WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:02.759 I'm so happy to be here more. I'm welcome for you. 2 00:00:02.839 --> 00:00:05.080 I'm excited to have you on the couch. I'm excited 3 00:00:05.160 --> 00:00:08.480 to know more about you. You are an exotic era list. 4 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:11.160 You do your pole dancing, you you do coaching, you 5 00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:13.439 do all these fabulous things, and Private Talk wants to 6 00:00:13.439 --> 00:00:15.839 get to know you a little bit more. So please 7 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:19.399 tell us all about you, Miss Candace came well, I 8 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:22.440 do all those things and more. I like to and 9 00:00:22.679 --> 00:00:26.120 more and more, honey, lots of more. That's the ending part. 10 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.239 That and Moore comes later Private Talk to make sure 11 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:31.239 you buckle down and get ready for this interview exactly. 12 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:35.240 So, I have been teaching pole dancing since twenty thirteen. 13 00:00:35.719 --> 00:00:40.079 I've competed professionally. I've done music videos and concerts for 14 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:43.240 Snoop Dogg and a shanty pole dancing in front of 15 00:00:43.320 --> 00:00:44.079 thousands of people. 16 00:00:44.079 --> 00:00:45.960 It's a lot of fun. So that's why you had 17 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:48.399 the jams. I had this CHANTI on earlier. So yeah, 18 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:50.439 I felt right at home. See, I didn't know why. 19 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:52.280 I felt like, you know, on the way over here, 20 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:54.119 I was like, what mood do I want to be in? 21 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:56.039 And she always puts me in a good mood. So 22 00:00:56.079 --> 00:00:58.439 you know, maybe gravitated your energy to pull you in 23 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.799 and it was felt comfortable here on some things kismet here, 24 00:01:00.840 --> 00:01:02.359 I love it. You are so good. 25 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:06.079 Aside from that, I perform burlesque. I'm actually here in 26 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:10.079 Los Angeles performing at the next Door Lounge in Hollywood 27 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:14.359 most Saturdays, some Fridays. So I love it because it's 28 00:01:14.439 --> 00:01:17.680 it's a different type of performance than pole dancing. 29 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:19.719 How is that all you? Or is it with like 30 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:22.439 other girls too? There's other girls throughout the evening something 31 00:01:22.519 --> 00:01:23.159 like dinner. 32 00:01:23.519 --> 00:01:27.040 It's dinner and a show, so you have your friends 33 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:30.159 that come out enjoy some drinks and some dinner, and 34 00:01:30.200 --> 00:01:33.799 then throughout the evening single performances will happen. So I'll 35 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:36.000 come out, and then another performer will come out and 36 00:01:36.040 --> 00:01:38.159 do their song, and then another and then it turns 37 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:39.000 into a dance party. 38 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:40.480 And next Door Lounge is a lot of fun. I 39 00:01:40.480 --> 00:01:42.239 don't have to check that out, please do. 40 00:01:42.680 --> 00:01:46.400 But it's great because it's a classy way of stripping, 41 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:48.480 is what they consider it, you know, burlesque, and I 42 00:01:48.519 --> 00:01:51.439 come down into my pasties and whatnot, but it's very 43 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.000 different from my pole dancing. 44 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:55.560 And like I've worked as a stripper in clubs, and 45 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:57.920 then I've worked as like a go go dancer at 46 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:01.480 working on the pole, which is different because I'm not taking. 47 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:04.319 Close and aren't most goyog dancers, aren't you like just 48 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.519 dancing stationary. I thought I didn't know a poll was involved. Well, 49 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:08.120 it depends. 50 00:02:08.159 --> 00:02:10.840 Here in Los Angeles they've actually started within the last 51 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:15.560 few years implementing pole dancing, so you're not necessarily grinding 52 00:02:15.599 --> 00:02:19.400 and gyrating, but you are doing pole athletics as well 53 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:21.960 as dancing with the music, and you know, people are 54 00:02:21.960 --> 00:02:24.680 able to tip you, which is fun. But it's not 55 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:26.560 like I'm taking people to the back and taking them 56 00:02:26.599 --> 00:02:28.919 for lap dances. I mean I might, like, you know, 57 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:31.039 if they're in front of me and my open my 58 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:32.159 lazy like hey. 59 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:34.879 So again the more classy of the of the whole. 