Effective Defects Edmund Tan II

Guest: Karlo Borja
Recorded: October 6, 2019

Guest: Kunle Oladehin
Recorded: October 5, 2019

Guests: Karlo Borja, Ilya Leyzerov
Recorded: May 23, 2019

Guest: Ilya Leyzerov
Recorded: April 6, 2019

Guest: Alessandra "Ali" Marconi
Recorded: March 31, 2019

Show Notes:
- What is clogging?
- How Ali started dancing.
- Why kids like tap and clogging.
- Why Ali walked away from dance for a while.
- How Ali found more patience and discipline through Taekwondo.
- How Ali practices patience and discipline now.
- Why Ali chose to rebel through ballet.
- Ali as the only dancer in her family and her family’s artistic background.
- Ali’s parents’ careers.
- Expectations of Ali.
- Why Ali chose to go to major in fields other than dance.
- How Ali’s survival job built a performance career while college.
- Ali's experience waiting tables.
- Taking a side job as an artist/creative.
- Why cocktail waitressing is where the money is.
- Creative jobs and taxes.
- Does Ali believe that living off your art sucks the passion and creativity out of your art?
- How Ali chose dance over journalism.
- The different parts of Ali's creative career.
- How Ali balances all of your interests and ventures at once.
- How managing different projects in a day fuels Ali.
- How Ali prevents burnout and how she has experienced burnout.
- What is Ali's longest project to date?
- Why Ali chose to move to New York City.
- Ali's parents take on Ali's traveling.
- Where Ali would like to establish roots.
- How does Ali get gigs?
- How Ali started work on Harry Potter on Broadway.
- Getting burned in past gigs.
- What Ali learned from pitching her own work.
- Ali and self care.
- How Ali manages anxiety.
- How Ali gets out of dark moments.
- Emotional constipation.
- Depression and victimization.
- Ali's foundation in self-exploration.
- How Ali got into cooking.
- Ali's relationship to social media.
- Ali's phone awareness.
- Comparison.
- Ali and Hustle dance.
- How Ali met Crazy Smooth.
- Ali's relationship with street dance.
- How makes a good Hustle dance.
- Repeating in dance.
- Ali's creative process and collaboration approach.
- Ali’s playwriting process.
- "Lily Pond".
- Ali’s struggles with writing her first play.
- What Ali has planned for the future.

Guests: Karlo Borja, Ilya Leyzerov
Recorded: March 27, 2019

Show Notes
- Why Karlo thinks winning is easy.
- Karlo’s formula to winning.
- Why Ilya doesn’t like to follow formulas.
- Ilya, call outs, and battles.
- Battling, present-state awareness, and connection.
- Battling and cyphers.
- Ilya’s plans for a May 2019 battle.
- The many variables of battles to consider.
- Why Karlo would make a good dad.
- Karlo and dating app trends.
- Karlo’s dating app strategy.
- The optimizing business that Karlo would create.
- Ilya and following the gut.
- How often do Karlo and Ilya do things based on gut feeling versus logical reasoning?
- Karlo, risk aversion, his own opinions, and others’ opinions.
- What’s the difference between a gut feeling and an impulse?
- Why Ilya thinks going with your gut to act on impulse is okay.
- Where does emotion play in to Ilya's gut?
- Is it possible that your gut is not actually what comes first?
- Is gut feeling nature or nurture?
- Karlo and the subconscious.
- Karlo and ancestral knowledge.
- Ilya and turning down a job with Overwatch.
- Ilya and the use of the past.
- Karlo and using the past for good lessons.
- The podcast format.