Hustle and Heal Podcast

Feet, Money, and Dating Apps: The Untold Hustle

• Styles and Blsd Jess • Season 1 • Episode 2

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We've returned with an addendum episode to address what was missing from our previous conversation about online dating – the hustle side of the equation. When most people think of dating apps, they imagine romantic connections, awkward first dates, and the search for meaningful relationships. But there's a parallel economy thriving in these digital spaces that few discuss openly.

From enterprising massage therapists advertising their legitimate services to credit repair specialists looking for clients, dating platforms have become unexpected marketing channels for entrepreneurs. Users are openly stating "not here for dating" in bold letters, transparently using these spaces to grow their businesses and find customers rather than romantic partners.

Our conversation takes a particularly revealing turn when we explore the foot fetish economy flourishing on these platforms. We candidly break down how this niche market operates – from the pricing structure ($6-10 per picture or video) to the potential monthly earnings (up to $5,000) for minimal time investment. This prompts an honest discussion about the ethical considerations, spiritual implications, and personal boundaries involved in this type of content creation.

The episode highlights the fundamental difference between the hustler and healer perspectives that define our podcast. While one host sees the entrepreneurial opportunity and potential financial freedom, the other considers the energetic exchange and spiritual implications. It's this tension that creates a nuanced conversation about modern hustle culture, digital boundaries, and how people are adapting to economic realities in creative ways.

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New episodes drop biweekly. Healing and hustling go hand-in-hand—Every. Damn. Day.

Speaker 1:

In dealing with daily life, we come across two types of people who seek to change lives Hustlers, who are about making it in life no matter what, and the healers, who dedicate their time and energy to helping the collective. These are their representatives.

Styles:

I know what you thought you was going to hear.

Blsd Jess:

But this ain't that, where the grind meets growth.

Styles:

This is Hustle Heal. We are back.

Blsd Jess:

Yeah, we fuckedal. What's up, guys? We are back.

Styles:

Yeah, we fucked up. We fucked up on the last episode.

Blsd Jess:

We didn't fuck up, because we're back here getting it together. We didn't fuck that up, we just needed to add an addendum.

Styles:

I wouldn't be back if we didn't fuck up. No, all right.

Blsd Jess:

But that's the accountability that we have. So cool we we saw where we had a little stumble. We may fall, but we get back up. So last episode we talked about how just swiping right, swiping left, just the challenges, benefits, just the experience of online dating.

Styles:

What is deep and in right.

Blsd Jess:

But we did not, since we're hustling and healing right. We talked about the challenges and all the benefits. We did not talk about the hustle. So, really quick, I wanted to come back and circle back and talk about some of the hustles that I've seen on online dating. It's very interesting, so um a positive way that I've seen somebody use online dating, um were men that were advertising their services Time out.

Styles:

There's a dark side to this, absolutely.

Blsd Jess:

Okay, go ahead, go ahead.

Styles:

I was very specific when I said I know that's what I'm Positive ways.

Blsd Jess:

Go ahead, do your thing that I've seen that I would like to put out there and hope that people would pick up and keep going. But I've seen men use it for entrepreneurship. So I've seen men that were looking for clients for massage therapy. They might be selling other shit on the side, I don't know, but on the bio they put testimonials. I don't know how true it is, because they mama or auntie, that a girlfriend could have wrote it, but they were recruiting. They had like appropriate business models up there and it was like, okay, this motherfucker, he ain't wanting. To date, we see what your intention is for this not to run game. Or it may be to run game, but men have illegitimate what.

Styles:

So we've all seen the massage. Hold on stop. We've seen the massage guy Right With the baby oil. Yes, you know, Chicks in the thongs and big girls in the thongs. It's the big sexy girls, no disrespect. You know, they laying on their stomachs and they got their thighs or whatever, and they in between their legs and yeah, see, I wouldn't pay for that, but I just seen it up there as appetizing.

Blsd Jess:

So they're not up there trying to date. They may be up there doing other things, but I've just seen them use it for business purposes. I don't know what they're trying to do. I'm just saying what the bio says, because they will say not up here for dating business, like they will have it like big old bull letters that they're just looking. I don't respond, I just wipe, wipe and keep it. Wow.

Styles:

As long as ballers don't advertise happy endings. They just ask. You gotta ask. It's the other side of it.

