Facial plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Brandt joins Tracy for an honest, judgment-free conversation about Botox, fillers, facelifts, aesthetic medicine, and the decision to do nothing at all.

Dr. Brandt, founder of FORM Face + Body in Toronto, explains the differences between traditional, mini, and deep plane facelifts; what creates natural-looking results; and why choosing the right provider matters as much as choosing the right procedure. He also discusses Botox and other neuromodulators, how long facial fillers may remain in the body, nonsurgical rhinoplasty, lip filler, eyelid surgery, neck lifts, laser resurfacing, chemical peels, retinol, red light and infrared masks, and everyday ways to protect aging skin.

Tracy and Dr. Brandt also explore:

• How to know whether an aesthetic procedure is right for you
• Why a reputable provider may tell you to wait or do nothing
• The risks and benefits of surgical and nonsurgical treatments
• What women with melanated skin should know about lasers, chemical peels, scarring, and post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation
• Why fillers can sometimes create a pillowy or overfilled appearance
• Whether Botox and cosmetic procedures can become addictive
• What to consider when looking for natural-looking results
• Why second opinions are important before a major procedure
• How aesthetic medicine can support confidence without becoming a pursuit of perfection

Whether you are considering cosmetic work, firmly opposed to it, or simply curious about the options, this conversation is designed to help you make informed decisions from a place of knowledge rather than pressure or fear.

Connect with Dr. Michael Brandt:

Instagram: @dr.m.brandt & @formfaceandbody
LinkedIn: drmbrandt
Website: https://formfacebody.ca

Download Dr. Brandt’s guide, Questions Worth Asking at Any Aesthetic Consultation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Ha3PsjAlmj9zrhnx3xeTC3r7PprqJFq/view?usp=sharing

This episode is for general educational and informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice. Consult a qualified healthcare professional regarding your individual needs, risks, and treatment options.

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What if contentment isn’t something you find when life finally goes according to plan, but something you can practice right in the middle of the mess?

After a powerful derecho tore through my neighborhood, we were left with flooded streets, fallen trees, no power, no WiFi and neighbors suddenly pouring out of their homes to help one another. Somewhere between clearing storm drains, laughing with my neighbor Sue in her red rain boots and watching complete strangers show up for each other, I realized I was experiencing something I’d recently been studying in yoga philosophy: Santosha, the practice of contentment.

In this solo episode of A Beautiful Fix, we explore what Santosha can teach us about finding contentment when life doesn’t go as planned, practicing gratitude for what’s already here and letting go of our constant need for life to be different before we allow ourselves to enjoy it.

Because maybe contentment isn’t about pretending everything is perfect. Maybe it’s learning to stop looking over the fence, stop waiting for the next thing and fall in love with the life that’s actually happening right now.

And sometimes, when it rains, you just let it rain.

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What happens when you leave behind the life you’re supposed to want and start following what actually makes you feel alive?

After 14 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Kristy Halvorsen walked away from her career, sold her home and most of her belongings, and set out alone in an Airstream. What began as a leap into the unknown became seven years of solo travel across North America and ultimately inspired her book, Perfect Unfolding.

In this episode of A Beautiful Fix, Kristy shares what she learned about trusting yourself when you don’t know what comes next, overcoming fear, embracing uncertainty, and following what she calls the “tickles of your soul.” We talk about the extraordinary kindness of strangers, finding freedom outside of society’s expectations, falling in love with life, and why you don’t need to sell everything or travel across a continent to begin changing your own life.

We also explore Kristy’s Human Design as a 1/3 Emotional Generator with an open Identity Center and how beautifully it reflects a life built through experimentation, experience, and the willingness to let identity evolve.

If you’ve ever wondered whether there could be more for you, or felt the pull toward a life that doesn’t quite make logical sense, this conversation is an invitation to trust the next step. You don’t have to know where it will lead.

Connect with Kristy
Website: Perfect Unfolding
Instagram: @Kristy.Halvorsen
Free 7-Day Journey: Perfect Unfolding 7-Day Journey: https://perfectunfolding.com/7day/ 

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Have you ever spent more energy avoiding something than it would have actually taken to just do it?

This week I finally recorded my first yoga teacher certification video. Six months late. Fifteen minutes of footage nobody will ever see. One husband who said two words. And one hour that actually counted.

What happened in the middle of all of that led me straight to Saucha, the first Niyama in the ancient yogic tradition, and it had something very specific to say about what I had been doing to myself.

Saucha means purity. But not the kind you are thinking. This episode gets into what purity actually looks like in everyday life, the energy that moves through us in moments of unexpected beauty, the beginner's mind, and three words from Anthony de Mello that I am still sitting with.

Leave yourself alone.

If you have been managing yourself, judging yourself, or making something simple into a whole production, this one is for you.

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What happens when everything you built your identity around disappears in less than a year?

Dr. Susan Miele was a Chief People Officer at a Fortune 500 company. She reached the C suite before 40, which had been her goal since she was a teenager. Her career was not just what she did. It was who she was. Then at 42, undiagnosed perimenopause began dismantling everything. Her performance. Her marriage. Her sense of self. She resigned without a plan, downsized her life, and then watched her new home burn to the ground twelve days after moving in.

