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[upbeat music]

♪ Yeah ♪

- [Announcer] On the main stage, Alaria.

♪ Let's go ♪ [crowd cheering]

- [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.

[upbeat music]

[crowd cheering]

- [Ferrari] Being an exotic dancer has helped heal me.

[upbeat music]

I didn't know who I was before I started dancing.

[upbeat music]

- [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."

[upbeat music]

- [Marie] Once I figured out my hustle,

that's when I started raking it in.

[upbeat music]

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 ♪

[upbeat music]

♪ Go hard ♪

[upbeat country music]

- 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.

[upbeat country music]

- 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]

[upbeat country music]

- 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.

[crowd cheering]

[dramatic music]

[upbeat country music]

- 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.

[upbeat country music]

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.

[upbeat country music] [crowd cheering]

[gentle music]

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.

[soul rhythmic music]

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.

[pensive rhythmic music]

[pensive rhythmic music continues]

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.

[slow reflective music]

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.

[slow reflective music]

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.

[reflective music]

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.

[upbeat music]

- 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.

[crowd cheering]

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.

[upbeat music]

[camera clicking]

- 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.

[upbeat music]

[banjo music]

- 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.

[rhythmic music]

[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.

[rhythmic music]

- 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.

[engine revving] [upbeat music]

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.

[tires screeching]

[bike thuds]

[engine revving]

[bike thuds] - 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 shit 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]

[engine revving]

[rhythmic music]

- 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 ass 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.

[rap music]

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 pimps.

I was thinking about how I'm gonna pay this rent.

[upbeat music]

- 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.

[rap music] [crowd cheering]

[announcer indistinctly 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.

[zipper reverberates]

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.

[rap music] [crowd cheering]

- So when I started stripping,

I was actually 31-years-old.

I had been thinking about it for a long time.

- Oh, oh, oh! [crowd cheering]

- 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!"

[rhythmic music] [crowd cheering]

- Whoa! [rhythmic music continues]

- [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.

[upbeat music]

- 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. [upbeat music]

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. [crowd cheering]

- 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.

[crowd cheering] [upbeat music]

- [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 guns,

but they hate tits. [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 gun laws.

You can go buy a gun,

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 gun,

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 pussy

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.

[electronic dance music]

- 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.

[dramatic music]

- 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 whores in this house ♪

♪ There's some whores in this house ♪

[crowd cheering]

- [Announcer] Lord had mercy.

♪ There's some whores in this house ♪

♪ There's some whores in this house ♪

♪ There's some whores in this house ♪

[crowd cheering]

- [Lady] Let's see it, baby

♪ There's some whores in this house ♪

♪ There's some whores in this house ♪

[crowd cheering]

- I mean it goes as far as like laser booty plugs.

I feel like they have it all, really.

[swanky upbeat music]

♪ 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 shit-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 fucking hot.

[slow rhythmic music]

- 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.

[slow rhythmic music]

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, "Bitch, you look like shit."

[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 ass 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.

[ambient rhythmic music]

- 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 whores 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 ass 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 fuck 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 shit 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 fucking 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 shit, 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 shit 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 shoot 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 shit.

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 raped 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 fucked 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 gun

but you need to know what you're doing.

[gun 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 gun 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 War II rifle.

It's a bolt action rifle that my dad had actually gifted me.

And I have a Sig P365, which is my concealed carry,

that is my favorite gun ever.

And then I have a JM Pro Series 12 gauge.

[gun 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 queer 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]

[guns 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 shit to you

while you're playing and so at that point,

I'm gonna outplay you so you feel like an idiot.

[guns banging]

Oh, oh, oh, that is a triple kill.

How'd that taste?

Like your mom's cunt last night?

That's what I thought. Eat it!

- I'm actually really fucking 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 bitches.

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 ♪