Living the Dream

A couple of weeks ago, I got an email from this fun woman named Nina. Nina, it turns out, runs Living the Dream, with her friend Cindi, and together they make fabulous t-shirts with funny (and all-too-real!) mommy scenarios on them.

The thing is, they also do an online radio show and podcast just for moms. Well, they got the idea of doing a show on moms who pole dance and they wanted to know if I’d like to participate.

Umm … YES!

So I did, along with three fabulous other pole dancers.

My first radio experience EVER

Nina and Cindi were a little giggly about the whole stripper/pole thing, but still really cool – they just wanted to learn about it and see what pole was all about.

Bizarrely, as much as I love to talk, I have never been on radio before. I wasn’t sure what to expect, but modern technology makes it as easy as can be. Nina just emailed me the time of the show and made sure she had my phone number. Then, at the appointed time, I got a phone call from her producer giving me the heads up about the show – how much time I’d have and what would happen when they cut to a commercial. Then I was put on hold, listening to mellow but (thankfully!) non-annoying muzak, and passed a minute or so until Nina and Cindi picked up.

I wasn’t able to listen to the beginning of the show before they called, so I totally missed the bit about Nina’s sister having just had her first baby (congratulations!), but I didn’t find that out until afterwards when I played the podcast. So, from my end, it just began with their questions.

Note to self: Stop talking over people interviewing you on the radio.

Which is to say I talk way too much and could truly consider listening a bit more. (This is not news to anyone who knows me.) But, in the end, it came together well enough (at least, I hope that’s what Nina and Cindi think, too!).

The show

They asked how I’d gotten into pole dancing and, specifically, how I came up with the idea of PoleSkivvies (you know you’ve been dying to find out).

I explained about the online pole dancing community, and about removable poles, and my love of X-Poles. Oh, and the PoleSkivvies pole clothing!

After my spot, three other pole dancers were interviewed – Faye, whom I know from Facebook, Nikki Craven, whom I had the fun of interviewing awhile back, and another cool pole dancer I don’t know named Mary.

What was great was hearing everybody’s story about how they got into pole and where their love of pole has taken them.

Listen to the podcast here and let Nina and Cindi know a lot of moms love to pole dance!