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My mother, as a dance mom, decided that she wanted to start a dance competition when I was 13.

So I had a very early education when it comes to the dance business.

Right on.

And while I was helping my dad with his studio, helping my mom with her competition, I was competing in dance.

I was teaching when I was 12.

My father's dance studio.

And then my first professional gig was when I was 16.

Fast forward, I moved to LA.

I'm from Vancouver.

I moved to LA when I was 20, a long time ago.

Yeah, totally, right?

And I moved out to LA to pursue the dream with my car, my clothes, moved into an apartment in North Hollywood that I'd never seen until the day that I moved in with a roommate that I'd never met until the day I moved in.

I had an agent already.

I had a work visa because I'm Canadian, very similar to Rudy's story.

I had to get the whole O-1 visa thing, if anybody understands that.

Yeah.

And within the first month, I was working with Paula Abdul, who was my teen idol.

She was my first concert as a kid.

So that was an amazing start.

A month later, I did the Pepsi commercials with Britney Spears for the Super Bowl.