60 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:37.599 But I don't even love that word classy saying it. 61 00:02:37.719 --> 00:02:40.680 I mean, I think, you see, I think it's all 62 00:02:40.800 --> 00:02:43.240 very I think because okay, so back up a minute. 63 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:44.919 So for me about you know, even how the industry 64 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:46.680 I was in, and I was in the adult industry, 65 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.400 so for me, it was the way I expressed myself artistically. 66 00:02:49.400 --> 00:02:50.759 So I feel like it's the same way with you 67 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:53.080 with but with dancing and poll and you know, being 68 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:55.240 like an airlist whatever, because it's it's an art and 69 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:58.159 it's beautiful. It's like painting a picture from somebody else's 70 00:02:58.199 --> 00:03:00.439 mind and creating music or you know, things like that. 71 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.240 So it's very it's I'm very in tune with those things. 72 00:03:03.240 --> 00:03:05.680 So it's cool to see like that portray across and 73 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.439 how it's elevated now to where now there's different things 74 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:10.599 where it's you know, but burlesque was always around, you know, 75 00:03:10.680 --> 00:03:12.400 but now it's bringing it more into it where it's 76 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:14.039 like now it's dinner in a show, and it's like, 77 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:15.960 you know, it's because the entertainment, you know industry, we 78 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:18.360 suffered so much because of the pandemic, and we found 79 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:21.240 ways to really do those things behind you know, in 80 00:03:21.319 --> 00:03:23.719 our homes or on live streams and things like that. 81 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:26.120 But you know, it's really fun for me, I think, 82 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:28.199 and I know I'm sure you're you know fans as well. 83 00:03:28.240 --> 00:03:30.520 It's like to see that one on one in front 84 00:03:30.560 --> 00:03:32.280 of my face, you doing these things where I'm like, 85 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:34.639 oh my god, that's the part that I've missed. Every 86 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.199 night is different, you know what I mean. I can 87 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:37.840 see like I used to dance before, and you know, 88 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.639 I have some strip clubs across the world, and it 89 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:42.759 was I couldn't tell her, like what can we expect? 90 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:45.120 I hated that question because it's like, I don't have 91 00:03:45.159 --> 00:03:48.360 a choreof grabbed my thing in my mind, but I 92 00:03:48.479 --> 00:03:50.360 just know what songs I dance to and what my 93 00:03:50.479 --> 00:03:53.599 routine in a senses, But it's off the crowd. It's 94 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.719 about the participation of everything, how I'm feeling that day. 95 00:03:56.960 --> 00:03:59.159 And sometimes I mean, every show is great, but it's 96 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:00.840 like what evolution you know, what's going to be tapped 97 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:02.840 in and unlocked with the LEAs of taxes today. So 98 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:04.800 I'm sure that's really much about yourself. Which one of 99 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:07.599 the very much true those jobs that you've told some 100 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.479 private talk today, Which is your favorite to do? You 101 00:04:10.520 --> 00:04:10.919 have one? 102 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:15.759 Honestly teaching. I love teaching. I teach flexibility. I teach 103 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:20.480 pole dancing and twerking and handstands and exotic movement. And 104 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:23.199 I like to teach people how to learn because a 105 00:04:23.199 --> 00:04:25.040 lot of people get stuck up on what they can't 106 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:27.079 do and oh I'm to this, I'm to that, and 107 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:29.439 I'm like, well, if you keep thinking that you're not 108 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.360 gonna get anywhere, So how about we just negate those feelings. 109 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:34.560 You feel how you feel about yourself when you're away 110 00:04:34.560 --> 00:04:36.360 from me, but when you're in my class. The can't 111 00:04:36.399 --> 00:04:37.040 is a cuss word. 112 00:04:37.160 --> 00:04:39.519 I love that I have a refuse for you to 113 00:04:39.560 --> 00:04:41.680 just because your mindset is everything you know I mean, 114 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:43.759 And if you say I can't, then you can't exactly. 