Unhinged with Amrit

Sometimes a single idea can change the way we all live for the better, and that’s what Aurora James did. Founder of Fifteen Percent Pledge, a racial justice organization that’s redirected over 10 billion(!!) dollars into black owned businesses. She’s the beauty and brains behind the coveted luxury accessories brand Brother Vellies and now she’s adding author to the list… Aurora is the definition of being the change you want to be in the world. She joins us this week to chat about her brilliant and touching memoir, Wildflower. We talk all things pushing P (pivoting and persevering), the duality of both things being true, planting seeds and harvesting the big idea, being close and loving our parents from afar, relationships and dating in the big city, psychics, soulmates and more.

If you have good taste and want to buy her book: https://www.amazon.com/Wildflower-Memoir-Aurora-James/dp/0593239458/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=2e579cd8-2c02-41c2-8064-87bb3e57443b

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 Defining success, writing a memoir, the art of the edit and losing the expectation of perfection in vulnerability

08:23 Fifteen Percent Pledge & Brother Vellies

15:04 Being objective with yourself, navigating relationships with your parents

19:30 Doing the work in therapy, unpacking your own baggage, Hoffman Institute and alternative therapies

24:54 Pivoting and persevering, how to keep pushing

29:20 She wrote a memoir! Facing hardships

34:35 Corporate responsibility, using consumer guilt as a distraction

37:53 Communicating with vulnerability, breaking down barriers, being the first to get naked

47:50 Rebuilding, fixing issues in powerful places and reconciliation

56:15 CFDA and Vogue

01:01:15 Partnerships and Relationships, surprising new beginnings and success outside finances

01:05:16 Financial literacy and staying afloat

01:07:42 Asking for favors

01:10:09 Unhinged exclusives on the book and a met gala reveal

This week newly minted Sports Illustrated's first Queer Plus-size Rookie Lauren Chan joins us to chat about the importance of finding your tribe, coming out to herself, dating again after divorce, selling her company, creating her own lane and how she chooses what to share online.

00:00 The World of Sports Illustrated

08:44 Separating Work from our Identity

13:15 Launching her first business, Henning

16:22 Finding her own lane in editorial, Leaning into her difference's, A regressive state of Inclusion in Fashion

36:30 Celebrating the big moments, on and offline

41:40 Fake it Till You Make It, Lauren's tips on being more confident

44:32 Creating your own path, following passion

46:52 A never been shared before UNHINGED moment

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This week we are joined by Dr Shereene Idriss, the Internet's most beloved Derm to chat about getting fired while pregnant and turning rock bottom into a life changing moment. Launching her wildly successful skincare brand, PillowtalkDerm and selling out in 36 hours, how she chooses which ideas to execute and why you must always trust the divine timing of the universe. We unpack the art of committing to the moment (spoiler: sometimes that means getting out of bed at 3am to record an idea so the magic doesn't pass you by) and get a never been shared before Unhinged exclusive on how she met her husband, from pen pals to a long distance perseverance.. trust me you don't want to miss the tea on this one!

For more Dr Shereene

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shereeneidriss/?hl=en

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This week it’s just me… me and my deep dark secrets!!!!!! Back in the day when I moved to NYC broke and without a working visa, I scoured Craigslist for jobs under table. There was a listing for “open minded waitressing” and the rest is history. Sharing all the tips and tricks I’ve learned working as an underground poker waitress, from how to remember the little details, negotiating techniques, landing the big deal and my number one golden rule in life that applies in every industry. You’re just going to have to listen to find that one out.

Iconic and amazing cool girl photographer and director Morgan Maher joins us to chat about her new book Girls In Bed, the pizza at the Brandy Melville cafe, the quitting corporate glow UP, one week boyfriends, loving Lil Wayne, never being a bridesmaid, Boom Chicka Pop Kettle Corn, why everyone in LA is rock-climbing, DMing with Sofia Coppola, manifesting baby, our crushes from The L Word and the one time we had martinis at Balthazaar with Anna

This week Highsnobiety’s editor in chief Willa Bennett joins us to chat all things matchmaking, personal style, why the romance is in the little details and spills on her own personal love life (**extremely rare, consider this an Unhinged exclusive!!) 

We get Willa’s NYC hot list, learn the best thing on the Fanelli’s menu, share our bad first dates and discuss how her commitment to the tie single-handedly brought up the power suit (she denies this, but I stand by the statement) Don’t miss the fun on this one. 

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An intro for all plebs (me) into the holiest month on the Islamic calendar with fashion girlie and social activist Maria Alia. We chat about 0 to 100 hard launching, the dangers of posting in real time, dating within our cultures, why mums are the real patriarchs and a deep dive into the glitz and glamor of Mobile, Alabama.

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Turning 35, my raging postpartum body dysmorphia, the politics, lies and false narratives over a second row seat retirement, Gwyneth’s bone broth debacle and a little weekly cigarette for a treat, breastfeeding while crying, and other sexy topics from last weeks highlights on my second part solo episode. *Promise we will be back to scheduled guests next week!!!

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My brain is on a two hour feeding schedule so this episode if this feels slightly chaotic and manic… it’s most likely because it is!!I am still recovering from my labor and recording this was a very cathartic experience, if you take away one thing from this — it’s that there is no such thing as a birth plan. Your baby will choose the way they want to enter the world and you’ll just have to roll with the punches.

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This week highly coveted A-list makeup artist to the stars Nikki DeRoest joins us to chat on the thing she knows best, how to make a comeback. We start at the very beginning from growing up in Utah, leaving the Mormon Church, never settling for less, going through two divorces and making it in the bright lights and big city with Hollywood‘s Glitz n Glam. Nikki’s work has spawned a cult like following and we reminisce on the OG blogger era when posting 9 times a day was the norm, walking away from bad investors with her last successful beauty brand to relaunch on her own terms, we get some unhinged insider scoop on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City and I pick Nikki's brain on her hype worthy must have beauty products of the season.

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