Regenerative Beauty: How Modern Aesthetics Blends with Wellness | Ep 96

Beauty isn't just skin deep—and neither is modern aesthetic medicine. Nurse practitioner Melanie Craft takes us behind the scenes of her newly-launched aesthetic medicine practice, revealing how this field is evolving beyond traditional cosmetic treatments toward regenerative approaches that enhance the body's natural healing processes.

Melanie's fascinating journey from the neonatal intensive care unit to orthopedic surgery and eventually aesthetic medicine began with her sister's childhood leukemia diagnosis. This personal experience sparked a lifelong passion for healthcare and continuous learning. Now as an entrepreneur and mother of two young children, she brings a uniquely holistic perspective to beauty treatments—one that recognizes how internal wellness directly affects external appearance.

The conversation dives deep into treatments like PRP (Platelet-Rich Plasma) therapy, which uses the body's own healing factors to stimulate collagen production naturally. Melanie expertly breaks down how Botox works to smooth expression lines, the differences between various fillers, and why chemical peels can dramatically improve skin texture. For listeners concerned about aging gracefully, she offers practical advice on daily skincare essentials, including the importance of mineral-based sunscreens and acidic exfoliators like retinol.

What makes this discussion particularly valuable is how it extends beyond standard beauty treatments to address fundamental wellness practices that affect appearance. Sleep quality, nutritional choices, stress management, and environmental toxin avoidance all play crucial roles in how we age. Melanie shares her own strategies for maintaining health while balancing the demands of entrepreneurship and parenthood, offering listeners realistic approaches to prioritization and self-care.

Whether you're curious about aesthetic treatments, seeking science-backed skincare advice, or simply interested in how healthcare professionals navigate their own wellness journeys, this episode delivers insightful perspectives on beauty that truly works from the inside out. Connect with Melanie at Crafted Aesthetics PB for personalized consultations on your aesthetic medicine journey.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
If you're a driven, active person who wants to reach
and pursue a higher qualitylife with some ambition, then
guess what this podcast is foryou.
This is the Driven AthletePodcast.
Where are you from originally?
Maybe like we knew each otherthrough middle school and high
school?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, youth group.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
And what got you?
Why did you choose, you know,the nursing program you did like
.
Why that direction?
And then, um, this field thatyou're going into now, like what
led you to that, versus, likeyou know, inpatient or
orthopedics or what?
Hospital care, acute care,whatever.
I think so, yeah, is this inthe right spot.

(00:56):
I think so, good, cool, allright, what's up?
Y'all?
It's your man, dr kyle.
Welcome back to the drivenathlete podcast.
We got a great guest with us,someone we go back with history
with, but melanie craft is here.
She's a nurse practitioner.
Thanks for coming.
I know you're busy, so Iappreciate you coming in.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
So tell everybody where you're at, what you do and
how you help people.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
So I'm a nurse practitioner and um, I just
opened my own business inaesthetic medicine.
Um, it's just me right now.
So, um, it's in gardens right.
It's in Palm Beach gardens.
Yep and I have about eightyears um experience doing
aesthetic medicine.
I've worked for a few plasticsurgeons.

(01:34):
I've always loved working inthe operating room.
I like using my hands, I likesuturing.
I.
I very detail oriented.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
Not everybody likes that.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
Not everybody likes that.
I do.
I'm not scared of the sight ofblood kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yeah, good, that's important yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
So I've always had a passion for learning and growing
and always taking things to thenext level.
So I feel like moving in thedirection of aesthetics is neat,
because there's so many newthings on the horizon and
there's so many ways to blendwellness into aesthetic medicine
.
It's not just all about fixingpeople's faces or making them

(02:11):
look younger.
I think there's a lot more tobe discovered just from beauty
within.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, what do you think?
What direction do you thinkit's going to go?

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I'd like to go into the direction of, like
regenerative medicine.
Everybody's kind of heard ofPRP but not everybody knows what
it is or what it does and noteverybody's PRP is the same.
So in the space of regenerativemedicine people are looking
more at like exosomes andplatelet derived growth factors

(02:40):
that are kind of harvested andstimulated in a lab, factors
that are kind of harvested andstimulated in a lab and we can
use those to stimulate thebody's own production of
collagen.
And you're kind of going to seemedicine go in that direction
because people are kind ofgetting away from more like the
synthetic stuff, like Botox andfillers and stuff.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Gotcha yeah.
So PRP, tell people more aboutthat.
It's platelet-rich plasma.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Platelet-rich plasma, so and how like more about that
.
It's platelet rich plasma,platelet rich plasma, so and how
, like for aesthetics?

Speaker 1 (03:06):
how would that be applied?

Speaker 2 (03:08):
So you can you draw from blood.
I was working for a plasticsurgeon in New York and we would
.
We'd basically draw your blood,you spin it in a machine to
separate out the plasma from theblood part and you take just
that portion and you can kind ofinject it anywhere.
And so we would inject it kindof before we close any incision

(03:28):
and it's supposed to stimulatethe body's own healing factors
and it's just all about tissuerepair.
So in aesthetics you could useit.
If you're doing microneedlingtreatments you can inject it
under the eyes to kind of helpproduce more volume, naturally
Under the eyelid Under theeyelid.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
Yeah, wow, people are cool with that.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
People are cool with that, yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
My gosh.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I inject a lot of filler under the eyes.
So, just helps restore volume.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
Interesting, yeah, all right.
So PRP, sometimes eye fillerapplications, yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I do a lot of.
I'd say the most commontreatment I'm doing right now
are Botox injections, mainlylike between the brows.
Botox can be used medically totreat migraines, to help with
jaw grinding.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
Yeah, totally.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
And it has a really great place for that.
I don't do that as much.
I'm more using it in aestheticmedicine, but I hear so many
people come back and say I wasgetting headaches at the end of
the day and when I get my Botoxinjections.
I just don't have them anymore.
A lot of people nowadays arespending a lot of time on the
computer.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
So that constant like tension and squeezing of the
muscles there can create tension.
Are you familiar with how Botoxworks?

Speaker 1 (04:41):
Yes, but explain more to people.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
So it can get a bad name because, at basis.
It's a neurotoxin and it's usedin very, very minuscule amounts
and bound to proteins.
When you inject it into amuscle you're not injecting it
into blood vessels, but when youinject it into muscle it
produces an effect oftemporarily paralyzing that
muscle Right Usually lasts aboutthree to four months.
In cosmetics we use it in areaswhere people notice a lot of

(05:11):
expression lines, so like aroundthe forehead, between the brows
, around the eyes, maybewrinkles, wrinkles, yeah, yeah,
expression lines.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Yeah, I like that Expression lines sound better.
I've never heard it before.
I like that Sounds more elegant.
Yeah, that would be better.
I've never heard it before.
I like that Sounds more elegant.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah, it's being used more and more like beyond that.
It started up here.
It's kind of moved down thebody to where, like some people,
get trapped Botox just to helpreduce tension there.
It can elongate the neck.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
And then TMJ pain.
So we see a lot of headachesand like neck pain.
Yeah.
Some headaches that can comefrom, like cervicogenic
headaches but yeah, we see that.
I mean that's a common thing.
And then TMJ issues, like wehelp people with TMJ dysfunction
and we'll do dry needling forthat too.

