We were lucky to catch up with Eve Batelle recently and have shared our conversation below.

Eve, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. How did you decide to make the leap to leave behind corporate work and try making a living full-time with your creative work?

Being taught our whole lives we had to go to college to get a degree then get a regular desk job to be able to retire comfortably, I hated the idea that I would have to wait until retirement to truly enjoy my life. I decided to leave my last corporate job and put my organizational skills to good use within event and party coordinating. The fact that I could actually pay my bills while doing something I fully enjoyed blew my mind! The more I got into my creative side the more I thrived. I didn’t have to wait, I could live life to the fullest NOW and I could do it MY way. I went deeper into my creativity until I started being offered influencer deals that led me to my own personal content creation. Now I lead people in how to safely become online entrepreneurs while also keeping themselves and their personal information safe, really coming full circle in the idea that you CAN earn a full time living doing what you love.

Eve, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

Southern California Goddess Eve Batelle is a 13 year adult industry veteran with humble beginnings as a dancer in a private performing arts academy in NYC for college. She worked her way through many different niches as she traveled across the country for years meeting many people, learning different specialties and lifestyles before settling into her newest role as educator and Mama Lioness. Her experience in running the behind-the-scenes and day-to-day networking for her model management company “SoCalsAngels” combined with her natural dominant side drew her to niche fetish work, which she considers to be her Phoenix era. Her interests and experience grew to the point where she started providing real-time foot worship and FemDom sessions in LA and in her travels. This, in turn, led to many friendships with industry legends that have enabled her to build greatly on her knowledge in several arenas. At present, Eve brings insight to a whole new generation of creators in her advice webinars & educational coaching as we all continue to navigate a new world of direct contact between creators and consumers.

How can we best help foster a strong, supportive environment for artists and creatives?

Under society’s current gaze, what creatives do isn’t “real work”. Being an artist, influencer, content creator, is seen as a hobby or fun past time but not respected as real work and therefore not given equal housing or banking rights based on our work. Especially if anything that you do is based anywhere within the adult side of art creation, there is active banking and housing discriminations going on every day across the United States. Things people have fought valiantly against taxation without representation and yet we all pay our taxes, with very little actual representation. Think of us as well when voting on a state or federal level.

Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I wish there had been more information out there about how to safely begin operating online businesses, which is why I now do my best to fill that gap with my advice webinars. To know things such as just setting your Amazon wishlist to private address still allows anyone buying a present off your wishlist to see your city, state, and sometimes receive the delivery proof photo of your front door so you NEED to get a P.O. Box. How to get into influencing and content creation safely is so important.

Contact Info:

• Website: PoleAngel.com
• Instagram: Instagram.com/Eve.Batelle
• Facebook: Facebook.com/evesfeet
• Twitter: Twitter.com/evebatelle
• Youtube: YouTube.com/user/evebatelle
• Other: ADHDBDSM.com EveBatelle.club SoCalsAngels.com

Image Credits
Delano Sapikowski, Berto Relayo, Matthias Vriens, Eman Zapien