The dance industry discussion continues with the beautiful ballerina Kayla Giard.
We discuss how some dance Mom’s and some dance teachers and choreographers find it perfectly ok to secretly drink alcohol during the competitions while tending to the children. We talk about how we had teachers at Prestige Dance and Performing Arts Centre that would keep alcohol in the glove compartment of their car and take drink and smoking breaks between classes, yet they are looked upon as amazing influences on children.
The dance competition discussion continues with how expensive dance competitions are. We discuss the severe double standard in the industry and how confusing it is that some male dance teachers and choreographers can post nude photos on social media, smoke pot, offer drugs to the teen students and be looked at as heroes, but how Marcella was personally attacked because her family owns a lingerie business. Kayla then shares a recent incident at a dance competition, where catty dance parents found it appropriate to make fun of Prestige Dance closing, calling the studio trashy, attacking the owners, teachers and everyone that was part of the studio and saying how happy they were that it was closed. Kayla was horrified and only felt pity for them for harboring such a mean spirit. We conclude the show with the hope and wish that people need to be kinder to each other and judge less.

The beautiful ballet mistress Kayla Giard is our special guest. She shares her upbringing with a single Mom and living with her grandparents and struggling with Catholic guilt. She didn’t ever get into trouble with all she ever wanted to do was dance. She talks about starting to teach dance at age 15.
Marcella and Kayla discuss how they met and share some teacher insights. We all discuss very passionately how to correctly leave a dance company and how not to burn bridges in the industry since the dance world is very small. Marcella then shares the story of her student Zoe Nelson and how her perseverance paid off and how she has been an example to so many other dancers.

The true Diva Amber Rogers is back for Part 2 of her unique life story. She tells us that her intention of sharing her powerful story is to save lives. She has been misdiagnosed many times and many times gets treated for addiction even though she suffers from mental illness. Amber is very aware of her illness and sometimes can treat it better than any professional.
We talk about her experience when she went on the Dr. Phil show https://www.drphil.com/.
There were exciting moments like being flown to Los Angeles, being picked up in a limo etc. The realization set in quickly, that the producers were just in it to create a shocking show.They even made a 2 part series out of her life story. Gabrielle discusses how she felt watching her friend on the show.
We discuss Amber’s 90 day stay in a rehab center, that the Dr. Phil Show sent her to, which is considered the best treatment center in the world. Her experience in the sober house, right after she completed treatment, made her very uncomfortable because people got caught with drugs and it was very chaotic, and threatening to her sobriety.
Because Amber left the sober house, the Dr. Phil Show left her stranded in Florida and have never once checked on Amber. She had to figure out how to get the money to fly back home. Before she went on the show they said they would follow her progress and have her back on the show and set her up for success. None of that happened. We all feel very let down by the fact that Dr. Phil seems to care so much, yet in reality he doesn’t show compassion at all, and just cares about ratings.
Amber tells us about her work with Charles Horton and the Boardroom. https://www.boardroomlesson.com and that she is now a firewalking instructor.
We end the show with Marcella telling us how she started designing swimsuits, how people should never retire and that women should be able to wear anything they want and to teach boys and men to be respectful to women.

We welcome the true Diva herself Amber Rogers on International Woman’s Day and discuss how she founded D.I.V.A.S, Divorcing Independent Very Able Survivors and all the benefits of that organization. D.I.V.A.S had to close it’s doors after 7 years and not receiving funding partially because Amber’s many bipolar episodes.
Amber tells us about her teenage years when she got raped at 14. Her best friend went missing and was murdered by Amber’s rapist. She talks about how this became a very high profile case in Flowermound, Texas and that it was the first homicide in that city.
Amber talks about having to testify and face her rapist and best friends murderer in a capital murder trial at age 19. Amber suffered from severe PTSD. She tells us about meeting her husband and how she seemingly had a perfect life for a while, but then falling into a severe depression and being diagnosed bipolar by the age of 30. She describes her severe bipolar and manic episodes that are always caused and triggered by a guy. Amber informs us that she ended up in 14 mental institutions in 7 years and how horrific those places are.

Marcella is proud to say that she is a survivor of 2 abusive relationships and wants to help all women.
In this episode Marcella shows incredible bravery as she shares her riveting story about the second time she fell into the grips of an abuser. It is her #metoo story. This relationship sadly lasted 4 years and when you hear her story, you will laugh and cry and just be left in complete disbelief by the sheer horror of it all. This abuser hailed himself the “King of Dallas”. In reality he was an evil monster that was fueled by severe drug, alcohol and steroid abuse.
Marcella’s intention of sharing her story in such detail is to warn all young girls and women of all ages to recognize the red flags and run before it is too late.
During the entire interview Marcella still showed signs of severe PTSD as she clinched her hands and arms the whole time. This is 7 years later and the impact these abusers have are devastating and last a lifetime.
Marcella vividly describes the traumatic, outrageous, abusive lifestyle with her monster ex boyfriend in the Dallas Party Scene that included non stop cheating, alcohol, drug, steroid abuse, porn addiction and so much more.
She talks about how she was always crying, and completely lost herself, and how he almost destroyed her as a person.
Marcella discusses the last time he called her awful curse words and yelled at her and she snapped. She thought he would kill her in that moment.
She also discusses the slow healing process and she remembers her dance students being a huge reason for keeping her sane and she choreographed a dance to Katy Perry’s song “By the grace of God”. Please watch this beautiful piece. Marcella designed the gorgeous costumes and Whitley created them. This is dedicated to all the abuse victims and survivors of domestic violence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sewgaiYIzhs