Speaker 2 (05:53):
Oh, that's great so like.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
It's like a similar effect from what the research is
finding from like the dryneedling application to the
muscle tissue for decreasing themuscle guarding, to help with
acetylcholine regulation, whichBotox, botulinum toxin A from my
understanding it blocksacetylcholine.
Is that correct?
Yeah, yeah, so it helps withmuscle tension.
So the lens that we would workfor that for upper trap

(06:17):
tightness or headaches and neckpain and stuff or TMJ pain,
we're like, all right, yourmuscles are guarded, understood
but why yeah, pain, yeah, we'relike all right, your muscles are
guarded, understood.
but like what?
Why?
Yeah what is it you're doing?
Or why the the joint mobility,um uh, ratios between some of
the upper cervical to the midcervical, like what's?
Why is some things getting moretight than others?

(06:37):
There has to be usually.
There's usually an answer,right.
But yeah, totally like thisstuff can be helpful to help
create relief yeah, you, youknow, reduce the tension.
So you're doing it from anaesthetic standpoint and then
the PRP to help stimulate ahealing response, naturally.
Yeah, collagen fiber lay downTotally.

Speaker 2 (06:58):
What got you into this in the first place, to go
the nursing route?
It all really goes back to myyounger sister.
When she was four she wasdiagnosed with leukemia.
I was about 12 at the time andwe spent about two years in and
out of the hospital with her,and there were times I'd be
there with her.
My mom would be like, hey, I'mgoing to run out, I'll be back
in 20 minutes, I'm going to goget dinner, and I'd either be

(07:21):
pulled into procedures with heror I'd watch the nurses draw
blood, administer chemo bloodtransfusions, and I just was
captivated by it, like just bythe people working there, and so
that's initially what led me tothe nursing career.
My first job was in theneonatal intensive care unit.
I worked in a level three NICUin Orlando.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
That's heavy.

Speaker 2 (07:44):
It's very heavy, very intense, but I loved it.
I think to this day that wasstill probably the most
fulfilling career I've ever had.
Um, but I've always had apassion for learning.
My family jokes that if I couldjust go to school for a living,
I would be just a lifelong,like just a learner.
Yeah, student just I don't care,just teach me.
I want to keep learning andgrowing and meeting people in

(08:04):
the teaching realm.
I loved working throughteaching hospitals and all that.
So the NICU I was working in, alot of the girls were going
back and getting their advancedpractice degree and everyone was
doing something different,whether it be peds focused, nicu
focused, family focused.
So I chose family because itwas super indecisive at the time

(08:25):
and I was like I don't know ifI want to keep treating babies
or adults.
That actually ended up leadingme to orthopedic surgery.
I actually I don't know if youknew that I worked in ortho for
three years for a shoulder andknee sports medicine doctor.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Amazing In Orlando as well.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
No, that was in Palm Beach Gardens.

Speaker 1 (08:41):
With who?

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Dr Ryder Brian Reiter with Atlantis, orthopedics.
Um, yeah, that was my firstfirst job and I loved working in
the OR.
That was like the first time Iwas really in there and hands-on
doing surgery, assisting withfracture repairs, reattaching
tendons and muscles and all that.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Wow.
So, that was cool.
So some trauma then.

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Not so much trauma, but just because we were more
like sports medicine.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
So a lot of injuries Got it, yeah, cool.
So then after that you werethere for three years.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
I was there for about three years and then I um at
the time I was moving to NewYork city to be closer to my
boyfriend, who's now my husbandand I.
When I was moving I was I likedortho, but I wanted to maybe
get into a space where I coulddo surgery that wasn't like
super around the clock andurgent, so I was like plastic

(09:34):
surgery could be nice.
I don't have to be on call onthe weekends, patients aren't in
pain, they're not hurting Alittle better work-life balance
A little bit, yeah, and Ithought New York was a really
cool place to do it, and it was.
It's super busy.
I learned a lot.
I saw a lot of things thatyou're not going to see in South
Florida, so where in New Yorkwere you at?
I was right in Midtown, wowyeah.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Cool.
So just the hustle and bustle.
Yeah, that's crazy.
And how long were you there for?

Speaker 2 (10:02):
About two years Two years.
Not too long.
Okay, just enough.
I don't think I could be therelong term.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
It was a good experience.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
A lot of subway commuting, you see a lot of
things you don't ever want tosee again.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Oh my gosh, I couldn't imagine.
I've actually only been to NewYork, I think, two times.
Really.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Did you like it I?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
thought it was cool and I was like in a, in a
certain stage of life, it couldbe cool.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Not now, with family, you know.
Yeah, no but a certain stage inlife you know like a transient,
like one to two year, maybethree year period.
I could see that being fun.
It has a really good.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Um, there's just like a pulsing energy in the city.
People like, are reallyhustling, they're working,
they're trying hard it's.
It's like a grind, like some ofmy days would start at 5 45 and
I wouldn't get home till 9 PM.
We'd drive to New Jersey, we'doperate Um, we'd fly to Atlanta,
miami, there were facilitieslike all over the country.

(10:58):
We were operating out of it wasbusy, it was really fun.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
That's intense, yeah, okay.
So then from there, that's whenyou went more aesthetics.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yep.
So I was about half and halfthere, half my time being in the
operating room, half assessingpatients and seeing patients
doing like wound care,post-surgery removing drains,
all that.
And that's when I got into theinjectables and I just thought
that was really neat.
It's very artistic.
If you have kind of more of anartistic, creative mind, you can

(11:28):
really implement that in thatspace.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
I've heard that with plastics, you know like artistic
, so that's a great, I mean itmakes sense.
It's a good blend, you know,and the transition from that.
That makes sense.
So they went all right, so theywent aesthetics and then you
were working before opening yourown facility six months ago,
three months ago.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Yep, I worked for another local plastic surgeon
and we did a lot of orbital andeye related type of procedures
and surgeries and I just I'vealways had this passion to go do
something on my own and justmake my own space and I kind of
want to get into that other likeI said, that other space of

(12:08):
regenerative medicine andexplore what that could do to
help my patients.
It's a really common question Iget from patients is how they
can anti-age from within and inways where they're not like I
don't want to keep band-aidingwhat I'm seeing that's aging me,
that's making me feel tired andI'm just not super happy about

(12:30):
what I'm seeing in the mirror.
And this little area bothers mea lot and I just, if I could,
you know, get that to look andfeel better.
I, I just think I live a betterlife, and that kind of thing.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
What do you?
This is going to be tricky, butlike what do you think?
The recipe in total would be acomprehensive recipe for
anti-aging.
It's like hey, I want to be, Iwant to feel better, look better
.
Yeah.
All that longevity, god, that'sa loaded question, I know.
Do you follow that guy Um,brian Johnson?
No.
He's like the guy that's thedon't.

