795 Find Your Poker Face with Todrick Hall

This is five minute Friday. Welcome everyone to the podcast. Very excited about our guest. His name is Todrick hall and he's kind of incredible. This guy is a phenom if you guys don't know who he is. He became well known when he auditioned for the ninth season of American Idol, where he made it to the semifinals. Since then he's been performing on Broadway as a superstar. He's got a huge YouTube channel with some incredibly talented videos that he's produced. He's also featured in Forbes Top 30 under 30 in the Hollywood category in 2014. The Kia Sportage Turbo Hybrid has a bold design, a spacious interior with 232 horsepower and a 12.3-inch panoramic display to keep the adventure going and fit with the way you live. And with Sirius xm, every drive comes alive, bringing you closer to the music, the sports talk and podcasts that you love right in your vehicle or on the SiriusXM app. Every SiriusXM equipped Kia Sportage Turbo Hybrid includes a three month trial, so the experience begins the moment you drive. Learn more@kia.com Sportage Hybrid Kia Movement that.

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Our life is so crazy and we're trying to do something that should take a normal team of people that is like a 50 man army we will be doing with four people and, and we're doing something that it would take that 50 man army two months to do. We're doing it in literally two days, two to three days. So usually there's not a moment, we are literally rushing until that moment. But right before I go on stage, I always just bow my head and pray. I'm not the most crazy, like overly religious person, but I do believe that there's no way I could be here without somebody much bigger than I watching over me and guiding my footsteps and making sure that I was in the, in the room with the right people at the right time. And so I just like have to pray and like ground myself to get myself prepared because otherwise I will, I will go crazy. And it's like a. I always get this calming feeling like 30 seconds before I go on. I'm a nervous wreck until 30 seconds before I go on. And then I get calm and I'm like, okay, you can do this. And then we make magic.

Well, I love that. What would you say to someone who feels like overwhelmed and anxious and has a lot of pressure on themselves when they want to perform? Whether it be a business pitch meeting or singing or dancing, whatever it may be some type of performance going on their first date. What advice would you give to someone to overcome pressure?

I would just say that this whole world is like a big game, you know, and you have to walk into a room and at least have a great poker face. You can be nervous and that's normal. I think a lot of people think that nerves are not normal and then that means that they are second guessing themselves or doubting the talent that they know that they have. But I don't think that's what it means. I think if you're not nervous then you're way too confident and, and, and you're probably not going to get the things that you are looking for. I think anybody who's an artist or really passionate about anything that they're going in for a good amount of nerves is important. I think put on a good poker face and go in there and remember that every single person that is in a position to make decisions to guide your career or change your career are also just people. And people are attracted to confidence. And if an idea is great or if the talent is truly there, then I think ultimately in the end that will always Prevail.

What keeps you grounded? With all the success you're getting and the recognition and the YouTube crazies, what.

Keeps me grounded is I have the most amazing mom in the world. Not to go on a 20 minute tangent about my mom, but there was no dance studio where I lived. My mom got a new job so she could drive me an hour and a half to to dance class every day in an hour and a half home. She never let me miss class, she never let me be late. And I don't think without her telling me, even though she had no idea what to do with a child like me because she had never seen anybody like this. And for me to be her child, I think she really jumped on the bandwagon and just tried to learn as much as she could about getting me out there. And also I have amazing, amazing friends who are not only are there to support me at any day, any time, but they also tell me when I'm wrong. And I think that's the most important thing to keep someone humble.

Yeah. And you're receptive to it, probably.

It sounds like.

Yeah.

Because I know that they wouldn't lead me astray. And even if sometimes I don't want to hear it, I'm always, always, always so grateful that I have friends that will be like, todrick, I love you, but you're being ridiculous right now and this is not a good move. Or this would be better, you know.

Sure, sure.

Yeah.

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