Mentors and Moguls Podcast

In today's episode, Carolyn Spector joins the show. Carolyn's motto is "Be relentlessly positive and manifest your vision into reality". She is the CEO of Spector Philanthropic Advisors and has spent her life dedicated to others. Carolyn returns to the Mentors and Moguls podcast with an update on her story of positivity and manifestation.

Since the last time Carolyn was on the podcast, her whole life has changed and she hopes that sharing her story can continue to help others grow and find positive change. When COVID hit in 2020, the center where Carolyn worked was forced to close, she was already a single mom to her 15 year old daughter, and she was terrified of the unknown. She spent most of 2021 rededicating herself to taking care of herself.

Carolyn established for herself a "hierarchy of needs" to figure out what steps she needed to take and make the right decisions. She had moved to a friend's house on Cape Cod and then found a school for her daughter, found work she could do without going back to New York, and found a house. Even in moments of questioning and doubting what should happen, Carolyn has looked for signs and what feels led by love and that has always led to the right decisions.

In her year of taking care of herself, Carolyn built herself a home gym, worked on developing healthy eating habits with a nutritionist, and started dating again. She feels younger and more full of energy now and has found happiness and energy that is infectious (according to her friends).

It has only been in the last five years that Carolyn has been manifesting. She was sitting at home during the Jewish holidays, when you are supposed to set your intentions, and she decided that she was ready to work for what she wanted. Manifesting doesn't mean you don't have to work, it means you are focusing on doing the work for what you want.

Links

https://heatherrstone.com/rejuvenate2023/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolynspector/

Things you'll learn

More about Carolyn's journey and growth through manifesting since her last interview on the Mentors and Moguls Podcast and how Carolyn has balanced manifesting with action and trusting her gut.

If you've ever quit on yourself during a task, a challenge, or a mission, then you owe it to yourself to sit down and take a listen to my next guest. His challenging upbringing motivated him to seek refuge in the United States Marine Corp where he graduated number one in his class. He then went on to work for martial arts actor, Chuck Norris who become a mentor and role model to him. He's a world record holder, an extreme athlete and has an impressive history of completing extreme physical challenges, including running from Huntington beach, California to New York city at a marathon pace for 121 consecutive days setting the first ever stand-up paddleboard long distance world record by paddleboarding 1,250 miles from Oregon to Mexico in 93 days, a seven-time Muay Thai champion and that's just a few things that he's completed in the first part of his life.

Tom shares details from his childhood and why he has fought so hard to become the man he is today. He was removed from his home while his father had cancer, kidney disease and tuberculosis, and was very ill his entire life. His mother was mentally ill and was never available. When he was 12 years old, he was removed from his home by the state of California for child abuse and was put in a facility with 150 other kids where he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of some of the house parents. At 17 he ran away from the facility and joined the United States Marine Corps where he learned leadership skills that would carry him through the rest of his life. After leaving the Marine Corps Tom started working for martial arts actor, Chuck Norris who was a great role model for Tom and eventually a great sparring partner. Tom continued to have strong role models in his life, including Glenn McCusker, the owner and CEO of Viking Components, and his wife, April. The couple became friends and mentors to Jones when he became McCusker's bodyguard and personal trainer. They also showed Tom something he'd never seen before, a functional family where the parents and children are happy.

In 1998, Tom took a tour of Orangewood Children's Home and felt compelled to help the children's facility buy a playground. He decided that he was going to run from Oregon to Mexico on foot and stop at foster care facilities along the way to share his story to inspire people to give towards the playground. At that point he had a few fighting titles and felt that he could empower children who'd had a similar upbringing as him by sharing his own story of overcoming and encouraging them that they too could do anything they set their mind to.

It was at this time that Tom had an "aha" moment in his life. He had a revelation that his calling was to give and empower others. It was the first time in his life that he truly felt great about himself and what he did. He never felt great about beating people in the ring physically. But when he dedicated the playground, it was a wonderful, life changing experience.