In less than twelve months she lost her career, her health, and her home.

What followed was not a reinvention. It was a pause. And that pause became the foundation for her book, Paused: Redefining Identity When Our Story No Longer Holds Us.

In this conversation we get into the story she wrote for herself at fourteen and lived into for decades, what perimenopause really looks like when it does not look like what anyone told you to expect, why she spent seven years trying to get back to who she was before she realized there was no going back, the three questions that anchor identity, who am I, how did I get here, and where am I going, what it means to try on possible selves like clothes in a dressing room, and why the struggle is the path.

This episode also touches on menopause in the workplace and why less than twenty percent of US companies currently offer any menopausal benefits, even as fifty percent of their workforce will experience it.

If you have ever defined yourself by what you do and wondered who you would be without it, this conversation is for you.

Connect with Susan: 
Website: www.susanmiele.com 
Substack: https://susanannmiele.substack.com/ 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-a-miele-phd/
LinkedIn Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/paused-refections-on-identity-7318329934446276609/
Susan A. Miele PhD Book: Paused: Redefining Identity When Our Story No Longer Holds Us, available wherever books are sold

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There is a grand piano in your life that you keep trying to carry to the dining room.

Maybe it is a career you walked away from but still dream about. Maybe it is clothes hanging in your closet from a chapter that is already closed. Maybe it is a story about who you are that you wrote a long time ago and have not been able to put down.

In this episode we get into Aparigraha, the fifth and final Yama from the ancient yogic tradition, and what non attachment actually looks like in real life. Drawing on Deborah Adele's book The Yamas and Niyamas, we explore the difference between loving something fully and clinging to it, why letting go feels like being suspended in midair on a trapeze, and what a teenager with no plans for packing taught one of the wisest women I know about freedom.

Plus a brief tease of next week's guest, who held on to a story she created at age fourteen for decades, and what it cost her.

If you have ever thought you let go of something only to find it still showing up in your dreams, this one is for you.

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Have you been hearing about the Camino de Santiago and wondering what it actually is and why so many people seem drawn to walk it?

Karen Richter of Confident by Nature walked the most popular route across northern Spain. Six weeks. Roughly 500 miles. Almost no reservations. Everything on her back. Most of it alone.

What she came home with was not what she expected.

In this conversation we get into what the Camino actually is, what drew Karen there, and what happens to a person when they spend six weeks putting one foot in front of the other with nowhere to be and no one who knows them.

Karen is also a certified forest bathing guide and she is gifting listeners a free remotely guided mini nature immersion. Register at https://www.forestbathingfinder.com/guide-profile/karenrichter/, click the My Walks tab, and use coupon code JiIHJc.

She is also launching Weekly Whispers, a free Wednesday email designed to help you feel a little more alive in the middle of everyday life. Find it at confidentbynature.com.

Connect with Karen:
 Website: confidentbynature.com
 Instagram: instagram.com/cohesiveoutcomes
 Facebook: Karen Stanley Richter
 LinkedIn: Karen S. Richter

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I am an Olympic level overthinker. If there were a medal for it I would have swept the podium by now.

This Fourth of July I applied that skill to a single rib. Seven year vegetarian streak on the line. Barbecue sauce involved. The rib never got eaten. But it did teach me something about where my energy actually goes and why it matters.

Today we are talking about Brahmacharya, the fourth Yama in the ancient yogic tradition, and what non excess actually looks like in everyday life. Not just with food. With your time, your mental energy, your busyness, and the decisions you have been running laps around for no good reason.

Drawing on Deborah Adele's book The Yamas and Niyamas and a quote from Howard Thurman, this episode is an invitation to stop spending your energy on things that do not make you come alive so you actually have enough left for the things that do.

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What if you never had to choose between the career you built and the life you actually want?

Kim Waller spent more than three decades at the highest levels of corporate America, holding senior leadership roles at Aon, Willis Towers Watson, and Korn Ferry, helping organizations navigate transformation, inclusion, and culture change. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, she also built a lake house she calls the House of Healing, deepened a yoga practice that has sustained her through divorce, career pivots, and personal reinvention, and became a yoga teacher whose classes fill up every single week.

In this conversation we get into what it really means to own your power, why self care is not a luxury but a leadership strategy, the role yoga and mindfulness played in keeping Kim grounded through decades of high pressure leadership, her thoughts on inclusion and why diversity drives high performance, what retirement actually looks like when you have been quietly building a full life all along, and why the most important thing you can do is trust that you have what you need.

This is one of those conversations that makes you want to rethink how you have been spending your energy.

Connect with Kim:
 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kim-waller-0498791
 Website: meridianpathconsulting.com

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I have a story I tell sometimes that gets the same reaction every single time. People ask me if I am crazy. It involves a $75 shirt, a register total that did not add up, and a decision that, looking back, taught me more about honesty than almost anything else in my life.

Asteya, the third Yama in the Yoga Sutras, is what got me thinking about that story and it completely changed how I define stealing.

Turns out there are four different ways we steal without realizing it, and most of them have nothing to do with a cash register. This episode gets into all four, drawing on Deborah Adele's book The Yamas and Niyamas, including the one that might be stealing your own peace right now.

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