Megan Fairchild, THE BALLERINA MINDSET: How to Protect Your Mental Health While Striving for Excellence

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Zibby is joined by Megan Fairchild, a principal dancer for the New York City Ballet, to discuss her memoir, The Ballerina Mindset. Megan shares how the book grew out of her podcast, Ask Megan, to answer questions from mothers of young dancers and the advice she offered there for how to train without harming your body or mind. Megan and Zibby talk about the importance of meditating or just finding time to focus on yourself, the ways in which Megan reframed her relationship with eating and exercise that everyone can adopt, and what lessons she hopes to pass on to her three daughters.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zibby Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast, Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:07.1	If you like this podcast, you will love my new anthology called Moms Don't Have Time to Have Kids.
0:12.9	Check it out, and you'll hear from 49 authors about all sorts of things moms don't have time to do.
0:17.9	All the authors have been on this podcast. Also, check out my TikTok at With Zibby and Tracy, my other podcast, Sex Talk with Zivie and Tracy.
0:25.7	Check out Moms Don't Have Time to Write on Medium.
0:28.5	And of course, my new publishing company called Zivvy Books.
0:32.3	And now back to our daily author interview site and a quick hello from some of my kids.
0:36.9	Hi.
0:37.4	Hi. Hello. Enjoy the show.
0:40.9	Megan Fairchild is the author of the ballerina mindset, how to protect your mental health while
0:45.5	striving for excellence. Megan is a principal dancer with New York City Ballet. After moving from Utah to
0:51.6	New York City at the age of 16 to study ballet full time, she was offered an apprenticeship with NYCB and was promoted to principal, the highest rank, just three years later.
1:02.0	In 2014, she took a temporary leave to play the lead role, Ms. Turnstiles, in the Broadway musical on the town.
1:08.0	She's also the host of the advice podcast, Ask Megan, a brand ambassador for
1:12.2	Cole Hahn, and an MBA student at NYU's Stern School of Business. And by the way, the paperback
1:19.3	of this book is coming out now. So very exciting news. Welcome, Megan. Thank you so much for coming
1:25.4	on moms don't have time to read books to discuss the ballerina mindset, how to protect your mental health while striving for excellence.
1:32.1	Thanks for having me. I need this book. In fact, every chapter as I went through, I was like, okay, a chapter on anxiety. Great. A chapter on eating. Yes, a chapter. Like, everything went on. I was like, I need this one. I need this one.
1:46.9	So thank you for sharing your story and for all the advice. I'm so glad it resonated.
1:51.7	Yes. Thank you. Will you tell listeners a little bit more about this book? And also, what made you decide to write this?
1:58.1	You're the super successful ballerina and have had an
2:01.4	amazing career and all the rest. Why take time out to now write a book? I actually was always
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