Transform My Dance Studio – The Podcast For Dance Studio Owners

Candace Nelson, founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes, shares her insights on entrepreneurship, failure, and team building, providing the jolt of creativity and clarity dance studio owners need to take their studio to the next level.

If you want to learn how to be a successful studio CEO, take some lessons from Candace Nelson's successes and failures with her businesses.

Candace Nelson is the founder of Sprinkles Cupcakes, the world's first cupcake bakery. She is also a judge on the competition series Cupcake Wars and Sugar Rush.

This is Candace Nelson's story...

Candace Nelson is a successful entrepreneur and business owner who has built several businesses from the ground up. One of the things she is most proud of is her ability to maintain a beginner's mindset throughout her journey. This quality has allowed her to continue learning and growing, even as the landscape around her has changed. She is also a strong advocate for normalizing failure and believes that it is through failure that we learn the most valuable lessons.

In this episode, you'll discover:

1. How Candace consistently comes up with innovative new concepts and ideas (even knowing that some of them won't be successful)
2. What qualities Candace possesses as an entrepreneur that has fueled her continued success
3. What Candace has learned about team building, mentoring, and retaining great staff during her journey as a business owner

And SO much more! 

We hope you enjoy this exclusive interview, and unlock the confidence, courage & motivation you need to be a successful studio CEO.

Direct download: EP470_SweetStudioSuccessPart2-WithCandaceNelson.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

Last month, Clint Salter hosted a live interview to celebrate the launch of Candace Nelson’s new book ‘Sweet Success’, and the insights shared during their hour together was so valuable that we simply had to bring it to you here on the podcast!

Over this 2-part mini series, you’ll learn how Sprinkles founder, Candace Nelson turned her passion into a profitable business, one cupcake at a time while getting the jolt of creativity and clarity you need to take your studio to the next level. 

We hope you enjoy this exclusive interview, and unlock the confidence, courage & motivation you need to be a successful studio CEO.

Direct download: EP469_SweetStudioSuccessPart1-WithCandaceNelson.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

In the Inner Circle, we believe that studio ownership doesn’t need to be stressful for you to be successful.

In this special interview, our guests will show you how to stop running around putting out fires in your business, and return to the passionate, confident leader you were when you first started out - with a lot more cash in the bank and way more time to spend doing the things you love.

Direct download: October17Edited.mp3
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In the grand finale of the Studio Empire Formula, Hillary Parnell shares the 12 biggest business and life lessons she has learned as a 7-figure dance studio CEO (and wishes she had learned sooner!)

Direct download: EP467_12ThingsIWishIKnewWhenMyStudioFirstOpened.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 4:00am EDT

In the first episode of the Studio Empire Formula series, guest host Hillary Parnell talked a lot about overwhelm - and today she's back behind the mic to talk about the ugly cousin of overwhelm.

No matter how much you love your job, no matter how efficient and productive you tend to be by nature, everyone has done this at least once.

Can you guess what it is?

Of course, We’re talking about procrastination!

Pretty much everyone else can admit they procrastinate sometimes and it stalls out their work and keeps them from getting that list finally complete - and in this episode Hillary is not only going to walk you through the WHY of procrastination, but also how to make it work FOR you and not against you. 

Direct download: EP466_TheProcrastinationCureV02.mp3
Category:Business -- posted at: 12:00am EDT

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