To date, Tom has run 347 marathons for non-profits! What keeps him motivated to finish those races? He talks about the times that he has sat on the side of the road, crying his eyes out because his body is breaking down, he's exhausted, his toenails are falling off…But it is at those moments when he goes back to his "why." "Whatever your, why is, you've got to make sure that it's strong enough to drive you through the adversity of it all. You must accept the fact that life is inherently challenging and that's in my opinion, for a reason, it's to push us forward."

When Tom was running for children's causes, he knew that there were children waiting ahead of him to hear his story. And he knew there were children behind him that were positively impacted from hearing his story, so he made a pact with himself to never quit on them. "I would quit on myself a million times over, but I wasn't going to quit on them.

When he's asked, "how do you do it" he shares his mental process when he agreed to do 76 consecutive marathons:

• He visualizes in his mind that he has completed the challenge. That he has already won in his mind.
• He uses as many other senses as possible as part of the process: For example: He would hear people cheering. He would see it, smell it, taste it, everything, to make it more real to his brain

Tom also talks about his daily dose of insight and inspiration. His goal is to land little bits and pieces of the vast toolbox that he's accumulated. He has developed a sentinel in his mind that alerts him when he's starting to spiral downward. He explains that for him, thoughts become words, words, become actions, actions become habits. Instead of entertaining negative thoughts, he interjects with a power statement. He redirects into a positive mindset and then maintains that positive mindset.

Faith and patriotism have also played an important role in Tom's "Quitproof" mindset, carrying him through the heartbreak of having to shutter his thriving fitness center during COVID. Tom talks about how he eventually ended up working in a shipyard for a year, scraping barnacles off the bottom of boats and repainting them. However, since he was the only veteran there, they had him put the flag up every morning and take it down every night. When he was putting the flag up every morning Tom would salute it and say a prayer that went something like this… "God, I know that you have something better planned for me then this, I know you do. But can we kind of hurry it up?" It was after this season of working in the shipyard that Tom got approached to do 76 consecutive marathons for United We Pledge to bring attention to their Liberty Village project. United We Pledge's goal for the Liberty Village is to restore patriotism in the youth and citizens through educational programs that celebrate freedom, family, and faith.

Tom explains that for him, his gut, his mind, and his heart must be in alignment before he will say yes to a challenge or project. When United We Pledge asked him to participate in the project, he first knew in his gut that he should say "yes" to the offer. "My gut said, oh, go for it…do it! And then suddenly, my heart was compelled. My heart was like, you got to do this. You're a Patriot. You've got to do this. And my mind was like, this makes sense. This is resounding. Yes. And my mouth was like, let's go for it. I'm in." The culmination of 76 consecutive marathons took Tom 1,968 miles on foot from the American Village in Montevallo, Alabama, to the future site of the Liberty Village in Hurricane, UT.

Heather and Tom also discuss intuition and how it is one of the five mountains (physical, spiritual, mental, intuitional and Kokoro – heart, mind, spirit) that Tom embraces as it relates to his "Quitproof" mindset. Part of embracing the five mountains is reconciling that setbacks are part of the process to success. They are on the path to success. There are bumps in the road, but Tom's mentality is that you must keep going because pain is only temporary.

Ultimately, Tom believes that his purpose is to be a guide and a mentor for other people to become the best integrated versions of themselves that they could possibly be.

Be on the lookout for upcoming Tom "Quitproof" Jones' projects:

• Hydrofoil board challenge – 1,000 miles in 10 days
• Tribute to turning 60 – Run 50 miles a day, for 50 consecutive days at 60 years old!

