Stripped: Nashville (2024)

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- [Announcer] On the

main stage, Alaria.

Let's go

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- [Alaria] Stripping is

a form of storytelling.

It is another art form.

I work two days a week and

I make over a hundred grand.

and most importantly,

I'm going from

surviving to thriving.

- [Katan] When I get to the

club, my mindset is always,

I'm just focused on

making money that night.

I'm very seductive and it

definitely helps me make money.

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- [Ferrari] Being an exotic

dancer has helped heal me.

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I didn't know who I was

before I started dancing.

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- [Belle] I am proud of my body.

I think my body's beautiful.

[crowd cheering]

I really like to

get on the stage

and take my top off

and then people are like, "Oh

my God, like, you're boobies."

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- [Marie] Once I

figured out my hustle,

that's when I

started raking it in.

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I know when I dance,

I just kind of do what

my body feels like doing

and it really does feel like

this expressive art form.

- [Divine] If you

can get on the floor

and still look confident,

rolling around twerking,

I feel like there's art

and beauty in that as well.

I've seen it all.

I've been through it all.

I've been robbed.

I've been drugged.

I've been set up.

- [Sadie] The dancing

community in Nashville

is surprisingly close knit.

I don't care if there is

one person in that club

or a thousand.

I'm going hard.

I just gotta go hard

Go hard, go hard

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Go hard

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- My first impressions of

Nashville was that it was huge.

Live music is the number

one, really big thing here,

so it's Music City,

is what we call it.

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- People started

calling Nashville

NashVegas for a reason.

Nighttime on Broadway,

on like a Saturday night,

it is a mad house.

It is insanity.

[crowd cheering]

Like it's a party

city. [laughing]

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- I feel like

Nashville's pretty lit.

Nashville's also

known as CashVille.

[cash register dings]

Everyone here is

doing really well

so between NashVegas

and CashVille,

you can kind of get the

feel of the money flowed.

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- Driving around in

Nashville all the time,

like they're always

building something new.

They're always putting

in a new hotel,

new apartments.

There's so much

going on right now,

you can genuinely see it.

Nashville has 1.3

million people.

There's construction

everywhere, all the time.

A lot of people are

moving from California,

New York, Chicago.

The city is growing and

growing and growing.

But what's a side note from that

is the fact that we now only

have two strip clubs in town.

We do live in the Bible Belt

and the city doesn't

really love having us here.

- The clubs in Nashville

are sister clubs,

so even though we only have two,

we're only allowed

to work at one.

Very restrictive.

- Makes it a little

difficult to do what we do,

more difficult than it

would be in other states

or in other cities even.

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You gotta really

want to be a dancer

and you've gotta really

be dedicated to your job

and doing what you do,

if you want to do

it in Nashville.

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I grew up in Smyrna, Tennessee.

It's about 20 minutes outside

of downtown Nashville.

Going through school as a kid,

I always made good grades.

Honor roll, principal's

list, perfect attendance.

So my grades really reflected

who I was as a student.

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Softball was always a

huge part of my life.

It kept me fit,

it kept me active,

it kept me social.

It was pivotal in making me

the person that I am today.

It was amazing.

I'm a class of 2019 graduate

and I'm the starting

varsity catcher

for Smyrna High School Lady

Bulldogs in Smyrna, Tennessee.

I also play travel ball for

the Tennessee Firebirds 01.

Thank you for watching.

It was a lot of fun.

It took a lot of passion.

It took a lot of effort

and I think it was

all that effort

and all of that drive

and all of that hard work

that got me to the

point in my senior year

where I received a D1

scholarship from TSU.

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This is the neighborhood

I grew up in

and this is also where I

used to go door knocking

as a Jehovah's Witness

back in the day.

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I grew up out in

Antioch, Tennessee.

I was raised in an extremely

religious household.

My mom herself was raised

as a Jehovah's Witness,

but growing up as a Witness

was very challenging

because I was being raised

and being told that,

you know, if you also weren't

a part of the religion,

then that made you bad.

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I would go to school and

I would have friends,

but outside of school,

like I was not allowed

to hang out with them.

I wasn't allowed to have

phone calls with them.

This was me in third

grade at eight-years-old.

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Once I got into high school,

I guess you could say I

was a little boy crazy

and my parents

definitely knew that.

They wound up taking

me out of school

and then I wound

up homeschooling

for my last couple

years of school.

But it took boys

out of the equation.

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- I was born in

Phoenix, Arizona,

and as a kid, I started

doing gymnastics.

When I would do it,

I just felt strong.

I felt excited that

I could do things

that a lot of

people couldn't do.

I felt free.

It was the time where

my mind was the quietest

because I had to stay focused.

It is the best

feeling in the world.

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My mom was my biggest supporter.

She was at every meet.

That feeling of

making people proud

and having them smile at me...

- [Man] Boom, you got it baby.

- [Alaria] And when I would

win, I felt like I would matter.

I felt like people would see me

and I was like, I want

to be an Olympian.

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- I was born in Venezuela.

I went to a Catholic school,

so it was very religious.

I was never a good student.

I was always singing, dancing,

doing just anything else.

I was 15 when I came to

Nashville from Venezuela.

We came straight to Nashville

because my dad used to

always come to

Nashville for vacation,

all about rock and country

and like he just loves that

and so that's why we moved here.

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- I was born in

Raleigh, North Carolina.

I was born into the LDS Church,

so I grew up as what they

call Mormon, is the nickname.

I went to church until I

could move outta my house.

Mormons do not believe in

dating before the age of 16.

One of my escapes was sports.

One of the sports that I

really focused on the most

was cheerleading

- Go.

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[Ferrari grunts]

- I was able to

wear their uniforms,

which were really short

skirts and spandex

because it was in an

athletic environment.

It didn't matter.

But also, to express

myself and be able to dance

and let out my energy,

it was a happy space for me.

Beyond sports,

music was really the way

I was able to connect

with the darker sides of myself

that I wasn't able to

express through sports.

I was getting more rebellious.

My 16-year-old self

was still screaming

to be let out, you know?

I wanted to find who I

was outside of the church.

I didn't wanna be in

the church anymore.

I wanted to find my

own belief system.

I wanted to be exactly

who I wanted to be

and find my own morals.

If you're gonna follow

an all-loving God,

He would love you no matter

what you were wearing

or if you were

drinking coffee or not.

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- So I grew up in

Miami, Florida,

was born and raised there.

I went to a Baptist

Christian Church.

I got baptized as a

Baptist Christian.

I just didn't like school.

Whenever I did like school,

I would try to like fake

being sick all the time.

There were a couple

times my mom caught me

making fake throw up to

try to get out of going.

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So when I was 17 or 18,

is when I got into

riding motorcycles.

To be honest, I

think I got a rush

when I first started

riding stunt bikes.

It was more that I

just enjoyed the rush

of knowing that I was

probably gonna fall a lot.

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- Oh.

- I just really liked

the thrill of it.

