When I stand in the deepest presence of my own being, I'm able to be fully witnessed in who I am.

What is up, guys, and welcome back to skinny dipping the podcast. I'm Kayla Rose. I'm your host. Let's dive into it today. We're going to have a little bit of a

shorter episode, but I just really wanted to come and talk about the power of performance and

the presence that it creates because if you don't know, if you're new, this is the season of

reclaiming wholeness. And in that, that means reclaiming all the parts of

who we truly are. And for me, performance is such a big part of who I am and what raised me

and who I grew up to be because I grew up in theater, musical theater. I grew up doing

dance and ballet since I was five years old. I played piano since I was seven years old and would

perform at piano recitals. I would sing in front of people. I would dance in front of people.

I would perform my words in front of people. I would show up on social media in the performance of my

art or here on the podcast and share my words as if they are poetry. And it has fucking changed my

life. Performance has shaped who I am so deeply and I had to talk about it on today's episode

because it is a part of reclaiming wholeness

and reclaiming who I am because I feel like when I was younger, it was so easy to be in that

performance energy, right? Because you're in programs, in school and you have the opportunity

to perform in front of people at dance recitals or musicals or whatever it is for you.

But also, if you're not a performer, let's just say, let me just say, if you hop on a sales

call or a business call, you are a performer in some way.

If you are an athlete, you are a performer in some way.

Because for me, performance means showcasing your

gifts and being completely present and engulfed in the current moment that you're experiencing.

So performance is not just dance, ballet, piano, all these things that I did even though

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