Connect with Tom:

Website: https://www.quitproof.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/quitproof1

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/quitproof1/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_2RX39JPaVsKePaXJPHJqQ/videos

United We Pledge: https://unitedwepledge.org

Do you have your eye on a leadership position in your organization or perhaps you're well on your way climbing up that ladder, but you could use a mentor. Maybe you could use someone to help you communicate your leadership style a little bit better. Well, you're in luck today. My special guest is Rose Fass. One of Forbes Top 10 Women Business Leaders in New York, the CEO and founder of Fass Forward where her firm has been awarded the Inc. 500/5000 for three consecutive years. She has been a guest on CNBC is quoted in several bestselling business books and is the author of the Chocolate Conversation, Lead Bittersweet Change, Transform Your Business, with her second book launching this year, The Leadership Conversation – Make Bold Change, One Conversation at a Time.

Fass Forward is a consulting group wherein everyone who participates within the Fass Forward family or tribe is both a career corporate person who has become a consultant and is now able to do both the training, coaching, all the different things Fass Forward has to offer. The key ingredient that separates Fass Forward from other consulting groups is that they don't hire any career consultants because they want individuals on their team who have actually been on the firing line, know what it's like to have to go into a quarterly business review or deal with a PNL, or engineers that are late delivering a product or any number of things that go on in business.

The Mission of Fass Forward is to help leaders not just communicate, but also translate. Translate strategy into purposeful goals that allow people to not only execute on something that's going to be good for the business, but hopefully something that's going to be good for society.

At 73, years old, Rose has been in the business for 52 years. Over the last 35 years she has been in executive positions in fortune 100 companies. She's learned that "no matter how hard we try our institutions for some reason or another seem to fail us in terms of giving people a sense of security, a sense of safety, a sense of realizing that we're being honest and integrous and life is going to be, at least if it's messy, it'll be honest."

She had an epiphany, 21 years ago that maybe the last value-added space was going to be business and that she would have an opportunity to uniquely impact the world. Her partner, Gavin McMahon, who's a classically trained engineer and Rose decided to look at three things that they could work on to bring value to the leadership space. One is leadership in and of itself. What does it mean to be a leader to storytelling? How do you take what it is you want people to do? And also coaching, one-on-one opportunities for them to work with executives and leaders at all levels to help them move past their fears, push past their idiosyncrasies and begin to develop the capability of being a really good strong leader.

Rose believes that there are both natural born leaders and then there are those people that aspire to be good leaders that are outstanding at work and functional expertise management. At Fass Forward, Rose and her team work really hard at finding the natural inflection points that every human being has, that juices, that, that gets them excited. That then becomes the platform for whatever your leadership style moment is going to be.Rose believes that you can train people on certain techniques, but for the most part, you still must go with the natural DNA of an individual.

All leadership happens in the conversation, whether it's through an email, a text, face-to-face or a zoom meeting. And it's what you say and what you don't say that communicates to every person that you speak to. Rose often tells her C level executives, when she's in a coaching relationship, "there are no casual conversations. Once you become the CEO, you can't just do a flyby. People take it too seriously. The conversations that we have with ourselves, it begins there. What are we telling ourselves?"

Rose is the daughter of a Marine, who taught her that she needed to be up at 6am, ready for company. Through her life she has had the great opportunity build confidence. Rose always says to people, we're born into the world with our brilliance and our muddy shoes and if we understand that we can be great leaders, because leadership is messy. The first thing that Rose asks anybody who wants to be a leader is "are you willing to be messy?" Because if perfection is the goal, it's not going to happen. Leadership is not something you plan for; it happens in the moment.

Helpful Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosefass/

https://twitter.com/fassforward

https://www.fassforward.com

My very special guest today is Anthony, Tomey. Anthony is a full-time entrepreneur, a former professional baseball player with the Detroit Tigers organization and now truly one of the largest franchise owners of Jimmy John's, The Chicken Guy and also a Real Estate Developer. Additionally, he is the owner of 8 Mile Vodka - a Vodka that took home the awards for Best in Class: Vodka and Best of Class: Overall Vodka at the 2022 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. I sat down with Anthony to talk about how he transitioned from pitching on the baseball diamond to pitching in the boardroom and hitting home runs every time!