I liked to just push myself

and even though I

knew the outcome

was probably gonna be that

I'm gonna eat sh*t and fall,

like it was something about

it that I just, I don't know,

I loved to do it and I

didn't mind getting hurt.

I feel like when I was younger,

getting hurt didn't

really hurt. [chuckles]

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- So I was originally born

in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

I don't know if I had a

normal childhood or not.

I feel like it was normal.

There were parts

of the childhood

where I feel like things

could have been better,

but overall I feel like

I had a decent childhood.

I played basketball.

We actually won state.

I used to joke in high school

about being a stripper,

but I wasn't like

dead a*s serious.

Like I was just joking.

I had never been to a strip

club or anything like that.

I was just like, it

was always a joke.

Well, I thought it was.

Obviously, it wasn't but, um.

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The first place I danced at

was called DG's in Dallas.

I was 19.

I go in the locker room

and it's just like music playing

and people are doing coke

and like, I just started crying.

I can't do this, like

this is too much.

So they called me on stage

and I get on stage

and I do one song

and after the first set,

you're supposed to go

to the second stage.

Well, when they called

me to the second stage,

I just got dressed and left.

I had jumped into something

that I really had no

idea what came with it.

I thought that like if you have

the confidence to get naked,

you can get paid and that's it.

I didn't think about drugs.

I didn't think about p*mps.

I was thinking about how

I'm gonna pay this rent.

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- When I moved to Nashville,

I was a server at a

breakfast restaurant

for maybe a month and a half

before I started dancing.

My rent was incredibly high

and I had served many

times throughout my life

and I knew that it

wasn't going to cut it.

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chattering]

- When I first started dancing,

I had zero experience with

exotic dancing at all.

I had a dance background

and cheer background

and I went online and

watched some videos

on how to do basic floor work.

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I took the little money that

I had and I bought pleasers

and it wasn't something

that I was terrified to do

because it was something that

I had thought about doing.

I just never really had a reason

to pull the trigger

until that moment.

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- So when I started stripping,

I was actually 31-years-old.

I had been thinking

about it for a long time.

- Oh, oh, oh!

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- I actually auditioned

at Deja Vu in Nashville.

That was my first club.

I went on stage and a guy,

when I got off

asked me, he said,

"How long you've been dancing?"

I'm like, "That was actually

my first time ever."

It was my audition.

He handed me a

hundred dollars bill

and he goes, "You're

gonna be just fine."

And I was like, "I'm in!"

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- Whoa!

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- [Announcer] Senorita

Bonita Belle joins us

on that main stage.

- My first day

dancing, I made $900.

My second day of

working, I made $1,500.

It was insane.

Now like I find myself in

a place where I'm like,

I did nothing tonight.

I just got on stage a few times.

I did a few lap dances

and I have almost a grand

in my bag on one day.

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- The first week I

started dancing in Miami,

I made crazy money because

I was the new stripper.

So I think anywhere you start

when you're the new girl,

you make a lot of money.

I went home, I got on YouTube,

I got my pole set up

and I just started

learning tricks

and it came pretty quickly.

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Making that kind of money for me

felt really good when I'd go

home and check on my kids,

and knowing that I was

able to provide for him.

- [Announcer] We're bringing

you sweet, sweet Mary Jane

coming up next.

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- Around when I was 19, I

started taking kickboxing.

There was a guy there

that I worked with

and he approached

me and he was like,

"I work as a manager at

the strip club downtown

and we really need waitresses,

like people we can trust."

There's this joke that a

lot of people tell at work

and it's what's the difference

between a waitress at the

strip club and a dancer?

And the answer is three

months. [laughing]

- [Announcer] Music

City, Tennessee,

let's see those

dollar, dollar bills,.

Mary Jane, we're starting now.

[crowd cheering]

- Granted for about

the first year,

I wasn't very good at it.

I went on stage

and did a stage set

and there's this girl I knew

and after she came up

to me and she was like,

"Girl, I don't know what

you thought you were doing,

but it was not twerking."

So it did take a while

for my hustle to develop.

These people are there

for a specific reason.

They want that fantasy

and you're there to

give that to them.

- [Announcer] Sadie's making

her way to that main stage

to show off the main frame.

[crowd cheering]

- From an early age, I

really wanted to be a dancer.

I was really scared

for a long time.

Growing up religious

and in a small town,

through dancing, I truly feel

like I've found my passion

and it was really cool

to be able to step

outta my box one day

and decide that other people's

opinions of me didn't matter

and I didn't care

what they thought.

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- [Man] This place

is a den of iniquity,

a den of sin.

Time for you to get

right with God, sinners.

- Nashville is very interesting.

Most places like

Vegas or Dallas,

you'll have like a street

where there's like

a bunch of clubs.

- [Alaria] There

were three clubs,

and now there's only two

because a lot of the

clubs couldn't stay open

with all the rules

and regulations.

- They are very

conservative views here.

- [Ferrari] The

governor has big beliefs

that the strip clubs should

not exist in Davidson County

and has made really difficult

rules for Nashville to follow.

- [Divine] I feel

like that boils down

to like a religious thing.

The club is on Church

street for God's sake.

- I always joke that they

love Jesus, football and g*ns,

but they hate t*ts.

[crowd cheering]

- I will say

Nashville is probably

one of the most restrictive

places to dance in.

- There are so many rules

and if you break the rules,

they'll fire you on the spot

and they can shut the club down.

It was a little bit

stressful in the beginning.

Before they can even

let you audition,

you have to pay

to get a license.

- [Divine] All of the dancers,

regardless of what

club you're at,

you have to get a

sexually-oriented

business license,

which is your SOB.

- What you have to do

is you have to get

a background check

done by a police department

as well as fingerprints

and you have to bring in

the entire full sheets

of every single finger,

all of your fingerprints,

as well as passport pictures

that are done so that they

can create your license

and then you have to pay a

fee to receive your license.

And typically, that

takes about a month.

- It's about $150 a year.

Luckily, it's a

write off. [laughing]

So that's really helpful.

- And it's pretty

much to make sure

that your record's like clean

or that you haven't like caught

a prostitution

charge or whatnot.

But they're more

worried about the steps

and rules and regulations

when it comes to the

sex industry here

versus like the g*n laws.

You can go buy a g*n,

you can have it, carry it

around, ride around and slow...

It doesn't matter.

But lo and behold, you want to

go strip and it's a big deal.

- I could leave today,

in just a couple minutes

and go buy a g*n,

but if I wanted

to get on a stage

and be an an entertainer

and do my job

and show you my body,

I gotta wait two to

three weeks to do that.

Bummer when you hear that

Oh oh oh

I say oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

I said oh oh oh oh oh

Bummer when you hear that

Bummer when you hear that

- In Nashville I can

make eye contact,

I can dance in the

customer's direction,

but with all of the

distance between us,

it's a little harder to to

grab somebody's attention.

