'My day starts at 6am, when I'm up making breakfast and preparing lunches. I have two boys, one is four and the other is eight. About 8am, we'll head off to school then I'll go to the gym. I have an instructor there who trains me once a month. He's excellent. I walked in one day and said, 'I need you to make my thighs strong enough to hold me upside down on my pole.'
After having children, I was reading an article about a woman who taught pole dancing. thought, 'Hah, fabulous, that's my sort of thing.' So I started telling my mates I was going to teach pole dancing, but I had no idea how I was going to make this happen. One day, I told the right person, who said she had a friend with a bar and poles and she was looking for an instructor.
So I rocked up at the Backroom [bar], on Arbuthnot Road [in Central], for an interview and she asked, 'What can you do?' I hopped on a pole and gave a wiggle and she liked me, so I flew down to Australia and trained with various teachers and started teaching a month later.
It took me three days to tell my husband I'd got a job as a pole-dancing instructor. I said, 'I've got something to tell you', and he said, 'Don't tell me, it's this pole-dancing malarkey'. I think he's really proud of me now because he's shown his mates pictures of me dancing.
That was two years ago and I've been teaching ever since, and having a huge amount of fun. We have a pole in the house and my kids love it - they tell everyone. My son was in [physical-education class] last week and he was climbing the rope. He went straight up the rope no problems and told the teacher, 'I've been practising on mum's pole'. The teachers are used to it now.
Three mornings a week I'm at the gym and when I'm not there, I'm at home choreographing a class or doing my own thing. Even doing it on your own you get a real sense of achievement when you put together a fun routine you enjoy.