Why artistic genius must marry business brilliance to change the world with April MacLean
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
April is founder of Infuse Dance Collective, a company pushing art into innovative new spaces and bridging the gap between technique and soul through both it's brick and mortar and online studios.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! Shake the room, Fire Nation! JLD here and welcomed episode 1879 of EO Fire, where |
| 0:10.0 | I chat with entrepreneurs on fire, seven days a week, and I have created four, count them, |
| 0:16.1 | four incredible courses so that you, Fire Nation, can master productivity, accomplish goals, |
| 0:20.9 | create funnels and webinars that actually converts, and the best part is they're free and waiting |
| 0:25.6 | for you at eoFire.com. Now let's shout out today's featured guest, April McLean. April, are you |
| 0:31.9 | prepared to ignite? Let's do it! Yes! April's a founder of Infuse Dance Collective, a company |
| 0:39.4 | pushing art into innovative new spaces and bridging the gap between technique and soul through both |
| 0:45.8 | its brick and mortar and online studios. All right, April, take a minute, fill in some gaps from |
| 0:50.8 | the intro and give us a little glimpse of your personal life. Alrighty, well I am a mother and |
| 0:56.7 | maybe wife, and as you indicated, art specifically dance is my number one passion in life. I hate |
| 1:03.6 | that word passion. I wish I had a different word. I like curiosity. Curiosity is a grittin-less |
| 1:08.4 | curiosity. Ooh, even better. So I own a brick and mortar studio, it's going into its sixth, seventh year, |
| 1:16.1 | and we do have some online branches of that studio, but really my curiosity stems from my time |
| 1:26.0 | in foster care. So I grew up in the foster care system, and it was dance, like falling into a dance |
| 1:33.7 | class that first gave me the first real connection I had. You know, you go through traditional therapy |
| 1:40.8 | when you're in foster care, you have to talk to judges and social workers, and it's just nothing |
| 1:46.5 | felt relatable to me until I started dancing. So that's what motivates me daily, I guess. |
| 1:52.9 | Far and Asian, if you're recognizing April's voice, it's because she rocked the mic on episode 958, |
| 1:58.8 | which is by the way, almost 900 episodes ago. Actually, it's over 900 episodes ago, April. |
| 2:03.6 | Isn't that mind blowing? It's kind of crazy. Yeah, when you set the number right now, it's like, |
| 2:07.2 | that's not true. Yeah, it's true. That means 900 days ago. So I mean, do that math. That's pretty |
| 2:13.6 | impressive. But you know, and actually I recognize while you were talking as well, during the pre-interview |
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