January 19, 2026 • 41 mins
The global med spa industry is booming, and this episode dives into the story behind one successful business in Massachusetts. Misty Lynch sits down with Marika Grantham, owner of Shine MedSpa, to discuss wellness, beauty, career change, and the real value of investing in yourself.
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- The explosive growth and size of the med spa market in the U.S.
- Marika’s unique journey from psychotherapist to med spa owner.
- The science and emotional impact of med spa treatments beyond just beauty.
- How Shine MedSpa combines medical expertise with aesthetic services, including hormone therapy and sexual wellness.
- Breaking down guilt and shame around spending money on personal wellness and how to choose the right provider for you.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Demistifying Money podcast, where each week you
will hear unforgettable conversations with expert guests about success, money, business,
and small steps you can take to elevate your life
and wealth. Now here's your host, Missy Lynch.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hello everyone, thank you so much for joining me for
this episode of Demystifying Money. I'm excited to talk about
a very big business. I'm speaking today with my friend
Marika Grantham, and she is the owner of Shine Medspah
and Microblading in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and we're going to talk
today about her business, how she helps people. And the
(00:39):
reason why I find this business incredibly fascinating is the
global medspa market is worth about twenty one billion dollars
in the US and it's projected to grow substantially by
twenty thirty four. The numbers aren't insane. There's more medspas.
It's easier to find a medspa than a burger king
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in the United States right now. So this is a
big business and I'm starting to see a lot of
money from you know, parts of the budget things like that,
going in this direction. So I think it's really interesting
and I think that I am a huge supporter of
wellness and taking care of yourself. I believe that that
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is our biggest asset that we have. However, there's a
lot of questions that people have about where to go,
what's a good investment, what should they think about? And
there's a lot of shame and guilt that a lot
of people feel about spending any money on what they
might consider selfish reasons or on themselves. So I want
to kind of break down some of these some of
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these misconceptions and help people, you know, who are really
looking at this year making a big investment in their
health and wellness and seeing what they can do to
take those steps in the right way. So thank you
so much for joining me today.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm so happy to be here, Misty.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
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Speaker 2 (02:15):
I want to start with Okay, so I know you
as Marika, but then you also go by Maria. So
tell me a little bit more about you, and you
know you're where you're from and kind of your story
about about the business that you've created.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So I didn't meant to confuse anybody, But original name
that I was given is Maria, but my mother was Maria,
and so in our culture, in our household, smaller Maria,
it's Marika. So they throw that k in between like
in my culture, like book junior, senior, you know, so
that's why, And then it becomes so commonly used that
(02:52):
I really rarely turned my head if somebody calls me Maria.
Maria was usually coming from teacher when I was this
disruptive in classroom, so when I'm in trouble, but normally
I'm Marika and I go by America. But we might
see both of the name on Facebook Maria America Grantham.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, okay, So just in case anybody is wondering if
you see that in two different ways in the show
notes there both we are talking to a Marika today.
But I love that because, yeah, there's sometimes where like
I still hear missus Lynch and I think they're talking
to my mother in law.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It feels like it's my name. But I'm like, I know, I.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Kind of get where like if you're just used to
something for so long that it just kind of feels like, eh,
I think they're talking to me. So where are you
from now? You mentioned in your culture, so I'd love
to hear more about your background and your story here.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So I'm originally from country called Czechoslovakia that no longer exists.
I was born in Bratislava, which is capital of Slovakia today,
a very eclectic family, household, trialing well household. My parents
spoke Hungarian language between each other because they were originally Hungarians.
(04:01):
I actually carry Hungarian nationality. And you know, I grew
up during Communists the era and I was just on
a high school and a revolution took a place and
we become democratic country. Yeah so Europe.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, so I'm Hungarian too.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh yeah, I do not know we had that in comment. Yeah,
so okay, So that makes me think of a whole
other question that I want to make sure that I
circle back to about the travel medspot business where people
are leaving the US to get treatments, and that's something
that I'm seeing a lot of conversation about. But I
(04:41):
want to start by talking with you because you've you know,
your career. You're trained as a psychotherapist before anestheticians. So
what made you and I love talking to career changers,
because there's usually a really good story behind what happened here.
But tell me more about that transition for you and
(05:01):
how that helps you with what you do today.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So it's really mystical how we actually evolved in our life,
and I think that's actually fueling power behind what I'm
doing and how I'm working with my team, how I
work with my friends and clients. And I always say
our clients become our friends, because the common force in
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my life journey was always helping people, and so I
very clearly knew what I wanted to do. When I
was young. My father was professor of psychology, my sister
was head of department of psychology, my mom was teacher,
and we had a family of doctors and priests. And
I was the one that always wanted to help people,
but didn't want to go to an academic way. I
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wanted to do it really in trenches. So I worked
in psychiatry for a really long time, and I actually
started very early when I was at age nineteen psychotropeutic
training while I was at the college. So that training
took five years, and then in addition of that, I
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did another training for four years to become a trainer
of psychotropy in one technique, and then I am also
certified in another technique. So I worked with people with
severe mental illness, and I worked with people in trauma team,
and I managed teams, and it was always kind of
my force was to build the team and to build
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the self esteem of the women and men. But now
it's predominantly women. I become fascinated by women for a
very simple reason, because I think we are absolutely magnificent.
We do go through so much metamorphosis in our life
and journey, and so my change of my profession is
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reflection of that. Because I had a fully built career home.
I was very sexful before I came here. And then
I came here and I built the carrier here once again.
So that was second time in unknown soil, I built
the carrier again. And then I realized that the insurance
system here and the warehouse system is set up here
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for mental illness and for taking care of people made
me unhappy. And many social services places are very dark places, actually,
you know, for many reasons because of low pay. You know,
people go to college, they have the same college loans
than other people, but yet they have no chance to
compensate and paid of the same like other professional engineer
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or it guys, you know, and all that stuff. So
I had my husband and two kids, and I realized
I am falling behind again, like economically. So that was
one thing, and on the top of that was really
it's a dark world, you know, as much as you
have a psycho hygienior dealing with a lot of illness.
And we talked about this video industry, you see a
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lot of pain as well, and it can go to
so far. But then when you're not even compensated for
it and you are falling on a status quo of
the society, on a lover ladder of pay, it's really
not very exciting. And I had two sons that then
you will go with potentially to college, and you know,
so that was one reason. And the second reason was
I always did makeup, and I always did arts, and
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I always did play it with fashion, and that's one
of the things that I do as well as a
little hobby. But I always loved making people more beautiful
or things more beautiful. Space is more beautiful. All what
I've done here is my signature. You know, I design
my space. I tell my place. I pain my place.