- We have what's

called a three foot law

that whenever we're getting

naked, taking anything off,

we have to be a certain

height off the ground

as well as a certain

distance away from customers.

- [Alaria] So the moment

a body part comes out,

they have to be three

feet away from us

and we have to be 18

inches off the floor.

- At our club, we have this

just kind of like tape

line around the stage

and customers are not

allowed to cross that.

- The customer can't

cross this barrier.

They have to kind of literally

throw the money at you

if they want to

tip you on stage.

They can't get right up on

the tip rail and grope you

or try and shove the

dollar in your p*ssy

or anything like that.

Like they have to

stay three feet back

and that's something that's

very strongly enforced.

You will get kicked out

leaning over the barrier

trying to tip the girls.

Bummer when you

hear that oh oh oh

I say oh oh oh oh oh

Oh oh oh oh oh

We are a full nude club.

You're up there for two songs.

The first song

you're fully dressed.

The second song

you're fully nude.

Before you get off the stage,

you have to have all

your clothes back on.

- So when we're on the

floor we cannot wear thongs.

They have to have, I believe,

80% of our butt

covered at all times.

- [Ferrari] In Nashville,

you are not allowed

to touch the main

hotspots of the body,

no boobs, no butt, no punani.

- You're not supposed

to have contact

with the customers

like touching.

You can't be on them

with your top off.

And obviously, that is

so different from Miami.

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- I don't like clubs where it's

allowed to touch or anything

or when there's clubs that

you get naked on people

like I don't think

I would do that.

- It's a touchless club,

which also doesn't

necessarily suck,

but it is hard

explaining that to people

that come in from out

of town that have been,

you know, to Florida and

Texas and these other places.

- Some people come

in and they get like,

"Oh, I thought

this was full nude.

I haven't seen a girl naked

and walking around yet."

And it's like we do have to

kind of market a certain way

to where the customers

are still having fun

and the attention's still on us

but we make them feel like,

okay, you're not getting

everything you want

but we're gonna do this.

Hey, here's a butthole contest,

like prettiest butthole contest.

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- Yes, we are actually judging

buttholes on the main stage.

Each and every contestant

is gonna have 45 seconds

to show you what they've got.

They're gonna have

the same 45 seconds

just to make it as

fair as possible.

There's some wh*res

in this house

There's some wh*res

in this house

[crowd cheering]

- [Announcer] Lord had mercy.

There's some wh*res

in this house

There's some wh*res

in this house

There's some wh*res

in this house

[crowd cheering]

- [Lady] Let's see it, baby

There's some wh*res

in this house

There's some wh*res

in this house

[crowd cheering]

- I mean it goes as far

as like laser booty plugs.

I feel like they

have it all, really.

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It's gotta be against a

law to look this damn good

Watch out now

'Cause baby I feel real

good and I wish I would

Watch out now

It's gotta be against the

law to look this damn good

Watch out now

- Customers are

allowed to bring in

pretty much any

liquor they want.

We can't serve liquor because

we're technically full nude.

The customers can

bring in coolers,

they can bring in bottles.

It's BYOB.

- I've seen people

bring in kegs before.

- These customers get wasted.

They get sh*t-faced,

[crowd cheering, yelling]

Last call for some alcohol

And don't forget to tell

It's going down

[crowd cheering, yelling]

[upbeat music]

I guess I'm now

too legit to quit

Everybody watch out

[swanky upbeat music]

Watch out

Hey, baby

- So I do feel like,

especially with how

restrictive the laws are,

that you have to adapt

your hustle to that.

I have found,

especially with people

that don't know it's

BYOB and come in,

they wanna drink

and so it's actually

a really cool way

for me to sell a VIP room.

I'll just, you know,

say something like,

well, you know, if you'd like,

we have these rooms in the back

and I'm really good at what I do

and I would love to

share a bottle with you

and show you how

good I look naked.

And then they get in there

and by the time

that they realize

I can't get naked

on top of them,

I just say something

really cute, distract them,

and then they don't really care.

You know, you just

keep them busy

and [chuckles] people seem

to be happy with it. [laughs]

[gentle music]

[slow rhythmic music]

At home, in my head,

I am mentally preparing

myself to be Mary Jane.

So as soon as you walk

through those doors,

you're Mary Jane.

You're there to make money.

You're a badass and

you're f*cking hot.

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- My makeup area is my

safe place, honestly.

[slow rhythmic music]

I have a big basket

of just palettes for eyeshadow.

I'm just obsessed

with makeup palettes.

[slow rhythmic music]

I have like a shelf

with all my eyelashes.

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I have a lot of lipsticks.

I love lipsticks.

I love the extra, I

love the attention.

I love people to be like,

"Oh I love your eye makeup."

I always like to express

myself through my makeup,

especially when I work

'cause I always

gotta be extravagant.

[slow rhythmic music]

- Hi!

- Hey!

You look so cute.

- Thank you.

You too, boo.

- Thank you.

- I pay a makeup

artist to do my makeup

before every single shift

and I feel like it's

giving me the energy

of like it's getting

into character.

Like okay, I'm getting done

up to go make this money.

[slow rhythmic music]

- Okay, pump your lips.

All righty, we are all done.

- Thank you, boo.

Now let's go make some money.

When I go to work,

everyone notices,

like if I ask you for

a thousand dollars,

if you have it, you're

probably gonna give it to me

'cause I look like

I have it already.

Like if you look like you

just rolled out of bed

and then I'm asking you

for a thousand dollars,

you're gonna be like,

"b*tch, you look like sh*t."

[gentle guitar music]

- Getting ready for the club

is like the perfect moment

where you're seeing

the transformation

of the caterpillar

to the butterfly.

[gentle guitar music]

In my head, you know,

doing my makeup,

I'm like thinking you are

beautiful, you are smart.

You are going to

make money tonight.

You are worth every penny

and the money is on the

same frequency as me

and I'm going to make that

money because I deserve it

and I worked my a*s off for it.

You have to transition,

otherwise you're gonna

bring work life home

and you're gonna bring

home life to the club.

[gentle guitar music]

- I am abundant.

I am powerful.

I am love.

I am light.

Money flows.

Money flows.

When I'm saying those

things to myself,

it helps me get out of

the negative self-talk

and it helps me have my purpose

and know what I'm about

because other people

don't dictate my behavior.

I know how I feel about myself.

I know my value and

I know my worth.

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- Getting ready

for the club for me

is very much like

putting on a mask.

Some days, I don't

even feel like a girl.

I am a gender fluid person.

So putting on that makeup,

I'm getting ready

to go be this person

and entertain these people.

It's a sense of excitement.

I put on my outfit and I walk

out of the dressing room.

As soon as my heel

hits that stage

for the first time

that night, it is on.

I grab the pole

and I just feel power.

[crowd cheering]

- We don't have to be ashamed

of what we do anymore.

Like people used

to frown upon us

and look at us as like

wh*res or whatever,

but it's like at

the end of the day

everyone's getting

naked for somebody.

