TRU Beauty Confessions

TRU Beauty Confessions is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

About the Episode:
We talk about what it means to be the Thunder Bay Radio Diva and grow up behind the mic. We ask Dee if she believes in the idea that growing gracefully is possible? Do we really get more beautiful with age. Dee discusses how embracing yourself especially as we get older allows others to relate to us in a real way, and connection to others being the ultimate impact in our world. We discuss how our friends influence how we see ourselves, for better or worse. We get down and dirty about Botox, and what Dee’s experience was. How do we know a beauty procedure is right for us? Does altering our bodies get in the way of the personal journey to connect with our inner self? Learning to be ourselves can one of the most difficult things to do, but one of the greatest gifts you can offer to yourself and your community.

Guest Bio:
The name on her birth certificate says Diane Jaroway, but everyone in Thunder Bay, Ontario knows her as Dee. Dee has an established career waking up the city of Thunder Bay co-hosting the wildly popular Morning Show on Rock 94, and now joining Country 105. Dee is also a successful voice-over artist, visual artist, self-proclaimed amateur cook, Thunder Bay’s unofficial karaoke queen, along with the ‘best auntie’ ever. Dee is well known for her philanthropic work, whether emceeing charity events and helping them raise thousands of dollars, or her own initiatives, she has developed a career and an established public persona through her faith, dedication, and service to others.

Instagram: @country105tb

About Your Host Michelle Rosetta (Clinical Herbalist and Owner of BEE23 Natural Beauty):
Michelle is a mother of four with over 20 years of experience in the health and beauty industry, inspired by her own sensitivities to synthetic ingredients in personal care products and a deep need to be good to the environment we share this world with. She has served customers stretching around the world with her all natural non-toxic BEE23 Natural Beauty line of products, specializing in maturing skin, eczema and sensitive skin issues. As a Clinical Herbalist she works to support our natural beauty not only from the outside but from the inside-out focusing on reducing internal inflammation. She enjoys freelance writing encompassing tips for positive and ‘green’ skin care health to the deeply emotional, philosophical and energetic relationship we have with our physical aesthetic, while reconciling this with the love of self which lies far deeper than reaching for the latest cosmetic cream.

www.bee23.ca
Instagram @hottybalm
Instagram @michelle_rosetta
https://www.facebook.com/HottyBalm

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Credits: Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal.

TRU Beauty Confessions is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

About the Episod:
Why do we lock eyes with another as we come down the escalator? Why do we come back to these people even after years pass? What does it mean to curate your own swag? Emmanuel discusses the human experience through several of his film project and what it means to become, how we see ourselves, and how we see others as beautiful. How being authentic supports our personal evolution. Raquel explores where her sense of self was curated during a challenging accident as a child, and what her priorities are in life. Both touch on how they keep themselves accountable to show up as their whole self in each day. Emmanuel talks about how he compromised himself in the name of a look on the Chateau Laurier, and it’s not what you think! We all share some hair shame together. Stay tuned to find out who of this couple wins our first ever ‘Guess that Chemical’ Podcast Game Series.

Guest Bios:
Emmanuel Kabongo was born in Congo, spent time in South Africa before growing up in Toronto. As a teenager, Emmanuel focused on sports with siblings, specifically basketball. After playing on the varsity team at George Brown College, Emmanuel decided to pursue an acting career. Emmanuel is an alumnus of the Canadian Film Centre, a two-time CSA and nominee. Emmanuel is recognized for his works in the series “21 Thunder”, and the web series “Teenagers”. Coming up for Emmanuel is a part in the Netflix series “Outer Banks”, the Canadian series Chateau Laurier, the feature film “Write Place, Write Time”, and the feature film “Hello Stranger”. Emmanuel resides between Los Angeles and Toronto.

Raquel Melnichuk-Kabongo is an award-winning Realtor in Toronto and the GTA. She prefaced her Real Estate career with custom home building which led her to her real estate career.

