I'm here to do the most with, most that I can with my life in the time that I'm here. So if anything or anyone is stopping that, I'm not going to feel what was me. I'm going to knock down those barriers and get to where I need to be. And you can jump on the ship and come along with me, or you can jump off in my little sailboat and enroll yourself back to shore. Let's face it. For many of us, believing in ourselves seems like a hard to undertake and joining the Navy SEALS. And even on those great days, the days we actually think, hmm, maybe I can do this. Someone comes along and shatters it with just two words. You can't. Like when the Titanic hit the iceberg, a small crack of self-doubt seeps in, and over time, it slowly starts to build up more and more, eventually finding your belief in yourself, going down with the sinking ship. So how on earth do we go for our dreams, our goals, our audacious goals?

We're not only do other people not believe we can do it, but often we don't believe it ourselves. Well, today's women of impact breaks down exactly how she went from being told she was a terrible dancer and quite frankly not thinking she was any good herself, to building a belief that no matter how bad she may be.

She could always, always get better.

And it was that belief that led her to eventually performing at the Billboard Awards with Beyonce, touring with Pink and JLo, to starring in the number one record-breaking music video Anna Kondo with Nicki Minaj with close to 8 billion views. And now, owner of Nautical Fitness. So please welcome the woman who is pop lock-in and taking names, the dance queen, my girl, Janelle Janestra. We're getting to the show! I'm calling you those amazing Jesus! What a mouthful! Welcome to the show, girl. Thank you. I've been trying to get you here since, I think, episode one, and where I want to start was when you were a girl, you were watching videos by day on, and you even say I was absolutely terrible, as you were practicing. Yeah. But even though you were terrible, you were like, I'm still gonna keep going and be the best day is at that Yeah, take me to that moment where you try it and you're bad you suck terribly But you don't let that stop you Well, I will even say I can look at videos of myself two weeks ago and say oh, I think it's terrible Okay, so like it that never goes away because I think we're our,

I myself's best coach.

I always say that.

If I'm not gonna tell myself you need to step it up,

you need to get better.

There's not that many people are gonna ride for you

that deeply and that care that deeply, right?

I knew moving to LA was not gonna be easy.

I knew that getting into the choreography

and dance scene was not going to be easy.

I was prepared. And mentally, I've been preparing mentally with a bunch of nose my whole life with all of these things that have shaped me into a mental monster in beast to say yes, you're terrible now, but you won't be terrible on a month. Okay, so talk to me through that preparation then what does that actually look like? So you told no? Yeah, I mean I've I started at the age of two. And, you know, like with any sport or any kind of teamwork kind of thing, it's not, I didn't have an easy teacher, which I am so thankful to God for, because she was like, she just was like, no, no back talking, no your leg is in straight, no your turns are not pretty.

Like she was very real with us.

She didn't talk to us like we were kids. And I think that's so important. She made me into a very tough little girl to be able to take, you're not perfect. You're not the best in the room. You're not all of these things that your, you know, some parents want me to tell you. My mom was like, tell her, tell her the truth.

So growing up like I was very open and knowledgeable of that I am not always going to be the best at first, but I can achieve Janelle's best eventually. I love that. You know, yeah, you even said, I think, quote, is the best teacher is yourself. Oh yeah. So talk to me about that. Because in those moments of your striving, you're not the best. Like people telling you not to, but you can be, you're working hard, you're trying. How do you have, I guess, grace to allow yourself to make those mistakes? But also say, no, but you're the best teacher so you have to learn from this. You know, I mean, it's like gracing yourself with mistakes in life, right? Like I know that I'm not gonna wake up and make all the best decisions. I know that not every dance class is gonna be my best dance class. I know that not every time I teach, I'm not gonna be the best teacher because it's just unrealistic expectations of myself. But I allow myself to have those bad moments to know what I need to improve on. If I'm not, if I'm always going to be good or just at this plateau of being good, I'm not knowing what I need to improve for the next day, what to be better at. And within that, I study myself so much, I focus so much when I'm in a classroom or anywhere I am because I don't want to waste any time. That time is so precious so when I am going to be in my beast mode and when I am going to be proving myself to the world I need to make sure that I'm prepared for it and I'm ready for it. Yeah, I've got a quote of yours that hit me so hard, girl. Yeah.