It's just that some

people get paid for it

and some people don't.

I feel like once people realize

how much money is

actually in dancing,

they wouldn't frown upon it.

They would probably

go buy some heels.

[upbeat music]

- [Alaria] When

I'm using my body,

I'm telling a story.

I'm being creative.

[hip hop music]

I think all forms of

dance are an art form,

whether your clothes are

on, your clothes are off,

whether it's ballet

or it's pole,

these are all forms

of communicating

with the world around you.

[hip hop music]

- Stripping keeps me sane.

I'm very much an introvert.

Being able to go into the

club and just flip this switch

and take my clothes off

and show people how I feel,

not just what I look like.

I can express myself

freely in this building

and it has been

insanely beneficial

to not just my life

but my mental health.

I would call dancing a

medication at this point.

[hip hop music]

I like it when you

move your booty

Shake it, shake it like that

I like it when ya shake

it, shake it like that

I like it when ya shake

it, shake it like that

I like it when ya

[hip hop music]

- The positives that have

come from pole dancing

is feeling more feminine.

I grew up as a tomboy

so I was always wearing

boys clothes, skateboarding,

all my friends were boys

and I felt like a boy.

I just felt like I didn't have

any feminine aspects of myself

until I started dancing.

[hip hop music]

Boppity boppity

boppity bop bop

Boppity boppity boppity bop

Boppity boppity

boppity bop bop

Boppity boppity boppity bop

Boppity boppity

boppity bop bop

- I think dancing is something

that not many people can do.

It requires not

just like strength,

but it requires

courage to get

yourself out there.

Everybody has different

beliefs on what you can

and cannot do with

your own body.

Like if you don't wanna show

your body naked out there

and make money, that's okay.

But I want to

and if I'm okay with

showing my body,

why do you care so much?

[dance music]

- Dancing has changed my life.

[dance music]

Switch

Stripping and dancing

is healing.

It's empowering.

It's fulfilling.

It's brought back who I am.

[crowd cheering]

It's powerful to

take back the power

that some men in this world

took from me.

[dance music]

[crowd cheering]

[gentle music]

- When you dance and

you're really into it,

you feel sort of this like

sensuality within yourself

and it just kind of like flows

through you and out of you

and I'm really good at

like feeling the moment

and doing what feels right

and doing it slow and sexy.

You know, it's...

Honestly, very empowering.

[dance music]

Switch

- It's super important

to embrace our bodies

and use what we have

to get what we want.

We're all beautiful

in our own ways

and I have people

that inbox me and say,

"Hey, I wanna dance but

I feel like I'm too big."

Like girl, someone's gonna look

at your big a*s and pay you

and as long as you exude

that confidence in yourself,

they will pay you.

Every time, they'll pay you.

[dance music]

- Confidence was something I

really, really struggled with.

Softball gave me

confidence on the field.

Dancing gave me

confidence in my life.

[reflective music]

When I started dancing,

once I got on stage it

was the same feeling I had

when I was doing gymnastics

only this time,

it was even more freeing

and more empowering.

Everything goes away.

I am in tune with my body.

I'm in tune with my

spirituality, my higher self.

- We do have a few

girls at the club

that are amazing on the pole

but that's just

really not my thing.

I'm more of like, let's sit

down and have a conversation.

Let's have a drink.

You know what I mean?

Like what's your budget,

like f*ck the pole.

Like how long can we be in VIP?

That's my thing.

[upbeat dance music]

- I do have like a

passion for pole dancing.

I do love it.

I feel like I started to

kind of fall out of it

because there are a lot of guys

that are just kind of like,

I don't really care about that.

And the guys that are like,

"I don't care about that,"

like I'm pretty sure they

can get up there and do that.

- I remember I used to get

really angry or like upset

if I was performing on

stage and not getting tipped

or if I was doing

this pole trick

that I could essentially

die doing if I got wrong

and there would

just be crickets.

So I've learned that sometimes,

people just aren't stage tippers

and if you come off that stage

realizing that you

danced for yourself,

you don't get that bad attitude.

You come out positive and then

you go talk to those people

and come to find out,

yeah, they didn't tip

you but they want a room

and if you would've

came down there

and given them attitude like

you would've lost that money.

[crowd cheering]

Fumble a bag

No, I will not fumble a bag

Fumble a bag

No, I will not fumble a bag

Act like you know

how this goes

[hip hop music]

- I do typically have

great nights at work,

which means I usually

have to come home

and straighten my money out,

big bills, small bills,

I can smell the success,

you know what I mean?

Like I'm getting where

I need to in life.

Fumble a bag

No, I will not fumble a bag

Act like you know

how this goes

Fumble, fumble

When I count that cash

and hear that money

counter going,

you hear them ones

going through there,

I'm like okay, it's all good.

Let's go take a nap.

We did our sh*t last night.

[zipper reverberates]

[hip hop music]

[drums beating]

- When I'm counting

my money at home,

there's a sense

of accomplishment

that comes with

being able to see

the amount of money that

you were able to make

from yourself.

Hello?

I can't hear you!

I got too many stacks going on!

You feel successful

to be able to hold

that much money in

your hand and be like,

I did that.

[drums beating]

- Seeing the money

that I'm earning,

especially from being in LA

and being a starving

artist for almost 10 years,

seeing my talent pay

off in a big way,

and yeah, you see ones

and it's really deceiving,

but when you accumulate

it and you add it up,

when I'm looking at my account.

[cash register dings]

I have peace of mind.

I have confidence that

I am self-supporting.

[rhythmic music]

- I love counting my money

because I realize that they

liked the way I looked,

they liked the way

I talked to them,

they liked my personality.

It should be a lot

more normalized

to use your body to make money.

It's the easiest tool to use

'cause you already have it.

[rhythmic music]

- You could have a

night that you make $200

and then you could have

a night, you make 2000,

and then you know like,

it all ends up

evening out at the end

and you still make money.

Fumble a bag

No, I will not fumble a bag

Act like you

know how this go

[hip hop music]

- There really is something

about when you come home

and you're sitting on the

couch and you're exhausted

but then you're just like

looking at your stack

and you're just like,

"Ugh, this is f*cking

awesome." [laughing]

Once you get to a point where

you know you were making this

and then now this

is your average,

you're like holy sh*t,

well what else is possible?

[jazzy music]

- I never thought that I would

make over a hundred grand.

Like I never thought

that would be possible.

I thought you had to

come from a rich family.

There is a confidence and such

an appreciation and gratitude

for being able to comfortably

live in a place like this

from being homeless.

The fact that not only

can I survive on my own

but thrive and provide

that for myself

is something that I

am so grateful for.

[jazzy upbeat music]

[jazzy upbeat music continues]

- When I wake up in the morning

and I open the blinds

and look out the window,

I honestly feel nothing

shy of gratitude.

Like I feel super,

super, super thankful

because there's been times

where I didn't have nice things.

