Hollywood stylist and co-founder of “The Period Company,” Karla Welch joins PRETTYSMART to share her journey as both a stylist to the stars and as an entrepreneur. She shares: 

• How she went from working in restaurants to working in fashion.
• Why she believes she’s always surrounded by a little bit of magic (and how that mindset has helped her).
• The stories behind some of the iconic looks she’s created for some of the biggest stars (Hailey + Justin Bieber, Olivia Wilde, Sarah Paulson, Tracee Ellis Ross to name a few!)
• Her creative process behind dressing some of Hollywood’s biggest stars + how she uses creativity as her compass.
• How she knows when she’s got the right look on a client. 
• What it was like being one of the first stylists to collaborate with big brands. 
• Saying “YES” versus saying “NO”
• How to attach your style to your story.
• What inspired her to create “The Period Company” and their mission to end period poverty. 

Follow Karla: https://www.instagram.com/karlawelchstylist/?hl=en

Support The Period Company: https://tinyurl.com/mryab98t

Danielle’s 1st Look Episode (NBC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbOfn0nJN2A&t=247s

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Steph Jagger is a bestselling author, life coach, and speaker. Her grandmother had dementia and her mother, early onset Alzheimer’s. Steph says “my biggest fear is the fact that I live inside of a lineage of forgetfulness. I don’t want to forget. I want to remember.” We spend decades building a life and wanting to remember it all. We save photos, we take home movies. In her new memoir Everything Left to Remember, she explores what’s left when our memories are taken from us. We discuss: 

• What we learn about our own stories through our families stories.
• What do we lose when we lose our memories?
• Conscious Grieving vs. Unconscious Despair 
• MOTHERING: The 4 archetypes of mother: QUESTION: what will I allow to be created through me?
• The 1 question Steph wished she asked her mother before her Alzheimer’s diagnosis
• How to have hard conversations (anger vs. aggression)
• How tapping into her “inner mystic” allowed her to witness her mother’s journey in awe 
• How love and loss shapes us
• What it’s like to be with a person you know you are going to lose
• Deep remembrance
• Bully energy and how to combat it (intimacy + connection)
• What it looks and feels like when women forget themselves + shapeshifting. 
• "Pain travels through families until someone is ready to feel it.” How to determine what pain is yours and what is someone else’s to bear.
• Owning mortality, and how that makes you live differently. 

Buy Steph’s Book: https://tinyurl.com/339zppbn

Follow Steph: https://www.instagram.com/stephjagger/

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April Showers is the first female, Black-owned business to own a licensed character brand in a major retailer. She is the creator of Afro Unicorn, a brand designed to represent the uniqueness of women and children of color in a truly diverse and inclusive fashion, selling apparel and accessories to toys, puzzles, books and more. Today she shares:

• How karma played a huge role in her success.
• What it’s like having Disney and Star Wars as her main competitors.
• How she launched the brand amidst some of the hardest personal moments in her life. 
• How she got into her first big box retailer.
• Why her approach is “All gas, no breaks.”
• The surprising way she learned all about licensing her brand. 
• Her visualization and journaling practices that helped her as she’s built her empire.
• The most pivotal decision she’s made in her business.
• Why she says you can go after exactly what you want. 
• How she thought her life was going to end when she got pregnant because she hadn’t seen a positive image of a single mother + how she feels about it now. 
• The surprising lesson she has learned from her two sons.

World Renowned Psychic Medium and Best-Selling Author Rebecca Rosen joins PRETTYSMART to talk about her new book, “What’s Your Heaven: 7 Lessons to Heal the Past and Live Fully Now.” She shares:

• 3 tangible ways to raise your vibe + frequency.
• The one major thing that might be blocking you from manifesting the things you want.
• How to tell the difference between intuition + anxious mind thoughts. 
• Who is Team Spirit?  And how we can all utilize them to help us + guide us?
• A new way to reframe when hard things show up for us in life.
• What spirits want us to know while we are still living. 
• Why meditation is key to help us tap into our higher self (and her advice if meditation is hard for you!) 
• The one question to ask yourself before you make any decision.
• Reincarnation, soul contracts and soul groups: What they are and how they can help us better understand our life experiences. 
• Why we don’t have to wait to die to experience heaven.

Follow Rebecca Rosen on Instagram at www.instagram.com/mediumrebeccarosen

Buy Rebecca’s book What’s Your Heaven: https://tinyurl.com/45w42fyu

Adriana Carrig founded the original word bracelet– Little Words Project. What started in her parents basement has now grown to 40 employees, 7 locations, and huge brand collaborations with companies like Nike, Barbie, WNBA, Dunkin Donuts. Just like so many great companies, Adriana’s was started from pain– she was bullied as a young person and wanted to inject the world with some more kindness. Although the company has grown and changed, that mission of kindness has sustained throughout. Despite doubters, Adriana hasn’t changed her core perspective in the last decade of building her company. By staying true to her brand’s values and taking bold, strategic risks, she’s been able to serve the original customers who keep the brand growing year-after-year. She shares

• Why the key to taking on any tough project is to “just start beading”
• When she knew she really had something special (post sorority).
• How facing cruelty + bullying throughout her life inspired to build a brand of kindness.
• Why she breaks the stereotype that women are risk averse.
• How her brand continues to grow on the strength of the foundational original customer.
• Why copycat companies don’t faze her at all.
• What it feels like to grow from a family-size business to dozens of employees.
• How she went from making her bracelets in her parents’ house to the CEO of a multi-million dollar business

Why do women cheat? Author, journalist, podcast host of the new series She Wants More, Jo Piazza tries to uncover the truth behind women’s infidelity. Danielle and Jo listen to several clips of women’s stories of affairs and discuss:

• Why is women’s Infidelity is on the rise?
• The 4 different types of affairs
• Why women cheat vs. why men cheat: does Jo agree with Esther Perel’s hypothesis: “men cheat out of boredom and fear of intimacy and women cheat out of loneliness and hunger of intimacy.”
• How much does lying play into cheating?
• Is cheating forgivable?
• Does unequal household labor (chores) increase women’s likelihood of cheating?
• What do we expect from our partners nowadays + what are we willing to outsource? (Is it OK to outsource sex?)
• 1 piece of love & marriage advice Jo has learned from her years of interviewing people + writing about relationships. 
• What does the future of relationships and marriage look like? 

Listen to "She Wants More" on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-she-wants-more-107769177/

Follow Jo Piazza: https://www.instagram.com/jopiazzaauthor/?hl=en

What happens WHEN WOMEN LEAD? What are the key commonalities of female leaders who thrived in spite of the challenges? Can some of your weaknesses actually trun into your greatest strengths? CNBC’s Senior Media & Tech Correspondent Julia Boorstin wrote a book about it. She spoke with more than 120 female leaders, from Goop’s Gwyneth Paltrow, Bumble’s Whitney Wolfe Herd, Jenn Hyman (Rent The Runway), Lena Waithe and more to determine their strategies for success. 

Julia’s had her finger on the pulse of tech and business as a correspondent for more than two decades. She launched and oversees the CNBC Disruptor 50. Currently CNBC’s Senior Media & Tech Correspondent, she’s also been a fixture at CNN Headline News. She’s even worked for the State Department and Vice President Al Gore’s domestic policy office. Needless to say, Julia understands leadership. She shares:

• What the 120 female leaders she interviewed all had in common
• Why do stock prices increase when a company has a female CEO?
• How to turn your weaknesses into strengths (example: CEO Jennifer Holmgren on negotiation)
• Why women are more likely than men to make swift decisions.
• How gratitude can make you money.
• Mentors vs. Peer to Peer mentorship.
• How the Mark Zuckerbergs and Elon Musks contribute to a myth of the “Male Visionary” or “Boy Wonder”
• How to ask tough questions.
• Julia’s thoughts on New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s decision to step down.

Buy Julia’s Book: When Women Lead: https://amzn.to/3ekjT4Y

How do you get to where you want to go—the dream job, the dream life? That’s a big question we all ask ourselves. We know WHERE we want to go, but don’t always know HOW to get there. Via engaging stories of some of the most successful people in the world as well as practical advice from Matt’s own successes and failures, this book shows you how to win. The title speaks to a major theme in the book—overcoming fear. Matt explains how to break the patterns holding you back, and go after what it is you truly want. He says you must “burn the boats”. 