I do things, you know, because I love to bring
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more light to the world. And that's with helping in
many many ways. It's how people feel when they walk
at Shine, It's how we make them feel when they
talk to us. It's having make feel people being friends
with and what they walk away with, you know. It's
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that little exchange that we can have and touch another
human soul and personality with who we are and how
we can leave them up. And that's why name Shine Actually.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
No, I think that's a beautiful name. And you mentioned
career changing and starting up again several times, and I
think that that's something that a lot of people struggle with,
especially like you mentioned being trained and having degrees and
certifications in something and feeling like, well, I don't want
(09:38):
to waste that. But I think what you've said is
you didn't waste anything. It all just changed and evolved
in different ways. And you mentioned some people who are
in careers where they feel like they're not compensated probably
have more debt, more advanced degrees that they needed to
get in their profession, which is just so difficult, and
(09:59):
it's so hard with a broken system that isn't going to,
you know, compensate you fairly. So I love that you
you kind of just incorporated and moved on and didn't
see that as a I'm failing.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I'm quitting.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I need to make this work. There's so many different
ways to use everything that we've learned.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I don't think I ever felt that way, and I
quite contrary, actually gained something because I felt like because
my first trending was head of Psychoanalytics Society of Whole
Europe from Budapest and then so I had the best
of the best and and so it was very structured
and very specific, and the other one was working with
(10:37):
imaginative world and it's like atative imaginative psychotherapy, which is
coming from German schools, and it's like then dreaming between
hypnosis and symbols. But people are in the control. We
don't have a control over them. Where now I can't
touch people, you know, like I never could touch people
other than in psychiatry in a different way to give
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feeling of security. People were you know, having anxiety and
fears and other things going on. But now I can
touch people. So jokingly call myself shrink with a blink,
you know, because I am very sparkly, but I feel
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that Freudian bed I change for medical share, you know,
and that's the only difference. But as you know, people
feel comfortable when they're being taken care of, you know,
and feel like there is that regressive element to that.
And I just love having people and care for them,
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you know, like that's that's truly what I love to do.
And when they look at the mirror and they feel
better about themselves, whatever that is, if it's internally or externally,
I just laugh seeing that I love and they held
them and I look at their brows and they're like,
oh my god, I have by browsers, you know. Like
that feeling of that the woman walks out of here
(12:03):
with her chin a little more higher to me is
the best reword I think, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And that's something that you know, we can talk about
because there's a lot of times where in a lot
of us, no matter what we do, if we have
that ability to make somebody feel secure and see or
able to be cared for, whether it's children, adult, it's
it is such a it's such a great feeling to
be able to do that and to share that with
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whatever it is that we are able to work with.
But some people might think of medspot business and just
think about beauty and just think about, you know, looking
better on the outside. What what would you say is
more the you know, emotional wellness beauty part of that
that you see when you're actually working with people and
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can see that the transformation.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
So this is where we are actually standing out, and
I think this is where we are different. We do
offer medical aesthetics services, of course, and we do beautiful
work with them. The thing is we are not just that.
There is a lot of mets pass as you mentioned,
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and they are popping up as a mushrooms, and a
lot of nurses are leaving hospitals after COVID. You know,
there has been a lot of frustrations and so like
it was very difficult on them, you know, serving their
purpose you know, in a hospital setting in that time.
And I think like a lot of people feel like
it's like the easiest job, which is really not true
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because there is a lot of handholding that comes with it.
But we are offering way more than just that. We
do have a hormonal replacement therapy. We don't have just
medical director that oversee us. We have doctors on a
site working here. They are the ones seeing clients and patients.
(13:58):
So from waits that is very popular. Before it was popular,
we were doing weight loss, before it was popular to
talk about menopause. We were offering hormonal replacement therapy. We
do revive shot, you know, we revive shot, which is
working with your tissue in your vaginal wall and helping
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you to be able to have a happy sexual wellness.
We do have IVY drips and we had them again
before all these IVY mobiles were up there running. We
do focus on women to be able to live in
her best optimum health possible, and that comes with the responsibility.
(14:43):
You know, it's not just our clients are not just
numbers to us. It really is serious. If the woman
is entering her manopose and let me not get started,
we do really go through so many changes from the
moment we get periods, from the moment we are trying
to conceive, from the moment we are pregnant, from a
moment we give birth, from postpartum. There is a journey itself,
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you know. Our hormones are always on this like volcano
or kind of swirl, you know, and then we are
perimanent apostles and in psychiatry, they used to call women hysteric,
They used to lock them in a psyche. What's and
call it hysteria? You know, there is a reason why
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it's called that way. And so women didn't God enough attention.
And with that come also how they feel, how they
relate to their spouses, how they relate to themselves, how
they relate to the outside world. What happened to her skin,
What is happening to her hair? Is she gaining weight now?
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You know? Is she feeling attractive? What's happened to her libido?
The woman that was before all excited to see her
husband all of a sudden is having headache all the time,
you know, and all these things that happen. So when
they come to us, when women comes to us, when
any of you will come to us, we send you
for blood work, we want to make sure we really
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first investigate what is the reason and what is the
medical reason, before we recommend hair product or before we
recommend anything, you know, so it's very thorough. And then
we also look into how it can help you to
feel your best. And I am a prototype of that,
and Misty, I will send you some pictures because I
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posted some recently where I'm doing headstand and I'm fifty
two and I am. But I didn't post it the
pictures of me going through my facial transformation because there's
a lot of tuble about that as well, you know,
and a lot of women make judgments. We all for
liposuction here, I didn't mentioned, you know, diving into way
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more advanced things that are coming that we are actually following.
European March could do it. And I think like it's
really important that women choose very wisely. Wos she trust
too with her face, whos she trusts through with her body,
and who she goes to be treated, because we see
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a lot of things we have to correct, and I
see it on brows, you know, in my treatment room,
I see them arrolas and scar camouflage because I see
woman with breast cancer and giving them back their bodies
so they're not feeling like mermaids, you know. And I
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see all that butchered work as well, and it breaks
my heart to see that because they spend less money
and it was convenient and it was somewhere sumwhere. It's
really sad world to see.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Actually, yeah, no, and I think it's important you mentioned
so many things about the whole because it doesn't sound
to me like you're just trying to get somebody to
look like they're twenty five. Again, that's not the ultimate goal.
You're doing blood work, you're figuring out how they're feeling,
how they're what's going on, all of these things that
are so important. And I think that a lot of
times in any you know, in a lot of medical situations.
(18:12):
You know, women have been you know, under research as
far as treatments and health. And there's so many people
who will tell me, I'm going to this doctor, but
I don't, like, you know, I can't talk to them
or I feel this way, and so there's a lot
of you know, there's so it's so important who you
choose to help you with these you know, with this work.
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And I do feel like I'm for in some ways.
You tend to get what you pay for in a
lot of situations, and so something that you want to do,
you know as inexpensively as possible, because you're trying to
hud it, like it's just it ends up, like you mentioned,
causing some more issues. So what would you say, you know,
say there's a woman who just doesn't feel like herself
(18:59):
at you know, maybe you know, at this point in
her life, and so she's not exactly sure what's wrong,
but it just feels like something's off. You mentioned, like,
how do you really start to work with that client
to help them if they don't even really know how
to say what's wrong, they're just feeling like they need
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some help.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
So first of all, first of all, please come and
reach out to us and we will have a free consultation.
You know, it's complimentary, and we really have two very
skilled specialized doctors here. One worked in r during the COVID,
works in primary care, and then works here. The other
one is over seventy gynecologist that dealt with women her
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whole career, and it's very skilled and very experienced how
to handle that. So before we even go through the symptoms,
we're going to find out what is going on, and
then we based on that have the recommendations and they
send them to LAPSE to have a certain work done.
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You know, before they even moved to hormonal replacement therapy.
There is also more natural alternatives for whoman that is afraid.
But they also want to tell women do not be afraid,
because we were really kept in darkness, darkness and scared.
