Josie joined us on Beauty Care Pod to talk about Brazilian Lymphatic Massage and how it's going to become the next big thing after Brazilian Waxing. She shared the story of how she moved from Brazil to U.S.A. and the value of this massage technique. She also explained how she has been able to help her clients realize that this technique will detox …

It was so much fun hosting Tahwah on Beauty Care Pod where she shared with us her experience treating her own acne through personal research and helping close members of her family. She has since then become a skincare advocate taking time to research various products in skincare and giving tips on her research on her social media channel. She has …

Chris joined on the show giving us a brief history of his childhood, how he told us about his journey to esthetics and holistic health coaching. He shared his story of how he was able to clear his very difficult acne as well as how he has since been maintaining a health young looking skin as well as how he was able to sell lots of his book and grow…

Cosmetic Dentist, Victoria Veytsman, discusses discovering dentistry: the perfect blend of art and medicine while building clients’ confidence. She shares what it took for her to build a business that treats everyone like a celebrity. Victoria explains that building this type of business is achievable. Still, it requires perseverance, working on in…

Crystal is a one-woman-show esthetician based in Atlanta, Georgia. She shares her unusual career journey, which allowed her to pick up skills in marketing and advertising until she eventually rekindled her love for the business of beauty. She is currently a beauty coach who helps people grow their businesses. Crystal shares information about her ea…

Carina Brooks is trained in skin care, lashes, and tattoos. She discusses her journey from modeling and, as a college student, rendering home services to starting her beauty business which includes tattooing. Carina keeps building her knowledge to deliver the best to her clients. She shares how she did nails in people’s houses at the beginning but …

People buy value; they don’t buy things. Cherie Callahan is a trained esthetician and coach who makes as high as $52,000 a month as an esthetician with a single bed. She explains how she delivers value to her clients and trains others to operate at a higher level by doing the same. Cherie explains the importance of building relationships to feel co…

Less is more. Three ingredients are all it takes for Renee Harris to make her quintessential hard lotion. Growing up in California, Renee shares how she experienced skin dryness due to the harsh summers. After growing up and having children, she noticed that her palms were getting cracked and split due to continuous hand washing after changing so m…

Iranian-born Hanieh Sigari moved to America when she was seven. There, she made unusual friends for her age and had to deal with loss early in life. This experience as a girl inspired her to dedicate herself to figuring out the “fountain of youth.” Hanieh shares how she evolved as a passionate businesswoman by starting a nursing home health care bu…

Our guest on the show today is Stacey Levine. She is an oral care specialist and co-founder of GLO Science and GLO Good Foundation. On the podcast today, Stacy shares her childhood experiences in Brooklyn, being introduced to entrepreneurship at an early age, and the motivation behind starting her company and going into the teeth whitening business…

Today, the skincare legend, Pamela Springer, joins us for a second time and takes us on a deep dive into chemical peels for skin of color. In today’s episode, Pamela discusses how different skin colors and types react to chemical peels and why an esthetician must investigate each skin to take care of it properly. She emphasizes that, in caring for …

In this episode of Beauty Care Pod, we have Holly Brown, founder of Look, Feel, Fab which happens to be the very first non-profit in the professional skincare industry. She shares with us her journey on how she has been able to run a fully not-for-profit organization in the skincare industry even when everyone thought it was a very bad idea. Links …

Jessica has a surprising story from a humble beginning and into becoming a Celebrity Makeup Artist. She was able to, in the space of three months, become one of the most sought after makeup artists, drawing the interest of celebrity photographers who loved her work and wanted to collaborate with her. She now helps people who want to be able to attr…

Jacqueline is a Licensed Esthetician, Naturopath and Reiki Master. She brought Australia's leading skincare brand with her to North America after trying various products in Canada that could work with her skin the way she was used to but couldn't get. Jacqueline also shared with us some stories from her background, including that her mother brought…

Joni has been an Esthetician for 29 years and practices Minimalist Makeup. She started with no direction. She worked multiple jobs and was even an Aerobics instructor in Boston and got involved in Esthetics when she started to assist an Esty at the gym where she worked. She then took time to go to Esthetics school and fell in love with it from day …

Diedre shares with us how she goes about the process of selecting products and devices that she uses in running her business as a licensed esthetician. She also explains how she’s been able to create reliable pricing scales for services rendered. Her amazing story on her Esthetics journey between 1984 and 2022 is one of the highlights of this episo…

Christina Fernandez believes so much in empowering future estheticians with adequate information that they would need to thrive in the industry that she updates them with the latest styles of makeup artistry immediately after she learns them. After getting fired from her old job while on maternity leave, Christina’s makeup side business, All in One…

When it comes to skincare, a one size fits all approach doesn’t apply to all skin types, and today, beauty industry legend, Pamela Springer, is on the show to shed more light on this. Pamela, founder of Global Skin Solutions for professionals and author of Don’t Be Left in the Dark, joins us today to discuss the importance of understanding the nuan…

Gabriela Hernandez, the author of Classic Beauty: The History of Makeup and the founder of Besame Cosmetics, is today’s guest. Her childhood fascination with beauty rituals at an early age and knowledge gained from studying vintage cosmetics led her into the makeup industry. Gabriela discusses her book on today's show and highlights makeup use in d…