I didn't grow up rich.

Yeah

I never imagined I'd

be in this position so

and I start my morning

with gratitude.

[jazzy upbeat music]

I'm really doing this

sh*t right now, like,

and it's not something

I'm envisioning anymore,

it's something I'm in right now.

Like it used to be something

I was working towards,

you know what I mean?

Like I want to

get that apartment

or I want to start this business

or I want to start

this YouTube channel

but now I'm doing it.

[jazzy upbeat music]

It's super important like,

multiple streams of income.

I do YouTube,

I vlog like day in the

life, week in the life,

showing like the ins

and outs of dancing

so I invest into a editing

software, Final Cut Pro.

A lot goes into editing.

[jazzy upbeat music]

Thumbnails and tags and

description box and you know,

making sure everything's

exactly how it needs to be.

Oh I like it. I like it.

Having this platform on YouTube

has also allowed me

to get like contracts

with different companies.

Every video I post is sponsored.

YouTube, you can bring

anywhere from a couple thousand

to $10,000 in one month.

How do you feel like March

went with Airbnb so far?

- I think it went good March.

Once we had people staying

for a longer length of time...

- I recently started the

short-term rental business,

MPH Luxury Stays,

and I pretty much

started THAT with my mom.

We wanted to do Airbnb and

VRBO where we get a home,

get a contract or buy

it and stage the home

and rent it out to traveling

business professionals,

people on vacation.

April and May should be,

maybe 500 more than what

we did earlier this year.

Me and my mom actually

have like weekly meetings

where like we FaceTime

and we go over numbers,

like previous numbers

from the month.

I love you so much.

- I love you.

- Okay.

I just try and right

now to plant seeds

so that when it is my time

to finally actually

hang the heels up,

everyone around me is good.

[light knocking]

- Hey!

- Hey, how are you?

Walking into the studio is

such an incredible experience.

Woo hoo.

It's where I am at most peace.

It is the most

peaceful space for me

to authentically express myself.

- Okay, how are you in there?

Can you hear me?

- Yep, I can hear you.

I moved to Nashville

because I make music.

I have been a musician, singer,

songwriter for six years.

- All right, let's do one.

[gentle music]

[Ferrari vocalizing]

[gentle music]

Beautiful angel

Is what you use to say

You call me more

than my name

[Ferrari vocalizing]

Along with all the pain

In the streets

where you left me

[Ferrari vocalizing]

- I was able to release

all of that on tracks

and then create it into a

whole entire beautiful piece

by each piece of my vocal.

Finally somebody

- So good, dude.

- Bam! Thank you.

That felt awesome!

[Marie sneezes]

- Cosplay has always been

a big part of my life.

I cosplay at least

three times a year now.

There are three

conventions I usually go to

throughout the year

and two of those, I

actually perform at.

[ambient music]

It's really, really cool

because it's a completely

different audience

than what I'm used

to at the club.

Like these are people

that would probably

never even make it

through the door of a club

because they would be

too nervous to do it

and I'm bringing

them the opportunity.

So I've been able to

take my dancing career

and mix it with my cosplay.

[upbeat ambient music]

I also have an

OnlyFans on the side,

which is really nice, you

know, because you have the club

that has these certain laws

and requirements from you,

but then you also have this

thing that is solely your baby.

Like you can do whatever

you wanna do with it.

Maybe there are some days

where you don't feel

it going into the club

or maybe you're sick.

But one thing you can

always do is just be like,

well, I could always

just sh**t some content.

It can be a really good

way to have extra income.

[upbeat ambient music]

[boyfriend faintly talking]

[Marie chuckles]

- At least a half

chunk of your bills?

Like that's amazing.

Then it's like the other

nights you can dance

when that's taken care of and

then just save your money.

Like holy sh*t.

Like what a blessing.

[upbeat ambient music]

- It's so important for me to

have multiple revenue streams.

I am a personal trainer

and a spin instructor,

just not full-time.

[upbeat music]

And I still do professional

dancing for music videos,

for projects that come up,

things that fill me creatively.

- Music has always

been part of my life.

Being at the studio is

definitely heart racing.

Hi!

In a good way.

The name of my

song is Step Back.

There's Spanish

and English in it.

It's got these two beautiful

cultures put together

and I'm really excited about it

I should have known

you had another lover

I just wanted

this to be forever

I gave everything I had

And you just took

it all for granted

The signs were

right in front of me

I just kept on

playing make-believe

But now it's time for

me to leave, step back

You don't get

another piece of me

I would rather

you just let me be

You don't deserve

me, step back

I'm running out

of tears to cry

It's time for me

to say goodbye

We're all done

here, step back

- I love singing 'cause

I've always loved

to express all those

emotions I have

that are just like

trapped inside.

[Belle singing in

foreign language]

[Belle singing in foreign

language continues]

[Belle singing in foreign

language continues]

[upbeat music]

- OnlyFans has been

a really big part

of my career as a dancer.

[upbeat music]

I've got this whole

pole room now.

For me, I think it's

a really cool way

to like connect with

people on another level,

figure out who they

are or what they like,

and really be able to

personalize content

for people in a

way that [chuckles]

can make you a lot of money.

[rhythmic music]

- Having a pole at home

and being able to

use it or not use it

but having just an OnlyFans

really does help me

because it's like almost

like passive income.

It really doesn't take

much to make a video

or to take a picture

to post to OnlyFans.

[upbeat dance music]

Dancing at home,

having like the room

set up with a nice light

and having the music

that you actually want

to dance to is nice

because you get to like

really get in your zone,

where at the club I don't

get to pick my music

and for me, that's

a really big thing.

So when I dance at home,

I just feel more myself

because I can listen to the

music I want to dance to.

[upbeat dance music]

- Having a pole in my home

has been really,

really good for me.

It's keeping my body in shape

and I'm also

focusing on something

and have a drive to practice

towards something

to get better at.

It's a goal.

I feel like a beautiful painting

when I'm doing like

a beautiful move

and I'm just holding.

I'm just like, wow,

you are awesome.

- So Violet, I need your help.

- What you trying to learn?

- I can't keep twerking.

Okay.

- Ooh.

- Teach me how to

get on this pole.

- You wanna start

here and push off

and around with that foot.

There you go.

- Ooh.

I've been to Violet's house

and she's given me

like mini pole lessons

to try and help me

learn a few things.

I can dance well on you

but as far as climbing up

this pole, it's not happening

and it doesn't have to happen.

- [Divine] Yeah,

you're really trying

to shake your inner thighs

and let the butt follow.

- [Violet] Butt

don't want follow.

- Shake, shake, shake.

They still gonna pay for it.

Just shake, shake, shake.

There are plenty of

clubs that you can go to

and just kind of do

floor work on the floor,

twerk a little bit.

- Yes?

- Okay. Wow. Okay. [laughs]

[bright music]

- I do have a pole in my house.

You want to polish your

performances and tricks

before you try them

out at the club.