Anthony shares how he gets the inspiration to "win at all costs" from his dad. His dad came to the United States, Ellis Island, at 25 years old and with $20.00 in his pocket. Though he didn't speak English, he managed to put himself through college and earned a master's degree, all while working as a busboy at the London Chophouse in Detroit. Anthony's goal from a young age was to earn a full ride scholarship to thank his father who had paid for a private Catholic school education.

As a baseball player, Anthony loved the pressure of the game. He was a closer, a last inning pitcher, and thrived in the bases loaded, no one out scenarios. It was the thrill of the competition that motivated him. He also talks about how humbling it was to go from being the #1 pitcher in college to the majors where everyone was on a level playing field with every guy being the #1 player where they came from. Baseball taught him that no matter what happens, you're going to fail. You have to pick yourself up and get back out there.

In the spring of 2003, Anthony Tomey was playing baseball at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. His family came to see him play, and after the game they headed to a sub shop down the street. The place had a line of 20 people stretching outside of the door. At first the family took this as a bad sign, but a member of staff told them to stick around. In less than five minutes, their food was in their hands. This was a defining moment, as they all were amazed at the speed and efficiency with which this business operated. Just a few months later, five like-minded Tomey family members, Fawzi, Tony, Anthony, Christine, and Michael, opened a Jimmy John's of their own in Novi, Michigan.

In 2003, the Tomey Group LLC was founded as a means to grow a brand the partners loved, and to bring the same expansion to brands throughout the country. As of May 2019, the Tomey Group has bought and opened more than 50 Jimmy John's locations throughout the Detroit Metro area.

Anthony is not your average franchise owner. Sitting back and delegating tasks from afar isn't his style. Instead, he is hands-on involved in all aspects of the business, from preparing sandwiches to making deliveries. He is committed to providing employees with what they need and deserve, no matter what that looks like. He knows his employees' names, how they work, and what makes them tick.

Just over a year ago, Anthony and his brother had an opportunity to buy a vodka company. 8 Mile Vodka, and an apparel company, Born in Detroit became their next financial endeavor. They currently oversee operations and have had great success, partnering with the Detroit Pistons with both companies, while getting into every Meijer in Michigan with 8 Mile. Additionally, 8 Mile Vodka just recently took home the awards for Best in Class: Vodka and Best of Class: Overall Vodka at the 2022 San Francisco World Spirits Competition.

Recently Tomey Group signed a deal to become the newest franchisees of Chicken Guy, a new concept by Guy Fieri. It competes directly with Chick Fil A, and the Tomey Group bought the rights to southeast Michigan. Anthony truly believes that the harder you work, the luckier you get. The opportunities that continue to present themselves to the Tomey group are a direct result of hard work and surrounding themselves with successful people. Success attracts success.

The Tomey group continues to grow their empire and have added Real Estate to their growing portfolio. With the recent purchase of a shopping plaza in White Lake MI 3 years ago, 4 apartment complexes throughout SE Detroit and a resort on Houghton Lake, there is no stopping this hard-working entrepreneur!

Helpful Links:

Follow Anthony on social media:

Instagram:

Anthony Tomey - @atomey53

8 Mile Vodka - @official8milevodka

Born In Detroit - @officialbornindetriot

Website:

Tomey Group - https://tomeygroup.com

In this episode, I sit down with former pro and college football players, Charlie Batch, TJ Lang, and Brett Petersmark to discuss the big debate around NIL (name, image, and likeness) in NCAA sports.

The NIL is an agreement set by the NCAA for student-athletes to have the right to monetize and profit from their brand, which consists of their name, image, and likeness. College athletes can sign sponsorship deals with corporate brands that charge money for autographs and even create their brand or an E-commerce site.

Inside of the discussion of the NIL, there are several smaller issues that exist, such as "Girls vs. Boys." When it comes down to it, it is better for the girls because the funding for females is not equal to the males and thus NIL allows for opportunities to open up for females.