(13:03):
He's like the whole movement ofdon't die.
Yeah.
Um, he's like a billionaire thatlikes what a tech company, but
anyway, now he just like fullsand on, like I want to age the
slowest as possible in the world, but the slowest ager, okay.
So he does like bloodtransfusions, like for the 17
year old son.
Um, he has like the red lighttherapy and he um, he only eats

(13:26):
from 6am to 11am.
He doesn't eat meat.
Um, he's basically likemicroplastics and then sun
exposure and all that stuff.
Processed foods.

Speaker 2 (13:36):
I think the overall theme would probably be like
avoiding toxins, and I thinkthat's a really it's like a lot
more talked about than it everhas been, but I I do believe we
have a lot of toxicity in ourworld and our food yeah, um, and
our, our skincare products, um,fragrances is like a huge thing
that finally there's reallygood brands and companies you

(14:00):
can get good interest.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
I didn't think about that.
Yeah, what are your thoughts onlike sunscreen?

Speaker 2 (14:04):
Same thing.
My patients get so annoyed withhow much I'm pushing SPF
because we just get so muchexposure from UVA, UVB rays and
that is, it's literallyradiation.
Yeah.
And it's so damaging to ourcells, to our skin, to our hair,
everything.

Speaker 1 (14:21):
Would you recommend like just like a day-to-day
lotion that includes SPF?

Speaker 2 (14:26):
For sure.
I mean, I think just to likewalk out of the mailbox, like go
to the grocery store.
Yeah, if you can look forsomething that's mineral based,
that's huge, because a lot ofregular sunscreens that you're
going to find at the grocerystore actually have a lot of
toxins in them.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
I was going to say like what, yeah, what sunscreens
do you do you?
Is that a thing, Like I know?
I've seen that also in thesocial media space.
Yeah, Okay, there's a benefitof getting the sunscreen to
block the UVA, UVB rays, butthen at the expense of all the
chemicals that you're absorbingthrough your skin that comes

(15:01):
with sunscreen.
What are those chemicals?

Speaker 2 (15:05):
I don't know the specific names of them.
There's some really good appsthat actually rely on EWGs.
One of them where you can likescan the barcode of any product
and it'll give you a wholeprofile on, like the rating of
that product and let you knowlike these are the things that
are in them that are toxic andthat are bad, and it kind of
like rates it from like zero to10.

(15:26):
You're looking for it to bekind of zero to one, yeah of
course.
And they have categories on likeskin sensitivity, internal
toxicity.
I think if you can find morelike physical, mineral-based
sunscreens, that's going to bekey.
A lot of medical grade skincarecompanies are making them.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
What would that be Like?
What brand would that be?

Speaker 2 (15:44):
One brand I really like.
I use a lot of Skin Better.
You really can only find themin doctor's offices.
You're not going to find themin like Publix and CVS, but a
really good CVS brand is calledLa Roche-Posay.
They make great products thatare like medical grade, but you
can find them in in conveniencestores.

Speaker 1 (16:00):
So the other one you can't find online or anything
like that.

Speaker 2 (16:02):
You can buy it online through their website, but you
have to have a provider linkedto the product.
Yeah, gotcha so it's not aprescription, but it's just kind
of controlled in like controlmedical space.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Yeah, so you recommend that and just wear it
as if you were wearing lotion.

Speaker 2 (16:16):
Yeah, wear it daily, all the time, and if all you
have time for I mean, I'm a momof two so I'm busy at.
My skincare routine Isn't asbig and grand as I'd probably
like it to be, but if, if youcan't put sunscreen and then
lotion, find a lotion that hassunscreen in it.

Speaker 1 (16:29):
Got it.
Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah.
Do you follow, do you um that,this one social media influencer
guy?
He does like the ice bucket andhis face or the bowl of ice.
I've seen that.
Does your facial?
Does your skincare routineinclude that?
It does not?

Speaker 2 (16:44):
but I am.
I've actually moved to washingmy face with cold water.
I think for a while we wouldsay like heat, hot, open the
pores.
But um, I think he can be kindof damaging to the tissue on the
skin.

Speaker 1 (16:56):
Gotcha.
So you advocate for coolerwater.

Speaker 2 (16:58):
Yeah, I kind of like just like a room temp cool water
, Although in Florida our coolwater really is like just kind
of warm in the summer it's likethis is not quite as warm as
bath water.
But yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (17:08):
Um, so the art, so the uh for skincare routine.
Um the mineral based sunscreenwear it all the time.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Yeah, Every day.
We should wear it every day.
We're getting sun exposure,when we're driving, when we're
running errands.
I think a lot of people forgetthat.
They think, oh, when I go tothe pool or beach I'll wear it.
But we really should be wearingit every day.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Yeah, um, I remember like when I'm like playing
sports, like practice and stufflike that, I would put sunscreen
on, cause we had like two days,you know, like the football,
yeah, and I'll be like burnt,you know, and I'm like man, I
gotta put sunscreen on you knowExactly.
And people guys were like whatare you doing?
I'm like, I'm just like burnt,you know.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Yeah, have you ever seen the picture of the?
He drove a truck for like 50years and the sun exposed side
of his face is looks like 40years older than the non sun
exposed.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Interesting it's really interesting.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
I have seen like one arm will be you know, and a hand
and a hand from the driving.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, exactly, Cause that's the one getting the sun
from the through the windshield.
What else do you recommend thenfor like skincare routine?

Speaker 2 (18:09):
I think everybody should be on some form of like a
acidic exfoliator at night.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Okay, what's that?

Speaker 2 (18:17):
So some of the common ones are glycolic acid and
retinoic acid, Retinol you'veprobably heard of retinol.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
A little familiar.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
It's derived from vitamin A and it basically tells
your cell cycle to speed up andexfoliate and shed dead skin
cells faster than your baseline.
And when you do that you'reactually creating new cells
faster and it kind of anti-agesthe skin so it shrinks pores,
helps with wrinkles, makes yourskin just look shinier and
brighter.
But I think if everybody canfind a formulation that works

(18:52):
for their skin and doesn't overdry their skin using it at least
three times a week would beideal If you're looking for some
type of skincare to take careof your skin in the long term.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (19:03):
During pregnancy you can't use retinoic acid.
So I kind of went crazy becauseI'm like I can't use my retinol
when I'm pregnant and I wentdown a whole rabbit hole.
There are some safealternatives during pregnancy,
like glycolic acid is fine touse and like a toner.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
What about nursing?