Matt is an entrepreneur who has reached the pinnacle of 5 industries (Founder RSV, Investor (Gary Vee’s largest investor), Guest Shark on Shark Tank, and executive fellow at Harvard Business School). You would probably never guess that he dropped out of high school. Matt shares:

• How you can throw Plan B away and go all in on your dream! 
• Growing up in poverty and how it pushed him to make his first all-in decision
• The TWO TRAITS he looks for when investing in people
• What happens to people who don’t take risks.
• How to get over fear of failure 
• Cancer taught him to have greater compassion for himself, and others at work.
• Why the right life partner for you acts as a force multiplier
• How celebrities like Kim Kardashian + Tracee Ellis Ross + Scarlett Johansson that guest speak at his Harvard class have burned the boats. 
• How the law of compound interest applies to ideas and achievements

Buy Matt’s Book Burn The Boats:  https://tinyurl.com/bdzfvh55

Follow Matt: https://www.instagram.com/mhiggins/

With 1.6 Million followers, TikTok star Tefi Pessoa has built a community where she has become famous for her thoughtful and heartfelt advice on love, mental health, heartbreak and more. There’s a reason she’s been called the internet’s BFF.  Today she joins PRETTYSMART to delve deep into all things love, dating and heartbreak. She shares:

• Why men are who they are at 35.
• What she’s learned from heartbreak.
• Why even after heartbreak love is still magical.
• How to not let heartbreak or bad relationships break your spirit. 
• How she is able to never compromise who she is in relationships. 
• Why it’s helpful for her to enlist her tribe before she breaks it off with someone.
• What she finds she is really mourning when a relationship ends.
• Why some traits are not going to change in the person you're dating (and how to figure that out). 
• When to listen if people tell you “you can do better”.
• Navigating a breakup in the public eye.
• Why there’s courage in normalcy. 
• How men and women handle heartbreak differently. 

We often frame modern relationships through a transactional lens, but what if instead of concerning ourselves with what we can get from somebody we ask ourselves what we can give? Rachel Rischall believes generosity for generosity’s sake is ultimately the best way to form strong, valuable relationships. A 20-year vet in public relations, Rachel is the founder of Three PR (she's an EXPERT). She says her superpower is she can and will talk to anybody. She’s an expert on finding ways to connect and help others. In the end, everybody comes out ahead. Rachel shares:

• Why she feels called to helping others as often as she can
• When to start being generous every day (it’s first thing in the morning)
• Why introducing people to each other is an incredible gift
• How to overcome the cold e-mailing jitters (and the best way to follow-up when they don’t email back)
• Navigating generosity in a world comfortable placing women in positions of service
• How to evolve professional connections into professional relationships

After this interview aired I got messages from women all over the country. It seemed to have a domino effect inspiring book clubs, and other interviews with Alicia! Her book changed me and it gave me so much joy to hear that this conversation changed so many of you too. As it was one of the earliest episodes of the pod I felt it deserved a re-air: Award Winning Journalist + MSNBC Anchor Alicia Menendez explains how The Likeability Trap can keep women from achieving their ambitions. Women are stuck in an impossible bind known as the Goldilocks Conundrum: be nice, but not too nice. Talk about what you bring to the table without sounding like you’re bragging. Strong women are often criticized for being cold, while warm women may be seen as pushovers.“ The constant chatter of how women lead impedes them from leading. In trying to be everything all at once women are straight up exhausted”. But in being aware of The Likeability Trap, we can push up against it. Alicia gives us tactical tools to be more practiced in leadership, how to receive feedback, break free of the trap, and succeed as you are. 

LANGUAGE + POWER, GENDER, RACE: Linguist and writer Amanda Montell is here to discuss reclaiming gendered insults, cursing, women's linguistic innovation, sexism in our language and owning your own voice. She is the author of two critically acclaimed books, Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language and Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism She is also a creator and host of the hit podcast, Sounds Like A Cult. Today she joins PRETTYSMART to expand on her book Wordslut. She wants you to feel empowered by language instead of silenced by it. 

 She shares: 

• Why young women are the language innovators. 
• Slurs and how so many of them were once ordinary words used to reflect femininity. 
• How culture and language go hand in hand. 
• Why marginalized communities use language as a form of power in culture (and why it is almost always co-opted by mainstream society).
• Why we need to stop calling out typos and grammar mistakes online.
• What it really means when we have to put a qualifier on a word. 
• What term we can use instead of “hey guys” and why it’s important to read the room when it comes to language. 
• The power of reclaiming words vs. abolishing them. 

Follow Amanda here: https://www.instagram.com/amanda_montell/

Co-Founder of Betches, the hugely popular female-founded and led media and entertainment brand, Sami Sage is here to share her story from how Betches went from an idea one night in college to a full blown media company. She shares:

• How to start a company with friends
• Where the idea for Betches came from and what it was like in the early days of the brand. 
• Why they have never taken money from investors.
• Why trial + error is important when you are building a business. 
• Why she is so passionate about politics and the decision to create the Betcher Sup vertical to help inform others. 
• Sami’s pop-culture predictions on Kanye, Pete Davidson, Harry & Megan and more.

Actor, dancer, choreographer and star of the hit Starz drama P-Valley, Nicco Annan is bringing his magic to PRETTYSMART today. The Detroit-born actor refused to conform to a Hollywood template and instead has made a name for himself by embracing his individuality and following his intuition.  His portrayal of Uncle Clifford (the revolutionary + beloved character) has earned him critical acclaim as well as nominations from the NAACP and independent spirit awards. Danielle + Nicco discuss:

• The meaningful lesson he learned in high school + how that has carried him in life. 
• How being told he was too big to be a dancer helped him in the long run. 
• Why it’s important to use all of your gifts when trying to achieve your dreams. 
• How he was held at gunpoint at 14 years old. 
• How P-Valley is helping change how we view sex workers and strippers.  
• The role of intimacy in playing Uncle Clifford and how Nicco approaches the masculine/feminine qualities of the character.
• What he’s learned from playing Uncle Clifford and how he knows this role is bigger than him. (and why his character is so beloved + impactful)
• Why it’s important that P-Valley has all female directors and the male gaze.

• 3 specific tips to help you get promoted.
• Why passion is crucial in your career. 
• Her number one tip to help you on future interviews.
• Why self education is so important on the job. 
• What surprised her most about working at Vogue.
• What she’s learned about leading and managing well. 
• How Cosmo has evolved over the years and modernized its view of sex. 
• Why asking for critical feedback (and being okay receiving it) is vital.
• What she’s learned from the Cosmo readers and what she hopes her legacy to be.
• The best parts of working in a female driven environment.

Mimi Bouchard is a meditation teacher, wellness influencer, and founder of Superhuman App. Listen to this walking meditation (and conversation with Mimi) to manifest the energy of your future— “you are a lucky person”.

In 2017, the former US Surgeon General called loneliness a public health epidemic. It’s been compared to a crisis on the scale of opioids or obesity. Some studies equate the health effects of loneliness with that of smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Julie Schechter is helping to fight the loneliness epidemic. She is the CEO and co-founder of  Present and Small Packages, two companies focused on building stronger relationships and connections in a digital world. She provides insight on the modern paradox of technology: how something meant to bring us closer together has led to a lonelier population. Julie explains:

• How our everyday lives have lost the traditional structures that made us feel connected
• Why our relationships are typically dictated by proximity
• How the pandemic forced “hustle culture” to come to a halt and the lasting impact of pandemic loneliness
• Why technology has made us all feel lonely
• How losing your oldest friendships has the health impact equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day
• What kinds of technology can work to make us feel closer
• Why the simple act of noticing something in someone is so powerful

Love Wellness founder + former star of Laguna Beach and The Hills Lo Bosworth is here to share her wellness journey and how it inspired her to help others do the same. She shares:

-Where do our 'happy hormones" come from?

-The chronic health problems she faced + how it took 18 months for her to get a proper diagnosis.

