Witney Carson

I want to talk a little bit about young Whitney, kid Whitney.

Your mom was a travel agent and your dad was in software developing.

How did you gravitate toward dance?

Well, you know what?

My mom, she actually grew up very poor.

She could not afford dance.

And she really always wanted to be a dancer.

And so I think she knew when I was her first.

Okay.

So I think once she knew that she could tell that I kind of liked to dance, she was immediately like, okay.

Like she kind of lived a little bit vicariously through me.

Because she wanted to give me all the opportunities that she didn't have.

And so that's, you know, I started dance very young and I loved it, loved it, loved it.

And then as I grew older, she actually became she started a swimwear company.

So she was an entrepreneur.

I remember her starting this business in our basement and just hustling.

And I think that's where I get kind of my entrepreneur gene a little bit, that little fire in me to be an entrepreneur because I saw her work so hard for something that she wanted so badly.

So she was an amazing example to me of hard work and being a mom and balancing it all.

And it was really inspiring for me as a kid and a teen to watch her do that.

Um, and my dad, he was in software development, so he was obviously the techie guy.