Links:
Instagram: @emmkab
Instagram: @theraquelchuk

About Your Host Michelle Rosetta (Clinical Herbalist and Owner of BEE23 Natural Beauty):
Michelle is a mother of four with over 20 years of experience in the health and beauty industry, inspired by her own sensitivities to synthetic ingredients in personal care products and a deep need to be good to the environment we share this world with. She has served customers stretching around the world with her all natural non-toxic BEE23 Natural Beauty line of products, specializing in maturing skin, eczema and sensitive skin issues. As a Clinical Herbalist she works to support our natural beauty not only from the outside but from the inside-out focusing on reducing internal inflammation. She enjoys freelance writing encompassing tips for positive and ‘green’ skin care health to the deeply emotional, philosophical and energetic relationship we have with our physical aesthetic, while reconciling this with the love of self which lies far deeper than reaching for the latest cosmetic cream.

Links for Michelle
www.bee23.ca
Instagram @hottybalmInstagram @michelle_rosetta
https://www.facebook.com/HottyBalm

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Credits: Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal. This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.

TRU Beauty Confessions is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

About the Episode:
Michelle and Amber not only give us some advice on runny eyeliner, but they discuss how what another may say to you from the perspective of their own story can have severe negative impact on how you see yourself and the roles you choose to play. Amber discusses what a healed, whole, and mature person means to her. She is passionate about women, and men too, taking back their own narratives and having the courage to be their most authentic selves. She is not scared to voice how she feels about the world around her and realizes the importance of showing up as your full self to the table. Amber discusses how toxic femineity and masculinity ages us and can make us ill. We know exterior beauty and even celebrity beauty has little to do with whether our partners cheat on us or not, so what is it then? How discernment and free will is necessary when partaking in social media and the world around us. We can choose not to participate, so that we may leave space to be who we really are. This is how we can wake up, break the beauty curse, and open to the destiny meant for our lives.

Guest Bio:
With a passion for seeing others succeed, Amber Krystal, Thee Beauty Coach, is dedicated to helping women from all walks of life fulfill their true potential through powerful healing and meaningful growth.

Amber is an experienced speaker, teacher, board certified Licensed Esthetician, board certified Licensed Esthetics Instructor and much more. She has been featured in several publications around the world. She is a two-time Certified Makeup Artist in media of film, video, print, and bridal. She can also be seen in the Hallmark Films “Christmas In Harmony” and “To Her With Love.’’ She has been able to do all of this by taking the actions she now shares with others through her classes and coaching services.

Amber can lift women up who feel lost and hopeless by sharing her own story of pain and trauma. After battling low self-esteem, self-worth, an identity crisis, and rejection, Amber was able to rise above it all and use these experiences to now empower others. She shows women that by confronting past struggles and unresolved issues, you can begin to achieve your deepest desires and become the best version of yourself you’ve always dreamed of. By building you up spiritually and naturally, Amber can help you become a more well-rounded and joyful individual from the inside out. Your inner beauty is waiting to shine through, you just need the right guide to show you how to unleash it!

Instagram: @theebeautycoach
Website: www.TheeBeautyCoach.org

About Your Host:
Michelle Rosetta (Clinical Herbalist and Owner of BEE23 Natural Beauty)Michelle is a mother of four with over 20 years of experience in the health and beauty industry, inspired by her own sensitivities to synthetic ingredients in personal care products and a deep need to be good to the environment we share this world with. She has served customers stretching around the world with her all natural non-toxic BEE23 Natural Beauty line of products, specializing in maturing skin, eczema and sensitive skin issues. As a Clinical Herbalist she works to support our natural beauty not only from the outside but from the inside-out focusing on reducing internal inflammation. She enjoys freelance writing encompassing tips for positive and ‘green’ skin care health to the deeply emotional, philosophical and energetic relationship we have with our physical aesthetic, while reconciling this with the love of self which lies far deeper than reaching for the latest cosmetic cream.

www.bee23.ca
Instagram @hottybalmInstagram @michelle_rosetta
https://www.facebook.com/HottyBalm

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Credits: Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal. This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.

TRU Beauty Confessions is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

About the Episode
Mindy discusses what she learned about herself, the health and beauty industry, and self-love during her long-time career in the sports and fitness model industry. Mindy confesses the moment she realized this industry that she had helped develop was not serving her community the way she had initially perceived. She recognized that looking like a superhero on the outside and asking your body to be its best physical self, does not necessarily translate to inner confidence or self-love. After a traumatic event Mindy realized it was necessary to course correct and choose an alternative way to act in the world. Mindy shares ways she has found true inner acceptance, and why it is important for the whole self. We discuss the three factors to premature aging, and how a water fast may be one way to reduce the impact on our body and skin.

