Offline, With Alison Rice

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Deborah Hutton opens up about grief, ageing & life as an energy exchange. Jan 25, 2020

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In this special Self Care Sundays mini-series produced by Studio Offline and in partnership with Estée Lauder, I sit down with some of the brand’s Australian ambassadors to have an honest conversation about life on the other side of the filter, self care, sleep and skincare.

My next guest is Deborah Hutton. The Estée Lauder ambassador is known for her various TV presenting roles, a celebrated career in magazines, and her work advocating for skin cancer awareness.

But what you might not know about Deb, is she started life as Debbie Haylock. This Self Care Sundays episode is truly a journey through Deb’s life, the experiences she’s had and how each one has influenced what she now knows to be true.

Moving out of home at 16 and modelling in New York by 18, punctuality and professionalism, her relationship with her skin following years in the sun, her tried and tested routines, meditation and life as an energetic exchange, her advice on surviving loss… it’s all here and you’ll be wiser for listening.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

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Dr. Jeremy Cumpston on Botox, filler & why you need to know the person injecting your face. Jan 18, 2020

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An honest conversation with Dr. Jeremy Cumpston, a progressive GP, preventative ageing specialist and the founder of Ageless Clinics. He’s a fully qualified injector of commercial fillers and is accredited in advanced wrinkle treatment and dermal filler treatments.

I would like to be extremely clear with my intention behind creating this episode. It does not advocate for or encourage cosmetic injectables. Instead, it seeks to act as an educational resource for anyone who wants to get informed.

There is a worrying lack of safety information available, and increasingly, a growing number of under-qualified injectors offering cosmetic Botox and filler to young women — usually in package deals and working on commission per unit or mil injected.

In this honest conversation, Dr. Jeremy answers every question you’ve likely ever had about cosmetic Botox and filler. How much to get, how often, where to get it and how long it lasts. He goes beyond the surface to discuss the pros and cons of the different forms, his preferred techniques and methods, and the questions to ask the nurse or doctor injecting you.

What you’ll hear time and time again in this episode is Dr. Jeremy’s personal treatment style: undertreating or not treating at all. Less is more. Less is more. Less is more.

If you are considering having cosmetic Botox or filler — or any other anti-ageing treatment — please seek advice from your preferred medical professional.

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Alison xo

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Kaity Ham on fashion blogging, personal style & how she’s thinking about the future. Jan 11, 2020

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An honest conversation with one of Australia’s leading luxury fashion creatives and the founder of Modern Legacy, Kaitlyn Ham.

Kaitlyn — or Kaity as she's called by those closest to her — is quite private, so this honest conversation is a rare insight into her life, her work, how she thinks about style and the business of being a fashion creative and influencer.

What you might not know about Kaity, is she's funny. Like laugh-out-loud, big-belly-laughing funny. We do a lot of that in this episode. You’ll also learn that in complete contrast to her highly curated Instagram account, her personality is casual and relaxed.

In this honest conversation Kaity shares how she became so independent, her personal journey from high school tomboy to high fashion blogging, her relationship with style and shopping, how she spends her days as a fashion creative, details about her tiny, 10-person wedding, how she’s thinking about the future, why having a supportive partner is a form of privilege and much more.

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Alison xo

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Rebecca Burrow on birth, motherhood & losing her mum. Dec 14, 2019

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An honest conversation with Rebecca Burrow. If you’re looking for a realistic insight into parenting a toddler, then I encourage you to follow Bec!

The modern mother, model and founder of Mini Marley Kids is about as real as it gets. She grew up in Wollongong on Sydney’s South Coast, and today lives in Yallingup, WA, with her husband Australian surfer Taj Burrow, their daughter Bella, and another little one on the way.

At the time of recording, Bec was 16 weeks pregnant.

This honest conversation was recorded live at an Offline Women’s Circle in Perth, in front of 25 warm and kind guests. I haven't edited this at all, because I wanted you to be able to experience Bec just as guests did that Sunday.

Bec had us all captivated. She was generous and unguarded speaking about her time on Australia’s Next Top Model and what being on the show meant for her career, meeting Taj and his Burger Ring proposal, how she coped after losing her beautiful mum, birthing and mothering Bella and much more.

Thank you QT Perth for hosting Offline in The Murray Room. Thank you to Offline's gift bag partners: Ultra Violette, Remy, Antipodes, Heartwood and Ettitude.

Thanks also go to Sophie, Maddie and Holly for donating their time and expertise to help plan and execute such a meaningful Offline Women’s Circle.

Alison xo

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Gemma Watts on operating a beauty business, navigating sponsored content & advocating for diversity. Dec 07, 2019

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An honest conversation with one of the most talented and entertaining women in Australian beauty right now, Gemma Watts. The journalist, copywriter and photographer is the founder of digital beauty destination, Glow Journal, and its podcast of the same name.

Gemma started out in fashion journalism before falling in love with beauty, and is now leading the way for objective and informative beauty content in Australia. In this episode, Gemma and I have a very honest conversation about running our own businesses, why it is important to have a considered strategy and how we both think about growth.

We also discuss the responsibility on creators today to be putting out valuable and original content, our shared experiences with plagiarism and why we should all sit in our expertise.

Gemma also shares her opinion on sponsored content, how she advocates for greater diversity in the beauty industry, two perspectives when it comes to transparency around treatments like Botox and plastic surgery, and her take on privacy.