-How healing her gut healed her anxiety, depression and many other health issues (vitamin deficiencies can result in anxiety + depression)

-How our gut health is connected to our vaginal and brain health. 

-Supplements 101 - where to start if you want to heal your gut. 

-How being on MTV turned out to be a blessing (even if it made her cry).

-The struggles she faced being a reality TV star. 

-Why she was inspired to start her company Love Wellness

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Shop Love Wellness: https://likeshop.me/lovewellness

Follow Lo: https://www.instagram.com/lobosworth/

Atsuko Okatsuka is a standup comedian who was named one of the Top 10 Comics to Watch in 2022 by Variety. Her hilarious videos on social media have garnered her millions of views and her HBO special premieres on December 10th. Today she joins the pod and shares:  

• What it was like living immigrating from Japan and living in a garage with her mom and grandma from age 10-17.
• How an earthquake helped her rise to fame.
• Why she feels the things we didn’t like about ourselves as kids are really our superpowers (and how to harness them). 
• Why she thinks comedy is a part of the service industry.
• How she started the viral #Dropchallenge. 
• Her special relationship with her grandmother (and how she got to 18,000 Twitter followers!)
• Why she believes getting married is more “childlike” than being single.
• Why she thinks the key to life is knowing what you’re not into.

Marcy Blum and Jess Conroy have each revolutionized the wedding industry in their own exceptional ways. Marcy is an internationally sought-after event planner and entertaining expert with 30 years of experience throwing innovative and ground-breaking events. Jess is the founder and CEO of Carats & Cake, a financial operating system created for the events industry. These women each have tackled a different piece of the $60 billion-a-year wedding industry pie, but their creativity and uniqueness have earned them both respect in their field. Today we cover: 

• Wedding/Party/Event Do’s + Don’ts 
• The biggest waste of money when it comes to weddings 
• Why you shouldn’t be a chill host 
• How to create meaning at events and parties (weddings)
• Setting the right tone for a party 
• Over 2 million couples get married a year. A wedding can be one of the largest purchases a couple makes in their life…how can we make it more meaningful? 
• How Marcy + Jess transformed the events industry 
• Building a brand and noticing the white space in your industry 
• Advice for seeking investors 
• Raising money as an entrepreneur and the power of storytelling 

The Kardashians are in the business of “getting us talking”— also known as the business of being famous. How have they impacted our society + culture? Has it been a net positive or net negative? And is that ‘power’ waning? Writer and cultural critic, Kimberly Nicole Foster joins the podcast to break it all down with me. We discuss many aspects— race, gender, greed, parenting, business, hair + makeup + fashion trends.

We discuss:

• Why she believes the cultural power of the Kardashians is waning 
• The impact the Kardashian’s have had on the beauty industry
• Why she thinks Kim and Khloe are now trying to slim down after years of embracing their curves.
• Why she thinks the Kardashians tried to appeal to Black men - and why that’s changing now. 
• How white Americans and Black Americans view the idea of the Kardashians getting us to embrace our curves differently
• Why the Kardashians are a representation of American culture and where it is going. 
• Her thoughts on how Kim is using her children to expand her brand and keep herself in the culture zeitgeist.
• The problem with the mentality of always needing more, more, more. 

Olivia Culpo and her sisters Aurora and Sophia are about to become America’s newest reality TV family, in their TLC show “The Culpo Sisters.” Today they’re sitting down together to share: 

• The hardest moments to watch each other go through.
• Why Sophia and Aurora decided to make their lives public after seeing Olivia do it.
• Why Olivia thinks pageants are empowering (and what Aurora hopes pageants will change in the future).
• Who has the best taste in men - and the worst!
• Why they decided to do a reality show with their family and what they hope to show people.
• Their must-have beauty products of the moment.
• Their favorite wellness trends that are worth the hype.

Sami Miró went from a tech startup to founding her own vintage brand, Sami Miro Vintage - a black female-owned clothing company whose ethos was founded on eco-consciousness. SMV has been featured as the “it” sustainable brand in numerous publications such as Vogue, CFDA, Forbes, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, and more. In 2021, Miró was one of five designers recognized and awarded a grant by the CFDA and Fashion Trust US. Today’s she’s sharing:

• Her journey from tech startup to launching her own fashion brand.
• Why it was so important for her to take the leap to launch her own fashion line.
• What it really means to be sustainable in fashion.
• Tips to help make your own closet more sustainable. 
• How to make better choices for the environment when shopping for clothes. 
• How she handles self doubt.
• How she allows the doubts of others to fuel her success. 
• What it was like having 48 hours to design for Selena Gomez’s world tour (and what it taught her about herself). 
• How she learned to empower herself to make her dreams come true.

• Why a Miracle Mindset will change your life.
• Why we need to get back to the truth of who we really are in order to manifest the life we want. 
• Gabrielle’s tip for how to go from despair to joy. 
• How to recognize and ask for signs from the universe.
• What a “Manic Manifestor” is and why it won’t help you attract what you want.
• What the true definition of manifesting is and how it really works. 
• Why fear isn’t always a bad thing.
• How we all have an Inner Parent that can help guide us in life.

Fortune is a comedian, writer and actor. Her new comedy special, Good Fortune, just released on Netflix (it was filmed in Chicago!) You have seen her previously on Chelsea Lately, The Mindy Project, and her stand-up debut on Last Comic Standing. She also hosts a podcast, “Sincerely Fortune,” with her wife Jacquelyn Smith. Fortune is so funny and sincere. We spoke about:

• The story behind her name “Fortune”
• Her Hollywood MIRACLE MOMENT (this is wild!)
• Why Chelsea Handler believed in her and others who traditionally didn’t get a chance in Hollywood
• How she handled red carpet interviews with celebrities (she used to be a reporter)
• Her advice on finding love (it’s beautiful). 
• How her time living in Spain gave her courage to do anything
• How the first time she performed on stage she realized what she was meant to do
• Why it’s crucial to bet on yourself in showbusiness
• How her mother feels about being in her stand up, loves Hooter’s, and is such an ally to Fortune and the gay community in North Carolina.

WATCH: Fortune's Netflix Special 'Good Fortune' out now

Follow Fortune: https://www.instagram.com/fortunefeimster/

Jemele is an Emmy-winning sports journalist, who spent 12 years with ESPN. She’s a contributing writer for The Atlantic, host of the Spotify podcast, “Jemele Hill is Unbothered” and her memoir “Uphill” will be released on October 25th. Today she’s sharing:

• Why she never wanted to write this memoir in the first place (and the lessons she hopes people learn from it) 
• Why she really wanted to call her memoir something else. 
• How her childhood traumas and Detroit shaped her and why grit is infused in her DNA. 
• How reading the newspaper as a kid is what ultimately led her to where she is today.
• Why women need to get over the “I’m just happy to be here” mentality.
• Why she became a better journalist when she became a better businesswoman.
• Why we need to all be more transparent about our salaries.
• Why it’s so important to her to write about the intersection of race, class, gender and sports.
• Why we can use sports as a mirror to what’s happening in America.
• Why empathy is so important in writing. 

“Think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.”

Tembi Locke is the New York Times bestselling author of her memoir From Scratch, and an actor, producer, and screenwriter. From Scratch is a Reese’s Book Club pick, an Audie Awards Best Audiobook Finalist, and a Goodreads Best Books Finalist. Along with Reese Witherspoon and Hello Sunshine, Tembi serves as an executive producer and co-writer for the Netflix limited series inspired by her book. Tembi shares:

• How to put one foot in front fo the other when your life changes forever
• How she met her late husband Saro in Italy + the story of their romance
• How do you parent and caregiver while living with grief?
• How can you help and support someone who is grieving?
• One piece of advice for cross cultural relationships 
• What it’s like to see Zoe Saldana play her on screen!