Guest Bio:
Mindy Heather Blackstien, together with her husband Jeffrey Kippel, are pioneers in the fitness and bodybuilding world having helped to spearhead these niche cultures. They created the World Natural Sports Organization (WNSO), founded The FAME Agency, produced the FAME World Tour, created Fit Connections with Robert Kennedy, and published FAME Magazine. As a result, people from all backgrounds, experience levels, age groups and ethnicities successfully transformed into bodybuilders, fitness models and athletes. Many went on to become top influencers, cover models, sponsored athletes, world champions and stars.

Despite this, and after running FAME for about a decade, Mindy came to the realization that being FIT goes beyond appearance. Just because someone looks like a superhero, doesn’t mean they feel like one. Being a solutionary, she chose to discover how to fill this void and course correct. Fueled by a vision, she immersed herself in empowerment education, mentored under leaders in their field and set the intent to discover the people, products and philosophies that could truly help others love better how they think, function and feel.

As a result, she became a whole life coach, Thai yoga massage instructor, metaphysical minister, and non-surgical surgeon along the way. Currently Mindy has a show on the Doc STAR TV network. She co-created Rethink Fitness, a masterclass and certification course for personal trainers, and is set to travel the world to deliver it. She sits on the Board of Advisors for The Social Universe (TSU). She just authored a book with her husband —The Ridiculous Adventures of Serbinand — that is both humourous and empowering. And, she is developing a gamified movement to help anyone self-love and self-heal.

Links
Instagram: @heymindheart
Website: heymindheart.com
Website: rethinkFIT.social
Website: serbinand.com

About Your Host Michelle Rosetta (Clinical Herbalist and Owner of BEE23 Natural Beauty)
Michelle is a mother of four with over 20 years of experience in the health and beauty industry, inspired by her own sensitivities to synthetic ingredients in personal care products and a deep need to be good to the environment we share this world with. She has served customers stretching around the world with her all natural non-toxic BEE23 Natural Beauty line of products, specializing in maturing skin, eczema and sensitive skin issues. As a Clinical Herbalist she works to support our natural beauty not only from the outside but from the inside-out focusing on reducing internal inflammation. She enjoys freelance writing encompassing tips for positive and ‘green’ skin care health to the deeply emotional, philosophical and energetic relationship we have with our physical aesthetic, while reconciling this with the love of self which lies far deeper than reaching for the latest cosmetic cream.

Links for Michelle
www.bee23.ca
Instagram @hottybalm
Instagram @michelle_rosetta
https://www.facebook.com/HottyBalm

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Credits: Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal. This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.

TRU Beauty Confessions is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

About the Episode:
Michelle and Anna discuss what it means to be aligned with self even when it may be difficult to stick to the path, how the idea of beauty shifted for Anna from being called flat chested in Grade 6, to an introduction of beauty in the music industry during the era of Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, eventually coming into her own and realizing her light comes from the inside to emphasis the external physical body. We talk about how simple breath can divert not only bad behaviour but bad photos. Anna explains how she was able to begin the reconnection with self and quiet the mental chatter, when a drummer in her band asked her to come to a yoga class. Anna offers simple, accessible yoga poses and breathing techniques to bring oxygen back to the skin, detox the body, and reduce inflammation. Anna allows us into her emotional space and personal growth in a very authentic and meaningful way.

Bio:
Polish, Canadian, singer, songwriter and performer. She has a smoky-pop voice, animated stage presence, and a sexy one-of-the-boys kind of personality that ranks up there with Gwen Stefani and Debbie Harry. Toronto’s own, Anna Cyzon is a bona fide rock star. Born in Krakow Poland, Cyzon came to Canada with her family in 1990. She attended the University of Toronto where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Criminology. Her career in media began publicly when she auditioned for Canadian Idol in 2004.

A former Top 20 Idol finalist, MTV Canada host, Cyzon represented her homeland in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2010, placing second in the pre-selections with her song “Love Me" from herself titled independent debut. She’s since followed with the release of a 7 song EP, a full-length Polish and English album, Letters to Love, from which she started releasing singles in 2019. Her highly infectious “Wannabe", a collaboration with British- Canadian producer Alex Reid, can also be heard on Spotify and the music video (shot in Olon, Ecuador) has over 3 million views on YouTube.