115 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:45.519 I'm always like, I don't know, but I'll try. 116 00:04:45.959 --> 00:04:47.639 No, Debbie Downer, It's like, if you want to do 117 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:49.079 that on your own time, but not, you're not gonna 118 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:50.439 waste my time. I don't want to hear it. It's 119 00:04:50.439 --> 00:04:52.680 not for me to hear. I want to do nothing 120 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:55.279 but empower my students. And I love giving them that 121 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:57.759 sense of I've done something that I didn't think I 122 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:59.680 could do before, and then they. 123 00:04:59.560 --> 00:05:01.920 Get a died to it. That's what happened with me. 124 00:05:02.120 --> 00:05:05.279 Like I wasn't classically trained dancer all through school, and 125 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:09.639 then I ended up poll dancing because one I wanted 126 00:05:09.639 --> 00:05:12.279 a better way to work out that wasn't so icky, 127 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:13.000 Like the gym. 128 00:05:13.560 --> 00:05:15.279 I don't like the gym. The gym's not in a 129 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:16.959 good place for me, is it? Because you don't like 130 00:05:17.000 --> 00:05:19.560 stationary movement. It's like kind of like with sports, like athletes, 131 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:20.800 it's like you need to be doing something. 132 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:23.439 I rather much have some fun while I'm working out 133 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:25.600 and the gym, I just cuss and bitch and moan 134 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.600 and cry, and I it's. 135 00:05:28.360 --> 00:05:30.439 I exactly and in front of people too, and I 136 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:35.839 just you know, it's not yourself to see the thing. 137 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:38.439 I know I am able to. I just choose not 138 00:05:38.519 --> 00:05:42.160 to like the option. But going back to like pole 139 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:46.199 dancing and stuff. When when I first started poll dancing, 140 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:49.439 it was because I wanted to work out but also 141 00:05:49.759 --> 00:05:52.519 get in tune with my more sensual side. I was 142 00:05:52.600 --> 00:05:56.040 a very developed young woman, and people looked at me 143 00:05:56.079 --> 00:05:58.079 as a woman when I was still a child, and 144 00:05:58.120 --> 00:06:00.399 I had some issues going up growing up, and so 145 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:02.439 it was a way for me to reclaim my sexy 146 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:05.399 and get in tune with my sexuality and sensuality for myself. 147 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:08.800 And then I felt more confident. And then, lord knows, 148 00:06:08.800 --> 00:06:10.480 you would not have been able to tell me back 149 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:12.879 in college that I'd be making my career swinging on poles. 150 00:06:13.079 --> 00:06:15.079 You know, my mom's a stand up comedian in her thing. 151 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:16.560 It's just like you know, back in my day, we 152 00:06:16.639 --> 00:06:19.120 kept the kids off the pole. Now, when she came 153 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:21.079 home with a couple thousand dollars, she's like, you go ahead, 154 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:22.720 let me help you pick out now. But no, that's 155 00:06:22.759 --> 00:06:23.199 not enough. 156 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:29.279 You got don't. Yes, that's good though. It's important to 157 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.000 have people, you know, in your life and your family 158 00:06:31.040 --> 00:06:33.759 support what you do, especially breaking the stereotypes of what 159 00:06:33.839 --> 00:06:36.279 it was before and what you're doing now. You know, 160 00:06:36.399 --> 00:06:38.000 and it's you know, I go back to saying, you know, 161 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:39.600 when I was in the adult industry and camp, like 162 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:42.600 the similarities is because it's just the adult industry itself. 163 00:06:42.800 --> 00:06:44.519 You know, you get a lot of like marks or 164 00:06:44.600 --> 00:06:46.639 like oh looked at sideways or whatever. You know. For 165 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.759 me telling my parents like hey I did an adult movie, 166 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:51.759 they're like, okay, But I explained it to the point 167 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:53.720 where it was like that's how I was expressing myself. 