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Amy Bond

United in Hope: Notes from Early Voting in Nevada

“First time voter!” a poll worker yells across the linoleum floor of Cora Coleman Senior Center where early voting has started in Clark…

Oct 21, 2020

United in Hope: Notes from Early Voting in Nevada

Oct 21, 2020

Renegotiating Commercial Leases in the Covid Era

Many Bay Area small business owners who run organizations in service-focused industries have now been closed under Shelter In Place (SIP)…

Aug 18, 2020

Renegotiating Commercial Leases in the Covid Era

Aug 18, 2020

Conserving Cash Flow During Coronavirus’ Shelter-In-Place.

In my community college Econ 101 class, my professor once said “Cash is King”. I remember thinking, smugly, that the proclamation sounded…

Mar 29, 2020

Conserving Cash Flow During Coronavirus’ Shelter-In-Place.

Mar 29, 2020

On “Hustlers”, Shadowbanning, and SESTA/FOSTA

As a pole athlete, dancer, and owner of two pole dance studios, San Francisco Pole & Dance and Oakland Pole & Dance in the Northern…

Sep 13, 2019

On “Hustlers”, Shadowbanning, and SESTA/FOSTA

Sep 13, 2019

Creep.

When a Self-Proclaimed Male Feminist Pole Dancer Sexually Harassed My Pole Studio

Jul 12, 2019

Creep.

Jul 12, 2019

I Took My Boutique Fitness Studio Off Classpass. Here’s What Happened Next.

In January 2018, I wrote a Medium article about my ambivalence towards Classpass as a studio owner on the Classpass platform. I talked…

Jun 21, 2019

I Took My Boutique Fitness Studio Off Classpass. Here’s What Happened Next.

Jun 21, 2019

Job Searching & Pole Dancing

How to be a pole dancer and find a job in the age of social media

Jun 7, 2019

Job Searching & Pole Dancing

Jun 7, 2019

I Went to Russia to Train Russian Exotic Pole Dancing. Here’s What I Learned.

After many years of salivating over Olga Koda videos online, I went to the motherland in May 2019, to train Russian Exotic style pole…

May 31, 2019

I Went to Russia to Train Russian Exotic Pole Dancing. Here’s What I Learned.

May 31, 2019

How I Pay Pole Dance Instructors

The pole dance industry is professionalizing fast and furiously. New studios pop up around the country almost weekly and as the pole dance…

Jul 1, 2018

How I Pay Pole Dance Instructors

Jul 1, 2018

On Firing Customers

For a long time, I operated from the assumption that I could make any customer work at my small business, San Francisco Pole and Dance, so…

May 16, 2018

On Firing Customers

May 16, 2018

Amy Bond

Amy Bond

I write about running and growing my pole dance studios. All musings about the failures of my youth at www.amybondwrites.com

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