Listen to Ela!
Democratic porn star/president of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee (APAC) Ela Darling is generally brilliant and a terrifically awesome chick. She is cool enough that back in November of last year, she was invited to speak at the first ever TED X EBS in Hessen, Germany.
The theme of the event was "Dare To..." and Darling was the only porn industry person as part of the event, which involved speeches and networking and sharing ideas on how to be successful in one's career/life.
Darling does an excellent job at expressing the personality traits and guidelines that she has set for herself to make herself successful as a performer, an activist and with her VR cam company pursuits. She discusses her pro porn life as a reference librarian and assistant library director. I love how she speaks of the risks you take doing porn and how some doors close but how some other doors - many doors - open from it. She encourages people here to challenge themselves and to try new things. I love every bit of what she says here.
The image of Darling above with Edyn Blair is from Devil's Film's "I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It 3".