168 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.279 That's how I found myself in comfort, and like, you know, 169 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:58.720 I was always comfortable with my sexuality, so it was 170 00:06:58.759 --> 00:07:01.079 how I wanted to express myself. So yes, again, it's 171 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:03.079 not something they wanted to like ideally hear or want 172 00:07:03.079 --> 00:07:05.160 their child to do, but they definitely are cheerleaders and 173 00:07:05.319 --> 00:07:07.399 very supportive and everything that I choose to do. So 174 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:09.120 it's important to have those things because that's how I 175 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:11.519 feel like we elevate even more because you tap into 176 00:07:11.560 --> 00:07:13.800 like now that you're coaching, or now that you're teaching, 177 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:16.279 and all these things like that, what you've already learned 178 00:07:16.279 --> 00:07:18.120 and loved to do, you're bringing it and putting into 179 00:07:18.120 --> 00:07:20.560 somebody else's hands too and having that come out in them. 180 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:22.800 And I think that's a beautiful thing. Support goes a 181 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:25.480 long way on both ends. Support as me being a teacher, 182 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:28.120 supporting my students, and support for me as an entertainer, 183 00:07:28.199 --> 00:07:30.959 having people like you know, my mom and my family 184 00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:33.759 be behind me and understand that what I do is 185 00:07:33.800 --> 00:07:36.360 something that I love to do and it's helping other people. 186 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:38.959 And my thing is when I'm performing, I want you 187 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:41.199 to forget about all the other dramas in your life. 188 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:42.920 I don't want you to think about not a not 189 00:07:42.959 --> 00:07:45.680 a nothing except my little ass shaking on the stage 190 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:50.759 and doing these amazing tricks. So hopefully, I mean, from 191 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:52.560 what I've heard from other people, they say that like 192 00:07:52.600 --> 00:07:54.959 they are transcended. They come in and like, I'm so 193 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:57.519 happy that you came because at least that this shows 194 00:07:57.519 --> 00:07:59.439 that you're doing something for yourself. You came out you're 195 00:07:59.439 --> 00:08:01.279 not dealing with dramas, and I'm going to take you 196 00:08:01.319 --> 00:08:04.000 into a further place where you're so far from that bullshit. 197 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:07.519 I'm here for you. That's awesome. I'm a philanthropist through 198 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.319 my entertaining and teaching. So how do you would one 199 00:08:10.399 --> 00:08:12.879 person come to you and find you to be a 200 00:08:12.959 --> 00:08:14.800 teacher a coach? How would we do that? How to 201 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:16.800 tell private talk? So maybe we have some listeners out 202 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:18.560 there that are going to come and come and join 203 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:19.519 your class. Yes, of course. 204 00:08:19.560 --> 00:08:23.399 Well my website is Higher Learning Dance. Higher Learning Dance 205 00:08:23.399 --> 00:08:25.560 because you're higher off the ground, and well I like 206 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:26.079 to get. 207 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:29.000 High, you know. Right, speaking of that, you know, I'm 208 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:31.079 gonna smoke on my beigo flatur Hello. 209 00:08:32.039 --> 00:08:35.919 Higher Learning Dance is my company, and I also am 210 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.840 on the social media's. However, when it comes to dealing 211 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:41.399 with classes, it's best to, you know, either go through 212 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:44.799 my email or the website which directs you into my email. 213 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:48.240 And like I said, I teach pole dancing, I teach flexibility. 214 00:08:48.279 --> 00:08:50.519 I also do a lot of zoom classes. So people 215 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.679 who aren't in Los Angeles are not quite comfortable to 216 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:57.320 meet person to person. In these days, I completely understand 217 00:08:57.360 --> 00:08:59.919 that I got you. I'm really vocal and I'm able 218 00:08:59.919 --> 00:09:02.679 to explain things in a way that you understand it. 219 00:09:02.799 --> 00:09:04.919 Do you feel like your message gets across when people 220 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:07.000 aren't one on one because you're not maybe with flexibility, 221 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.080 It's like, how do you know that you're really pushing 222 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:10.840 in deep into those things? You know things? 223 00:09:10.679 --> 00:09:13.000 There's different markers that I can see in a person 224 00:09:13.039 --> 00:09:15.120 when they're doing it, so I know what the body's 225 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:17.519 supposed to look like, and I can tell when how 226 00:09:17.559 --> 00:09:20.399 they react after I tell them to make this certain adjustment. 