The Aesthetic Talk

Nurse Christy & Nurse Emma This week we interview the mother/daughter duo "Nurse Christy" and "Nurse Emma" based out of the NY/ NJ area. Christine Adams, MBA, MSN, NP-BC, CANS aka "Nurse Christy" founded SkinSplendid to create a place where patients could come for concierge aesthetic treatments and not feel rushed or pushed into procedures that were not right for...

Katty Fussell: Master Aesthetician This week, we interviewed a Master aesthetician and Laser Tech based out of Miami, FL Katty Fussell, Katty has been in the industry for 4+ years and is slowly becoming a force in the industry. During the episode, Katty speaks about her journey getting into the industry, finding a mentor, and how she hustled her way to success. Katty mentions, that if you want to...

Dana Zeitler PA-C This week, we interview Aesthetic Injector and the Owner at D-Lux Medspa Dana Zeitler. Dana is based out of Naples, FL and has been practicing aesthetic medicine for several years. Dana graduated from The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences PA program over 30 years ago and has worked in multiple medical fields including surgery, dermatology and cri...

Adam Haroun This week, we interviewed a marketing expert in the aesthetic industry, Adam Haroun. Adam didn’t always work in marketing for aesthetics; he worked with various companies, including private equity firms, construction, law firms, and more. He was interested in the aesthetic industry and noticed many medspas had terrible marketing; he sought to score his first client in 2014. Adam gives...

La-Tasha Walker RN This week, we interviewed registered nurse and injector La-Tasha Walker. Walker is an injector at La-Mon’e Aesthetics in Bryn Mawr, PA which is neighboring Philadelphia. Walker got her start being a cosmetologist and esthetician, which she did for 8 years. She goes over tips on getting into the industry, the first job, continuous education, and more. La-Tasha is a skin of color...

Dr. Jacob Sedgh This week, we interviewed Dr. Jacob Sedgh. Dr. Sedgh is a double-board certified facial plastic surgeon. He operates Sedgh Plastic Surgery in West Hollywood / Beverly Hills, California. Starting, Jacob was fascinated with more delicate surgery and complicated anatomy, which was head and neck. He currently practices facial plastic and reconstructive surgery, specializing in head, ne...

Ishyia “Shy” Smith FNP-C This week we interview nurse practitioner and business owner Shy Smith FNP-C. Smith got started on her aesthetic-injecting journey between 2017-2018. The practice she was working at in Las Vegas invited Allergan representatives to train the employees, which helped expose her to a lot of knowledge in injecting. Shortly after training, she studied for her Nurse Practitioner...

Rachel Varga BScN, RN, CANS This week we interview registered nurse, aesthetic trainer, and aesthetic consultant Rachel Varga. She started her career after furthering her education while being a pediatric ICU nurse full-time. Her passion for being a trainer is to help practitioners set themselves apart from their competition. Rachel believes in giving supreme patient care. She goes over various to...

Dani J Sher This week we interview physician assistant Dani Sher, PA-C. Dani is an aesthetic injector, ultrasound instructor, ER physician associate, and improv comedian in Illinois. She transitioned from the ER / Trauma in hospitals to aesthetics. She is the founder and CEO of Sparkle Aesthetics. Sparkle Aesthetics is a ‘Jetsons’ themed aesthetic practice. Being born in the 70s and watching vario...

Ayana Gates, PA-C This week we interview  Dermatology Physician Assistant Ayana Gates . Ayana specializes in cosmetic and medical dermatology in Detroit, Michigan. She states that Botox and Filler are popular trends in the Detroit region. Ayana goes over the benefits of chemical peel treatments, how she got into her dermatology career, reaching out for mentors, asking for tails in your malpractice...

This week we interview aesthetics injector/nurse practitioner Claire O’Bryan. She is located in the South Carolina region. She was a cancer provider specializing in oral and skin cancers and transitioned into the aesthetic industry. O’Bryan is the Co-Founder of The Skin Clique and the host of the DabbleCo Podcast. She goes over her business and what they specialize in, social media, the type of pr...

This week we interview nurse practitioner Christal Parker MSN, APRN. She is an injector and medspa owner (Savvy Beauty & Wellness) in the Southern California area. Jonathan met Christal at the 2023 MedSpa Conference, and she was a speaker on the Diversity and Inclusion panel. She made it a point to reach out to the conference owner and make that discussion more comfortable for colored people i...