The path to practicing your passion isn’t always straightforward or carefully planned out. Jenn Michelle, the notable celebrity and media hair and makeup artist with many laurels, is on the show today. She shares her reasons for choosing a career in makeup and how her self-confident answer to a stranger led her to become an assistant at New York Fa…

In today’s inspiring episode, Courtney takes us through her journey from a tomboy in her pre-teen years who first discovered she was unstoppable with makeup to an esthetician who won two awards in The Skin Games. After trying other career paths, she finally attended esthetician school. But after school, she struggled with self-doubt and fell off th…

Liana Blomquist, multiple award winner and founder and CEO of Brooklyn Rooftop Botanicals, New York’s first and only beauty rooftop farm that grows over 50 beauty botanicals, joins us on the show today. Liana started her rooftop farms out of her love for gardening and a desire to bring beauty ingredients closer to home to combat climate change. In …

First: dream big. Second: think about yourself as unlimited, and finally: allow yourself to become as big as you really are. Today, our guest, Rene Stufano, is a firm believer in that ideology. It’s no wonder that Rene is a distributor of three groundbreaking skin products that would definitely push the boundaries in your beauty business. They incl…

To be the best, you have to put in the work. Our guest today, Brooke Kennedy, is a firm believer in this. Brooke is a master esthetician and the renowned Suite B Lounge owner. Today, she discusses how her prior experiences before entering the beauty industry equipped her with customer service, sales, customer relations, multitasking, and other life…

With profits as high as 75% for a single treatment, teeth whitening is a rapidly growing cosmetic treatment in the beauty industry and a great way to bring additional revenue to your business. CEO of Sis Smiles teeth whitening, Sandi Simmons, enlightens us about the teeth whitening process. She highlights the advantages of using the tooth whitening…

Are you willing to take the leap to do the things you love? Today, our guest is Jennifer Dover, a licensed esthetician for almost 14 years with her own practice called Luminosity Skin Boutique. Before becoming an esthetician, she was a nurse for almost 16 years. She started seeing an esthetician in her 30s which sparked her interest in esthetics an…

How do you thrive in the real business world when esthetics school doesn’t prepare you for essential things such as client and time management? Esthetician for over 20 years and business owner, Kelly Wolcott, is a second-time guest today. She teaches us how to navigate this situation and shares how she learned the ropes for building her own busines…

Tiffany once had an eye-opening encounter with a great esthetician who understood her skin type. Like anyone would, Tiffany returned a month later to book a second appointment. But on returning to book a new appointment, the esthetician was gone. Untraceable—nobody knew her whereabouts. After years of skin breakouts, Tiffany needed another esthetic…

You might know her for her consistent 5-star-reviews on Yelp, Facebook, and Google. That’s because Gigi’s mantra as the owner of South Bay Beauty is commitment. She somehow manages to seize the moment to reply to every comment on her social media platforms. Gigi McConnell joins us on the show today and shares nuggets about commitment and consistenc…

After working with skincare for a while, Mayada discovered another word for passion —Lashes. Her passion for lashes allows her to bring so much positivity and energy into her business. As Mayada’s creativity in eyelash product artistry evolved, she grew from creating light, hypoallergenic lashes to eyelash extensions. She soon became an esthetician…

Can you ever have too much knowledge as an esthetician? Today, our guest is Kelly Wolcott, a licensed esthetician for over 20 years who is NCA certified, a CIDESCO diplomat, ITEC certified, and a business owner. Kelly never thought she’d be in the beauty industry until post-partum hormonal acne led her to an esthetician who cleared her skin and tau…

Eyelash artist Alma Valladares shares her experience in the beauty industry. Her professional expertise comprises being a makeup artist, an eyelash artist, and a licensed esthetician. After being inspired to work for a makeup company that involved an extensive range of skin colors, Alma explored the world of eyelashes artistry, from volume lashes t…

Confidence is all about positivity, belief, and feeling good about yourself. It’s no wonder that great skin is a confidence booster. Christine takes us through her life, first as a little girl hungry for creativity and later as a woman discovering how to impact people’s lives as a certified esthetician. From working with clients who had horrible ac…

Today, our guest is Jessica Cooley, the founder of Layers Skin Journey and Skin Wand Pro. Jessica always knew that she wanted to be in the beauty industry from childhood but discovered esthetics in her late 30s. In this fun and powerful episode, she details her venture into esthetics, from working with oncology clients to becoming an esthetics inst…

Andrea Synder, the founder of Advanced Esthetics with Andrea and the part-time practitioner in the spa, Skin and Body Esthetics, joins us on the show today. Andrea’s journey into esthetics can be said to have been influenced by her desire to care for people. She is a licensed esthetician of 17 years. Initially, she was a CNA working with Alzheimer’…

Cheryl Zen Miller, the founder of the Zen Institute, is today’s guest. She created the Zen Institute against the background of her experience and knowledge gained over the years as a fitness instructor, a cardiorespiratory therapist, a massage therapist, and an esthetician. At the Institute, she teaches her own techniques, incorporating her knowled…

Jennifer Rosenblum, an esthetician for over 10 years and the director of The Skin Games, an international competition for skincare professionals, is on the show today. Jennifer can be regarded as a multipotentialite, and in today’s episode, she talks about her background in various fields such as graphic design, advertising, finance, event planning…