Ava Devine's Bad Advice

Welcome to my show, Ava Devine's Bad Advice On this podcast, I explore sex, relationships, self-image, the taboo and healing through honest, unfiltered conversations. Drawing from my own lived experience and a background in the adult industry, I sit down with experts in psychology, sexology, recovery, and wellness to unpack the things we’re often taught to hide. Nothing is off limits, including questions from my fans. This is a space to question patterns, challenge shame, and better understand who we are so we can start asking: what does life look like without shame? Follow Me: IG: @avadevinesbadadvice TikTok: @avadevinesbadadvice X: @avadevinespod Got questions, feedback or requests? Email me at avadevinesbadadvice@gmail.com.

Ava Devine's Bad Advice is a health podcast hosted by Ava Devine, with 27 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Ava Devine hosts Ava Devine's Bad Advice, a health show with 27 episodes published.

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  Episode #42

  Ava Devine Goes To Pole School With Claudia Renée | She Talks Confidence, Sensuality & Her Journey

  Sep 23, 202659 min

  Send us Fan Mail Pole dancing has spent decades being dismissed because of its connection to strip clubs and erotica. But what happens when women stop seeing sensuality as something they perform for somebody else, and start discovering it for themselves? In this episode of Ava Devine's Bad Advice, I sit down with international pole dancer, instructor, and Team Basework founder Claudia Renee to talk about pole dancing, confidence, sensuality, strength, body image, sexual independence, and what really happens when women discover what their bodies are capable of. What started as a birthday gift eventually became a career that has taken Claudia around the world, teaching thousands of women from different backgrounds and ultimately building Team Basework, her virtual pole dancing community with instructors from around the world. But Claudia's approach to pole goes far beyond learning tricks. She explains why pole dancing can transform the way women see themselves, how physical strength can translate into emotional confidence and how she has watched women begin asking for what they want after discovering a different side of themselves through movement. We also talk about something Claudia refuses to separate from the conversation: where pole dancing comes from. Pole has increasingly entered the worlds of fitness, competitive sport and mainstream entertainment, but Claudia believes respecting the art also means respecting its relationship with erotic dancers and spicy workers. She takes us behind the scenes of training Constance Wu for Hustlers, the controversy she witnessed surrounding the production and why she believes pole dancers, midnight ballerinas, and spicy workers should be supporting each other rather than fighting over who is allowed to participate in the art form. Follow Ava Devine Instagram: @theoneandonlyavadevine TikTok: @1avadevine Follow Ava Devine's Bad Advice Podcast Instagram: @avadevinesbadadvice TikTok: @avadevinesbadadvice X: @avadevinespod Follow Claudia Renée IG: @itsclaudiarenee Follow Team Basework IG: @teambasework Follow Basecamp IG: @base_by_teambasework

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  Episode #42

  Mia Isabella: The Fullness of Her Freedom, The Tyga Scandal, Trans Identity & Taking Her Life Back

  Sep 16, 20261h 4m

  Send us Fan Mail For most of her life, Mia Isabella refused to let other people decide who she was allowed to be. Long before becoming one of the most recognizable transgender performers in adult entertainment, Mia was an artist, fashion designer, student, caregiver and young woman trying to build a life entirely on her own terms. Then fame came. In this episode of Ava Devine's Bad Advice, I sit down with Mia Isabella for an intimate conversation about her childhood, transgender identity, race, family, fashion, adult entertainment, relationships, fame, the Tyga controversy, depression and what it actually means to live freely. Mia takes us back to growing up in East Tennessee, where she says she understood herself as feminine from the age of five despite having no concept of what being transgender meant. Raised by powerful women who encouraged her to tell the truth about who she was, Mia says she never learned to view being different as something that should limit her. But her childhood was also complicated by race, family conflict, and eventually discovering prejudices within the people she loved most. As a biracial child growing up between different sides of her family, Mia opens up about confronting racism and colorism, becoming estranged from her grandmother for nearly a decade and eventually learning that loving someone doesn't mean accepting everything they believe. She explains how she helped create an image of transgender women that went beyond reducing them to their bodies: full glamour, fashion, femininity and fantasy. But behind the public persona was a much more complicated private life. Mia opens up about relationships with powerful and wealthy men, getting married extremely young, living what appeared to be an extraordinarily privileged life and eventually realizing that money, houses, jewelry and security could still become a cage. She describes the moment she finally chose freedom over that life, leaving almost everything behind, driving to Las Vegas and rebuilding herself as Mia Isabella. Then we talk about the controversy that changed everything. Mia addresses the Tyga scandal, what she says actually happened when the story exploded online, the impersonation accounts she says helped ignite the controversy and why she believes the public narrative reduced an entire career to one sensational story. She also explains why she has never wanted to publicly discuss the intimate details of her relationships with famous men. For Mia, those relationships were between human beings, not headlines. But the consequences of public scrutiny were very real. She explains how the scandal damaged the career she had spent years building, affected her relationships and professional opportunities, contributed to a deep depression, and ultimately led her to retreat from interviews and public attention for nearly a decade. Now, she is telling her story from a very different place.