Roshni Patel This week we interview nurse practitioner Roshni Patel. She is an injector in the northern New Jersey area. She started out her career as a nurse in the surgical orthopedic floor of the hospital and also pediatric home health. She tells us that her break into aesthetics was as a part time gig in the Upper Eastside of NYC. She is currently a full time aesthetic injector at Evolve Medsp...

This week we interview nurse practitioner Dr. Carla Homez. She specializes in aesthetics and body contouring. Originally from Venezuela, she got her MD in her country before coming to the United States. She spent 12 years practicing with the CoolSculpting® founder. Homez joined Bowes Dermatology in 2010, where she became one of the first Specialists in the world utilizing CoolSculpting technology....

This week we interview nurse practitioner Jason Muscari MSN, FNP-BC. Jason is an aesthetic nurse practitioner in the New Mexico area. Similar to other NP’s, Jason started his journey in the aesthetic industry during the height of Covid. Jason came from an ER work enviroment and got his break into a medspa via a mutual friend. He shares the differences between working in an ER setting vs Medspa set...

This week we interview a sales and marketing expert in the aesthetic industry, Katlin Cauffman. She is the founder / CEO of Diamond Accelerator. Diamond Accelerator is an Aesthetics Business Growth & Financial Consulting company. She specializes in getting medspa more recognition, more revenue, and create systems around that premise. Katlin is also known for her 4-step procedure to help medspa...

This week we interview nurse injector Cendi Micor. Cendi is located Whitby, Ontario area, which is not to far from Toronto. Her background is palliative and complex care nursing. She is a Certified Permanent Makeup (Cosmetic Tattoo Artist). She didn’t originally want to get into injectables, but what kind of lead here into the industry was permeant makeup. Cendi first got into cosmetic tattooing b...

This week we interview aesthetic physician assistant Molly Bailey. Molly Bailey is a certified physician assistant in the St Louis, Missouri area. She works at The Shine Spa which is a new med spa that opened towards of end of 2022. She got into the industry via looking for a role to get clinical hours to attend PA school. She found a local job as a medical assistant at a plastic surgeons office a...

This week we interview aesthetic physician assistant Jessica Rhee. Rhee is an aesthetic injector in the New Jersey area. She’s injecting for 14 years in total, starting out in a plastic surgeon office for 10 and the last 4 years owning her own practice. Her practice is called Red Rabbit Aesthetics in Red Bank, NJ. During her plastic surgery phase of her career, she started doing ortho procedures....

Today’s video is an interview with Nicole Psomas. Nicole Psomas PT MS CLT/CDT, is a certified lymphedema therapist / physical therapist based in the New Jersey & New York City area. At a young age, Nicole found interest in art and her family was very involved in charity work as well as helping kids with special needs, which gravitated her towards physical therapy. She started out in New York P...

This week we interview aesthetic RN Cindy Mei. Cindy is an aesthetic injector in the New York City area. She got started in her RN career originally because her parents wanted her to become a doctor. Got into aesthetics after discovering that there was a path to combine beauty and medicine, so after college she took time to study aesthetic medicine. At the age of 25, Cindy was already getting boto...

Aesthetic Mini-Series Interview: Ryan Accardo, PA-C  Watch The Interview With "McLean Aesthetics" Subscribe Here: https://cutt.ly/jHbwTSj   Hello There! McLean Aesthetics has released a new video. Today’s video is an interview with Ryan Accardo.   This week we interview Ryan Acccardo, who is an aesthetic injector in the South Florida area. He currently injects are Profile...

This week on Aesthetic Min Series we interview Supreet Ghuman. Supreet is an skin therapist and licensed master esthetician located in the DMV area. She operated her own medspa before covid and now coaches beauty entrepreneurs. She has a podcast called _____ where she talks about the ins and outs of her day to day treatments, discussions with clients, and also skincare. She got into the skincare i...

This week on the Aesthetic Mini Series, we interview PA-C, Adrienne Rinaldi. She is a Physician Assistant who specializes in aesthetics and based in New York area. She became involved in the industry at an early age when she had difficulties with her skin and made frequent visits to the dermatologist. Her first job out of PA school was in preventative medicine, where she did about of obesity treat...

Simone is an Physician Assistant who specializes in aesthetics and based in Houston, TX. Her practice is called Queen Aesthetics and started in 2020. Houston is a very large aesthetic city, especially being the 4th largest city America, Simone notes. Claims that Houston is an overdone kind of city when it comes to aesthetic trends, anything from huge lips to extra jaw line. She knew she wanted to...