Full Transcript for Full Circle Boys - From Comp Kids to Boy Band

00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:04.799 Our holiday present to you. 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:08.319 This was this is it, like Courtney said, very different episode for us. 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:10.000 Really interesting, really exciting. 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:11.840 And I just can't wait to share it with y'all. 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:12.800 Yeah. 00:02:12.960 --> 00:02:18.319 So before we jump in for this awesome episode, let's hear from our wonderful sponsors. 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:24.560 Be sure to check out IDA affiliated competition streets dance convention. 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:28.960 Looking for a dance event that leaves you feeling inspired, connected, and ready to grow? 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:32.080 Come experience Streets Dance Convention and competition. 00:02:32.479 --> 00:02:35.199 At Streets, it's not just about pushing your technique. 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:41.840 It's about creating a positive, welcoming space where dancers of all styles can learn, grow, and feel supported. 00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:48.240 Their faculty is made up of world-class, down-to-earth instructors who bring a personal touch to every interaction. 00:02:48.479 --> 00:02:51.520 So you'll leave each class feeling more confident and motivated. 00:02:51.840 --> 00:02:53.280 And it's not just about the dancers. 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:56.560 Streets deeply cares about dance teachers and studio owners too. 00:02:56.879 --> 00:03:04.319 Throughout the weekend, they offer special classes and seminars just for you, designed to support and empower the people who shape the next generation of dancers. 00:03:04.560 --> 00:03:05.280 And the best part? 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.120 Teachers and studio owners attend a Streets event completely free. 00:03:09.520 --> 00:03:13.599 I'm so honored to be on tour with Streets this season as their jazz faculty. 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:20.479 And if you attend a Streets event, you'll be guaranteed to receive fantastic judge critiques with an IDA judge on every judging panel. 00:03:20.800 --> 00:03:26.159 Whether you're a dancer, teacher, or studio owner, Streets is all about good vibes and lasting inspiration. 00:03:26.560 --> 00:03:34.560 Check out their 2025 tour dates with events across the United States and register now before it's too late at thestreetsdance.com. 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:35.599 Hope to see you there. 00:03:37.599 --> 00:03:48.240 Francisco Gala Danceworks is excited to introduce the Pre Professional Dancer Institute, a vibrant summer dance intensive tailored for high school graduates eager to leap into professional dance careers. 00:03:48.639 --> 00:04:01.199 This immersive five-day program will connect aspiring dancers with talented artists and industry professionals, providing a fantastic glimpse into various career avenues, including concert dance or Broadway and commercial dance. 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:09.199 Participants will enjoy top-notch technical training alongside engaging seminars and QA sessions, all inspired by

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Oh my gosh. 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:00.800 And you know what? 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:03.759 Here's another really fun fact that I'm sure y'all are gonna really like. 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:06.079 So I was teaching a dance convention this weekend. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.160 I teach on the Streets Dance Convention. 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:24.399 Yeah, and one I just joined last season, but I'm jazz faculty there, and I was teaching in Biloxi, Mississippi, and I taught a Spice Girls routine, and I was talking about like that they were my favorite girl group and girl band back in my youth, which is a very long time ago. 00:06:24.560 --> 00:06:32.480 And then I started asking all of the dancers, like, so who are some of your favorite like boy bands or girl bands in like right now? 00:06:32.720 --> 00:06:35.759 And someone said, the full circle boys in the audience. 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:38.720 Right? 00:06:38.959 --> 00:06:39.439 Yeah. 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:40.879 Oh that's cool. 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:42.319 That's really cool. 00:06:42.480 --> 00:06:44.639 That feels that feels pretty cool. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:50.879 So we definitely know we have some fans that are probably listening and really excited for this episode. 00:06:50.959 --> 00:06:57.199 And I can't wait to just hear about y'all's journey in dance and then how you became a boy band. 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:12.560 So let's do some little introductions and whoever wants to kick it off, and we can go down the down the line of like where you grew up, what your early dance training was like, like a little brief history, and then then we'll go down the list and keep it rolling. 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:14.000 Oh, cool. 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:16.560 Hello, I'm Jagger Moon. 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:20.240 I am I almost said 19, but I'm not 19. 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:22.959 How old are you? 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:24.160 I'm 22. 00:07:24.240 --> 00:07:26.480 I bet that's very far off from what I am. 00:07:28.879 --> 00:07:31.040 I uh grew up in Ogden, Utah. 00:07:31.360 --> 00:07:41.920 I started dancing when I was like, I started taking it taking dance classes when I was seven, but I was self-taught for a little bit because I loved Michael Jackson. 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:48.399 I would just watch Michael Jackson music videos over and over and over and try and recreate his dance moves in it. 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:53.360 And then I started dancing because of high school musical. 00:07:53.439 --> 00:07:58.399 The high school musical movies pretty much shaped my entire personality. 00:07:58.639 --> 00:08:00.000 And me too. 00:08:00.319 --> 00:08:01.120 I know, right? 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:04.240 It's just us early 2000 babies, it's just everything. 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:04.879 Love that. 00:08:05.519 --> 00:08:09.519 And I grew up on Hollywood Vibes dance company. 00:08:09.839 --> 00:08:12.079 I was an MVA plus at Velocity. 00:08:12.240 --> 00:08:17.439 I was on High School Musical The Musical The Series, and now I'm in a boy band. 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:19.439 Yeah, very cool. 00:08:19.600 --> 00:08:20.480 That's so fun. 00:08:20.639 --> 00:08:21.279 I love that. 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:23.759 Well, welcome to the podcast. 00:08:24.079 --> 00:08:24.639 Thank you. 00:08:25.279 --> 00:08:27.040 Hey, I'm James. 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:28.560 I'm 20 years old. 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:32.480 And I grew up in Temecula slash Murrito, California. 00:08:32.720

--> 00:08:36.159 And I started dancing at the age of eight. 00:08:36.320 --> 00:08:40.799 And then I didn't get like too into it until I was about 10 years old. 00:08:40.879 --> 00:08:44.240 That's when I joined the um local competition team. 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:53.519 Oh yeah, and then I joined the um local competition team when I was about ten, and then that's where I met Sean. 00:08:53.919 --> 00:08:56.799 And yeah, from there, dancing, you know. 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:00.720 Sean asked me to what and boom, here we are. 00:09:01.200 --> 00:09:02.480 Wow, awesome. 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:03.279 Love it. 00:09:03.519 --> 00:09:03.840 Boom. 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:04.639 Hey, what's up? 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:05.279 I'm Sean. 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:07.519 A little origin story on me. 00:09:07.679 --> 00:09:09.600 I started dancing when I was seven. 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:12.399 I loved hip hop and tap and musical theater. 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:14.720 Those are my favorite things growing up. 00:09:14.879 --> 00:09:18.159 And like James said, we we grew up at the same dance studio. 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:20.320 We'd always go to dance competitions together. 00:09:20.480 --> 00:09:22.480 We were on the same competitive team. 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:25.600 Uh we went to a couple camp pulses together. 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:30.399 And living close to LA, we're both live in Marietta, California. 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:31.759 About two hours out of LA. 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:36.000 We'd always go to auditions together and all that fun jazz stuff. 00:09:36.159 --> 00:09:37.679 So yeah, that's a little bit about me. 00:09:38.159 --> 00:09:38.559 Awesome. 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:39.360 How's it going? 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:40.159 I'm Dawson. 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:41.919 Um, I'm 19 years old. 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:49.200 Uh started, I did rec in like kindergarten, just where you drive across the stage in the little car. 00:09:50.960 --> 00:09:51.919 You were that kid. 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:52.799 Amazing. 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:55.279 You were the token boy. 00:09:56.080 --> 00:09:56.799 Nothing wrong with that. 00:09:56.879 --> 00:09:58.639 Listen, you gotta start somewhere. 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:01.840 Start competitive dancing until fourth grade. 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:20.080 I was planning planning to grow up playing sports, but then I was born with a heart condition, and then around fourth grade is when they were like no more sports, and so my mom asked me if I want to dance like my sisters, and I said I would love to, and I started and then I fell in love with it, and yeah, I kept dancing ever since then and moved to St. 00:10:20.240 --> 00:10:21.200 Louis, danced in St. 00:10:21.279 --> 00:10:25.840 Louis, had another studio, and then came back and was able to dance with him for my senior year. 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:26.399 Yeah. 00:10:27.039 --> 00:10:28.639 Oh awesome. 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:29.679 What's up? 00:10:29.759 --> 00:10:30.799 I'm