Don't let anyone ever make you feel inferior, insufficient, and not enough. We are powerful. We are badass. We are sexy. We are intelligent. We are worthy. And we are strong as hell. I assume there are days you don't feel like that. Oh, no. OK. So let's talk about those days. You know, like, those days are rough. Sometimes I feel like, am I enough? Am I good enough? Do I belong here? Am I really like in this fog of war? I think I deserve all of these things, but do I really not? Like, that that, like, that's, that happens. And I do feel that, like, sometimes. And luckily, luckily I bounce back. There are some people that don't bounce back from it. And I think that that is what motivates me. I, like, one of my newest quotes is I love saying, like, do it for the people that can't. So, like, I dance for the people that can't. I, oh, I'm people that can't. Oh, I'm gonna get emotional. Like I wake up every day with legs and arms and a mind to be able to do what I love. So I like, I always make sure I wake up and do that because some people can't wake up and walk. Some people can't wake up and talk. Some people can't even wake up and know that they're fully capable of even just being here. So I wanna do it for the people that can't because I can, you know what I mean? So in the deafened days, it reminds me that I can't wake up the next day and do what I love. So bitch, get over it. You know what I mean? It's kind of like it's kind of like that. So that's how I feel. I mean one thing I absolutely adore about you, people at home may not know so I've known you for a good like a couple of years now I think. You wear your heart on your sleeve and you are such an incredibly strong woman who is also strong enough to show vulnerability. Oh yeah, for sure. You show it in your dance alone. When I watch your moves go, I don't even have to put on the sound because just by watching how your body is, how you shape things, how your expression is on your face, you open yourself up to a certain amount of vulnerability just like you were doing now. Yeah. Does that come naturally? How do you handle it? How do you, how are you able to use that to your advantage instead of letting it almost break you? Because I think some people when they're too vulnerable, they feel like it's a weakness instead of a strength. No, I love that you said that.

And it's actually something I had to be okay with. Like, because I, you know, I don't want to cry all the time, you know what I mean? And I'm like, always like, oh, here I go, I get emotional, but I've learned to embrace it because like, I just feel deeply, I can't deny how I feel. Like if I pass even a homeless person on this street,

like I pray for them in that moment,

like that's just the kind of... feel deeply. I can't deny how I feel. If I pass even a homeless person on the street,

I pray for them in that moment. That's just the kind of human I am. I just feel that deeply. I can feel that you're a great person. I can feel negativity. I can just feel. I think it's a blessing to be able to feel that deeply because I think a lot of people aren't with that some, you that, to allow themselves to feel that hard. And with my dancing, it's how I speak. You know what I mean? So without having to say words, I can say how much an emotion can run through the veins of my body. And it's one of my greatest gifts, you know what I mean? Yeah. You run a fricking empire with your husband. What you guys are doing is so mind blowing, so incredible. And it takes strength. And when you're dealing with business, you have to have like harshness to you sometimes. You have to make demands. How are you able to, in essence, balance that with the super vulnerable side of you? I can be vulnerable when I get in the car and I can let out my emotions. If I'm at a business table with a majority men, which I'm sure you know, it's majority men, I allow myself to be vulnerable, but I also am very like, let's's cut to the chase. Like, let's get stuff done. Like, I am a no BS kind of person. So, like, I'm not going to get into my feelings and feel bad for Joe Schroen and feel bad. No, like, work, business is business. So, I'm here to do the most with, like, most that I can with my life in the time that I'm here. So if anything or anyone is stopping that, I'm not going to feel what was me.

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