When you do pull tricks like

and you're trying something

new like you're gonna fall

and it's probably gonna hurt.

You don't have

people watching you,

you don't have people

expecting anything from you.

You're not having to

try to get that person

in the front row

to throw that money

so you're literally

doing it for you.

[bright music]

- Pole dancing actually

requires a lot more skill

than I initially

assumed that it did.

It takes a lot of practice.

I've been extremely

competitive my entire life

so the way I look at pole

is I want to be the best at it.

There's no alternative.

You figure out how to be the

best or you quit doing it.

I've only been pole

dancing for a year

and I have gone hard

every single day.

[bright music]

- A week before I started

dancing, I got myself a pole

and that's when I

realized that like

I really, really,

really like pole dancing

and it just kind of feels like

I'm flying a lot of the times

'cause you go so fast and

you're just so high up

like it's just so nice.

Like I've always wanted to fly

and that's the

closest thing to it.

[bright music]

- So when I set up my

rig in my apartment,

it's bringing the

club to my house.

It's me preparing for

what it'll be like

when I'm actually in the club.

I find the inspiration that I

will use for my performances

when I'm in that private space

and feel safe to really

explore my own sexuality

or sensuality on my own,

which is very important,

bringing it to the club.

[ethereal music]

[dramatic music]

[police siren wailing]

[tense music]

Growing up, gymnastics

was my escape.

On the outside, my

family looked like

we had the perfect life.

At home, things were not

as perfect as it seemed.

There was a lot of

abuse from my stepdad

towards my mom and myself

and I just started to notice

my mom really struggling.

You know, it was

taking a toll on her.

When I was 13,

I was helping my

mom's friend move

and she had ended

up giving me meth.

I went from trying

to be an Olympian

and a straight A student

to a complete dropout,

full-time, meth addict

living in a lot of

pain and a lot of chaos

and a lot of things

that happened

when you're that young on drugs,

you know from homelessness

and sexual abuse,

mental abuse, abandonment.

[dramatic music]

- The things teenage girls

have to endure is unbelievable.

I...

Was r*ped at a very

young age in high school.

He was pretty popular.

He was well liked among

faculty and other students

and just became a really

intimidating situation.

It was something I didn't

wanna speak up about.

I was extremely embarrassed,

I was scared people

weren't gonna believe me.

So I just kept it to myself

for a really, really long time

and it really kind of

started to eat away at me.

I was just feeling so

much dread and disgust.

It wasn't very long after this,

I spent eight days

in a psych ward.

I was diagnosed with severe

anxiety, severe depression,

borderline personality

disorder and PTSD.

It was a really

difficult period for me.

I will never, ever, ever be

able to thank my mother enough

for the things that

she has done for me.

If it was not for that woman,

I do not think I

would be sitting

in front front of you today.

[electronic music]

- The first part of

my college experience

was really great for me.

I did enjoy it the

first few years

but then I had an individual

that was a coworker and a friend

and I did not know that he

was going to have sex with me

and he did.

- I thought he

knew my boundaries

and then he crossed

every single one of them,

in a moment, and

it was shattering.

The only way that the

memory comes up in my head

is I'm not even in my body

when I remember that day.

That's been one of the hardest

things for me to deal with

because I've had

other experiences

with two different men

who have crossed boundaries

in different ways

when I didn't want it to

and I did not

acknowledge those things

and just shoved them

down for a long time.

But when that third

one happened in July,

that changed my whole life.

It was jarring.

It ruined my mental state.

I couldn't function

anymore. [sobs]

It only took about

a month before I had

to start seeing someone

finally for my mental health.

I couldn't focus in college.

I was having mental

breakdowns every day.

I was shaking constantly.

I had anxiety that I

never dealt with before.

I had fear that my whole

world was going to fall apart.

I didn't feel like

I had control.

It took a long time

for me to realize

what had really happened.

So that's when I

started going to therapy

I don't know if I

would've made it

if I didn't have somebody

helping me mentally

because I was so broken.

[suspenseful music]

- When I was about 18 or

17-years-old, to be honest,

I found an advertisement

on Craigslist for modeling

and I didn't know that

it was actually webcaming

until I got there.

It was a big webcam studio.

I got talked into doing

it with the person

that was running it

and that's kind of when I

leaned on drinking a lot

because I would drink enough

to like get me through

those four to eight hours.

I would be at the studio

and I ended up meeting some

people through the webcam,

which is extremely dangerous

and I got into

escorting at that time

and I started drinking a lot.

Even at home, I would

sometimes like have

like a bottle of

Jameson in my shower.

It helped to numb me

and I guess be okay

with what I was doing.

[suspenseful music]

I got trauma through escorting

when I was a little

too sober at times

just because these men

would ask for things

that I was uncomfortable with

and I would push

myself to do it anyway,

[suspenseful music]

I'm sorry. [sobs]

[tense music]

It's just like I tried

to commit suicide a lot.

Anytime that I went

through depression,

I just kind of felt like

there was no way out

and so I wanted

to make a way out.

When I do open up about it,

I do have a lot of people

that come clean about it

and tell me that they suffer

and they're suicidal

or they have anxiety

and so it's really

like nice to know

that you can help other people

and be like, you know, I

know what this feels like

and I'm here for you, too.

[tense music]

- Growing up in the religious

household I grew up in,

I look back and I do wonder if

I even would be a dancer now.

My dad almost treated me and

my sister more like boys.

I never once felt like

daddy's little girl.

I never got in

trouble in school.

It would just be, you know,

like you were

talking to this boy

and you know we did get spanked.

Like there were times I

got whipped with a belt,

you know, I would get

grounded and things

but I still remember

being like 14, 15

and my dad still

threatening us with a belt

and I remember at

that point in time,

I was just kind of over it like,

"Why are you hitting me?"

[pensive music]

Well, that one hit.

[rhythmic music]

- When I moved

here when I was 15,

my parents did not tell me

that we were moving here.

But eventually when we got here,

you know we applied for

political asylum and everything

but it's just been a

really hard process

and I just was really confused

because when we left,

I didn't bring anything

that I felt like

I would want for

the rest of my life

because I thought I was

coming back to get it.

And when I got here, we

literally started from nothing.

Like we had to

stay in like places

with like no beds for a while.

So going from like

having everything

to having nothing

was really hard.

It's just what it is

when you immigrate.

You start from zero

and you have nothing.

[pensive reflective music]

- When I first danced,

I danced for like

six months in Dallas.

My first experience

dancing was like horrible.

I actually ended

up getting drugged.

I don't know exactly

what they gave me

but whatever it was,

it really f*cked me up.

You gotta remember,

I'm 19-years-old

waking up in an

ambulance on the highway.

I remember just asking

them like, "Am I dying?

Like what's going on?"

And they're like,

"No you're fine.

Like you've been drugged,

like you're fine,

everything's fine."

And I'm like, "Where's my mom?"

