STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally and winner of the 2022 Communicator Award for Podcasting, STOPTIME:Live in the Moment combines mindfulness, well being and the performing arts and features thought provoking and motivational conversations with high performing creative artists around practicing the art of living in the moment and embracing who we are, and where we are at. Long form interviews are interspersed with brief solo episodes that prompt and invite us to think more deeply. Hosted by Certified Professional Coach Lisa Hopkins, featured guests are from Broadway, Hollywood and beyond. Although her guests are extraordinary innovators and creative artists, the podcast is not about showbiz and feels more like listening to an intimate coaching conversation as Lisa dives deep with her talented guests about the deeper meaning behind why they do what they do and what theyโve learned along the way. Lisa is a Certified Professional Coach, Energy Leadership Master Practitioner and CORE Performance Dynamics Specialist at Wide Open Stages. She specializes in working with high-performing creative artists who want to play full out. She is a passionate creative professional with over 20 years working in the performing arts industry as a director, choreographer, producer, writer and dance educator. STOPTIME Theme by Philip David Stern๐ถ
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STOPTIME: Live in the Moment.
Lisa Hopkins: Pivoting From the Core
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Sometimes things are just not meant to be no matter how much you pivot to try and make it work.
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One of my all time favorite episodes of โFriendsโ is the one where Chandler and Rachel are enlisted to help Ross move his new couch up the staircase. Despite the fact that the couch is clearly not going to fit, Ross refuses to believe it and keeps yelling โpivotโ โpivotโ . Finally, wedged between the couch and the wall, Chandler cries out for him to shut up and Ross finally concedes saying โI donโt think itโs gonna pivot anymoreโ. It makes me laugh out loud every time just thinking about it.
I think itโs so funny because we can all relate to forcing things when, despite how much we wish they would, they just donโt fit. Sometimes things are just not meant to be no matter how much you pivot to try and make it work. The word pivot is used so widely these days to indicate a kind of right of passage or reclaiming of oneโs life. It suggests leaving something behind in order to find something better. A turning away. I see it differently. Let me explain.
In dance, a pivot is a kind of step. Dancers learn to pivot by developing a strong center to support a change of direction and then to guide it back to the pivot point. If your core is not strong enough, the pivot will be sloppy and throw you off your center.
In life, we pivot all the time. In every waking moment of the day, as we make choices about where and how we choose to engage and experience the things in and around us. The key is to know whether or not we are making these choices consciously or by default and to draw awareness around the distinction between whether we are being drawn toward something or trying to leave something behind.
In the words of Dr. Emily Nagoski โ If youโre moving toward a specific, desired goal, your attention and efforts are focused on that single outcome. But if youโre running away from a threat, it hardly matters where you end up, as long as itโs somewhere safe from the threat.โ
So pivot away my friends but I encourage you to remember that just as dancers stretch their muscles and strengthen their core, so must we stretch ourselves and become strong enough in our core values that wherever we pivot, we remain connected to our center.
Iโm Lisa Hopkins thanks so much for listening. Stay safe and healthy everyone and remember to live in the moment.