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Beauty School no 15 : How To Create Real Intimacy In The 21st Century with Sex Educator Chelsey Fasano Mar 05, 2021

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Hey guys! We are so excited to share this week’s Beauty School episode with our dear friend and longtime client, Chelsey Fasano. Chelsey is a sex educator who works as the head of Research and Development for her mentor, educator Kenneth Play. Our girl distills academic and scientific information about sexuality into usable advice and techniques, focusing on the intersection of neuroscience, human sexuality, and attention. Chelsey attends Columbia University where she conducts research on neuroscience and meditation, focusing on the emerging field of neurophenomenology, attempting to combine the study of traditional Buddhist texts and ideologies with the neuroscientific and experiential data gained from scientific meditation studies. Ok, that all sounds really intimidating but Chelsey is so kind, funny, thoughtful, and smart as fuck! This convo is everything, you’re going to learn a ton, and you’re going to laugh a ton! To learn more about Chelsey, check her out at www.chelseyfasano.com . Check out some of Chelsey’s colleagues and teachers: Kennethplay.com Michaelboehm.com www.drzhana.com Esther Perel on Ghosting, Icing, and Simmering in Modern Relationships Send us your letters and questions truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com and check out @truebeautybrooklynpodcast or @truebeautybrooklyn check out Twitter @truebeautyBKpod If you live locally, make an appointment and come check us out at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5-stars, subscribe, and leave a review on Apple iTunes. Tell a friend to tell a friend if you like the show!

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How To Build a Career That Shapes The Zeitgeist with Saidah Blount, Senior Manager, Global Brand at SONOS Feb 26, 2021

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Hi Friends! Today we are speaking to one of our friends, and client Saidah Blount. Sai currently works at SONOS as the Senior Manager, Global Brand and has spent the majority of her 20+ year career in the music industry, working at places like NPR music, and The Fader, before taking her current position at SONOS. Sai is a true music nerd, and honestly one of my favorite people ever, so this was a truly delightful conversation! She has a great twitter feed, and as it turns out is followed by Uncle Barry (Obama for those of you who don’t know)! So follow her twitter account @saibellanyc . To learn more about SONOS, and SONOS Radio, check them out at www.sonos.com . Send us your letters and questions truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com and check out @truebeautybrooklynpodcast or @truebeautybrooklyn check out Twitter @truebeautyBKpod If you live locally, make an appointment and come check us out at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5-stars, subscribe or leave a review on Apple iTunes. Tell a friend to tell a friend if you like the show! Don’t forget to subscribe

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Beauty School no 14 : How To Get Your Financial Life Together with Kenny Davis, The Trans Capitalist Feb 19, 2021

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Yallllllll let’s get our money lives together! Today we are speaking about financial literacy with Kenny Davis, The Trans Capitalist. Kenny is a proud black Transgender Financial Literacy Activist and is dedicated to challenging many of the financial rules, institutions, and taboos that are in place. He knows these old rules no longer work for our generation! Kenny is a graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering and received a Masters of Science in Finance from Pace University Lubin’s School of Business. With credit card and student loan debt at an all-time high, job security becoming a thing of the past, K. Kenneth Davis believes that providing financial literacy to all youth will be our saving grace. THIS CONVO IS EVERYTHING! This is what is going to truly ensure you are standing tall in being a bad bitch, with their bad bitch bank account. To learn more about Kenny, check out his Instagram @thetranscapitalist or his website https://thetranscapitalist.com/. Do yourself a favor and grab his $25 financial literacy workbook! Send us your letters and questions truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com and check out @truebeautybrooklynpodcast or @truebeautybrooklyn check out Twitter @truebeautyBKpod If you live locally, make an appointment and come check us out at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5-stars, subscribe or leave a review on Apple iTunes. Tell a friend to tell a friend if you like the show! Don’t forget to subscribe

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Beauty School no 13: Baths, Blondes, and Brazilians! Your Monthly Listener Letters with Sabrina Rowe Feb 12, 2021

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We’re here for our monthly Listener Letter episode with our resident beauty, hair, and makeup guru Sabrina Rowe! Stay tuned, and don’t forget to send us YOUR beauty, hair, skincare, makeup, or life, questions, your Milk?! With your dinner?! And “I didn't know then, but I”m older now” segments to truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com. Don’t forget to send us your stories of Dads fixing things with tape (or whatever his favorite tool is!)! DM us on Instagram @truebeautybrooklyn, @truebeautybrooklynpodcast, or @sabsthegoodgirl.