227 00:09:20.440 --> 00:09:22.360 They're like, oh, I'm like, oh, now you feel it. 228 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:25.039 Now you feel it. You look too comfortable before. So 229 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:26.919 and I've been doing it for so long, like I've 230 00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:28.759 been like, I've been a dancer for over twenty years, 231 00:09:28.759 --> 00:09:30.840 and then with the pole thing, I've been doing that 232 00:09:30.879 --> 00:09:34.679 since twenty twelve and for less since like twenty fourteen. 233 00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:38.799 I yeah, it's just cool. Let's talk about you said 234 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:40.559 with the pole dancing thing, you wanted to kind of 235 00:09:40.559 --> 00:09:43.919 go back. I'm sorry, I apologize, go back to you 236 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:47.000 said you you developed really early on as like child. 237 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:48.919 People are looking at you kind of probably more than 238 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:50.639 you know, they were supposed to be giving you more attention, 239 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.600 did you? You went inward and you didn't really accept 240 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.480 that a negative very much. So I kind of shund 241 00:09:56.559 --> 00:09:59.080 up by that doing talking about I. I don't mind 242 00:09:59.120 --> 00:10:00.360 talking about that at all. Yeah. 243 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:04.080 So, one of two things happens when people have dealt 244 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:08.679 with either like molestation or any type of situations in 245 00:10:08.679 --> 00:10:13.080 that regards. They either act out or they retreat. I 246 00:10:13.080 --> 00:10:15.559 did both. I acted out and then I retreated. I 247 00:10:15.559 --> 00:10:17.960 was like, I don't want to be this way because 248 00:10:18.039 --> 00:10:21.799 at a certain point I felt that I was looked 249 00:10:21.840 --> 00:10:24.600 at as this object, the sexual being, and that was 250 00:10:24.639 --> 00:10:26.320 all I was good for because that's all that the 251 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:31.159 attention I was getting. And so it wasn't until I realized, Fuck, 252 00:10:31.240 --> 00:10:33.200 what everyone else sees me as, it's what I see 253 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:36.919 myself as is what I feel is what's most important. 254 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:40.279 And I it's ultimately up to me to allow people 255 00:10:40.320 --> 00:10:42.360 in my life and in my circle, and if they're 256 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:45.799 not in my space doing something to elevate me or 257 00:10:45.799 --> 00:10:49.799 help me or be positive influenced in my life, they 258 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:50.759 don't got to be there. 259 00:10:51.679 --> 00:10:56.399 And I learned how to essentially say no fortin that's 260 00:10:56.440 --> 00:10:59.480 a strong word because we you know, we sometimes even 261 00:10:59.480 --> 00:11:01.879 with just you know, females in general, is we want 262 00:11:01.879 --> 00:11:03.679 to be a pleaser. We don't want to be you know, 263 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:05.440 oh you're difficult or oh you know, you get to 264 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:07.679 all these stigmas on these things where it's like no 265 00:11:07.879 --> 00:11:11.240 is okay for any you know, gender, race, anything like whatever. 266 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:13.039 No is a powerful word and you should take it 267 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:14.559 and you should own it. But it's you know, it's 268 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:17.000 really a crucial time for women when we grow up 269 00:11:17.039 --> 00:11:19.279 and you're like, oh, you have these things that you know, 270 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:20.679 I have boobs. I haven't asked you know what I 271 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.200 mean with me, And I didn't get boos until later on. 272 00:11:22.279 --> 00:11:23.639 But I had a big ass always, So it was 273 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:25.919 always like what attention brings it to you know, to 274 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.240 you so you're just like sometimes people hear it and 275 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:30.320 you're just like you get shy or nervous of it. 276 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:31.639 You don't want people to see it whatever I mean. But 277 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:34.080 you know, finding that voice again is really powerful, Like 278 00:11:34.120 --> 00:11:36.559 you said, to get your own you know, femininity back 279 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:38.519 and your own sexuality back to be like you know what, 280 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:40.919 I have the power you don't, And that's a really 281 00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:43.000 powerful thing. Yes, yes, very powerful. 282 00:11:43.120 --> 00:11:45.519 So pole really helped me with that, and I'm so thankful, 283 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:49.200 and like, honestly, anyone who approaches pole has their own reason. 