The True Beauty Podcast

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How to Pioneer an Industry, Amplify Voices, and (almost) Win a Peabody Award with the co-founder of Pineapple Street Media, Jenna Weiss-Berman Oct 10, 2020

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This week's show is super special to us because it is a personal podcast full-circle moment. If Marc Maron is considered the Father of podcasting, this week’s guest, Jenna Weiss-Berman is considered the Auntie. Prior to co-founding her groundbreaking podcast network, Pineapple Street Media, Jenna was working in public radio on shows like The Moth. She then joined Buzzfeed to help build out their entire podcast program from the ground up while producing incredible shows such as my all-time favorite podcast, Another Round. After building Buzzfeed’s wildly successful and popular podcast arm, and seeing that many major players--such as Lena Dunham, The New York Times, The Hillary Clinton Presidential Campaign, HBO, Netflix, and ESPN--all wanted to create podcasts but didn’t know how to, Jenna and her co-founder Max Linsky left Buzzfeed to change the history of Podcasting as we know it, and launch Pineapple Street Media. Today, Pineapple Street Media produces inventive, award-winning original podcasts: multi-episode narratives, investigative journalism, branded series, and talk shows. Oh! And they have been nominated for two Peabody Awards. Not too bad for a woman who, in her own words, was tired of making audio programs for only white people. This episode shows how the world of podcasting connects us all and makes the world seem a little bit smaller. This is a REALLY fun show and was super meaningful to us! We got a chance to interview a woman who didn’t even know how much she meant to us--and now we can call her our friend! To learn more about Jenna and Pineapple Street Media, please check out http://pineapple.fm/, or open your podcasting app and search Pineapple Street Media, you’ll find all of their shows! You can also follow them on Instagram @pineapple.fm. 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!

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Beauty School no 6: How To Be a Bad B**ch (The Gadooey Episode) Oct 03, 2020

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Hey guys! This week, Alix and I had to think on our toes--one of our guests unexpectedly wasn't able to make it to record with us-- so we had to think fast! One tequila cocktail later, we decided to dedicate an entire episode to the body part that works hard, plays hard, does the most for literally the entire human race, and is probably the most controversial of all of our organs: our vaginas! Don't worry, there are SO MANY LAUGHS! We wanted to remove the shame and stigma surrounding our vaginas and talk openly and honestly about how great they are! You'll love this episode, and hopefully learn a thing or two! 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 .

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How To Trust in Yourself, Create Your Own Reality, and Build Target's First Nationally Distributed Black-Owned Suncare Product, with Shontay Lundy: Founder of Black Girl Sunscreen Sep 27, 2020

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Welcome to the show! This week Alix and I interviewed the most incredible woman that we didn’t know that we needed in our lives, the founder of Black Girl Sunscreen, Shontay Lundy. Black girl sunscreen has been featured in Harpers Bazaar, Glamour, Forbes, WWD, Oprah magazine, and she is our third guest to have been featured on Beyonce’s Black Parade Route, the index of amazing black-owned businesses that Beyonce curated with @zerinaakers with @black.owned.everything. It is carried nationally at Target and is the only indie black-owned brand carried in the sun-care category. The mission of BlackGirlSunscreen is to educate customers on safe skin practices and sun protection. They also want to provide an answer to a question they hear far too often, “Do black people need sunscreen?” Yes! You guys know that Alix and I are all about using a daily SPF, and we are so thrilled to share Shontay’s journey with you this week! You can learn more about Black Girl Sunscreen at www.blackgirlsunscreen.com/ and on their Instagram page @BlackGirlSunscreen. Black Girl Sunscreen can be purchased at your nearest Target and of course, Blackgirlsunscreen.com, 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.

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Beauty School no 5 Pro-Aging: How to Overthrow the Patriarchy While Keeping Your Skin In Check, with Celebrity Hairstylist Sabrina Rowe Holdsworth Sep 19, 2020

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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 . We want to hear from you! Email us at truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com

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How To Continuously Reinvent Yourself with the Co-Founder and Product Developer of Hairstory Studio and New Wash: Jackie Bauer Aug 30, 2020