Like I'm freaking the hell out

'cause I just

thought you show up,

you dance and you get

paid and that's it.

I never thought about the greed

that comes with the lifestyle

or the people that aren't

just decent people.

Like there's people out there

that will actually hurt you.

[suspenseful music]

- I think it's smart if

you're a dancer to carry a g*n

but you need to know

what you're doing.

[g*n bangs]

You're meeting guys

you don't know.

No matter how nice they are,

you don't know what

their intentions are.

So having a g*n on me

does make me feel safer.

- So I have my 380

on me at all times

with everything ready

to go if need be.

And I pretty much

just watch my back.

It's pretty tough because

like I said, I am on YouTube,

I am online.

I am putting myself out there

but that comes with

being a dancer.

You know what I mean?

Even if you haven't been

through anything traumatic,

you're lucky.

If it's you or me, it's gonna

be you every single time.

- So I have a Bushmaster AR.

I also have a

general defense AR.

I have a 1911.

It's a gold limited

edition like US Navy 1911.

I also have a Swedish Mouser.

It's a World w*r II r*fle.

It's a bolt action r*fle that

my dad had actually gifted me.

And I have a Sig P365,

which is my concealed carry,

that is my favorite g*n ever.

And then I have a JM

Pro Series 12 gauge.

[g*n bangs]

[curious music]

- I do carry a knife on

me and mace just in case

so that I know, God

forbid anything happens,

I at least have a

fighting chance.

So I just have to be

smart and protect myself.

[upbeat dance music]

[crowd cheering]

I got sober at 23.

It has been 11 and a half years

so I am 34 now.

Living in recovery has

transformed everything

about my life,

my pains and my trauma

don't have to dictate my future

and I can be free.

But most importantly, I get

to use my pain to help others

which is more

fulfilling than anything

because it gives

my pain purpose.

- Dancing sober has been good.

It's finding a balance

between working my program

and not over draining myself.

I feel like my sales has

have definitely gone up

since I've been sober.

And I feel like I

connect a lot better

because I'm more present.

- There was a girl brought

to me who is a dancer,

who has been trying

to get in recovery.

We work together

at the same club

and I get to be an example

and you know, she helps me

just as much as I help her.

- [Both] God grant

us the serenity

to accept the things

we cannot change,

the courage to change

the things we can.

- Our thinking and actions.

- [Both] And our wisdom

to know the difference.

- Almonds.

I love showing people that

you can do this job sober.

That you can do it with

integrity and grace

and authenticity.

[bright reflective music]

- Jenique is my girlfriend

that I'm currently dating.

I've been dating her for

almost a year and a half.

She is a masculine-presenting

q*eer woman.

She is a 23-year-old beautiful

soul who has changed my life.

It's been a really

great experience

to be able to have

somebody by my side

who's so supportive

and loving and kind

and is very similar to me.

I'm being able to enjoy my space

with somebody that I really love

and on top of that she's a

dog lover as much as I am

and we've both been able

to create this family

of us and our dogs here

and be able to really

just enjoy life

as adults together in a

space where we feel safe.

Hmm. Thank you.

[reflective music]

- Last night was actually

a fun night for sure.

When I met my husband,

I was 15 and he was 16.

He's awesome.

He helped me learn English.

Mmm. [laughing]

Because I wanna make sure

that if I speak a language

like I might as

well speak it right.

He took me to prom.

He was someone that was

very loving and kind

and he was very

respectful towards me.

I got married when I was 20.

I'm 21 right now.

So we just had our first

like year anniversary

of being together.

You ate all my pickles?

- No!

- My husband is my best friend.

This is not okay.

We're always together.

- I really didn't

eat your pickles.

- It was you.

You were probably just high.

[rhythmic music]

- So one of the dancers

that I feel like

I'm kind of close to is Violet.

Violet is super funny.

So Violet actually stays like

in the same building as me.

We kick it in and

outside of work.

- There you go.

- She teaches me pole

tricks, occasionally,

tries to anyway

'cause I'm trying to learn

some more pole tricks.

But yeah, me and Violet

are kind of close.

This is to big bags.

- Success and money.

- She's a little younger than me

but we've been through

a lot of the same things

and she's been there for me

in times when I needed it

and vice versa.

So I really appreciate

me and Violet's friendship.

- All on my face.

- No.

[drums beating]

- Tyler is my boyfriend

of almost five years now

and he plays as a musician,

not only in original projects

but also as a drummer downtown.

[upbeat jazzy music]

[rock music]

I really don't know what

I would do without Tyler.

Not only can we just like

spend time chilling together,

but he also helps me with work.

[rock music]

I mean, he treats

me like a princess.

Like he is honestly the

most supportive partner

I could have asked for.

[rock music]

- Gotti Karate is my absolute

best friend on the planet.

I got him as a

tiny little puppy.

Gotti was with me through

probably one of

the most traumatic

experiences of my life.

Having that dog and having

him to take care of,

it wasn't just

myself at that point.

I had this thing that

I cared about so much,

I never wanted

anything to happen to

and it was how I was supposed

to be caring about myself.

I love my dog and I

love myself. [chuckles]

[soft guitar music]

- I always wanted to be a mom

so I always wanted

to be a good mom

and just make sure

that I can take care

of everything on my own

in case anything ever happened.

Having a kid changed me a lot.

To me that's like,

that is my world.

Like that is my purpose.

Like I feel like that

was my purpose in life

is to have my son.

He's everything to me so

he comes before anything.

[dramatic music]

- Yeah!

[dramatic music]

[adventurous ambient music]

I was really interested

in skydiving.

It was one of those things

I just wanted to take

off my bucket list.

And the very first

time I did a tandem,

I was like, I wanna do that.

I loved it.

[Katana exclaims]

I have a little

bit over 200 jumps

and I try to go at

least once a month.

And the feeling that I

got from skydiving was

it takes all my anxiety,

all my depression,

all my worry away.

It just is like a release.

It's like a drug to me.

[adventurous ambient music]

[Katana yells]

So I think about

skydiving every day.

That's what I mean when

I say it's like a drug.

It's very addictive and every

single day I look outside

and I look at the sky

and I'm like, I wish

I could skydive today.

Even if it's raining, like I

wish I could skydive today.

I don't care.

[adventurous ambient music]

[g*ns banging]

- You're hot to trot.

I'm a very, I feel like,

competitive person naturally.

So when I start playing a game,

you know, like Call of Duty

where it is very competitive

and people get

competitive to the point

where like they're gonna

be talking sh*t to you

while you're playing

and so at that point,

I'm gonna outplay you so

you feel like an idiot.

[g*ns banging]

Oh, oh, oh, that

is a triple k*ll.

How'd that taste?

Like your mom's c**t last night?

That's what I thought. Eat it!

- I'm actually

really f*cking good.

It was almost like this

little secret thing

I almost kind of

keep in my pocket.

When people hear about like

a girl playing Call of Duty,

they're like, okay yeah,

you play Call of Duty.

