What Fulfills You?

#166: Allie created Veracity Selfcare, as the next-generation beauty and wellness brand empowering women to understand the connection between their skin and their broader health through at-home testing and a holistic, data-driven approach to skincare. Their products are at the forefront of clean performance, excluding all endocrine disruptors and safe for all life moments, including pregnancy and breastfeeding.

Allie was previously the CEO of the women’s fashion brand, Cynthia Rowley where she led the transformation to direct-to-consumer and more than doubled the business in two years. She has extensive experience in the beauty industry through her time at some of Estee Lauder’s best brands, including Origins, Clinique, and La Mer. She also has broad consumer experience through her time as an investor at L Catterton.

Topics discussed:

• Leaving the position as CEO of Cynthia Rowley to start her own brand
• Impact of diet change on infertility and skin
• The truth of work-life balance in both corporate world and working for oneself
• Choosing between romantic partner and your own personal life vision
• Hard work vs. luck

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#165: Brandon Brooks is a former NFL football player where he played for 10 seasons, initially for the Houston Texans and later on with Philadelphia Eagles. He played six seasons with the Eagles, with whom he won the Super Bowl defeating the New England Patriots during the 2017 season.

Brandon has also known to be public about his personal struggles with mental health, especially around stress-related anxiety and the physical impact it had on him, which even resulted in missing some games during the season.

Topics discussed:

• Overcoming criticism and how to not "let it get to your head"
• Managing stress-related anxiety and learning to live with it, instead of using it as an excuse
• The reality of being a professional football player
• What the most impactful moment was in winning the Super Bowl Championship in 2018 (2017 season)
• Why he chose to jump into a new career immediately after retiring from the NFL, even if he didn't really "need" to
• Financial intelligence and whether money buys happiness

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#164: Founder, Leslie Tessler began her career in fashion at Ralph Lauren, moving to Italian denim brand Replay, where she was responsible for opening retail locations throughout the country. She transitioned to beauty, a lifelong passion, heading up marketing for Kérastase followed by Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare. After a spontaneous move to Buenos Aires, Leslie began managing fragrance at Coty Argentina and went on to freelance for various startups in Latin America.

In Buenos Aires, Leslie turned a 6-month sabbatical into a 10-year, life-changing professional and personal move. During this time, Leslie began traveling throughout the world on behalf of Latin American beauty brands, scouting the next big trends in global beauty. It was on one such trip to Tokyo, after getting a face shave with a straight razor at a local men’s barbershop, that Leslie first fell in love with the single blade. Determined to finally give women access to a proper shave that lays the foundation for healthy, glowing skin, hanni was born. At its core, hanni believes that shaving is the first step to great skin and aims to help empower women to make time to take care of themselves. Leslie lives between the US and Buenos Aires with her husband, 3 kids, and dog George.

Topics discussed:

• How to overcome fear of taking risks, in both personal life and in professional career
• The beauty of living in another country and immersing yourself in a completely different culture than your own
• The raw reality of beginning a new business and the natural process of pivoting from the original idea
• Is there such thing as right person, wrong time? How much does timing play a role in your natural course?

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#163: You might wonder...wait, why would I want to have a discussion with someone that disagrees with me? Well, that's exactly the point. The art of thoughtful disagreement, as Ray Dalio calls it.

This is a tool Emily has used over the past few years, especially when trying to remove confirmation bias, understanding the best approach to certain conflict, having compassion for the other perspective, and most of all, to make key decisions as objectively and rationally as possible.

If you've noticed yourself being constantly emotionally reactive, making poor decisions in the moment, and simply want to improve your thought process and how you make decisions in all areas of your life, then this episode is for you.

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#162: On this solo episode, Emily shares her thoughts on morning routines - whether it's worth having one, her personal morning routine, simple ways to start your day, and the most important component to a routine...having the self-discipline to stick with it consistently.

