How To Be

Rikki Sandhu, a content creator in the beauty space that has huge audiences across Instagram, TikTok & YouTube. 

Rikki initially started posted about beauty products and hacks but has evolved into talking more and more about authentic beauty and not hiding from your imperfections. She uses her platform as a tool to empower young girls and women to rid of the need to get rid of desire to constantly change themselves and to accepting themselves exactly as they are.

Rikki is a true breathe of fresh air, she’s so focussed on normalising being normal which is super important in a space where we’re all trying to navigate the overwhelming feeling of beauty and social media. She is someone who is vulnerable to her audiences which in turns creates a safe space for her community.

We talked loads about Rikki’s relationship with social media which I found fascinating to listen to as well as her views on body trends, self comparison, insecurities and mental health. 

What we cover

Cultural beauty 

Rikki’s purpose

Normalising normal

Self reflection

Diversity in beauty

Body Image 

Shame and building confidence 

Rikki’s Socials:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rikkisandhuu

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@rikkisandhuu

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rikkisandhuu/

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Jamelia Donaldson is a beauty founder and entrepreneur of Treasure Tress, Europes largest subscription box for naturally kinky, curly hair.

She posts a lot on her social media pages about empowerment, loving yourself as you are and really celebrating being enough be being you..so as soon as I came across her profile I knew that she had to be on the podcast. 

She has a really realistic approach to mindset, entrepreneur ship and self love which I find refreshing in a space where we are bombarded with content and insight into how we should all live and love ourselves. Jamelia seems to have created her own version of what self empowerment means and I found it really interesting to dig into it. 

We go through the journey of how Treasure Tress was built, mainly from Jamelia’s own frustrations and experiences of the lack of hair care available to her. She shares the risks that she took along the way and believing in herself to create a business and a life that she loves living. 

If there is one thing to take away from this episode, its to remove all of the pressure that you are putting on yourself to be perfect, to be like them, to constantly practise self love and to just learnt o be yourself. Live your life, be you focus on being content and do what makes your happy. 

What we cover 

Upbringing in diverse beauty 

Beauty standards 

Balance of reality vs social media 

Reflection & believing in your dreams

Importance of self love

Treasure Tress

Realities of black hair 

Jamelia's Socials:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophirelee/

Treasure Tress: https://www.treasuretress.co.uk/

Treasure Tress IG: https://www.instagram.com/treasuretress/

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Hey Beauties,

A little solo episode for you this week. I wanted to give you a life update but I have also been doing a lot of work on my self confidence so I wanted to share some of the things that are really helping me to build it back up.

There are certain areas in my life (social situations and dating!) where I feel like my confidence was pretty much on the floor so I decided to press pause on a few things and start to focus on putting things into place that would allow me to be a more confident version of myself.

I talk through feeling of lacking in confidence, how I noticed it and the process of building it back up again.

These are all things that I have out into practise from my own accord, they are things that are suitable to me and my lifestyle but I know that a lot of you also struggle with confidence from time to time so I really hope the tips I share are useful.

Things I have been doing to build my self confidence...

Switching Off - dating apps, time out from my phone, journaling, spending time with myself

Communicating - speaking up vs living in my head

Giving myself a break - being easier on myself and reducing negative self talk

Consuming positive content - watch empowering videos and listen to positive podcasts

Getting in to my feminine energy - allowing myself to be vulnerable vs super protective

Pause on dating - pressing pause on dating apps

Allowing myself freedom - Letting goi and creating space for spontaneity

Believe in myself - (even if it’s a lie)

Useful tools...

Insight Timer

Just Send The Text

Tam Kaur

Here's my version of building self confidence...

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Sophie Lee, the girl that most of you will know for surviving a freak burn accident and sharing her story to motivate others. 

This conversation goes a little deeper that what Sophie usually shares. We start at the very beginning of Sophie’s childhood and things that she faced as a kid that really built the foundations of how she’s able to remain so grounded and inspirational.

She’s someone who is wildly self aware and someone who has strength and resilience that I don’t think I’ve ver really seen before. 

We talked about who Sophie really is away from the cameras and go on to talk about having an elevated life on socials, the pressure that comes with and how to strip it back to just being yourself.

Plus we touched on celibacy, relationships and a load of other stuff that we face every day as women just trying to figure it all out.

What we cover 

Facing racial bulling

Overcoming with trauma 

Being content

Self awareness 

Celibacy 

Relationships

Doing things for status

Beauty

Sophies Socials:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophirelee/

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Rach Leary, YouTuber, beauty queen and all round babe! Rach and I sit down to go deeper into her story and journey of becoming a content creator and how she’s built her foundations to get to where she is today.

Rach is one of the OG beauty Vloggers, she was really at the heart of social media and has played a role in it becoming a more authentic space. She shows all of the glam and fun lifestyle stuff but also shows her reality and realism when it comes to showing the behind the scenes of her life. Something that I think makes herb really relatable. 

One thing that is a constant throughout Rach’s content is her energy, positivity but also the ability she has to keep it real and remain grounded. I asked her how she manages to stay true to who she is and not get carried away with everything that comes with the rise of having a social presence and following. 

Rach is obviously known for her beauty content and get ready with me’s so we touch on her journey with beauty & makeup, she shares her tips for full glam, her favourite products and we dive deeper into the background of her beauty and chat style content. 

Something we did dive deeper onto is about beauty being more than skin deep, Rach goes into why she always prioritises personality and what’s on the inside over how we look, she mentioned the phrase ‘appreciate your uniqueness’ which I absolutely loved! If you’re struggling with how you look or your body or just feeling insecure in general, this is such a good episode to empower you to just be you.

