Find Yourself in the Sparkle | Cassie Guard | TEDxDayton

Cassie Guard, owner and CEO of Femme Fatale Fitness, talks burlesque! Burlesque was a talent she discovered in herself through the help of a mentor, who taught her to never hold back in life. She offers the question, what are YOU holding back?


Cassie Guard, who also performs under the name “Champagne Shock,” started her burlesque career in 2006 with The Jigglewatts Burlesque based in Austin, Texas, and has performed all over the U.S. True love brought Cassie back to Ohio where she currently owns her own aerial fitness and dance studio called Femme Fatale Fitness. Teaching burlesque to the Dayton community really helped her understand how burlesque and other liberating "hobbies" can change a person's life. Cassie feels her greatest accomplishments thus far in life are never letting fear stop her from moving across country for love, owning her own business, being a mother, and receiving her bachelor's degree. Cassie plans to marry that person who brought her to Dayton, Jason Sprinkle.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx