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Welcome back, beautiful New York Tri State area and beyond.
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Sculpting the Future, brought to you by Aloclay from Tiger Esthetics,
joined by doctor Charles Galanis, renowned double board certified plastic
and reconstructive surgeon and founder of Galanis plastic surgery for
a conversation titled Beyond plastic Surgery, How rib remodeling? Yup,
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you heard that correctly. Rib remodeling and regenerative sculpting are
redefining the body of the future. Then we step inside
Taylor Sheridan's expanding universe with the Bosky Ranch Live Speaker series.
Joining us is Megan Solia. She's Executive VP of Marketing
at Bosci Ranch. We're going to be discussing the immersive
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Speaker 3 (03:10):
Welcome back, beautiful New York tri State area and beyond.
You're listening to a Moment of Zen right here on
seven to ten wor the voice of New York iHeartRadio.
I'm your host, Zenzam's Welcome back to the Sculpting of
the Future series brought to you by Alickley and Tiger Esthetics. Today,
we're diving into what may be one of the biggest
evolutions we've seen in aesthetic medicine in decades now. For years,
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plastic surgery was often associated with dramatic transformation, tighter, bigger,
more exaggerated results, but consumers today are changing that conversation.
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, minimally invasive
procedures continue to dominate the market, while patients increasingly prioritize
natural outcomes, regenerative support, shorter recovery, and treatments that actually
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preserve movement and softness, and more importantly in the duality,
and tonight's guest is shaping and leading that very conversation.
Joining me is renowned double Board certified reconstructive and plastic
surgeon doctor Charles Gallanis. He's founder of Galanis Plastic Surgery
in Beverly Hills and in Nashville. He's certified by the
American Board of Plastic Surgery and trained at both John
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Hopkins University and University of California. Doctor Galanis is also
recognized as one of the early innovators behind high definition
body contering and minimally invasive rib remodeling, preservation breast procedures,
and emerging adipose extracellular matrix technologies. He's quite the scientist.
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Doctor galanis Wow, welcome to the show, Superstar.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Oh thank you for having me. It's great to be here.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So the shift away from dun beauty, that's what I
want to talk about. Social media almost created an era
of overfilled faces and exaggerated features, but now there's this
major movement back toward refinement and proportionality and more importantly
natural beauty. So from your perspective, how dramatically has the
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definition of aesthetics beauty changed over save in the last
five years? And what are patients truly asking for today
when they come and see you.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I think that the main shift, in my opinion, has
been so the definition of beauty I don't think has
changed in the sense that it's always been linked to confidence.
I think the major shift is now we're linking it
to identity. So beauty and identity now go together, and
I think you touched on that before. I think formerly
people were chasing beauty in a way that altered their identity,
maybe altered the way they looked alternately, saw the mirror.
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People would look at them and say, you look different.
Whereas today's version of beauty, today's version of confidence does
not compromise your identity. The idea is that you know,
did he or didn'ty, did she or didn't she? You're
a refined version of yourself. So I think that's the
shift we've seen across all of aesthetics, whether you're talking
about face or body surgery.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So now let's chat about the high definition body conjuring
your area of expertise. We're hearing terms like high definition
conjuring everywhere now. So for listeners unfamiliar with the terminology,
what separates high definition body conjuring from traditional liposuction and
why has this become such a major advancement in modern
body sculpting.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Sure, so, you know you can trace the roots of
traditional liposuction back decades and even beyond the century. Traditional
liposuction was just about debulking fat. It was just about
taking fat away without much attention to anatomical tone or
natural shape, if you will. It was just about taking
fat away really as early as the nineties, but truly
it was in the first decade of the two thousands
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where high definition liposuction was kind of brought out of
the scene, predominantly in South America, and the technique was
designed to remove fat in a more strategic manner in
a way that highlighted underlying anatomy, underlying tone. Now we're
seeing a shift with this. I mean, high definition liposuction
in of itself is not new, Like I said, it's
been around about twenty twenty some years. What we are
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seeing now is, in addition to removing fat to highlight contours,
roxil now adding fat back into musclebellies to enhance the
muscular bulk for a more natural result. One of the
downfalls or one of the pitfalls I would say a
high definition liposuction for people that maybe weren't as experienced
or trained in it is it would create kind of
a fake toned look. You know, you'd have guys walking
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on looking like ninja turtles, or you'd have fat that
it didn't age as well, because if people would leave
a little bit of fat in the middle to make
it look like there was a contour, and that didn't
age well. So we're finding now, we're we're finding the
techniques implementing technologies in the technique to create results that
look natural. It doesn't look like a liposuction result, it
doesn't look like a surgical result. It looks like someone
who's been crushing it at their gym and their lifestyle.
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And to your point, it's kind of the perfect time
for it in the sense that we're merging it with
this wellness culture. I was just talking to a friend
of mine who was telling me that, you know, the
liquor industry is dying right now because young people and
the younger generations, they're not drinking anymore. They're more focused
on wellness. They're more focused on going to the gym
or getting sleep. I wish I had been when I
was that age, but it was, you know. So we're
seeing the shift now, which is working right in concert
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with techniques that we're using body contring to create results
that are a little bit more elevated and natural.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well I think you hit on a lot of interesting
points there. More importantly, I find it fascinating because it
really sounds.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Like old school fat removal and more like anatomical artistry
and precision engineering. Now that you have these new tools
in your toolbox, right like it's really evolved over the
last decade, and that's helping people look their best and
feel their best. Now, one of the procedures generating enormous
curiosity right now is minimally invasive rib remodeling, and honestly, honestly,
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for many listeners, this may be the first time they've
even heard those words together.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, but it also speaks to something larger happening culturally.
Right Doctor Galanna's patients are realizing the body can now
be sculpted in ways that previously required far more invasive
surgery or simply weren't possible at all. So, can you
explain what minimally invasive rib remodeling actually is, I mean,
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who it's designed for and why this procedure is becoming
part of the modern wasste conjuring conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
So I think the conversation starts with the waste and
the things that we can do to change a person's waist.
And you know, I always talk to me about five factors.
The fat underneath the skin, your rib cage with your
pelvic bone, with the distance between your ribs and your
pelic bone, and your intra abdominal or visceral fat traditionally,
we can only change one of those the fat under
the skin, the subcutaneous fat, one of those five things.
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The rest of the things we couldn't do anything about.
And for a lot of patients who either they were
born that way where they just don't have a waste
where it's kind of that straight h frame line, but
from the ribs down to their hips, or a lot
of times postpartum women whose bony these bony elements have
changed with pregnancy and they just don't have the wasst
we didn't have a way to address that. Now, there
was that scary period of rib removal, and that was
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I mean, I'm old enough to remember when it was
in the media with certain celebrities of the alleged to
have had rib remodel or rib removal. It was a
terrible operation. It had a big scar, it was kind
of a dangerous operation, and that really wasn't something that
ever caught on or should have caught on. But now
we've learned that we figured out a way to do
this without removing a rib, without making an incision. It's
through a small small needle sticks in the back. We
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use an ultrasound and basically the way to think of
it is we just affect one side of the rib
so that we can bend the rib, and this allows
us to create a waste that didn't that we couldn't
do before. We just couldn't now. The surgery in and
of itself, you know, there's some pain involved, obviously for
one to two weeks, but people are recovering from that
because we're scentually remodeling the bone, just as you remodel
the nasal bones during aronoplasty. And they also have to
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wear a garment. They have to wear basically a waste
trainer for three months afterward, and I tell people think
of that as the splint for the bone, so that
it heals in the way. But once that garment comes off,
they have a new waste. And when I say a
new waste, I'm saying three four, five, six inches of
a new weights that wasn't there before.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Now, let's this is a perfect segue into the regenerative
esthetic and the future of tissue support because you have
to support all of this right and it has to
keep it has to be sustainable. So one of the
biggest conversations happening right now in esthetic centers around tissue
quality it's not just simply filling space, right, So patients
are researching ingredients and sourcing and purification methods, and I sure,
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did you know what extracellular matrices are? And the long
term support almost as much as the product itself. Right,
There's also a growing concern surrounding overly synthetic or overlfilled outcomes. So,
without overhyping the category, where do you believe regenerative technologies
like adipose extracellular matrix products like alloclay fit into the
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future of esthetic medicine?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
So, you know, I think it's an interesting topic and
it kind of dels into where the future of medicine
is going. And I think that ultimately what we're what
we're striving for when it comes to volume are things
that are biocompatible, in other words, not foreign substances. The
first thing is what substrate are we using to restore
volume or to give tissue support. Now, traditionally it was
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kind of substances that were either fillers that are kind
of in the body, but there's still manufactured elements, or
we have things like breast implants, which clearly are not
natural elements. These are kind of silicon polymers and plastics,
and whatnot. So I think the move into creating or
injecting substrate that is biocompatible or is essentially human tissue
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is the ideal. We have this idea in plastic surgery
that ideally you replace like with like. In other words,
whatever you're trying to replace an area, you want to
replace it with something that is a similar or the
same kind of tissue. You don't want to use something
else to take the place of something else. So I
think that's what we're seeing now as it relates to
at a post tissue specifically. I'm and to be clear,
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I'm not a paid sponsor of Aloclay or of any
affiliation with Aloclay, but I use it a lot because
it does represent a whole new paradigm shift in what
we can do in fackcrafting. Thing is something that's popular
for in three scenarios. One, it can be used to
correct contours someone as a contra regularity. You can use
fat to sort of help some things out. One is
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restoring volume where it's been lost. Someone who's maybe the
breasts or deflated, or lebotics are deflated, or in a number
of places they've lost volume they previously had or third,
they never had volume there in the first place. Now,
traditionally we use fat. Well, some people didn't have fat
for us to be able to use. They either didn't
have enough fat or they didn't want to go through
the procedure of harvesting fat. Because if you're going to
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transfer fat, you need to take it out of the
body through either fat graft or fat harvesting or liposuction procedure.