Some of the issues are, for example, that if you get a sponsorship from a specific corporation, you can't show up wearing their brand. It's very difficult for athletes because they're not allowed to use one image or logo that everybody associates with you and their popularity and fame.

Additionally, TJ mentions that Universities have beer advertisers but restrict athletes from ever consuming it. The NCAA has no choice but to try to get involved and regulate it at some level. They always try to have this moral ground right where it's no gambling, no casinos, no liquor, no beverages, but pretty much every university has some sponsorship.

In regard to recruitment, there is a portal for recruiters where players can put their names in, and the recruiters can decide to recruit you. The system allows players to get one transfer without sitting out the rest of the season.

For Charlie, the NIL would have made his life much easier after high school and college. The paradigm shift wasn't about money because he could have decided based on how he was compensated. He says he would have been able to help his family financially.

Charlie also identifies that there is a lot of a gray area in the recruitment aspects for bigger schools. Some athletes play for bigger schools and then transfer to minor schools because they want to pursue a specific academic program that the bigger school doesn't have. That is just one of the loopholes that is happening with universities right now.

TJ says the NIL will keep growing until something boils over. Student-athletes could end up earning millions of dollars!

Links:

Charlie Batch:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charliebatch/

https://www.instagram.com/charliebatch16/

TJ Lang:

https://twitter.com/TJLang70

Brett Petersmark:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-petersmark-89a257a/

Things you'll learn:

• How the NIL Agreement affect today's student-athletes

• What opportunities the NIL Agreement brings to student-athletes

• How the Recruitment Process for Student-Athletes has Evolved

• How student-athletes can take advantage of the NIL Agreement

In today's episode, Lisa Woodruff joins the show. Lisa is the Founder and CEO of Organized 365, which assists busy people in organizing their homes and papers with functional organizing systems that work. She is a productivity and home organizing expert. She motivates and teaches busy women to take back their lives with functional systems that will work for them. This conversation is packed with tricks, hacks, strategies, and proven systems on how we can organize our life and stop sabotaging ourselves from being a mess.

Lisa's aptitude for organization was evident as a child. She loved to organize her mother's art supplies. Lisa knew that her love for organization was unique, but she had no idea that organizing was a skill that could be learned. She assumed you either had it or didn't.

Lisa launched the blog Organized 365 because she thought it would be beneficial for search engine optimization (SEO), but she had no idea how to make money from it. She began writing about organization on her blog and 3 months later, Lisa became an in-home professional organizer who was paid to help individuals get organized. For 3 years, she has dabbled in home organizing and blogging.

In her first three years of business, Lisa had to get over a lot of limiting beliefs. One of them was that she was more valuable than her $15 rate to organize homes. So she changed her rate to $40. Then, for her second year, she charged $50 and added some people to the team. Five years later, when Lisa quit organizing, she was charging $75 an hour and she wasn't even organizing the home, she was just making the arrangements. It was a big deal for Lisa to realize that, as a woman, she could make more money and steer clear of the mindset that she needed to keep her business small.

Lisa shares three tips for organizing. First, do a time study on how long it takes to do the housework – cleaning your house, doing the laundry, preparing meals, maintaining your vehicle, organizing your finances, or paying your bills. All these things take a significant amount of time. Second, start organizing by looking around at what you have and reorganizing it or putting it where you need it in the house. You can also buy specific organizers to help you. Lastly, you can either choose to be a maximalist or a minimalist; it makes no difference. It's not the amount of stuff you have, it's the right amount of stuff for you.

Links

Website: https://organize365.com/

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/organize-365-podcast/id915355770?mt=2

PEW research: https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2013/03/14/chapter-6-time-in-work-and-leisure-patterns-by-gender-and-family-structure/

Launching Life Skills and Bundle Course: https://organize365.com/product/launching-life-skills-bundle

Things you'll learn

This conversation is packed with tricks, hacks, strategies, and proven systems on how we can organize our life and stop sabotaging ourselves from being a mess.