In December 2018, while finishing writing and recording L2L with long time friend and Toronto producer, La Flamme, Cyzon released “Mistletoe”, an original Christmas song she and La Flamme co-wrote. Following the original, there was also a cover of "Merry Little Christmas" (2019). But it wasn't until 2021 that Cyzon would release her most personal songs yet "Lay Your Body" and "Losing You", about her breakup. In addition, that year, she recorded and released a Polish duet, "Pierwszy Raz" with Pawel Nawrocki, and shot a music video in the city in which she was born. Cyzon is looking forward to continuing to release new material and share music with her fans. "Songs give me purpose. Hope my voice and lyrics resonate with the beat of your heart."

Links:
Instagram: @annacyzon
Instagram: @cyzonyoga
Website: cyzonmusic.com
About Your Host Michelle Rosetta (Clinical Herbalist and Owner of BEE23 Natural Beauty)

Michelle is a mother of four with over 20 years of experience in the health and beauty industry, inspired by her own sensitivities to synthetic ingredients in personal care products and a deep need to be good to the environment we share this world with. She has served customers stretching around the world with her all natural non-toxic BEE23 Natural Beauty line of products, specializing in maturing skin, eczema and sensitive skin issues. As a Clinical Herbalist she works to support our natural beauty not only from the outside but from the inside-out focusing on reducing internal inflammation. She enjoys freelance writing encompassing tips for positive and ‘green’ skin care health to the deeply emotional, philosophical and energetic relationship we have with our physical aesthetic, while reconciling this with the love of self which lies far deeper than reaching for the latest cosmetic cream.

Links for Michelle:
www.bee23.ca
Instagram @hottybalm
Instagram @michelle_rosetta
https://www.facebook.com/HottyBalm

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Credits: Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal. This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.

About the Episode:
Michelle books herself a Cosmetic Acupuncture appointment with Dr. Dori and we have the pictures to prove it! Through the years Michelle has looked at clean products, exercise and good diet to keep her skin glowing, but as she begins to round the bend into 50, she is interested in finding out about potentially more invasive procedures without surgery. This non-surgical face lift helps to promote collagen production, lift sagging skin, reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles. Does it hurt!? Does it work? And why does it work? Not to mention we had an online epiphany as to why managing our emotions and allowing these forces to release through our face is so very important to our overall health. We talk about collagen, the eleven lines, Botox, and robot models, all within the wealth of knowledge Dr. Dori has to bring to our community from Chinese medicine to her naturopathic wisdom.

Guest Bio:

Dr. Dori Skye Engel is a Naturopathic Doctor and Birth Doula practicing in the Toronto area. She is a mama of 3 wild and wacky boys and is an avid traveller. Dr. Dori believes strongly in the body’s innate healing ability and works to find the right combination of support to guide her patients in attaining optimum health, vitality, resilience and vibrancy. Through a combination of tools: clinical nutrition, lifestyle counselling, botanical medicine, homeopathy, traditional Chinese medicine, acupuncture and hydrotherapy, she creates personalized treatment protocols.
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Dr. Dori has a special interest in the Perinatal period of a family’s life; Fertility support, Preconception Care, Pregnancy, Labour & Birth, Postpartum support as well as Babies & Children. Treating the whole person, as well as the whole family, she is honoured to support men & women through further life changes such as menopause, thyroid dysfunction, diabetes, heart disease, skin conditions & all the curveballs life throws.

Dr. Dori is also the co-host of Beyond Beautiful Birth a Podcast about the messy, intense and powerful and all-encompassing beauty of birth and beyond.

Links:

http://www.familynaturopathy.ca
http://www.instagram.com/mamadoll
http://www.facebook.com/DrDoriND
About Your Host Michelle Rosetta (Clinical Herbalist and Owner of BEE23 Natural Beauty)

Michelle is a mother of four with over 20 years of experience in the health and beauty industry, inspired by her own sensitivities to synthetic ingredients in personal care products and a deep need to be good to the environment we share this world with. She has served customers stretching around the world with her all natural non-toxic BEE23 Natural Beauty line of products, specializing in maturing skin, eczema and sensitive skin issues. As a Clinical Herbalist she works to support our natural beauty not only from the outside but from the inside-out focusing on reducing internal inflammation. She enjoys freelance writing encompassing tips for positive and ‘green’ skin care health to the deeply emotional, philosophical and energetic relationship we have with our physical aesthetic, while reconciling this with the love of self which lies far deeper than reaching for the latest cosmetic cream.