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How to Be Powerful in The Beauty Community: Step Up Your Responsibility to Be More Than Cute, Quiet, and Agreeable with Emmy Award-Winning Makeup Artist, Andrew Sotomayor Feb 05, 2021

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Hey dudes! I can't say enough about this week's conversation with the incredible, Emmy winning makeup artist, the founder of Oracle Jayne Station, and the host of "Masters of Makeup", Andrew Sotomayor. Andrew won his first Emmy for Saturday Night Live in 2017, was nominated for an Emmy for Jesus Christ Superstar Live in 2018, and nominated again for Ryan Murphy's "Pose" in 2019. He is the makeup department head for The Other Two on HBO Max, and John Mulaney and the Sack Lunch Bunch on Netflix. He's the makeup and tattoo designer for "West Side Story" on Broadway, has worked 22 seasons of New York Fashion Week, and made up dozens of celebrities including Grammy-winning singers, three daughters of two US presidents, one presidential candidate, one knight, one dame, some of the most powerful female executives in business, and eight Academy Award-winning actors. WHEW! We haven't even gotten to how incredibly profound and thoughtful he is, or how dedicated to community-building within the LGBTQ+ and historically marginalized communities, the people who make up many of us working in the beauty industry. I absolutely adored this conversation, because it is the exact kind of open dialog that we were hoping to have and be able to share with our listeners when Alix and I first launched the pod. To learn more about Andrew, check out his Instagram @andrewsotomayororaclejaynestationoraclejaynestation Send us your letters and questions truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com or @ or .com and check out @truebeautybrooklynpodcast check out twitter @truebeautyBKpod If you live locally, make an appointment and come check us out at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5-stars, subscribe or leave a review on Apple iTunes. Tell a friend to tell a friend if you like the show! Don’t forget to subscribe

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Beauty School no 12 How To Look Young(er) Forever: Brows! Jan 29, 2021

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Hey dudes! Today we are talking about BROWS!! You're welcome in advance--if not today, you in 5 years will be thanking us, knowing we saved your face during The Great Quarantine. Brow services have quickly become our most booked appointment at True Beauty Brooklyn, and it’s because we are brow obsessed. We do a dance (seriously!) , or sing a terrible off-key song about how you are now a brow goddess (Seriously!) when we finish your service, you look in the mirror for the first time, and we all know that you’ve never looked so good. After working on hundreds of faces, and speaking with so many women about their brow journey’s, Alix and I realized that there are certain terrible moments that we have all experienced on our brow journeys. And since we are almost a year into the pandemic, and it doesn’t seem like we’re going anywhere anytime soon, we figured now is as good a time as any to try to teach you about brows audibly. And the best way to do that is by sharing our hilarious stories with you, hoping you’ll send some of yours to us, and in the meantime, we can try to help you out so you can stop hating yourself on all of your zoom meetings. Send us your letters and questions truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com and check out on Instagram @truebeautybrooklynpodcast and @truebeautybrooklyn check us out on Twitter @truebeautyBKpod If you live locally, make an appointment and come check us out at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com. Don’t forget to rate us 5-stars, or leave a review on Apple iTunes, and tell a friend to tell a friend if you like the show! Don’t forget to subscribe to our show

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How A Small Business Can Impact a Neighborhood and Influence Its Culture with Cindy Wheeler of Beacon’s Closet Jan 22, 2021