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Our guest on the pod this week is the Co-Founder and Product Developer of Hairstory Studio and New Wash: Jackie Bauer. Her company Hairstory, was conceptualized by Jackie after dealing with psoriasis on her scalp for years. On her hunt to figure out what was causing it, and how the hell she could get rid of it, she started to realize that the hair care products she was using, even though they were high end, were possibly the cause of all this irritation. After months of experimentation and testing, a new kind of shampoo was born, New Wash - a NON-shampoo. It’s actually a shampoo and conditioner in one! It cleanses, nourishes, and hydrates all at once. Once she started using this, her scalp felt SO much better. Jackie takes us on her journey from attending a ballet conservatory at 12 years old, her career-ending injury that made her re-evaluate her life and goals, and how she continued to reinvent herself time after time throughout her incredible career in the beauty industry. For example, Jackie tries to casually drop the fact that she helped to produce Vidal Sassoon's 2010 Documentary titled Vidal Sassoon The Movie! I mean, talk about reinventing yourself! To learn more about Jackie, New Wash and Hairstory, check out their Instagram @hairstorystudio, and visit them at www.hairstory.com. 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. We want to hear from you! Email us at truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com

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How to follow your intuition, stay true to yourself, and create the life you’ve always dreamed of: with underground Queer Pop Vocalist, Bentley Robles Aug 22, 2020

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One of the goals in starting the pod was to bring light to, uplift, and celebrate incredible, goal-driven, and inspiring people. Today’s guest, Bentley Robles is no different, other than the fact that he is our first guest who is a musician. Excuse me, our first guest who is an Iconic Pop Star in the Making. And trust us, he is on his way to the first-name-only territory. Since emerging with his first single in 2019, Bentley Robles has been pushing pop music into bold new territory. Bold, daring, and unapologetically queer, he has become one of the defining voices of the New York underground. Born in Los Angeles, Bentley takes us on his journey as a first-generation Mexican-American, navigating his adolescence as a queer boy with a passion to sing, coming out to his parents, choosing a safe--albeit lucrative and successful--career as a business owner, and throwing it all away to move across the country to Brooklyn. Following his heart and intuition, he is building his true legacy and life long dream of becoming a Pop Musician. Already making waves in the Queer Underground Pop community, his first EP Overdramatic caught the attention of music industry insiders and led to Bentley being included on Spotify's "New from NYC: Pop Playlist.” This was for sure one of our favorite interviews! (sidebar: unfortunately I never mic’d anyone that wasn’t Alix before our interview with Bentley, and I did a terrible job. You will hear some mic pops especially at the beginning of the interview, which sucks, but this episode is so great that it’s worth dealing with it!) To learn more about Bentley, you can click here to check him out on Spotify. Check out his website https://www.bentleyrobles.com/ and of course his Instagram @bentleyrobles. 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 . We want to hear from you! Email us at truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com

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How to Win The Game of Life Playing By Your Own Rules with Rooshy Roy, co-founder of the Indian Beauty startup AAVRANI Aug 14, 2020

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A goal in starting this podcast was to bring to a larger audience, the experience that we have within our beauty community here in Brooklyn. Our beauty community is not one that is either only black or white, but every color of the rainbow in between. As women that navigate easily between cultures, we know that the key to understanding each other is speaking openly and honestly about where we come from and where we are going. Today’s guest Rooshy Roy, co-founder of the beauty startup AAVRANI is a super special guest because she is the first guest who reached out to us to be on the podcast. So we didn’t know much about Rooshy going into this interview but came out learning so much about this incredible female founder, the Indian diaspora, and ways in which it mirrored the Jewish and African diaspora. We also talk about heritage, staying true to yourself, following your dreams, and the importance of being seen in consumer goods. Rooshy is a Warton graduate, she was on Forbes 30 under 30, she’s super compassionate, kind, and funny and we know you’re going to love this episode! To learn more about Rooshy and AAVRANI, check out the website by clicking here and check out their instagram @AAVRANI. Don't forget to follow us @truebeautybrooklyn and @truebeautybrooklynpodcast. Check us out at www.truebeautybrooklynpodcast.com and if you live locally, you can book an appointment and visit us at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com

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Beauty School no 4: How to treat the Auntie that we all hate; Hyperpigmentation Aug 08, 2020

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In this episode of Beauty School, we are talking about one of the biggest skin complaints that we hear about, Hyperpigmentation. First off, what the hell is hyperpigmentation? Wellllll, Hyperpigmentation is the deposition of melanin (pigment) due to the stimulation of melanogenesis. And Melanogenesis is the process by which pigment is produced and duplicated in the skin. It is the end result of the immune system triggering an inflammatory response, which then triggers melanocyte activity to protect the skin's DNA from damage and mutation. Sound a little boring?? We do our best to make this a fun episode while teaching you how to treat this super common, and super annoying skin condition! Plus, hear from Elizabeth's mama in our Hey Ladies! segment! Her mom, Chyrise tells us about the time Elizabeth's Dad picked up hitchhiker that turned out to be a murderer! Check us out on Instagram @truebeautybrooklyn and @truebeautybrooklynpodcast. If you live locally, book an appointment to come see us at www.truebeautybrooklyn.com . Visit www.truebeautybrooklynpodcast.com to learn more about us and the show!