284 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:52.039 Yes, and it is what you make it. 285 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:53.960 Like going back earlier, what we were saying as far 286 00:11:53.960 --> 00:11:57.159 as pole dancing classy and stripping all that stuff, it 287 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:59.559 can be anything. I've seen ballerinas pole dance. I've seen 288 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:02.320 break dance pole dance. I've seen tap dancers pole dance, 289 00:12:02.320 --> 00:12:05.559 like I've seen people amputites pole dance. Like, it's whatever 290 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:09.240 you make it. It's a creative interpretation. So it also 291 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:11.960 depends on the setting. So yes, if I'm dancing with 292 00:12:12.080 --> 00:12:16.960 like club lights going and it's a sexy song playing, 293 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:19.360 you're gonna allude to it being more of a strip 294 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:21.759 club performance. But if I'm dancing in like, you know, 295 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:26.360 a park and I've got like gene shorts and tank top, 296 00:12:26.399 --> 00:12:28.759 I'm not like in a g string and pasties, it 297 00:12:29.320 --> 00:12:31.559 portrays a different image. So it's all about like the 298 00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:32.240 setting too. 299 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:34.600 I agree with that, I feel like, but I think 300 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:37.159 like now too, it's like we're in such a time 301 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:39.600 where you know, everything is just odd in the world, 302 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:40.639 you know, and things like that where it so I 303 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:42.919 feel like I feel like if people are trying to 304 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:45.559 fight back to making that where it's like dance and 305 00:12:45.639 --> 00:12:48.080 certain things, it doesn't matter what you're wearing. Isn't like 306 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.200 it doesn't have to be like trash here raunch of 307 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:51.879 your strip club ish or like, you know what I mean. 308 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:54.759 It's like it's okay for you to dance sensual to 309 00:12:54.840 --> 00:12:57.120 an R and B song that you feel is great 310 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:58.720 or you know what I mean, or whatever song that 311 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:00.240 makes you feel like. I feel like people try like 312 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:02.559 shun away, like, oh that's over sexualized. Why does it 313 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:04.399 have to be you make it that way, right, not 314 00:13:04.519 --> 00:13:06.720 the actual individual who's being an artist and portruy, you know, 315 00:13:06.759 --> 00:13:09.480 like letting theirself go exactly. And that's why I feel like, 316 00:13:09.519 --> 00:13:11.200 you know, I think it's people need to kind of 317 00:13:11.240 --> 00:13:13.440 like look inward a little bit more when they start 318 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:15.600 finding problems with other things outside in the world. Why 319 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:20.200 it really bothers you. But yeah, so there's pole dancing. 320 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:21.840 Where'd you go after pole dancing? Did you go the 321 00:13:21.919 --> 00:13:24.679 go go go dancing? Yes? I ended up go go dancing? 322 00:13:24.679 --> 00:13:26.600 So was that just not enough? You wanted more? You 323 00:13:26.679 --> 00:13:28.480 just like the liberation of dancing that you're just like, 324 00:13:28.519 --> 00:13:30.000 what can I do? Next, could you say you have 325 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:32.480 a background in dance. Yeah. Yeah. 326 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:34.279 I ended up getting booked for like a lot of 327 00:13:34.399 --> 00:13:36.919 music videos, which is fun. Like I've I've always been 328 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:39.200 on set even since I was younger. Like my first 329 00:13:39.279 --> 00:13:41.240 music video was like a Luther Van Dross video and 330 00:13:41.279 --> 00:13:43.360 I was like a kid and Mariah Carey too. I 331 00:13:43.399 --> 00:13:44.879 was like a kid in the church, you know, singing 332 00:13:44.879 --> 00:13:47.600 along with it. It was great, that's awesome. But then 333 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:52.879 I I wanted to do something more like with teaching, 334 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.200 I'm able to like really help people more one on one. 335 00:13:56.519 --> 00:13:57.279 Entertaining is great. 336 00:13:57.320 --> 00:13:59.519 I can help like I could say I can help 337 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:02.440 a crowd perform or not perform, but enjoy the performance 338 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:05.200 while I'm doing it, but it's not the same effect. 