Episode 137: From Real Estate to Reselling Dancewear

<span style="font-weight: 400;">This week on 5.6.7.EIGHT, Aleksandra speaks with Margeaux McCarthy, Owner of the</span> <a href="https://www.dancexchangeapp.com/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Dance Xchange App, LLC</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Margeaux is a former professional hip hop dancer with credits in commercials for some of the world’s biggest brands. After she retired from the stage, McCarthy became a real estate sales advisor by day and a dance instructor by night. With a love for resale apps such as eBay, McCarthy saw a need to create a platform like Dance Xchange — a resell app for dancewear, created for dancers by dancers.</span> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For driven individuals like Margeaux, a career pivot is a relatively common occurrence — always looking for the next new challenge. Being willing to take that risk, with the hope of reward — whether intrinsic, external, or both. But this doesn’t make a career pivot any less difficult. On the podcast, Margeaux discusses what drove her to take the plunge as a tech entrepreneur, shares advice she wishes she’d have known when she set out, gives some know-how on building an app and engaging with developers, and so much more.</span><span style= "font-weight: 400;"><br /> <br /></span></p> <p><strong>Moving Quotes:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"If I could give my younger self advice, I'd say, 'Keep going.' You have that idea. Just keep going with it."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"[When starting a business,] you know that it's all going to pay off one day. You have your business plan. You have your structure. You just have to keep following through. And it will eventually pay off. It's just a matter of seeing that in the future."</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"In my head I had always said, 'Somebody else is going to do [this idea] if you don't.' Everybody has an idea, so someone else is thinking this also. Whether or not you put your foot