Stripped by SIA

I am very excited to bring on Sasha Belle onto the show this week! A fan favourite and highly requested guest, Sasha joins us after completing her first week back at the clubs after having a newborn baby (congrats!). Prior to her being a mom, Sasha was winning titles all over the west coast of Canada as her debut as an exotic dancer following a bad break up. Sasha just had a baby boy 6 months ago...

We're flipping the perspective this week and we're diving deep behind the scenes with Mo Reese . Mo is a veteran production manager, producer, and director of 15+ years of experience in the adult industry and has possibly worked with or shot with your favourite pornstars! As a photographer by trade, he ended up in the industry by accident. Since then he hasn't left the scene. Since then, he's flou...

We are flying across the pond over to Manila, the Philippines to speak with my girl, Joyen Santos , to speak about the niche art of aerial rope bondage and shibari! Joyen comes from a multidisciplinary background originating in photography and moving over to sensual movement in burlesque, floor work, stripping, pole dance and more. She is an icon in the Philippines (she is featured as a Playboy Pl...

BONUS EPISODE TIME!  I was invited to moderate a panel at the 2020 Sugar and Spice Sex Festival this past August alongside some of my past guests ( Jolene Salonga aka Pocket Phoenix and Naomi Vice ) and future guests ( Salome Salvi and Joyen Santos ) on the podcast. The festival took place from August 1 - 15th was a completely virtual festival based in Singapore with most of the guests and au...

Ahhhhh.... the age old adage: to come out or to not come out? I'm not referring to sexuality - I'm talking about whether to not you should come out to your coworkers. Maybe you're been working a civilian job for a while or maybe you've transitioned out of sex work and starting to work in the civilian sphere. It's not a black and white equation - it's really hard to determine whether or not you sho...

Is anyone else hyped about the new Starz show, "P-Valley"? I liked the show so much that I wanted to do a weekly recap on each episode but decided to do a Season 1 dissection instead with a listener! Fan of the show and podcast, London, Ontario-based dancer, Kat Daniels , joins me this week to dissect our new favourite show, P-Valley. P-Valley debuted in July and has been generally met with positi...

I think by now everyone is acquainted with what's happening with Bella Thorne and the OnlyFans controversy and of course, I just had to address it on the show! I invited exotic dancer, Saskia , to join me on the show today. She's a fierce and VERY opinionated spirit hailing all the way from Montreal, Canada who wanted to share her two cents on sex worker appropriation. This is happening a lot late...

A lot of the episodes on this podcast have been centred around consent, free choice and agency. I've been so focused on sharing stories of successive cases that challenge the stereotype of strippers that the media has shoved down our throats since we were born. You know what I'm talking about: substance abuse, drunk, high on drugs and the like. But what about those strippers who actually fall righ...

We're digging deeper into the the topic of fetish, kink and BDSM with seductress, Vivika Vaughn. Vivika is a fellow exotic dancer, fire breather, and domme. She has been heavily involved in the fetish and kink communities in Vancouver, Canada. As a trained burlesque dancer, she branched off into other forms of movement to express her sexuality and sensuality and now uses her multidisciplinary skil...

This week, we're diving back into the world of porn! I speak with fellow Canadian pornstar, Jesse Black , on his very unlikely entry into the porn industry, behind the scenes challenges, what it's really like in porn houses, some pro tips on how to effectively navigate around your civilian job to attend porn shoots internationally and more! Jesse identifies as a cismale and shoots from a heteronor...

WE ARE BACK! And by "we", I mean me! Season 2 is here and I am so excited to finally launch after weeks of bonus episodes and miniseries. Season 2 will features a plethora of guests, not to mention it will be borderless (hello international sex worker friends!), and will continue to educate sex workers and civilians on the topic of destigmatizing sex work. To kick off Season 2 of the pod, I invite...

Continuing the Black narrative in our Black Lives Matter miniseries, we continue to showcase and highlight Black voices in our community. This week, I invited Miss Monday Blues to speak on the podcast on how White the burlesque community is, navigating with the autoimmune disease, lupus, and how that's affected her artistry and her wildly successful anti-racist coaching programs. We bring up a top...

