But First, Alignment

Podcast for professional and aspiring dancers, performers & creatives. All things energetics, alchemy, manifestation, spirituality and mindset for living YOUR authenticity & actualising your BIG dreams in your career and life as a performer. (For mature listeners, occasional adult language)

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Episodes

Monday Aug 18, 2025

Today’s episode is focused on one of our greatest resources - our energetic decision. AND backing it to create our desires from where we stand - regardless what’s in our current reality. 
Utilising our co creative power to get out ahead of our manifestations, regardless of the ups & downs of audition season, to align with our hearts onstage desires. 
In this episode I talk about:
✨the foundations of our energetic decision
✨how to back it & stabilise it to create your desires, regardless of how many times you’ve been cut or rejected this audition season
✨one of my own personal audition season stories, and being offered one of my dream contracts all with being cut in first rounds and falling on my a$$ through auditions
(things that could have spiralled me, my self concept and my co creative power down, down down if I’d let them) and backing my own energetic decision again and again.  
From my heart yo yours,
ENJOY x
 
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Previous Potent Episodes Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
🎙️Manifesting Doll 
Weight Loss | Emotional Eating | Manifestation | No Diet Babe |
172// Grace Used LOA To Drop Three Dress Sizes Without Obsession
https://www.podbean.com/wlei/pb-27s7v-149ab00
 
Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/bamboo
License code: Q1R78ULKX8XXHNAH
 

Sunday Aug 03, 2025

Today’s episode is all about that feeling of being *on edge* whilst on a job, where your own deepest feelings of safety seem to be tied into how the people you’re working with perceive you & if your performance is ‘enough’…
’Is what I’m doing ok? Are they happy with it? Will I be hired again?’… - we’ve all been there…
In this episode I talk about:
✨The potent question to ask to discern if you’re picking up on other people’s stuff, or maybe unconsciously projecting your own
✨How to sharpen your own discernment & awareness of energetics and projections when on jobs & performing
✨A story from my own career of opening a new show with seemingly high stakes and an attack of people pleasing & self doubt
✨How to come back into your own Alignment, self assuredness, magnetism and clear, resourced channel
(and my favourite tools for doing do)
 
From my heart to yours,
 
ENJOY x
 
Join the Instagram fam 🫶✨⬇️
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DM for 1:1 mentoring 
@manifesting_with_grace
 
Previous Potent Episodes Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
8. Who, In The Industry, Are You Making God? (Aka putting on a pedestal)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fNzS2m8rT3TYX2v98fbgj?si=L__qIwiCTsy-ygci6IyxeQ
7. When You WISH the Casting Team Would Say Something Nice to You…
(Inner Child Work)
https://open.spotify.com/episode/3S4xMXeKwOe1f5LypRcrjq?si=fohHl-UKTY-JANEehN3roQ
 
 
Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/bamboo
License code: Q1R78ULKX8XXHNAH
 

9. Magnetic Goals Check In

Saturday Jul 19, 2025

Saturday Jul 19, 2025

Today’s episode is a check in for your current career goals - do they FEEL magnetic to you? And are YOU magnetic to them? 🧲✨
(And how to get clear, aligned, LIT UP around your goals & in your magnetic frequency to receive them 🪄💫)
 
Magnetic Goals Check in Process:
✨Are your goals authentic to YOU?
(Do they feel like a full body f**k yes to you?)
✨If you could have it ANY way you wanted - what is your dream performers life?
✨What is ‘making it’ to your ego? & What is it to your SOUL?
✨ Adjust accordingly
(And celebrate yourself & your authentic, heartfelt desires)
✨Anchor into YOUR North Star for what success means to you
 
From my heart to yours,
ENJOY x
 
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@manifesting_with_grace
 
Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/bamboo
License code: Q1R78ULKX8XXHNAH
 

Thursday Jul 10, 2025

Today’s episode is all about that low key feeling of desperation, people pleasing & anxiety that we can be living with - on the jobs we’re rehearsing on, the auditions we’re going to etc - when we’re putting people in the industry on a pedestal.
Aka who are you making ‘God?’ (And for many of us this happens unconsciously).
 
I talk about:
✨What does it mean to put someone one in a pedestal?
 
✨How to identify that we are putting someone on a pedestal based on how we FEEL (in the rehearsal room, audition room etc)
 
✨Why we can consciously or unconsciously do this 
 
✨How to shift our perspective & energy out of this dynamic and into our own alignment, power, inner guidance & sovereignty to thrive in our careers 💫
 
From my heart to yours,
 
ENJOY x
 
Join the Instagram fam 🫶✨⬇️
https://www.instagram.com/manifesting_with_grace?igsh=Z2o5bzhpanhsNWF6
DM for 1:1 mentoring
@manifesting_with_grace
 
Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/bamboo
License code: Q1R78ULKX8XXHNAH
 
 

Thursday Jul 03, 2025

Today’s episode is all about when we are craving for people around us, especially authority figures in the industry, to compliment us/ approve of us/ affirm us e.g choreographers, the casting team, dance captains, colleagues etc in order for us to feel safe, seen & approved of.
 
- In other words, outsourcing our self esteem & inner child parenting to OTHERS around us…
 
In this episode I talk about:
 
✨How this can result from inner child wounds/ experiences that brought up shame for us in childhood.
 
✨Why we aren’t trusting ourselves and are looking so much to others to affirm us.
 
