KEEP DOING YOU

We all must try to remember who we are and what we came to do on this planet. We must reconnect to our passions and never let go of what we are meant to do. It doesn’t matter if you inspire millions or just one person as long as you keep doing you.

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DO I STILL HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY OR SHARE?

But now that I’ve almost decided to quit blogging my thoughts keep rushing in. Every day, I feel I should just share one more thing, one more thought, one more picture, or maybe one more video. Now that I’ve thought I’ve nothing else to say maybe I do still have something to say. But I don’t actually know if I really do.

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BUT DREAMS COULD STILL COME TRUE

Is seems so impossible when I look at the new world we are going to have to learn to live with. And it seems so difficult, somedays impossible, to keep believing in your hopes and dreams. It seems as if it all ends right here. Groundhog Day every day. But as my dear, good friend would say, “We don’t have to know how and when. We just need to be able to trust in universal timing and hold on to faith!”

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THERE HAS TO BE SOME GOOD EVEN IF THE CORE IS ROTTEN?!

When the world keeps spinning upside down whatever I say or do seems trivial. Sometimes, it even feels like a parody suggesting anything or trying to find words of encouragement.

Many times, I have debated to stop blogging, stop posting, even stop dancing, posing, stop smiling. But that doesn’t feel right either. I sway between coaching, motivating, educating, inspiring, and silence. I debate if there’s right or wrong in regards to continuing or stopping. I feel I should be more inspiring and educate people more especially in this time of crisis. I should smile louder and dance harder trying to bring the best out in all of us. Trying to remind us who we truly are deep down in our core and what life is really about. But then again I find silence to be so tempting. A sigh of relief thinking I just let it all go and let the world spin without me. Because how can my words even make the slightest difference? How can a dance change anything?

And yet again, I’m still not ready to let it all go. I’m still not ready to give up and stop believing in the good of humanity. There has to be some good even if the core is rotten. There has to be …

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THE BIRTH OF A STRIPPER’S HUFFPOST PERSONAL (EPISODE3)

I had sent my pitch to HuffPost Personal on October 1st, 2019 at 9:47am and within minutes at 9:52am the Editorial Director responded requesting a draft of my full story to see if it would be a fit for HuffPost Personal. He sent along some general guidelines (word count/style/format) and some example articles that he had already accepted and published.
We went back to the drawing board, and I started writing. Most of the segments I have published came to me on dog walks with tiny typing on my phone making sure my feelings, personal experiences, emotions and everything I wanted to share with the world would be captured in this article. Within less than  three days on October 3rd, 2019 the full article was born and submitted at 8:48am. And once more, very quickly on October, 4th 2019 at 6:46am I received an email from the Editorial Director accepting my article and promising to publish it after a few edits. The new deadline was set for October 14th. I was suppose to nudge him to remind him about my piece.
So I did, but the Editorial Director kept postponing the date to publish. First, his assistant editor fell ill. Then one of his family members was ill. He kept asking me to nudge him over and over which I did, but it seemed all a little strange to be honest. No contract was ever sent to me. Just promises in emails. December came and after another nudge he promised to publish early in January. But edits never came … although, he did mention he would “…definitely need photos…” There was a lot of nudging from my end and a lot of promises on his, but then Covid-19 was declared a National Emergency on March 13th 2020. And of course, the Editorial Editor apologized, “I’m sorry that your piece slipped through the cracks. It was completely my fault and I owe you a huge apology. After this whole coronavirus nightmare is over, let’s talk again and see if there’s something else we can do instead. In the meantime — I’m sending you the best thoughts and hope you’re staying as safe and sane and healthy as possible. xx.”

That was a big bummer. I do belief that my article could’ve easily been edited to fit the covid-19 pandemic — after all, California Supreme Court throwing me out of stripping was in the end a blessing. Who knows, maybe if I would’ve not quit when I quit I might’ve contracted covid-19 and be dead by now.

So you’re probably wondering why I’m even wasting my breath on this mini series. Here is why: I know nobody gives a damn about the California law anymore and how it affects strippers. Nobody gave a damn back then, and nobody even gives a damn right now that almost all strippers (expect the ones that are stripping virtually) are out of work. And that is why my article is still timely. It’s about us women who are literally forgotten. Whether it’s a law or a deadly virus, nobody really gives a shit about us strippers and what we do with our money, how we made a difference, saved lives, and fed our families (fury or not).

And therefore I choose to at least publish my own article, because in my opinion, it’s damn good …

Stay tuned … to be continued …

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WHEN CREATIVITY STRIKES

Creativity cannot wait. When it strikes it needs to be captured. — A.A. Jones

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WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU DITCHED THE STILETTOS

You’ve always wondered when and why you would quit stripping. You had hoped you’d walk away because you got too rich and too successful instead of being forced to stop dancing because you had become too frail, too old, too tired, too turned off. You’d never actually imagined that some outside forces would make you want to decide to hang the stilettos in the closed. And you wonder about your options. About how you will continue to do more good, save lives, and make a difference without the money you brought in through your little, secret nighttime engagement.

Today, I hold no answers for what comes next. I imagine many possibilities, and I have even considered to move away from the city that made me a proud dancer who wasn’t afraid of anything. But decisions have not been finalized yet, as I promise myself not to give up. As I owe it to myself to hold on to my dreams although it seems impossible to pick up where I left it. As my wise best friend says, “We don’t have to know how … we just keep praying and trusting.”

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SUNSET NUDE

Photo by Khari, @khari 

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A DANCER’S BODY

“A dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.” — Isadora Duncan

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STRIPPER CONFESSES HER BIGGEST TEMPTATION

I live to create. Whether it’s through writing, acting, dancing … My biggest temptation has always been creating what moves others. If I can just spark something in you … that is my biggest turn on.

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