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Mood: glam chat, interview, beauty and skincare

The best of beauty 2022, and the trends you’ll see in 2023, forecasted by the pros. We tapped New York beauty guru (and one of our fav Geminis) Zoë Weiner, sr. beauty editor at Well+Good, host of Zoë Tries It All on YouTube and the Routine Rundown Podcast. Dominique and Zoë chat about skincare, beauty standards, doing less (a favorite theme, here) and favorite products, of course! Hear about the best beauty, skincare, and wellness we picked up in 2022, and what we’re taking into the new year.

[PS, you can find Dominique's Well+Good reporting here! follow Zoë on Instagram and TikTok @zoeweinerrr)

Mood: shopping guide, beauty picks, being ~*~influenced~*~

From French pharmacy haul must-haves to Dominique’s extremely unrealistic personal wishlist, your unfathomably niche holiday shopping guide has arrived!

Since Dominique considers herself a tiny white Oprah, she did a Dominique’s Favorite Things 2022, which ended up being a lot of skincare, travel, perfume, and some random things you might want for your house/life (*gestures broadly at everything*).

Your shopping list/episode companion can be found here, under the super neglected transcripts tab of our website. Happy holidays!

Mood: medical, educational

Ah, hormones. It’s a complicated, complex, and often overwhelming topic, but hormones impact every second of our lives. Want to learn more? You’re in luck! Today, we’ve got a guide — board-certified OB/GYN Catharine Marshall, MD, from La Jolla, CA (the Shangri-La of healthcare) — to walk us through women’s hormones, specifically. Estrogen, insulin, progesterone, testosterone, LH, FSH, and so much more. Did you know there are over 50 hormones in your body? Now you do. 

Today, you can get versed in what’s going on in your body and pick up some medical vocab (yay for health literacy!) so you can have better appointments with your doctor and take agency over your health. Feeling hormonal? Let’s get into it.

Mood: mental health focused, educational, empowering, how-to

The therapist is now in session! Today’s highly anticipated guest, Dr. Alfiee Breland-Noble, comes to us with an exceptional mental health background, decades of research and pioneering clinical experience… and a whole lot of love and light! She breaks down the basics of therapy for us, including how to find a therapist, how to choose the right kind of therapy for your needs, and what to expect from your sessions… and she also makes Dominique cry happy tears (shocking, she’s crying!) so that’s always fun.

This is our fourth and final episode of October's mini-series, Take Better Care of Yourself Month! If you enjoyed these episodes and want more content like this, we'd love to hear from you. Send us a note via email: [email protected].

As mentioned in the episode, your mental health resource guide (crisis lines, mental health organizations and therapist search engines) is below!

For times of crisis: Call or text 988, and/or visit the Emergency Room ASAP

For BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ Groups: The AAKOMA Project, The Loveland Foundation, The Trevor Project, National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network

For General Therapy Search:  Project Healthy Minds, Psychology Today, Find A Therapist

Mood: mystic, educational, astrology forecast

Spooky Szn is here… and so is ECLIPSE SEASON! 🌑👻 But these ghouls and goblins are actually our inner demons (fun! love that for us)... 

As we begin Scorpio season and charge like a Taurus bull, full steam ahead, into a Scorpio New Moon eclipse on 10/25, we’ll be living through some intense cosmic weather. This culminates with the most intense eclipse of the year, the lunar eclipse in Taurus on 11/8. Ahead, your eclipse season forecast with everything you need to know to make it through.

Shannon’s prompt for your eclipse season inner work: What toxicity are you releasing from your life? What toxic relationships, toxic energy, toxic thought patterns need releasing from my being? What harmful thoughts do I hold? What contracts have I made with negative thought forms that need releasing?

*Note: Shannon shared the ‘Hero's Journey’ prompt on our Patreon! patreon.com/thisisfinepodcast

To hear more from Shannon, visit MoonGathering.com

PS... don't charge your crystals, bbs

Mood: validating, chill, thought-provoking, wellness vibes

Welcome back to our October series, Take Better Care of Yourself Month! (This is also the second episode of our Validate Me Harder Daddy collection)

Today: since when did self care become an over-the-top, overwhelming, expensive thing?

Dominique brings in her longtime friend-slash-manager Zan to talk about the wellness industry, and how health routines and self care became too stressful. If your routine is feeling frustrating, and self care is becoming more overwhelming than relaxing, you’re not alone. They talk about “doing the most,” self care vs. self soothing, fears around our health, and ideas for recalibrating (ie, how to not let self care become self SABOTAGE). Let’s talk about what to do when self care isn't working. PREPARE FOR VALIDATION!

Mood: educational, how-to, short-and-sweet

Hey there, geniuses! Ready to use your brain? Curious about learning a new language after high school, college, and beyond? 

Dominique breaks down her three pronged approach to fast-tracking fluency, with tips on how to pick up language skills for free.

She's been learning French by herself for the past few years, and picking up Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, and a couple others (but are you surprised?!). Tune in for this quick episode on the best apps, online programs, podcasts, and other tools you need to start learning by yourself, right now. Oui oui!!

Mood: eye opening, thought-provoking, wellness vibes

Welcome to “Take Better Care of Yourself” Month on This Is Fine! For the next four weeks, we're going to provide ideas, inspiration, advice, instructions, and tools for you to 

How’s your relationship with social media? Even if you follow wellness influencers or are exclusively on HealthTok on your FYP, your relationship to these feeds might not be healthy.

Kevin Curry from the nutrition empire-slash-community @fitmencook — the OG health influencer — joins us for a thought-provoking conversation about the current state of the wellness industry and online community, algorithms and viral content, and how social media platforms are influencing (not always for the better!) the direction of health and wellness content. Kevin peels back the curtain and gives advice on how to identify extremes, check in with yourself, personalize your wellness journey, and navigate the current landscape in the healthiest way possible.

To hear more from Kevin, head to his new podcast At The Table, and join him on YouTube.

Mood: empowering, inspiring, laid back conversation

Sorry you’re not sorry! Ladies, you don’t need to apologize for taking up space — start claiming that space and embracing your power. Maggie Herron, CPT, CHES, MPH — a coach, doctoral student, and health educator — chats with Dominique about ways you can tap into that power, feel more confident, and overcome past conditioning (spoiler, one tip is getting a dog 🐾).

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Mood: mystical, educational, astrological, fun

Welcome back to your Astro 101 coursework, with our second lesson: your rising sign! Shannon and Nina are back for their hit series, with today's crash course on the Ascendant (also known as your rising sign); after some brief context, we'll go through all 12 so you can get to know your own.

You’ll learn why you shouldn’t read a horoscope *just* by your Sun sign, what your rising sign actually means (including how it affects your appearance and physical body!), and Shannon will demystify your horoscopes in the process — astrology will be even easier to understand. 

This is a hefty episode, so bookmark and download to come back to this lesson, and use our time stamp guide below to jump to your rising sign.

To get your chart, visit astro-charts.com (you’ll want to have this on hand for the episode!), and to learn more about the houses and get some visuals, head to our Patreon: patreon.com/ThisIsFinePodcast.

Time Stamps:

🥁Each Rising Sign!🥁