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Halo 42 podcast. I am your host, Mark A.
Turnipseed, and I'm here with my wonderful co-host, Tim Quinn.
How are we doing over there, Tim? Doing really great. I'm happy to be back on
the podcast. How's everything with you?
Everything's going pretty peachy over here. I've got to say that I've had a
very good time over the past couple of months because I feel like Halo 42 is
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starting to be understood.
The the true essence, the mindfulness, the true luxury of the oils.
Everything is starting to come true and all the people are starting to understand
what we're trying to put out there and what we're trying to do with this project.
Yeah, very true. I think that both in events and online, I think our messaging
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is really starting to be seen and heard.
Certainly, it took a little time. I think As you and I have talked,
it's always interesting when you're creating something new, people have a little
bit of a reluctance to see you move past how they know you or what you're used to being, right?
Right. Well, let's also remember, too, it's a fairly new concept to think of.
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I mean, yeah, true, coming out of being a celebrity rock star into mindful skincare,
it's a whole different landscape.
But even just the idea that our
skincare routine can really be something as powerful as putting us in a better
spot spiritually and emotionally and psychologically psychologically is a fairly
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new concept that the world is just beginning to get ready for, right?
We're starting to find out so many places that we can improve our mental well-being,
and one of those stops is our skincare routine.
And I just think that that's been such a foreign topic.
It's been such an out-of-grasp thought that somebody could actually restore
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their psychological well-being through their skincare routine.
Yeah, 100%. I think that it's hard to get people to, well, first of all,
take a pause and actually enjoy the process and make it more of a ritual, right?
It's something I see that people tend to kind of rush through just to get to the next step.
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And by slowing down and breathing and all those things that you've taught me
and certainly we've incorporated into the Halo 42 effect, it takes a little bit of a learning curve.
Yeah. I mean, that was me. I always just...
Not only my skincare routine, but everything, everything from making dinner
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at night. I would just slop through it as fast as I could, right?
Cook up some hamburger meat and eat it before I could even put it on a taco,
even before I could season it and put good vegetables in it, right?
And that's, if we live our life just a little bit more mindful,
we're going to make our food better.
We're going to have a more enjoyable time in our skincare routine.
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We're going to have a better time in life in general.
Yeah, it's all those cliches that I heard as a kid, I think, start to come true.
And when you actually think about why is it a cliche and what is that about
something that the more it's repeated, the more it becomes true or the more
value you see in something.
And practice takes perfect or makes perfect or whatever, all these things that
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come up and nothing worth doing is worth doing well, all these kinds of things I think about, out.
And loving and caring for yourself is something that is really foreign to most people.
It's not something that comes easy.
No. And I see it all the time in the fitness world, especially people talk down on themselves so much.
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And instead of, I don't know, it's so crazy.
I guess that's a big motivator of why somebody gets in there in the first place.
It's like, oh, I hate myself. I hate my stomach now.
I hate what I've become physically.
So I'm going to get myself into the gym. I really feel like having hate as your
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motivator, especially self disgust, it's a horrible way to get started.
And if that is the motivator, it's a horrible way to keep going with it.
And if that is the motivator, it's a really hard thing, I know,
to get into a self-care routine.
It might be easy to get yourself to the gym, but to get yourself to where you're,
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you know, taking 30 minutes in the night before you go to sleep to give yourself
a good skincare regimen,
you know, that is going to take a lot of self-love, right?
So it's hard to get somebody straight from a self-discussed spot into a self-love
spot with something like a skincare care routine.
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That's basically like telling somebody to get off of the couch and become a,
bodybuilder, right? It's a big step.
Well, yeah. I mean, I think a lot of it is,
in the small moments that you can take and recognize it.
And when you were just saying that about people, you know, the loathing,
the self-loathing, the things that they hate about themselves.
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I mean, I still see that on the regular is what people lead with rather than,
recognizing, you know, the one quality that's so overwhelmingly beautiful to
everyone else that they see in them, you know, because sometimes that does happen.
You get caught by, and my stomach's not flat enough and you don't recognize,
you know, all the joy and things to be so grateful for around you or even just in yourself.
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And, you know, starting with a mindful skincare approach where you actually
have to look in the mirror and, you know, take time and recognize what's there,
you know, look yourself in the eyes, which is really, really terrifying for some people, you know?
Well, it can be terrifying for me on some days, depending on my mindset,
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you know, and if it is terrifying for you on that day, then maybe that's more
of a reason to spend a little bit more time inside of your own eye contact.
You remember that when we were first getting started with this business,
Tim, I had a big intimacy problem and being able to look into my own eyes was
a challenge because I didn't love myself.
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I was just learning to love myself, but getting to learn to love other people
and to accept their love was a challenge for me.
So staying inside that eye contact was extremely challenging.
But here's the thing, what I started noticing after resting inside of that eye
contact with myself and with other people is that if I stay past the moment of discomfort, right?
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If I hold it just a little bit longer, if I hold my gaze into my own eyes in
the mirror a little bit longer, or my gaze into another person's eyes just a little bit longer,
almost inevitably, I end up with some sort of feeling of joy that like burst
into my stomach and into my heart.
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And I can't really explain where it comes from. I can't explain what it is,
but it almost feels like a little spark is lit where I go, oh, wow.
Even if I don't notice something in particular about myself that I love in that
moment, I feel a little bit of love inside.
And it's just tremendous. You're going to take that extra beat.
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And I don't mean to play on words like beat your face, which is like a makeup term, by the way.
But sometimes it is that one extra heartbeat or one extra moment.
I see it, you know, I have a really good friend who I see more regularly who
I always tell him he's the best hugger because he's.
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He holds the hug like one little bit more than the norm.
It's almost like a little uncomfortable to your point. And once you get past
that block in your head, then you realize that it's the same thing you give yourself.
