Burlesque sensation, Pastel Supernova, joins Jess and Brandon to talk about her experiences with dating, love and relationships. She shares insights on building self confidence, loving your body, and overcoming nervousness and performance pressure.

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Dating, Confidence, & Sex Appeal  A Burlesque Dancers Perspective

00:00:05 - 00:05:01

You're listening to the sacs with Dr Jess podcast sacks and relationship advice you can use tonight. Welcome to the sex with Dr just podcast brought to you by desire resorts in cruises. I'm your co host Brandon wear, and I'm here to just Riley, your friendly sex and relationship expert. Joining us is pastel supernova, the founder and artistic director of love letters, cabaret, which I've heard is pretty edgy. That's what they say. So what is love letters, cabaret love letters, cavalry is my burlesque on samba? All I have a I've been running for seven years now in Toronto, and it's a, it's a big showgirl revue. So when we think about burlesque, I think many of us, think about diverse body types in different types of beauty. Is that part of what drew you to burlesque has burlesque shifted the way you feel about your own body? Oh my goodness. I've been drawn to burlesque since childhood without knowing I grew up watching old, Hollywood films, and those dance reviews, always have been element of strip-teasers so much cabaret, gray RV, and the showmanship about it all was, what drew me to it. But very slowly started in classical dance eventually made my way there through an accidental booking. Somebody just thought that because I did pinup modeling and danced that I did Birla skin. Mccready bitch. And then the moment I did the show might life started to change completely. You are open in burlesque. You're open to all kinds of bunny types, but you're open to all kinds of people everything is so fluid and. Forward thinking, although they're taking styles from the past like such old elements but they're still opening people's mind so much so that it's considered me. Sure sexy in Lega, frowned upon way, because it's too forward thinking for a lot of people, it's not very labeled so echinacea that kin intimidate of you. But if you go in with an open mind, you'll meet a world of characters that will continuously teach you through art through teasing in the show, but the performance themselves, if you, if you find when you start to get to know them. It's, it's a whole other world of study where you're like, oh, wow. I'm a better human being right now. So it's not just about how you feel about yourself. It's how you interact with other people, and how you make them feel. Well, yeah, it's all connected. The better you feel about yourself. The more beautiful, you could see other like you see other people beauty because you're not bogged down by your own issues if you can just be like yet. I'm the shit. Oh my God. Look at all these other people there are so, yes. And you can actually listen to the stories instead of just Seattle be li...