What we cover 

Becoming a YouTuber 

Showing the real you

Having boundaries on social media

Beauty & makeup 

Beauty is more than makeup

Power of your surroundings

Rated R

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Rach's Socials:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rachleary

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachleary/

Rated R Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/5QjPYgFQOgVDk1cC4yZuwA

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Sophie Lait, Soph Thick Fitness on Instagram, is a content creator who dedicates conversation to body acceptance. Soph is someone that has faced so many fears with her body, from gaining weight, not being able to look at herself in a mirror and she’s come on a whole journey where she now accepts and loves her body for exactly what it is. 

We talk loads about the battles that Soph has faced with her weight and the impact that diet culture has had on her throughout her entire life.

Sophie was so open and honest about her experiences, she shares things that I think a lot of us will face day to day but never actually have the courage to say out loud. 

If you’ve listened to the podcast before you’ll know how passionate I am about diet culture and the relationships we have with our food and body. Sophie shares loads of bits of advice and information that you can hopefully take away and implement to help you relive some of the pressure that you’re putting on yourself and better manage the relationship that you have with your body.

What we cover 

Diet culture 

Importance of your surroundings 

Healing the relationship with your body

Body dismorphia 

Ways to self love

Binge Eating

Endopmetriosis 

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Sophies Socials:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophthickfitnesss/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sophthickfitness?lang=en

Useful Links:

The Menstrual Health Project

The Endo Space

Endometriosis Jenna

Endogram

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Hermonie Olivia is a serial entrepreneur, the CEO of JSHealth, a social media presence, a wife and mum to be. 

If that didn’t explain it…Hermione is someone that is amazing at balance, she spins a ton of plates at any one time so I was keen to sit down and discuss how she manages to be successful and fit it all in, not only in her work life but in her personal and self care lifes too. She is someone that is an absolute powerhouse, she’s built businesses, travelled the world, relocated to another country, spend time working on herself and is now living a life that she has self made through taking the time to put herself first. 

JSHealth is obviously a huge part of Hermione’s life so we go into the brand itself but we chatted a lot about the importance of building a happy, motivated and driven team.

One thing we talked at length about was self care, Hermoine’s journey with it and the practises that she has put into place to become a more confident version of herself. She proiritises and practises self care every day, some of which Hermione’s shares in the episode. 

Here’s her version of beauty…

What we cover 

Living in your 20’s

JSHealth & building a successful team

Building a travel blog 

Relatocating and making a new country home

Benefits of self care

CEO yourself

Hermione's Socials:

Instagram

CEO Yourself

JSHealth

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Lovelle is a singer, song writer and model from South East London. I invited Lovelle onto the podcast mainly to talk about representation and drive. 

She is living and breathing building her career so I thought it would be really interesting to hear from someone who is in the midst of building her platform and her role within industries that are often seen as impossible. 

What I got from the conversation was so much more, its clear from this conversation that Lovelle has done a ton of self work, she knows herself really well and she talks us through how she’s got to this point. I am obsessed with her mentality, she is someone that stands up for what is right, holds her own and doesn’t take no for an answer. She’s really found who she is and I absolutely love that about her.

She is crazy ambitious but in a way thats real, I think we often here success stories and get a sense of it being easy, this is a conversation that is super raw and show’s Lovelle’s ambition in a transparent light. 

What we cover 

Growing up as a Black girl in London

Benefit of taking risks

Following your dreams to be a singer 

The journey of song writing 

The power if your surroundings 

Real life version of self development 

Becoming a model

Therapy and carrying emotion 

The power of minded 

Lovelle's Socials:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/love_lovelle/

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/14zTM1cQHLvPExpqV4HdCx

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We haven’t had a super beauty focussed guest on for a little bit so I’m excited to share that this weeks guest is Sarah Palmyra.

Sarah is a content creator who share’s info and education on all things beauty. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who lives and breathes beauty quite like Sarah does, her energy lights up when she talks about brands and products and the way that beauty makes her feel.

From working the shop floor at Sephora to building a really successful career as a macro influencer in the beauty space, we go everywhere in this conversation touching on Sarah not having the best time at school and how that manifested into fears about becoming a content creator to coming 360, doing the self work and turning her ambitions into her reality. 

Of course I ask Sarah about the behind the scenes of her life, her favourite products and some tips that can help us all with our beauty regimes. 

What we cover 

Living and breathing beauty 

Building platforms and a career in beauty

Empowered by beauty

Accepting who you are & being genuine

Reality of being an influencer

Sarah's Socials:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahpalmyra/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@sarahpalmyra

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sarahpalmyra

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Sophie Habboo, star of Made In Chelsea and now co-host of the Nearly Weds and Wednesdays We Drink Wine podcasts. 

With reality TV bigger than it ever has been and us being so exposed to peoples lives on social media I wanted the chance to speak with Sophie about her life behind the scenes, to find out a little bit more about who she is and what life is really like when you’re on a reality TV series that so many of us watch every single week. 

As well as chatting about being in the lime light we talk at length about the importance of self care and putting yourself and your body first. Sophie talks loads about routines and the rituals that she implements every day to make herself feel good. 

The reason I love Sophie and asked her top come on the podcast is because she seems to have a way of just being herself and not hiding behind a personsa which I find quite refreshing. 

Sophie is someone that shares quite a lot about beauty, products and skincare so we dived into Sophie’s relationship with her skin and how its adapted over time. Plus she gives us some tips on her favourite products and dealing with hyperpigmentation. 

What we cover 

Life before Made In Chelsea 

Real life of being on reality TV

Dealing with the media 

Living a healthy lifestyle 

Looking after your body 

Habits for healthy skin 

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Sophies Socials:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sophiehabboo/

Nearly Weds Podcast: https://www.instagram.com/nearlywedspodcast/

Wednesdays We Drink Wine: https://www.instagram.com/wednesdayswedrinkwine/

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