When you allow yourself to be uncomfortable for just one second more than you
think is possible, something shifts.
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I don't have the words for it, but suddenly it's okay and it feels different
and like warm and cozy or something, right?
I always feel like part of the magic of life is restored when I slow down just a hair.
When I go past the discomfort, just a hair, really, I start to notice things in a new light.
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Yeah. And even though we speak it and we talk it, and I know you've actually
made fun of me sometimes because I take a quick shower or whatever. ever.
Sometimes for me, the shower moment is when the water hits me and it automatically
shifts me into where I'm in a happy state.
So I don't need that extra where other mornings, you know, the,
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the beating of the rain or the rain, the, the water on your head and the sensorial
things that happen are much more comforting and much more needed.
So I guess, you know, I'm a lot older, I think is, and that doesn't always mean
wiser, by the way, but the more life experience, you start to recognize those
moments where, okay, I've had this feeling before. I know how to get through this.
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And I think that that happens, you know, in some of our classes when we're doing
those mindful experiences of really understanding how to properly take time to care for yourself.
So I'm not really too sure what Tim means by, you know, I'm a little bit older,
so my showers are shorter, but I don't necessarily agree with that notion.
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I don't mean it from an age point of view.
I mean, that sometimes I recognize just from life experience,
like this morning, I don't need this long shower.
I'm already in this state where I'm in bliss or whatever the word might be,
where other mornings. so sometimes you use the water and the shower as a comfort.
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Comfort as a reawakening you know i know a lot of people do that with like really
hot water do you do it with really hot water no i don't i mean mainly because
i've had it drilled into my head about how bad it is to use really hot water
on your skin i could do it with cold water for sure,
but i like yeah but what if you're out in montana what if you're in chicago
and it's really do you do that hot water, real hot water, and just kind of hold yourself in it.
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I do remember feeling that tingle before and being like, oh,
kind of like resting inside and you almost can feel like you're wrapped up,
you know, wrapped up in a blanket.
I don't do that. Yeah. I prefer a steam room to a hot shower sometimes.
But yeah, I think it's a mindful
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thing that happens i mean and everybody's a
little different in how they experience i mean i listen to people even
with how they wash their face in the morning you know do
it in the shower they don't wash their face so let the rain i was talking about
this this past weekend when we were in atlanta one of those clients said that
she doesn't like to use anything on her face in the morning she just lets the
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water rinse it off i mean it works for her you know i don't know i don't i I
don't actually rinse with anything else in the morning either.
I go straight to the gym, and then after I get out of the shower...
I wash my face at night before I go to sleep. Yeah, I mean, a lot of people do. I don't know why.
Well, I mean, I don't even like to leave the house until I've showered,
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even if I'm just going to the gym.
But that's something that's kind of drilled into my head since I was a kid because
what happens if you get arrested on the way to the gym? You'd have a bad mugshot.
I guess it's your comfort level.
Yeah, it is. That's like the amount that you're showering is definitely based on your comfort level.
But yeah, you know, that whole routine, I mean, everything that you use inside of your routine,
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may it be the water temperature that you use to the products that you use,
are all part of the experience, right?
It's all part of the mindful, magical experience that we can craft and tailor
to a way that fits our lifestyle, right?
Right. And if if if we do it in a way that it's it's that it elevates us right
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a little bit, just just elevate like Tim was saying,
all the little small things, just try to elevate your skin care routine just one percent.
Even if you have the perfect skincare routine, if you have the perfect system,
just elevate it 1% more by adding in the mindful component.
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Why don't you add in some words of compassionate care, right?
Some kindness to yourself.
If you're used to having some self-discussed type of dialogue between yourself
while you're doing your routine, why don't you try to just elevate it just a hair for us?
Because in that, you're going to experience the miracle.
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In that, you're going to get past that level of current comfort,
and you're going to increase your awareness of the power of this routine inside of your life.
And for some people, honestly, the first step is really recognizing that it
is something transformative to do and not just to work through, you know?
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Because I've seen it. I've seen it with skincare. I've seen people do it with their makeup routine.
It becomes so rote that there's no thought behind it, you know?
And then I've always said this to you and I've said it to many people.
I've never considered myself such a terrific makeup artist.
It's just that I'm very good at connecting with people and making them recognize
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what I already see in them. And a lot of times what happens if I was doing someone
on a hand of the mirror after, this different level of recognition and love happens.
Nothing has changed. I've used the same products they're already using.
It's just the care and intention that's used rather than just getting through
it to get your skin on or get your face on.
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Get your face on. Get your face on. But it's a thing, you know.
And this past weekend, we were talking to Laura.
That is one of those things that happens, is you rush through things because
you have to get to the next thing, and that's where you miss the magic.
Where did that come from? What do you mean? Well, you were talking about Laura.
Well, because I was talking to her and she was saying how she has such very
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limited time to get ready because she has the baby and half the time she has
to do something in the car. Who's Laura?
We were just with Laura. Laura, for all y'all who don't know, is my sister-in-law.
I didn't want to throw anybody under the bus. We were just staying at.
And Tim got to meet her lovely children.
And so he's going on some sort of idea here
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about seeing the magic when waiting for your children well
because we had a cute conversation about that and i thought because
to me she looks beautiful every morning i thought when do you have the time
to do that and she said that she finds the time in between like one getting
up the other or rushing into the car and she knows what she can do in that limited
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amount of time that's going to make her feel like to me i think of it as like
you know your your magic cape that thing that you can do that makes you feel more empowered.
And for Lori, it was like having her makeup look beautiful because that's something
you can control and you put your best face forward, as they say, you know?
Yeah, finding little spaces, the little spaces that you can fit the little nooks
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of love into your life is very important.
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