I was a competition dancer for 12 years. Almost every weekend of competition season from ages 6 to 18, my family would pack up the car with costumes and props and head to a different hotel ballroom or high school auditorium to compete with my team for the first-place trophy. I knew from the age of 6 that dance was going to be my life. I worked hard, trained hard, and I won big. But all of a sudden, when I started working professionally, I quickly learned nobody cared about the trophies I won. 

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