You know. The label that just came off through FDA,
you know, from many many boxes is because women started
really collecting very clear data. That the data and and
(20:37):
not investigation, but research was behind because it was not
justified and it was very treated in true reality as
a secondary citizens, you know. And and that's in the
pay industry, that is still in many many other ways.
Because we physically seems and we are we you know,
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which is true. We are not going to pretend we
are six six foot true, you know, but we are unbelievable.
We are so magnificent in what we are capable of doing.
You know, we are able to move the mountains. Women.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
You mentioned that a few times. What you see in
women and the strength and that power, and and I
do feel like there is there is some level of
self esteem that is you know, some women that come
to you, women that come to me. I like a
lot of times when people come to help, it is
it is really just this feeling of you know that
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maybe they don't deserve to do this, or maybe this
is something that they should be spending their money everywhere
else besides on themselves. And they feel this this guilt
and shame. So I know, with your training, how do
you help people who really feel like investing in themselves
for whatever reason is wrong?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Okay, so you have to put the mask on an
airplane first before you can help anybody else. And I
think there was always taboo and shame attached to corrective
or transformative procedures. The picture I will send you, Misty
(22:24):
is about me being forty on vacation and then being
fifty two now. And I always thought that I am this,
that I'm comfortable with WYM, I'm happy with WYM. I
felt like I'm good looking, okay looking woman, and yet
I had so many things I didn't like about myself.
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I didn't I had always big belly. No matter what
I did, I had big belly. I had always tick
ties and they were always meeting from midway all the
way up. I was always wearing these long tops to
cover up my legs. I was crossing my legs on
the pictures. I always felt like my face is very cheeky,
and people assume I had a lot of filer. The
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fact is that pictures before I had a lot of filer.
I look like I have more filerin when I don't
have a filerin so it's like really funny because I
had this like big, cheeky, heavy face, you know, and
they really transformed me. My team transformed my face, you know.
And they LiPo sectioned my belly and they section my
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inner ties. And I am first time in my what
normally is the age that we are like okay, fifty
and plus, you know, feeling beautiful. And I want to
share this with every woman out there, that every single
woman of you can feel beautiful, you know. And it's
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not necessarily about big spending neither. And there are options
of pap plants and blah blah blah. I don't want
to go into that. Don't feel like you can't try
to change something you don't like about yourself, because there
is nothing wrong about it. I want you to love
yourself more. And if I can give you tools and
help you with my toolbox that we have here to
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feel that way energetically hormonally moved weight ways or face
ways or whatever skin ways. You know. I am here
for you because I went through the same journey. You know.
I never had chin. Now I have chein. This is radio,
you know. I never had cheen. I had second chins.
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This is more feels it. I don't have second thin
because we melt that pat down, you know. So it's
like I never had a cheekbones because all chicks were here.
Now I have cheekbones radius, you know. So my face
turns from peer into hearts, you know, like, which is
really cool. And I'm talking about it, and I'm going
(24:57):
to have this picture public. And you know, on top
of that, they changed my vagina because I had to
force up labor and second child was eighteen months later.
And I talked about sexual wellness and I have no
problem talking about this that I develop urinary incontinence, you know,
and how embarrassing this is being in your thirties forties
(25:21):
and you can do jumping jacks yeah real sneith and
you pee and they're like here it goes. Yeah. Hell.
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It's so things that so many people like think about
in fear, and it's just this like like you mentioned
this taboo, which I think it's just refreshing that you
talk about it and you talk about what you went
through and how you felt and what you've done and
how you feel today. And I think, yeah, with sexual
wellness and health, I think there's so many people who
are like, oh, yeah, I feel that what I struggle
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at the gym or all of these things that happened
because I feel like nervous and it's it's just like,
you know, I can't even imagine what that was like,
you know, thirty forty fifty years where nobody was like
able to talk at.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
All about our mothers and our grandmothers were really not
having any of these support. It's really sad. You know,
I wonder how they even made it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You know, I feel like there's just so much more.
There's more now, there's more options, there's more things like people,
you know, you don't have to deal with having crooked teeth,
and now everyone goes through the orthodoxy, you know, all
of these things that have just started to become more
accepted and normal and so and I think when men
do any sort of work with vitamins or and like
(26:37):
it's it's biohacking. It's not well like it's something scientific
and cool and crazy you can do it. It's it's
completely you know, self absorbed. But I do think that
there are things that like you can you can change,
you can you can fix, you can you know, like
just like people work on their their bodies, their health,
their diet, all of these things can be You don't
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have to just obsessed with how much you hate these
things for the rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And social media today, let's face it, it doesn't make
it any easier.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
You know, the filtered, most perfect version of everybody, And
so sometimes I think that's why everyone is happy when
they see reality, and it's going to get harder and
harder to tell the difference. I even was picking out
a helping my son pick out a haircut, and he's like, oh,
I like that kid's hair, and I'm like, that's not
even a real boy. Like that is that is an
(27:29):
AI picture where like they.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Will do the best thing, you know. I like, yeah,
you get.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
As close as possible, but it's just crazy. So I
think that is kind of starting to impact the way
people feel that they should be looking. So how do
you help people kind of get to that best version
of themselves. If they're coming to you saying I would
like to look like j Lo or this person online
or me with this filter, that's unrealistic, how do you
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help people manage those expectations and feel again happy.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I think this is like a good question. Mister, thank
you for asking this, because I think we all have
like fashion icons and idols, and that was through the
whole life. And I'm going to slide something there. And
when Kardashian's family joined the scene, everybody's got their eyebrows,
and now we are removing them because blonde women should
not have our minion eyebrows, you know, just say so
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we go for trends, and that's not what we are
doing here because we are trying to really celebrate uniqueness
of every woman. Because every painting is beautiful in its naturality.
So what we are trying to showcase. If client comes
and she sits in our chair, we have her hold
a mirror and we start moving tissue and face and
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start talking about it what we see and ask what
is her concern? You know. And very often the woman
comes and she will see something and we see something
completely different, you know, And this is where expertise coming.
Women seeing Nazola bill faults here, you know, don't judge me.
I have actually signed those infections for a puffy here.
(29:09):
So woman has a Nasola bill fault and she see
this smiley wrinkle, but we see she is in her
fifty five, let's say, and she's shortening her teeth because
we are grinding our teeth. Most of the women in
certain ages start developing team jays, you know, also mouth
card and all that stuff. But we also are shortening
(29:31):
a teeth by chewing, and our bone is compartnalizing more
and more, you know, and so this is all shortening.
So many things start happening at the same time. We
start seeing that this area start giving up. If we
see the woman is on a sun in a summertime
and doesn't think of losing her collagen because of UV raise,
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but it's happening. So the skin is starting to give
in and it doesn't have the same bounce, you know,
and it start being more and more relaxed, and we
actually start looking at what we can start with. Is
it about we need to focus on skin rejuvenation before
we go with any other you know, fillers and botox.
(30:14):
And right now very very popular for us biostimulators because
women are also realizing it's not just about being structurally shifted,
but it's also about bringing tissue and quality of your skin.
And biostimulators are beautiful in that we really do love
radios in our office we love cuture as well, but
(30:36):
I think we have very soft spot for radius for
many reasons because its versatility that it can gives you
from structural changing to hyper dilution. So you can mix
it and make it as soft and hyper deluded and
bring it with canilla and a tissue as a liquidy abstance.
So it's not this like look, you know, over exaggerated look.