Emily also dives into the beauty of using a digital calendar (such as Google Cal) to plan ahead and to audit how you spend your time, while also creating a balance between adapting to the flow of life and planning a structured schedule.

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#161: One of the common obstacles and struggles most people face in their early to mid 20s is the transition period from college to working full-time and essentially, just "figuring it out".

From signing a lease, paying rent, managing bills, figuring out the ideal career path, getting a first "big girl/boy" job, learning what a 401(k) is, job hopping, etc. This episode is everything Emily wishes people would discuss more while she was in college and now, after being out of school for three years now, she shares her honest perspective on how to make the transition process more seamless, new "adult" things to learn and figure out, and what she would do differently, looking back at the age of 25.

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#160: Carolyn Yachanin is the Founder & CEO of Copina Co, a plant-based collagen and supplement company with a mission of bridging the gap between internal health & external confidence. Having struggled with horrible cystic acne for 10+ years and various digestive concerns associated with Accutane, Carolyn turned her biggest insecurity into a mission-driven company.

She started her business because she fundamentally believes that the new focus of beauty needs to be on internal health. After years of harsh acne medications like oral antibiotics and 2 rounds of Accutane leaving her skin skin dry and depleted her gut health, Carolyn turned to holistic and herbal medicine out of a search for something better and it changed her life. She saw the power of plants to heal us from within and bring the best of plant medicine to all with Copina Co. All blends were formulated by herbalists, are 100% vegan, and help to support your body's natural collagen production, all from plants.

Topics discussed:

• Why you should experience college or at least a few years away from home and your usual "comfort zone"
• What collagen is and how it impacts your health and skin
• How collagen can be absorbed into your body and all the marketing tricks products will get you with
• Impact of holistic and herbal medicine on skin (especially issues like acne) and gut health
• The reality and behind the scenes of starting out with a new business in a "saturated" market

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#159: Some people say you don't have to "figure it out", but that doesn't mean we don't all deep down wish we at least knew what direction to go in, right? On this solo episode, Emily shares why it's important to know what you want and how to get to some answers by simplifying it based on some specific questions, instead of the overarching, "What do I want to do with my life?"

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#158: Kristin Lee is a self-made financial and business expert who is best known for wrangling the financials of celebrities, musicians, and athletes alike, and is the person A-listers come to for real-life intervention, guidance, and support. Lee is not your typical business manager as she's a young, female, professional who prefers leather jackets and tattoos instead of suits and ties. However, it's her genuine authenticity and unapologetic attitude that has made her relatable to her clients and a household name in the business and finance world. Lee has been in hustling in the entertainment industry since she was 16 years old when she started taking photos for bands at concerts. She then moved on to being an artist manager for several years and then worked at a record label. She always loved accounting and entertainment, so business management encompassed both her passions. She worked at several prestigious firms before starting her own company. As her roster grew, she knew she wanted to move up the ranks. Unfortunately, at a lot of the bigger firms, upward mobility is scarce. Being a young professional female, she quickly realized she wasn't going to get a seat at the table, so she built her own. Today, she's a business manager to some of the biggest household names in the entertainment industry and has offices located in Los Angeles, Seattle and Nashville that is supported by an all-female staff. 

Topics discussed:

• How Kristin realized she could combine her passion for music and arts with her strong skills in accounting
• The reality of what "overnight success" actually looks like
• How freelancers, business owners, and project-based contractors can strategize their income, savings, tax preparation, etc.
• Learning how to take initiative and "network" and how to make it more about relationship building

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#157: Per listener demand, this episode is a personal story reflection on Emily's recent solo trip to Paris and Milan where she dives into interesting events that happened during her trip, personal recommendations for traveling to Paris and Milan, what it was like meeting a podcast listener in person all the way across the globe, and how she's personally grown from taking this international trip by herself.

If you love hearing a personal story, then this one is the perfect episode to play in the background while cleaning your home, doing laundry, etc.

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