The True Beauty Podcast

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You guys, it's not often that I Stan a white woman, but today's guest, the CEO and founder of the national wax franchise Lunchbox Wax, Debi Lane, is one of my favorite people ever. And I've only met her a handful of times. Debi Lane shares her incredible journey with us from growing up in a small town in Idaho, being a rebel teen, leaving home at 14, finding herself many times over, and ultimately...

Hey guys! This week we're chatting with our friend and Vice News Editor Christina Sterbenz about the new Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, voter suppression, and how we can try to move forward as a united country with compassion. You guys, Christina is amazing and brilliant and taught us so much about what the fuck is going on in today's political climate. You're going to learn and laugh a...

Things are wild out there, guys! It's important, now more than ever to take a moment and check in on our, and our friend's mental health. Since our friend group is super diverse, and we had been having conversations with our friends from Asian communities privately about how the political and cultural climate has been affecting their mental health, we wanted to invite our friend Liz Chon on to the...

Hi friends! We are so excited to share this week’s interview with you! This week we are speaking to Assembly Member Elect for the 50th district of NYC, Emily Gallagher. Emily won her race with no endorsements from elected officials, no support from the larger leftist groups, and relatively little money compared to her opponent, a 47-year incumbent State Assemblymember who had not even faced a prim...

This week's show is super special to us because it is a personal podcast full-circle moment. If Marc Maron is considered the Father of podcasting, this week’s guest, Jenna Weiss-Berman is considered the Auntie. Prior to co-founding her groundbreaking podcast network, Pineapple Street Media, Jenna was working in public radio on shows like The Moth. She then joined Buzzfeed to help build out their e...

Hey guys! This week, Alix and I had to think on our toes--one of our guests unexpectedly wasn't able to make it to record with us-- so we had to think fast! One tequila cocktail later, we decided to dedicate an entire episode to the body part that works hard, plays hard, does the most for literally the entire human race, and is probably the most controversial of all of our organs: our vaginas! Don...

Welcome to the show! This week Alix and I interviewed the most incredible woman that we didn’t know that we needed in our lives, the founder of Black Girl Sunscreen, Shontay Lundy. Black girl sunscreen has been featured in Harpers Bazaar, Glamour, Forbes, WWD, Oprah magazine, and she is our third guest to have been featured on Beyonce’s Black Parade Route, the index of amazing black-owned business...

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Our guest on the pod this week is the Co-Founder and Product Developer of Hairstory Studio and New Wash: Jackie Bauer. Her company Hairstory, was conceptualized by Jackie after dealing with psoriasis on her scalp for years. On her hunt to figure out what was causing it, and how the hell she could get rid of it, she started to realize that the hair care products she was using, even though they were...

One of the goals in starting the pod was to bring light to, uplift, and celebrate incredible, goal-driven, and inspiring people. Today’s guest, Bentley Robles is no different, other than the fact that he is our first guest who is a musician. Excuse me, our first guest who is an Iconic Pop Star in the Making. And trust us, he is on his way to the first-name-only territory. Since emerging with his f...

A goal in starting this podcast was to bring to a larger audience, the experience that we have within our beauty community here in Brooklyn. Our beauty community is not one that is either only black or white, but every color of the rainbow in between. As women that navigate easily between cultures, we know that the key to understanding each other is speaking openly and honestly about where we come...

In this episode of Beauty School, we are talking about one of the biggest skin complaints that we hear about, Hyperpigmentation. First off, what the hell is hyperpigmentation? Wellllll, Hyperpigmentation is the deposition of melanin (pigment) due to the stimulation of melanogenesis. And Melanogenesis is the process by which pigment is produced and duplicated in the skin. It is the end result of th...

A really incredible aspect of our careers as estheticians is that we get to work with cool, hilarious women that we often become friends with. But because our relationship begins as a professional one where we are in our element, we oftentimes don’t get to see them in THEIR element. My favorite part of our podcast Is learning more about our friends and being able to say, “dang you’re bad bitch!”....

What drew us to Tafv Sampson, our guest for today, is a 15-minute short film that takes us through 4 generations of her family, in a way that moved us so much that we just knew we wanted to know more about her, her life, and her family’s history. Besides the fact that her mother is a journalist who interviewed serial killer John Wayne Gacy, and besides the fact that her grandfather was Native Amer...

Hello friends! Today we are bringing you another episode of Beauty School! Don't worry, this isn't boring! We know your skin looks like shit under that mask, and facials aren't included in phase 3 OR 4 of NYC's reopening plan, so we've gotta get this information over to you! Over the next few episodes of Beauty School, we are going to be tackling the four most common skin conditions--acne, hyperpi...

Today is the Fourth of July, however, American Independence Day 2020 feels and looks very different this year than it ever has in my lifetime. One of the main reasons is because we are in the middle of one of the largest Cultural Revolutions in American history. As I do more research on Cultural Revolutions from our past, one important factor jumps out at me repeatedly, and that is the need for st...

Yall, we're VERY proud that two of our guests from this past month were both featured on Beyonce x Black Owned Everything's Black Parade: A Curated Directory of Black Owned Businesses: owned by today's guest, Karen Young, and (Ep. | 10 Celebrity Makeup Artist and the Founder of her namesake brand Lauren Napier Beauty: How to Pivot Careers And Build Your Extraordinary Life). When I saw Karen post t...

Happy Juneteenth, Friends! On the heels of the first official New York State recognition of this holiday recognizing and celebrating the emancipation of slavery is the 2020 New York Primary Election on June 23. Although I hope you’re all dancing at your BBQs and cookouts over the weekend, there is still work to be done in The Revolution! This week we invited our friend and activist Michele Kaufman...

I hope that you're all wearing sunscreen while you're out marching! Also, keep marching! This week on The True Beauty Brooklyn Podcast, Alix and I are back at Beauty School, teaching you the basics of skincare. We are just setting the table, and making sure that we are all on the same skincare nerd page so that we can begin talking about ingredients and products knowing that we have a baseline to...

This past week has been very emotional, to say the least, and hopeful to say the most. I once heard Ruth Bader Ginsberg express that the pendulum of change always swings both ways. My friends, I believe that we are on the ascent of that change. In continuing our mission to share the stories of incredible, diverse, resilient, and inspiring women, we are proud to share the story of today's guest wit...

We're back babes! Ok, so this show really isn't divided into seasons, but we might be one of the only Podcasts that begin right on the cusp of COVID19, so we had to do some rethinking, and retooling. ​With so much unknown, the threat of the worst economic depression since The Great Depression, and no signs of a vaccine for many more months to come, the post COVID world is going to look very differ...

The story that we are sharing today is so special to me, not only because it’s from the woman who inspired me to begin this podcasting journey, but because her’s is a story that every person listening today needs to hear. The first time I interviewed our guest was back in November, but her story is so inspiring and relevant to today’s health crisis, that I asked her if we could re-record and inclu...

Welcome to our first COVID Minisode! Since things changed so much so quickly, Alix and I had to brainstorm how to continue the podcast going. We considered things such as what kind of guests to bring in, what we should talk about, and how to stay true to our initial plan of keeping things light and fun, despite the seriousness of our world right now. So we thought to just reach out to our group of...

Chantell Cartheroll, owner of bespoke wig company HER'S by Chantell has a gift. She is able to look beyond the faces of the clients that she works with, through the physical structure of their specific features. She then uses that which she sees to create an aesthetic of a person’s aura. Her work as a master wig maker can be seen in Tony-award nominated Motown on Broadway, Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta...