Chelsie Hightower: What My Battle With Anxiety in Hollywood Taught Me About God's Love
All In
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🗓️ 21 August 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
She competed on two of the most popular dance television shows of all time. She taught a rodeo cowboy, a rapper, a "Bachelor," and Michael Bolton how to dance with millions watching. But on this week's episode of "All In," Chelsie Hightower discusses the anxiety she faced when the cameras stopped rolling.
"I think that I'd felt like, whether I could articulate it at that time or not, I felt like I'd lost God's trust in me and His love for me...I learned that His love is far different than I thought it was."
1:06- The Story of Morgan and Chelsie's Friendship
6:38- Guided to Dance
15:02- "So You Think You Can Dance"
16:45- Anxiety Resurfaces
23:00- Losing Footing on the Foundation of God
36:12- "Dancing With The Stars"
42:28- Running on Empty
44:14- A Prayer in New York
47:59- The Love of God
51:52- What does it mean to be "all in" the gospel of Jesus Christ?
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| 0:00.0 | You may remember watching Chelsea High Towers' iconic performance of bleeding love on Fox's |
| 0:06.5 | hit television show, so you think you can dance. |
| 0:09.7 | You know, the one with the briefcase? |
| 0:11.7 | You may have even voted for her all night long, but today I talk with Chelsea about the |
| 0:16.7 | anxiety she faced when the cameras were off. |
| 0:20.7 | Chelsea High Towers won her first dancing national title when she was 11 years old. |
| 0:26.1 | Chelsea is best known for appearing on so you think you can dance and competing on seven |
| 0:30.5 | seasons of dancing with the stars. |
| 0:33.1 | She is an Emmy-nominated choreographer and the founder of Dance Elevated, a camp which |
| 0:38.7 | seeks to change the way dancers view themselves and their journey in dance from the inside out. |
| 0:46.2 | This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really mean |
| 0:52.1 | to be All-In the Gospel of Jesus Christ? |
| 0:55.3 | I'm Morgan Jones and I am so grateful to have my friend Chelsea High Tower here with |
| 1:00.1 | me today. |
| 1:01.1 | Chelsea, welcome. |
| 1:02.1 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:03.1 | I'm happy to be here and yeah, it's going to be fun. |
| 1:06.6 | Chelsea's over here doing like mimicking me, doing the intro because she's been forcefed |
| 1:12.6 | these episodes as a result of being my friend. |
| 1:15.5 | Every one of these episodes, after every single one of them, like, Morgh, that was great. |
| 1:20.3 | Another doozy loved it. |
| 1:21.9 | So thinking secretly in my head, she's going to ask me to do this one day, just one day |
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