Marcella and Gabrielle share the very emotional story about Marcella’s first abusive boyfriend at age 18. They discuss how abusers are always so charming and the abuse starts slow, only to escalate to severe violence.
They are sharing this story to make people aware of the early red flags and warning signs, in the hopes of saving others. They talk about how a situation like theirs, where a family member is involved in an abusive relationship changes the entire family dynamic and how their family became a battlefield.
Gabrielle gives her very strong opinion on how to execute “TOUGH LOVE” with a twist on a teenage or adult child . She swears her way is what saved her daughter and how the family got her back and how their relationship stayed intact.
Marcella talks in detail about when the boyfriend kidnapped her and she feared he was going to kill her in the woods and how she got rescued by the police

In this Part 2 of 2 episode we welcome Nicolette back who shares her brave story about her terrifying slide into devastating drug addiction and her brave battle into sobriety with a devastating relapse. She is now a survivor and we are so proud of her as she just completed her full 1 year of sobriety.
In this episode she tells the details of how she went from being a functioning addict to a non functioning one and how her grades started slipping and she started to party more and more.
She talks about the time when her drug use escalated and she was playing Russian roulette with mixing all different drugs and alcohol and eventually snorting cocaine etc. She got severely depressed and as her drug use got worse so did her depression.
She got put on the antidepressant Lexapro that made her feel worse than ever. She then spiraled further and further out of control and started cutting. Nicolette shares the story when she was rushed to the ER and put on a 5150 psychiatric hold and was placed on suicide watch.
From there things really started spiraling out of control and she ended up Overdosing while injecting drugs.
Thank God she survived and she then made a promise to change her life and becomes clean and sober for good.
March 15th, 2018 marks her 1 year sobriety and we are all celebrating with her and we know she has a bright future ahead.
She tells us that she is now studying Neuroscience at the University of Texas and she is President of her Sober House.
Nicolette would like to thank http://www.enterhealth.com where she successfully completed her treatment. She thanks Dr. Farooqui while in treatment at the ranch and Dr. Irina Gromov when she was released from the treatment facility.
She is at this time still living in an https://www.oxfordhouse.org Sober Living Facility, that she is president of.
She recommends the books The Betrayal Bond by Patrick Carnes and The Addicted Brain by Harold Urschel.

In this Part 1 of 2 episode we welcome Nicolette who shares her brave story about her terrifying slide into devastating drug addiction and her brave battle into sobriety with a devastating relapse. She is now a survivor and we are so proud of her as she just completed her full 1 year of sobriety. She intends to help young teens and women that are in similar situations, as well as parents understand the secrets, lies, manipulation and darkness of drug addiction in our high school and college students.
Nicolette shares her story of her fairy tale upbringing in a loving Italian household. She tells about bullying from mean girls in jr. high school and high school.
She started doing drugs to appear cool to a guy and we discuss the complete ignorance of parents with their children’s drug and alcohol use and addiction in rich small towns as in Coppell and Plano as examples.
Nicolette talks about her manipulative, drug addicted boyfriend that she stayed in a 7 year relationship with, despite her parents hating him.
Nicolette’s drug use started with smoking weed, drinking and then quickly escalated into opiod addiction and worse.
We discuss how people pleasers are in big danger of falling into the dangerous grasp of manipulators and abusers.
She then talks about how severe the drug epidemic is in college, yet is looked upon as recreational.
Nicolette would like to thank http://www.enterhealth.com where she successfully completed her treatment. She thanks Dr. Farooqui while in treatment at the ranch and Dr. Irina Gromov when she was released from the treatment facility.
She is at this time still living in an https://www.oxfordhouse.org Sober Living Facility, that she is president of.
She recommends the books The Betrayal Bond by Patrick Carnes and The Addicted Brain by Harold Urschel.

In this episode we continue chatting with our special guest Emily Austin, who is a star in the adult film industry!
We ask her if she ever gets jealous if other girls talk to her husband who is the strip club manager.
We discuss her health issues that forced her to retire from her porn career.
She informs everyone how to properly prepare for anal scenes in the porn industry.
She tells us about her scene that she is most famous for with the legendary porn star Mandingo who has a humongous package.
Emily then talks about her experience with BDSM at kink.com and how intense the filming for that is.
We discuss how she feels about all her fans from all over the world and her Amazon wish list.
She describes a typical day in the life of a porn star and her career now as a boss lady in the strip club. And to close out this segment we learn more trade secrets from the porn film set.

In this episode we welcome our special guest Emily Austin, who is a star in the adult film industry! She immediately informs us about an APP called Dreamlover and how to use it. Then we discuss about the time when Gabrielle started a store inside the strip club where she met Emily.
Emily then tells us what it was like when she danced for the first time in a strip club and how she made $ 20.000 in one night.
We find out what the duties of a House Mom in a strip club are.
The discussion then turns to how she got started in porn, became a star, but has to deal with the judgement that comes with this job.
We get into more detail about her first time on the set of a porn movie, how safe the industry is and that she starred in 250 movies so far.
She shares an encounter with an arrogant douche bag on set that turned out to have a tiny package.
We find out an interesting secret of the tricks of the trade of the porn industry.