ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Episode #24 // Season:2025
This episode isn’t about dance. It’s about belief.
The kind you have to build when no one around you sees your vision when the people closest to you tell you it’s unrealistic, impossible, or “not going to work.”
In this raw and deeply empowering conversation, I sit down with Anastasia Supernova, a professional dancer whose journey is a powerful reminder that confidence is not something you’re born with it’s something you choose, over and over again.
Anastasia opens up about a moment many wouldn’t expect from someone now considered a professional: attending her first dance festival and sitting on the sidelines, watching instead of participating. Not because she wasn’t talented but because her self-confidence was shattered. She questioned whether she belonged there at all. She second-guessed herself as a professional. She felt invisible in a room she had worked so hard to enter.
And that’s the point.
We all start somewhere.
Even the women we admire.
Even the ones we think “got lucky.”
This episode is about what happens before the applause, before the titles, before the confidence looks effortless. It’s about choosing to believe in yourself when your inner voice is quiet and the external voices are loud with doubt.
Anastasia’s story is a reminder that:
You don’t need permission to dream bigger
You don’t need validation to begin
And you don’t need to feel ready to take the first step
You just need to stay in the room long enough to remember who you are.
If you’ve ever doubted yourself, felt behind, questioned your worth, or chased a dream that others didn’t understand this episode is for you.
Because believing in yourself isn’t delusion. It’s the first act of courage. Follow Anastasia https://www.instagram.com/anastasia.supernova.dance/ Join Anatasias on-line class https://surl.li/mhxpsi
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Our intro and outro music is made by Ashley from Lullaby The Fear Podcast. Listen to Lullaby here: https://lullabythefearpodcast.com/
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