We never had a way to help these patients. So
Alaclay introduced a new way where we're actually taking fat
cells that are inert with extra sellular matrix and helping
patients restore that volume with like tissue. So it's exciting
in that way. It's new, but it's it's show tremendous
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promise in that regard.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well, doctor Bilanis, this was absolutely fascinating. I want to
thank you so much for joining us and for really
helping demystify where I think of modern plastic surgery and
regender in medicine and more importantly, precisions sculpting are headed next.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Oh my pleasure being if you thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yasas Yeah, Su, You guys can go directly to their
website at Galanasplastic Surgery dot com or follow doctor Charles
Galanis directly on Instagram, very active and very responsive at
Charles Galanis, MD. And you can check out the practice
at Galanis Plastic Surgery. And thanks again to Alo Clay
and Tigeresthetics for bringing us tonight's Sculpting the Future series.
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Welcome back, Beautiful New York tri State Area and beyond.
You're listening to a moment of zen right here on
seven ten WR, the voice of New York iHeartRadio. I'm
your host, Zenzam's Welcome back to the Boski Ranch Live
speaker series. Over the last several years, Taylor Sheridan's universe
from Yellowstone and eighteen eighty three to nineteen twenty three,
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Landman and Lions has evolved into something much bigger than TV.
It's reignited national interests in Western heritage, ranch culture, country music,
land stewardship, and authentic storytelling at a time when audiences
are increasingly searching for real world experiences and meaningful connection.
And nowhere is that more evident than a Boski Ranch Live,
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returning September twelfth to Boskie Ranch in Weather for Texas.
What makes Boski Ranch Live so unique is that it
isn't simply a concert series. It's an immersive cultural experience
where guests can engage with live music, western literature, ranching traditions,
conservation initiatives, hospitality experiences, speaker programming, and the people helping
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preserve and shape the modern American West. Joining us right
now is Megan Solia. She's Executive VP of Marketing at
Boski Ranch, where she helps oversee branch strategy, partnerships, guest experiences,
and the continued growth of the Boski Ranch ecosystem. Megan,
welcome to the show, Superstar.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
You are the perfect person to talk about this with.
So I want to talk about building an immersive experience,
which is what you've been doing quietly behind the scenes.
So what stands out immediately about Boski Ranch Live is
that this doesn't feel positioned like a traditional concert or
festival experience, right. It feels very immersive, almost cinematic, like
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audiences are stepping directly inside the emotional atmosphere they've already
connect did to through shared and storytelling. So, Megan, what
was the vision behind creating Boski Ranch Live as an
immersive cultural experience instead of simply another live music concert event.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Well, I mean this really goes back to Taylor's overall
vision of what Boski Ranch would eventually grow into. Already
an established brand on the entertainment side, but really kind
of delving heavier into Western equine sports, specifically the performance
horse industry. He wanted to use the Ranch as essentially
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a gateway into the Western world, so things that you
saw on TV, you could physically come down and experience
in real life. And so with Boskie Ranch Live, it
started off as a conversation merely about the music, and
then it kind of has transitioned into, like you said,
a cultural experience. So the music is bringing people down,
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but what we're hoping what people will walk away with
is a more well rounded vision of what Western community
has to offer.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And that's probably why this resonates so deeply, because I
think people don't just want content anymore. They want emotional
memory and that meaningful connection, and that's what this entire
event is all about. Now, one thing that immediately jumped
out at me this year is just how much Boski
Ranch Live has expanded. Guests will experience everything from Dan
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posts Boots's Dance the Dust Up featuring Justin Lee, to
Texas Christian University presses The Western Word, which explores the history, literature,
and future voices of the American West and of course,
TCU itself played a significant role in Landman season two.
So Megan, can you walk us through the major new
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experiences coming to Boski Ranch Live this year and how
they help introduce guests to the Western way of life?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Absolutely, Dan post Boots, they kind of share the same
idea as Boski Ranch does in the fact that we
want to preserve tradition, but also we want to introduce
more people to the Western way of life. So Western
country dance has been around obviously for decades, but over
the last you know, I would say probably ten fifteen years,
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we've seen a resurgence in particularly line dancing. So what
they're doing is they're bringing in a instructor who was
very talented and specializes in incorporating old and new, so
guests will have the opportunity to actually learn line dancing.
And with TCU for example, I mean obviously if someone
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has watched Landmand, they would have seen that there was
a large storyline with TCU in the second season. So
what we're doing is we're expanding on that story within
that television series, and we've partnered with tcupress to bring
in Western authors and really kind of share their stories
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that they've been writing about for you know, some decades,
some that are just new to the industry, and to
give them a platform where they'll be able to, you know,
really express the love of the Western culture and people
will be able to actually walk away with some of
those books if they choose to make a few purchases.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You're right on the money. And another thing you just
said it that makes Boski Ranch and Boski Ranch Live
more importantly unique is that it doesn't simply celebrate Western culture.
It actually helps educate people about it. And that's what
you and I have been focusing on. And I know
that this year the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
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will bring guests hands on experience with bottle calves while
teaching about cattle production and land stewardship and ranching traditions.
I mean, that's full integration. And then I was reading
you were at the same time, Camback Feeds is creating
opportunities for guests to experience the word migration and wildlife
observation throughout the ranch quite fascinating as well. So why
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was it important to include these educational and conservation focused
experiences as part of Boski Ranch Live And what do
you hope guests are going to take away from them.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
I mean again, I think it's really about continuing that
conversation about preserving a certain way of life. You know.
It's very interesting because throughout the entire back part of
the ranch, Taylor really has not touched that and he
has allowed it to grow as was intended. So the
idea is that what we're doing with TSCRA and also
with combok Feeds is to really again showcase that natural
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way of life. You know. I think so many times
you've seen in other film and TV shows land conservation
portrayed in a very inauthentic way. Having TSSEA bring in,
you know, bottle calves will allow for there to be
a tangible opportunity for people to be able to recognize
the difference between you know, reserving the land and then
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also allowing it to grow as new technology and new
things are brought in to developing land in general. The
same with combok Feeds. So I think people are going
to get a real hands on experience with both brands
and to be able to walk away from this, you know,
with a little bit more intuition into what really goes
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on behind the scenes, and we hope that when they
go back to, you know, their home state, that they're
going to look in the ways to actually help ranchers
and farmers preserve the land.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I love that because it turns appreciation into understanding and
gives people a deeper respect for the land and the
people who care for it. So when you look ahead
over the next several years, where do you see Boski
Ranch live headed and what excites you most about its
future that.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
It brings together people from all walks of life, and
it really is bringing in that sense of community community
actually act the event and then past the event. So
we hope that when they go back that they'll take
a little bit of Texas with them and the hospitality
that Texas is known for. In terms of the growth
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of the event, again, we will always have it a
very intimate experience for everybody, so that you're not just
one of thousands. You're actually having the opportunity to engage
with other attendees, but also with the brands and the
people that we're bringing in. The idea is that each
year we will look at different business sectors and we
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will be bringing in other folks talk specifically about how
they're contributing either to the Western industry or how they're
contributing to the Texas economy as a whole. So this
year we've focused on the written word. We've focused on
more land conservation, but in future years we'll be looking
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at other industries to really bring in and educate people
on other walks of life.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Don't miss Bosky Ranch Live happening September twelfth. You could
go directly to Boskyranch Live dot com to get your tickets. Yes,
I will be there. That was the Bosky Ranch Speaker Series.
We'll be right back after this.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
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Master storyteller Taylor Sheridan's music concert series at Boski Ranch
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Speaker 3 (24:41):
Welcome back, beautiful New York Tri State area and beyond.
You're listening to a moment of Zen. Right here on
seven to ten, woar the voice of New york iHeartRadio.
I'm your host, Zenzams. Welcome back to the Lifestyle Edit
series brought to you by Melia Hotels International. According to
last year twenty twenty five, hospitality and travel forecasting, travelers
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are prioritizing immersive experiences, personalization, more importantly, wellness, integration, and
emotional connection over the traditional status driven luxury alone, and
studies show that more than ninety percent of luxury travels
are now actively seeking wellness centered experiences during travel, while
experiential and culturally immersive programming continues reshaping just how consumers
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defined value within hospitality itself. So what we're witnessing is
a major hospitality reset where resorts are no longer simply
places to stay, but fully programmed lifestyle ecosystems designed to
engage guests emotionally, socially, culturally, and experientially throughout every part
of the day, and in many ways, luxury itself is
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being redefined in actual real time. Joining me right now
is Sadrii Alexander. He's the Senior Activities Manager for the
Americas at meliaho Tells International welcome to the show, Superstar.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Thank Grima for having.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Me so excited to chat with you. So I want
to talk about the evolution of guest expectations right because
you're constantly trying to figure out what people really want.