(30:58):
But we talk about what we see and we talk
about what we feel like it will mostly enhance this,
and then we present it and we see if this
is what women resonate with, and you may feel, no,
I want just this, and then okay, you know, we
can say, but we are going to tell you if
you're not going to support this, we can bring a
(31:20):
lot of you know, like a lot of units in
here and all what we are going to achieve. We
are going to start moving your face forward, you know,
and now we're start going to look very different from profile.
So there is this fine line, just like when I
design brows, there is this fine line how do I
(31:40):
feel and how do we feel? And we do These
concerts actually very often save all of us together, and
then we address the skin care issue. But that fine
line is like, how we can achieve or laser treatment
for the skin, how do we achieve that you will
get the best outcome for your money, and how it
can supportals. So what we are going to do with
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your face structurally so it gives you longer longevity of
anti aging that we are doing.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You know, it seems like you mentioned the art history
and the science behind things a lot, which I think
is when we see people who maybe have had a
big change in their look and we think, ooh, that look,
you know, I don't I wouldn't want that or that
Why would they do that? I think we see that
a lot a lot online. Why would they do that
(32:31):
to themselves? They were so beautiful? And I think there
is this pressure, but like you said, we might not
know exactly what the right you know, what everything behind it,
where the jaw and the teeth and all of those
things that you mentioned. So I think that is so
important that you mentioned that the level of training and
medical professionals and and different techniques that you have available
(32:52):
to you, because there is there is so much to it,
so very very important as you're choosing, you know, as
you're choosing, you know, well, you know a s medspot
or anything like that. Really you really understand kind of
all of those different trainings and techniques and what are
some of the trends that you've seen. You know, you
(33:14):
just mentioned one, but are there any like positive trends
that you're seeing in the wellness area that you think
are important for people to be aware of that they
may have never heard of.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yeah. Yeah, and we are going to be one of
the flagship places for that. I have this unique opportunity
that we are working with the company that we are
implementing here with. There is a global and seven very
well known plastic surgeon created the line together and it's
(33:44):
working with highbrosomes and you know, we have our stem
cells and then we have exosomes. We just stem cells
from outside and then there are hyghbrosomes that they are
modified to improve the quality of the cell and when
that happened, that actually make that cell when it's introduced,
almost like coming and improving the software of yourself. So
(34:07):
this is very very unique product and it's coming in
a form of needling, it's coming in a form for face,
it's coming in a form for hair growth. In Europe,
they are using them when they do hair transplants to
dip the hair follicles in it. They call it the
bath because they find out they have much higher retention
of the hair and even less hair loss with the
(34:30):
time with it. And then it comes with the creams
and skin care. So we are bringing that up. So
that's one of the things. Ten fat transfers are very
popular because more and more we are learning that more
natural might be do a very good alternative for a
lot of women with autoimmune a lot of women, you know, obviously,
(34:51):
that do not want to introduce something else to their skin.
You know, there was always PRP on the market, which
is beautiful, and I'm like a walking representation of that
because that's how I started with my very wife. You know,
there were stem cells injected down there. For me, that
was my first introduction and it stopped my urinary incontinent
(35:12):
for two years. So then nobody could tell me it
doesn't work in face. If it worked in my china,
you know, like hello. So then I had it in
my shoulder, I have it in my face, I have
it in my ankle while I had the surgery. So
stem cells are a really beautiful way of going in
(35:33):
a very natural way. And then you can also warm
them up and make it PRF. But then we are
finding out there is even more advanced way to dealing
with them and it become like a natural feeler of
your own. So there is many alternatives that we can do.
There has been also a lot of conversations through FDA
because they send this very alarming finger out there about
(35:56):
the radio frequency and micron idling, and they said that
there has been like a lot of fat loss and
tissue lows. And that's exactly example when the laser and
treatment is done with not proper training and very adventurous providers.
(36:22):
Because yes, we want to use more Fuse eight on
your belly to melt a fat or on your second chin,
but we don't want to use it to lose your
fat on your face because then we have to bring
it back and replace it. And so so we have
two RF micro link devices. We have more delicate one
which is Virtue, you know, and then we have more
(36:42):
Fuse and then Morpheus in power raft that is treating
with all the red frequency vaginally and kegel exercises and
body tone and all that stuff. We have so much
versatility with it. But once again it's coming to does
your provider really do understand properly the settings of the
machine that they have and they work with. And you know,
(37:05):
like that's where the craft comes in because the people
that do morphel Zatier are highly specialized trained medical people,
you know, So you have to be very humble to
do this, yeah, I think, And you have to sell
(37:28):
lower to do this. Then go after money, because if
you go in this industry for money, you're not going
to survive in it because people feel it. People genuinely
feel your intentions and people feel like you're looking at
them to strip them off their budget to pay for
your stuff. And that is not how this industry should be.
(37:54):
It needs to be very ethical and we need to
have interest of your face and your body and your
wellness us in our care. And that's what it's all about, right, And.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I think that that's so important for anybody listening because
I think whenever there's anything where there might be some
you know, maybe there's some self consciousness that can be
taken advantage of by an unethical practitioner, that feeling of
needing to you know, not spend enough. This is very
important anything that comes to your health, your wellness, your
(38:24):
body I mean so important to really you know, to
be certain that you're working with an ethical provider and
somebody who is a good fit. And then maybe if
it means you have to delay because you need to
say more, that may be worth it in the end
versus having to fix something or reverse something that was
done ye in a way that wasn't you know, wasn't right,
(38:46):
which will again be more costly to your time, your money,
your mental health, all of those things. So if people
want to find you and learn more about you or
working with you or just follow you online to see
these pictures, because I would I'm excited to actually see
this headstand pictures that sound crazy? How can they find
you if they need to learn more?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So we have we are on all the platforms. We
are other than TikTok. I'm still really passive in TikTok.
That's my goal for New Year. We are Shine Metzpa
on Instagram and we are shine mets Pa on Facebook
and Shane mets Pine. Micro Blading is our website, so
(39:28):
Shine metz Pa and micro learning dot com. No, Shine
Metspa dot com is our website, sorry, And so we
put the name microblading there because you know it was
popular when it came in. Obviously we are doing other
techniques and stuff, but it's just listed there and we
all yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
So we'll include all of those links into the in
the show notes. I think that I love hearing more
about I love business in general, and I think this
is such a fascin one with the different like you mentioned,
the different treatment. There's so much growth here. There's so
much so it's super interesting to me as an investor
and also somebody who's talking with people who are thinking
(40:11):
of career changes, lots of nurses like you mentioned, people
thinking about what else is out there for me that
I can do. So it's great to see you kind
of making advances in this industry and being such a
leader in the space and making sure that you know
you are kind of an example of how this business
should be run, which is really client focused and done
(40:31):
with a lot of care. So so interesting to talk
to you. Thank you again so much for coming on
the show. And if you're listening and you're trying to
think about where you can find space in your budget
to invest a little bit more in you head, want
to miss you Lynch dot com. I would love to
talk with you about your financial plan, and I think
all of these things deserve a space in it. It
is so the more we talk about our own physical
(40:53):
health or mental health or well being, what we want
to do, what we want to do with our money,
and if it makes us happy, then I think that
there should be more confidence and more more attention focused
on those things. So head over to miss Lynch dot
com and you can also catch up with other episodes
of the podcast there. Thank you so much for listening,
and we'll talk again next week. Thank you for joining
(41:14):
us on another insightful episode of demonst Buying Money.