Ollie. 00:10:30.960 --> 00:10:35.519 I grew up with these boys, Dawson and Jagger at Infinity Dance. 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:39.360 I started dancing around, I think it was like I was like nine or ten. 00:10:39.759 --> 00:10:46.399 I was a little, yeah, people some people would say I'm a little I was a little late to dancing, but I don't think so. 00:10:46.799 --> 00:10:48.639 I grew up just loving music. 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:55.120 I I always freestyled improved around the house before I actually started dance. 00:10:55.360 --> 00:11:04.480 And then I would say, like, what was it, my sophomore year that I moved out to California to San Kimeni, and I joined another studio, Pave. 00:11:04.879 --> 00:11:10.480 I was also on a Hollywood vibe company, and yeah, oh by the way, I'm 17. 00:11:10.559 --> 00:11:16.080 I forgot to say that, but uh I would I would still be in competition right now if I wasn't doing this. 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:18.159 But so yeah. 00:11:18.480 --> 00:11:19.840 So are you still in high school? 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:21.840 Yeah, I'm senior right now. 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:22.799 Wow. 00:11:23.120 --> 00:11:28.639 And are you like homeschooled right now or I'm doing like an online charter school? 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:29.519 It's super awesome. 00:11:29.759 --> 00:11:31.440 So it's so that's perfect. 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:32.159 Cool. 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:32.879 Wow. 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.679 Okay, so I'm seeing where the connections kind of. 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.480 Yeah, there's like I'm writing it down so I don't get it wrong. 00:11:38.799 --> 00:11:42.320 Yeah, so so okay, so so Sean and James. 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:47.519 Sean and James danced growing up together in California. 00:11:47.840 --> 00:11:52.159 Jagger, Ollie, and Dawson grew up in Utah. 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:52.639 Utah. 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:53.039 Utah. 00:11:53.360 --> 00:11:53.759 Utah. 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:54.159 Okay. 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:57.120 And and all connected in Utah originally. 00:11:57.360 --> 00:11:59.840 Yeah, we all we all went to the same dance studio. 00:12:00.080 --> 00:12:00.559 Got it. 00:12:00.799 --> 00:12:02.720 Three boys at one studio. 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:06.639 There was a fourth, there was a fourth boy who just sadly didn't make the group. 00:12:06.960 --> 00:12:07.519 Oh man. 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:08.720 No, we didn't make the cut. 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:10.000 Well, these things happen. 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:11.279 That's that's the professional world. 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:13.279 We just need to ask him. 00:12:13.360 --> 00:12:13.919 I love hip. 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:14.960 I love hip hop. 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:16.320 We call him hip hop Henry. 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:17.519 His name's Henry. 00:12:18.799 --> 00:12:20.559 Dancers I've ever met in my entire life. 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:21.279 Oh wow. 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:23.039 Shout out to Hip Hop Henry. 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:24.799 Shout out to Hip Hop Henry. 00:12:25.039 --> 00:12:27.200 And he just dan not dance. 00:12:27.519 --> 00:12:30.480 He's just not a singer, and it's not what he would have wanted. 00:12:30.559 --> 00:12:34.159 So I we just never asked him because it's just not his vibe. 00:12:34.399 --> 00:12:39.440 Okay, so so the I'm getting the picture that you guys were the impetus of forming this group. 00:12:39.519 --> 00:12:43.120 It wasn't that somebody came in from outside and said, Hey, you guys would do this well. 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:44.320 Like, how did this start? 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:45.120 John. 00:12:45.440 --> 00:12:46.320 Yeah, so it starts. 00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:52.559 So the origin stories of of this whole boy band lore, it started off back in 2020. 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:59.279 Uh I met uh our managers, John, Luceros, and Stacey Pyle at High Road Entertainment. 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:24.080 And they they were they had the seed idea, you know, they were like, we want to start a boy band, and they found me, and that that seed kind of organically grew uh because of this this interesting world of dance that there's not a lot of boys that dance, so I always kept in contact and I always knew of just about everybody I'd ever met, you know? 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:31.440 So organically from there, James joined the group and Jagger, who I'd met doing some dance jobs. 00:13:31.600 --> 00:13:36.799 Uh so that's kind of how the two worlds collided, and yeah, the the group performed fairly organically. 00:13:36.960 --> 00:13:41.759 I mean, there was no real auditioning process, yeah, no major label involved either. 00:13:41.919 --> 00:13:42.000 Yeah. 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:49.039 And so y'all are all clearly accomplished dancers and did that, but when did singing come into play for all of you? 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:49.279 Yeah. 00:13:49.759 --> 00:13:51.200 Because that's c that's a big deal. 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:57.679 I feel like I've been, like I mentioned, high school musical and Michael Jackson were huge impacts on my life. 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:06.320 And I think just loving those singing came not naturally, but it was just like part of the gig, I guess. 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:13.039 If you were gonna loved high school musical, you had to pretty much sing all the songs and stuff. 00:14:13.279 --> 00:14:22.480 And then when I was around how old was I around eight, Justin Bieber started getting popular, and I was like, I want to be like that guy. 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:24.559 So then I stopped singing. 00:14:24.720 --> 00:14:30.240 I was never trained or anything, and then when I did when I got to high school, I did musical theater. 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:40.480 So that's started doing vocal training and all that, but I didn't start taking singing really, really seriously till once I had graduated high school. 00:14:40.639 --> 00:14:43.679 But yeah, I guess it's been singing my whole life. 00:14:43.759 --> 00:14:45.759 It was never really the main focus

though. 00:14:45.919 --> 00:14:53.840 Dance was always the focus, and it's really interesting having to flip it, making more of a priority than dancing. 00:14:54.399 --> 00:14:54.720 Yeah. 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:57.519 Um, I'm kind of similar to Jagger as well. 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:12.960 I grew up singing around the house and whatnot, like in the grocery store while my mom was like pushing me in the cart and whatnot, but yeah, I didn't really get into singing until I joined this group, which is crazy because I never saw myself being a singer. 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.799 It's it's very what about the rest of you? 00:15:17.200 --> 00:15:18.080 Sean here. 00:15:18.320 --> 00:15:38.159 I had a piano growing up in my house, so that I was always trying to learn how to play the piano, and I I took some lessons growing up, and I was in uh a choir in middle school and uh did drama program in middle school and high school, and I started taking vocal lessons when when I was 14, and I joined the band when I was 15. 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:41.600 So uh that's that's been my journey. 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:42.559 Nice. 00:15:42.879 --> 00:15:56.000 For me, uh growing up, seventh and eighth grade, before I hit puberty and got a deep voice, which I remember like always wanting a deep voice, and then I and I was like, oh, maybe I don't want to do it. 00:15:56.080 --> 00:16:05.360 Anyways, so I acquired in seventh and eighth grade, and that was good, and then yeah, voice changed and I didn't really touch singing at all. 00:16:05.679 --> 00:16:11.120 I remember I had a I met a friend in Missouri when I lived out there, and he was a very good singer. 00:16:11.200 --> 00:16:13.840 I just would write songs and be like, he's gonna sing. 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:16.000 He's gonna I'll just write songs so he can sing. 00:16:16.240 --> 00:16:23.600 Because I never thought like singing was gonna be a thing for me, but then like when I joined this band, it was like, oh no, like you can learn how to sing. 00:16:25.039 --> 00:16:26.480 You're gonna have to learn how to sing. 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:33.600 Well, yeah, because it seems like that you all kind of, like you said, came together with dance. 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.120 So y'all are like, we already got the dancing part down, okay? 00:16:37.279 --> 00:16:38.639 We already know we can dance. 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:52.080 Now we gotta figure out like how can we and match each other and and harmonize with each other, which is a whole nother skill in itself to sing as a group versus an individual. 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:52.799 Yeah. 00:16:53.039 --> 00:16:53.840 Do you guys know? 00:16:54.000 --> 00:16:56.240 Are you guys aware of the convention NRG? 00:16:56.559 --> 00:16:56.960 Yeah. 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:02.159 I remember taking one of the classes there and you had to sing while you danced. 00:17:03.120 --> 00:17:04.000 Good for them. 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:04.640 Yeah. 00:17:05.119 --> 00:17:11.440 I remember telling everyone, I was like, I'm never gonna sing in my life, so I don't need to do this. 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:14.160 I'm not gonna sing, I'm just gonna do the dancing part. 00:17:14.400 --> 00:17:24.160 And then it bit me in the butt because as soon as I joined the band, I I never really opened my mouth and didn't really know I had a voice. 00:17:24.319 --> 00:17:34.240 And then uh I guess you call it an audition process, but they asked me, they were like, Hey, come over, we we just want to see how well you sing and stuff, but we want you, anyways. 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:35.680 So what did you sing? 00:17:35.759 --> 00:17:36.799 Did you sing happy birthday? 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:37.920 Like, yeah, what you sing. 00:17:38.319 --> 00:17:44.480 What we really did was we uh Sean just sat me down, we he sat down on piano and kind of was going through my range. 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:56.640 And he was like, Wow, you got a good range, and yeah, it then we kind of as soon as I moved in, then we started getting into like the Sean would be like, All right, pick a few songs and you can just sing them. 00:17:56.799 --> 00:18:01.519 And yeah, so I didn't really start singing until I got into the band, which is crazy. 00:18:01.839 --> 00:18:03.920 You know what is kind of really inspiring? 00:18:04.079 --> 00:18:15.839 I'm really glad that we like heard how you all got into singing and as and especially Ollie, your last mention of and and you and also like you're young still, only 17. 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:20.559 Like you had that mentality when whatever how old were you when you took that class at NRG? 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:22.720 Oh, 15, 16 maybe. 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:24.559 Oh, that was only like a few years ago. 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:37.440 So, like you had that mentality then where you're like, I know I'm gonna probably be in entertainment, I know I'm gonna be a professional dancer, whatever you had in your head at 15, but you were so stubborn in a in a sense that like I don't need to sing, I'm not gonna sing. 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:40.319 And I was exactly like you. 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:42.400 I said the exact same thing. 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:45.440 I was like, I'm a fierce dancer, I don't need to know how to sing. 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:47.759 And now I live in New York City and do musicals. 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:54.240 Like, hello, I wish I I wish I was not so stubborn when I was young because it bit me in the butt too. 00:18:54.400 --> 00:19:01.039 And that's why, like, it's I had to play catch up my entire career because I didn't sing when I was younger. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:05.119 I didn't take chorus in high school because I was like, no, I'm gonna be a dancer. 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:06.319 Who needs to sing? 00:19:06.559 --> 00:19:19.039 And like, I'm sure there's a lot of dancers out there that have that same mentality, like I did, like you did, like some of you did, which and now you're looking at yourself, looking back, and