Links for Michelle:

www.bee23.ca
Instagram @hottybalm
Instagram @michelle_rosetta
https://www.facebook.com/HottyBalm

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies to make a difference in your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Credits: Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal. This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.

TRU Beauty Confessions is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

About the Episode:
It sounds easy to check your inner battery, but how many of us check our energy levels throughout the day? You cannot run a car on a depleted battery, neither can your body run on limited energy. When our internal energy stores are low, Jennifer explains how this impacts all areas of our lives, including the way we feel about how we look and how we appear to others. If we do not learn how to care for this inner battery, there is no getting to the gym, or trying new recipes, or getting off the couch to enjoy the sunlight. In short, we cannot get the glow with no go! Jennifer shares how her own life was impacted by not checking in with herself, and how this practice changed the way she moved through her day and the activities she chose to do. She offers us a few of her unique tools and daily practices that we can do at home to recharge our beauty battery. Get a piece of paper, a pencil and join in.

Guest: Jennifer Lyall, Intuitive Business Mentor and Chief Energy Optimizer

Jennifer is an Intuitive Business Mentor and Chief Energy Optimizer with a history in the health and wellness industry. She helps conscious visionary entrepreneurs with a big mission who are losing control with too many ideas and too much to juggle, to confidently follow-through to the next level of their business. As the Founder of the Release to IncreaseTM Business System and My Energy CheckTM self awareness tool, she teaches anyone how to master their energy and intuition so they can uplevel their personal presence, community impact and income, while doing what makes their heart sing. Jennifer is on a mission to teach 1 million people how to Check Their Inner Battery as often as they check their phone battery to expand their self awareness.

Links
Instagram: @livehealthybyjenniferlyall
Website: www.jlyall.com

About Your Host Michelle Rosetta (Clinical Herbalist and Owner of BEE23 Natural Beauty):

Michelle is a mother of four with over 20 years of experience in the health and beauty industry, inspired by her own sensitivities to synthetic ingredients in personal care products and a deep need to be good to the environment we share this world with. She has served customers stretching around the world with her all natural non-toxic BEE23 Natural Beauty line of products, specializing in maturing skin, eczema and sensitive skin issues. As a Clinical Herbalist she works to support our natural beauty not only from the outside but from the inside-out focusing on reducing internal inflammation. She enjoys freelance writing encompassing tips for positive and ‘green’ skin care health to the deeply emotional, philosophical and energetic relationship we have with our physical aesthetic, while reconciling this with the love of self which lies far deeper than reaching for the latest cosmetic cream.

Links for Michelle:
www.bee23.ca
Instagram @hottybalm
Instagram @michelle_rosetta
https://www.facebook.com/HottyBalm

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies to make a difference in your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Credits: Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal. This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.

TRU Beauty Confessions is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Bio
Nikki Clarke, is the founder, producer, and host of the multiple award-winning talk show, The Nikki Clarke Show on Afroglobal TV Network. Nikki just recently launched her women’s fashion line , Navaan. Nikki, is also an accomplished singer/songwriter, has recently released a gospel single entitled, “For Your Love”, Spring 2021. The music video for ” For Your Love” was featured September 2021 in the Canadian International Faith and Family Film Festival. Nikki is the Immediate Past President of the Ontario Black History Society and has over 25 years of experience as a community activist. She is also an honouree of the 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women in 2022 and nominated 100 Dynamic Leaders for 2021 by Exeleon Magazine and RBC’s Women of Influence. Nikki is currently the Student and Family Advocacy Coordinator formed by the Government of Ontario through the Early Childhood Education Initiative to combat anti black racism in schools. She is an MBA Candidate at the Australian Institute of Business. Nikki is the proud mother of 3 adult children.