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Nursing, it's recommended not to use it either
.
So same thing.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
Yeah, I think it's just so interesting, like
considering those things getabsorbed in your skin.
That then can be passed throughto a baby.
Yeah, but absorb in your skin,that then?
Can be passed through to a babyyeah, but like sunscreen.
Deodorants yeah, body wash Iknow they're not talked about as
much.
Not at all.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Aluminum deodorants.
Like aluminum's a metal I thinkthey're finding a lot of like
metals being toxic to babies andkids and their bodies can't
process metals as quickly and asmuch and they can't handle the
load that, like, adults can.
Yeah metals as quickly and asmuch and they can't handle the
load that like adults can.
Yeah, and there's a lot ofproducts that are heavy in
metals.
I went down a whole rabbit holeon the baby foods recently with

(19:56):
like jarred baby foods.
A lot of companies are nottesting the quantity of metals
in them and it can be toxic.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
Which makes total sense.
Yeah, it's some kind ofprocessing, you know.
Yep.
And then the packaging.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
The soil, it's like, there's like the four points of
it I've talked.

Speaker 1 (20:13):
I mean, I'm like where does this like with this
environmental toxicity?
Yeah.
What does this look like in 20years?
I know, like, where are wegoing, like what are the options
?

Speaker 2 (20:22):
I think we're going in a good direction, but I feel
like it's also one of those likewith knowledge comes power and
understanding, and I think we'regoing to learn a lot of the
things that we've been doing andusing and putting in our foods
and products are just really bad.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, man, that's crazy, though.
And then do you recommendmicroneedling yeah, like what is
that?
And then do you recommend thaton a regular basis, like monthly
.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yeah, so you could do it monthly.
It's not really necessaryno-transcript whatever you're

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using to kind of help getnutrients to the plant to make
it grow.
It's kind of the same thingwith the face.
And back to PRP.
You can microneedle and thentake PRP and kind of smear it
all over the face, put it all inthere.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
They call that the vampire facial.
Oh, okay, that makes sense.
Yeah, you know um.
Have you seen those like forhair loss?
Like the little rollers, likelawnmower rollers?
Yes, is it the same thing?

Speaker 2 (21:38):
I think it has a similar idea, but it's more
meant for like home use.
Um, patients are going to getaccess to a microneedling device
to use at home.
So I definitely think anythingthat can stimulate the skin and
blood flow can be great.
But hair loss is anotherinteresting one that I want to

(21:58):
get into in the future.
It's just stimulating hairgrowth, giving patients other
options other than going forhair transplants.

Speaker 1 (22:02):
Yeah, for sure.
It seems like the aesthetic,the umbrella under there, would
also include, like, yeah, hairloss.
Yeah.
Wellness, regeneration,regenerative medicine.
Yeah.
With the.
So tell me this what kind ofpopulation do y'all see, Like,
what's your demographic?

Speaker 2 (22:21):
I would say.
I mean I'm seeing majoritywomen.
I do see and treat some men,but the most of it is women.
Anywhere ages late twenties to.
I had a lady I saw the otherday that was 82.
So I've got a pretty wide rangebut on average I'm seeing women
in their thirties, forties andfifties.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Gotcha, and then they come in with usually the same
questions.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Yep, usually the most common questions Expression
lines I have.
I have expression lines Um.
I have a wrinkle right in thecenter of my eyebrow that's
probably my most common or twobetween my eyebrows, and it just
bothers me when I look in themirror and I just want options
to get rid of it.
Smile lines here in thenasolabial folds are another
common one.
One of the first places westart losing volume on our face

(23:07):
as we age is the midface, and soI get a lot of patients coming
in feeling like they feel sunkenthere, sunken in the temples,
and they're just looking forways to restore volume, take
care of their skin, um, so theyjust want to age more gracefully
long-term.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Gotcha Um, the, with like mid face and then temporal
sunken features.
What do you do for that andwhat's the treatment for that?

Speaker 2 (23:34):
My most common treatment is using a hyaluronic
acid filler.
Oh, okay, yeah, which.
It's funny because when I firstgot into aesthetic medicine,
what I knew of hyaluronic acidwas from my ortho days, because
we would inject it into the kneejoint to help treat some of the
symptoms of arthritis and weuse it as a filler in the face

(23:55):
and it can last anywhere fromsix to 24 months.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (23:59):
And I'm basically just re-volumizing areas where
the patient once had volume.
So I'm not trying to change thestructure of the face or make
people look any different.
I'm just kind of restoring somevolume loss that they once had.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
From my understanding , the hyaluronic acid.
From a soft tissue standpoint,like for collagen, it helps with
gliding between, like thepliability between, collagen
fibers.
Yeah.
Like when we do soft tissue work, like if we do stripping or
cupping or something like that,the thought would be like it
stimulates a vasal response thatdelivers beelines hyaluronic

(24:33):
acid in the area too.
So like imagine like getting amassage or like getting like
some soft tissue work, which isnot super comfortable, yeah, but
then they stay, they're red andlike I was really uncomfortable
during when they stand up andlike, oh, I'm like a lot looser.
Yeah, it's like what happenedFrom my understanding, like the
research describing it's like amore hyaluronic acid was
recruited and delivered in thearea.
That's allowing more fibergliding.

(24:53):
Yeah so that'd be the same thingfor the face like for
aesthetics.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
It's similar.
I mean, I'm putting it in areaslike where some of the fat pads
are, but it likes water becauseit's like a hydrator, so it's
very water loving and so it willdraw water into where I inject
it and will actually kind ofhelp with a little volume as
well.
There's different types offillers.
They all have differentproperties and they're used in

(25:17):
different areas, for if you wantsomething firmer or if you want
something that's reallyflexible and stretchy and you
want it to look more natural, sothat's where, like, the
artistic component kind of comesin.
But, yeah, very similar.

Speaker 1 (25:29):
Cool.
So what would like?
Let's say, the lady comes inyour main demographic would be
like thirties to fifties, female, and they have expression lines
and they want to feel confident, like they want to what and I
was skincare longevity.
What's the best recipe for that?