“If you give people your time and your spirit, you make an impact.” Katie Lowes is an actor, theatre director, and key member of the Shondaland crew, with significant roles on Scandal (Quinn Perkins) and Inventing Anna. Katie and her husband, Adam Shapiro, are founders and directors of Los Angeles’s IAMA Theater Company. But her rise to TV fame didn’t happen overnight. She’s been at it for years, on a path filled with setbacks, odd jobs and the inevitable imposter syndrome. So how did she spin her struggles into a flourishing career in Hollywood?  Katie brings an honest, vulnerable and hilarious voice to the podcast, sharing:

• Her navigation of severe postpartum depression
• What her 40th birthday means to her as a time of transition
• How she just took a solo 5-day vacation solely for herself
• Her extraordinary grandmother’s recent death and what it means to live a full life
• How starting therapy at 24 led to her booking work as an actor
• Her audition journey for Shonda Rhimes and finally landing Scandal
• How Kerry Washington and other women of Scandal created a safe, supportive environment for each other
• Why it’s important, as an actor, to stay focused on your work rather than fame

Chelsea Devantez is a comedian, Emmy-nominated writer and host of the podcast “Celebrity Book Club” where she dissects celebrity memoirs.  She recently served as the head writer on “The Problem with Jon Stewart.”  Today she she shares: 

• The best advice Jon Stewart gave her. 
• What we can all learn from the memoirs of celebrity women (and her favorite ones of all time). 
• What it was like working with Tina Fey.
• Why pop culture is such a powerful way to make real change when it comes to social justice and politics. 
• How she learned the power of female friendships and why she wants more TV shows about them.
• How making your own work will create the career you’re meant to have. 
• What it was really like working on a cruise ship
• Why she thinks The Bachelor is a cultural clock on America. 

“You write your eulogy with the pen of your life.” Rabbi Steve Leder, is a best-selling author and Senior Rabbi at the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles who has been named one of the most influential Rabbis in America. His most recent book, “For You When I am Gone” teaches us how to write an ethical will (outlining 12 questions to ask), a letter to loved ones that helps them understand what we have learned about how to live a meaningful life. He shares:

• The number one regret he sees most people have not heir death bed.
• The biggest lessons he’s learned from death that can help us lead a better life. 
• What tombstones can teach us 
• What we misunderstand about grief
• Why we should all have an “ethical will.” 
• Why we must consider death in order to figure out what we want out of life. 
• Why we need to work to make sure our inner life matches our outer life. 
• The right questions to ask yourself to find if you're living out your values.
• Why we are have the wrong idea of what it means to sacrifice. 

Professor Cassie Mogilner Holmes is a professor of marketing and behavioral decision making at UCLA Anderson School of Management and author of Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters. Today she joins the pod to share ways that we can all become more time rich and lead happier, more fulfilling lives. She shares:

• What it means to be time rich and how we can make our time more meaningful.
• 3 specific habits you can start today to increase happiness.
• Why it’s important to take inventory of you spend your time.
• How much money you need to be happy.
• Why you have more time than you think you do (and how to discover where and when you have that time).
• Surface relationships vs deep connections and how they impact our happiness. 
• Why the arts are so important when it comes to happiness.
• Gender inequality when it comes to free time.
• Why learning to say no and protecting your time is paramount to happiness.
• Why we need to treat our time like diamonds.

Caroline Stanbury is a Bravo TV Star (Real Housewives of Dubai), podcast host of Divorced Not Dead”, entrepreneur, wife, mother of 3 and philanthropist. She is known for her quick wit, zest for life, and British candor. We came to know her as the breakout star of Ladies of London in 2014. Fans loved Caroline for the same reason they love her podcast and romantic + business advice: she lives unapologetically.  

In this episode she shares how she has manifested the life she is living. She even gives me some dating advice. This episode is really fun— I can’t wait for you to hear from Caroline on how she is determined to live life to its fullest potential! 

Follow her on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolinestanbury/?hl=en

Sarah Landry is a hugely successful digital creator, body positivity advocate and podcaster known as “The Birds Papaya.” She has more than 2 million Instagram followers and one of the most popular body positive accounts on social media. She’s shares:

• Why it still feels radical for her to post picture of herself with stretch marks.
• Why losing 100 pounds didn’t bring her happiness.
• What she learned from people’s silence when she started to gain weight back.
• How to teach yourself how to have a “second thought” and rewire your brain when it comes to body thoughts.
• How to set boundaries when it comes to body comments.
• How she was able to achieve body neutrality and her best advice for those hoping to do the same.
• The grief she’s still dealing with when it comes to her body.
• Why it will take women coming together to make real change when it comes to body image.

Kaylin Marcotte reinvented the jigsaw puzzle when she launched her company ‘Jiggy’ on 2019. The direct-to-consumer puzzle company features art by emerging female artists, and specially formulated puzzle glue, allowing you to frame your puzzles after you make them; JIGGY puzzles are art - in pieces. At just two years old, JIGGY is already a cultural phenomenon, loved by Kacey Musgraves, Chrissy Teigen, Allison Williams, Sophia Bush, Demi Lovato, and more. 

• How she decided to launch her own company (she was formerly the first employee at theSkimm)
• How she modernized the jigsaw puzzle
• When to make your hobby your full time job 
• How she launched with $25,000 of her own savings, from her NY apartment 
• How she pivoted during covid and built a multi million dollar business in just a few years
• What her experience on Shark tank was like (Marc Cuban now invests)
• The mission driven aspect of her business— supporting emerging female artists
• An untapped resource she advises other entrepreneurs to take advantage of when trying to get something off the ground
• Lessons she’s learned along the way.

Actress + Activist Emmanuelle Chriqui shares her journey to Hollywood and passion for philanthropy:

• Growing up in Toronto + her journey to Hollywood (and the time she almost quit!)
• Career building blocks: “different breaks for different chapters”
• What it was like becoming a celebrity + sex symbol overnight when Entourage aired. 
• Why were men obsessed with her famous character Sloane?
• The depressed + isolated feelings she felt when she achieved such major success and how activism has changed that for her. 
• What she thinks about the criticism of Entourage being misogynistic 
• How she has navigated losing both of her parents

Dr. Mondo is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Mental Stregth Coach, and founder and CEO of Cheatcode (a nonprofit determined to end stigma and increase access to mental health services in underserved communities). He works with high performing people– athletes, celebrities and executives—  to unlock their peak mental performance. He shares:

• Why it’s so important to strengthen your gut and intuition.
• The difference between following your heart and your gut.
• Techniques he uses to help his clients visualize and achieve success in every area of their lives.
• Why we shouldn’t fear adversity and the biggest lessons we can learn from it. 
• The biggest misconceptions about success and successful people.
• How to find faith in yourself if you’ve lost it. 
• Why it’s hard to achieve happiness if you’re not in service to others. 
• The impact our traumas have on our success and on shaping who are are.

Rachel Simmons is a bestselling author, educator and executive coach who has been studying girls for more than two decades. Today she’s sharing:

• The lie she says girls have been sold when it comes to success.
• Why it’s important to learn the skill of failure.
• How girls and boys approach failure differently
• Why we need to start talking to our daughters/girls about gender bias and how they may encounter it in the world.
• Why we see so few women at the top in the corporate world. 
• The relationship between failure and leadership 
• The curse of being a “good girl” and how that impacts us. 
• Why you should try and make peace with yourself before having kids.

• The extreme poverty she experienced growing up in South Africa.
• How she was selected to be in the very first class at Oprah’s Leadership Academy.
• How being a part of Oprah’s school changed the trajectory of her life.
• How she’s been able to remain full of joy and hope despite the tragedies and loss she’s experienced 
• The best advice she’s ever gotten from Oprah.
• What she says the world will never truly know about Oprah.
• Why education ranks above all else in her eyes. 
• What it’s been like to see her dreams manifest.

• How healing her own eating disorder led her to intuitive eating
• Why diets do NOT work + how to unsubscribe from diet culture
• How to take the morality out of food (and why doing that will change your life)
• Why it’s important to eat foods your body craves
• How to shut down toxic dieting conversations when you’re out with your friends.
• How our relationship with food mirrors our relationship with everything else in our lives
• Why diets fail YOU versus you failing at your diet. 
• Three pragmatic changes you can make today to start on the path towards intuitive eating.