you're like, wow, I would have never thought I'd be in a boy band right now, and I need to know how to sing. 00:19:19.839 --> 00:19:29.759 That's so true because I remember when we were starting this band, like I was aware of so many incredible dancers, and a lot of the boys like were tone deaf. 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:34.240 They were either tone deaf or just like nothing came out of their mouth, you know, no style. 00:19:34.400 --> 00:19:40.880 They had so much like style when they're dancing or with their fashion, but then when they open up their mouth, it's like no identity, you know? 00:19:41.440 --> 00:19:54.319 So I would definitely like encourage dancers, like just just be creative and just be inspired to sing and go through, yeah, dabble in other creative endeavors because you need to be well versed in many different things. 00:19:54.480 --> 00:19:55.599 Yeah, don't limit yourself. 00:19:55.759 --> 00:19:58.880 Yeah, it's only gonna get you more places, you know, more jobs. 00:19:59.200 --> 00:19:59.599 Right. 00:19:59.839 --> 00:20:00.559 Exactly right. 00:20:00.799 --> 00:20:01.599 You're so right. 00:20:01.920 --> 00:20:05.839 It's great advice, and it's great to hear, you know, Courtney and I are not we're not young people anymore. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:16.880 So it's nice to hear you young people like saying these things that we say as like elder spokespeople in the business, you know, that's somebody somebody made a difference on you, is what I'm saying. 00:20:17.039 --> 00:20:24.240 Like some people that taught you at some point, it got through your heads that you're this age and already saying that to other people and to younger people. 00:20:24.400 --> 00:20:26.880 So kudos to all of your your instructors. 00:20:27.200 --> 00:20:31.759 And with that being said, I want people to know that it's never too late to start singing. 00:20:32.160 --> 00:20:37.440 Like, like as we just heard from all five of you, you all started singing at different points in your career. 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:42.640 It wasn't like that you were playing double duty and like in dance class and vocal lessons your whole youth. 00:20:42.799 --> 00:20:43.519 Like you weren't. 00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:52.240 You it's it sounds like you the primary focus was I'm gonna be at dance, I'm gonna train in as a dancer, I'm gonna be at these conventions, all of those things. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:21:00.799 And then you kind of dabbled in voice or you did a musical or you eventually started taking lessons, and now look where you're at at in in a boy band. 00:21:01.039 --> 00:21:05.359 So it is possible to start training in your voice later um in life. 00:21:05.519 --> 00:21:10.400 And don't be discouraged if, you know, it takes a little, it takes, you know, it's training. 00:21:10.559 --> 00:21:18.160 Like just as long as it took us to get to be like high quality dancers, it takes a it takes a little bit of time and training to become a high quality singer. 00:21:18.559 -->

00:21:18.799 Totally. 00:21:19.279 --> 00:21:19.680 Exactly. 00:21:19.920 --> 00:21:20.319 Totally. 00:21:20.559 --> 00:21:20.960 Yes. 00:21:21.200 --> 00:21:31.839 I want to hear about first of all, I want to hear about your competition experience, but then I want to get more into what you're doing now and how how competition has affected what you do now and what you want to do in the future. 00:21:32.000 --> 00:21:40.960 So just out of curiosity, can you just tell me all of you what what your favorite part of competition was back in the day and like I don't know, last year for some of you? 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:44.720 I just loved everything about it. 00:21:44.799 --> 00:21:51.200 I've loved even just before getting to competition, I loved being with my team. 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:52.960 I just love that dynamic. 00:21:53.119 --> 00:21:57.519 I like have such a special place in my heart for all of them. 00:21:57.680 --> 00:21:59.759 I think there's something really special about. 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:02.400 Working really, really hard together. 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:20.480 Like you get to see the best and the worst parts of each other, and then you get to go out and do something really cool for a minute and thirty, not a minute and thirty seconds, three minutes or more, and people like only just get to see that part of it, but you have such a connection with everybody else on the stage, which is just I think really special. 00:22:20.559 --> 00:22:23.200 And it's something I cherish a lot. 00:22:23.279 --> 00:22:28.720 Like I try to keep in contact with my team as much as I can just because I love all of them so much. 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:38.960 So I think just the team camaraderie and being on stage and getting to perform in front of people was the best part because you really put your all into it if you care enough. 00:22:39.119 --> 00:22:46.160 Like there's some people who just go to show up, but you just it's just I don't know, there's nothing like it competing. 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:52.559 I loved the community because I consider myself a pretty like shy mellow person. 00:22:52.640 --> 00:23:00.640 Um so it was definitely nice to have like a community that I could lean back on and just it gave me a lot of friends for sure. 00:23:00.799 --> 00:23:09.279 I mean if I if I wasn't a dancer, I don't know if I would be having a lot of friends, so I love the character part. 00:23:09.440 --> 00:23:11.279 Uh that was one of my favorite things. 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:13.440 I I had a few mime solos. 00:23:13.519 --> 00:23:15.440 I like really okay. 00:23:15.599 --> 00:23:17.039 Everybody does the thing, yeah. 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:20.000 Aber do you have video footage of this? 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:21.599 I I would love to see. 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.319 Um the videos are even crazier. 00:23:26.880 --> 00:23:28.720 Wait, which competition accepts mime? 00:23:29.119 --> 00:23:30.720 What was it, like an open or something? 00:23:30.880 -->

