The Dancer Mama Podcast

Lot's of people refer to the second trimester as the honeymoon phase of pregnancy: Jenna isn't so sure about that. She reflects on her second trimester, which is a long period of time that see has a pregnant lady experiencing a ton of changes! She talks about ongoing body image struggles, pelvic floor prehab, and the joy of those long awaited first fetal movements!

Jenna dives deep into her feelings around leaving the club, and then a few months later, letting go (temporarily) of the pole. She talks about missing life as a travelling dancer, mourning parts of her life that may very well be behind her, and how leaving the club is both a loss of income and a loss of identity. She also talks about ab separation, stepping away from teaching, training, and pole d...

Jenna picks up her story where she left it last week and talks about her first trimester experience! She revisits her last out of town booking, how it felt to leave stripping much earlier than she anticipated, and why the first trimester really is the #worsttrimester.  She also discusses the problem with cultural norm of keeping a pregnancy secret until the second trimester, and why this secrecy c...

Welcome to the very first episode of The Dancer Mama Podcast! In this episode, your host Jenna Ellissa introduces herself and tells the story of how she became a pole dancer, then a stripper, then eventually a mama-to-be! While thrilled to be expecting her first child, Jenna did not always dream of becoming a mom: in fact, for a long time she was dead set against it! Hear how she opened her heart...