• How she learned to get help from Elmo to deal with social media haters
• How Anglea Davis convinced her to drop out of law school.
•  Her experience at the intersectionality of identifying as Black, Queer & Muslim.
• Why she hopes her Instagram and Smarter in 60 Seconds Series help us all learn to ask more questions.
• The problems she sees with capitalism.
• What period of history we should all spend time learning about.
• What it was like to accidentally come out Live on Tucker Carlson 
• Why she believes we will all change somebody’s life even if we aren’t changing legislation.

1. Carissa Schumacher is a renowned psychic medium, a full-body channel for Yeshua of Nazareth, empathic intuitive and sacred ceremony facilitator. Today she shares:

• How she discovered her intuitive gifts and why it took her a while to embrace it.

• How each of us can strengthen our own intuition and find our purpose.

• How she became a channel for Yeshua (Jesus) and what she’s learned from him. 

• The differences between manifestations and revelations and why we should focus more on the latter.

• Why we’ve become a more ego focused society and ways we can all work to become less ego-centric

• Why forgiveness and empathy are important but why we must become more merciful and compassionate to see changes in the world

Fashion designer, influencer, podcaster and star of ‘The Hills’ and ‘The City’ Whitney Port is here today.

She shares:

• The biggest misconceptions about her from her time on ‘The City’.
• What she would change about her reality show days if she could go back in time.
• Why shutting down her clothing line, Whitney Eve, was the hardest decision she’s ever made.
• Why she feels like she always trying to prove that she is more than a girl who was on reality TV. 
• Why she almost wanted to give up on her podcast, With Whit, despite it being incredibly successful.
• How she is self-admittedly a quitter and how she is working to change that quality in herself. 
• The best business advice she got from her dad. 
• Her new clothing line and how she’s dreamt of working in fashion since she was a kid. 

• 3 things you need to start doing today to build wealth and get out of debt.
• What wealthy people do right (and what we can learn from them).
• Why time is more important than money when it comes to investing.
• Why you can’t only focus on a savings and a budget. 
• Why you should demand an annual review
• Specific tips on how to negotiate at work. 
• What you need to know about the wage gap, the investment gap and the wealth gap.
• Why it’s so important to get more money into women’s hands and the barriers to entry women face in investing. 
• What to watch out for when it comes to Cryptocurrency.

• How we are conditioned to feel as though we are falling behind in our own life (and why those 30 under 30 lists aren’t helpful for anyone).
• Why reaching certain milestones won’t bring you the happiness you think it will. 
• What it means to be radically content and tips on how to fell that.
• Why we need to stop and appreciate where we are and how far we’ve come more often.
• Why it’s so important for women to tell themselves how to think and what to value in this culture
• What the red flags are to help us realize when we aren’t going within. 
• How to accept that meeting a milestone will never bring you the happiness you are looking for. 
• The questions you really need to ask yourself when you get a promotion.
• Why her goal is to help others relieve themselves of the pressure we feel to constantly do and be more.
• Why we need to redefine what it means to settle. 
• Why we need to stop looking to our “gurus” to tell us things we intrinsically know. 

• What lifestyle choices could be directly impacting your anxiety (and changes you can make easily.)
• Foods that could be contributing to your anxiety. 
• The difference between “True Anxiety and False Anxiety”
• Why conventional medicine tends to view anxiety as a “neck up” problem (and why that is a problem).
• Why anxiety is a whole-body condition and not just a brain condition.
• How to do a “False Mood Inventory” as a way to check in on your mental health. 
• External factors contributing to our anxiety 
• Two simple tips to reduce the impacts our phone has on your mental health.
• The power nature has to help our mental health and how you can tap into it even if you live in a big city.

1. With a degree in psychology and a masters in counseling, Jo Davenport was working at a private practice for mental health before she quit her job and dived head first into creating the body-inclusive swimwear company LaPorte. She generously shares her knowledge, the challenges of starting a company and the lessons she learned. Today Jo opens up about: 

• How her terrible experience trying on a bathing suit led to launching a company
• What to consider when starting a business
• Why it was important to create an inclusive brand for every body
• How she would have spent money differently
• The TWO people EVERY entrepreneur should have in her corner 
• Why she’s obsessed with feedback
• What challenges her company faced during COVID and how she pivoted
• Why she felt validated when named Forbes Next 1000 honoree
• Positivity and how to become more optimistic

As we watch a war in Ukraine unfold before our eyes, there is one woman who believes that while humans are responsible for all war we are also the only ones with the power to stop it. Dr. Samantha Nutt is the founder of Warchild USA, an organization that aims to help children in war torn communities taking a long term approach to breaking the cycle of poverty and violence. Dr. Nutt has worked in dozens of conflict zones and is a leading voice on current affairs, international aid and foreign policy. Dr. Nutt has worked with children and their families at the frontline of many of the world’s major crises – from Iraq to Afghanistan, Somalia to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone to Darfur, Sudan. Today she is here to share her experiences and help educate us on what we must know about when it comes to war and ways we can help stop the cycle of war around the world. 

Talking to 3 influencers who found major internet fame during the pandemic. While different in what they share online, Corporate Natalie, Dom Roberts and Pinky Patel have one thing in common: Today they are each sharing how they went viral, what they learned from putting themselves out there, and how they look at their brands now. 

• How they went viral and what made them decide to start sharing on social in the first place
• Why it’s not too late to join in on social and still grow a large audience
• Why they decided to keep their day jobs despite now making money from their socials. 
• The effects being on social can take on your mental health and why boundaries are important
• How they hope to inspire and what the term influence really means

Co-founders Melissa Mash, Jessy Dover and Deepa Gandhi of the handbag line Dagne Dover have built a brand with a cult-like following and they’re here today to share some of their insights, lessons and tips in entrepreneurship and working as a team. They share:

• How the three of them came together to start this line even though they didn’t all know each other.
• Where the idea for Dagne Dover came from and their mission to create a much better bag.
• What they think is key to building a great team in business.
• Why they chose not to go the venture capital route.
• Their gripes with corporate America.
• The top myths about being an entrepreneur.
• Why it's important to them to treat their customers like friends.
• The rule of three and how it can help you focus.

Stacy London is one of America’s foremost style experts known for the TLC Show ‘What Not To Wear.’ She’s also a 2x best selling author. She spent the last five years creating and pitching TV shows about women in their 40s - only to be told that her ideas weren’t sexy. She was told nobody would watch them. Her lightbulb moment came as she started feeling the impact of perimenopause. She realized she wasn’t prepared for it… because NOBODY talks about it. Now - Stacy is a CEO of a company called State of Menopause and is ready to talk aging, transitions, menopause and more. 

She shares:

• She’s “not here to normalize the conversation” around aging and menopause - she’s here to “optimize it.”
• Getting fired at 30 and why she thinks everyone should get fired at one point in their career. 
• Why What Not To Wear resonated with people and how it became so much more than the physical makeover.
• How she healed her own insecurities by helping others work through theirs + why she never dyed her signature gray streak.
• Why it’s so important to see people be transparent with their struggles.
• Why women age 40-65 are invisible in the media and why that needs to change. 
• Why she chose to stop dating men.
• The shame and stigma surrounding menopause.
• Why it’s so important for her to change that stigma for the next generation.

Today we are speaking with of the most successful porn actresses of all time. With over a decade of experience in an industry that generates $12 billion dollars annually, Candice Horbacz. (whose film name is Eva Lovia) is here to answer any question you have ever had about porn or the adult film industry. We also have an in depth conversation about sex + relationships that I found mind and heart expanding.  

• How she first started in the porn industry and what her first day on set was like.
• The biggest lessons she’s learned from working in adult entertainment..
• How her family and friends reacted when they first discovered she was doing porn (and how she’s learned to let go of the stigma).
• The positive influence adult film has had on her life and her confidence.
• Navigating a relationship with her boyfriend (now husband) who did not work in the industry.
• How being a porn star has affected her sex life IRL.
• Sex on set (and if those orgasms are actually real!)
• Her thoughts on if porn is too male centered. 
• Why you shouldn’t feel pressured to perform at the expense of your own pleasure. 
• How she’s learned to let go of fear and what others think of her.