One of the biggest shifts happening right now is that
travelers are no longer just chasing aesthetics or status, right,
They're chasing emotional fulfillment. From your perspective, Sadri, how have
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guest expectations fundamentally changed over the years and why are
travelers today looking for something much deeper than just the
traditional resort experience.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Yes, now they want something more emotional, meaningful, and above
all memorable.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
They want to be connected to the destination, to the local.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Culture, and to the people they are traveling with. In child,
they want moments that makes them feel inspired, I'll say, relaxed,
and surprised. All these surprising moments we call wow effects
are very very important. Is why we create experiences that
goes beyond the traditional resort entertainment model. You know, we
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do like local rituals. We use a lot of the
pre Hispanic inspiring moments, cultural workshops, theme nights, and something
we call three sixty experiences. It's where FMB, the food
and beverage department, the music, the decoration, storytellings, and entertainment
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all come together.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (27:32):
And at the end, it's all about creating moments. Who
I guess will truly remember. That's very important.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Now I want to talk about the rise of resortainment. So,
in response to those changing expectations that you just mentioned,
resorts themselves are in fact evolving dramatically. Right, entertainment and
wellness programming and the live activations and all the workshops
you do, and the movement classes and the social spaces
and the curated experiences, those are no longer viewed as
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secondary amenities. They're actually becoming central to how guests define
the value of a stay. Right, And when you look
at the reports, the industry reports show that immersive and
participatory experiences are driving stronger engagement and higher consumer willingness
to spend money on travel experiences that actually feel emotionally
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memorable and personalized. So, how has the role of entertainment
and activities evolved from being a secondary offering into a
core pillar of the modern resort ecosystem?
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Talk to me, well, Entertainment and activities in general have
evolved from being an extra service into a key part
of the resort experience or the hotel experience. At many hotels,
international entertainment helps bringing the hotel to life through music,
wellness activities, sports, culture, family moments, social activis, and a
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lot of evening experiences. We create energy, connection, and emotional
value throughout the day. As I said before, we also
create these three sixty moments that integrates entertainment with cuisine
of the destination, local ingredients, ancestral culture, rituals, dances, music,
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and storytelling. This allows guests to experience the destination in
a more complete and sensory way. Entertainment is now a
strategic pillar that supports the identity of the resort and
makes the stay feel alive.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
It's really fascinating because what you're saying is resorts are
no longer just providing accommodations. They're curating human experiences throughout
the whole day. It's a lot of work, a lot
we love it.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
It's all call a question of passion.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And what's particularly interesting right now is that luxury itself
is changing. We're seeing it really evolved. People travelers are
increasingly remembering how a property made them feel more than
what the room physically looked like. Sadly, how important have
curated experiences and cultural programming, and more important wellness activations
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and social engagement become in shaping guest satisfaction and re
visitation and more importantly, perceived value.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
Well curated experiences are very important because they directly influence
how guests remember they stare. A wellness session, a cultural workshop,
a family activity, or a special evening moment can easily
become one of the highlights of the vacation. We create
concepts that feel personal, authentic and different. One example, in
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several in different hotels, we do the Secret Society experience
for adults, where guests on the prioride, the night before
the event, they will receive this box in the room
with a mask with a special invitation where the next
day we will escorpe them, obviously all of them wearing
their masks. We will escorpe them to a hidden location
and discover a secret dinner with happenings, DJs, surprise moments.
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This is something very very emotional, but people really really
remember it afterwards. As I said, it's a three sixty experience.
So today's guests are looking for there are looking for
experience that feel fresh, current, surprising, and at the same
time authentic and connected to the destination.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Well, SADREI is such an insightful conversation today. I really
appreciate you pulling back the curtain on how hospitality is
evolving beyond the traditional travel and into something far more
immersive and human centered. So thank you so much for
coming on.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Well, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Thank you very much.
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Welcome back, beautiful New York Tri State area and beyond.
You're listening to a moment of Zen right here on
seven ten. Woar the voice of New York iHeartRadio. I'm
your host, Zen Sam's Welcome back to the Lifted By
Science series, brought to you by CO two Liftpro. Today
we're joined by doctor John Leonardo. He's based in Greater
(32:52):
Toronto area and New York City. He's the president of
Leonardo Medicine Professional Corporation and offers services in esthetic and
enitive medicine, sexual health and anti aging. Now, one area
we're going to focus on today, which is seeing a
particularly meaningful evolution, is sexual health. Once considered a taboo topic,
it's now emerging as a critical component of overall well being,
(33:16):
and as patient awareness grows, so does the demand for
solutions that are effective, minimally invasive, and rooted in long
term tissue health. Welcome to the show, superstar.
Speaker 9 (33:27):
Thanks for having the Zen.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Always a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
All right, I'm so excited. This is a great topic.
So you're a pioneer in the field of sexual medicine,
developing a ton of protocols and penile neurotoxins and dermal
filler augmentation. Since twenty nineteen, you're at the forefront of
this and specifically registering the marks in Canada for the
p growth right that male augmentation procedure we talked about
(33:49):
in grotox and I love that you. I love that
these are all unique to you, the growths penile bodulent toxin.
So your work has truly helped shape one is now
a rapidly evolving an increasingly important category within both the
aesthetic and regenerative medicine. So what initially drew you to
this particular space and where did you see the biggest
(34:11):
gaps in care that you felt needed to be addressed.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
I was introduced to sexual health through my PEERP practice.
I'm also paying manasment doctor, so we use PERP for
musco skeletal injuries, and then I discovered that it could
be used for other applications like facial aesthetics, regenerating hair
growth and then also to treat erecht how dysfunction. So
that's how I began in it, and I was treating
(34:37):
a lot of guys for Parnes and ED and sometimes
during consultation, even though the patient would come to me,
and during consultation, I realized, you know, you don't really
have ED, right, And they were kind of coming to
me with the guys of ED, but in actuality they
wanted to have a bigger penis somehow, And that's how
(35:00):
everything just kind of developed. And that's what was lacking
at the time, right, Everything was geared towards function, but
nothing about appearance or making the penis bigger. So I
had about three or four patients. I don't know what
was in the air in twenty nineteen, but I had
these patients just come to me asking me for the
same thing, whether or not I can give them what
(35:21):
they wanted. And I thought about the science and the anatomy,
and I came up with my protocols and it's just
snowballed from there.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
So let's take a deeper of a look. So sexual
health treatments are often discussed in terms of physical outcomes,
but they can have a profound psychological impact as well. Right,
So in your experience, how do procedures in this space,
whether it's enhancement or rejuvenation or regenerative treatments translate into
shifts in confidence or self image and more importing the
(35:53):
overall quality of life for your patients. What's the feedback.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
So a lot of my patients come in with a
little bit of shame. They don't measure up right, or
they're not performing well in the bedroom. We've been using
peer p through the pe shot. That was doctor Charles
Runnell's invention, and I took it a step further so
I get a lot of growers, and that's how I
coined the name grow talks. Talks for growers, and we're
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converting them over into showers so that there's less embarrassment,
particularly in the locker room setting when they're with their friends,
their colleagues or teammates. They don't feel embarrassed quite so
much anymore, you know, when they're seeing naked and even
with their sexual partners. And a lot of my patients
say that they feel like they're the big man on
campus now. And in combination with the neurotoxin, we can
(36:41):
also augment the penis with fillers, right, So fillers fill
it's definitive you're going to have a bigger penis. It's
a matter of whether or not you can do it safely,
right and with the outcome, making sure that it looks
absolutely natural and the texture feels realistic as well. And
that's the mad And when patients get these services, they just,
(37:04):
you know, they feel so much better about themselves. I
have a lot of patients that may be pe shy
and they're afraid to, you know, step up to the
plate in front of the urinal, particularly if there are
no borders, right, But now they have the confidence to
do that.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
And over the next decade, people are no longer viewing
these concerns as superficial to your point, They're recognizing them
as part of overall wellness and human connection. So now
let's chat a bit about a specific brand offering accessible, approachable,
and life changing sexual care treatments, CO two Lift Pro.
So with both the CO two Lift Pro and the
CO two Lift V, those products are designed to address
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a range of concerns in intimate areas, right from functional
issues to overall rejuvenation. Now, doctor Leonardo, you've incorporated both
into your space. How you are using CO two Lift
Pro and CO two Live V across different patient needs,
and what in your experience makes these treatments particularly well
suited for intimate areas compared to more traditional or invasive options.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
CO two lift is carboxy therapy. Traditionally it was an
injection technique, but CO two lift is topical, so you
can do this in the privacy of your own home. Right.
The end result is improving circulation, improving moisture, skin quality,
and in terms of intimate health. Right, sex is basically
skin on skin contact, right, so you've got the ultimate
(38:26):
skin treatment that's assisting or you know, helping enhance the experience.
So it improves blood flow, and a lot of our
sex organs rely on a great circulation like the penis
all right, so I'll often have the patient use CO
two lift after a PE shot and even with the
(38:46):
O shot the orgasm shot. They work great in combination
with each other. Also, any kind of healing or repair
that needs to be done, the patient can use this
product at home in privacy. One technique that is new
that wasn't around when I was last on is something
I called RIM talks. It is anal batchulinum talks and treatment,
(39:06):
and that's to help relax the anal sphincter for those
who enjoy anal sex. And we also have women using
this as well well.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Thank you for joining us. This has been a great conversation.
I think sexual health matters. I think products like CO
two Lift Pro and CO two Lift V are changing
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CO two Lift would definitely be the before and after right, Yes.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
I agree completely, Such a versatile product, everyone loves it.