Blsd Jess:

Waffle House does have a whole menu that you just gotta know about.

Styles:

I didn't know about that.

Speaker 1:

Really.

Blsd Jess:

I get chicken, eggs and cheese and grits. Nobody has ever seen that on YouTube. Is that right? It's the fucking bomb. But I've also seen people. I've seen like credit repair. I've seen people like saying, if you need, like a car. I've seen all type of things for people to use, because this is what they're using the platform for. Instead of dating, they're using it for a hustle.

Styles:

Oh, you're talking about like bumble or tender or something like that. They're using it to sell cars.

Blsd Jess:

They're using it to bring business, and okay, they are and I respect it. But I've also seen the other side of it. I I personally know people there we go.

Styles:

That's the deeper talker side. Let's, let's go.

Blsd Jess:

I've also known of people to request favors, such as feet pictures and selling socks.

Styles:

No, no, no, Hold on, stop. This is what I need to know. I don't understand the foot fetish thing. I don't understand it. I've never understood it. It's not like looking at a partner ladies. It's not like looking at a fat ass, right, or some beautiful tattoos. I'm just gonna say it like that because I don't want to be offensive or anything like that. I probably that's fine, okay, cool, so boom. You know, it's not like that. I don't want to look at somebody's knuckles attached to their ankles. I want to do that, that how we doing. Why is that? You get any?

Blsd Jess:

requests. I would never lie to you, right?

Styles:

Yeah, I have Okay, did you?

Blsd Jess:

fulfill it. Why you got some reason? Because that's it. Listen, that's a eat.

Styles:

Listen, you want to send somebody your dirty ass feet? Send them your dirty ass feet. I have sent eat this before, yeah. But why are we even ashamed to say that though?

Blsd Jess:

because I don't understand the fetish either, because I just did it for the yeah, it's not like. Yeah, I'm like, yo jess you out here sending nudes, then you like and I just, I just did it for the bread, but I've asked personally. There was money attached to this transaction? How?

Styles:

much. I'm a hustler, I'm a hustler I set myself up for this. It's so interesting, I want to know.

Blsd Jess:

So when I first started, when. I first was asked. It was for pictures of my feet in a pose right and I would get like $6 a picture.

Styles:

Were you $6 a picture.

Blsd Jess:

Yes.

Styles:

You put that shit in sports mode, right. When you take the picture, you take like 12 pictures.

Blsd Jess:

So then I was asked for a video and I was like a video of what? And I can't explain it, it's not my thing, but of me dangling of a shoe on my foot and I got paid ten dollars for a minute video. But dangling a heel or a flat on my foot, I'm doing business. I've been asked and I just don't feel comfortable. It's not my lane, because I just don't feel right. What am I doing this for?

Styles:

Yeah, alright, listen, ladies, if you, first of all. My stance is this If you're a lady, you should never be broke, period. That's not to talk about you understand, Not that you should have loose morals and all of that in order to get paid, but if you are a lady, because you don't have loose morals.

Blsd Jess:

And I'm not knocking nobody that actually likes to keep stuff.

Styles:

I don't have loose morals. There we go. Now go ahead.

Blsd Jess:

But I felt morally troubled. By feet Let me ask you a question.

Styles:

When you go to the beach, you wear socks. No, I'll tell you why.

Blsd Jess:

Because it's fulfilling somebody's fantasy, Like whatever they have in their mind you're allowing somebody to use that to fulfill whatever need that they're having.

Styles:

And you're not my man.

Blsd Jess:

I don't know what you're using this for, honestly, and it's spiritual, whatever need that they're having, transforming self-energy, right, you're not my man. I don't know what you're using this for. Honestly, and as spiritual as I am, I feel like having that extension tied to somebody.

Speaker 1:

I'm not a transactional person.

Blsd Jess:

I'm sorry, I'm not a transactional person. If I want to do it, just let me do it.

Styles:

Ladies, hit me in the comments. You want to know how to set up this whole situation with the feet. You don't even have to show your face, you don't even have to show anything above your ankle. You sound like my friend? Yeah, just hit me up, I'll set the whole shit up for you for a small fee, like, yeah, we're going to transfer this dirt and this grime, that energy.

Blsd Jess:

I don't even know how we got here, but I've seen people when the fuck is my phone?

Styles:

I need my calculator.

