Beauty as a Birthright

In this episode, Paige and Tamsin reflect on this past 2022's Year of the Water Tiger. Tamsin discusses what the year was like for her as a monkey and what it meant for this Tiger year to be her "clash year." Paige shares about her experience as a Fire Tiger in the Water Tiger year and what exactly she feels got turned on its head and burned to the ground. Both Tamsin and Paige also share about th...

Claudia Soto is a London-born, Melbourne-based, Spanish/Chilean yoga and pilates teacher and the creator of Cloud Sways — a space to encourage people to move their bodies for all reasons excluding societal pressures and to dismantle the false narrative that size and abilities are a reflection of health.  In the episode, Claudia shares about how her mother's battle with cancer and ongoing stru...

In this episode, Paige and Tamsin talk about the importance of learning from young children and how your vibe influences your beauty. Tamsin shares a few real life examples that have recently helped her feel more at peace with her own aging journey. We also discuss the importance of getting into a regenerative place in order to best serve others. This episode is a reflection from our last episode...

Jennifer Norman is a Korean-American adoptee, single mom, and the Founder & Chief Human Officer of The Human Beauty Movement (The HBM), a Certified B Corporation on a mission to instill every human with the beauty of self-love. She is passionate about diversity appreciation, humanitarianism and inspiring others to be their most exceptional self.  In the episode, Jennifer talks about her b...

In this episode, Paige opens up about the similarities between what Sunaina shared in our previous episode and her marriage. Tamsin talks about some of her relationship patterns and what she is continuing to learn on her own personal beauty journey.  We also make some predictions for Tamsin's love life in the upcoming Rabbit year. This episode is a reflection from our last episode with Sunaina Mad...

Sunaina Madhav Dasi is a multidimensional human that holds many identities. They immigrated from Bangalore, India in 1996 and identify as a mixed race person (Indo-Aryan and Dravidian) who speaks Tamil as their mother-tongue. Their yoga practice is deeply rooted in Hinduism, Bhakti and social justice in which they create a more community-centered world that focuses on individual healing by embraci...

In this episode, Tamsin and Paige reflect on health as it relates to weight, their favorite kind of jewelry (and its significance), as well as how women compare themselves to other women physically. Paige opens up about her own journey with an auto-immune disease and how she's had to navigate her relationship with her body.  Tamsin discusses the influences of beauty she was under growing up with B...

Franchesca Isaac is the co-owner of Alma Acupuncture based in Philadelphia. She identifies as a multicultural Black and Puerto Rican, daughter of immigrant parents from the US Virgin Islands, and a passionate plant lover. In the episode, Franchesca shares about her ongoing journey with Crohn's disease and how it has influenced her health, weight, and perception of beauty. We also chat about her mu...

Sandra is a Brooklyn based acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist, and founder of Treatment by Lanshin dedicated to treating skin disorders and rejuvenating skin using the unique approach of Chinese medicine. She also has her own Lanshin line of beauty tools , and is passionate as a TCM educator , sharing online classes, YouTube video tutorials , and in person workshops teaching how to bring TCM into th...

In our last episode with Laura Morris ( Ep 11 Is Beauty the Act of Surrender? ), Laura shares how one of her first experiences with beauty was the message that beauty is painful. We also chatted about moving beauty into something that can be seen as easeful, and discuss some more hopes and fears around aging. In this episode, Tamsin and Paige talk about how they understand Feng Shui to be beautifu...

Laura Morris is a feng shui consultant based out of Prince Edward County, Canada. She is co-founder of the Mindful Design Feng Shui School , and the co-host of the Holistic Spaces podcast . She works closely with her clients to co-create nurturing living spaces and provides insight through her Tarot card readings and I Ching divinations. For over 15 years she has been guiding clients with her prac...

In our last episode with Amanda Michelle ( Ep 10 Is Beauty Self-Extracted? ) we talked about what it is like to think about beauty as a trans-racial adoptee and why the plant ceremony culture stateside can be problematic. In this episode, Tamsin and Paige talk about how self-expression and creativity can be limited as an adult, features we did or did not inherit from our parents, and how clothes p...