Today Heather is sitting down with Alicia Driskill - a visionary, a leader, and an expert connector. She is also a keynote speaker and a strategic advisor who is passionate about creating a more equitable future for all. She has, for over 20 years, enjoyed a diverse career in media and marketing, working with some of the world's most recognizable brands and thought leaders throughout her corporate career as an entrepreneur. Heather and Alicia will be talking about time management and how to be the CEO of your life.

Alicia gives tips and advice for people struggling with balance and time management while talking about how she sets up her own day as an example. She says that the biggest thing in approaching time management is taking a look at your priorities and really understanding what is the most important for you.

She makes sure to outline the three things she wants to get done today that will actually make a difference in her business and move things forward. And then making sure at the end of the day that you circle back to those things and set them up for the next day.

Alicia says that you must hold yourself accountable for work boundaries especially when you're so easily accessible to your co-workers. This needs to be done in order for you to focus and get your goals done.

It's very important that you know when to set time for yourself, Alicia says. In order to replenish your soul and your creative spirit, you must practice self-care and self-love.

She thinks that a lot of founders get stuck in the details that don't matter instead of focusing on the big picture. Alicia calls herself a recovering perfectionist because she immediately learned that being one is not going to allow her to scale and create the impact that she wanted.

Alicia has always been a big believer in taking risks. However, you need to be able to take a step back and start to recognize those signs where you're feeling overwhelmed. If you can learn from self-awareness, reflection, and understanding and start to feel and know what to look for, that would help out a lot because you can get ahead of it and fix it in the situation.

Links

https://www.evolveher.community

https://www.instagram.com/evolveher

https://www.instagram.com/alicia_driskill

https://heatherrstone.com/podcast/drselene

Things you'll learn

• How to manage your time better
• Knowing your priorities
• How to be the CEO of your own life
• Setting boundaries to be more focused

In this episode I am joined by Ebony Walls. Ebony Walls is a certified Nonprofit Leader (CNP), Sports Philanthropist, and International Social Worker. She shares with us her unique career path, how she took the reins to carve out a career befitting her and how you can too!

Many people don't know that Ebony has an invisible disability called Scoliosis. She has two-foot titanium rods fused to her spine. At the age of 12, doctors said that she would not amount to anything unless she got a good education. Ebony wasn't going to let the doctors define her so she charted her own course.

Heather calls Ebony the Happiness Ambassador. She has multiple passions and works professionally as an event fundraiser and sports philanthropist. It has been a blessing for her to combine all her passions and implement them in her daily work serving others. She is thankful to have the opportunity to be a servant to others every day and gets paid to do it.

"What is a Sports Philanthropist?" She assists corporations and high-value individuals in expanding their philanthropic portfolio or creating their philanthropic thumbprint. Ebony dreams of becoming the Oprah of Sports. She wants to be the person that connects the funds to the missions and be a human fiduciary.

As a professional fundraiser Ebony serves as Chief Experience Officer of Be A Part of Me Consulting, LLC helping nonprofits and for-profits achieve their goals through event fundraising and various other services. Her service thumbprint includes serving as TedxDetroit Chapter's Director of Sponsorship, Eastern Michigan University's Alumni Board-President Elect, GameAbove EMU Board Member, EMU Foundation Board of Trustees, New Leaders Council (Detroit) 2021 Fellow and the W.I.S.E. Detroit (Women In Sports & Entertainment) Leader. She has a niche for connecting funders to the purposeful mission of nonprofits.

Ebony tries to be the prayer she has always wanted to answer for herself. Whenever she meets individuals, she tells them she has a gift and a blessing. She is proud to say that she has never met a stranger in her life and can create a conversation with anyone about anything.