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  Episode #41

  Victoria Vale: Aging, Plastic Surgery & Why Your 40s & 50s Might Be Better Than Your 20s

  Sep 9, 202655 min

  Send us Fan Mail Society has an unwritten rule for women: youth is beauty, beauty is value, and eventually you're supposed to become quieter, less desirable and less visible. Victoria Vale completely rejected that narrative. In this episode of Ava Devine's Bad Advice, I sit down with adult performer and model Victoria Vale for an honest conversation about starting over later in life, aging, confidence, beauty standards, plastic surgery, sexuality, career reinvention and why women do not have an expiration date. Long before becoming Victoria Vale, she lived two very different lives. She began dancing while putting herself through college before eventually leaving the entertainment world, completing graduate school and building a successful corporate career in HR. For roughly two decades, she lived what she describes as a normal suburban corporate life. But part of her never forgot the freedom and excitement she had experienced before. Years later, Victoria decided to explore that part of herself again. What initially began as a bucket-list opportunity to model eventually became something much bigger: a complete reinvention of her life in adulthood. Victoria opens up about returning to an appearance-driven industry at an older age, becoming comfortable in front of the camera, entering adult films later in life and discovering that getting older didn't make her less confident. Chapters 00:00 Women Do NOT Have An Expiration Date 00:01:05 Starting Over Later In Life 00:01:58 Who Was Victoria Vale Before Adult Entertainment? 00:02:42 Dancing Her Way Through College 00:04:27 Why Victoria Chose Corporate Life 00:05:07 Living Two Completely Different Lives 00:05:54 Did Victoria Ever Feel Like She Truly Fit In? 00:06:40 Shame & Growing Up Without Guilt 00:07:23 Education vs. Real-World Experience 00:08:07 What Adult Entertainment Taught Victoria About Men 00:08:58 Why Victoria Believes The Industry Can Empower Women 00:09:54 Why Victoria Returned To Adult Entertainment 00:10:36 Sex Appeal In The Corporate World 00:12:13 Does Appearance Affect How People Treat You? 00:12:56 The Glamour Standards Of The Feature-Dancing Era 00:14:52 The Opportunity That Brought Victoria Back 00:15:34 Working A Corporate Job While Modeling 00:16:18 Victoria Vale's Glamorous Aesthetic 00:17:04 How Ava Helped Victoria Enter The Creator Economy 00:18:32 Why Women Should Help Other Women Succeed 00:19:24 Why Leading With Kindness Matters 00:20:08 How Victoria Got Her Big Break 00:20:49 Why She Didn't Immediately Jump Into Adult Films 00:21:31 Victoria's First Experience Filming With A Partner 00:22:26 What People Don't Understand About Filming Adult Scenes 00:23:22 Why Staying Camera-Ready Gets Harder With Age 00:24:27 The Pressure Of Seeing Your Body On Camera 00:25:21 "I Feel Better Than I Did In My 20s" 00:26:12 How Victoria Transformed Her Health 00:26:58 Why Aging Made Her More Grounded 00:27:47 The Physical Demands Of Adult Entertainment 00:28:32 Protecting Mental, Emotional & Spiritual Health 00:29:36 Finding Balance Between Work & Real Life 00:30:37 How Victoria Deals With Online Hate 00:32:01 Aging Naturally vs. Plastic Surgery 00:32:50 Why Women Should Choose How THEY Want To Age 00:33:36 Why We Freeze Women In Their Younger Image 00:34:55 Victoria Vale On Plastic Surgery & Extreme Glamour 00:35:47 Why She Refuses To Apologize For Her Look 00:36:35 "My Body, My Choice" 00:37:31 Why Plastic Surgery Makes Victoria Feel More Confident 00:38:33 The Impossible Beauty Standard Women Face 00:39:23 "I'm Stronger Than I Was 20 Years Ago" 00:40:07 Why Women Are Judged No Matter How They Age 00:41:37 Is Ageism Still A Problem In Adult Entertainment? 00:42:32 Why Victoria Loves Being A Mature Woman 00:43:25 Victoria Vale's Advice For Women Of Every Age 00:45:10 "You Couldn't Pay Me To Be In My 20s Again" 00:45:57 What Victoria Is Proudest Of 00:46:53 What Women In Their 40s, 50s & 60s Need To Hear 00:47:44 "It's Never Too Late" 00:48:43 Why Your Life Doesn't End When You Start Over 00:49:34 Finding What Brings You Joy 00:50:34 Victoria Vale's Final Bad Advice If there is one thing to take away from this episode, it's this: your life does not have an expiration date.

