Ep. 121- Clint Salter
Questions asked or topics discussed:
Clint’s journey into his professional career - 3:40
Is the feeling that the business of dance, being an entirely different scope of skills and realities, come up within the organization and studio owners alike? - 7:52
What was the moment that you realized that there was a gap and a need for the DSOA and when did you realize that this was something that you were passionate about? - 13:30
What are some of the things that have been really helpful for dance teachers and studio owners as they try and build new habits and new systems? - 19:29
Clint’s perspective on times of uncertainty within a business owner and individuals career and working to maintain momentum - 24:47
Clint’s view of “self talk” as he manoeuvres through his career and continues to move forward - 30:10
How does the idea of having partners show up for you as a coach, where communication essentially becomes the prominent theme? What is the negotiation that happens between the partnership and business? - 34:14
The various mentors and coach’s inside Clint’s inner circle and how he selects them to be the people to inspire studio owners across the world - 41:15
Clint talks about his podcast, Transform My Dance Studio - 45:32
How do you recognize you’re bored after doing something for a long time and no longer exciting you in the same way? What was your process of releasing and going back to a place of “play” - 47:25
Clint Salter, CEO and founder of the Dance Studio Owners Association.
By age 28, Clint Salter had created, built and sold three businesses. He started dancing jazz at age nine before moving on to tap, ballet and hip hop. Then, in a fortuitous turn of events, a former teacher of his sold her studio. Since Clint had parents already approaching him in the hopes of teaching their children, he and a partner decided to open up their own studio...at the ripe old age of 16!
It started small, with just 30 students. Five years later it was operating six days a week with a few hundred students and classes running at capacity. They had built a booming business--and he was only 21. Around that time, he decided to sell his half of the studio to his partner as he prepared to start working at the top celebrity agency in Australia managing some of the biggest names in television and media.
Over the next five years, Clint was responsible for pitching ideas and securing commercial endorsements, licensing, publishing, television, radio and speaking deals for his stable of high-profile clients. During this time he also created DanceLife, Australia's largest community for dancers and performers which scored him the award Top 30 Entrepreneurs Under 30 from Anthill Magazine. In four years, DanceLife became Australia's bible of all things dance: an online resource for dancers, a large dance competition and a learn-to-dance program for primary and high schools. Clint sold DanceLife after four years to take an opportunity to be the Touring Manager for the musical "Jersey Boys," where he travelled internationally while managing a team of 56 people.
Eventually, Clint decided he wanted to share the knowledge he'd accumulated with other Dance Studio Owners. He wanted to help them learn how to create a thriving, profitable studio. Clint is the Founder of the Dance Studio Owners Association and Studio Success Formula, the Business School for Dance Studio Owners where he offers mentoring and online training programs to help Studio Owners turn their passion for dance into a profitable business that makes a big difference in the lives of their dance families.