Speaker 3 (41:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
Hello everyone, thank you so much for joining me for
this episode of Demystifying Money. I'm excited to talk about
a very big business. I'm speaking today with my friend
Marika Grantham, and she is the owner of Shine Medspah
and Microblading in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and we're going to talk
today about her business, how she helps people. And the
(00:39):
reason why I find this business incredibly fascinating is the
global medspa market is worth about twenty one billion dollars
in the US and it's projected to grow substantially by
twenty thirty four. The numbers aren't insane. There's more medspas.
It's easier to find a medspa than a burger king
(01:01):
in the United States right now. So this is a
big business and I'm starting to see a lot of
money from you know, parts of the budget things like that,
going in this direction. So I think it's really interesting
and I think that I am a huge supporter of
wellness and taking care of yourself. I believe that that
(01:23):
is our biggest asset that we have. However, there's a
lot of questions that people have about where to go,
what's a good investment, what should they think about? And
there's a lot of shame and guilt that a lot
of people feel about spending any money on what they
might consider selfish reasons or on themselves. So I want
to kind of break down some of these some of
(01:45):
these misconceptions and help people, you know, who are really
looking at this year making a big investment in their
health and wellness and seeing what they can do to
take those steps in the right way. So thank you
so much for joining me today.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
I'm so happy to be here, Misty.
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Speaker 2 (02:15):
I want to start with Okay, so I know you
as Marika, but then you also go by Maria. So
tell me a little bit more about you, and you
know you're where you're from and kind of your story
about about the business that you've created.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
So I didn't meant to confuse anybody, But original name
that I was given is Maria, but my mother was Maria,
and so in our culture, in our household, smaller Maria,
it's Marika. So they throw that k in between like
in my culture, like book junior, senior, you know, so
that's why, And then it becomes so commonly used that
(02:52):
I really rarely turned my head if somebody calls me Maria.
Maria was usually coming from teacher when I was this
disruptive in classroom, so when I'm in trouble, but normally
I'm Marika and I go by America. But we might
see both of the name on Facebook Maria America Grantham.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Yeah, okay, So just in case anybody is wondering if
you see that in two different ways in the show
notes there both we are talking to a Marika today.
But I love that because, yeah, there's sometimes where like
I still hear missus Lynch and I think they're talking
to my mother in law.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
It feels like it's my name. But I'm like, I know, I.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Kind of get where like if you're just used to
something for so long that it just kind of feels like, eh,
I think they're talking to me. So where are you
from now? You mentioned in your culture, so I'd love
to hear more about your background and your story here.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
So I'm originally from country called Czechoslovakia that no longer exists.
I was born in Bratislava, which is capital of Slovakia today,
a very eclectic family, household, trialing well household. My parents
spoke Hungarian language between each other because they were originally Hungarians.
(04:01):
I actually carry Hungarian nationality. And you know, I grew
up during Communists the era and I was just on
a high school and a revolution took a place and
we become democratic country. Yeah so Europe.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, so I'm Hungarian too.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Oh yeah, I do not know we had that in comment. Yeah,
so okay, So that makes me think of a whole
other question that I want to make sure that I
circle back to about the travel medspot business where people
are leaving the US to get treatments, and that's something
that I'm seeing a lot of conversation about. But I
(04:41):
want to start by talking with you because you've you know,
your career. You're trained as a psychotherapist before anestheticians. So
what made you and I love talking to career changers,
because there's usually a really good story behind what happened here.
But tell me more about that transition for you and
(05:01):
how that helps you with what you do today.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
So it's really mystical how we actually evolved in our life,
and I think that's actually fueling power behind what I'm
doing and how I'm working with my team, how I
work with my friends and clients. And I always say
our clients become our friends, because the common force in
(05:29):
my life journey was always helping people, and so I
very clearly knew what I wanted to do. When I
was young. My father was professor of psychology, my sister
was head of department of psychology, my mom was teacher,
and we had a family of doctors and priests. And
I was the one that always wanted to help people,
but didn't want to go to an academic way. I
(05:51):
wanted to do it really in trenches. So I worked
in psychiatry for a really long time, and I actually
started very early when I was at age nineteen psychotropeutic
training while I was at the college. So that training
took five years, and then in addition of that, I
(06:11):
did another training for four years to become a trainer
of psychotropy in one technique, and then I am also
certified in another technique. So I worked with people with
severe mental illness, and I worked with people in trauma team,
and I managed teams, and it was always kind of
my force was to build the team and to build
(06:35):
the self esteem of the women and men. But now
it's predominantly women. I become fascinated by women for a
very simple reason, because I think we are absolutely magnificent.
We do go through so much metamorphosis in our life
and journey, and so my change of my profession is
(06:55):
reflection of that. Because I had a fully built career home.
I was very sexful before I came here. And then
I came here and I built the carrier here once again.
So that was second time in unknown soil, I built
the carrier again. And then I realized that the insurance
system here and the warehouse system is set up here
(07:16):
for mental illness and for taking care of people made
me unhappy. And many social services places are very dark places, actually,
you know, for many reasons because of low pay. You know,
people go to college, they have the same college loans
than other people, but yet they have no chance to
compensate and paid of the same like other professional engineer
(07:39):
or it guys, you know, and all that stuff. So
I had my husband and two kids, and I realized
I am falling behind again, like economically. So that was
one thing, and on the top of that was really
it's a dark world, you know, as much as you
have a psycho hygienior dealing with a lot of illness.
And we talked about this video industry, you see a
(08:00):
lot of pain as well, and it can go to
so far. But then when you're not even compensated for
it and you are falling on a status quo of
the society, on a lover ladder of pay, it's really
not very exciting. And I had two sons that then
you will go with potentially to college, and you know,
so that was one reason. And the second reason was
I always did makeup, and I always did arts, and
(08:23):
I always did play it with fashion, and that's one
of the things that I do as well as a
little hobby. But I always loved making people more beautiful
or things more beautiful. Space is more beautiful. All what
I've done here is my signature. You know, I design
my space. I tell my place. I pain my place.
I do things, you know, because I love to bring
(08:46):
more light to the world. And that's with helping in
many many ways. It's how people feel when they walk
at Shine, It's how we make them feel when they
talk to us. It's having make feel people being friends
with and what they walk away with, you know. It's
(09:06):
that little exchange that we can have and touch another
human soul and personality with who we are and how
we can leave them up. And that's why name Shine Actually.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
No, I think that's a beautiful name. And you mentioned
career changing and starting up again several times, and I
think that that's something that a lot of people struggle with,
especially like you mentioned being trained and having degrees and
certifications in something and feeling like, well, I don't want
(09:38):
to waste that. But I think what you've said is
you didn't waste anything. It all just changed and evolved
in different ways. And you mentioned some people who are
in careers where they feel like they're not compensated probably
have more debt, more advanced degrees that they needed to
get in their profession, which is just so difficult, and
(09:59):
it's so hard with a broken system that isn't going to,
you know, compensate you fairly. So I love that you
you kind of just incorporated and moved on and didn't
see that as a I'm failing.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I'm quitting.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I need to make this work. There's so many different
ways to use everything that we've learned.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
I don't think I ever felt that way, and I
quite contrary, actually gained something because I felt like because
my first trending was head of Psychoanalytics Society of Whole
Europe from Budapest and then so I had the best
of the best and and so it was very structured
and very specific, and the other one was working with
(10:37):
imaginative world and it's like atative imaginative psychotherapy, which is
coming from German schools, and it's like then dreaming between
hypnosis and symbols. But people are in the control. We
don't have a control over them. Where now I can't
touch people, you know, like I never could touch people
other than in psychiatry in a different way to give
(10:58):
feeling of security. People were you know, having anxiety and
fears and other things going on. But now I can
touch people. So jokingly call myself shrink with a blink,
you know, because I am very sparkly, but I feel
(11:19):
that Freudian bed I change for medical share, you know,
and that's the only difference. But as you know, people
feel comfortable when they're being taken care of, you know,
and feel like there is that regressive element to that.