What's next for Ebony? She always takes the time to reflect and look back on her previous vision board and journals to know what she wants to achieve. Ebony has always wanted to be the best she could be in whatever work comes into her hand. She has adopted the mindset of wanting to be the best and the first in her work. Now, she wants to work at the highest level of sports and the highest level of entertainment.

In 2019, Ebony's life changed right before her eyes. She lost her job and doctors discovered a tumor, the size of a small egg which then grew to the size of a large lemon. At that point, she had to make some major life-changing decisions, starting with the decision to have the tumor removed.

Getting the tumor diagnosis gave her immense fear about what would happen next. To this day, she still gets emotional about it as she has lost her uncle, adopted mother, and godmother to cancer. Ebony says life doesn't always go how you want it to.

"Adversity has happened to me. But one thing I do is remind myself that I'm here for a purpose. Whenever you get knocked down, that means there's just something greater on the other side of the fence."

Tune in to follow along her amazing journey.

For more information regarding event fundraising services please visit www.beapartofme.com

Helpful Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebonylwalls/

https://www.instagram.com/ebonylwalls/

https://www.facebook.com/BeaPartOfMeConsulting/

Things you'll learn:

• Ebony's career as a Sports Philanthropist
• How Ebony overcame life-changing adversities
• Ebony's Trial to Triumph Journey in her Career
• How Ebony used her passions to get paid

Today on the Mentors and Moguls Podcast with your host, Heather Stone, Heather is sitting down with Dr Selene Castrejon, a leading authority in all thing's med-spa, all things Botox, and all procedures you can find in a med spa today. They sit down to dispel myths and share best practices for all med spa procedures.

Dr Selene answers listener questions about Botox and procedures. She says right away that she is "Botox's biggest fan" and has been advocating preventative treatment since the early days of Botox use for aesthetic purposes. Especially with the younger generation's expressiveness, light Botox use can help to prevent wrinkles before they form.

"How often should you be getting Botox for preventative maintenance?" Dr. Selene again says it's a bit more personal than a blanket rule. The company recommends every 3-4 months which depends on the dose. Dose = Duration so a stronger dose will last longer. A person's expressiveness, individual workload and activity load will also affect how often they burn through a dose.

Dr Selene has dubbed herself "Dr No" as she turns away roughly 10% of her clients on any given day. It is important to her to always act in her client's best interest. These procedures are meant to help preserve and enhance the beauty that already exists, not change everything into someone else.

Some of the other most popular treatments Dr Selene offers include laser-treatments, non-surgical and less invasive alternatives to a facelift, body sculpting and cool-sculpting, and others. She is always "results-oriented" meaning that her first question is always "does it work?". It's all about picking the right treatment for the right person and setting the right, realistic expectations.

Dr Selene also works with women to support their sexual health. She has a laser called the "intima" which is made to help regenerate and stimulate a woman's vaginal walls and help with lubrication, tightening, and healing. While many procedures have mixed reviews that one is "all raves".

Dr Selene is not only a med spa expert, but she also graduated med school at an early age, the youngest in her class at the time, and always knew that she wanted to enter esthetic medicine. She loved working in the ER because it was fast paced, varied, and she got to learn a lot about a lot of different things. She also got her MBA and started her esthetic medicine business as a charity to donate procedures to third world countries and help local doctors with the resources to perform those procedures. Changing lanes and starting new ventures was scary and even felt like she was turning her back on something important. However, she felt like she needed to walk away and pursue what felt like her "bigger purpose" which has led to enormous fulfillment.

What You'll Learn in This Podcast Episode:

Today on the Mentors and Moguls Podcast with your host, Heather Stone, Heather is sitting down with Dr Selene Castrejon, a leading authority in all thing's med-spa, all things Botox, and all procedures you can find in a med spa today. They sit down to dispel myths and share best practices for all med spa procedures.

Helpful Links:

Website: https://beyouthful.com/about/

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

https://heatherrstone.com/podcast/drselene