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Ashley Johnson walks in knowing exactly what she does and why it matters — which makes her the kind of guest who can go from Emmy wins to caviar rooms to the exact texture of a perfect Newport Beach Saturday without losing the thread. She's the CMO of Visit Newport Beach, which she runs like a standalone luxury lifestyle brand, not a destination marketing checklist. She built her career from entry...

SHOW NOTES (150–300 words) Jane Adler is the kind of person who drops a confession on a dad at carpool pickup and then watches him call his wife from the parking lot. She doesn't do it on purpose — she's just wired that way. And this episode is proof that her wiring is, in fact, the point. Asha and Jane have been friends long enough that they had to consciously save something for the pod. What cam...

Dr. Tracy Tran is a board-certified pediatric dentist specializing in airway-focused functional dentistry, tongue tie releases, and craniofacial growth and development — and she came to this work the same way she seems to do everything: by following the question no one else wanted to answer. This is a party episode. Asha and Keshiia are both here, and Asha brings something personal: Dr. Tran has w...

Afton Williams has spent twenty years doing makeup for some of the most photographed faces in Hollywood. She's never had an agent. She doesn't want a product line. And until fairly recently, she wasn't sure anyone could even tell her work was hers. In this episode, Asha sits down with Afton — a celebrity makeup artist whose clients include Lainey Wilson, Sophia Bush, Millie Bobby Brown, and Julian...

Whitney Rowley grew up in the shadow of a lot of greatness. Her dad was drafted by the Chargers. Her sisters were junior Olympians in downhill skiing. Her grandfather (who drove her to the ski hill every Wednesday because the ski bus didn't take snowboarders) was later inducted into the ski hall of fame. And Whitney was on the bench, in right field, unable to serve over the net, just trying to kee...

Alexandra Taylor is the founder of A-Team Public Relations and Strategy Group in Newport Beach, co-founder of Civitas Prima, and the person Happy Dad called when they needed someone to trust with their brand. She spent twelve years on the publishing side of Modern Luxury Media learning how to sell value in a room before she went out on her own. In this episode Alexandra and Asha talk about: → What...

Franchesca Danino is the founder of Casa Bahdi, a semi-private body sculpting studio in Los Angeles. She uses lipo laser, cavitation, radio frequency, and EMS to help women with fat, loose skin, and muscle tone without surgery, injections, or weeks of recovery. She also takes the time to understand your lifestyle, your hormones, your history before she recommends anything. That combination of thor...

Content note: This episode includes open discussion of heroin and cocaine addiction and recovery, the death of Biet's infant daughter from SIDS, and multiple significant losses. Biet speaks about all of it from a place of healing and gratitude. If you are navigating addiction or grief: SAMHSA 1-800-662-4357 | Call or text 988. Biet Simkin was asked to name her career in one phrase. She said magic....

Michelle Penaloza is a poet. She is also a farmer, a substitute teacher in a small town in Northern California, a James Laughlin Award recipient, and someone who first read her work aloud in a high school classroom while she was grieving her father. Her dad died when she was a teenager. The grief had no obvious outlet. A teacher made space for her in class, and she read. That was the beginning. In...

MaKenna Bernardino, The Skullptress, is a body sculpting and lymphatic drainage practitioner who works in homes across LA and OC.  With her table in tow and a backpack full of tools, she works with a singular philosophy: Your body is NOT working against you.   Her job is to get stagnant bodies moving.  She works with women of every body type, shape and size, bucking the common misconception that b...

Sabrina Chazen is the creator behind The Carpool Catwalk and the hashtag #samestyledifferentsize. She is a size-inclusive shopping expert who sits in the top one percent of creators on LTK and the top one hundred on Shop My. Her Instagram is a full-time job and her DMs are how she does most of the real work of it. In this conversation, Sabrina and Asha talk about what it actually means to build a...

We call it the Mean Girls episode. Christina King's first note is that she does not really believe in mean girls. She believes in mean behavior, which is different and actually more useful to know. In this conversation, Christina walks through what healthy friendships actually look like for teen girls, where closeness tips into enmeshment, and what is really going on when social aggression shows u...

Erin McCarthy's career path goes: Harvard, McKinsey, woodworking apprenticeship in Belgium, sustainable furniture company in LA, Ruggable, professional volleyball in Norway, and now Chief of Staff at Coreviva. She is the first to tell you it looks a little chaotic from the outside. But she has also learned to trust the through-line: she kept going until she found work that actually means something...

Jodie McCollum learned Mahjong in 2023 at a friend's house in Dallas. She came back to Orange County, taught a neighbor group as a dare, walked away from that first class completely invigorated, and thought: I wonder if there is a demand for this. There was. Within a year she had taught 175 classes, reached 2,000 students, built a team of nine, and started expanding to San Diego, LA, and potential...

Two women. One supplement company. Zero plan to become best friends. Jewel Zimmer and Taylor Lamb co-founded Juna out of a simple frustration: neither of them could find what they actually needed. Jewel healed her postpartum experience through amino acids after conventional approaches left her without answers. Taylor spent three years with terrible gut health, acne, and depression before she did h...

Content note: This episode includes brief discussion of a history of amenorrhea and a stress fracture connected to undereating during the guest's teenage ballet years. It is discussed as a resolved part of her past. If this is something you are navigating, support is available through the National Alliance for Eating Disorders helpline. Jacquelyn Umof trained as a professional ballet dancer before...

No guest this week. Just us. We have been thinking a lot about the difference between vulnerability as connection and vulnerability as performance. About what it means to go through something hard in an era when everyone has a camera and a comment section and the cultural message is that sharing equals healing. We do not think that is always true. In this episode, Asha and Keshiia talk about what...

Alec Treffers started What Alec Eats as a question, not a strategy. She was a freshman at Arizona State, had just blown out her knee playing Division I volleyball, and was quietly developing an eating disorder she had no name for and no plans to talk about. She started posting food on Instagram because she wondered if falling back in love with cooking might help her fall back in love with food. It...

Shannon McLaren did not set out to become an interior designer. She set out to be in fashion. She studied business in London, worked at Stella McCartney, moved back to LA to become a celebrity stylist, and spent years working for Petra Flannery — her most formative mentor — learning how to run a small team, stay proactive, and never say die. Then she accidentally flipped a house. Someone asked who...

Content note: This episode discusses themes of substance abuse, grief, and loss. Resources available at SAMHSA.gov or by calling 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7). Crisis support: call or text 988. Brooke Medina grew up around craft. Her dad owned a craft and floral store. Her mom was an interior designer who helped people fall back in love with the things they already had. Creativity was...

Leland Drummond has spent over 20 years building other people's brands. Somewhere along the way, she figured out the only way to do that well is to understand yourself first. In this conversation, Leland walks through the dual life of running two businesses at once — Azione, the PR and marketing agency she co-founded that works with brands like Sol de Janeiro, Hoka, Caraway, and Sweetgreen, and LD...

She was the moody, overwhelmed teenager nobody would have guessed would become one of the most empathetic voices in teen mental health. Christina King, MS, LMFT sits down with Asha and Keshiia this Mental Health Awareness Month to share the story behind the therapist — the undiagnosed ADHD, the pivotal moment her mom asked "are you happy?", the trauma at 19 that tested everything, and the slow, be...

Heather Altman | @heatheraltman | Million Dollar Listing LA | The Altman Brothers Team She started in real estate at 17 with a fake engagement ring and a contract she'd learned to write the day before. She survived a market collapse, moved to LA with nothing lined up, and built one of the most recognized real estate teams in the country. Heather Altman of the Altman Brothers Team and Million Dolla...