Speaker 2 (25:45):
I'd say the best recipe in my opinion would be
using Botox to kind of softensome expression lines every
three to four months.
Um, it's going to be commonthat I'm injecting filler into,
like the mid face area andsometimes along the jaw line.
I'm not really big into lips.
I like correcting lips andusing it for soft hydration, but

(26:07):
I don't like when lips lookfake or overfilled and it's just
not my thing.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
I would imagine microneedling and PRP.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Microneedling Yep.
Occasionally I like usingchemical peels because they're
basically like the, the theexfoliating acids I talked about
earlier, but in really highconcentrations and they cause
like a rapid shedding of deadskin cells and tissue.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
So is that a cream?

Speaker 2 (26:29):
No, it's like a.
It's a solution I apply in theoffice and then they leave it on
for a few hours and then theyget like a little take-home
regimen to care for their skinand over the course of a week
they like peel Interesting.
Yeah, like a snake you kind ofshed skin.
So doing that, I think, threetimes a year is awesome.
I get patients on a goodskincare regimen.
I always, always tailoring itto the patient just depending on

(26:51):
what their needs are and howmuch time they have and want to
invest into it.

Speaker 1 (26:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:55):
So I think, good skincare, little Botox filler to
restore some volume, I thinkthat's the perfect recipe.
But also understanding thatit's like maintaining a car or
coloring your hair.
It's not something you just doonce.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
You got to kind of stay on top of it.

Speaker 1 (27:10):
Yeah, so they recommend patients to come back
and see you like, like what'sthe cadence look like to come in
.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
If it's a new patient , I like seeing them back at two
weeks just to kind of assesswhatever it is we did and make
sure that they respondedappropriately, answer any
questions they may have.
But ideally I'm seeing patientsevery three to six months.

Speaker 1 (27:28):
Gotcha and then just continually coming in if
something comes up or like asneeded more frequently.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
I've got a lot of seasonal patients too, so I also
kind of work with them if theyhave other treatment providers,
usually up north, where they go,and I'm very transparent about
here's our treatment plan.
This is how much Botox we'veinjected.
It's just a type of filler Iuse because a lot of of people
don't know that.
They'll come to you and they'llsay I had filler a year ago.
I don't know what it was orwhere they put it and you're

(27:56):
like okay.

Speaker 1 (27:57):
Which is kind of interesting, cause we have a
very similar conversation withpatients as in like I went and
saw this one PT or Cairo or docor whatever and they did this
thing and it didn't hurt.
I didn't feel great afterwards.
I'm like who was it, like wherewere you at?
And they're like I don'tremember.
I was like man, like I feellike I'd be a little bit more
conscientious.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yeah, writing it down what's going in my body, but I
think if you trust your providerand they've given you
treatments that you like, theresult and the outcome, they
just trust you and they're goingto do whatever you recommend.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, gotcha.
What about blemishes?
You got questions on that.
Yeah, I do.
You know, I think cosmeticdermatology is something I

(28:37):
highly value and respect, andthey're more going to be in the
wheelhouse of treating rosacea,acne, all that I do some
chemical peels for it if they'realready on some type of
medication or regimen at home,peels for it if they're already
on some type of medication orregimen at home.
But that's another one where Ithink there's a lot of internal
factors at play and it's just aproblem of inflammation, like a

(28:58):
lot of things.

Speaker 1 (28:59):
Interesting For what particular Like rosacea?

Speaker 2 (29:01):
you're saying Rosacea and acne, it's just
inflammation of the pore and thetissue that exhibits the
symptom, and so it's not justinflammation from the external
environment.
I think there's a lot at playwith the internal.

Speaker 1 (29:15):
Interesting what they're eating.
What they're eating, yeah yeah,totally Consuming.
Drinking, eating, yep, lack ofexercise, stress, loss of sleep.
Stress loss of sleep 100% Kids.
Yeah.
And then hormonal imbalancedysregulation.
Yeah, hormonal imbalancedysregulation.
You know from all the whole.
You know, because that's atraumatic thing, you know For
sure.
Pregnancy, birth, nursing, ohmy gosh, you're telling me Lack
of sleep.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Seven months out, yeah.

Speaker 1 (29:38):
So you have two kids.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yep, I got a two and a half year old daughter and a
seven month old baby boy.

Speaker 1 (29:43):
Man, that's crazy.
Yeah, I can't believe.
Seven months already.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
I know I can't either it flies, but I'm happier in
this phase when they're actuallylike sleeping through the night
.
I struggle with the newbornphase of like the sleepless
nights and the BF.
You know that.

Speaker 1 (29:58):
It's the worst.
I mean Nicole takes the bruntof it.
I mean I help usually to likeput them down, like she'll wake
up to nurse, you know, and thenthey're usually just man, they
just want mom.
I know so when they put my momposts them down, they're like no
, no, no, no, Like I need you.
Yeah.
They just sense and smell them,you know.
So she's like can you come inand put them down?

(30:18):
Yeah, Cause Maverick, now he's.
He's nine months.
Okay, yeah.
I knew he was close.
He slept through the night onetime.
Okay, all our two kids got uplike three times that particular
night.

Speaker 2 (30:31):
It always goes that way, it's crazy.
I was blessed with this dreamchild.
He at four months.
He just started sleepingthrough the night and I had
heard that happens.
I didn't know it was possibleand he just did it.

Speaker 1 (30:43):
Our middle son, Colt, was like that.

Speaker 2 (30:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
He like started sleeping really well within like
two months, I think, and thenit lasted up until he started
teething, I think.

Speaker 2 (30:53):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (30:54):
Or some kind of leap happened at six months maybe,
but anyway there was like a twomonth stretch, I believe, where
Blakely was old enough, whereshe's sleeping well through the
night.
Yeah.
And then Colt was like sleeping.
We're like this is kind of easy.
You know Like if it could belike this is awesome, this is
kind of easy.
You know like if it could belike this is awesome, you know.
But yeah, but Mav has beendefinitely he's been more
challenging, but yeah, so I'm onthere.

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She takes the brunt of it.
I don't know Like there's lackof sleep, man.
It's like it's brutal, justconstant, broken sleep.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
Yeah, man, it's crazy .

Speaker 1 (31:32):
No, I think fatigue is like a form of torture, like
just not sleeping at all, and itaffects so many systems of the
body, right, right, yeah, I knowthat.
Um for talking about longevitysomething.
I've heard multiple sourceswhere they're like the first
thing first, like comprehensiverecipe for longevity and like
anti-aging be healthy wellnessor whatever they're like.
Get your sleep locked in.
Yeah.
Like be military, uh consistent, and like regimented, with like

(31:52):
no, I'm in bed at nine.
Yeah.
Wake up every day at five, 30,you know whatever, and then like
lock that in.
Yeah.
Just cause, like all theprocesses and recovery things
that happen at sleep, One ofthem being brain um flush, you
know, like getting all the trashproteins flush out of the brain
.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
And I was like huh.

Speaker 2 (32:09):
I've never thought about that.

Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well then I'm.
You know we're doomed.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
I'm learning now that , now that we've two kids, my
husband also owns and runs abusiness.
He's in insurance.
Two kids, two businesses.
I found that I need to becomemore of an early morning person
If I want to get like my me timein, whether it be yoga exercise

(32:34):
, or just like having coffee,and you know, reading some news
has to be in the morning.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
Yeah, I could agree with you.
Yeah, I believe it.
Um, cause yours are grinded,you know it's busy businesses
and I'm fortunate where Nicole,like you know, she's at home
with the kiddos and that's likea her thing, you know.
So it allows me to, like, getout here and, you know, grind
and stuff.
Yeah.
But yeah, the me time, like forsure, you know, fortunately.
So there's a question.
All right.
So you're, you know active,healthy, professional, you know

(33:00):
health industry.
How do you navigate with twokids running a business, getting
your own longevity, health,wellness, nutrition, stuff?

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Yeah, what are your recommendations?
I think I've had to let go of alot of the not everything's
going to be kept up with anddone a hundred percent, a
hundred percent of the time.
So if my house is a wreck, iflaundry's piling up, if, like
dishes are left from the morning, that used to be something that
really got under my skin andbother me and I've kind of

(33:31):
learned to let it go and justknow it 'll get done.
I'll finish it later.
It's not a big deal.
I think.
Just focusing on like theimportant, like trying to get up
early, get my workout in and bedone by seven, 30, um is is key
.
I don't do it every day.
I couldn't do it every day, Umwhere do you work out?
Usually just at home or in theneighborhood.

(33:53):
We were members at lifetime fora while.
Then I paused it when I had thebaby.
But I love lifetime gym.
They're great, they've goteverything.
Good classes, yeah, um, but fornow I've just kind of been at
home.
Gotcha, I kind of like to runin the summer, which is crazy.
I can't last long it's onlylike 20 minutes, but there's
something about just sweatingthat's like feels really good.
I love the endorphins itcreates.

(34:13):
It's really therapeutic.

Speaker 1 (34:15):
How was that with?

Speaker 2 (34:16):
is that a recommended thing for skincare, Like get
some good sweats and run out inthe sun in the summer Florida
probably not, if I'm likepreaching my SPF, but no, I
think I think sweating's good.
I think, um, you know the, theanti-aging, healthier way to do
it is in like a sauna or like asteam room.
Um, but I, I just there'ssomething about the Florida heat

(34:36):
and the sun and just sweatingoutside.
That feels like really good andreally natural, I don't
disagree with you.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
I feel always.
Yeah, it feels good.
You know, like I did somethinghard and like I it's healthy.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
Yeah, so something to your body, I think heat
conditioning.

Speaker 1 (34:49):
For sure, yeah, as long as it's safe.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
Have worked out in like six months, I'm going to do
.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
I'm going to do person you got a lot of juggling
, a lot of stuff, yeah.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
Let the Let little things go, Let the little ones
burn.
Like, just let that little firethe laundry, the dishes.
But like I need to make sure Iget to bed, wake up early, work
out Get to bed on time.

Speaker 2 (35:18):
I mean, I like my husband and I like having at
least like a good hour and ahalf to two hours after the kids
have gone to bed to just kindof relax, whether it's like
reading, watching a show,chatting, catching up.
Usually I'm like kind ofprepping for the next day,
getting bottles ready and lunch.
My kids are in daycare at alittle church right by our house

(35:41):
, which is great.
So, yeah, letting little thingsgo, trying to have somewhat of
a structure and a plan to yourday.
I'm really big on to-do lists,like having a list of like, okay
, these five things I know Ineed to do, what are the two
most important?
Cause I probably won't get toall five and like get those done
.
And my husband's been reallygood at helping me.
Like just check off boxes andlike find the easiest thing you
can complete on your list, do it, complete it and then it's done

(36:04):
.
And then it kind of just feelsgood.
You're like, okay, Iaccomplished something.
Or if you're like 30 minutes inon trying to get something done
and you just can't, and there'slike whatever the barrier may
be as to like I can't completeit, let it go and figure it out
later.
Set it aside for another day.

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Yeah, yeah, that's a good point.
And then, what about?
What about nutrition?
Like food?

Speaker 2 (36:23):
So, being so busy and on the go, we we do end up
ordering a lot of our meals,especially like lunches while
we're both at work.
Um, I really like sweet green,I like field of greens, I like
just doing like a quick powersalad with good protein, whether
it's chicken or salmon, a bighard boiled ed girl Cause.
It's just quick, it's easy, youdon't have to cook it.

(36:43):
I can eat it in the morningwhile I'm like prepping the kids
for school, that kind of thing.
And just water.
I mean, drinking a ton of wateris huge.
I think adding supplements towater, like specifically salt
and potassium, is really goodand helpful.
I think a lot of those packedhydrations I'd like your opinion
on that.

(37:03):
We're so pushed and great, butwe're finding that there's like
a lot of sugar and chemicals andreally all you kind of need is
like salt.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, no good question.
Like, um, the electrolytes aresuper important, and like making
sure we get enough water andjust in general, where, um, it
seems like the things that themost common things we hear is
potassium, um salt and then uh,magnesium magnesium and those
three.
Yeah.
And then enough, like there'sall the ones you can throw in

(37:32):
there, like if it's vitamin C,like ascorbic acid, um, and then
I'll, you know some of the B Bvitamins, um, and that just gets
.
It can get a lot, know what Imean?
Like it gets overwhelming, yeah, um.
And then, um, people also likewhat other supplements do I
recommend and take and stuff.
I've heard a lot of good thingsabout turmeric and black pepper
.
Yeah, anti-inflammation,totally anti-inflammatory

(37:53):
properties, and then ginger,ginger with that too.
It's just challenging to getthe right things yeah where um
what I did is?
I got um the turmeric extractpowder from a company online
like just a supplement company,but, oh my gosh, turmeric stains
everything.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
Oh, it's so bad.
Have you ever got it in yournails?

Speaker 1 (38:13):
Oh, 100%.
I'll be at the clinic and I'mlike you know, doing needling or
like working with somebody, andI'm like, don't worry, this is
not jaundice, it's just turmeric, my turmeric.

Speaker 2 (38:23):
I have a good turmeric roasted carrot recipe
I'll have to give you, but youhave to like massage the
turmeric with olive oil onto thecarrots and like my nails are
going to be orange.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Or gloves for sure.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
That's a good idea.
I have access to a lot ofgloves.
Imagine you'd be wearing gloves.