Links
Instagram: @nikkiclarke31
Instagram: @navaan.com
Website: www.nikkiclarkenetwork.com

About the Episode
In this episode Nikki, Jamaican born, discusses her personal struggles with how she looked and what the world told her was beautiful. She shares how this impacted her health, and how her efforts to change her body to fit an ideal ultimately harmed her health and well being. She walks us through important relationships, how the role of motherhood, and her faith helped her to own her ‘thick’ beautiful, and from requiring external validation to finding true acceptance from within. We look at how this inspired her clothing line and the advice she has for others in coming to terms with their own lines, while being your best self. We discuss her beauty secrets as a gorgeous 54-year-old who spends much of her time under the bright lights. Nikki tells us her musts to keep her skin, hair, and body camera ready, including a few from childhood that we only now understand the importance of as adults. We are given a insight into how being bold, allowing for vibrancy, owning it, and having fun can bring beauty to any body.

About Your Host Michelle Rosetta
Michelle is a mother of four with over 20 years of experience in the health and beauty industry, inspired by her own sensitivities to synthetic ingredients in personal care products and a deep need to be good to the environment we share this world with. She has served customers stretching around the world with her all natural non-toxic BEE23 Natural Beauty line of products, specializing in maturing skin, eczema and sensitive skin issues. As a Clinical Herbalist she works to support our natural beauty not only from the outside but from the inside-out focusing on reducing internal inflammation. She enjoys freelance writing encompassing tips for positive and ‘green’ skin care health to the deeply emotional, philosophical and energetic relationship we have with our physical aesthetic, while reconciling this with the love of self which lies far deeper than reaching for the latest cosmetic cream.

Links for Michelle
www.bee23.ca
Instagram @hottybalm
Instagram @michelle_rosetta
https://www.facebook.com/HottyBalm

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies that make a difference to your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Partnerships:
Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal. This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.

TRU Beauty Confessions is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Guest: Alicia Bucknor, The Royal Artist

About the Episode
There is beauty in adversity, and Alicia is a testament to this. Motherhood and a traumatizing car accident asked our guest to re-evaluate her priorities, how she saw herself, and her role in the community. We discuss fashion to sea moss, and the importance of just doing ‘something’ during the day for our health and fitness. Alicia shares her passion to empower not only her girls but the wider community to understand how special and royal they really are. A beauty crown is not something we fight for at a pageant, it is something we must learn to crown ourselves with, this being something only you can do for you. We discuss the importance of our children understanding early that the idea of beauty is more than just the clothes you wear, how you look, or what other’s think, it is about a resonance that can only come from the inside. When we discover this vibrational beauty in ourselves, the entire world including all the unique people we see during the day becomes a masterpiece.

Bio:

Born in New York City & raised in Toronto, Canada, The Royal Artist Alicia Bucknor is a mother, fashion abstract visual artist, social change artist #iamRoyal, author, fashion designer, and creative director of Milk & Heels magazine. The Royal Artist expresses herself using digital and traditional canvases like pencil, ink, acrylic paint, pastel, charcoal, watercolour paints and digital tablets. The Vintage Dreams Collection recently launched offers a fine art, affirmations colouring art book, with colouring art posters, colouring pages, and activewear for adults, youth, and toddlers. The Royal Artist seeks to inspire others to reach for their own internal crown and to be empowered by their unique beauty. Raising two princesses into queens has ignited so much creativity, passion, and art for the artist which led her to create “Royal": an art wellness missioned lifestyle brand that advocates for spiritual Royalty. Royal by Alicia Bucknor is an art wellness brand advocating for family, love, nature and unity. All products are ethically made in Canada. Each art piece has its own story, meaning, and royal purpose. Over the years, The Royal Artist's exemplary expression of fine art and art wear pieces in the clothing line called ‘Royal’ by Alicia Bucknor have been featured in establishments around Canada, United States, and United Kingdom. Representing faith & fashion empowerment, The Royal Artist creates functional fashion masterpiece collections ​for the Royalty amongst us. Royal By Alicia Bucknor is a fashion art empowering brand filled with fashion art illustrations and impactful messages of love, gratitude, and kindness.
Instagram: @byaliciabucknor
Instagram: @royalcolouringbooks
Instagram: @royalbyab
Instagram: @milknheels
About Your Host Michelle Rosetta (Clinical Herbalist and Owner of BEE23 Natural Beauty)
Michelle is a mother of four with over 20 years of experience in the health and beauty industry, inspired by her own sensitivities to synthetic ingredients in personal care products and a deep need to be good to the environment we share this world with. She has served customers stretching around the world with her all natural non-toxic BEE23 Natural Beauty line of products, specializing in maturing skin, eczema and sensitive skin issues. As a Clinical Herbalist she works to support our natural beauty not only from the outside but from the inside-out focusing on reducing internal inflammation. She enjoys freelance writing encompassing tips for positive and ‘green’ skin care health to the deeply emotional, philosophical and energetic relationship we have with our physical aesthetic, while reconciling this with the love of self which lies far deeper than reaching for the latest cosmetic cream.