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  Episode #40

  Sassee Cassee Gets Real About Her Height, Dating, Fetishization, Self-love & Her Love For Dancing.

  Sep 2, 202648 min

  Send us Fan Mail People have spent Sassee Cassee's entire life noticing what makes her different. But there is far more to her story than what people see. In this episode of Ava Devine's Bad Advice, I sit down with entertainer, feature dancer and content creator Sassee Cassee for an honest conversation about confidence, dating, fetishization, self-worth and learning to live without needing validation from other people. Sassee takes us back to a childhood where her mother made the decision not to shelter her. She talks about being bullied in school, learning to defend herself, becoming a gymnast and developing the resilience that would eventually follow her into adulthood. Then an unexpected opportunity changed everything. After appearing on The Jerry Springer Show, Sassee began travelling, performing and eventually built a career as a touring feature dancer before joining Micro Maidens, an all-women burlesque show featuring little people. But behind the performer is a woman who has spent much of her life navigating the difference between being seen and being objectified. Sassee opens up about what dating is really like when you constantly have to question someone's intentions, how she separates genuine attraction from fetishization, why being attracted to a little person shouldn't be considered taboo, and the boundaries she refuses to compromise in her career. ## Chapters 00:00 Meet Sassee Cassee 00:00:33 The Mother Who Refused To Shelter Her 00:01:17 Growing Up With A Minister For A Sister 00:02:00 Family, Faith & Spicy Entertainment 00:03:14 How Spirituality Helps Sassee Handle Negativity 00:04:05 What Growing Up Different Was Really Like 00:04:45 The Bullying That Changed Her 00:05:37 How Sassee Learned To Handle Haters 00:06:22 From Gymnastics To Jerry Springer 00:07:18 Why Sassee Felt She Had To Prove Herself 00:08:02 Searching For Acceptance Through Self Love 00:08:54 Sassee Cassee On The Jerry Springer Show 00:09:38 Moving To California & Chasing A Bigger Career 00:10:15 What Dating Is Really Like For Sassee 00:11:03 How She Spots Men With The Wrong Intentions 00:11:38 What Sassee Actually Looks For In A Man 00:12:24 Attraction vs. Fetishization 00:13:06 Why Attraction To Little People Isn't Taboo 00:13:55 When Attraction Becomes Fetishization 00:14:47 Dating Younger Men & Learning What She Wants 00:15:39 Sassee Opens Up About Her Attraction To Women 00:16:33 How Sassee Built A Career As A Feature Dancer 00:17:31 Inside The Micro Maidens 00:18:14 How Sassee Joined Micro Maidens 00:18:56 Feeling Celebrated vs. Feeling Exploited 00:19:37 The Performance Sassee Refused To Do 00:20:28 What Respectful Entertainment Looks Like 00:21:09 What Happens At A Micro Maidens Show? 00:21:45 The Gymnastics Skills Behind Sassee's Performances 00:22:39 What Actually Defines A Little Person? 00:23:44 Would Sassee Date Another Little Person? 00:24:33 How Sassee Entered The Creator Economy 00:25:28 Becoming Comfortable With Her Body & Sexuality 00:26:18 "Treat Me Like A Human Being" 00:26:50 Why Sassee Lets Children Ask Questions 00:27:37 "People Don't Look At Me Like I'm A Person" 00:28:14 The Airport Interaction That Made Sassee Speak Up 00:28:50 How Her Response To Ignorance Has Changed 00:29:35 Sassee Opens Up About Body Image 00:30:27 Why She Chose To Control Her Own Content 00:31:04 Building Her Career On Her Own Terms 00:31:58 The Boundary Sassee Refuses To Cross 00:32:39 Who Is Sassee Cassee Beyond The Persona? 00:33:28 What's Next For Sassee Cassee? 00:35:13 What Sassee's Friends Know That Fans Don't 00:36:08 The Unexpected Thing That Makes Her Laugh 00:36:52 The Money Lesson Sassee Wishes She Learned Earlier 00:37:44 "I Don't Need A Man To Be Happy" 00:38:47 Where Sassee Sees Herself In Five Years 00:40:25 Sassee Opens Up About Drug Addiction & Recovery 00:41:16 Sassee Cassee's Final Bad Advice If there is one thing to take away from this episode, it's this: you are more than the assumptions people make about you. Her story isn't about proving that she's just like everybody else. It's about reaching the point where she no longer feels like she has to prove anything at all. Follow Ava Devine Instagram: @theoneandonlyavadevine TikTok: @1avadevine Follow Ava Devine's Bad Advice Podcast Instagram: @avadevinesbadadvice TikTok: @avadevinesbadadvice X: @avadevinespod Follow Sassee Cassee X: @sassee_cassee IG: @sasseecassee89 Follow Micro Maidens X: @micromaidens IG: @micromaidens