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That was our Lifted by Science series, brought to you
by CO two Lift Pro, and that was the incredible
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sexual medicine pioneer. You can learn more at Leonardomedicine dot
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Welcome back, beautiful New York, Try State Area and beyond.
You're listening to a moment of Zen right here on
seven to ten w R, the voice of New York iHeartRadio.
I'm your host Zensams. Welcome back to the Heart of
Influence series brought to you by I'm in Lake and
(41:00):
its subsidiaries. Tonight's conversation honestly feels like less of a
trend and more like a societal crossroad. Because while artificial
intelligence is rapidly transforming how we work, communicate, invest consume information,
and even form opinions, many experts are now warning that
humanity may be outsourcing one of its most valuable assets
(41:23):
the ability to think critically. That's right. According to new
twenty twenty six RAND research, student AI usage for schoolwork
jumped from forty eight percent to sixty five percent in
just one year, while about seventy percent of students simultaneously
admitted they believe AI may actually be harming their critical
(41:44):
thinking skills. And when you combine that with algorithmic and manipulation,
synthetic media, emotional outrage levels, and more importantly, political polarization,
and the speed of cryptocurrency and digital influence economies, we're
entering a world, guys, where persuasion itself may become one
of the most important survival skills of the modern age.
Speaker 11 (42:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Joining us first is John Thomas Connor. He's founder and
CEO of Super Debate. It's the first professional league for
live intellectual competition where debate is evolving from classroom exercise
into live entertainment, civic engagement, and cultural influence. And we're
also going to be joined by John Hines. He's an educator,
a debate coach, NSSEF funded researcher, and co founder of
(42:29):
debater Hub that's an artificial intelligence powered platform designed to
help students strengthen reasoning, listening, and persuasive communication skills. At
the heart of everything we're talking about, and finally joining
the conversation is my longtime co contributor Brian Jsposito, CEO
of Esposito and Intellectual Enterprises and visionary Voice at the
(42:49):
intersection of influence, emerging tech, tokenizations, and the future of
digital ecosystems. Welcome to the show, Superstars.
Speaker 12 (42:57):
Well, it's great to be here, Zed, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (43:00):
Here as well.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
So John Connor, I'm going to start with you because
what you're building with super Debate almost feels like a
cultural counterattack against passive consumption. I checked out your platform
yesterday and I was very impressed, especially because we're living
in an era dominated by scrolling and reacting and emotional headlines.
(43:21):
So the average person consumes thousands of pieces of content daily,
yet fewer people are actually trying to defend an idea,
articulate a position, or even engage in civil disagreement. So
what's fascinating is that debate, in my opinion, used to
be considered academic, but now it almost feels like a
missing life skill. So, John, when did you realize debate
(43:43):
itself could evolve beyond education and become an actual entertainment platform,
potentially even a mainstream cultural movement.
Speaker 13 (43:51):
Talk to me with all those things that you mentioned
kind of coming together that I think make this moment
where it's not just a matter of like, can we
run debates, can some people on stage debating? But more so,
can we tap into the fundamental humanity of our culture
and cultivate something within people that allows them to have autonomy,
(44:11):
to navigate the world around them.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
To be able to make their own decisions.
Speaker 13 (44:15):
Right, And obviously it's an ongoing fight. Everyone's finding their feeds,
they're finding the phones, they're funding the algorithms, and that
fight's only going to get harder, right, It's not going
to get easier. The systems are not going to get gummer.
And so you know, there's an aspect of this that's
very pragmatic. People want to watch debates, they want to debate,
there's billions of views online on YouTube, et cetera. And
there's an aspect of this that is is quite visionary
in the sense that we want to ask the question,
(44:36):
what is it going to take to change our culture
to one where people can take accountability for their arguments,
where they can understand both sides of a perspective, and
they can come together and have a debate openly without
turning the other person into an enemy, right, And so
you know those are all things that you know, I
think you're totally tapped into there, one.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Hundred percent correct, I mean, and it's powerful because you're
essentially gamifying intellectual endurance right in specifically in a society
that has become addicted to instant reactions and honestly, bringing
debate into live environments I think is one of the
few ways to actually rebuild attention spans and more importantly,
(45:13):
that nuanced thinking at scale. Again, So John, I'm going
to pivot to John Hines. Now, one of the biggest
fears surrounding artificial intelligence right now is that it becomes
a shortcut for thinking instead of a tool for deeper reasoning.
Speaker 8 (45:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
I mean, we're all guilty of using chat GPT, and
I don't think it's a guilt. I think it's learning
it properly and when to apply it. So the OECD
recently warned that AI chat bots are creating what they
called false mastery, where users feel intellectually confident without actually
understanding the material underneath it. This is fascinating, right And
(45:51):
at the same time, you have educators that are trying
to figure out whether artificial intelligence belongs inside the classroom
or outside of it entirely. So, how do platforms like
the Beta Hub use AI in a way that actually
strengthens reasoning instead of replacing human cognition.
Speaker 11 (46:07):
I think there's two design principles that we should have
at the forefront. The first is shifting away from user
centered design towards human centered design. For the past ten
to fifteen years, our social media environments have been designed
with user design in place. How do we keep the
user scrolling? How do we keep the user engaged? Which
leads to that short attention span, that perpetual scroll, that
(46:28):
death scroll. A human centered design introduces reintroduces friction back
into the system. Every teacher knows that essential to the
learning process is productive friction. You need to struggle, you
need to take time with a problem, you need to
make mistakes, and having rapid answers right there at your
fingertips does not produce that friction. It removes the friction.
(46:50):
And so that's precisely why you think you've learned something,
but you actually didn't retain anything, because that process of
struggle and that challenge is central to that. The second
essential design feature that Debater Hub embraces is the concept
of diological learning. We really believe that debate is the
original educational game for millennia. It's how humans taught and
(47:14):
learned and grew by talking to each other, disagreeing with
each other verbally in verbal verbal engagement. It's only been
the past hundred and fifty years that we've shifted to
this kind of lecture based information download educational system where
some people call it the banking model of education, where
we're just trying to fill it's like pictures with information
(47:36):
and then they just have to retain as much information
as possible. That worked for the industrial agricultural era, where
we needed to create you know, just how much information
he retain.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
Quickly and redeploy quickly.
Speaker 11 (47:48):
That's not going to be the essential skill for our
AI enable future. Instead, we're going to need human skills,
durable skills in human intelligence, which is very different than
computational intelligence. And so I think platforms if they're really
going to protect human intelligence, and educational platforms that are
going to protect human intelligence have to reintroduce friction back
(48:09):
into the experience, which is kind of going in an
opposite direction of the way technology has been designed for
the past fifteen to twenty years and attempting to remove
friction and make things as easy as possible.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Yeah, I mean both of your platforms, whether I mean
you both have something so unique and proprietary. I see
the commonality in both and the complementing and I think
that distinction is everything, because the future probably isn't artificial
intelligence versus humanity. It's whether humanity learns to collaborate with
AI without surrendering its independent thought process, which is the
(48:41):
most important thing, right exactly, That's exactly it. And I
think that naturally brings us to Brian, because Brian, so
much of your work sits at the intersection of influence
and persuasion and tokenization and really what we're talking about
those emerging digital ecosystems. So we're entering an era, Brian.
We talked about this all the time, where influence itself
(49:03):
is becoming programmable, whether it's politics, cryptocurrency, finance, or media
narratives or even digital identity. People are constantly being influenced
by algorithms they don't fully understand. And the World Economic
Forum recently identified misinformation and cognitive manipulation among the top
(49:24):
global risks this year. So why do you believe structured
debate and intellectual discourse are becoming increasingly important in the
world of not only politics, but crypto and even digital influence.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (49:38):
When I first met John and honored to work with
him at super Debate, my mind went and Zen, I
think you'd appreciate this right into media, right and content creation,
And I think one of our first conversations was coke
versus PEPSI, Right, why can't CEOs of major corporations be transparent?
We'll touch on blockchain and that entire world that you
(50:00):
have administration like RFK right calling out major CEOs about
what's in their products. Why does it have to be
a congressional hearing to hear about these things? And why
is it going to be on the defense of people?
I think it should be an open forum for companies
and leaders to be fully transparent and open about who
(50:20):
they are and what they're doing. And they should have
this great technology and system like super Debate to be
able to have that discussion with another CEO, right, or
you know, someone that's calling them out. I think this
will domino into you know, television shows, new segments, new series,
and I think super debate is an incredible resource where
(50:42):
it's pulled in as really trusted content directly from a
human being about their responsibility, their fuditionary responsibility, what they're
doing with their company. And that's where my mind went
and I got really excited about the idea of it. Yeah,
I think it Lincoln Douglas, right, I think it always
stem from politics, right, but why can't it go into
(51:02):
every aspect of life with creating authorities in the space
that actually, through the work, they educate themselves. They know
the topic that they're out there debating with real tangible
evidence and real tangible use cases or experiences, and that's
what people need to hear and how the brain needs
to retain knowledge.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
You know that you just taught me something. It's like
a muscle.
Speaker 12 (51:23):
You got it, you got to use it, or a
it's atrophy, it disappears you can't use anyone that was brilliant.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Yeah, and healthy debate, to your point, has been helping
America choose its next president since the beginning of days.
So we've relied on debates to draw our own conclusions.
And I think when it's properly controlled, when it's when
it's done with refinement and class, so it solves a
lot of problems.
Speaker 12 (51:46):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
Said a huge thank you to John Thomas Connor of
Super Debate, John Hines of debater Hub, and of course
my co contributor Brian Jasposito for joining us today. You
can learn more at super Debate dot org, vader Hub
dot com, Ei E Rocks and Diamondlake dot com. We'll
be at back after this.