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How to Thrive In a Male-Dominated Industry with Interior Designer, Karen Asprea Jul 27, 2020

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A really incredible aspect of our careers as estheticians is that we get to work with cool, hilarious women that we often become friends with. But because our relationship begins as a professional one where we are in our element, we oftentimes don’t get to see them in THEIR element. My favorite part of our podcast Is learning more about our friends and being able to say, “dang you’re bad bitch!”. Today’s interview with our friend, interior designer Karen Asprea is so much fun for that exact reason! Karen specializes in turn-key services for private homes, design for luxury condominium developments, and commercial spaces. She has worked alongside famed architects such as SOM and ODA, and her client list includes the industry’s top development firms that demand the highest level of quality and attention to detail. Not to mention a few celebrities. By age 28, Karen was managing partner and director of interior design at one of New York’s busiest architecture and design firms and lead her team to design and coordinate over five million square feet of new residential development before creating her own design studio, Karen Asprea Studio. Like I said, bad bitch! Sidebar: that this is actually our second time interviewing Karen. During our first interview, we had such an incredible conversation about Robert Moses, social equity, the future of public spaces, and livable art. Unfortunately, THAT interview didn’t record correctly (sorry guys!). However, she was so kind and generous with her time and agreed to spend another hour with us! So this time we chatted about her childhood in Brooklyn, how being a first-generation Italian-American shaped her view of the world, and most importantly the inequities of women and men within male dominated industries – specifically, construction and architecture. Industries in which she is a woman amongst men at the top of her field. Also, Karen is hilarious, so this was SUCH a fun conversation! For more information about Karen, check out her Instagram @karenapreastudio as well as her website karenasprea.com. Don’t forget to check us out at truebeautybrooklynpodcast.com to learn more about Alix and I, and the podcast. Visit truebeautybrooklyn.com to learn more about our beauty studio in Williamsburg! Don’t forget to follow us on instagram @truebeautybrooklynpodcast or @truebeautybrooklyn. If you live locally, come hang with Alix and me by making an appointment at truebeautybrooklyn.com.

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How to Create a Passionate Life With Photographer, Artist, Entrepreneur and Native American Activist Tafv Sampson Jul 17, 2020

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What drew us to Tafv Sampson, our guest for today, is a 15-minute short film that takes us through 4 generations of her family, in a way that moved us so much that we just knew we wanted to know more about her, her life, and her family’s history. Besides the fact that her mother is a journalist who interviewed serial killer John Wayne Gacy, and besides the fact that her grandfather was Native American actor, activist, and artist Will Sampson--of one flew over the Cuckoos nest-- and besides the fact that her father Tim Sampson was a stunt man, broadway Actor, Native American activist, and artist, Tafv herself is a photographer, an author, an artist, and soon will be adding entrepreneur to her list of credentials--you can see now why we had to know more about her! Tafv takes us on a journey from growing up on the west coast, following her passion for film to New York City, the great loss of her father, and pivoting into her passion for botanical body care. She speaks candidly about how the wellness industry is largely created for and by people that don’t look like her, and what it means to her to build a truly sustainable brand. In this time of the Cultural Revolution, we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge and celebrate the Native People of our land who are oftentimes overlooked, forgotten in history, and widely oppressed. Also, Tafv is such a badass, we had to share her story! Check out Tafv's Instagram @TafvSampson and her website TafvSampson.com. The incredible short, 15-minute film Under Her Skin: Tafv Sampson that she and her family were the subjects of can be found here. Click here to purchase some of Tafv's photos. 100% of the proceeds are donated to the organization of your choice. Don't forget to follow us on Instagram @truebeautybrooklyn or @truebeautybrooklynpodcast. The studio is open! If you live locally, please make an appointment and come hang with us www.truebeautybrooklyn.com (don't just show up! You have to make an appointment!). To learn more about us, and our show check out www.truebeautybrooklynpodcast.com and don't forget to email us truebeautybrooklynpodcast@gmail.com .

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