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  Episode #39

  Katie Kush: Working At A School, Modern Adult Entertainment & How To Actually Survive The Industry

  Aug 26, 202658 min

  Send us Fan Mail Most people see the finished product of adult entertainment. They don't see the business decisions, long hours, rejection, boundaries, social media restrictions, relationships, mentorship, and discipline required to build a career that lasts. This week on Ava Devine's Bad Advice, I sit down with adult performer and entrepreneur Katie Kush for a conversation about what it really takes to build a career in the modern adult entertainment industry. Before becoming Katie Kush, she worked at a school supporting children with special needs and behavioural challenges. After a relationship ended and she found herself financially responsible for a home on her own, Katie began camming while continuing to work at the school. Eventually, she faced a decision: continue pursuing a career she loved or take a chance on adult entertainment. Her mother gave her one piece of advice that would shape the way she approached her career: treat it like a business. And that's exactly what Katie did. We talk about her transition from amateur content into professional films, why it took her more than a year to fully commit to the industry, what happened when her school discovered her adult work, and how veteran performers helped teach her how to navigate the business. Katie also explains the massive shift she has witnessed from the traditional studio system to today's creator economy, and why she believes performers now have more control over their careers than previous generations. This is a conversation about adult entertainment, the creator economy, consent, social media, work ethic, mentorship, confidence, burnout, and what building a sustainable career actually looks like behind the scenes. Chapters 00:00 Meet Katie Kush 00:00:51 Why Ava Wanted A Gen Z Performer On The Show 00:01:35 Katie Kush's Business Approach To Adult Entertainment 00:02:16 Who Was Katie Kush Before Adult Entertainment? 00:02:57 From Special-Needs Assistant To Camming 00:04:12 Trying To Keep Her Two Lives Separate 00:05:25 Choosing Between A Traditional Career & Adult Entertainment 00:05:59 What Happened When Katie's School Found Out 00:08:00 Katie Kush's First Adult Film Experience 00:09:27 How Veteran Performers Helped Katie Build Her Career 00:10:47 Learning From Adult Entertainment Veterans 00:11:24 Studios vs. Creator Platforms 00:12:06 How Creator Platforms Changed Adult Entertainment 00:13:46 Why Katie Still Works With Studios 00:15:03 Katie Kush Tries Exotic Dancing 00:15:47 Her First Day At A Strip Club Went Very Wrong 00:16:54 The Reality Of Rejection In Feature Dancing 00:18:11 What Katie's Feature Shows Are Really Like 00:19:31 How Competitive Dance Shaped Her Adult Career 00:20:52 How Katie Plans Creator Collaborations 00:22:08 Being A Switch & Understanding Power Dynamics 00:23:34 What Katie's Fans Request Most 00:25:44 Why Katie Loves Performing At Clubs 00:27:05 Social Media's Impact On Her Career 00:27:50 Why Adult Performers Get Flagged Online 00:29:58 The Mental Gymnastics Of Social Media Censorship 00:30:35 Losing Access To Payment Platforms 00:31:16 How Katie Deals With Hate Comments 00:32:37 Why Online Criticism Kept Katie Away From Podcasts 00:33:43 Mental Health In Adult Entertainment 00:35:10 How Katie Protects Her Sanity 00:35:47 Burnout & Learning To Say No 00:36:30 The Unexpected Hobbies That Keep Katie Grounded 00:37:11 Separating Adult Entertainment From Real Life 00:38:32 Does Katie Mentor New Performers? 00:40:02 Katie's Advice For Anyone Entering Adult Entertainment 00:40:41 Creator First vs. Traditional Studio Career 00:41:27 How To Find The Right Adult Industry Agent 00:42:53 Why New Performers May Need Representation 00:44:13 Finding Your Niche In An Oversaturated Industry 00:45:35 What Makes Katie Kush Successful? 00:46:14 Consent & Knowing When To Speak Up 00:46:48 How Katie Learned Her Personal Boundaries 00:47:23 Studio Shoots vs. Creator Content 00:48:10 Katie's Biggest Turn-On & Turn-Off 00:48:59 Katie Talks Sexuality & Relationships 00:50:53 The Best Career Advice Katie Ever Received 00:51:35 Is Adult Entertainment Empowering? 00:52:26 What Fans Would Be Surprised To Learn About Katie 00:53:51 Separating Work From Private Intimacy 00:57:01 Katie Kush's Final Bad Advice 00:57:46 Where To Follow Katie Kush Follow Ava Devine Instagram: @theoneandonlyavadevine TikTok: @1avadevine Follow Ava Devine's Bad Advice Podcast Instagram: @avadevinesbadadvice TikTok: @avadevinesbadadvice X: @avadevinespod Follow Katie Kush X: @Katiekushxx2 IG: @katiekushxx2

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