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What’s In My Smoothie / What’s In My Pants

Jet Noir

Jun 21, 20154 min read

What’s In My Smoothie / What’s In My Pants

As you can tell by the title, I’m touching two different subjects. The first subject is based on a question I hear everyday. Every...

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Jet Noir

Jun 14, 20151 min read

Mom Watching Me Strip!

Sorry for the delay, it’s been a busy weekend. Come out and see a milestone performance for me tonight. It will be my Mom’s FIRST time...

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Jet Noir

Jun 7, 20153 min read

“I’ve missed you on Facebook!”

It’s no shock that people say odd shit all of the time. One of the oddest ways that people have been greeting me over the past year has...

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Jet Noir

May 31, 20151 min read

10 Things I Love About You

This week, I’m asking you to do the work. You just have an assignment to complete. Write a love letter to your body. Step 1: Get naked....

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Jet Noir

May 24, 20159 min read

Activism versus Reactivism [Action versus Awareness]

Do you remember that time that GoDaddy upset a lot of people by making light of puppy mills? (I’ve posted the ad below for reference.)...

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Jet Noir

May 17, 20158 min read

Touchy Touchy: Respecting Personal Space As A Fitness Professional

“Get your fucking hands off of me!” Those are the seven angry words that you never want to hear as a trainer. Truthfully, you don’t want...

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Jet Noir

May 10, 20157 min read

My Momma’s Advice (A Word On Arrogance)

I still remember the first time that someone called me arrogant. I was in the seventh grade and I had to ask my Momma what it meant. I...

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Be Ready, Be Patient (or A Multi-dimensional View Of Fitness)

Jet Noir

May 3, 201510 min read

Be Ready, Be Patient (or A Multi-dimensional View Of Fitness)

“What’s your fitness philosophy?” That’s probably the most frequently asked question I hear from potential clients. I’ve written about it...

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I’m Not A Team Player (But Neither Are You)

Jet Noir

Apr 26, 20157 min read

I’m Not A Team Player (But Neither Are You)

Disclaimer: Before this post gets under way, I want to provide my perception of the Americanism team player. Team player is a noun that...

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Jet Noir

Apr 19, 20158 min read

The Mutual Experience Of Good Sex

When I was in my teens, I remember when my mother took me to one of her favorite bookstores. The Shrine of the Black Madonna Bookstore...

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Avoiding Advice From The Inexperienced (or Non-athletes Advising Athletes)

Jet Noir

Apr 12, 20157 min read

Avoiding Advice From The Inexperienced (or Non-athletes Advising Athletes)

When I was younger, my mother made a comment about something she’d seen on the news. Apparently, that night’s story was about how “…a...

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Societal Mediocrity (Breaking the Fourth Agreement)

Jet Noir

Apr 5, 20158 min read

Societal Mediocrity (Breaking the Fourth Agreement)

The important element of the 4th agreement is that it reminds us to keep trying our best even if our best, today, is not as good as it...

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Four Ways to Stop Making Assumptions (Keeping The Third Agreement)

Jet Noir

Mar 29, 20158 min read

Four Ways to Stop Making Assumptions (Keeping The Third Agreement)

To paraphrase Samuel L. Jackson (from “The Long Kiss Goodnight”), “When you make an assumption you make an ass out of both ‘u’ and...

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Getting Butt Hurt and Angry Yelp Reviews (Breaking The Second Agreement)

Jet Noir

Mar 22, 20156 min read

Getting Butt Hurt and Angry Yelp Reviews (Breaking The Second Agreement)

I was driving down a one-way street in downtown San Francisco. The light was green and I proceeded to make a left turn, but first I...

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Why We Lie (Breaking The First Agreement)

Jet Noir

Mar 15, 20157 min read

Why We Lie (Breaking The First Agreement)

If you’ve followed my writing for any time at all you know how I feel about the book/doctrine “The Four Agreements” by Don Miguel Ruiz. A...

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Jet Noir

Mar 8, 20157 min read

Uplift Oakland or Don’t Misplace Blame

I grew up in Detroit. While we never considered our neighborhood to be a bad one, we also never spent time reading crime statistics. We...

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Jet Noir

Mar 1, 20156 min read

Good Practice Begetting Bad Game Days or Antiquated Coaching Habits

In my degree program (B.S. in Kinesiology) we learn a great deal about coaching. We learn about injury prevention so that we can coach...

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Jet Noir

Feb 22, 20154 min read

Burlesque Acceptance or Walk Your Walk

People often ask how I got my start in burlesque. Here’s the short version. I had been working as a nude figure model in San Diego when I...

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Jet Noir

Feb 15, 20153 min read

Disappointing News: No One Hates You

The H-word is all around us. In popular culture, we hear about the “haters” all of the time. Sorry to spoil the end of the movie, but no...

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Jet Noir

Feb 8, 20157 min read

Anger Management or What A Difference An Attitude Makes

Did I ever tell you the story about how I tried to kill my brother? I was in high school when my brother returned home from Operation:...

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