But then they play with me

and then they learn,

yeah, I play Call of Duty.

Yeah.

- Hey, baby.

[upbeat music]

- Ready to party.

- See ya.

Back again.

- On J and I's nights off,

we like to go to the strip club

and we like to throw some money.

[dance music]

You can have a good time

while some girls make

some fat racks. [laughing]

[dance music]

I do believe in that.

The money that I

spend on these girls

that deserve it that night,

it will come back to me

in the club on my time

when I need it.

[crowd cheering]

It is so fun to like throw money

and have the girl

just smile at you

and just feel so good to

make someone else feel good.

[dance music]

Throw all the money

on the pretty girls

'cause we love pretty

girls. [laughing]

[dance music]

[children faintly talking]

[folk music]

- Watch out for the corner!

- I know.

- [Alaria] Being in nature is

just another way of healing.

It's another way of

connecting to things.

Feeling the wind

and learning to relax has

been such an important thing.

So being in nature

gives me that ability

to get away from the chaos

and the sounds of the city

and listen to my own

intuition or be inspired.

- [Sadie] I started painting

at a really young age

with my sister and

it just kind of grew

from there into something

that really relaxed me

and really calmed me

and I started using it as

kind of a form of therapy.

Art is just something

that I love to do.

All forms of art really, I

just, I love to create things.

I made stickers.

I have my own logo.

I make buttons with

pictures of me on them.

It's my life.

Mini skirt on, got

my body in glitter

Pop pop foam sneakers

The boys wanna picture

[ladies exclaiming]

[upbeat pop music]

[ladies screaming]

- So every now and then, we

do have like girls night out

where we're like, get

casual, nothing too crazy

and we'll go down to Broadway.

[upbeat music]

[ladies cheering]

- What are we ladies

drinking today?

- [Ladies] Lemon drops!

- [Bartender] Let's

go! [laughing]

[ladies exclaiming]

- [Divine] Have a

few drinks. Barhop.

You know, just get the

vibe for the night.

[ladies exclaiming]

- Since I started dancing,

my only group of people I

hang out with are dancers.

- You know, you've got Hustler

girls and Deja Vu girls

going out to the bar

and having a good time.

We're all in the same industry

and we all do the same job.

It's kind of cool that

Nashville girls can see that.

- [Marie] I love to party

and I love working with girls

that also love to do that.

- Every now and then,

you gotta just let

your hair down,

go out with your girls

in a different setting

and have that night

where you're not just

thinking about work

or getting ready for work

or did you make your

goal for the night

or what's due or what's not due.

It's like, no, let's

just throw something on.

Go kick it downtown.

No guys, leave the guys at home.

- When you go out with

strippers, everybody has money.

All of us have money.

All of us can pay.

Like it's so much better

to surround myself

with girls who make the

same amount of money as me

'cause we're not

jealous of each other.

We're happy about each other.

We encourage each other.

[ladies exclaiming]

- It's honestly kind

of weird to have

as many girlfriends

as I have now.

I wasn't the kind

of person growing up

that like made

friends with girls.

Having all these girls

and not just like

all these girls,

I've got all these pretty

girls that wanna be my friends

and they like to do the same

things that I like to do.

[ladies exclaiming]

- [Belle] It's so nice

to be surrounded by

like badass b*tches.

You know? [laughing]

[rhythmic music]

[upbeat reflective music]

- I really wish that people

wouldn't put such a

judgment on dancers.

Like, we have this

stigma that really sucks

because even I had it

before I started dancing

and I've lost friends.

I've had family members

not really talk to me.

I just wish that people

wouldn't judge us so harshly

because we're also moms.

We're we're human, as well.

[upbeat music]

So I really don't think I'll

be dancing for much longer

and that's why I

started nursing school.

I have a really big

interest in nursing.

I wanna do something

related to trauma,

like maybe work in

the ICU or in the ER.

So that's kind of like

my next goal in life

is to just finish and

get my RN license.

[light dance music]

- Dancing is absolutely going

to be a thing in five years.

I just want to get

better and be better

and I plan to do this

until the day I

just cannot anymore.

After dancing, I guess when

my body just gives out on me,

I would like to be a mortician.

I think mortician is a really

solid career path for me,

especially after

dancing. [chuckles]

Yeah

[upbeat music]

- As for my aspirations in life,

I've always seen myself

touring with music.

That's one thing that I

know that I was meant to do.

I was meant to make music.

I was meant to change lives

and be there for people,

like other musicians

were for me.

- When I become famous,

I think I'm not gonna strip,

but I definitely think

that I'm gonna incorporate in

my music videos pole dancing.

So if I'm basically gonna be

stripping on my music videos,

you know.

[ladies exclaiming]

[announcer dialogue

drowned out by yelling]

- Oh.

- We're catching up on the...

I see myself over

the next few years,

five years or so with

a much bigger platform,

touching many more people,

signing more contracts and

deals and things like that.

Wigs.

This is not it.

Like I do really

well for myself,

but I want more, you

know what I mean?

I feel like I'll

always want more,

but I see myself building

on everything I have

going right now.

- My goal is to kind of

start phasing out of dancing

by the time I'm 35.

Having, you know, my

nutritional coaching on the side

has been really nice.

So one thing I will say is

we're not even gonna worry

about your fat and carb intake.

We're just gonna kind

of set those to the side

and we're really

just gonna focus on

like your protein intake.

We're gonna get you

going and in a good spot.

While I get this off the ground.

- [Client] Perfect.

- I can still get my bills paid

and have that money on the side

while I get my own

business going.

[upbeat music]

- I'm looking at buying an RV

because my philosophy is you

don't need stuff to be happy.

I wanna build a company

to where I can mentor girls

in and out of the club

and I don't wanna limit

myself to Nashville.

It isn't my forever home.

But living a simple life,

I feel like I can breathe

and I can actually enjoy

being alive and being free,

which is priceless.

[air whirring]

[country music]

Yeah

Let's go

We just gotta go hard

I go the hardest

I bring the pain

Not what she used to

It's all part of

the game, yeah

I just gotta go hard

Uh, I just gotta go hard

Go hard, go hard

Yeah, oh yeah,

the beast back

Adrenaline pumping

through my veins

Can't relax, original,

I am not the same

as these cats

I sting them if they never

ever minding they beeswax

I don't ever cap, but I'm

wearing like three hats

Never been a rat, but I

know where the cheese at

You'll never get a trophy

'Cause they all

here where we at

You better believe that

When it's all said and done

I still be here standing

Never took a loss

And it ain't something

that I'm planning

I dare you to say

something

My focus is A-1

Every dog has its day

It's been mine

since day one

This is real grinding,

I'm still climbing

While you still trying,

I'm still shining

It's real blinding

And I'm getting hotter

too, talking top two

I'm not about to

You let the

pressure bother you

And I do what I gotta do

Let's go hard

I just gotta go hard

Go hard, go hard