It does what it says on the tin. Evan and Mago introduce themselves and the podcast. Mago is a plant-geneticist-turned-martial-arts-instructor-turned-studio-owner. Towards the end of his college years, he spent some time in Brazil and found the art form capoeira. Back in the States, he and his wife, Anne, began teaching capoeira classes. After a few years they realized the classes were having a huge impact on their community. Mago himself had decided against graduate school, opting to stay and run the studio. When others starting making the same choice — forgoing other opportunities so they stay a part of the little community — he and Anne had a moment of, “Uh-oh, we better take this seriously.” Almost twenty years later and they own multiple dance studios and a consulting business, Compete Services, that helps studio owners succeed.
“The arts are an underappreciated avenue for developing discipline, integrity, humility, and compassion, and we want more studio owners to succeed. “
Evan is a former student of Mago’s who, through a circuitous route, became Compete Services’s main code monkey. He taught classes in the dance studio for over a decade before learning software. Now he and Mago design and maintain a studio management software program, Compete Studio, in addition to the consulting.
The Studio Business Accelerator podcast is a way for Evan and Mago (and various featured guests) to explore the ideas, concepts, and strategies that they believe do the most good for their communities. In the podcast we discuss our mission statement: the arts are an underappreciated avenue for developing discipline, integrity, humility, and compassion, and we want more studio owners to succeed.