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Part two of our conversation with Jee-Eun Petitqueux, former professional ballerina and teacher at the Royal Ballet School of Antwerp. In part one she told us what happened when a teacher predicted her ballet career at age ten.

This episode picks up where that left off: how she deals with the overthinking now, as a teacher, a coach, and a mother. We talk about feedback. Not how it’s delivered, but what you do with it. How to take what works, leave what doesn’t, and stop making it personal. Feedback hurts sometimes. That’s part of being a dancer.

You can’t take the pain away, but you can change how it lands. We talk about what social media does to young dancers who see the finished product and never the years of work behind it. And how that comparison fe ...