And I just love having people and care for them,
(11:41):
you know, like that's that's truly what I love to do.
And when they look at the mirror and they feel
better about themselves, whatever that is, if it's internally or externally,
I just laugh seeing that I love and they held
them and I look at their brows and they're like,
oh my god, I have by browsers, you know. Like
that feeling of that the woman walks out of here
(12:03):
with her chin a little more higher to me is
the best reword I think, you know.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
And that's something that you know, we can talk about
because there's a lot of times where in a lot
of us, no matter what we do, if we have
that ability to make somebody feel secure and see or
able to be cared for, whether it's children, adult, it's
it is such a it's such a great feeling to
be able to do that and to share that with
(12:29):
whatever it is that we are able to work with.
But some people might think of medspot business and just
think about beauty and just think about, you know, looking
better on the outside. What what would you say is
more the you know, emotional wellness beauty part of that
that you see when you're actually working with people and
(12:50):
can see that the transformation.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
So this is where we are actually standing out, and
I think this is where we are different. We do
offer medical aesthetics services, of course, and we do beautiful
work with them. The thing is we are not just that.
There is a lot of mets pass as you mentioned,
(13:15):
and they are popping up as a mushrooms, and a
lot of nurses are leaving hospitals after COVID. You know,
there has been a lot of frustrations and so like
it was very difficult on them, you know, serving their
purpose you know, in a hospital setting in that time.
And I think like a lot of people feel like
it's like the easiest job, which is really not true
(13:37):
because there is a lot of handholding that comes with it.
But we are offering way more than just that. We
do have a hormonal replacement therapy. We don't have just
medical director that oversee us. We have doctors on a
site working here. They are the ones seeing clients and patients.
(13:58):
So from waits that is very popular. Before it was popular,
we were doing weight loss, before it was popular to
talk about menopause. We were offering hormonal replacement therapy. We
do revive shot, you know, we revive shot, which is
working with your tissue in your vaginal wall and helping
(14:19):
you to be able to have a happy sexual wellness.
We do have IVY drips and we had them again
before all these IVY mobiles were up there running. We
do focus on women to be able to live in
her best optimum health possible, and that comes with the responsibility.
(14:43):
You know, it's not just our clients are not just
numbers to us. It really is serious. If the woman
is entering her manopose and let me not get started,
we do really go through so many changes from the
moment we get periods, from the moment we are trying
to conceive, from the moment we are pregnant, from a
moment we give birth, from postpartum. There is a journey itself,
(15:08):
you know. Our hormones are always on this like volcano
or kind of swirl, you know, and then we are
perimanent apostles and in psychiatry, they used to call women hysteric,
They used to lock them in a psyche. What's and
call it hysteria? You know, there is a reason why
(15:30):
it's called that way. And so women didn't God enough attention.
And with that come also how they feel, how they
relate to their spouses, how they relate to themselves, how
they relate to the outside world. What happened to her skin,
What is happening to her hair? Is she gaining weight now?
(15:50):
You know? Is she feeling attractive? What's happened to her libido?
The woman that was before all excited to see her
husband all of a sudden is having headache all the time,
you know, and all these things that happen. So when
they come to us, when women comes to us, when
any of you will come to us, we send you
for blood work, we want to make sure we really
(16:12):
first investigate what is the reason and what is the
medical reason, before we recommend hair product or before we
recommend anything, you know, so it's very thorough. And then
we also look into how it can help you to
feel your best. And I am a prototype of that,
and Misty, I will send you some pictures because I
(16:33):
posted some recently where I'm doing headstand and I'm fifty
two and I am. But I didn't post it the
pictures of me going through my facial transformation because there's
a lot of tuble about that as well, you know,
and a lot of women make judgments. We all for
liposuction here, I didn't mentioned, you know, diving into way
(16:55):
more advanced things that are coming that we are actually following.
European March could do it. And I think like it's
really important that women choose very wisely. Wos she trust
too with her face, whos she trusts through with her body,
and who she goes to be treated, because we see
(17:17):
a lot of things we have to correct, and I
see it on brows, you know, in my treatment room,
I see them arrolas and scar camouflage because I see
woman with breast cancer and giving them back their bodies
so they're not feeling like mermaids, you know. And I
(17:38):
see all that butchered work as well, and it breaks
my heart to see that because they spend less money
and it was convenient and it was somewhere sumwhere. It's
really sad world to see.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Actually, yeah, no, and I think it's important you mentioned
so many things about the whole because it doesn't sound
to me like you're just trying to get somebody to
look like they're twenty five. Again, that's not the ultimate goal.
You're doing blood work, you're figuring out how they're feeling,
how they're what's going on, all of these things that
are so important. And I think that a lot of
times in any you know, in a lot of medical situations.
(18:12):
You know, women have been you know, under research as
far as treatments and health. And there's so many people
who will tell me, I'm going to this doctor, but
I don't, like, you know, I can't talk to them
or I feel this way, and so there's a lot
of you know, there's so it's so important who you
choose to help you with these you know, with this work.
(18:35):
And I do feel like I'm for in some ways.
You tend to get what you pay for in a
lot of situations, and so something that you want to do,
you know as inexpensively as possible, because you're trying to
hud it, like it's just it ends up, like you mentioned,
causing some more issues. So what would you say, you know,
say there's a woman who just doesn't feel like herself
(18:59):
at you know, maybe you know, at this point in
her life, and so she's not exactly sure what's wrong,
but it just feels like something's off. You mentioned, like,
how do you really start to work with that client
to help them if they don't even really know how
to say what's wrong, they're just feeling like they need
(19:21):
some help.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
So first of all, first of all, please come and
reach out to us and we will have a free consultation.
You know, it's complimentary, and we really have two very
skilled specialized doctors here. One worked in r during the COVID,
works in primary care, and then works here. The other
one is over seventy gynecologist that dealt with women her
(19:48):
whole career, and it's very skilled and very experienced how
to handle that. So before we even go through the symptoms,
we're going to find out what is going on, and
then we based on that have the recommendations and they
send them to LAPSE to have a certain work done.
(20:09):
You know, before they even moved to hormonal replacement therapy.
There is also more natural alternatives for whoman that is afraid.
But they also want to tell women do not be afraid,
because we were really kept in darkness, darkness and scared.
You know. The label that just came off through FDA,
you know, from many many boxes is because women started
really collecting very clear data. That the data and and
(20:37):
not investigation, but research was behind because it was not
justified and it was very treated in true reality as
a secondary citizens, you know. And and that's in the
pay industry, that is still in many many other ways.
Because we physically seems and we are we you know,
(21:00):
which is true. We are not going to pretend we
are six six foot true, you know, but we are unbelievable.
We are so magnificent in what we are capable of doing.