✨Why entering the professional industry can feel like the rug has been pulled out from under you when transitioning from training & teen years into the adult world of the industry
 
✨How to shift allll of this & feel confident, empowered trusting of yourself and whole within yourself, as you navigate the industry (and how to take your power back to give your inner child what they really need from YOU 🤍)
 
From my heart to yours,
 
ENJOY x
 
Join the Instagram fam 🫶✨⬇️
https://www.instagram.com/manifesting_with_grace?igsh=Z2o5bzhpanhsNWF6

DM for 1:1 mentoring
@manifesting_with_grace
 
Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/bamboo
License code: Q1R78ULKX8XXHNAH
 

Friday Jun 20, 2025

Today’s episode is a mini magnetic guided meditation & visualisation practice, to help you powerfully alchemise:
✨self doubt
✨low self esteem
✨feeling intimidated 
✨feeling wobbly in general in your energy
Before stepping into the room to audition or onto the stage to perform & to magnetise in your career manifestations.
It’s one of several potent tools I’ve leant on over & over throughout my own career (and life) 💫 to alchemise self doubt and step into my own authentic magnetism, and receive my career miracles.
It’s created from an amalgamation of inner child healing, visualisation, mindset shifts & self belief work.
From my heart to yours,
 
ENJOY x
 
Join the Instagram fam 🫶✨⬇️
https://www.instagram.com/manifesting_with_grace?igsh=Z2o5bzhpanhsNWF6
DM for 1:1 mentoring 
@manifesting_with_grace
 
Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/bamboo
License code: Q1R78ULKX8XXHNAH

Thursday Jun 12, 2025

Today’s episode is all about the energetics of not settling - when the Universe is testing you around the manifestation you’re calling in ✨
 
In this episode I talk about one of my own personal experiences with not settling -
 
turning down a perfectly good contract offer after a successful audition - (a DREAM offer for the me from a few years prior) because I had outgrown certain things and my desires had expanded - even when I had zero other offers or evidence that my manifestation was coming..
 
I cover:
✨being tested by the Universe around settling for less than what matches your truthful desire
✨having faith in the Universe, your manifestations and yourself as a co creator
✨how to identify when our minds are projecting scarcity & fear - so that we stay in our power and choose not to settle
✨being embodied in your self worth & holding your energetic boundaries for what you DESIRE to fill the space
From my heart to your,
 
ENJOY x
 
Join the Instagram fam 🫶✨⬇️ 
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Wednesday May 14, 2025

Today’s episode is a short & potent tune up for your vibration and mindset and a hug for your heart. 
Our BIG career & life dreams will often come with the ‘messy middle’ - where it feels like you’re taking aligned action, devoted to your inner work, energetic alignment & mindset rewiring, yet it feels like NOTHING is progressing in your reality. 
This is where our faith is tested. In ourselves, in the Universe, in our desires.
I share some of my own BIGGEST manifestations:
✨In career as a professional dancer & performer
✨In my relationship to food/body image/ weight fluctuations
✨In love and partnership
And the messy middles that preceded them.
May today’s episode call you home, to your deep inner guidance & knowing that you ARE on track, your tipping point where your reality catches up with your desires & embodiment IS coming (and is likely closer than you think ✨😉)
 
From my heart to yours,
ENJOY x
 
Mentioned in this episode:
•My guest episode on Barbara Orban’s podcast ‘Manifesting Doll’ 
https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-27s7v-149ab00
•Join the Instagram fam 
https://www.instagram.com/manifesting_with_grace?igsh=Y2plOWRxMWxydWE5&utm_source=qr
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Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/bamboo
License code: Q1R78ULKX8XXHNAH

Friday May 02, 2025

The things we desire the most, can be the things we separate ourselves from the MOST.
How? One of the many ways out sneaky ego does this, is by putting our desires on a *pedestal*.
 
For anyone who feels that they need to have ‘x’ job or role etc to be worthy, or who feels inferior next to their dream jobs, today’s episode is for you 🤍
 
I talk about:
 
✨How to identify when you’ve put your desire on a pedestal
✨How we are giving our power away when we do this
✨How to discern if your desire is soul f**k yes or driven by a need for validation
✨My 4 step process to take your power BACK, align energetically with the career dreams you are calling in & allow them into your reality 💫
 
From my heart to yours,
ENJOY x
Join the Instagram fam 🫶✨⬇️
https://www.instagram.com/manifesting_with_grace?igsh=Z2o5bzhpanhsNWF6
DM for 1:1 mentoring 
@manifesting_with_grace
 
Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/bamboo
License code: Q1R78ULKX8XXHNAH
 
 

Friday Apr 25, 2025

In todays episode of "But First Alignment" with your host, Grace Lenan from @manifesting_ with_grace, we dive deep into dealing with periods that feel like a standstill in your career, when it seems like everyone else is progressing - or even on fire. I share personal stories of feeling like it’s CRICKETS in my own career, and what I did to alchemise & shift my beliefs and energy to align with my dream jobs as a performer.
In this episode we cover:
✨Viewing those who have we want as expanders 02:55
✨Seeing where we are now as ‘yes, but not yet’ from the Universe (and the divine order of the Universe having a different timing & sequence of events to our own) 08:30
✨Alchemising inner child wounds (that may be keeping us in a holding pattern of not allowing in our manifestations) to come back into our innate magnetic energy 22:05
✨Trusting the Universe, your higher self, your process and your divine timing 32:00
From my heart to yours, welcome to this home for your soul, to explore practices that alchemise self-esteem issues, strengthen intuition and build your trust muscle with the Universe.
With personal stories and actionable advice, this episode aims to guide fellow performers and creatives toward manifesting a career that's truly aligned with their hearts calling.
 
Enjoy magical one, you’ve got this ✨
But first, alignment 😉🤍
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Mentioned in episode:
@tobemagnetic 
@kristensuch
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Music from #Uppbeat
https://uppbeat.io/t/hartzmann/bamboo
License code: Q1R78ULKX8XXHNAH

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