Blsd Jess:

I've seen people utilize online dating for entrepreneurial reasons. So if you want to be a hustler and you're really not into the dating part, you can use online dating to help further your business ventures.

Styles:

So you get 25 pictures at $10 a day. Ladies, oh, pardon videos.

Blsd Jess:

The customer can ask you for whatever they want.

Styles:

What site was this? We need to give them the resources.

Blsd Jess:

Wasn't a site. Oh my God, All my god all right, never mind.

Styles:

Anyway, back to business. Your boy knows how to set it up, I will set it up for you. Or nominal fee, of course, right, or even commission. We could do a commission base, but then I would have to control the currency might cost you a little a little bit it might cost you a lot well, this is either way, it's gonna cost you or whatever.

Styles:

Uh, 250, and this is why she's the healing part and I'm the hustler. So look, this is the thing 250, right, you ain't even got to do it all. We can do it like fucking five days a week. Ew, that's rent that is right. 12 50, that is definitely a part-time 25 pictures a day of your feet, like for five days a week, right? So we do that. That's 12, 50 right times four. I hate that we're here. Oops, let me do this. That's five bands a month, a month.

Blsd Jess:

Put somebody crusty ass feet there's all type of sites that you can go on. You can go on the love fetish sites and see what people are asking for. I have spoken to a real live pimp, real live real live.

Speaker 1:

He lives in Detroit.

Blsd Jess:

Swear to god life don't spare me no experiences. I just spoken to a pimp and he had women that he would pay their rent.

Styles:

Yeah.

Blsd Jess:

And all the money he would. What's the OnlyFans?

Styles:

Mm-hmm.

Blsd Jess:

He would set up their OnlyFans and he would pay for them to get their nails and their feet done every day, like the polish change, and he would let the dudes request whatever color they wanted and whatever they wanted. He would pay for it. But whatever they made on OnlyFans, he got it Because he's sponsoring them Right, because it's tied to his bank account. Right.

Styles:

So then it goes to him and he breaks them off.

Blsd Jess:

So they don't get none of the money they make online.

Styles:

They just get the lifestyle.

Blsd Jess:

They get the lifestyle that he paid us.

Styles:

Right, and he offers them.

Blsd Jess:

He offers them.

Styles:

Nothing that you come like. If you come to me and you ask me for something, I'm like huh Right, you're going to get what I give you Right?

Blsd Jess:

Yeah, but he paid the rent, paid the like definitely pimp behavior but they ain't touching, they ain't see no money.

Styles:

That's true, not my lifestyle, not the thing that I do, but at the end of the day, though, I will take a nominal fee. We'll call it a commission. I'll take shit. 5%.

Blsd Jess:

I mean, when you move into an apartment, you got to pay a nominal deposit.

Styles:

I mean you do, but you ain't got to, you know.

Blsd Jess:

Well, you ain't get it back you sold for it, right?

Styles:

Well, you might get it back, depending on how the condition you're leaving in leave it in.

Blsd Jess:

But anyway, he's not a pimp, he's willing to offer up a professional service to help you extend your entrepreneurial endeavors.

Styles:

Well, listen, we're going to wrap this up. Yes, all right. Follow us on Baby, I love you. I was about to say heighten heels. Follow us on Word up, love you Well, um, anyway, heels. Follow us on hot to win heels. Word up, love you. Well, um, anyway. Go follow shadra styles on height and heels. She stay on my mind all day, every day, with the fraudiest.

Blsd Jess:

I love it you know how they say follow us yeah like, if you that's right, you don't slip your hot toddy and the only woman on your mind, even those big little sisters here the man. Think about his woman. Go, follow, go, follow us Hustle Heal. Go, follow us, hustle Heal. I can't. I'm blessed.

Speaker 1:

Justice of styles, we out of here that's a wrap on another episode of Hustle Heal, where real talk meets real transformation. If today's convo hit home, inspired a shift or just made you feel seen, do us a solid Subscribe, leave a review and share it with someone who needs to hear it. Stay locked in with the movement and follow us at Hustle Heal on Instagram, tiktok, youtube and everywhere else you scroll heal on Instagram, tiktok, youtube and everywhere else you scroll. And if you want to tap in with your hosts, you can find Jess at Bless Jess and Stiles at Stiles. Underscore BK across all platforms, because healing ain't soft and hustling ain't selfish. This is the work. This is the way, every damn day.

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