Confidence and Mindset Coaching for Dancers
your destination
"Is my leg at the right angle? I didn't have enough power on that jump. Am I in the right spot? I can't believe I just did that. Wait...what comes next??"
Many dancers try and execute a beautiful performance, while simultaneously thinking of everything that did and could go wrong.
Dance is much more than technique and choreography. It requires a dizzying combination of skills and is a true reflection for how we handle competing pressures in life.
What if, instead of questioning our every move, we could instead feel confident in our abilities, knowing that we are capable of handling anything that comes our way?
It is only when we recognize our power that we can truly shine.
your journey
Dance instructors train your body. Compass Stars trains your mind. Usually, dancers come to us because something is lacking in their performances. But a lack of confidence in dance is usually an indicator of a bigger issue. A lack of confidence in self.
Through coaching sessions, homework exercises and check-ins, our program helps dancers find their personal power and gain confidence both on and off the dance floor.
your guide
A dancer's body is only as strong as the mind, and Compass Stars is dedicated to helping dancers unlock their true power. As a client of Compass Stars, you will be paired with a dedicated coach, who is trained to help you identify mental roadblocks and dismantle them. Every client is unique, and our programs are individualized to fit you.
Monthly coaching packages are $500 a month and include four hours of coaching, homework assignments and check-ins. Schedule a free 40-minute discovery session to find out if Compass Stars can guide you to the next level.
Guiding to Greatness
Angela puleo
Angela is a Performance Improvement coach, consultant, educator, public speaker and dance studio owner. A dancer since age 2, Angela started trying to open her own dance studio at age 9. It is likely no surprise that parents were not lined up to sign up their children, so the studio she started in the spare bedroom, Rainbow Connection, was her second business fail. The first was the handwritten worksheets she tried to sell in her front yard at age 6.
Never one to give up, she opened Blairsville Dance in 2006. After getting her MBA, she then went on to found Compass Sterling, a coaching and consulting firm in 2016, but despite a degree and a flood of great ideas, she felt that she wasn’t really living up to her potential and achieving her goals.
After noticing she often self-sabotaged by not following through with what she had promised herself, she took time off from creating new things and began studying mindset, self-image and success strategies. She pursued a neuroscience based coaching certification, which combined with her multiple failures and a cancer diagnosis gave rise to a new skill…finding new ways to look at troublesome things. As it turns out, other people will pay you for that, so she has worked with educational institutions, hospital systems, national non-profits, tech companies and small businesses to help them find new opportunities to make big changes.
As she discovered during her 17 years of working as a dance teacher, however, her passion is helping youth develop a self-image that serves them well in dance AND in life. She then transformed Compass Sterling to focus on teaching this skill to other dancers and dance educators with the goal of helping dancers nationwide find their personal power to create their ideal lives, both in and out of the dance studio. Outside of coaching and teaching, she is working with her mother Deborah Adams, a published author, on a series of growth mindset books for young dancers, featuring the loveable, yet oftentimes clumsy, York the Yeti.
