Stacey Snedden |Time Management and Naked Newsletters| Episode #019

My interview in this episode was with IPDFA Industry Person of the year Stacey Snedden, who most of the pole community have or will come into contact with in some form over their pole journeys. She’s worked with Xpole for over 13 years, she’s the International sales manager for XPERT, runs Pole Theatre UK, Dance Filthy UK, Pole Art UK , The Pole Weekender, Once Upon a Pole PLUS judges numerous competitions, runs her successful studio HD&F; Fitness alongside having two boys and a husband to keep happy…

I also asked her some questions from the members of the Off The Pole Community Group

Sarah:                      All right. Welcome, Stacey Snedden, to my podcast. It feels-

Stacey:                    Hi!

Sarah:                      It feels odd in this interview format because you’re my best friend, so we chat all the time. We must remember that we’re on a podcast and not in a private conversation and take off on a tangent and start chatting about other stuff. But yeah…

Stacey:                    I promise clean language only.

Sarah:                      Oh, that’s all right. It’s just going out to pole dancers. Many of them have met you. Most of the industry I think has met you at some point. I think if you took a ratio of who’s met Stacey Snedden in polers, it would be, I don’t know what pie chart you’d use, but it would be a big chunk.

Stacey:                    Not sure that’s a good thing…

Sarah:                      Well, that’s a lie. So yeah, thank you for giving me some of your day. You’re currently in your X-POLE office, hidden in the back. So if people need to come in, they need to be promptly told to get out because we’re busy!

                                    I’ve posted in the group that I was gonna be having you on the podcast and got quite a few questions. Most of them were from Dan Rosen granted. He definitely jumped in and asked quite a few.

                                    But I wanted to ask a couple of questions at the beginning. Because you did a post recently about how many events you’ve been a part of. Be that organizing them, running them, putting the trusses up for them, judging. How many comps have you been a part of in 2018 events? 

Stacey:                    Well, 18.

Sarah:                      18 events?

Stacey:                    So 18 pole events, just pole.

Sarah:                      So that’s not even including the yoga, the fitness events? The X-POLE events?

Stacey:                    No. That’s plus. So this year, just pole events itself has been 18. Which the only reason why I did that exercise was because I was actually trying to figure out where the hell I’d been this year. I couldn’t figure it out.

Sarah:                      You’ve been around.

Stacey:                    Yeah.

Sarah:                      What have been your highlights of this year? Out of those? I know you can’t pick one top moment maybe, but what have been your highlights?

Stacey:                    Oh, it’s been a really weird year ’cause everything’s kind of seemed quite epic. So everything that’s happened has seemed really, really big.

So I think probably on a personal level, is seeing all my friends have babies. Which has been really nice. Obviously with Lorna and Kris and Hannah and loads of people.