Amanda Michelle is a direct descendant of the Guarani Nation in Paraguay and currently resides in Southern California. Her work with Activated Living focuses on bridging both worlds of our contemporary times and traditional Indigenous ways through media, storytelling, art, consulting, guidance and writing. With over a decade experience in creative fields within several formats such as film photogr...

In our last episode with Kyle Yoshioka (Ep 8 Is Beauty Pathological Confidence?) we talked a lot about intersectional identities, and what it means to be pathologically confident. In this episode, Tamsin and Paige talk about beauty and how it can expressed through movement, gender identities, Gen Z's wisdom and panties. Tamsin also wants to hear what everyone's pole dancing song and outfit would b...

Kyle Yoshioka is the Editor and Content Manager of Influential Point . They identify as a biracial, nonbinary, and neurodivergent queer person. This has given them an intimate understanding of how interpersonal, intergenerational, and intercultural factors influence health. Their ultimate goal is to help you both honor and detangle the ways in which you have adapted to a weird and sometimes viciou...

The last episode with Amrit Singh (Ep 6 Is Beauty Protection?) helped us reflect on beauty in our teenage years, and better understand South Asian beauty standards. In this episode, Tamsin and Paige talk about beauty in terms of body size, shape and qi. Paige shares a first experience that turns into a big revolution.  Show Notes Elemental Archetypes offers Daoist facial analysis consultations and...

Amrit Singh is a Toronto-based registered acupuncturist and founder of 6BabeBeauty, a movement to celebrate women in all their glory. Her mission is to let women know there is an option for youthfulness, health, and beauty naturally through acupuncture. Amrit also writes on the intersection of health, hip hop, beauty, art and acupuncture. She has taught numerous workshops for aspiring acupuncturis...

The last episode with Jamee Pineda, LAc, MPH ( Ep 4 Is Beauty the Power of Desiring One Self? ) leveled up our understanding of this evolving concept of beauty. In this episode, Tamsin and Paige share deeply personal stories about taking up space as a form of reclaiming their beauty from toxic abusive relationships to complex family dynamics.  Show Notes Elemental Archetypes offers Daoist fac...

Jamee Pineda, LAc, MPA a Hilot Binabaylan, Chinese Medicine practitioner based in Baltimore, Maryland, and host of The Decolonizing Medicine Podcast talks about beauty as a powerful form of desirability, liberation, resistance and sometimes, even danger. His multidimensional identities as a Tagalog, second generation immigrant, autistic, queer, non-binary/trans person has shaped his understan...

In this episode, we reflect on what we learned from our previous episode with Anjie Cho from Mindful Design Feng Shui School and Holistic Spaces . We chat about the idea of beauty as an act of witnessing and being seen. What does it mean to "be seen" and how does witnessing others influence the way we think about beauty? Is is possible to be beautiful without being witnessed or seen by others? Is...

In our first guest episode, we chat with New York based architect and founder of Holistic Spaces — Anjie Cho — who combines interconnectedness and interdependence of spaces through the mastery of the art of Feng Shui. She is the author of Holistic Spaces: 108 Ways to Create a Mindful and Peaceful Home , a book inspired by the intersection of feng shui, green design, Buddhist and Taoist philosophie...

Welcome to Beauty as a Birthright — a podcast where we decode the evolving concept of beauty from a multidimensional lens. In this space, we embark on a journey with engaging guests from all walks of life to figure out — if beauty is a birthright… Then what’s our legacy? We're your hosts, Dr. Tamsin Lee of Elemental Archetypes and Dr. Paige Yang of Yang Face . We're two doctors of East Asian Medic...

In our first episode, we chat about our hopes and fears in regards to starting this podcast, and the concept of immortality from a Chinese medicine perspective. How does our beauty relate to our immortality? Is beauty a birthright? If so, then what's our legacy? As two doctors, we're used to being known as the "experts" but on this podcast, we're far from being beauty experts. We're just two peopl...