00:23:36.319 Like it was it was like hip-hop, but like but the character was a mime. 00:23:36.559 --> 00:23:37.200 Yeah, exactly. 00:23:37.279 --> 00:23:40.079 But like for some reason, every couple years I was a mime. 00:23:40.400 --> 00:23:44.400 You know, makeup or something crazy. 00:23:44.640 --> 00:23:55.599 But yeah, I think my favorite part, at least looking back now, is like the the team building and the character building was a big thing, and like finding my community, that was very important. 00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:00.160 And also like just the uncomfortability of like stepping out on stage. 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:05.119 Like, I I I just remember like always being like nervous and so competitive. 00:24:05.279 --> 00:24:07.039 Like I was so competitive. 00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:07.680 Yeah. 00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:22.240 My favorite part about competition dancing or just being able to be on that stage with uh my team was just sometimes competition would stress me out because I'd be like, I can't forget any moves, and I'd get in my head a little bit. 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:33.119 But the dances where there was a big storyline that I could portray, that was my favorite because I I loved making people feel a certain type of way, whether it was like sad or happy. 00:24:33.359 --> 00:24:41.839 I loved being able to portray a story through the moves I was doing, and that was something that I really loved about competition dancing and being able to get on those stages. 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:43.039 Very nice. 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:44.559 I'm gonna be honest. 00:24:44.799 --> 00:24:59.680 When I was younger, one of the only reasons why I stayed in dance for a while, and then I fell in love and dance, but the reason why I stayed in dance was because I loved being like that was one of the reasons why I started dance because I was like, oh, I just get to be around girls all the time, that's awesome. 00:24:59.920 --> 00:25:13.200 But then then I really fell in love with dance, and my favorite part of competition was definitely the comp I I guess like yeah, being out on stage, I loved when I did my solos, like sometimes I'd forget my solo and I just improv. 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:15.599 And improving is my favorite thing to do. 00:25:16.000 --> 00:25:26.000 So like I would just I yeah, I just felt so comfortable like on the stage that I could just improv and I didn't feel like I was like messing up or anything, I just was like dancing, you know? 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00:27:54.720 --> 00:27:54.960 Yep. 00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:55.680 Oh yeah. 00:27:56.000 --> 00:28:02.720 What are you like, isn't going on stage as it sounds like y'all love it, especially Jagger loves loves the stage. 00:28:02.960 --> 00:28:06.240 But isn't going out on stage by yourself absolutely terrifying? 00:28:06.480 --> 00:28:07.680 Or did you have no fear? 00:28:08.000 --> 00:28:10.640 I never enjoyed solos, honestly. 00:28:10.799 --> 00:28:16.319 Like personally, I had like eight years of solos and and they were always my least favorite thing to do. 00:28:16.480

--> 00:28:19.759 And it's not because of the choreo or the the idea of the dance. 00:28:19.839 --> 00:28:21.599 I just like I love to dance with others. 00:28:21.759 --> 00:28:23.599 Yes, and I love to be a part of the team. 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:24.240 I agree. 00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:24.960 Yeah, I try to do that. 00:28:26.799 --> 00:28:27.119 Oh. 00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:42.400 See, I'm the complete opposite because I always felt like if I messed up, because I always did like mess up sometimes, and I could just while like if I was in my solo, I could just improv and it didn't look like a mess up rather than like in a routine. 00:28:42.480 --> 00:28:45.440 If I mess up and I start improving, I'll look so dumb. 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:48.319 So like that was that was the whole thing. 00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:51.680 But I honestly, yeah, I I I loved solos. 00:28:52.160 --> 00:28:57.680 I I think my opinion on my solos have changed as time has gone on. 00:28:58.000 --> 00:29:02.000 As when I was in it, I loved every second of it. 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:04.960 I was just like, oh, this is amazing, blah blah blah. 00:29:05.039 --> 00:29:12.559 But now when I dance by myself, uh it just doesn't feel right because I like feel like I need people around me. 00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:21.680 Cause I just I I feed off of energy, and when it's just you up there, it's hard to get energy unless you like I I don't even know how to get it. 00:29:21.759 --> 00:29:26.079 I don't know how I got it in my teens, but I always found a way to have energy on stage. 00:29:26.160 --> 00:29:32.079 But I think back in the day I loved it, but now I don't think I would I think it'd be really tough for me to do a solo. 00:29:32.319 --> 00:29:33.759 Well, and I feel like too, it's hard. 00:29:34.079 --> 00:29:40.559 Y'all, y'all decided to create a group, a team, not a solo artist for each of you. 00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:42.240 And so I think that's really telling. 00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:59.599 You know, we talk about it all the time on the podcast, and I'm sure you know you've heard this before, but like there's so many more jobs out there for ensembles and for backup dancers and for people who do have to work as a team that it almost seems like this the trend of solos at competition, it's like, why? 00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:04.559 That's not gonna there's this is the last time, you know, by the time you're 18, you compete your senior solo. 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:07.039 That's that might be the very last time you do a solo. 00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:09.440 Yeah, you're on stage alone. 00:30:09.599 --> 00:30:10.160 Yeah, yeah. 00:30:10.799 --> 00:30:12.000 You're rarely on stage alone. 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:23.200 I do gotta say, I used to be very nervous on messing up with the group, but I feel like this group, like, whenever we perform, like it doesn't it feels like comp like a competition, but it doesn't. 00:30:23.279 --> 00:30:25.440 Like it feels like more of just like an entertainment. 00:30:25.599 --> 00:30:34.559 Like I feel like when I was in like the competition realm, like they would be like, it was very cutthroat, like we need to win, we need to be better than this person. 00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:42.160 But like with this group, it's more like we just need to be ourselves and we need to like show have a performance, you know, entertain people. 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:45.279 So I it's very different perspective, I feel like. 00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:49.599 So it's very like I don't mess up or I don't feel like I'm gonna mess up ever. 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:50.559 So yeah. 00:30:50.799 --> 00:30:51.759 Yeah, yeah. 00:30:52.000 --> 00:31:03.920 And I was going to to get to actually like ask you and the others that question of like, you know, you're saying that you uh like to do your solos because if you mess up, no one knows. 00:31:04.160 --> 00:31:08.480 And we've always we always say that, you know, if you keep if you mess up, keep going. 00:31:08.640 --> 00:31:10.079 No one knows your choreography. 00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:13.200 It doesn't matter, the judges don't know your choreography, whatever. 00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:18.079 But then I was thinking, like, well, he's in a boy band now that's probably all doing the same choreography. 00:31:18.160 --> 00:31:22.960 So what happens when Ollie messes up in the boy bandography? 00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:24.640 So has that ever happened? 00:31:24.799 --> 00:31:29.119 Have have you guys ever messed up the autography during a performance before? 00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:34.960 I mean, I feel like you made it work, like it looked good though. 00:31:35.759 --> 00:31:38.000 Oh, he's a little support. 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:49.039 Number, but I would say this this calendar year 2024, we've performed at least 30 or 40 times. 00:31:49.440 --> 00:32:06.240 At least I would say yeah, and that that's um from churches to dance competitions to schools to uh like little festival school things, outlets, uh competition TV shows that never aired. 00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:08.799 All of the above. 00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:20.240 So it's it is yes, we we we've done a lot of different shows, like because I mean comparing it to dance competitions, like if you learn a dance and then you compete it a couple times. 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:31.200 For us, we learn a dance or we learn we learn a routine, I guess we'll call it that, and then we perform it for like six to eight months right now, as of so far. 00:32:31.359 --> 00:32:35.440 Yeah, and every show, almost every show, something's different. 00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:44.160 Because we do we always do like short interludes, so like we'll do like a minute and a half of a song, and then it'll cut right into the next song. 00:32:44.319 --> 00:32:52.960 So comparing it to dance competitions, we're not up there for two and a half minutes, we're up there for two minutes and we're doing five to ten routines. 00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:53.279 Yeah. 00:32:53.599

--> 00:32:53.920 Right. 00:32:54.079 --> 00:33:09.119 And that requires a stamina, and that is very different than going out and killing it in your two-minute solo and then running off the stage, collapsing, breathing, changing your costume, having a moment to refresh and get back out for the next dance. 00:33:09.200 --> 00:33:12.319 Like it is a very different feeling and world. 00:33:12.480 --> 00:33:33.839 And with that, I have another question because it sounds like since you are all dancers and I'm in shape, doing conventions, doing tons of routines, you're learning all the authy, then you have to now add the layer of singing to it and breath support while you're dancing and singing at the same time. 00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:43.440 That is something because I again I am a not self-taught, I've taken many voice lessons, but like I've been playing catch up with my voice to be on Broadway. 00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:46.799 And when you get into a musical, that is, I think, one of the hardest parts. 00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:48.400 I don't know, Leslie, if you feel the same. 00:33:48.640 --> 00:34:01.759 That like understanding how to to be able to like stamina wise, have enough breath support to still sing the notes you're supposed to hit while you're dancing the ogre fool out in like a long production number or whatever it is, however long it is. 00:34:01.920 --> 00:34:03.200 Like that was a challenge for me. 00:34:03.279 --> 00:34:06.480 I don't know if y'all felt the same when you incorporated singing into your dancing. 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:07.119 Totally. 00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:07.920 Most definitely. 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:08.239 Yeah. 00:34:08.559 --> 00:34:13.360 Just for a little back background, when I was growing up in dancing, I had asthma. 00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:14.000 Oh. 00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:19.840 So when I started the group, well, not when I was 14, I'm fully plant-based. 00:34:19.920 --> 00:34:20.880 I'm fully vegan. 00:34:21.280 --> 00:34:23.119 No dairy, no nothing, no meat. 00:34:23.440 --> 00:34:26.079 And from that, I've now don't have any asthma. 00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:30.559 And especially when you're singing, you can't really perform sick. 00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:33.840 You know, we all do a lot of teas. 00:34:34.159 --> 00:34:38.800 We're always eating very clean, and we have to watch out for our bodies all the time. 00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:45.360 And uh my breath support is is so much better than what I remember at like 10 or 11. 00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:46.480 It's crazy. 00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:59.920 Yeah, I I I think there's a while there where we were told that we were gonna perform, but we weren't performing, so I was just doing stuff to be ready for when we were when it was finally gonna happen. 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.719 So I I haven't done it in a couple weeks actually. 00:35:02.800 --> 00:35:08.880 I've been slacking, but I usually jump rope and sing at the same time. 00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:13.039 Like I'll put on

