Leslie John

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1,938 appearances 4 recordings 3 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 17 Jun

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard · Leslie John (on the power of oversharing) · 17 Jun 2026 podcast

met up with some of my old ballet friends we hadn't seen each other it had been 30 years since we've seen each other we hadn't seen each other since ballet jail we call it yeah yeah the shared trauma lowercase t grand scheme of things it's not that bad but you know we talked about how weird it is that for example we're like I don't know 13 years old and our feet are bleeding before class but the thought of even telling the instructor that your feet are bleeding would be like

off limits.

We were children.

And I have little boys now.

I'm like, can you imagine your little children dancing with bleeding feet and pretending?

It's just wild.

Yeah, yeah.

And the brutality of like, not physical, but like the competitive.

We haven't heard that.

Yeah.

I loved...

I still love dancing, moving, ballet.

My shins were a disaster and fractured all the time.

And I remember, for me, this moment where I was at some surgeon.

They're like, oh, we'll just shave your bones down.

I was like 15 years old.

They're like, we're going to just shave your bones down.

And it's an experimental procedure that works for other dancers.

And that's that moment when I was like, okay, I'm out.

It's one of those things where...

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