Speaker 1 (38:39):
But there was one morning where, like, I was up
early, so like what I'll do isI'll just get the bag, because
my plan was to um puree, pureginger, like organic ginger from
this, from the grocery storeand then have the pulp and like
the juice and stuff like thatright, and then scoop in um in
ice trays, a scoop of turmericand black pepper at the

(38:59):
appropriate ratios with gingerand then put some like orange
juice in it and water.
Yeah.
And then have these thick icetrays and put them in the
freezer and freeze them, andthen once a morning just pop an
ice cube into a coffee or water,just have it melt and just
drink it like water.
Yeah.
Well, um, the turmeric extractis so fine that it's like
cinnamon.
Like you've ever tried to mixcinnamon, it doesn't mix.
It doesn't mix, it, just floats.

(39:20):
Yep.
So I'd be putting in there.
I'm trying to mix it and it'spluming as I'm doing that smoke.
Yeah.
So I'm like dang it, so I'mlike too deep at this point I
might've all finished.
So I did, and it was justchallenging.
So now I just like take a dryspoon, like a tiny spoonful of
turmeric, and I just, you know,eat it dry with black pepper and
black pepper extract.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
That sounds kind of potent.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
Well, the black pepper can be a little spicy.
Spicy yeah, but it's not bad.
Okay.
So I took the black pepper.
I have a black pepper extractbag and a turmeric extract bag.
Okay, so you don't need all theblack pepper, it's just a
little bit.
Yeah.
Because it improves theabsorption by like 90% of your
turmeric.
So I mix it in the bag.
So I mix it in the bag andevery morning I carefully take a
little spoon and I'll just,like you know, take it on dry

(40:04):
with like a sip of water.
Yeah.
But there's always turmeric onthe cup that I just sipped
because it was on my lips.
And if, for some reason, mythumb dragged the bag on the way
out of getting the turmeric,then it's on my thumb.
And then there's one morning,by accident, I was trying to,
you know, just eat it dry andsome spilled off the spoon on my
way to the mouth and I'm overthe sink.

(40:24):
Yeah.
I don't know how it happened,but it got on the floor.
Oh no, I didn't realize it Alittle bit.
Yeah.
So I'm like, getting ready forwork.
I'm getting ready.
It's like 6am or like 530 andlike I put everything away.
I go to the restroom.
I of orange Stained from thekids All over the no, it was me.
I looked at my socks and I waslike, oh, I was by myself in the

(40:46):
morning.
I looked at my sock and it wason my foot.
I'm like, oh, my gosh, it's sohard to get out.
Yeah.
So, luckily, right at thatmoment, nicole woke up and, like
she was at the baby and I thinkit was before Maverick was born
, actually, but anyway was likeI'm so sorry, I have to leave,
yeah, but there's turmeric allover the floor and I was like
there's any way that you can get, like you know, before the kids

(41:08):
wake up, yeah, that you can getlike the thing out.
You know the vacuum thing, andshe did, luckily it came up,
pretty it came up, it came upsimply.
But I was like man, but now thevacuum thing, like the little
lavage mac is good, that's gonnabe stained.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
That's stained, I know.

Speaker 1 (41:21):
You have to wash that .

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Slippery slope.

Speaker 1 (41:23):
I was like this is never happening again.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
I have to be extremely careful.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
Tumor is actually one of the things.
If I'm doing filler injections,I'll have people quit because
it can actually lead to somemore bruising easily.

Speaker 1 (41:37):
So it's like a blood thinner.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
It's like a blood thinning effect.
Yeah, so turmeric's on my listof supplements to stop taking
about a week before a fillertreatment.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Interesting.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
With Botox it's not as important.
The needle's smaller, we're notgoing as deep, yeah, but yeah.

Speaker 1 (41:58):
I gotta look into that.
Turmeric's one of them.
Huh, it's not that it's bad,it's just I don look into that.
Um, but anyway, other than that, like supplement, wise, like
for anyway electrolyte, like youknow, hydration packets, I
would say the priority that I'vebeen hearing is magnesium,

(42:18):
potassium and salt, um sodium,and then um turmeric, black
pepper, ginger, if you can, andthen um for sports performance,
like for exercise and you know,and also some cognitive benefits
, is creatine.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Oh, okay.
Creatine monohydrate.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
Yeah, there's been found some cognitive benefits to
that too.

Speaker 2 (42:28):
Are you hearing anything about the use of
colostrum supplements?
I?

Speaker 1 (42:33):
have.
What's your thought on that?
I'm like this is getting weird.
I know.
It makes sense, but I haven'tlooked deeply into it.
I saw it and I'm like no, yeah,Like it seems like we're
getting a little aggressive.
I don't know.
What have you found?
What have you read?

Speaker 2 (42:48):
I've read about it being like kind of derived from
cows and again, I totally getthe health benefits.
I think there can be a lot forenergy for hair growth, nails,
skin.
I'm kind of into it.
I haven't started trying it ortaking it myself Like a shot,
like a powder it comes in like apowder and you can like add it
to smoothies or to coffee, thatkind of thing.

Speaker 1 (43:10):
So what are the proposed benefits Like?
What is it for?

Speaker 2 (43:12):
I think for energy metabolism.

Speaker 1 (43:14):
Energy metabolism yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Cell growth and just helping support cells, and our
body's constantly making newcells in every part, so I think
it can help with that.
I think it can help with memoryand cognition and just focus
Interesting I'm going to lookmore into it.
I know I got to look more intoit too.
I was curious.
Your opinion, though.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
I haven't heard, yeah , other than I'm like, okay,
this is a little much, but itmakes sense.
I'm definitely softening to theidea.
I mean, I could see myself thattoo.
You know, I guess I haven'treally looked into it that much,
but I know it's like the magicformula you know, like the
ultimate healthy thing.
Totally Like what else wouldyou give like a newborn infant?
That's extremely vulnerable andsuper dependent.

(43:57):
Yeah.
Not going to give them or her,you know, deli meat.
No, exactly, let's just mixsome of this in here.
Um, that's the most pure formof, you know, health.
Yeah, chemicals, you know thatmakes total sense.
Um, what?
No?
I appreciate you sharing moreabout your, your personal, like
scheduling, and like yourpriorities yeah but, um, yeah, I

(44:21):
think the sleep thing is superimportant.
And then just consistency.
I think, oh, I saw a good uhtalking about like things might
not be 100, 100 of the time,like consistency, because
consistency is the mostimportant thing yeah but I would
say like consistently making aneffort to try to stay
consistent yeah, with likenutrition and then fitness sleep
yeah um, I saw this really goodmetaphor.