our track list and I'll jump rope and sing at the same time. 00:35:13.280 --> 00:35:24.400 I will say though, it's impressive that you can dance and sing Broadway musicals because I feel like pop music is so much easier to sing than musical poppins. 00:35:24.719 --> 00:35:30.320 So I would like even in high school, like there were no good dancers at my high school. 00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:35.599 Let me tell you, when we were doing when we were doing musical theater, like it was the easiest dances on the face of the planet. 00:35:35.840 --> 00:35:37.840 What musicals did you do in high school? 00:35:38.079 --> 00:35:40.239 We did you got West Side Story right there. 00:35:40.320 --> 00:35:41.039 We did Mary Poppins. 00:35:41.199 --> 00:35:42.320 Yeah, we got West Side. 00:35:42.719 --> 00:35:47.280 We did Mary Poppins, West Side Story, and Little Shop of Horrors were the three that I made. 00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:52.159 So Little Shop's very not dance-heavy, not super dancey, but music touches. 00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:56.960 And then but West Side's hard. 00:35:57.199 --> 00:36:04.239 West Side's hard, and I was I was riff because there's no boy dancers, so they're like, we need you to carry the load, Jagger. 00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:05.840 Yeah, guess it's you. 00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:07.039 And you can sing. 00:36:07.199 --> 00:36:08.000 Yeah, exactly. 00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:21.360 So I was that was really tough because like cool, the song Cool is just he's very quiet, but then keeping his tone, but like being angry at the same time, and you're dancing really hard. 00:36:21.440 --> 00:36:25.679 So that's probably the hardest I've ever had to like figure out breath control. 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:31.199 And then it got me ready for this because it's hard, but it's it's no musical theater. 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:33.519 Like pop music is comes pretty easy. 00:36:33.840 --> 00:36:34.400 Like right. 00:36:34.639 --> 00:36:35.519 Yeah, it's true. 00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:45.199 Well, and I feel like in with pop music too, or the pop whatever performances, like you're not trying to do fuites, you're not trying to do all kinds of crazy stuff, like sometimes on Broadway. 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:48.159 They're like, do all these aerials, do all these flips, and also sing. 00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:51.920 But a lot of times, you know, you guys aren't gonna do full-on choreography. 00:36:52.159 --> 00:36:54.239 So that probably is a little bit easier on your voice. 00:36:54.480 --> 00:36:56.320 I don't know, y'all would be dancing. 00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:58.960 And and wait, are there fuites? 00:36:59.119 --> 00:37:03.199 Are there also like we dance really hard? 00:37:03.360 --> 00:37:15.760 Like, yeah, people will come up to us and be like, like we did this high school tour in in the spring, and one of the cities, there was another boy band there who are phenomenal singers. 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:36.639 Their names are one more, they're amazing singers, and they danced a little bit too, but then we went on stage and we're our like our focus is not dance, but like we're really good dancers, like to tune our own more, like we know how to do, and then so we came off stage and their choreographer was like, That was insane. 00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:37.679 Y'all were compared. 00:37:37.920 --> 00:37:40.400 Yeah, they're like, We don't know how you did that. 00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:54.960 They're it was just yeah, so we we always say that we're gonna tone down the dancing, and then we never do because what makes you you, yeah, but also side note where were all the high school boy band tours when I was in high school? 00:37:55.039 --> 00:37:57.840 We didn't get that, and now there's two boy bands touring at the same place. 00:37:57.920 --> 00:37:59.440 Like, what that's cool. 00:37:59.760 --> 00:38:01.679 Oh, that's get us back there. 00:38:01.760 --> 00:38:02.880 You can come next time, yeah. 00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:03.760 Great, yeah. 00:38:04.000 --> 00:38:06.880 Let us know when you come through New York City and we'll be there. 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:13.519 All right, we also went to um a in the UK there was a dance uh championship. 00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:17.920 Yeah, it was called UDO, and it was oh yeah, you know, UDO? 00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:19.599 Yeah, oh that's so cool. 00:38:19.679 --> 00:38:27.280 Yeah, no, we went there and we performed for the people, and like it was at the end of the whole competition, so everybody's kind of just having fun now. 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:35.920 Yeah, and it was uh it was so cool because coming off stage people were like, Whoa, you guys are like actual dancers, like they just thought it was an artist, you know. 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.039 And when artists come on, they'll do their little artist dance, you know. 00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:48.159 No shame to them, but like we were like full on like drenched in sweat when we come came off, like and people were like, yo, that was that was dope. 00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:52.159 So it was really it's really cool to see the uh dance community note us. 00:38:52.239 --> 00:38:53.519 No, I mean notice us. 00:38:53.679 --> 00:38:54.320 And yeah, yeah. 00:38:55.039 --> 00:39:00.639 Some of our favorite performances, at least my favorite performances this year, have happened within the dance community. 00:39:00.800 --> 00:39:03.760 Yeah, and uh Hollywood Vibes. 00:39:03.840 --> 00:39:06.559 Yeah, we performed at Hollywood Vibes Nationals both of them. 00:39:06.800 --> 00:39:08.400 Oh cool, I love that. 00:39:11.199 --> 00:39:12.159 Okay, okay. 00:39:13.119 --> 00:39:15.679 Okay, you know what I'll do a phone call. 00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:18.159 Yeah, yeah, I'll make some phone calls, okay? 00:39:18.480 --> 00:39:22.079 We're there, we're there, we're there, and then you can come take my jazz class. 00:39:22.960 --> 00:39:23.760 Hooray. 00:39:26.000 --> 00:39:33.199 I'm curious to know who are are you able to share or or are you do y'all

choreograph or do you have a choreographer? 00:39:33.519 --> 00:39:35.119 We all choreograph at the moment. 00:39:35.199 --> 00:39:37.280 Yeah, we yeah, cool. 00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:40.079 We haven't had a choreographer in like two plus years. 00:39:40.239 --> 00:39:47.840 But yeah, I was just I I don't know if I'm allowed to say who, but I'll just say it we're this week at the time of recording. 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:57.440 Tomorrow we're starting rehearsals for two music videos that will be coming out next year, and we have some really cool choreographers doing it. 00:39:57.519 --> 00:40:04.000 And I I'll tell you after like the record button's off, but it's gonna it's gonna be cool. 00:40:04.079 --> 00:40:08.719 Like, I don't know if we're allowed to spoil it yet, so I'm just gonna say yeah, teaser, yeah, teaser. 00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:12.000 Then that way if you have a teaser, want to follow and follow up. 00:40:12.159 --> 00:40:15.519 Um, also speaking of current things, you have a new single out. 00:40:15.679 --> 00:40:16.639 Tell us about that. 00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:18.639 Yes, yeah, call my name. 00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:22.880 No and me and you, which we just dropped two days ago. 00:40:23.199 --> 00:40:25.280 Yes, three days ago. 00:40:25.360 --> 00:40:26.159 It's super good. 00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:30.719 It's kind of like that Daft Punk vibe, a little like pop, you know. 00:40:30.880 --> 00:40:33.840 But so far we've had a great reaction from the fans. 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:37.679 Uh they're loving it, some are loving it more than our last single we just dropped, too. 00:40:37.760 --> 00:40:40.639 So we got two bangers out right now from Us Five. 00:40:40.719 --> 00:40:41.599 Yeah, so it's pretty awesome. 00:40:41.920 --> 00:40:42.239 Very cool. 00:40:42.880 --> 00:40:45.440 Podcast, we should have the music video out as well. 00:40:45.760 --> 00:40:50.159 So check that out on YouTube or on all streaming platforms at Full Circle Voice. 00:40:50.639 --> 00:40:51.039 Boom. 00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:51.679 Amazing. 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:52.639 Love. 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:54.239 I love, love, love that. 00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:55.199 That is so awesome. 00:40:55.360 --> 00:41:04.239 And this is this is so cool to just like hear all about your journey and and so I I'm impressed that y'all are doing some of your own choreography. 00:41:04.320 --> 00:41:07.280 Is there anyone taking do y'all collaborate well together with that? 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:12.320 Or do you each like take a different section and call it your own and then teach it to one another? 00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:17.039 Or is it like a one person take the lead, or how does it work in the choreographic process? 00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:32.159 Because you have to obviously like you know your dancing styles best and what suits each of you best or what would work best matching the song, and you know the music so well that it like it makes sense to have you choreograph it if that's in