It's a real bonus episode this time.  I was invited to speak at Florida State University (thanks Leash!) to speak on the topic of sex work in the lens of social work, therapy, sex education and therapy . It was a complete honour to have been asked to speak to a group of aspiring and future leaders in order to better understand our industry and profession. It was an incredible opportunity to h...

I got a chance to speak with fellow off-work-due-to-COVID exotic dancer, Devon , this week. She identifies as an Afro-Indigenous and queer individual and I had the opportunity to catch up with her on the Black Lives Matter movement and Juneteenth. She had attended both of the peaceful and anti-racist rallies in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on June 5th and 19th and was able to contribute to...

 There comes a time a person's career when they realize it's time to move on. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't but it was certainly the case for Maddy Moore. The recent retiree and former exotic recently had her last booked gig at the No. 5 Orange and she reminisces on how she got started in the industry, some of the great clubs she danced at, her downtime during COVID-19 and her ex...

Continuing on with the COVID miniseries, I speak with showstopper, Nia Nebula , who reminisces on her hectic schedule of traveling around the world as a showgirl and now, having to readjust her life due to the coronavirus. Now based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Nia shares with us her sidetracked tour plans, her forced time off due to COVID, and her work in the fetish community. It's an insightful conver...

Strip clubs are reopening again, YAY! This week we speak with Randi , an exotic dancer employed at the No. 5 Orange on her experience with the pandemic, dancing pre- and post-quarantine and new protocols that are currently in place. The No. 5 Orange is the first strip club in Canada to reopen - but of course, with new health regulations in place. What kind of standards have they instilled? What is...

I'm always curious to see how sex workers are compensating for loss of revenue during this pandemic. Recently, I was invited to some Like 4 Like (L4L), Share 4 Share (S4S) and Telegram drop groups on Instagram and although I didn't stay long, I wanted to divulge into the topic. Other women I knew that were involved in the groups were Asia and Pocket Phoenix , two past guests here on the podcast (e...

This week I'm joined by Adrianne Spring , an exotic dancer based in the Westcoast of Canada. A self-proclaimed history buff, we deep dive into the historical origins of sex work, feminist roots, and how it relates to sex work today. We speak about a myriad of topics relating to the bodies of women, women's rights, abortion, sex tourism and trafficking, and online sex work. Adrianne was able to spe...

Wow, can't believe we're on episode 3 of my COVID mini series! Thank you all for your support and tuning in! This week I speak with Sara Tonin of Vancity Vixens Cabaret (formerly Cabaret Torlage). She is fairly new to the burlesque scene in Vancouver, Canada and is also a competitive pole dancer and local actress. We speak about her multidisciplinary training and how COVID has limited her gigs, pe...

We are STILL RECORDING! YAY!!! This week I caught up with Kordella Kosor , a traveling feature exotic dancer who was former Miss Nude World and Exotic Dancer United States. She recently relocated from Vancouver to Winnipeg due to COVID-19 which is still rampant across the globe today. She opens up on she got into the industry, competing in pageants and touring all around North America and how she...

I'm not quite finished yet. I just can't seem to sit idly while the entire world is on lockdown when there are still so many issues we are facing as sex workers. But I wanted to highlight a voice that probably isn't listening to this podcast and hasn't been represented on the show yet: our street sex workers.  I spoke with Morgan Sexter this week, a fellow dancer who is currently working with...

Well, this might be the most narcissistic episode ever. Just kidding. You asked and you have received: my AMA episode ! I answer ALL of your questions regarding how I got started in the industry, pole dancing, my life before sex work, how I started this podcast, hustling tips, sex work channels, and a whoooooole lot on my time as a sugar baby, then and now. This was a really reflective episode and...

Surprise! I'm BACK with a bonus episode for all y'all. I was itching to record again and it felt a little bittersweet and honestly a bit of a disservice to not address how the sex industry has been affected by the coronavirus so this episode is dedicated to all facets of how we are dealing with the effects of COVID-19. No guests this week - just me, myself and I. I tackle subjects on how sex worke...

Have you ever been curious about the men who are into feet fetishes? Or what about those guys that send you messages on IG for feet photos in exchange for money? Well, you guys, I've got one of them on the show this week - introducing MY SLAVE ! We're flipping things a bit here and seeing the client's perspective on this one and to understand the psyche of those who are into feet. Feet fetishes ma...