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Welcome back, beautiful New York Tri State area and beyond.
You're listening to a moment of Zen right here on
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I'm your host, Zen SAMs. Tonight, We're diving into some
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Welcome back, beautiful New York tri State area and beyond.
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we're diving into what may be one of the biggest
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According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, minimally invasive
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Joining me is renowned double Board certified reconstructive and plastic
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(04:18):
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Doctor galanis Wow, welcome to the show, Superstar.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Oh thank you for having me. It's great to be here.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
So the shift away from dun beauty, that's what I
want to talk about. Social media almost created an era
of overfilled faces and exaggerated features, but now there's this
major movement back toward refinement and proportionality and more importantly
natural beauty. So from your perspective, how dramatically has the
(05:04):
definition of aesthetics beauty changed over save in the last
five years? And what are patients truly asking for today
when they come and see you.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
I think that the main shift, in my opinion, has
been so the definition of beauty I don't think has
changed in the sense that it's always been linked to confidence.
I think the major shift is now we're linking it
to identity. So beauty and identity now go together, and
I think you touched on that before. I think formerly
people were chasing beauty in a way that altered their identity,
maybe altered the way they looked alternately, saw the mirror.
(05:34):
People would look at them and say, you look different.
Whereas today's version of beauty, today's version of confidence does
not compromise your identity. The idea is that you know,
did he or didn'ty, did she or didn't she? You're
a refined version of yourself. So I think that's the
shift we've seen across all of aesthetics, whether you're talking
about face or body surgery.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
So now let's chat about the high definition body conjuring
your area of expertise. We're hearing terms like high definition
conjuring everywhere now. So for listeners unfamiliar with the terminology,
what separates high definition body conjuring from traditional liposuction and
why has this become such a major advancement in modern
body sculpting.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Sure, so, you know you can trace the roots of
traditional liposuction back decades and even beyond the century. Traditional
liposuction was just about debulking fat. It was just about
taking fat away without much attention to anatomical tone or
natural shape, if you will. It was just about taking
fat away really as early as the nineties, but truly
it was in the first decade of the two thousands
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where high definition liposuction was kind of brought out of
the scene, predominantly in South America, and the technique was
designed to remove fat in a more strategic manner in
a way that highlighted underlying anatomy, underlying tone. Now we're
seeing a shift with this. I mean, high definition liposuction
in of itself is not new, Like I said, it's
been around about twenty twenty some years. What we are
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seeing now is, in addition to removing fat to highlight contours,
roxil now adding fat back into musclebellies to enhance the
muscular bulk for a more natural result. One of the
downfalls or one of the pitfalls I would say a
high definition liposuction for people that maybe weren't as experienced
or trained in it is it would create kind of
a fake toned look. You know, you'd have guys walking
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on looking like ninja turtles, or you'd have fat that
it didn't age as well, because if people would leave
a little bit of fat in the middle to make
it look like there was a contour, and that didn't
age well. So we're finding now, we're we're finding the
techniques implementing technologies in the technique to create results that
look natural. It doesn't look like a liposuction result, it
doesn't look like a surgical result. It looks like someone
who's been crushing it at their gym and their lifestyle.
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And to your point, it's kind of the perfect time
for it in the sense that we're merging it with
this wellness culture. I was just talking to a friend
of mine who was telling me that, you know, the
liquor industry is dying right now because young people and
the younger generations, they're not drinking anymore. They're more focused
on wellness. They're more focused on going to the gym
or getting sleep. I wish I had been when I
was that age, but it was, you know. So we're
seeing the shift now, which is working right in concert
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with techniques that we're using body contring to create results
that are a little bit more elevated and natural.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well I think you hit on a lot of interesting
points there. More importantly, I find it fascinating because it
really sounds.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
Like old school fat removal and more like anatomical artistry
and precision engineering. Now that you have these new tools
in your toolbox, right like it's really evolved over the
last decade, and that's helping people look their best and
feel their best. Now, one of the procedures generating enormous
curiosity right now is minimally invasive rib remodeling, and honestly, honestly,
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for many listeners, this may be the first time they've
even heard those words together.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Okay, but it also speaks to something larger happening culturally.
Right Doctor Galanna's patients are realizing the body can now
be sculpted in ways that previously required far more invasive
surgery or simply weren't possible at all. So, can you
explain what minimally invasive rib remodeling actually is, I mean,
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who it's designed for and why this procedure is becoming
part of the modern wasste conjuring conversation.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
So I think the conversation starts with the waste and
the things that we can do to change a person's waist.
And you know, I always talk to me about five factors.
The fat underneath the skin, your rib cage with your
pelvic bone, with the distance between your ribs and your
pelic bone, and your intra abdominal or visceral fat traditionally,
we can only change one of those the fat under
the skin, the subcutaneous fat, one of those five things.
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The rest of the things we couldn't do anything about.
And for a lot of patients who either they were
born that way where they just don't have a waste
where it's kind of that straight h frame line, but
from the ribs down to their hips, or a lot
of times postpartum women whose bony these bony elements have
changed with pregnancy and they just don't have the wasst
we didn't have a way to address that. Now, there
was that scary period of rib removal, and that was
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I mean, I'm old enough to remember when it was
in the media with certain celebrities of the alleged to
have had rib remodel or rib removal. It was a
terrible operation. It had a big scar, it was kind
of a dangerous operation, and that really wasn't something that
ever caught on or should have caught on. But now
we've learned that we figured out a way to do
this without removing a rib, without making an incision. It's
through a small small needle sticks in the back. We
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use an ultrasound and basically the way to think of
it is we just affect one side of the rib
so that we can bend the rib, and this allows
us to create a waste that didn't that we couldn't
do before. We just couldn't now. The surgery in and
of itself, you know, there's some pain involved, obviously for
one to two weeks, but people are recovering from that
because we're scentually remodeling the bone, just as you remodel
the nasal bones during aronoplasty. And they also have to
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wear a garment. They have to wear basically a waste
trainer for three months afterward, and I tell people think
of that as the splint for the bone, so that
it heals in the way. But once that garment comes off,
they have a new waste. And when I say a
new waste, I'm saying three four, five, six inches of
a new weights that wasn't there before.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
Now, let's this is a perfect segue into the regenerative
esthetic and the future of tissue support because you have
to support all of this right and it has to
keep it has to be sustainable. So one of the
biggest conversations happening right now in esthetic centers around tissue
quality it's not just simply filling space, right, So patients
are researching ingredients and sourcing and purification methods, and I sure,
(11:19):
did you know what extracellular matrices are? And the long
term support almost as much as the product itself. Right,
There's also a growing concern surrounding overly synthetic or overlfilled outcomes. So,
without overhyping the category, where do you believe regenerative technologies
like adipose extracellular matrix products like alloclay fit into the
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future of esthetic medicine?
Speaker 4 (11:44):
So, you know, I think it's an interesting topic and
it kind of dels into where the future of medicine
is going. And I think that ultimately what we're what
we're striving for when it comes to volume are things
that are biocompatible, in other words, not foreign substances. The
first thing is what substrate are we using to restore
volume or to give tissue support. Now, traditionally it was
(12:05):
kind of substances that were either fillers that are kind
of in the body, but there's still manufactured elements, or
we have things like breast implants, which clearly are not
natural elements. These are kind of silicon polymers and plastics,
and whatnot. So I think the move into creating or
injecting substrate that is biocompatible or is essentially human tissue
(12:26):
is the ideal. We have this idea in plastic surgery
that ideally you replace like with like. In other words,
whatever you're trying to replace an area, you want to
replace it with something that is a similar or the
same kind of tissue. You don't want to use something
else to take the place of something else. So I
think that's what we're seeing now as it relates to
at a post tissue specifically. I'm and to be clear,
(12:47):
I'm not a paid sponsor of Aloclay or of any
affiliation with Aloclay, but I use it a lot because
it does represent a whole new paradigm shift in what
we can do in fackcrafting. Thing is something that's popular
for in three scenarios. One, it can be used to
correct contours someone as a contra regularity. You can use
fat to sort of help some things out. One is
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restoring volume where it's been lost. Someone who's maybe the
breasts or deflated, or lebotics are deflated, or in a number
of places they've lost volume they previously had or third,
they never had volume there in the first place. Now,
traditionally we use fat. Well, some people didn't have fat
for us to be able to use. They either didn't
have enough fat or they didn't want to go through
the procedure of harvesting fat. Because if you're going to
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transfer fat, you need to take it out of the
body through either fat graft or fat harvesting or liposuction procedure.
We never had a way to help these patients. So
Alaclay introduced a new way where we're actually taking fat
cells that are inert with extra sellular matrix and helping
patients restore that volume with like tissue. So it's exciting
in that way. It's new, but it's it's show tremendous
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promise in that regard.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Well, doctor Bilanis, this was absolutely fascinating. I want to
thank you so much for joining us and for really
helping demystify where I think of modern plastic surgery and
regender in medicine and more importantly, precisions sculpting are headed next.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Oh my pleasure being if you thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Yasas Yeah, Su, You guys can go directly to their
website at Galanasplastic Surgery dot com or follow doctor Charles
Galanis directly on Instagram, very active and very responsive at
Charles Galanis, MD. And you can check out the practice
at Galanis Plastic Surgery. And thanks again to Alo Clay
and Tigeresthetics for bringing us tonight's Sculpting the Future series.