www.bee23.ca
Instagram @hottybalm
Instagram @michelle_rosetta
https://www.facebook.com/HottyBalm

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies to make a difference in your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Partnerships:
Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal.

This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.

TRU Beauty Confessions is a part of the EcoParent Podcast Network: www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Guest: Zhana Dmitryuk, Founder, Owner and Instructor of Flexspace Studios

About the Episode:
It is always about the lines, and in this episode Michelle and Zhana take on the saying, “no pain, no gain,’ at least when that comes to the world of beauty and the body. Is a healthy, fit body not within our reach, if for whatever reason we can no longer sweat it out with the latest hardcore fitness phenomenon!? We look at how ‘gentle’ does not just benefit your overall well being but gets the results you are looking for. Zhana explores the unrealistic view of her body through the eyes of the dance world, while also breaking down physical barriers as to what is possible. She shares how she frees herself from a limiting medical and societal narrative by listening to her body. Zhana walks us through her journey from illness, to discovery, to recovery, and now a whole-body vitality. We are excited to share Zhana’s beauty secrets and exercise tips that anyone can do from home to start their own healthy and healing fitness journey.

Guest Bio:
Zhana is a stretching instructor and owner of FLEXSPACE STUDIOS, a fitness studio that teaches stretching as a workout. Zhana was enamoured with the dance world as a young child but was unable to participate do to a debilitating childhood illness that left her watching from the side lines. When she got out into the world as a young adult, she wanted to try everything and discovered her passion for movement in her late 20's. Nonetheless, by pushing her body from zero to full out, she found her body falling apart from a lack of balance between spending hours at her desk job and a passion for her pole fitness hobby. She was looking for foundational fitness that would help bridge the gaps in her strength and flexibility and allow her to live pain-free, as well as find freedom of movement in any activity that she chose to take on. She found this in stretching, and, 3 years later, has left her corporate job to teach and run her studio full-time. Zhana specializes in teaching adults with no prior movement background, and those who have always thought themselves to be inflexible. She takes special pride and joy in unlocking an individual's potential and proving to them that they can be stronger and more flexible than they ever thought they could be possible.

Instagram: @zhanaflex
Instagram: @flexspacestudios
Website: www.flexspace.fit

About Your Host Michelle Rosetta, Clinical Herbalist and Owner of BEE23 Natural Beauty:
Michelle is a mother of four with over 20 years of experience in the health and beauty industry, inspired by her own sensitivities to synthetic ingredients in personal care products and a deep need to be good to the environment we share this world with. She has served customers stretching around the world with her all natural non-toxic BEE23 Natural Beauty line of products, specializing in maturing skin, eczema and sensitive skin issues. As a Clinical Herbalist she works to support our natural beauty not only from the outside but from the inside-out focusing on reducing internal inflammation. She enjoys freelance writing encompassing tips for positive and ‘green’ skin care health to the deeply emotional, philosophical and energetic relationship we have with our physical aesthetic, while reconciling this with the love of self which lies far deeper than reaching for the latest cosmetic cream.

www.bee23.ca
Instagram @hottybalm
Instagram @michelle_rosetta
https://www.facebook.com/HottyBalm

About the EcoParent Podcast Network:
The EcoParent Podcast Network helps busy families live a healthier, greener lifestyle. Our host experts are imperfect, real, busy parents just like you who share ways to lower our collective carbon footprint and practical strategies to make a difference in your family’s health, the planet and to our children’s future. We offer raw, honest conversations and actionable advice in the following six areas: pregnancy & birth, pediatric wellness, kids nutrition, healthy home, beauty, and parenting. Join us and get inspired to live a more sustainable, healthy life! www.ecoparent.ca/podcasts

Partnerships:

Audio magic on this episode was performed by Carlay Ream-Neal.

This episode was edited by Emily Groleau.