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Alison xo

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Lara Briden on the dangers of hormonal birth control, misdiagnosed PCOS & alternatives to pill medicine. Nov 30, 2019

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An honest conversation with naturopathic doctor, women’s health activist and author of what can only be described as a bible for women everywhere, Period Repair Manual, Lara Briden.

Lara’s work is about providing practical solutions and natural alternatives to hormonal birth control. She’s helped thousands of women who suffer from missing periods, hair loss, PMS, polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, adult acne and more, establish treatment plans that don’t require ingesting synthetic hormones that shut down ovulation.

This is precisely what happens when we take the pill.

Lara challenges us to get clear: pill bleeds are not periods. We do not cycle when we’re on the pill. When we don’t cycle, we don’t ovulate. When we don’t ovulate, we don’t produce progesterone. Women not having progesterone is like men not having testosterone.

She successfully challenges pill medicine with natural treatments including diet, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine and body-identical hormones.

This episode is a call to action to women everywhere to get empowered through education about their menstrual cycle, and confidently question the advice or diagnosis they’ve been given by a doctor.

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Alison xo

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Anine Bing on leveraging her Instagram following to launch a global fashion brand. Nov 23, 2019

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An honest conversation with arguably one of the most fashionable women on the planet, Anine Bing.

In October 2019, Anine was in Sydney to celebrate the opening of the first Anine Bing Australia store in Paddington, marking the 15th opening since she started the brand from her LA garage in 2012. What we learn in this episode, is Anine’s success story is one born from humble beginnings, hard work and a dedication to exploring and expressing her creativity.

Anine grew up in a small village in Sweden of just 8,000 people, and by 15, she’d already travelled the world as a model. It was those early, more nomadic days, that shaped the Anine Bing brand we know and love today. Anine shares her journey from modelling to music (she started a rock band in her early twenties called Kill Your Darlings), then blogging, and how she leveraged her Instagram following to start her own now-global fashion company.

She also shares the key roles she brought in along the way, her early creative process, how it has evolved with the brand’s “see now, buy now” model, her reflections on motherhood, her relationship with her phone and what she does to find some calm within her big and busy life.

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Teryll Brewer on surviving stage four metastatic breast cancer. Nov 16, 2019

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To launch season four, I share Offline's platform with Melbourne listener, Teryll Brewer.

I met Teryll at an Offline Women’s Circle in August 2019. Offline Women’s Circles exist to create gentle entry points to conscious connections, and as we gathered together as women on our way that night, Teryll’s story moved the room.

Her bravery and honesty got me thinking about the deeper role Offline could play when it comes to both education and prevention. What might we face, who has already survived it, and would they be willing to share what they’ve learned?

Offline started as honest conversations with the women behind the Instagram accounts. Their stories and their humility not only moved us, but opened us up to a part of ourselves we weren’t all that familiar with — our True Selves. In came the teachers and healers to help us navigate this new spiritual terrain, and now, it’s time to hear from those closest to us.

The people in our lives who don’t necessarily have a social media presence or a stage to stand on, but they teach us anyway.

Teryll’s story, and the stories I hope will follow, stand for survival. What does it mean to sit in True Self when life serves us a set of circumstances and experiences we didn’t see coming and we don’t feel prepared for?

Her hope is that through listening, we learn.

Teryll Brewer is a 33 year-old, stage four breast cancer survivor. This is her story.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo

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Jose Bryce Smith on starting & scaling natural haircare brand into a global business. Nov 02, 2019

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This episode is produced by Studio Offline in partnership with Original & Mineral.

I'm joined by the delightful and determined founder of Original & Mineral, Jose Bryce Smith. Twenty years ago she co-founded Australia’s first natural hair salon, where harsh chemical formulations were replaced by high performing colour created in-house. It included natural extracts, minerals and native Australian ingredients.

Today, we know it as Original & Mineral (O&M for short), with brand extensions in colour, styling and education.

Here’s why O&M is important — to those of us listening who have ambition to start a conscious business, and to the health of anyone who colours their hair. O&M is PETA-approved, leads innovation in the natural hair care space globally and it is founded by a generous woman who wants to share her start up story so we can learn from it.

I have been using O&M for the best part of a decade, so it was truly a thrill for me sit down with the brain behind a brand that celebrates hair as a health choice. It’s time we all got real about it. We read so many warnings about the dangers of using parabens, sulphates and other harsh chemicals on our skin — but what about our hair and our scalp?

In this honest conversation, Jose brings incredible insight into what it means to found and fund a multi-million dollar business, how to think about taking investment, what she had to sacrifice, the times she got it wrong, how she uses the Emotional Freedom Technique to reprogram her thought patterns, and so much more.

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Alison on exploring spirituality, finding fulfilment & what she’s learned about leading teams. Sep 28, 2019

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I close season three with an Ask Alison episode, dedicated to Offline’s beautiful community. I put a call out for questions on Instagram and answered 11 across topics including true self, spirituality and personal development.

From my own journey to feeling more spiritually expressed, to my advice on how to begin exploring what spirituality means to you, my definition of soul, how my life has changed since starting Offline, my biggest “ah-ha” moment, how I up my day for success, my advice on finding love and fulfilment, how to find like-minded people, how I feel when I see pregnancy announcements on Instagram, what I've learned about leading teams, and much more.

Thank you for being here.

Alison xo