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Welcome back, Beautiful New York tri State Area and beyond.
You're listening to a moment of zen right here on
seven ten WR, the voice of New York iHeartRadio. I'm
your host, Zenzam's Welcome back to the Boski Ranch Live
speaker series. Over the last several years, Taylor Sheridan's universe
from Yellowstone and eighteen eighty three to nineteen twenty three,
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Landman and Lions has evolved into something much bigger than TV.
It's reignited national interests in Western heritage, ranch culture, country music,
land stewardship, and authentic storytelling at a time when audiences
are increasingly searching for real world experiences and meaningful connection.
And nowhere is that more evident than a Boski Ranch Live,
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returning September twelfth to Boskie Ranch in Weather for Texas.
What makes Boski Ranch Live so unique is that it
isn't simply a concert series. It's an immersive cultural experience
where guests can engage with live music, western literature, ranching traditions,
conservation initiatives, hospitality experiences, speaker programming, and the people helping
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preserve and shape the modern American West. Joining us right
now is Megan Solia. She's Executive VP of Marketing at
Boski Ranch, where she helps oversee branch strategy, partnerships, guest experiences,
and the continued growth of the Boski Ranch ecosystem. Megan,
welcome to the show, Superstar.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
Thank you for having me. It is a pleasure.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
You are the perfect person to talk about this with.
So I want to talk about building an immersive experience,
which is what you've been doing quietly behind the scenes.
So what stands out immediately about Boski Ranch Live is
that this doesn't feel positioned like a traditional concert or
festival experience, right. It feels very immersive, almost cinematic, like
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audiences are stepping directly inside the emotional atmosphere they've already
connect did to through shared and storytelling. So, Megan, what
was the vision behind creating Boski Ranch Live as an
immersive cultural experience instead of simply another live music concert event.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Well, I mean this really goes back to Taylor's overall
vision of what Boski Ranch would eventually grow into. Already
an established brand on the entertainment side, but really kind
of delving heavier into Western equine sports, specifically the performance
horse industry. He wanted to use the Ranch as essentially
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a gateway into the Western world, so things that you
saw on TV, you could physically come down and experience
in real life. And so with Boskie Ranch Live, it
started off as a conversation merely about the music, and
then it kind of has transitioned into, like you said,
a cultural experience. So the music is bringing people down,
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but what we're hoping what people will walk away with
is a more well rounded vision of what Western community
has to offer.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And that's probably why this resonates so deeply, because I
think people don't just want content anymore. They want emotional
memory and that meaningful connection, and that's what this entire
event is all about. Now, one thing that immediately jumped
out at me this year is just how much Boski
Ranch Live has expanded. Guests will experience everything from Dan
(18:27):
posts Boots's Dance the Dust Up featuring Justin Lee, to
Texas Christian University presses The Western Word, which explores the history, literature,
and future voices of the American West and of course,
TCU itself played a significant role in Landman season two.
So Megan, can you walk us through the major new
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experiences coming to Boski Ranch Live this year and how
they help introduce guests to the Western way of life?
Speaker 6 (18:54):
Absolutely, Dan post Boots, they kind of share the same
idea as Boski Ranch does in the fact that we
want to preserve tradition, but also we want to introduce
more people to the Western way of life. So Western
country dance has been around obviously for decades, but over
the last you know, I would say probably ten fifteen years,
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we've seen a resurgence in particularly line dancing. So what
they're doing is they're bringing in a instructor who was
very talented and specializes in incorporating old and new, so
guests will have the opportunity to actually learn line dancing.
And with TCU for example, I mean obviously if someone
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has watched Landmand, they would have seen that there was
a large storyline with TCU in the second season. So
what we're doing is we're expanding on that story within
that television series, and we've partnered with tcupress to bring
in Western authors and really kind of share their stories
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that they've been writing about for you know, some decades,
some that are just new to the industry, and to
give them a platform where they'll be able to, you know,
really express the love of the Western culture and people
will be able to actually walk away with some of
those books if they choose to make a few purchases.
Speaker 3 (20:20):
You're right on the money. And another thing you just
said it that makes Boski Ranch and Boski Ranch Live
more importantly unique is that it doesn't simply celebrate Western culture.
It actually helps educate people about it. And that's what
you and I have been focusing on. And I know
that this year the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association
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will bring guests hands on experience with bottle calves while
teaching about cattle production and land stewardship and ranching traditions.
I mean, that's full integration. And then I was reading
you were at the same time, Camback Feeds is creating
opportunities for guests to experience the word migration and wildlife
observation throughout the ranch quite fascinating as well. So why
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was it important to include these educational and conservation focused
experiences as part of Boski Ranch Live And what do
you hope guests are going to take away from them.
Speaker 6 (21:12):
I mean again, I think it's really about continuing that
conversation about preserving a certain way of life. You know.
It's very interesting because throughout the entire back part of
the ranch, Taylor really has not touched that and he
has allowed it to grow as was intended. So the
idea is that what we're doing with TSCRA and also
with combok Feeds is to really again showcase that natural
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way of life. You know. I think so many times
you've seen in other film and TV shows land conservation
portrayed in a very inauthentic way. Having TSSEA bring in,
you know, bottle calves will allow for there to be
a tangible opportunity for people to be able to recognize
the difference between you know, reserving the land and then
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also allowing it to grow as new technology and new
things are brought in to developing land in general. The
same with combok Feeds. So I think people are going
to get a real hands on experience with both brands
and to be able to walk away from this, you know,
with a little bit more intuition into what really goes
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on behind the scenes, and we hope that when they
go back to, you know, their home state, that they're
going to look in the ways to actually help ranchers
and farmers preserve the land.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
I love that because it turns appreciation into understanding and
gives people a deeper respect for the land and the
people who care for it. So when you look ahead
over the next several years, where do you see Boski
Ranch live headed and what excites you most about its
future that.
Speaker 6 (22:50):
It brings together people from all walks of life, and
it really is bringing in that sense of community community
actually act the event and then past the event. So
we hope that when they go back that they'll take
a little bit of Texas with them and the hospitality
that Texas is known for. In terms of the growth
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of the event, again, we will always have it a
very intimate experience for everybody, so that you're not just
one of thousands. You're actually having the opportunity to engage
with other attendees, but also with the brands and the
people that we're bringing in. The idea is that each
year we will look at different business sectors and we
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will be bringing in other folks talk specifically about how
they're contributing either to the Western industry or how they're
contributing to the Texas economy as a whole. So this
year we've focused on the written word. We've focused on
more land conservation, but in future years we'll be looking
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at other industries to really bring in and educate people
on other walks of life.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Don't miss Bosky Ranch Live happening September twelfth. You could
go directly to Boskyranch Live dot com to get your tickets. Yes,
I will be there. That was the Bosky Ranch Speaker Series.
We'll be right back after this.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
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Speaker 3 (24:41):
Welcome back, beautiful New York Tri State area and beyond.
You're listening to a moment of Zen. Right here on
seven to ten, woar the voice of New york iHeartRadio.
I'm your host, Zenzams. Welcome back to the Lifestyle Edit
series brought to you by Melia Hotels International. According to
last year twenty twenty five, hospitality and travel forecasting, travelers
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are prioritizing immersive experiences, personalization, more importantly, wellness, integration, and
emotional connection over the traditional status driven luxury alone, and
studies show that more than ninety percent of luxury travels
are now actively seeking wellness centered experiences during travel, while
experiential and culturally immersive programming continues reshaping just how consumers
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defined value within hospitality itself. So what we're witnessing is
a major hospitality reset where resorts are no longer simply
places to stay, but fully programmed lifestyle ecosystems designed to
engage guests emotionally, socially, culturally, and experientially throughout every part
of the day, and in many ways, luxury itself is
(25:50):
being redefined in actual real time. Joining me right now
is Sadrii Alexander. He's the Senior Activities Manager for the
Americas at meliaho Tells International welcome to the show, Superstar.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
Thank Grima for having.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
Me so excited to chat with you. So I want
to talk about the evolution of guest expectations right because
you're constantly trying to figure out what people really want.
One of the biggest shifts happening right now is that
travelers are no longer just chasing aesthetics or status, right,
They're chasing emotional fulfillment. From your perspective, Sadri, how have
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guest expectations fundamentally changed over the years and why are
travelers today looking for something much deeper than just the
traditional resort experience.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Yes, now they want something more emotional, meaningful, and above
all memorable.
Speaker 7 (26:40):
They want to be connected to the destination, to the local.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Culture, and to the people they are traveling with. In child,
they want moments that makes them feel inspired, I'll say, relaxed,
and surprised. All these surprising moments we call wow effects
are very very important. Is why we create experiences that
goes beyond the traditional resort entertainment model. You know, we
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do like local rituals. We use a lot of the
pre Hispanic inspiring moments, cultural workshops, theme nights, and something
we call three sixty experiences. It's where FMB, the food
and beverage department, the music, the decoration, storytellings, and entertainment
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all come together.
Speaker 4 (27:30):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (27:32):
And at the end, it's all about creating moments. Who
I guess will truly remember. That's very important.