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It was a guy, it was anInstagram thing, you know, but I
was like I like this one.
It was like, all right, I'mtrying to stay healthy in a diet
and exercise.
I missed a week, or like I ateweird for a week time, or you
know a five day period orwhatever.
Like well, you know what?
All is lost.
Might as well, just like go away, I lost everything.
Momentum's lost.
That's the same metaphor aslike imagine trying to pour milk

(45:03):
in a cup and a little bitspills, and like you know what
Might as well, dump the wholejug.
Now you know, spill the wholething out.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
I like that analogy.
I was like that'd be dumb right.
Just take a paper towel.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
We do that Wipe it up and then just continue the path
that you were on.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
That's something that I've always struggled with.
I missed the.
The momentum's lost.
Yes, everything's done.
You know, might as well justlike let the, let the floodgates
open and, like we were talkingearlier, just being in this
phase of like an early businessstarting a new business on my
own it's you got to really tryhard to stay mentally focused
and not let little failures andhiccups and steps along the way
bring you down and drag you downand say I'm going to throw in
the can.

Speaker 1 (45:41):
Yeah, yeah and steps along the way bring you down and
drag you down and say I'm goingto throw in the can.
Yeah, yeah, totally, just callit.
I totally agree with that andit only gets more.
But like I think man like thatentrepreneurial journey of a
solo solopreneur, you know andthen especially in a health and
service-based industry.
Man it was the best thing ever.
Yeah, it changed my life.
Like of perspective, beliefs umefficiency, time management,

(46:03):
priorities, priorities.
Yeah.
Cause, like talking about likepriorities, you know, like, oh
my gosh, talking aboutsacrifices, you know, yeah, I
mean we don't.
I don't do anything other thanpriorities my kids to be home
and like be an active father,get to bed as quickly as I
possibly can, as best as I canresist the temptation to snack
at night.
Yeah, it's like I'd have achoice I can snack and then doom

(46:27):
scroll, or I can like not snackand then just go to bed and go
to bed.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
I know it takes a lot of self-control.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
It does.
You know, I'm not, I'm, I'm,you know, me's my perfect yeah
no, nobody is.
But usually it's like if, ifthey're not in the house, I that
way better, Exactly, you know.

Speaker 2 (46:40):
So I've always been a believer in that Like, if you
don't buy it and it's not there,you can't have it.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
Yeah, it's like, well , I might as well just go to bed
.
I don't have it anyway.
Yeah, alcohol is the same way.
You know I haven't, I don't notdrink anymore.
I definitely drink less.
Yeah.
But um, I've with that, withthe shop was just not grocery
shopping hungry yeah, that's mydownfall, yeah because I'm like
now I have all these snacks andstuff.

(47:05):
I was hungry and I was shopping.

Speaker 2 (47:06):
That's the problem, you know yeah I gotta prepare
and plan one of my splurges isgrocery ordering.
It's just, it's so convenientespecially with family with
family, and um, then you're notin the store, you're not seeing
it, you just you're like okay,here's my list, here's my cart,
just here's my cart, just repeatit every, every week.

Speaker 1 (47:23):
That's super smart.

Speaker 2 (47:24):
Add on a few new things, remove some things, yeah
.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
That's super smart.

Speaker 2 (47:27):
It's like a guilty splurge.

Speaker 1 (47:29):
That we uh, nothing wrong with that.
We were for sure on that untilthey.
Yeah, we were on that until onerecently canceled.
But um, we actually enjoy goingto the.
I kind of enjoy going to thegrocery store with the kids.
Yeah, usually it's like Nicolewill have Mav like in the cart
or like on her, like on a Bjornor something, yeah, and then I
take the other two kids andwe're just like sprinting up and
down the aisles.
Yeah.
We just get energy out.

(47:49):
You know, yeah, like just seethat aisle, run down there and
back as fast as you can.
Do that 10 times, yeah, exactly, both going opposite directions
.
Yeah.
Oh, they don't like run intosomebody.
You know that's funny, but um,that's a good energy outlet, you
know.
Yeah.
But yeah, so like.
But anyway, talking aboutpriorities, you know I usually
go back to like this is my own.

(48:10):
I want to hear what you have tosay, but, like I'm always, just
health and wellness andlongevity.
Yeah.
What is exact?
What do I?
What do I want?
You know, what is it that Iactually want?
All right.
I want to be fit.
I want to have a goodrelationship with Nicole and my
kids.
I want to get good sleep and beenergetic and not just like
lethargic all the time and foggy.
I want to be lean and healthy.

(48:32):
What are the pathways?
That's what I really want.
Do I like you know?
I really want to do like adifferent lifestyle?
Yeah, I want to be really goodat fantasy football and win my
league.
That's going to be a lot ofdedication and effort and
something else.
It's like what's going tomatter, what's going to matter
in the long 20 years from now.
You know what I mean.
Yeah, All right.
Well, if that's what I want,what's the pathway and the

(48:53):
checklist?

Speaker 2 (48:53):
Yeah, how do I structure my life, my time?

Speaker 1 (49:07):
It usually doesn't include, you know, watching TV a
lot, you know eating out Causewe try to like when we'd be
healthy and like save and, ofcourse, be financially
responsible.
Exactly Um and then um a sociallife.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
Yeah, we have no social life, At least I don't we
.
We have less of one, especiallynow having kids, but I think it
changes.
I've got a good mom group atour daycare and totally on
Fridays we kind of hang out,yeah, but it's more like
spending 10 minutes talking to amom at drop-off.
I'm like, oh, I had my socialfix for exactly a little
re-energizing, yeah, not justthey're in it too.

(49:32):
They're working.
They've got kids like we're allkind of in it it's funny.

Speaker 1 (49:35):
It's like if someone's coming over for a play
date yeah like oh, this is cool.
You know like another adult,you know like we can just
socialize, see, what they're upto.
Exactly, Other than just likedon't pull her hair.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (49:46):
Put that toy down.
You can't have candy right now.
Exactly, put the crayon away.
Was that the best decision wecould have made today?
Yeah, let's think about this.
Yeah, exactly.
That's really funny.
Well, thanks.
And what if people want to findyou?
What would?

Speaker 2 (50:03):
be yeah, so my social media has my address on it.
It's at Crafted PB CraftedAesthetics PB is my social media
handle.

Speaker 1 (50:12):
Crafted Aesthetics PB .

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Yep and Crafted PB dot com.
But all my information's onthere.
My phone, I can be texted,called, emailed.
There's inquiry on my website.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
So yeah, website craftedpbcom or a crafted
aesthetics, sorry,craftedaestheticspbcom or
craftedaestheticspbinstagram.
Social media, yeah Cool.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
So, and my consults are free I can do virtual as
well.
I could do a phone call, videocall um just have a chat with
you and see what your concernsare.

Speaker 1 (50:46):
And this would be people for skin health, skincare
um anti-aging and aesthetics.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
Cool Well, thanks for coming in.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Thank you for having me.
This is really cool.

Speaker 1 (50:56):
You're busy and stuff , we'll have to have another
round of, you know, anotherpodcast.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Yeah, catch up again.

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