Reshma Saujani is a leading activist and the founder of Girls Who Code + the Marshall Plan for Moms. She has spent more than a decade building movements to fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, working to close the gender gap in the tech sector, and most recently advocating for policies to support moms impacted by the pandemic. Reshma is also the author of the international bestseller Brave, Not Perfect, and her influential TED talk, “Teach girls, bravery not perfection” has more than five million views globally. She’s here today to talk about her newest book, Pay Up - The Future of Women and Work (Out March 15th) and she’s sharing:

• The “big lie” of corporate feminism.
• How each generation of women has been sold a different “brand” and how that has harmed us. 
• Why there’s no such thing as “Work/Life Balance” and why we need to throw out the term.
• The burnout and inequity harming America’s working women today and what we need to do about it.
• Why paid family leave is a must for all parents regardless of job type or gender. 
• Why men also need to stand-up to corporate America and take family leave.
• Why paid family leave is also a racial justice issue.
• What her biggest failure taught her.

Buy Reshma’s New Book Pay Up: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Pay-Up/Reshma-Saujani/9781982191573

Follow Reshma on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reshmasaujani/

Drag is an art form that has existed since ancient times and has recently rocketed to mainstream popularity. Drag is a gender-bending art form in which a person dresses in clothing and makeup meant to exaggerate a specific gender identity, usually of the opposite sex. In many ways, it’s is about confidence and self expression; it’s about unleashing the magic that makes you, you. What can EVERYONE learn from mapping into that? Bob the Drag Queen is here today opening all about life both in drag and out of it. Bob won the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar” on season 8 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” has had multiple acting roles for HBO, Netflix, Sony Tristar, MTV, and VH1 and now hosts HBO’s first unscripted show, “We’re Here.”

• How we all can channel the authenticity and magic of drag in our own lives
• Bob’s tips for being more confident and finding out how the rest of the world really sees you.
• How Drag celebrates all the things the world tells us is “bad”
• The difference between the real life and online drag communities
• Why it’s always better to succeed out of inspiration vs. out of spite.
• How stopping the habit of being a people pleaser changed Bob’s life.
• What Bob learned from RuPaul 
• Bob’s #1 make-up tip and go-to lip colors

Connect with Bob The Drag Queen: https://www.instagram.com/bobthedragqueen/

Dr. Aliza Pressman is a Developmental Psychologist, child behaviorist, parent educator and mom of two herself. She also hosts the Raising Good Humans Podcast and has a large celebrity following who look to her for parenting guidance - Jennifer Garner, Julianna Margulies, Drew Barrymore, Jesse Williams, Cleo Wade to name a few, .Today she’s here to share tips that will make you a better parent and a better communicator in all of your relationships. We discuss: 

• How to cultivate resilience and confidence (in children and in yourself) 
• What the difference in between REAL confidence and pseudo confidence. 
• Why your actions will be more important than any words of wisdom or lessons you try to teach to your child.
• The two questions you need to ask yourself when you’re having a tough moment with your child (or in any relationship).
• Why you don’t want to be a perfect parent. 
• What to say to a toddler when meeting them for the first time. 
• How to set healthy boundaries with social media. 
• Why the term “mom brain” is being used wrong! 
• Mom shaming and why it all stems from the patriarchy.

• Red flags when it comes to dating.
• Question Everything: Nick & Natalie answer questions from the brand new PRETTYSMART question deck. 
• Nick’s thoughts on The Bachelor franchise and how it’s changed. 
• The best way to approach a stranger you think is cute.
• Why you should really consider giving someone a second and third date. 
• Love languages and why they are so important to understand in a relationship.
• The unconventional way Nick and Natalie met (and how she found out he was a former Bachelor).

EXCLUSIVE purchase link for the QUESTION EVERYTHING Card Deck :https://tinyurl.com/QUESTIONEVERTHING

• Making history as a ‘first’
• How basketball changed the trajectory of her life.
• Why she left the WNBA in 2020
• What Kobe Bryant meant to the WNBA
• Why she thinks there is still such a discrepancy between equal pay in the WNBA & NBA and what needs to be done to close the gap.
• What people are missing by not watching the WNBA
• What it was like to become one of the youngest owners of a sports team
• Why it’s important to her to be ‘the YES’ for others
• Working with family 
• How sports prepared her for business in more ways than she could have imagined

• How she got into modeling and why she quickly wanted to quit.
• Why she believes she suffers from body dysmorphia after years of working as a model and how that affects her now. 
• What it was really like to prepare for the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show.
• Her thoughts on inclusivity in the modeling world.
• Why you should work for free sometimes (and how doing so changed her life)
• How to get unstuck in your life
• What she changed in her life to find her husband in her thirties 
• Why the person you marry will be different from the people you date
• Her must have beauty & skincare products 
• How you can create the life you want

Ginger Zee is the first ever female chief meteorologist at a major network. She reports the nation’s weather for “Good Morning America” and is also the managing editor of the climate unit at ABC News (you’ve also seen her on Dancing with the Stars). She’s chased her fair share of weather events through the years- hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and wildfires. But it was weathering a more personal storm that took her on a journey of self discovery. Ginger wrote openly about her mental health struggles in her first memoir ‘Natural Disaster’ revealing that after getting her dream job at ABC she checked herself into a mental health hospital. But Ginger says ‘Natural Disaster’ barely scratched the surface.  In her follow up memoir - ‘A Little Closer to Home’ Ginger is digging even deeper and telling us all about finding ‘the calm after the storm.’ We discuss:

• Why landing her dream job at Good Morning America pushed her to check into a mental health hospital.
• With all of the mental health struggles catalyzed by the pandemic- where does the mental health conversation need to go? How technology can help!
• How she thinks about the word ‘NO’ and people pleasing
• Processing trauma: “you can't delete trauma, you have to process it so that it does not cause stress for the rest of your life.”
• Her simple reframe to really grasp the lifetime care for your mental health 
• Advice on looking for a therapist that feels like a good fit. 
• Getting rid of limiting beliefs, being multifaceted, and thinking outside of the box in your career
• How she decides where to put her energy + her tip on how you can examine where to put your energy
• Ginger’s #1 Green swap for your home

• How her marriage almost ended over blueberries (and why it didn’t end thanks to Fair Play and the system she created).
• Why over 30% of partnerships split over household + childcare duties and how we can change it.
• Why communication is the most important practice in your life.
• How to effectively communicate your boundaries 
• Why we need to treat our homes like an organization (“private lives are public issues”)
• The systemic devaluing of women’s time + how to reclaim it (and get rid of shame and guilt).
• Where have women been complicit in our own oppression?
• They key to couples effectively sharing responsibilities and the impact that has on happiness.
• Steps you can take in your relationship to be who you were meant to be 

Produced by Dear Media.

Angela Yee holds her own as a radio DJ, and the only female co-host on the syndicated radio morning show “The Breakfast Club.” She had an unexpected launch into radio, but she’s proven with her work ethic and hustle that she’s a force - and voice - worth listening to.

1. Why do women feel flat despite eating well and working out the same way as their male colleagues? The answer lies in gender bias. Dr. Stacy Sims, PhD, a Female Athlete Performance Physiologist specializing in sex differences is widely recognized as a visionary across the sports performance industry and viral Ted Talk: Women are Not Small Men. 

• Dr. Stacy dispels myths about women’s bodies we have been taught
• The best workouts/foods to eat for recovery for each phase of your cycle
• How COVID completely shifted women’s health
• Trans men & women compete in sports against the other biological sex
• Marketing trick for women’s products: What it means to ‘Shrink It & Pink It’ and what to beware of
• Women are not small men: Why women’s health data is so under researched and so underfunded
• Why are girls in sports nearly 2x more likely to drop out in puberty?
• Will we see men + women play on the same professional sports teams?
• Stacy’s favorite post workout meal + #1 tip to improve sleep 
• What is the real meaning of sport 

Produced by Dear Media.

• How to use Instagram + influencer marketing to get noticed
• Noticing a gap in the wellness industry
• Wanting to create a supplement that makes women feel their best
• Building trust with the consumer
• Great advice for entrepreneurs
• Using her own money to launch the company
• Being methodical about money
• On spending money on branding
• Her best negotiating tip
• The smartest decision she ever made

Produced by Dear Media.