Speaker 3 (27:39):
Now I want to talk about the rise of resortainment. So,
in response to those changing expectations that you just mentioned,
resorts themselves are in fact evolving dramatically. Right, entertainment and
wellness programming and the live activations and all the workshops
you do, and the movement classes and the social spaces
and the curated experiences, those are no longer viewed as
(28:03):
secondary amenities. They're actually becoming central to how guests define
the value of a stay. Right, And when you look
at the reports, the industry reports show that immersive and
participatory experiences are driving stronger engagement and higher consumer willingness
to spend money on travel experiences that actually feel emotionally
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memorable and personalized. So, how has the role of entertainment
and activities evolved from being a secondary offering into a
core pillar of the modern resort ecosystem?
Speaker 8 (28:35):
Talk to me, well, Entertainment and activities in general have
evolved from being an extra service into a key part
of the resort experience or the hotel experience. At many hotels,
international entertainment helps bringing the hotel to life through music,
wellness activities, sports, culture, family moments, social activis, and a
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lot of evening experiences. We create energy, connection, and emotional
value throughout the day. As I said before, we also
create these three sixty moments that integrates entertainment with cuisine
of the destination, local ingredients, ancestral culture, rituals, dances, music,
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and storytelling. This allows guests to experience the destination in
a more complete and sensory way. Entertainment is now a
strategic pillar that supports the identity of the resort and
makes the stay feel alive.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
It's really fascinating because what you're saying is resorts are
no longer just providing accommodations. They're curating human experiences throughout
the whole day. It's a lot of work, a lot
we love it.
Speaker 7 (29:50):
It's all call a question of passion.
Speaker 3 (29:52):
And what's particularly interesting right now is that luxury itself
is changing. We're seeing it really evolved. People travelers are
increasingly remembering how a property made them feel more than
what the room physically looked like. Sadly, how important have
curated experiences and cultural programming, and more important wellness activations
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and social engagement become in shaping guest satisfaction and re
visitation and more importantly, perceived value.
Speaker 7 (30:20):
Well curated experiences are very important because they directly influence
how guests remember they stare. A wellness session, a cultural workshop,
a family activity, or a special evening moment can easily
become one of the highlights of the vacation. We create
concepts that feel personal, authentic and different. One example, in
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several in different hotels, we do the Secret Society experience
for adults, where guests on the prioride, the night before
the event, they will receive this box in the room
with a mask with a special invitation where the next
day we will escorpe them, obviously all of them wearing
their masks. We will escorpe them to a hidden location
and discover a secret dinner with happenings, DJs, surprise moments.
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This is something very very emotional, but people really really
remember it afterwards. As I said, it's a three sixty experience.
So today's guests are looking for there are looking for
experience that feel fresh, current, surprising, and at the same
time authentic and connected to the destination.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
Well, SADREI is such an insightful conversation today. I really
appreciate you pulling back the curtain on how hospitality is
evolving beyond the traditional travel and into something far more
immersive and human centered. So thank you so much for
coming on.
Speaker 7 (31:43):
Well, thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (31:44):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
That was the Lifestyle Edit brought to you by Melia
Hotels International. To learn more, you could visit Melia Hotels
International and explore incredible properties and experiences from brands including
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A big thank you too, Saggia Alexander.
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Speaker 3 (32:31):
Welcome back, beautiful New York Tri State area and beyond.
You're listening to a moment of Zen right here on
seven ten. Woar the voice of New York iHeartRadio. I'm
your host, Zen Sam's Welcome back to the Lifted By
Science series, brought to you by CO two Liftpro. Today
we're joined by doctor John Leonardo. He's based in Greater
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Toronto area and New York City. He's the president of
Leonardo Medicine Professional Corporation and offers services in esthetic and
enitive medicine, sexual health and anti aging. Now, one area
we're going to focus on today, which is seeing a
particularly meaningful evolution, is sexual health. Once considered a taboo topic,
it's now emerging as a critical component of overall well being,
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and as patient awareness grows, so does the demand for
solutions that are effective, minimally invasive, and rooted in long
term tissue health. Welcome to the show, superstar.
Speaker 9 (33:27):
Thanks for having the Zen.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
Always a pleasure to be here.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
All right, I'm so excited. This is a great topic.
So you're a pioneer in the field of sexual medicine,
developing a ton of protocols and penile neurotoxins and dermal
filler augmentation. Since twenty nineteen, you're at the forefront of
this and specifically registering the marks in Canada for the
p growth right that male augmentation procedure we talked about
(33:49):
in grotox and I love that you. I love that
these are all unique to you, the growths penile bodulent toxin.
So your work has truly helped shape one is now
a rapidly evolving an increasingly important category within both the
aesthetic and regenerative medicine. So what initially drew you to
this particular space and where did you see the biggest
(34:11):
gaps in care that you felt needed to be addressed.
Speaker 9 (34:15):
I was introduced to sexual health through my PEERP practice.
I'm also paying manasment doctor, so we use PERP for
musco skeletal injuries, and then I discovered that it could
be used for other applications like facial aesthetics, regenerating hair
growth and then also to treat erecht how dysfunction. So
that's how I began in it, and I was treating
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a lot of guys for Parnes and ED and sometimes
during consultation, even though the patient would come to me,
and during consultation, I realized, you know, you don't really
have ED, right, And they were kind of coming to
me with the guys of ED, but in actuality they
wanted to have a bigger penis somehow, And that's how
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everything just kind of developed. And that's what was lacking
at the time, right, Everything was geared towards function, but
nothing about appearance or making the penis bigger. So I
had about three or four patients. I don't know what
was in the air in twenty nineteen, but I had
these patients just come to me asking me for the
same thing, whether or not I can give them what
(35:21):
they wanted. And I thought about the science and the anatomy,
and I came up with my protocols and it's just
snowballed from there.
Speaker 3 (35:32):
So let's take a deeper of a look. So sexual
health treatments are often discussed in terms of physical outcomes,
but they can have a profound psychological impact as well. Right,
So in your experience, how do procedures in this space,
whether it's enhancement or rejuvenation or regenerative treatments translate into
shifts in confidence or self image and more importing the
(35:53):
overall quality of life for your patients. What's the feedback.
Speaker 9 (35:56):
So a lot of my patients come in with a
little bit of shame. They don't measure up right, or
they're not performing well in the bedroom. We've been using
peer p through the pe shot. That was doctor Charles
Runnell's invention, and I took it a step further so
I get a lot of growers, and that's how I
coined the name grow talks. Talks for growers, and we're
(36:17):
converting them over into showers so that there's less embarrassment,
particularly in the locker room setting when they're with their friends,
their colleagues or teammates. They don't feel embarrassed quite so
much anymore, you know, when they're seeing naked and even
with their sexual partners. And a lot of my patients
say that they feel like they're the big man on
campus now. And in combination with the neurotoxin, we can
(36:41):
also augment the penis with fillers, right, So fillers fill
it's definitive you're going to have a bigger penis. It's
a matter of whether or not you can do it safely,
right and with the outcome, making sure that it looks
absolutely natural and the texture feels realistic as well. And
that's the mad And when patients get these services, they just,
(37:04):
you know, they feel so much better about themselves. I
have a lot of patients that may be pe shy
and they're afraid to, you know, step up to the
plate in front of the urinal, particularly if there are
no borders, right, But now they have the confidence to
do that.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
And over the next decade, people are no longer viewing
these concerns as superficial to your point, They're recognizing them
as part of overall wellness and human connection. So now
let's chat a bit about a specific brand offering accessible, approachable,
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So with both the CO two Lift Pro and the
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(37:40):
a range of concerns in intimate areas, right from functional
issues to overall rejuvenation. Now, doctor Leonardo, you've incorporated both
into your space. How you are using CO two Lift
Pro and CO two Live V across different patient needs,
and what in your experience makes these treatments particularly well
suited for intimate areas compared to more traditional or invasive options.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
CO two lift is carboxy therapy. Traditionally it was an
injection technique, but CO two lift is topical, so you
can do this in the privacy of your own home. Right.
The end result is improving circulation, improving moisture, skin quality,
and in terms of intimate health. Right, sex is basically
skin on skin contact, right, so you've got the ultimate
(38:26):
skin treatment that's assisting or you know, helping enhance the experience.
So it improves blood flow, and a lot of our
sex organs rely on a great circulation like the penis
all right, so I'll often have the patient use CO
two lift after a PE shot and even with the
(38:46):
O shot the orgasm shot. They work great in combination
with each other. Also, any kind of healing or repair
that needs to be done, the patient can use this
product at home in privacy. One technique that is new
that wasn't around when I was last on is something
I called RIM talks. It is anal batchulinum talks and treatment,
(39:06):
and that's to help relax the anal sphincter for those
who enjoy anal sex. And we also have women using
this as well well.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Thank you for joining us. This has been a great conversation.
I think sexual health matters. I think products like CO
two Lift Pro and CO two Lift V are changing
the game. They created their own category and if I
was doing any you know, pre or post surgery modalities,
CO two Lift would definitely be the before and after right, Yes.
Speaker 9 (39:35):
I agree completely, Such a versatile product, everyone loves it.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
That was our Lifted by Science series, brought to you
by CO two Lift Pro, and that was the incredible
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sexual medicine pioneer. You can learn more at Leonardomedicine dot
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(40:00):
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Welcome back, beautiful New York, Try State Area and beyond.
You're listening to a moment of Zen right here on
seven to ten w R, the voice of New York iHeartRadio.