You know, we are able to move the mountains. Women.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
You mentioned that a few times. What you see in
women and the strength and that power, and and I
do feel like there is there is some level of
self esteem that is you know, some women that come
to you, women that come to me. I like a
lot of times when people come to help, it is
it is really just this feeling of you know that
(21:40):
maybe they don't deserve to do this, or maybe this
is something that they should be spending their money everywhere
else besides on themselves. And they feel this this guilt
and shame. So I know, with your training, how do
you help people who really feel like investing in themselves
for whatever reason is wrong?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Okay, so you have to put the mask on an
airplane first before you can help anybody else. And I
think there was always taboo and shame attached to corrective
or transformative procedures. The picture I will send you, Misty
(22:24):
is about me being forty on vacation and then being
fifty two now. And I always thought that I am this,
that I'm comfortable with WYM, I'm happy with WYM. I
felt like I'm good looking, okay looking woman, and yet
I had so many things I didn't like about myself.
(22:47):
I didn't I had always big belly. No matter what
I did, I had big belly. I had always tick
ties and they were always meeting from midway all the
way up. I was always wearing these long tops to
cover up my legs. I was crossing my legs on
the pictures. I always felt like my face is very cheeky,
and people assume I had a lot of filer. The
(23:07):
fact is that pictures before I had a lot of filer.
I look like I have more filerin when I don't
have a filerin so it's like really funny because I
had this like big, cheeky, heavy face, you know, and
they really transformed me. My team transformed my face, you know.
And they LiPo sectioned my belly and they section my
(23:30):
inner ties. And I am first time in my what
normally is the age that we are like okay, fifty
and plus, you know, feeling beautiful. And I want to
share this with every woman out there, that every single
woman of you can feel beautiful, you know. And it's
(23:52):
not necessarily about big spending neither. And there are options
of pap plants and blah blah blah. I don't want
to go into that. Don't feel like you can't try
to change something you don't like about yourself, because there
is nothing wrong about it. I want you to love
yourself more. And if I can give you tools and
help you with my toolbox that we have here to
(24:16):
feel that way energetically hormonally moved weight ways or face
ways or whatever skin ways. You know. I am here
for you because I went through the same journey. You know.
I never had chin. Now I have chein. This is radio,
you know. I never had cheen. I had second chins.
(24:36):
This is more feels it. I don't have second thin
because we melt that pat down, you know. So it's
like I never had a cheekbones because all chicks were here.
Now I have cheekbones radius, you know. So my face
turns from peer into hearts, you know, like, which is
really cool. And I'm talking about it, and I'm going
(24:57):
to have this picture public. And you know, on top
of that, they changed my vagina because I had to
force up labor and second child was eighteen months later.
And I talked about sexual wellness and I have no
problem talking about this that I develop urinary incontinence, you know,
and how embarrassing this is being in your thirties forties
(25:21):
and you can do jumping jacks yeah real sneith and
you pee and they're like here it goes. Yeah. Hell.
You know.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It's so things that so many people like think about
in fear, and it's just this like like you mentioned
this taboo, which I think it's just refreshing that you
talk about it and you talk about what you went
through and how you felt and what you've done and
how you feel today. And I think, yeah, with sexual
wellness and health, I think there's so many people who
are like, oh, yeah, I feel that what I struggle
(25:50):
at the gym or all of these things that happened
because I feel like nervous and it's it's just like,
you know, I can't even imagine what that was like,
you know, thirty forty fifty years where nobody was like
able to talk at.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
All about our mothers and our grandmothers were really not
having any of these support. It's really sad. You know,
I wonder how they even made it.
Speaker 2 (26:14):
You know, I feel like there's just so much more.
There's more now, there's more options, there's more things like people,
you know, you don't have to deal with having crooked teeth,
and now everyone goes through the orthodoxy, you know, all
of these things that have just started to become more
accepted and normal and so and I think when men
do any sort of work with vitamins or and like
(26:37):
it's it's biohacking. It's not well like it's something scientific
and cool and crazy you can do it. It's it's
completely you know, self absorbed. But I do think that
there are things that like you can you can change,
you can you can fix, you can you know, like
just like people work on their their bodies, their health,
their diet, all of these things can be You don't
(26:58):
have to just obsessed with how much you hate these
things for the rest of your life.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
And social media today, let's face it, it doesn't make
it any easier.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
You know, the filtered, most perfect version of everybody, And
so sometimes I think that's why everyone is happy when
they see reality, and it's going to get harder and
harder to tell the difference. I even was picking out
a helping my son pick out a haircut, and he's like, oh,
I like that kid's hair, and I'm like, that's not
even a real boy. Like that is that is an
(27:29):
AI picture where like they.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Will do the best thing, you know. I like, yeah,
you get.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
As close as possible, but it's just crazy. So I
think that is kind of starting to impact the way
people feel that they should be looking. So how do
you help people kind of get to that best version
of themselves. If they're coming to you saying I would
like to look like j Lo or this person online
or me with this filter, that's unrealistic, how do you
(27:57):
help people manage those expectations and feel again happy.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
I think this is like a good question. Mister, thank
you for asking this, because I think we all have
like fashion icons and idols, and that was through the
whole life. And I'm going to slide something there. And
when Kardashian's family joined the scene, everybody's got their eyebrows,
and now we are removing them because blonde women should
not have our minion eyebrows, you know, just say so
(28:24):
we go for trends, and that's not what we are
doing here because we are trying to really celebrate uniqueness
of every woman. Because every painting is beautiful in its naturality.
So what we are trying to showcase. If client comes
and she sits in our chair, we have her hold
a mirror and we start moving tissue and face and
(28:46):
start talking about it what we see and ask what
is her concern? You know. And very often the woman
comes and she will see something and we see something
completely different, you know, And this is where expertise coming.
Women seeing Nazola bill faults here, you know, don't judge me.
I have actually signed those infections for a puffy here.
(29:09):
So woman has a Nasola bill fault and she see
this smiley wrinkle, but we see she is in her
fifty five, let's say, and she's shortening her teeth because
we are grinding our teeth. Most of the women in
certain ages start developing team jays, you know, also mouth
card and all that stuff. But we also are shortening
(29:31):
a teeth by chewing, and our bone is compartnalizing more
and more, you know, and so this is all shortening.
So many things start happening at the same time. We
start seeing that this area start giving up. If we
see the woman is on a sun in a summertime
and doesn't think of losing her collagen because of UV raise,
(29:53):
but it's happening. So the skin is starting to give
in and it doesn't have the same bounce, you know,
and it start being more and more relaxed, and we
actually start looking at what we can start with. Is
it about we need to focus on skin rejuvenation before
we go with any other you know, fillers and botox.
(30:14):
And right now very very popular for us biostimulators because
women are also realizing it's not just about being structurally shifted,
but it's also about bringing tissue and quality of your skin.
And biostimulators are beautiful in that we really do love
radios in our office we love cuture as well, but
(30:36):
I think we have very soft spot for radius for
many reasons because its versatility that it can gives you
from structural changing to hyper dilution. So you can mix
it and make it as soft and hyper deluded and
bring it with canilla and a tissue as a liquidy abstance.
So it's not this like look, you know, over exaggerated look.