• How it was who she least expected who helped convince her to go for her Olympic dream. 
• Why you should embrace satellite mentors.
• The unsuspecting mental health battle she faced after her Olympic High
• How we need to reframe chasing our dreams and “enjoying the journey.” 
• How we all need to learn to expect and prepare for “a dip” after reaching our goals.
• What she’s learned about herself through running and through going for all of her big dreams.
• Good Pain Vs. Bad Pain and how to know the difference.
• What she wants her legacy to be.
• Losing her mother to suicide at a very young age + how her relationship with her mother fluctuates even though she’s passed away. 

Produced by Dear Media.

What does it mean to be Man Enough? Today we are digging in with Justin Baldoni. You probably know Justin from his role as Rafael Solano on the massively popular series ‘Jane the Virgin’, or as a director of the acclaimed film Five Feet Apart. He is on a mission to ‘undefine masculinity’— strip away unhealthy expectations and create more space for men (and everyone else) to fully be themselves. 

In his book Man Enough’, which has evolved into a  podcast community, he shares stories of how society rarely provides space for men to be whole. Today Justin shares his own hurt and the learnings that have come from those experiences. We talk about: 

• How he realized he was “crowdsourcing” his personality.
• The key differences in male friendships vs. female ones and what needs to change in order for men to have stronger friendships with other men.
• The number one question we need to start asking men and boys.
• Why men need to learn to allow themselves to feel.
• Why bad feelings can be good.
• The Patriarchal Pyramid 
• The insecurities men face when it comes to their bodies.
• Why women need to be mindful of their own misogyny.
• How he knew his wife Emily was ‘the one’.

Produced by Dear Media.

Marianna Hewitt is one of the OG influencers with over 1 million followers, was named WWD Beauty Inc's Influencer of the Year, and cofounder of the successful clean skincare brand Summer Fridays. Today she’s here to give both some insight and inspiration. We talk about: 

• How she got her start in LA and what it finally took for her to go after her dreams.
• How she pivoted when she realized her dream of being a TV host wasn’t actually what she wanted.
• What people don’t understand about the work that goes into being an influencer.
• The start and launch of her brand Summer Fridays and what she learned from it.
• How it’s okay to launch a brand even if there are already similar products in the marketplace.
• The “Why NOT me” mindset she’s always had and how that has helped her succeed. 
• What being an influencer has taught her.
• How to use social media to build a successful brand 
• The importance of aesthetics and an Instagram-able brand
• The motto she lives by (Love this one!) 

Produced by Dear Media.

Elise Loehnen is  the host of the podcast “Pulling a Thread” and helped turn “Goop” - Gwyneth Paltrow’s wellness newsletter into a multi-million dollar company. Previously, she was at Condé Nast Traveler and the Deputy Editor of Lucky Magazine. She’s ghost written 12 books (5 NYT bestsellers) including ones for Ellen Degeneres and Lauren Conrad . Elise is an intellectual giant- obsessed with words, culture, systems, how we fit into them + can transcend them. Today she shares a bit of her inspiring journey and what she’s learned along the way. We discuss:

Shan Boodram is a certified sex educator dating coach and relationship expert with over 70 million views on YouTube and 500,000 followers on Instagram. She’s passionate about helping others in their relationships and sex lives but she is also honest, fun and sincere in her approach. Today she’s answering some of the sex questions women are too embarssed to ask! We talk about:

• What it might really mean if your sex life is boring.
• How to embrace your partner's unconventional fetishes even if they make you uncomfortable at first.
• Why women need to stop waiting to ask men out (and what you can do about it!)
• How to handle unpleasant smells down there.
• How getting in the mood is so different for everybody.
• How to synchronize your orgasms with your partner, the Orgasm gap and so many more orgasm questions.

Produced by Dear Media.

Produced by Dear Media.

• Megan’s personal story of grief with sudden loss of her husband and how it changed her view of grief and her work.
• How best to show up for someone who is grieving.
• The number one thing we need to remember when trying to support someone in grief.
• What grief hijacking is and why you should avoid it at all costs.
• Why we need to change the narrative surrounding grief and the expectations we place on those who are experiencing it.
• Things that happen while in grief that are totally normal even if you might feel like you’re going crazy. 
• How grief changes you and if you will ever feel “normal” again.

Produced by Dear Media.

• What it means to Kelly to be the breadwinner of her family.
• The one person that changed the future of and leveled up her business. 
• The moment she realized how to make more money and her advice to women who are making the same mistake she did.
• What Jessica Alba is really like and how the support from her celebrity clients changed the game for her career.
• How she took her job from side hustle to full-time 
• Her biggest financial failure, the importance of an “Oh Sh*t” fund and how she rebuilt after an investment gone wrong.
• How she is learning to hold boundaries in order to show up best as a mom, in her marriage and at work
• Investing in herself instead of in furniture. 
• Almost not going back to school to become a nutritionist and why it’s never too late to go after what you want.
• Why she finds Instagram to be alienating, especially in the wellness space.

Produced by Dear Media.

• How to successfully express our needs, say "no," and be assertive without offending others.
• Signs to look for that you aren’t holding boundaries.  Simple-yet-powerful ways to establish healthy boundaries with family, friends and coworkers.
• Why people may push back when you set a boundary and how you can respond.
• The power of learning how to say no to things you just don’t want to do. 
• Why it’s actually mean to say yes when what you really want to say is no.  
• How to avoid burnout at work by setting boundaries with your co-workers.
• The importance of listening to + trusting ourselves in order to set better boundaries with the people in our lives.
• How to set boundaries on social media so you won’t be so miserable every time you scroll. 
• How to set boundaries with family members.
• 3 questions you can ask yourself when setting boundaries.

Produced by Dear Media.

• What true authenticity is and how we can identify it in ourselves
• The four key components to finding and growing your brand
• Why she chose to invest in herself when she was broke
• The generosity economy and why not sharing our “best stuff” actually hurts us
• The difference between oversharing and being vulnerable on social media
• The biggest lesson she learned from Tony Hunter, former CEO of the Chicago Tribune
• How your ego can get in the way of finding true success, personally and professionally (and how it did for her) 

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Founder and CEO of Rizos Curls, Julissa Prado built a curly hair empire with grit, sacrifice, passion and hustle. She shares how she built the multi-million dollar business with products now in Target and Ulta from her own kitchen. What started as a personal mission to reclaim her natural hair, turned into a beauty brand with a cult following of nearly 300k followers on instagram and community events that sell out in each city she visits. She says “learning to love my hair was the first step to learning to love myself. And I just feel so honored to play some kind of small role in that journey for other women.” Julissa shares how she engages and builds that community and how listening to consumers is what’s helped her brand become so wildly successful. She is full of life, positivity and of course, amazing hair tips!

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Need Advice? YouTuber, producer, host, (and my friend and former coworker at Clevver)  is someone I often turn to and today she is here for you-- answering your questions from Instagram on friendships, relationships, how to handle toxic people (her answer isn’t what you might think!), if pulling a J.Lo + Ben is a good idea and more.  She shares her perfect solve to fix any bad mood in minutes and gives really great advice on how to find gratitude and balance in this new WFH world we are living in. I'm so excited to share some of her gifts with you and I hope you gravitate toward her tender heart + honesty + sage wisdom as much as I did.

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54% of women say they would rather be hit by a car than considered fat. How can we strike the balance of realistically caring how we look, and not having to care about how we look? Danielle + Dr. Renee Engeln, award winning psychology professor at Northwestern University and the author of Beauty Sick break down society’s fixation with PRETTY.  Engeln reveals how the cultural obsession with women's appearance is an epidemic that harms women's ability to get ahead and to live happy, meaningful lives. She offers the possibility of practical solutions that help girls and women overcome negative attitudes and embrace their whole selves, transform their lives, claim the futures they deserve, and, ultimately, change their world. This is the author and book that inspired the PRETTYSMART podcast! 

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Ankur Jain is a 31-year old entrepreneur who left Silicon Valley for a clear purpose- to create companies that solve problems affecting us everyday like healthcare, student loans, rent, housing affordability, child and home care. Richard Branson said: “Ankur has a rare ability to take on complex societal issues and come up with simple, practical solutions that make you wonder how no one has done this before.” And Branson is right; Ankur is a world changer. Now the founder and CEO of a VC, Kairos HQ, he built his first company at 11 years old and at 26, sold a company to Tindr. We talk about the launch of two recent start ups Bilt + Rhino; both are trying to save you money on rent. We also chat about the financial future for millennials, the barrier to home ownership and the long term effects of that, space travel, when he gets his best ideas, the simple question people forget to ask when starting a company. He also lets us in on his biggest entrepreneurial secret.

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Catt Sadler, journalist, tastemaker, host of It Sure Is A Beautiful Day shares it all- the joyful, the difficult, and honest feelings about about love, divorce, therapy, family, relationships, career, equal pay, and the lessons she’s learned along the way. She talks about growing up in Indiana, what she’s learned from her failed relationships and the importance of sitting with yourself. She shares about her decision to leave E! And who she consulted with (including Jennifer Lawrence and Gwyneth Paltrow!) and reflects on that choice four years later. She talks about getting matching tattoos with her mother, raising her two sons, and her incredibly close relationship with her ex and his new wife. We also discuss her new project, Mid-Life and what she’s learning about this stage of life. Of course we talk fashion and her must-haves (and what style she wishes would disappear!), why Johnny Depp was her most memorable interview and the best Hollywood party she’s ever attended. If you want more Catt, check out her podcast It Sure Is A Beautiful Day right here with Dear Media.

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When I think about young people changing American society, I think about Nadya Okamoto. She is a 23 year-old menstrual activist, Harvard grad, and founder of August, a lifestyle brand working to reimagine periods. At 16 she founded PERIOD, the largest youth-run non profit org in women’s health (which distributes menstrual hygiene products and advocates for ending what is known as the tampon tax, published a book Period Power: A Manifesto for the Menstrual Movement. She was the youngest Asian American to run for public office in US history. She’s in adidas ads with Pharrell, she was on Teen Vogues 21 under 21 list, Forbes 30 under 30, Bloomberg 50 “Ones to Watch”, Instyle, Glamour, and and People Magazine's versions of Women Changing the World lists i’ve never read off a longer intro, and it’s not liek you can cut any of that out ….. She’s astonishingly accomplished for a person of any age. But Nadya’s drive to make a difference is undoubtedly fueled in part by her own trauma (TRIGGER WARNING*), she describes living through homelessness, abuse, and sexual assault.

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Founder of the Instagram phenomenon News Not Noise and former CNN White House correspondent Jessica Yellin has become known as the go to independent news source online. Just as her handle suggests, she delivers the news without the noise and her steady handed approach has reached nearly half a million followers online. Jessica and Danielle talk about how and why Jessica left her once dream job at CNN just two months after being promoted to start her own news platform, and the surprising celebrity women who helped share her platform with the world (spoiler- Amy Schumer is one of them)! We talk about the outrage in television news, what she has learned from working in Washington, what she’s learned from the generation of women before and after her, and the importance of doing good and doing well. Also, how would the news be different if more women were informing it? TDLR: Jessica is a woman whom I look up to very much. She follows her intuition + works tirelessly for what she believes in. After the episode you can find Jessica on Instagram @JessicaYellin

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Joanna Griffiths built KNIX, a $100 million dollar bra + underwear empire with just $20,000 dollars. Knix is an innovative undergarments brand for women of all shapes, ages, sizes and skin tones. Their mission is to redefine intimates, which began with the revolutionary leakproof underwear.  We discuss what women actually want from their undergarments, why trying them on is such a vulnerable experience, and she dives into the ins and outs of her business. We talk about the first steps she took after she first came up with the idea, how she dealt with her own inner critic, her decision to completely pivot her distribution model after finally finding her footing, and how she learned to own her power and title as CEO even when she didn’t necessarily feel like she earned it. We talk about the genius Knix advertising campaigns and the decisions she’s made along the way to maintain such an authentic and empowering brand that speaks to women of every age, shape, size and skin color. Joanna is proof to me that you can do really well + do good.

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How would you live your life if you knew you would keep getting better with age? Iconic American fashion designer Norma Kamali shares the lessons she’s learned through each decade. Now 75 years old, Norma is teaching us how we can all age with power, and why the concept of anti-aging and aging gracefully is offensive. She shares the unexpected way she began her career as a designer in the 1960’s- when it was a man’s game - and where she found the courage to live unconventionally at a time that was just not done (she wore mini dresses!). She shares how we can find gratitude in everything, especially the hardships. She shares the importance of making decisions that are in line with your purpose. We discuss how she came to her decision to not have kids and what it means to not hit the traditional benchmarks society puts on women. We talk about how a psychic told her she would meet her soulmate at 65-- and it turned out to be true-- but you won't see her wearing a wedding dress to her wedding this summer!

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R&B Singer/songwriter Sinéad Harnett opens up about her journey to become a superstar— her new album Ready Is Always Too Late just dropped and was lauded by Elton John. We talk about the biggest lessons and hardships she faced along the way, how she dealt with imposter syndrome when she was starting out, the best advice she ever got from singer Khaled, and why she never planned on “making it” when she was a young girl growing up in the UK. We also talk about who she would take as her date to the Grammy’s, why you might not want to go on vacation with her and the hidden blessing that’s come from the pandemic.

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Journalist, former CNN Anchor, and author of The Huddle, Brooke Baldwin shares the importance of a HUDDLE- how women unlock their collective power by coming together with a mission. She shares how her interviews with Ava Duvernay, Reese Witherspoon, Stacey Abrams, Karlie Kloss, Shannon Watts are real life examples of the power of huddling + she lets us in on how to start finding our own huddle. We talk about female mentorship, or lack thereof, the loneliness that can accompany your 20s, how the MeToo movement changed the course of her life, the impact of her fairy godmother Diane Von Furstenburg, and the smartest decision she ever made (it’s not what you think)!

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Do you ever feel like the pursuit of "self care" is never ending, and even at times, unachievable? What is self care? Leigh Stein, author of the novel “Self Care” and I, dive into the commercialization of self care and wellness and the rebrand of the diet industry.  We also discuss the lingering effects of the once-idealized Girl Boss ideology, the concept of “Lean In” and the gap that exists between male and female entrepreneurs. 

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If you don’t know know what to do—just ask Chinae Alexander. Host of the advice podcast, “Press Send” and social entrepreneur Chinae Alexander is here to dish advice on all of your questions! She’s answering YOUR relationship, friendship, and career questions. We talk all about how to set boundaries with negative friends, deal with difficult sisters, negotiate a raise, work through with body image questions, cheating (or what to do if your significant other is constantly liking other girls pics on IG!) and discuss if its okay to have platonic friendships with the opposite sex while in relationship.  We also dish on the best things to watch when we are feeling lonely, the books Chinae thinks everyone should read, and of course, the smartest decision she ever made! Press Play on this one, you won't be disappointed!

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Zoe Lister Jones is an actress, writer, and director. You’ve seen her in Life in Pieces, Whitney, and New Girl. In 2017, she made her directorial debut with her indie film Band Aid, where she hired an all female crew-- the first for a feature film. She deep dives into the auditioning process, shares a funny audition horror story, talks about her SNL audition and why Fred Armison had her name in his phone before they ever met. She explains her love for Timothee Chalamet, talks openly about her relationship with her body and her hope for the next generation of girls. Zoe is honest, smart, and pretty determined to make an impact in whatever she throws herself into. 

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What does it mean to be deeply—actively kind?  Houston Kraft spent his career studying kindness, wrote a book about it, and is sharing all of the answers. We talk about the importance of going beyond practicing “confetti kindness” (random acts of kindness), how to really show up for people in need, kindness in leadership + business, how to be a more actively and deeply kind person, and his thoughts on if “nice guys finish last”. You might think you are practicing kindness, but Houston shares some tips and tools to help us look inward to see if we are practicing kindness in the ways that make the greatest impact and change. 

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