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Hey guys! With the Pandemic still in full swing, and small businesses all across the country struggling to stay afloat, we wanted to spotlight how important Main Street, Mom and Pop small businesses are to our communities. If you have lived in Brooklyn for more than 6 months, you no doubt have heard of the store, Beacon’s Closet--the landmark for Brooklyn “cool-kid” thrifting consigning, and vintage shopping. While it wasn’t one of the first stores ever to open in Williamsburg (after all, neighborhoods existed before we all moved over the bridge) back in the 90s when the neighborhood was still largely industrial and people from Manhattan asked, ‘who goes to Brookyln??’ , Beacon’s was certainly one of the first of the new wave of young artists and stores arriving to change the landscape into the Williamsburg that we know today. They are consistently listed as one of the top 10 stores in NYC and have received much love from local, and international press, including features in Vanity Fair, Time Out NY, Gothamist, Racked, Paper Magazine, Lucky, The Village Voice, New York Times, Italian Vogue, French Vogue, New York Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal. We talk to one of the owners, Cindy Wheeler about growing up in a cult, rejecting the government and religion, finding music, moving to New York, and what it means to help shape a neighborhood and a generation of community members. Dudes! This was a great episode and we know you're going to love it! To learn more about Beacon’s Closet visit beaconscloset.com/ or check out their Instagram @beaconscloset Check out our Instagram @truebeautybrooklyn or @truebeautybrooklynpodcast. Visit us at www.truebeautybrooklynpodcast.com to learn more about us, and all of our incredible guests! If you live locally, make an appointment and come check us out at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com. Don’t forget to send us your questions and segment letters to truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com and we’ll see you back here next week. Don’t forget to rate us 5-stars, or leave a review on Apple iTunes, and tell a friend to tell a friend if you like the show!

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Beauty School no 11 Real Estate with Sydney Blumstein: How To Own A Piece of New York City Jan 15, 2021

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Hey guys! Today we are talking with our friend and client, Sydney Blumstein of the Blumstein Real Estate Group. A native New Yorker, Sydney was born and raised in Greenwich Village and joined her family's business in 2006 as the second generation of a real estate dynasty! She has sold and rented over $100 Million worth of property in her career and moves fluidly through the city's constantly evolving housing market. Sydney works with her parents, Kenny and Meris, who are each consistent members of The Corcoran Groups Top 25 Brokers with over $100 million dollars in rentals and sales each year. It's worth mentioning that her mom is lauded as one of the nicest brokers in New York City--a bad ass for sure! Sydney talks to us about how people our age can afford to buy in the city, ways to save your coins for a down payment, and how to make your current home a little more live-able, even if you can't afford to move right now. You guys, this is a fun conversation and an important one for those of us that ever want to take the leap into NYC adulthood and try to afford something in this always expensive city. As Fran Lebowitz says, nobody can afford to live in New York City, we all just figure out a way to do it. To learn more about Sydney please check her out @SydTheKidNYC on all of the social platforms, or visit her business page here. Check out our Instagram @truebeautybrooklyn or @truebeautybrooklynpodcast. Visit us at www.truebeautybrooklynpodcast.com to learn more about us, and all of our incredible guests! If you live locally, make an appointment and come check us out at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com. Don’t forget to send us your questions and segment letters to truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com and we’ll see you back here next week. Don’t forget to rate us 5-stars, or leave a review on Apple iTunes, and tell a friend to tell a friend if you like the show!

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Best of 2020 End Of The Year Mash-Up Jan 08, 2021

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Thank you all so much for being apart of our first year of podcasting! We love you, and can't wait to see what 2021 brings. Until then, enjoy our Best of 2020 End Of Year Mash-Up. Check out our Instagram @truebeautybrooklyn or @truebeautybrooklynpodcast. Visit us at www.truebeautybrooklynpodcast.com to learn more about us, and all of our incredible guests! If you live locally, make an appointment and come check us out at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com. Check out our Patreon and join us for as little as $1 a month! Our $1 membership tier gives you 1 virtual skincare consultation with Alix and I and access to professional and medical-grade skincare in our TBBP Online Apothecary. Don’t forget to send us your questions and segment letters to truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com and we’ll see you back here next week. Don’t forget to rate us 5-stars, or leave a review on Apple iTunes, and tell a friend to tell a friend if you like the show!

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Beauty School no 10 Fuck Off 2020: End Of The Year Listener Letters Jan 01, 2021

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Stay tuned, and don’t forget to send us YOUR questions, your Milk?! With your dinner?! And “I didnt know then, but I”m older now” segments to truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com. Sabs is with us once a month to answer YOUR beauty questions, so write to us at truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com or DM us on Instagram @truebeautybrooklyn, @truebeautybrooklynpodcast, We love you guys, and thanks for an incredible first year!

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