Co-Star of the Netflix documentary Strip Down, Rise Up
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A sampling of press about Amy’s role and storyline as a Mormon-Porn Star turned Attorney-Pole Dancer in the Netflix Original Documentary Strip Down, Rise Up directed by Michele Ohayon:
How Netflix's Strip Down, Rise Up promotes body positivity, female empowerment through pole dancing
Behind the SF pole-dancing studio featured in new Netflix documentary, 'Strip Down, Rise Up'
14 Stunning Pole Routines From Amy Bond, One of the Athletes in Netflix's Strip Down, Rise Up
Inspirational Mover Series with Exhale Movement
Amy talks with Exhale Movement about training as a professional level pole athlete, diversity and inclusion in movement practice and running a business, and her love of Theraguns.
The Only One in the Room Podcast with Laura Cathcart Robbins
Once upon a time, there was a girl who grew up in the Mormon church, moved to Los Angeles to become an actor and ended up working in the sex industry. Amy Bond, Author, Pole studio owner, and pro-bono Family and Immigration Attorney, found herself working in porn after moving to Los Angeles at age 19. But after being “saved” from a severe downward spiral, Amy found herself enrolling in law school and then making a name for herself in Silicon Valley as an attorney.
Ozy Confidential Podcast
“Yet Bond had found what she was searching for: adventure, art, attention, cash and, maybe most notably, total ownership of who she was. Now a lawyer and the owner of two San Francisco Bay Area dance studios, Bond — who is now married — is totally unrepentant about the first of what she hopes are many acts of her American life.”
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Sexy Grammar: The Collective Beating Heart. Interview with Amy Bond
“What I love about writing is that we get to connect our heart strings to one another so that we weave this invisible collective beating simply because we recognize each others’ shared humanity. The connection to other people is the foundation of how I decide what I’m going to spend time on in my life. It is why I started two pole dance studios and why I do pro bono detention center work volunteering with asylum seekers. Both at their heart, are about people.”