My Stripping Stories and How Women Today are Approaching Pole Dancing as a Career
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Jan
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2012
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Exotic Dancing isn't as bad as the stigmas would have you believe!
Many of my Stripping Stories on how women today are approaching pole dancing as a career will shock you – including my own. From women who’ve worked on Wall Street to women paying their way through college, you will learn why pole dancing has saved so many women’s lives, careers, their homes, and even their children from the alternative of loosing their homes and their jobs in this economy. The underworld of exotic dancing has emerged from a maze of mystery and misconception into the mainstream with media coverage from respected sources such as CNBC, OWN, FOX news and more.
The first time the opportunity to try exotic dancing was presented to me after I graduated from college at age 25, I swore I would never do such a thing. I thought it was wrong – dirty, unhealthy and unsafe. It was, perhaps surprisingly, my fiance who suggested it to me after he had consulted with one of our dancer friends about the cleanliness and high standards of our local business club. He knew I was on the “30-year mortgage plan” with my student loans and credit card debt, and he wanted to empower me. But – the point here is – like so many closed minded individuals today, I had never been to a club and I automatically assumed that it was nothing but pimping, whoring and drug use. I was abhorred at the suggestion and shot it down rather quickly.
Reluctantly we went to our local club and started talking to one of the bouncers. The bouncer thought we were really cool so he went and got the head manager. The manager could see that we were serious and professional, and finally he asked me, “What can I do to get you on my stage?” I was flabbergasted! I thought the prospective dancers asked him that question! Come to find out they do – but I stood out somehow.
We hit it off but I was still reluctant as I didn’t know what really went on in these places! So went to a VIP room to discuss the ins and outs of the business. I was very intimidated actually! All I saw when I walked in were these gorgeous, tall women with beautiful bodies. I couldn’t believe what I was doing! Then I noticed that no one was doing anything legally and morally wrong. They were expressing themselves as nudists and the dancers were the furthest from prostitutes! They were simply talking, dancing, and entertaining like they would if they were hanging out anywhere else WITH their clothes on!
There are a lot of true angels that work at strip clubs.
I will always remember what my manager said: “You have great eye contact and you are confident. That will pay you more than anything else.” Sounds like any other business to me!
I did notice one thing in particular: None of the dancers looked like they had a plan or a definite strategy. They were just walking out there and winging it. Coming from the strict, educated background that I have, I thought that was simply ludicrous! These beautiful women were making hundreds of dollars per night, and there was no system of attack?
From then on I was resolutely determined to approach this industry like a true businesswoman, realizing that I would not have to compromise my moral standards and that this club was completely opposite of the social stigmas. However, I had no idea that I would eventually come to revolutionize the way dancing is done to make it even BETTER and to help improve the way customers are treated at their clubs!
After getting my master’s degree in 2007, which was three months before I started dancing, I became the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for a non-profit organization in Mississippi. My boss gave me a laptop, a Blackberry and an office, and said, “Go! Do what you do.” I was making good money. I also became a part-time college professor teaching voice lessons and music appreciation. So I had a lot going on and was pursuing a career the traditional way – the only way I knew how.
After I became an exotic dancer, another dancer named Sally immediately befriended me. She tucked me under her wing and took me shopping, helped me choose shoes and outfits, and worked my first shift with me. With Sally in mind, I have created a step-by-step personal guide to Exotic Dancing called Freedom V, because you will most likely not have someone in your life to help you like I did with a friend in the business who is responsible and career-oriented.
Using my Freedom V training and video series, however, you will be able to easily get started with the information I have given you.
On my first night Sally and I made a quick trip to Wal-Mart for make-up, and then headed right for the dressing room at the club. The day before, I had gotten a Mystic Tan so that I could be as dark as possible. I got dressed in a neon-green belly dancer skirt, with a neon green bikini top Sally let me borrow.
Jennifer McCumber learning that Exotic Dancing is a professional and moral business when done properly.
The DJ finally called me up to the stage and – I have to be honest – I was not scared at all! In my mind I had already fought with the nervousness for days and then won this battle, so I approached the situation as if I was already a veteran dancer. It worked wonders!
What helped me beforehand is that I had borrowed my roommate’s Carmen Elektra Striptease videos and learned some moves to try and become as confident as possible. I sat and watched other dancers for a half hour before I went on stage, and used that time to develop a mental game plan for myself. This is performing, after all!
Of course, leading up to this moment I was nervous as hell! A few days before my audition I started to get butterflies. Days before! So I know the feeling, and if I could do it, you can do it, too.
By the time my second song came on, I went topless for the first time ever! Yes! That’s right. I had never even flashed anyone before! For any reason! And now I was getting paid to do it. The smart way.
After I came offstage, Sally showed me how to give a lap dance, how to converse with customers and how to get them up to VIP. She gave me some helpful one-liners that can help beginning dancers work wonders with clients. For example, I learned that after you sit with a client for about 5 minutes and wow him with your excitement and personality, you then say to him in a seductive tone, “I would love to give you the most erotic time on this next song!”
My stripping stories – like so many other wonderful women today – involved using the profession of Pole Dancing to become independent, pay off debt and start a business of my own. Exotic Dancing is a mainstream, legal, respectable business that is backed by our first amendment right which enables us as free citizens to express ourselves. If we are professionals and serving the needs of our customers just like any other business, and withOUT the funny business, it is simply unconstitutional for any other person or organized group to try and take away our freedoms of expression on our own private or business property. Don’t let anyone take away your choices and your freedoms. Join the Exotic Dancing community TODAY and make your way to freedom TONIGHT!
I would love to hear your feedback so comment on the blog at how-to-strip.com and definitely “like” our Facebook page called Freedom V for Exotic Dancers. This is Jennifer here with how-to-strip.com Wishing you the best of success!
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It’s amazing how many ladies are pursuing their exotic dancing career as a professional business! If you are one of those ladies please post your story below! We need more of you in our industry!
I think the key is that you (and I) started dancing after graduating from college and at age of 25. This affirms, no matter what industry you choose, a college education gives you the tools to access and implement goals. I started dancing, initially, to hurry up and pay off my school loans. When I achieved that, next was to buy a rental property and so forth. Because I was so poor for four years during school, I valued every dollar I made, even on a bad night. My attitude slowly became my style, even in dancing… slow, patient and appreciative. I danced the same, maintain the plan no matter what