo Wants You to Take Away LEARN MORE FROM JO BEE Jo Bee is a London based dance teacher and choreographer, and the founder of Jo Bee Dance. Want to join Jo Bee in person join her at the Wellness in the Wild Festival in Suffolk. Follow on Instagram Website ABOUT VICTORIA Victoria Steward is a Corporate Exit and Financial Empowerment Coach and Certified Profit for Keeps® Coach, helping senior corporate women stuck in the "one-more-year" loop, build the self-trust and financial clarity to leave corporate on their own terms, their own timing, their own scenic route. Curious? Book a Pivot Clarity CallRESOURCES The Can I Pivot Yet? Exit Roadmap The 5-Minute Grounding Reset: https://reset.victoria-steward.comFOLLOW On LinkedIn On InstagramWebsite