202. Jenna Johnson: Dancing with the Stars pro breaks down the $$$ behind the dance industry, balancing competitiveness with support, and a love/hate relationship with social media
Trading Secrets
Audioboom Studios
5 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Jenna had spent all of her career in the world of dance and achieving accomplishments such as being a 5x US National Latin dance champion, 3x National contemporary dance champion, US National youth 10x dance champion and many more. She gained recognition after joining Dancing with the Stars back in 2014 and has gone on to compete in eight different seasons, finished as a mirrorball champion of season 26, grown her social media following exponentially, and among other things met her husband Val.
Jenna dives into the behind-the-scenes of this season of Dancing with the Stars with partner Joey Graziadei, what dances she finds most difficult for men, when she started dancing, the difficulty of the dance industry, how she and Val discuss money and how to set a dollar amount on their talent, her love/hate relationship with social media and how she found love with Val. Jenna also reveals how they balance their competitiveness, the importance of ensuring that everyone's significant others feel included in the experience, where else money can be made in dancing, and how she is able to calm the nerves. Who has surprised her this season? What DWTS pro is her best friend in the whole world? Does she share her choreography with Val during the season?
Jenna reveals all that and so much more in another episode you can’t afford to miss!
Host: Jason Tartick
Co-Host: David Arduin
Audio: John Gurney
Guest: Jenna Johnson
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Trading Secrets. I'm your host |
| 0:17.0 | Jason Tarduk and welcome to the pre-market trading segment where I'll tell you |
| 0:20.3 | a little bit about what you can expect on this episode, an update from the market you need to know and a little update from my personal life. |
| 0:27.0 | First and foremost, wherever you're listening to this, please hit that subscribe button. It helps us out tremendously. And please give us five stars and let us know |
| 0:34.8 | who you would like for us to have on the show or a topic or theme you'd like us to |
| 0:40.0 | cover now this episode is a very relevant one because it is with pro dancer Jenna Johnson. |
| 0:46.4 | So Jenna is on this season of Dance with the Stars. |
| 0:49.0 | She has been in the game for many, many seasons. |
| 0:51.4 | We'll talk about all of them specifically. And of course |
| 0:54.3 | she is Joey Grazier Day's partner this season. So there is so much action |
| 0:59.5 | with Jenna in her personal life on her professional life and the finances of dance |
| 1:04.8 | what her goal is to earn on an annual basis. She shares that. She talks about |
| 1:09.9 | her influencing career. She talks about you know being married to Val in a form of |
| 1:14.5 | entertainment that's also so you know it's it's you're rewarded for your |
| 1:19.4 | chemistry and the display of what some refer to is sexual nature of dances and you're scored well for doing it and how that plays into you know not only this season with the moving parts of the noise with you know Joey and |
| 1:33.2 | Kelsey you're hearing from people out in the fan base of course they have held |
| 1:37.0 | so strong and will continue to do that but just how you even manage it in a relationship when you're married to another pro dancer year after year after year. |
| 1:46.5 | So all of the moving parts, the personal aspects, the financial aspects, and the professional aspects of a professional dancer. And of course, I'll get her predictions on who she thinks will be winning |
| 1:57.2 | this year so that is to come and if you haven't been tuning in make sure to |
| 2:01.4 | tune to dancing with the Dancing with Stars. |
| 2:02.5 | It has been one unbelievable, unbelievable season. |
| 2:07.5 | And if you stay tuned to the recap, I'll talk a little bit about the ratings this year. |
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