HeyJaredYour Passaggi Professor with Sarah Neely
Your Passaggi Professor with Sarah Neely is a podcast for singers that provides tools to help you bridge the gap between the "hard" skills you learn in your music degree and the "soft" skills needed to live a focused, intentional life.
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Duality and Duende (opens the original)
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What happens when your performance goes sideways in the moment — and you still leave the stage laughing? In this season finale of Your Passaggi Professor , Sarah Neely takes you inside two concerts in Madrid: a performance of the Carceleras by Chapí that went off script, the old mindset voice that crept back in afterward, and the second concert that landed her performance in the inbox of Chapí’s own granddaughter. Sarah also unpacks duende — the flamenco concept her program’s teachers introduced
Scarcity vs. Growth Mindset (opens the original)
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Have you ever had a sudden barrage of negative thoughts right before a lesson, an audition, or a new program —one that tells you everyone else is going to be better than you, and that you have no business being there at all? In this episode, Sarah talks you through an experience she had in Madrid, where she caught herself falling into exactly that trap mid-masterclass. She walks through the comparison spiral in real time, including the specific tools she used to catch it, calm her body down, and
Five Trips, One Ball Pit, and a Zarzuela (opens the original)
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What does it actually take to prepare for something important when nothing about the circumstances is ideal? In this episode of Your Passaggi Professor , Sarah records live from the middle of her most chaotic prep season yet — her fourth of five back-to-back summer trips, over 24 hours of travel to reach Germany, real jet lag, and repertoire prepped everywhere from a tiny Mexico condo to a San Antonio hotel room to her brother’s basement playroom (ball pit included). With a Spanish diction cours
Bumping Into Your Old Self at a Conference (opens the original)
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This week Sarah is at her first national NATS conference in San Antonio — presenting with colleagues, reconnecting with old mentors, and standing in the same city where she did her master’s degree. It should feel like a full-circle moment. And it mostly does. But it also brings up something she didn’t expect: old scarcity thinking, old comparison spirals, and a version of herself she thought she’d outgrown. In this episode, you’ll learn: * Why scarcity and comparison mindsets can resurface even
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