339 00:14:05.279 --> 00:14:09.600 I feel like I have more influence and more calling 340 00:14:09.840 --> 00:14:12.600 to like teach people. I still perform just because I 341 00:14:12.720 --> 00:14:14.840 enjoy it. I love the thrill of being on stage 342 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:17.679 and just seeing the people's reaction when I do what 343 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:19.960 I do and just being like you're looking at me now, 344 00:14:20.039 --> 00:14:21.639 like eyes on me, baby. 345 00:14:22.200 --> 00:14:24.679 Powerful. That's why for me I can really could with 346 00:14:24.679 --> 00:14:26.399 the like dancing on the Future dancing, it was like 347 00:14:26.440 --> 00:14:28.720 I knew at that moment everyone was gonna watch me, 348 00:14:29.240 --> 00:14:30.960 and it was like what am I doing? And it's 349 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.799 captivating because it's really like a lot of people don't 350 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:34.320 get that attention. But that's why I feel like with 351 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:37.919 when I see artists perform, I'm like, that's all my 352 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:39.480 new point of that, you know, depending on how big 353 00:14:39.519 --> 00:14:41.600 the r but it's just that power, Like it's like 354 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:43.039 it's just like adrenaline rush. 355 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.000 It's kind of like a snake charmer in a sense, 356 00:14:46.720 --> 00:14:50.200 except I'm the one with the flute and I'm like, 357 00:14:50.240 --> 00:14:52.799 even though I'm the one dancing, but like everyone. 358 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:58.600 Is encaptivated, like by I as your flute. Yes, yes, yes, 359 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:01.240 So with the pole dancing. 360 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:04.639 I will say this, it has brought me to a 361 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:06.279 lot of different places in my life that I never 362 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:08.399 thought I would, Like I've been able to teach in 363 00:15:08.480 --> 00:15:12.600 different countries, and I would never have assumed that it 364 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:15.879 has gotten as far as it has. In like the media, 365 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:18.480 like I've done commercials, Like a couple of years ago, 366 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:19.720 I did a commercial for I think it was like 367 00:15:19.759 --> 00:15:21.519 beats by Dre and I was pole dancing for that. 368 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:23.919 I know I wasn't in it, but they had I 369 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:25.559 think it was like a Calvin Klein commercial that had 370 00:15:25.559 --> 00:15:28.159 pole dancing and like it's so progressive now and I'm 371 00:15:28.200 --> 00:15:31.039 so happy and I'm looking forward to seeing it more mainstream, 372 00:15:31.120 --> 00:15:33.320 like and they just talks about it going into the Olympics. 373 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:35.559 By then I would just be coaching because I'd be 374 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:37.159 too old to be fucking trying to do that. 375 00:15:37.159 --> 00:15:38.919 That's amazing too, just to be a part and being 376 00:15:39.039 --> 00:15:41.039 like a revolutionary and a pioneer to like, you know, 377 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:43.080 opening up those doors because you know it is you know, 378 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:45.759 you doing those things and all those moments are like, 379 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.000 you know, they're really great accolades and for women to 380 00:15:48.080 --> 00:15:50.279 look up to you and like people see your style 381 00:15:50.440 --> 00:15:52.200 and like give the you know, people hope to know 382 00:15:52.240 --> 00:15:54.559 that those things could be obtainable. So that's really awesome 383 00:15:54.600 --> 00:15:57.240 to do. Definitely again and you know, I just want 384 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:59.840 to ask for that. Thank you. It's Tuck likes women 385 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:02.440 and empowerment people. What you're doing your direction of just 386 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:04.679 you know, giving people insight and a different you know 387 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:06.600 in your mind, you know, And I think that's really cool. 388 00:16:06.679 --> 00:16:08.320 And it's not just for the women either, Like I 389 00:16:08.360 --> 00:16:12.360 teach men, I teach plenty of men and and androgynoist people. 390 00:16:12.399 --> 00:16:13.200 I teach everybody. 391 00:16:13.279 --> 00:16:16.519 So I want it to be more of a conversation 392 00:16:16.720 --> 00:16:22.080 of like, why is it have to be sexualized all 393 00:16:22.120 --> 00:16:23.000 the fucking time? 394 00:16:24.159 --> 00:16:26.600 Are we not past that? Are we not past that? 395 00:16:26.720 --> 00:16:30.960 Like I have a sibling brother who is like seven, right, 396 00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:33.759 I have a poll up. Anytime he comes and he 397 00:16:33.759 --> 00:16:36.120 sees it, he's gonna climb up and spin around, and 398 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:37.960 like I posted videos and people like I can't believe 399 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:39.039 you have your boy on the pole. 400 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:41.039 I'm like, why are you thinking it like that? If 401 00:16:41.080 --> 00:16:45.080