(30:58):
But we talk about what we see and we talk
about what we feel like it will mostly enhance this,
and then we present it and we see if this
is what women resonate with, and you may feel, no,
I want just this, and then okay, you know, we
can say, but we are going to tell you if
you're not going to support this, we can bring a
(31:20):
lot of you know, like a lot of units in
here and all what we are going to achieve. We
are going to start moving your face forward, you know,
and now we're start going to look very different from profile.
So there is this fine line, just like when I
design brows, there is this fine line how do I
(31:40):
feel and how do we feel? And we do These
concerts actually very often save all of us together, and
then we address the skin care issue. But that fine
line is like, how we can achieve or laser treatment
for the skin, how do we achieve that you will
get the best outcome for your money, and how it
can supportals. So what we are going to do with
(32:02):
your face structurally so it gives you longer longevity of
anti aging that we are doing.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
You know, it seems like you mentioned the art history
and the science behind things a lot, which I think
is when we see people who maybe have had a
big change in their look and we think, ooh, that look,
you know, I don't I wouldn't want that or that
Why would they do that? I think we see that
a lot a lot online. Why would they do that
(32:31):
to themselves? They were so beautiful? And I think there
is this pressure, but like you said, we might not
know exactly what the right you know, what everything behind it,
where the jaw and the teeth and all of those
things that you mentioned. So I think that is so
important that you mentioned that the level of training and
medical professionals and and different techniques that you have available
(32:52):
to you, because there is there is so much to it,
so very very important as you're choosing, you know, as
you're choosing, you know, well, you know a s medspot
or anything like that. Really you really understand kind of
all of those different trainings and techniques and what are
some of the trends that you've seen. You know, you
(33:14):
just mentioned one, but are there any like positive trends
that you're seeing in the wellness area that you think
are important for people to be aware of that they
may have never heard of.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Yeah. Yeah, and we are going to be one of
the flagship places for that. I have this unique opportunity
that we are working with the company that we are
implementing here with. There is a global and seven very
well known plastic surgeon created the line together and it's
(33:44):
working with highbrosomes and you know, we have our stem
cells and then we have exosomes. We just stem cells
from outside and then there are hyghbrosomes that they are
modified to improve the quality of the cell and when
that happened, that actually make that cell when it's introduced,
almost like coming and improving the software of yourself. So
(34:07):
this is very very unique product and it's coming in
a form of needling, it's coming in a form for face,
it's coming in a form for hair growth. In Europe,
they are using them when they do hair transplants to
dip the hair follicles in it. They call it the
bath because they find out they have much higher retention
of the hair and even less hair loss with the
(34:30):
time with it. And then it comes with the creams
and skin care. So we are bringing that up. So
that's one of the things. Ten fat transfers are very
popular because more and more we are learning that more
natural might be do a very good alternative for a
lot of women with autoimmune a lot of women, you know, obviously,
(34:51):
that do not want to introduce something else to their skin.
You know, there was always PRP on the market, which
is beautiful, and I'm like a walking representation of that
because that's how I started with my very wife. You know,
there were stem cells injected down there. For me, that
was my first introduction and it stopped my urinary incontinent
(35:12):
for two years. So then nobody could tell me it
doesn't work in face. If it worked in my china,
you know, like hello. So then I had it in
my shoulder, I have it in my face, I have
it in my ankle while I had the surgery. So
stem cells are a really beautiful way of going in
(35:33):
a very natural way. And then you can also warm
them up and make it PRF. But then we are
finding out there is even more advanced way to dealing
with them and it become like a natural feeler of
your own. So there is many alternatives that we can do.
There has been also a lot of conversations through FDA
because they send this very alarming finger out there about
(35:56):
the radio frequency and micron idling, and they said that
there has been like a lot of fat loss and
tissue lows. And that's exactly example when the laser and
treatment is done with not proper training and very adventurous providers.
(36:22):
Because yes, we want to use more Fuse eight on
your belly to melt a fat or on your second chin,
but we don't want to use it to lose your
fat on your face because then we have to bring
it back and replace it. And so so we have
two RF micro link devices. We have more delicate one
which is Virtue, you know, and then we have more
(36:42):
Fuse and then Morpheus in power raft that is treating
with all the red frequency vaginally and kegel exercises and
body tone and all that stuff. We have so much
versatility with it. But once again it's coming to does
your provider really do understand properly the settings of the
machine that they have and they work with. And you know,
(37:05):
like that's where the craft comes in because the people
that do morphel Zatier are highly specialized trained medical people,
you know, So you have to be very humble to
do this, yeah, I think, And you have to sell
(37:28):
lower to do this. Then go after money, because if
you go in this industry for money, you're not going
to survive in it because people feel it. People genuinely
feel your intentions and people feel like you're looking at
them to strip them off their budget to pay for
your stuff. And that is not how this industry should be.
(37:54):
It needs to be very ethical and we need to
have interest of your face and your body and your
wellness us in our care. And that's what it's all about, right, And.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
I think that that's so important for anybody listening because
I think whenever there's anything where there might be some
you know, maybe there's some self consciousness that can be
taken advantage of by an unethical practitioner, that feeling of
needing to you know, not spend enough. This is very
important anything that comes to your health, your wellness, your
(38:24):
body I mean so important to really you know, to
be certain that you're working with an ethical provider and
somebody who is a good fit. And then maybe if
it means you have to delay because you need to
say more, that may be worth it in the end
versus having to fix something or reverse something that was
done ye in a way that wasn't you know, wasn't right,
(38:46):
which will again be more costly to your time, your money,
your mental health, all of those things. So if people
want to find you and learn more about you or
working with you or just follow you online to see
these pictures, because I would I'm excited to actually see
this headstand pictures that sound crazy? How can they find
you if they need to learn more?
Speaker 3 (39:06):
So we have we are on all the platforms. We
are other than TikTok. I'm still really passive in TikTok.
That's my goal for New Year. We are Shine Metzpa
on Instagram and we are shine mets Pa on Facebook
and Shane mets Pine. Micro Blading is our website, so
(39:28):
Shine metz Pa and micro learning dot com. No, Shine
Metspa dot com is our website, sorry, And so we
put the name microblading there because you know it was
popular when it came in. Obviously we are doing other
techniques and stuff, but it's just listed there and we
all yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
So we'll include all of those links into the in
the show notes. I think that I love hearing more
about I love business in general, and I think this
is such a fascin one with the different like you mentioned,
the different treatment. There's so much growth here. There's so
much so it's super interesting to me as an investor
and also somebody who's talking with people who are thinking
(40:11):
of career changes, lots of nurses like you mentioned, people
thinking about what else is out there for me that
I can do. So it's great to see you kind
of making advances in this industry and being such a
leader in the space and making sure that you know
you are kind of an example of how this business
should be run, which is really client focused and done
(40:31):
with a lot of care. So so interesting to talk
to you. Thank you again so much for coming on
the show. And if you're listening and you're trying to
think about where you can find space in your budget
to invest a little bit more in you head, want
to miss you Lynch dot com. I would love to
talk with you about your financial plan, and I think
all of these things deserve a space in it. It
is so the more we talk about our own physical
(40:53):
health or mental health or well being, what we want
to do, what we want to do with our money,
and if it makes us happy, then I think that
there should be more confidence and more more attention focused
on those things. So head over to miss Lynch dot
com and you can also catch up with other episodes
of the podcast there. Thank you so much for listening,
and we'll talk again next week. Thank you for joining
(41:14):
us on another insightful episode of demonst Buying Money.
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