I'm your host Zensams. Welcome back to the Heart of
Influence series brought to you by I'm in Lake and
(41:00):
its subsidiaries. Tonight's conversation honestly feels like less of a
trend and more like a societal crossroad. Because while artificial
intelligence is rapidly transforming how we work, communicate, invest consume information,
and even form opinions, many experts are now warning that
humanity may be outsourcing one of its most valuable assets
(41:23):
the ability to think critically. That's right. According to new
twenty twenty six RAND research, student AI usage for schoolwork
jumped from forty eight percent to sixty five percent in
just one year, while about seventy percent of students simultaneously
admitted they believe AI may actually be harming their critical
(41:44):
thinking skills. And when you combine that with algorithmic and manipulation,
synthetic media, emotional outrage levels, and more importantly, political polarization,
and the speed of cryptocurrency and digital influence economies, we're
entering a world, guys, where persuasion itself may become one
of the most important survival skills of the modern age.
Speaker 11 (42:06):
Well.
Speaker 3 (42:06):
Joining us first is John Thomas Connor. He's founder and
CEO of Super Debate. It's the first professional league for
live intellectual competition where debate is evolving from classroom exercise
into live entertainment, civic engagement, and cultural influence. And we're
also going to be joined by John Hines. He's an educator,
a debate coach, NSSEF funded researcher, and co founder of
(42:29):
debater Hub that's an artificial intelligence powered platform designed to
help students strengthen reasoning, listening, and persuasive communication skills. At
the heart of everything we're talking about, and finally joining
the conversation is my longtime co contributor Brian Jsposito, CEO
of Esposito and Intellectual Enterprises and visionary Voice at the
(42:49):
intersection of influence, emerging tech, tokenizations, and the future of
digital ecosystems. Welcome to the show, Superstars.
Speaker 12 (42:57):
Well, it's great to be here, Zed, thank you appreciate it.
Speaker 11 (43:00):
Here as well.
Speaker 3 (43:00):
So John Connor, I'm going to start with you because
what you're building with super Debate almost feels like a
cultural counterattack against passive consumption. I checked out your platform
yesterday and I was very impressed, especially because we're living
in an era dominated by scrolling and reacting and emotional headlines.
(43:21):
So the average person consumes thousands of pieces of content daily,
yet fewer people are actually trying to defend an idea,
articulate a position, or even engage in civil disagreement. So
what's fascinating is that debate, in my opinion, used to
be considered academic, but now it almost feels like a
missing life skill. So, John, when did you realize debate
(43:43):
itself could evolve beyond education and become an actual entertainment platform,
potentially even a mainstream cultural movement.
Speaker 13 (43:51):
Talk to me with all those things that you mentioned
kind of coming together that I think make this moment
where it's not just a matter of like, can we
run debates, can some people on stage debating? But more so,
can we tap into the fundamental humanity of our culture
and cultivate something within people that allows them to have autonomy,
(44:11):
to navigate the world around them.
Speaker 4 (44:13):
To be able to make their own decisions.
Speaker 13 (44:15):
Right, And obviously it's an ongoing fight. Everyone's finding their feeds,
they're finding the phones, they're funding the algorithms, and that
fight's only going to get harder, right, It's not going
to get easier. The systems are not going to get gummer.
And so you know, there's an aspect of this that's
very pragmatic. People want to watch debates, they want to debate,
there's billions of views online on YouTube, et cetera. And
there's an aspect of this that is is quite visionary
in the sense that we want to ask the question,
(44:36):
what is it going to take to change our culture
to one where people can take accountability for their arguments,
where they can understand both sides of a perspective, and
they can come together and have a debate openly without
turning the other person into an enemy, right, And so
you know those are all things that you know, I
think you're totally tapped into there, one.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Hundred percent correct, I mean, and it's powerful because you're
essentially gamifying intellectual endurance right in specifically in a society
that has become addicted to instant reactions and honestly, bringing
debate into live environments I think is one of the
few ways to actually rebuild attention spans and more importantly,
(45:13):
that nuanced thinking at scale. Again, So John, I'm going
to pivot to John Hines. Now, one of the biggest
fears surrounding artificial intelligence right now is that it becomes
a shortcut for thinking instead of a tool for deeper reasoning.
Speaker 8 (45:27):
Right.
Speaker 3 (45:27):
I mean, we're all guilty of using chat GPT, and
I don't think it's a guilt. I think it's learning
it properly and when to apply it. So the OECD
recently warned that AI chat bots are creating what they
called false mastery, where users feel intellectually confident without actually
understanding the material underneath it. This is fascinating, right And
(45:51):
at the same time, you have educators that are trying
to figure out whether artificial intelligence belongs inside the classroom
or outside of it entirely. So, how do platforms like
the Beta Hub use AI in a way that actually
strengthens reasoning instead of replacing human cognition.
Speaker 11 (46:07):
I think there's two design principles that we should have
at the forefront. The first is shifting away from user
centered design towards human centered design. For the past ten
to fifteen years, our social media environments have been designed
with user design in place. How do we keep the
user scrolling? How do we keep the user engaged? Which
leads to that short attention span, that perpetual scroll, that
(46:28):
death scroll. A human centered design introduces reintroduces friction back
into the system. Every teacher knows that essential to the
learning process is productive friction. You need to struggle, you
need to take time with a problem, you need to
make mistakes, and having rapid answers right there at your
fingertips does not produce that friction. It removes the friction.
(46:50):
And so that's precisely why you think you've learned something,
but you actually didn't retain anything, because that process of
struggle and that challenge is central to that. The second
essential design feature that Debater Hub embraces is the concept
of diological learning. We really believe that debate is the
original educational game for millennia. It's how humans taught and
(47:14):
learned and grew by talking to each other, disagreeing with
each other verbally in verbal verbal engagement. It's only been
the past hundred and fifty years that we've shifted to
this kind of lecture based information download educational system where
some people call it the banking model of education, where
we're just trying to fill it's like pictures with information
(47:36):
and then they just have to retain as much information
as possible. That worked for the industrial agricultural era, where
we needed to create you know, just how much information
he retain.
Speaker 4 (47:46):
Quickly and redeploy quickly.
Speaker 11 (47:48):
That's not going to be the essential skill for our
AI enable future. Instead, we're going to need human skills,
durable skills in human intelligence, which is very different than
computational intelligence. And so I think platforms if they're really
going to protect human intelligence, and educational platforms that are
going to protect human intelligence have to reintroduce friction back
(48:09):
into the experience, which is kind of going in an
opposite direction of the way technology has been designed for
the past fifteen to twenty years and attempting to remove
friction and make things as easy as possible.
Speaker 3 (48:20):
Yeah, I mean both of your platforms, whether I mean
you both have something so unique and proprietary. I see
the commonality in both and the complementing and I think
that distinction is everything, because the future probably isn't artificial
intelligence versus humanity. It's whether humanity learns to collaborate with
AI without surrendering its independent thought process, which is the
(48:41):
most important thing, right exactly, That's exactly it. And I
think that naturally brings us to Brian, because Brian, so
much of your work sits at the intersection of influence
and persuasion and tokenization and really what we're talking about
those emerging digital ecosystems. So we're entering an era, Brian.
We talked about this all the time, where influence itself
(49:03):
is becoming programmable, whether it's politics, cryptocurrency, finance, or media
narratives or even digital identity. People are constantly being influenced
by algorithms they don't fully understand. And the World Economic
Forum recently identified misinformation and cognitive manipulation among the top
(49:24):
global risks this year. So why do you believe structured
debate and intellectual discourse are becoming increasingly important in the
world of not only politics, but crypto and even digital influence.
Speaker 4 (49:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 12 (49:38):
When I first met John and honored to work with
him at super Debate, my mind went and Zen, I
think you'd appreciate this right into media, right and content creation,
And I think one of our first conversations was coke
versus PEPSI, Right, why can't CEOs of major corporations be transparent?
We'll touch on blockchain and that entire world that you
(50:00):
have administration like RFK right calling out major CEOs about
what's in their products. Why does it have to be
a congressional hearing to hear about these things? And why
is it going to be on the defense of people?
I think it should be an open forum for companies
and leaders to be fully transparent and open about who
(50:20):
they are and what they're doing. And they should have
this great technology and system like super Debate to be
able to have that discussion with another CEO, right, or
you know, someone that's calling them out. I think this
will domino into you know, television shows, new segments, new series,
and I think super debate is an incredible resource where
(50:42):
it's pulled in as really trusted content directly from a
human being about their responsibility, their fuditionary responsibility, what they're
doing with their company. And that's where my mind went
and I got really excited about the idea of it. Yeah,
I think it Lincoln Douglas, right, I think it always
stem from politics, right, but why can't it go into
(51:02):
every aspect of life with creating authorities in the space
that actually, through the work, they educate themselves. They know
the topic that they're out there debating with real tangible
evidence and real tangible use cases or experiences, and that's
what people need to hear and how the brain needs
to retain knowledge.
Speaker 4 (51:21):
You know that you just taught me something. It's like
a muscle.
Speaker 12 (51:23):
You got it, you got to use it, or a
it's atrophy, it disappears you can't use anyone that was brilliant.
Speaker 3 (51:29):
Yeah, and healthy debate, to your point, has been helping
America choose its next president since the beginning of days.
So we've relied on debates to draw our own conclusions.
And I think when it's properly controlled, when it's when
it's done with refinement and class, so it solves a
lot of problems.
Speaker 12 (51:46):
Absolutely well.
Speaker 3 (51:47):
Said a huge thank you to John Thomas Connor of
Super Debate, John Hines of debater Hub, and of course
my co contributor Brian Jasposito for joining us today. You
can learn more at super Debate dot org, vader Hub
dot com, Ei E Rocks and Diamondlake dot com. We'll
be at back after this.
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