your skill set, so like why not? 00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:33.840 I I kind of I'm here for it. 00:41:34.559 --> 00:41:38.559 It the process is always changing over time. 00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:56.079 At the beginning, we did at the beginning of this group of five, we did we released a project called the FC 2.0 The Mixtape, and it was just a bunch of covers, and there was five songs, so each one of us took a song, and like it was just our choreography all the way through. 00:41:56.320 --> 00:42:04.800 And then when it came time to go on tour, we kind of just used we used that choreo, so it was like we didn't really need to collab much. 00:42:04.960 --> 00:42:08.719 We did collab, but we didn't need to do it a whole lot, I guess. 00:42:08.960 --> 00:42:13.039 And then when it came time to call my name, that's when we really started. 00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:20.719 Yeah, we all wanted it to be very equal, and like because we were like, we want like this to be all five of us, you know. 00:42:20.800 --> 00:42:27.199 So we all went in the garage where we just kind of started off beginning to end, and it worked out perfectly. 00:42:27.360 --> 00:42:38.000 Like we all collaborated, collaborated so well together, and we all had the a shared vision of what we wanted Choreo to look like, like references, shout out West Side Story. 00:42:38.159 --> 00:42:40.719 Yeah, Westside was a big inspo for call my name. 00:42:40.960 --> 00:42:44.719 It was oh my god, I love that so theatrical. 00:42:45.039 --> 00:42:45.760 Yeah, yeah. 00:42:45.920 --> 00:42:55.119 If you watch like Sean was saying, if you watch the music video, it looks like once you get told that it's inspired by West Side's story, you're like, that makes so much sense. 00:42:55.760 --> 00:42:57.039 I love that. 00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:02.320 Yeah, but and there's never really any I don't I don't think we've ever thought about choreo. 00:43:02.400 --> 00:43:06.159 There's just days where we're not feeling it, like it's just not coming out. 00:43:06.480 --> 00:43:07.119 It's not flowing. 00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:08.239 Yeah, it's normal. 00:43:08.559 --> 00:43:15.360 Like we try for like 30 to 40 minutes and then we all kind of just look around at each other and we're like today's not the day, yeah. 00:43:15.760 --> 00:43:16.239 Sooner. 00:43:19.039 --> 00:43:32.079 Okay, so that's that's really cool to hear that there's not there's not a lot of fighting, but have there been any sort of growing pains that have just you know, because obviously working as a team like this is is can be challenging sometimes, the different personalities and everything. 00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:34.639 So have there been any growing pains that you want to talk about? 00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:43.039 I mean, there's more try trial and error because the other thing is is we're with each other 24 7 and it's like a brotherly bond. 00:43:43.360 --> 00:43:48.320 Um, so we'd be lying if we'd say we don't get annoyed with each other, yeah, because we definitely do. 00:43:48.639 --> 00:44:03.679 But it's but it's also like what I love about our relationship right now is that it's not like we are all fine right now, and then later on we're gonna explode, is once there's a Comes time for a problem, we sort it out then and there, you know. 00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:08.320 We make sure get out all the kinks and stuff so that we can uh keep on going, you know. 00:44:08.719 --> 00:44:11.760 We gotta have good communication, something we always talk about. 00:44:11.840 --> 00:44:13.519 If you got something to say, you gotta say it. 00:44:13.599 --> 00:44:23.599 Yeah, so it is they should study us on the amount of collaboration we do and the little amount of conflict we have, like it's incredible. 00:44:23.760 --> 00:44:30.559 Yeah, I will say when there is conflict, it feels like the end of the world just because it doesn't it doesn't happen that much. 00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:34.800 So when there is conflict, it's like I'm quitting, I'm going home. 00:44:37.199 --> 00:44:51.440 Um but no, it's a it's a it's definitely been an interesting thing because I grew up, I was obviously older than Dawson and Ollie, so like I wasn't around them as much as at the studio as I was with Shout Out Hip Hop Henry. 00:44:51.679 --> 00:45:15.039 Um but I was it was just interesting, like I would see them here and there, and we're like all fine and dandy, like we were like rows and everything, and then when we moved in together, it was like I've never been around them this much in my entire life, and it was just like a really interesting thing because we know each other at the dance studio and at conventions and stuff, but right how each other acted inside a house, yeah. 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:27.039 And so it was interesting to like figure out what everybody likes, what annoys somebody, what doesn't, like just like boundaries and stuff like that, and then roommate life, yeah. 00:45:27.199 --> 00:45:37.119 And with these two, that's all I've ever known because I knew Sean, like I knew Sean prior, but like barely, like we'd only like hung out for a week and then that was it. 00:45:37.360 --> 00:45:53.360 When the band first started, me, James and Sean moved in together, and that was a lot more trial and error than me and Dawson and Ollie, just because I knew I knew Dawson and Ollie's personalities, I didn't know these two's personalities, and they didn't know mine. 00:45:54.000 --> 00:46:01.840 So just throwing us in a house in Florida together was very much a lot of trial and error, but uh it's worked out, I think. 00:46:01.920 --> 00:46:12.719 Yeah, yeah, and from James and our James and my perspective, like I I had spoken and I vaguely knew Dawson and Oliver, but the first time I met them, they were moving into my house. 00:46:14.480 --> 00:46:15.519 Welcome. 00:46:16.960 --> 00:46:20.960 It went from like there was no like friend period, it was like brother, yeah. 00:46:21.599 --> 00:46:22.480 Oh, yeah.

00:46:23.360 --> 00:46:25.039 They're skipping the friend period. 00:46:25.440 --> 00:46:33.840 The weirdest part for me, and my mom noticed this too, is that since I loved being around girls so much, that's all I was around, like growing up with girls. 00:46:34.079 --> 00:46:38.719 So it was really, really weird being thrown into a house with four other boys. 00:46:38.960 --> 00:46:39.679 No, yeah, that's true. 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:47.119 Like, I like some days, like I used uh it doesn't really happen anymore, but some days I'd be like, I just like miss the female interaction. 00:46:47.280 --> 00:46:49.760 Like I like would go crazy in my mind. 00:46:49.920 --> 00:46:52.880 I don't know why, but vibes are just different. 00:46:53.920 --> 00:46:54.239 That's true. 00:46:54.400 --> 00:46:54.800 That's true. 00:46:54.880 --> 00:46:59.119 That's how me and James were when we first um like started talking. 00:46:59.440 --> 00:47:01.119 We just didn't know how to talk to each other. 00:47:03.039 --> 00:47:05.599 Be in the car and it would be complete silent. 00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:08.480 Yeah, because he was on a team of all girls. 00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:17.440 I was on a team of all girls and Henry, and they uh like literally just being in the car with James, we'd be sitting there like, so you like food? 00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:21.519 Yeah. 00:47:22.559 --> 00:47:24.320 Oh my gosh, that's so cool. 00:47:24.480 --> 00:47:24.960 I love it. 00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:26.639 I love he I love chatting with y'all. 00:47:26.719 --> 00:47:31.519 You guys seem like such a great bunch, and like it seems that brotherly love is there, I feel it. 00:47:31.599 --> 00:47:43.039 It feels like you all like have really great little personalities, and I'm curious to know if where I mean, for some of you, it was only a few years ago when you weren't adults. 00:47:43.199 --> 00:47:51.039 Some of you aren't aren't even officially legal adults yet, but I'm curious to know, like, did you ever think that you would be in a boy band? 00:47:51.199 --> 00:47:55.599 And where did you see yourself being in your career if you weren't in a boy band? 00:47:55.760 --> 00:48:00.480 What did you have your eye on when you were training as a dancer or a competitive dancer? 00:48:00.639 --> 00:48:01.519 Did you want to sing? 00:48:01.679 --> 00:48:03.599 Did you want did you have aspirations? 00:48:03.840 --> 00:48:04.960 I want to be a boy band. 00:48:05.119 --> 00:48:07.920 I know, I know Jagger, you said you want to be Justin Bieber. 00:48:08.239 --> 00:48:13.280 But like, or did you want to become a doctor and then boom, a boy band fell into your lap? 00:48:13.440 --> 00:48:13.519 Yeah. 00:48:13.840 --> 00:48:17.519 Where would you where do you think you wanted would want to go or had dreams of? 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:20.000 For me, it was it was constantly changing. 00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:23.679 I went through a phase when I was younger where I wanted to be Justin Bieber. 00:48:24.480 --> 00:48:28.800 And I went through a phase where I wanted to be movie director. 00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:36.960 And then by the time when high school was wrapping up, I was like dead set on I'm gonna be I'm gonna be an actor. 00:48:37.199 --> 00:48:44.320 Even though I like spent all this time with dance and all that, I was like, I'll always have dance, but I'm I want to be an actor. 00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:46.639 That was the that was the plan, that was the goal. 00:48:46.880 --> 00:49:01.599 If I was to go to college, it was gonna be for acting, or if I wasn't gonna go to college, I was gonna move to LA or New York and try and get on a Broadway show or try and book some type of film role out here in California. 00:49:01.840 --> 00:49:07.039 And so I think I probably would have ended up somewhere in New York. 00:49:07.199 --> 00:49:11.360 I feel like that's where I would have ended up was probably more Broadway. 00:49:11.840 --> 00:49:24.079 But when the pandemic happened, I think everybody's plans changed and everything, and as it was going on, I was like, you know what, I'm gonna record a Christmas album. 00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:27.119 And then I released a Christmas album and I was like, I like singing. 00:49:27.199 --> 00:49:34.079 And then that that ev that album came out, and Sean that's when Sean was like, Hey, I see that you're starting to sing. 00:49:34.400 --> 00:49:35.840 What do you think about being in a boy band? 00:49:36.000 --> 00:49:47.199 So I think just everything happens for a reason, and I like maybe one day I'll act, but I even though it wasn't the plan to be in a boy band, I'm very thankful to be here. 00:49:48.559 --> 00:50:05.119 Um when this opportunity was thrown at me, I was like, after I was like, absolutely not, because this is I didn't think like this lifestyle was for me, and especially like getting out and seeing in front of people, I feel like that's such a vulnerable thing to be able to do. 00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:09.840 And yeah, I was in like my last year of dance, I think. 00:50:10.239 --> 00:50:13.360 And that's when Sean was like, Do you want to be in a boy band? 00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:14.960 And I was like, I don't know. 00:50:15.199 --> 00:50:17.599 And did you take him seriously? 00:50:17.679 --> 00:50:22.480 Because to me that question just sounds like, yeah, whatever, I'll be in your boy band, and then it just won't go anywhere. 00:50:22.559 --> 00:50:24.079 But like, how did you know he was serious? 00:50:24.239 --> 00:50:25.760 But this was a serious thing. 00:50:26.400 --> 00:50:27.360 I'm a pretty serious thing. 00:50:27.440 --> 00:50:30.559 Yeah, when he came in, I was like, okay, like this is a this is a serious thing. 00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:32.000 If he's saying it, it's legit. 00:50:32.719 --> 00:50:32.960 Yes. 00:50:33.199 --> 00:50:33.519 Okay. 00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:41.360 Competition season is right around the corner. 00:50:41.519 --> 00:50:50.480 And if you're looking for expert guidance to

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After your surgery? 00:54:18.480 --> 00:54:21.360 Yeah, it was yeah, I healed really quick, which was a blessing. 00:54:21.599 --> 00:54:22.400 Wow, good. 00:54:23.360 --> 00:54:25.519 Two weeks it'll be here if you moved out here. 00:54:25.840 --> 00:54:26.400 Really? 00:54:26.880 --> 00:54:35.679 Oh my gosh, and your um, so your heart condition, is it like you had to have the heart surgery to because of the condition? 00:54:35.840 --> 00:54:40.639 I'm as I'm assuming this is a condition that you have to live with the rest of your life that it wasn't fixed with the surgery. 00:54:40.880 --> 00:54:42.239 Yeah, it was when I was born. 00:54:42.400 --> 00:54:44.480 I got went into a surgery when I was born. 00:54:44.639 --> 00:54:50.480 Well, I have a bad aortic valve, and so they just replaced it and got it all fixed up, and now I can do whatever I want. 00:54:50.719 --> 00:54:53.280 But yeah, it was not in the picture. 00:54:53.440 --> 00:55:04.000 I was like playing because I knew I was gonna get surgery at some point, so I was like, get surgery, and I'm gonna start playing sports, because I'm I'm super competitive with sports, and I was like, I wanted to give that a try. 00:55:04.159 --> 00:55:06.719 But then this happened, then I was like, boom, it's great. 00:55:06.880 --> 00:55:14.559 But I remember when I was joining, like thinking in my head, like thinking about the first time we were gonna perform, I was like so scared, I was like, oh, I'm gonna find myself. 00:55:14.719 -->

00:55:16.559 But now I'm gonna perform, I don't even get nervous. 00:55:16.800 --> 00:55:18.960 It's just it's happening so much, it's just fun. 00:55:19.039 --> 00:55:19.679 Yeah, it's just fun. 00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:23.599 But this is definitely what I was meant to do. 00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:24.239 Yeah. 00:55:24.480 --> 00:55:25.039 Aw. 00:55:25.360 --> 00:55:26.000 Alright. 00:55:26.320 --> 00:55:27.920 So it really started. 00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:31.519 I knew about full circle before I joined. 00:55:31.760 --> 00:55:40.159 Jagger would come to the studio and I would make fun of him so much for being in a boy band. 00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:46.320 I would have like, I just tease him, you know, like I like I wasn't super serious, like I wasn't bullying him, but I just teased him. 00:55:46.400 --> 00:55:47.840 I was like, oh, how's full circle? 00:55:48.000 --> 00:55:49.280 How's full circle, huh? 00:55:49.599 --> 00:56:00.079 And then uh, because I never really understood the like the bigger picture, but then I was like, then I got on a team with Dawson, and me and Dawson were like our best friends. 00:56:00.239 --> 00:56:03.199 We've been best friends since like yeah, for a long time. 00:56:03.360 --> 00:56:13.920 So like, and I as soon as I moved to California and I started at Pave, dancing at Pave, like I think I went to Raddox and that was the only competition I went to. 00:56:14.159 --> 00:56:16.880 But then Dawson hit me up and was like, You want to be in a boy band? 00:56:17.280 --> 00:56:38.000 And from Dawson, like, he I remember he had a talk with me, and he's like, dude, this is like he just had a such a meaningful meaningful talk, and we just like he just kind of explained like what was going on, and it made so much sense in my brain, and he and I know when it comes from Dawson, he's serious and he had he has such a big passion that like I knew it was the right thing. 00:56:38.159 --> 00:56:43.440 So I was like, and it it was so hard because it was literally the middle of the competition here. 00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:53.519 So like I only performed once with my team, I was in a lot of front spots, so like they it was hard to cover me, like what is it to fill me in. 00:56:53.599 --> 00:57:07.360 Like, so I felt so bad, and it's it's hard like moving, like kind of just like going away from your studio because like you don't want them to hate you, you know, because they have to fill in your spot and everything, but it was awesome. 00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:08.639 I I loved it. 00:57:08.800 --> 00:57:11.840 It was perfect thing for me joining this boy band. 00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:15.440 Uh what I would be doing if I wasn't in a boy band. 00:57:15.679 --> 00:57:20.400 I remember talking that year about going being a Beyonce backup dancer. 00:57:20.480 --> 00:57:23.760 That's what I wanted to be so bad because I love Beyonce. 00:57:23.920 --> 00:57:29.519 So I was like the spice girls, you know, like I just loved every every little yeah, anyways. 00:57:29.760 --> 00:57:30.400 I love that. 00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:30.880 Yeah. 00:57:31.119 --> 00:57:49.679 Those are great, these are all great dreams and goals that you had, and now look where your life has has led you into this wonderful band with one another that is thriving and so up and coming, and y'all are gonna be uh stars, you're gonna be performing at like the VMAs and Well in the world needs to be every other boy band. 00:57:49.840 --> 00:57:51.599 It's been a minute, yes, you know what I mean? 00:57:51.679 --> 00:58:08.400 Since there's been this kind of boy band, like there's been a few here and there that are very not much like the ones you saw back in the 90s, but like not to compare you, but you know, y'all are young, you're hip, you have an interesting concept where it's dance-led, and like that is really interesting and fresh, I feel like now. 00:58:08.559 --> 00:58:20.239 So and rewind back to like how we started the conversation and how I said I asked my and this was my teen class at convention, and I was like, you know, who are some of the boy bands? 00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:25.119 And at first they said One Direction and the Jonas brothers, and I was like, totally not. 00:58:26.559 --> 00:58:28.480 I'm like, no, like what about right now? 00:58:28.639 --> 00:58:31.920 Like, who are the boy bands in your life right now? 00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:33.519 And that's when they said full circle. 00:58:34.159 --> 00:58:36.480 So I was like, Oh, okay, let's go. 00:58:36.639 --> 00:58:41.280 Because I was truly trying to rack my brain on what other boy bands are out there right now, you know? 00:58:41.360 --> 00:58:43.920 And like those are they're like old news. 00:58:44.000 --> 00:58:49.440 No offense, Jonas Brothers and One Direction, but we are the only ones. 00:58:49.679 --> 00:59:03.599 We're the yeah, it's super weird because that is cool though that One Direction and the Jonas Brothers have that relevancy still, though, that they're that the team room was like that they were truly racking their brain like there are none, but that's the only ones we can think of. 00:59:03.679 --> 00:59:04.480 You know what I mean? 00:59:04.719 --> 00:59:07.920 Yeah, yeah, we need to get that that thought out of here. 00:59:08.079 --> 00:59:13.360 And we want to attack the dance world as much as possible because that's where we grew up, that's our community. 00:59:14.239 --> 00:59:34.159 Well, and I feel like there were, I mean, and I haven't listened to a ton of your music, but you know, hopefully it is usable for those spaces, and that becomes the pro, you know, and I'm sure you guys know, like, you have to find the appropriate music, you have to make sure you're playing things that are positive and uplifting, and like if that's what you're putting out there, of course that community is gonna embrace you, you know, and that's that's an exciting thing. 00:59:34.400 --> 00:59:35.599 That's what we always talk about. 00:59:35.679 -->

