{"id":1413,"date":"2015-11-16T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2015-11-16T10:00:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T10:00:51","slug":"our-fads-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/blog\/fred-astaire-fads-history\/our-fads-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Our FADS Family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whenever I’m on social media<\/a>, I see a lot of people I know. Not unusual, right?<\/p>\n

But many of my \u201cfriends\u201d and connections are other Fred Astaire Dance Studio<\/a> owners across the country and around the world, and I realize I am in no way alone in this business.<\/p>\n

We often use the phrase, \u201cour Fred Astaire family,\u201d but it really is true.<\/p>\n

Competitions happen every weekend, and I see other FADS studios succeeding around the country. I shout-out to them and \u201clike\u201d their posts.<\/p>\n

Our teachers and students win competitions, and the same happens in return. We are all rooting each other on.<\/p>\n

I know we\u2019re not the only franchise business in the world, but I truly believe we are unique. There are approximately 160 FADS studios in the world, about 140 in the U.S.<\/p>\n

We support each other, we are connected in our mission and in our pursuits. And I know that doesn’t happen outside of our franchise.<\/p>\n

\"FredAstairelogo.blackgold\"<\/a>We support other studios wherever they are. People come in to our studio and hear the phrase, that we are a family; once they get in deep, they realize it is so true. They go on vacation or to a summer or winter home, and lo and behold, there\u2019s another FADS studio for them to continue dancing at.<\/p>\n

Our students accept being part of this dance family, and they see it as the entire chain, starting to refer to this community as their dance family.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing like, family, right?<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s more than just the wider network of Fred Astaire studios. Within our own studio, Michigan\u2019s only Fred Astaire Dance Studio<\/a>, we feel like a family.<\/p>\n

Students come in and feel welcomed as if it were a family event. They make quick connections, form friendships.<\/p>\n

Recently, a devoted regular student took ill, and his FADS friends and staff visited him in the hospital.<\/p>\n

Once he returned home, he didn\u2019t return to dance class. The staff, students, and Lada and I were all checking in with him, to see if he was physically and emotionally ok.<\/p>\n

We miss him. A member of our family was greatly missed. And we didn\u2019t hesitate to show how much.<\/p>\n

This sense of family starts at the top of the organization and sets a great tone to distill down to individual studios.<\/p>\n

That’s basically the company ethos or corporate culture of Fred Astaire Dance Studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You have your nuclear family, all your cousins and extended family, and when you get together at a reunion, everyone’s excited to see one another. We’re tight here; we’re tight with FADS everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whenever I’m on social media, I see a lot of people I know. Not unusual, right? But many of my \u201cfriends\u201d and connections are other Fred Astaire Dance Studio owners across the country and around the world, and I realize I am in no way alone in this business. We often use the phrase, \u201cour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fred-astaire-fads-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fredastaire.com\/bloomfield-hills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}