00:59:48.239 I'm like, I always say that like the moment I can say, like, or at least that I feel like we we made it, was when I hear our song playing at a convention, like during like a week or something. 00:59:48.400 --> 00:59:52.079 That will always like if I hear that, I'd be like, I made it! 00:59:52.239 --> 00:59:58.800 I made it a song that's coming out after me and you. 00:59:59.039 --> 01:00:03.599 I remember when we first heard it, we were like, Oh, this is gonna be played at a convention. 01:00:03.920 --> 01:00:05.920 Like that exactly where our brain went. 01:00:06.000 --> 01:00:10.000 We're like, total, this is gonna be a convention song, and it's gonna be sick. 01:00:10.400 --> 01:00:11.440 That's awesome. 01:00:11.840 --> 01:00:12.639 I love it. 01:00:13.119 --> 01:00:15.599 Well, y'all, this has been such a fun chat. 01:00:15.679 --> 01:00:19.840 I've loved getting to know you all, and congrats on all of your success already. 01:00:19.920 --> 01:00:27.679 I cannot wait to continue to follow your journey throughout this entertainment world as the up the next up and coming boy band out there. 01:00:27.760 --> 01:00:29.519 Y'all get into it, listeners. 01:00:29.760 --> 01:00:34.239 Give them a listen on all of the streaming platforms Spotify, Apple Music. 01:00:34.400 --> 01:00:36.880 We'll link in the show notes everywhere. 01:00:37.280 --> 01:00:41.599 And anything else y'all want to give a shout out and uh tell the world about? 01:00:41.920 --> 01:00:45.039 Go stream me and you out now. 01:00:45.199 --> 01:00:58.800 Uh the music video is probably out now that when this episode comes out, so go watch the music video, go listen to the acoustic, go listen to the original, happy holidays, yeah, and be happy. 01:00:59.039 --> 01:01:00.320 Love always wins. 01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:04.320 Excellent. 01:01:04.639 --> 01:01:07.760 And I'd love if anyone wants to, optional. 01:01:08.079 --> 01:01:09.840 Final thing to lead us out. 01:01:10.000 --> 01:01:13.199 And each of you can do it, or just one of you, whoever wants to say anything. 01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:26.559 Anything you'd like to share to the dance world, any advice you'd like to give to young aspiring dancers, whether whether they want to go into the entertainment community, maybe they're just dancers right now and have dreams of doing what you're doing one day. 01:01:26.800 --> 01:01:30.159 Anything that you want to say back to the dancers that may be listening out there. 01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:31.840 Everyone say one. 01:01:32.079 --> 01:01:35.760 I'll just say, I'll just say take as many opportunities as possible. 01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:40.480 Just that's because it's things will be thrown at you and just try it, you know? 01:01:40.800 --> 01:01:43.599 Don't say just don't just say no, just try it. 01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:53.280 One thing that I wish I would have realized more when I was dancing is that the little moments where you feel like oh, I'm so bad, or like when you messed up, like those don't matter. 01:01:53.519 --> 01:01:56.880 Like you're gonna move on, and literally within a week you're gonna forget about it. 01:01:57.119 --> 01:02:07.360 So just don't be afraid to mess up and keep it like I feel like something that would have been helpful for me to hear uh or to know when I was younger is like perform more. 01:02:07.519 --> 01:02:09.599 Like because I was very like sheltered. 01:02:09.760 --> 01:02:12.400 I was like, I wanted to be performing on the stage, you know? 01:02:12.639 --> 01:02:20.320 Like instead I should have been like performing in practice or just always always turning it on, you know? 01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:30.239 Because now we do it so much that like every time it happens, like I'm super present, and I'm never nervous to go on stage, no matter where we are or what we're doing. 01:02:30.400 --> 01:02:31.920 I'm always present and happy. 01:02:32.079 --> 01:02:38.480 And remember, dance is an art, so you're entertaining, and and if you're not having fun, then nobody else is gonna have fun. 01:02:39.840 --> 01:02:44.079 I always say believe in yourself because if you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. 01:02:44.239 --> 01:02:49.199 And also, don't limit yourself because you never know where life is gonna save you. 01:02:49.360 --> 01:02:49.679 Amen. 01:02:50.159 --> 01:02:50.880 Amen, brother. 01:02:51.840 --> 01:03:01.920 For all of the kids that are still competing, I would say enjoy it while you can because it's not gonna be there forever. 01:03:02.079 --> 01:03:06.000 I remember when I was about to leave competition. 01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:09.519 I remember it was the next day after my final competition. 01:03:09.760 --> 01:03:15.840 I I didn't enjoy the moment enough because in my brain I was just like, I'm gonna see all of them tomorrow. 01:03:16.079 --> 01:03:18.000 I'm gonna get to do this again. 01:03:18.159 --> 01:03:21.679 You're not gonna get to do it like that ever again. 01:03:21.840 --> 01:03:31.920 Like you there'll always be other opportunities, you're always gonna get to be a dancer no matter what, but there's nothing quite like the experience you're going through right now. 01:03:32.159 --> 01:03:35.679 So I think just enjoy it, be present with it. 01:03:35.840 --> 01:03:41.840 Because I found myself looking a little too far into the future at times and wasn't present enough. 01:03:42.079 --> 01:03:46.000 And I look back at that, that's like one of the only things I regret in life. 01:03:46.079 --> 01:03:48.480 So don't just live it up. 01:03:50.320 --> 01:03:53.519 We had the best time chatting with the Full Circle Boys. 01:03:53.599 --> 01:03:58.320 Shout out to Jagger, James, Sean, Dawson, and Ollie for joining us on the podcast. 01:03:58.480 --> 01:04:01.920 Don't forget to follow them on Instagram at Full Circle Boys. 01:04:02.239 --> 01:04:06.400 And give a listen to all of their fabulous music on Apple Music and Spotify. 01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:10.320 Their newest single, me and you, just dropped, so check it out. 01:04:11.119 --> 01:04:17.920 Don't forget to follow Making the Impact on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Podcast, and pretty much everywhere you listen to podcasts. 01:04:18.079 --> 01:04:24.239 And if you want more exclusive episodes, support our podcast by joining our Platinum Premium membership for only$5 a month. 01:04:24.480 --> 01:04:32.559 Subscribers receive free Making the Impact stickers, shout outs live on the air, ad free listening, and exclusive access to our QA episodes for members only. 01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:38.719 Join now at ImpactDanceeducators.com/slash Platinum Premium or click the link in our show notes. 01:04:40.800 --> 01:04:43.599 Ready to take your competition dance to the next level? 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