Your Next Space Conversations with Stephanie Cannalonga

A journey of entrepreneurship, being a sole operator and the vulnerability of motherhood. As well as being a skin therapist and coming to the realisation that Clear skin won’t give you confidence. Halima Dandan spent years waiting for her acne to clear so she could finally feel good in her own skin. When it did clear, the shame was still there.

This week Steph sits down with Halima, a beauty therapist with 23 years in the industry. She started as a 17-year-old apprentice who hid her cystic acne behind her hair and turned off the bright lights in the treatment room. Today she runs a home-based clinic in Sydney, a product like ‘Dermal Code’ and a community for solo operators.

Halima shares the whole path: mobile pampering with a newborn, carrying a massage bed at eight months pregnant, and opening a home-based studio when brands told her they didn’t supply home-based studios. Then she and Steph get into why your nervous system, hormones and inner child all show up on your face.

They also cover:

Chapters
00:00 – Welcome
00:32 – Meet Halima Dandan
00:57 – Starting out at 17

This episode is a conversation about general wellbeing and is not medical advice. Please speak to your health practitioner about your own circumstances.

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You can't acid your way to better skin. The industry sells intensity — stronger actives, more treatments, faster results — but the thing showing up on your face usually started somewhere else entirely.

This week the tables turn. Stephanie hands over the mic to Tessa Lloyd and becomes the guest on her own show, talking through twenty years in skin, wellness and the family business that raised her.

Steph is a dermal therapist and co-owner of Skintrition, the clinic her mum started three decades ago. She takes us back to being brought in after school at 13, the rule that she had to study something else before she could work there, and the shift from spa to clinical and back again. Then she gets into the part she could talk about forever: why skin is the last place a problem appears, not the first.

They also cover:

Chapters
00:00 – Welcome
00:32 – Turning the tables: Steph in the hot seat
01:32 – The clinic at 13, and the rule about studying
03:46 – How the brand changed: spa, clinical, and back again
06:04 – Biohacking, longevity, and new words for old practices
08:58 – Working with mum and dad
11:08 – Why Steph doesn't believe in work-life balance
16:43 – Skin is the outside of an inside problem
18:12 – Fascia, jaw tension and stored emotion
20:48 – Botox, root causes, and what she'd try first
22:30 – Skin needling, lymphatic drainage and lasers
24:15 – The skin barrier, explained with a brick wall
27:08 – Why you can't trust the trend cycle
28:49 – Doing too much and expecting too soon
33:29 – Acne and hormones: the link nobody mentions
34:06 – Face mapping and the signs to look for
35:14 – Building your team of practitioners
36:38 – Stop buying supplements online
39:10 – The biggest mistakes people make
41:07 – Acne, the inner child and mental health
47:09 – Why home maintenance decides everything

This episode is a conversation about general wellbeing and is not medical advice. Please speak to your health practitioner about your own circumstances.

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You can't biohack your way out of stress. Wellness gets talked about in terms of supplements, machines and optimisation, but one of the biggest drivers of how we feel, and how our bodies hold up, is our mental health.

This week Stephanie is joined by Tessa Lloyd, a Melbourne-based mental health therapist, occupational therapist and podcast host. Tessa works mostly with women who feel burnt out, stuck or disconnected from themselves, and she's spent years helping people build practical skills to support their mental health.

Together they look at what it costs us to hide parts of ourselves, and how people pleasing, suppressed emotion and chronic stress affect our nervous system and our physical health. Tessa explains why you can't always think your way out of stress, why the body needs its own release, and why slowing down is the first step she recommends to almost everyone.

They also cover:

- Social media, comparison, and how to be smarter than the scroll

- Cheap dopamine, and simple ways to get the real thing back

- The patterns that show up when we're disconnected from ourselves

- Why wellbeing depends on community and equal energy exchange

- How to start therapy in Australia: mental health care plans, Medicare rebates and choosing the right modality

- Why authenticity feels so terrifying, and what it costs to fake it

- Tessa's own slow-living practices and her two daily non-negotiable

Chapters

00:00 - Welcome

01:05 - Meet Tessa: slowing down at 31

04:15 - What hiding parts of yourself really costs

09:24 - Social media, comparison and self-worth

15:07 - Cheap dopamine and how to reset

17:21 - Signs you're disconnected from yourself

22:36 - Why wellness needs community

26:30 - The nervous system and emotional suppression

31:22 - Why you can't think your way out of stress

34:44 - Where to start: slow down and look within

40:15 - What healing and identity stories have in common

45:29 - How to start therapy

48:27 - Why authenticity is so terrifying

53:49 - What wellbeing means to Tessa

58:05 - The takeaway

This episode is a conversation about general wellbeing and is not medical or mental health advice. Please speak to your health practitioner about your own circumstances. If you need support now, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14.

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Empowerment isn't the polished Instagram version. It's not having everything figured out; it's trusting yourself enough to keep figuring it out.

In her first solo episode, Stephanie launches the Empowerment Series, a run of conversations with women who inspire her, by sharing her own story first. She talks about rebuilding herself after two big breakups in her mid-20s, a shift in identity, a long stretch of illness, and what followed: buying her first home, paying off debt, travelling solo and speaking at her first conference, all within six months.

She also shares the mission behind Skintrition, the spa her mother Sandra Cannalonga founded in 1983, and the five tools that carried her through it all, each one something you can start using today.

The five tools:

Chapters

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Skin is never just skin. What shows up on the outside is usually telling us something about what's happening underneath and one of the most overlooked systems in that conversation is the lymphatic system.

This week Stephanie is joined by Chelsey Jean, naturopathic therapist, entrepreneur and founder of Chelsey Jean Lymphatics. Chelsey has spent more than 30 years helping women understand their bodies, and her mission is to reach five million of them.

Together they get into what the lymphatic system actually does, the everyday signs it's asking for support, and why so many of the symptoms women have learned to live with - puffiness, aches, sore breasts, low energy, sluggish digestion - are worth paying attention to rather than normalising. Chelsey also walks through her daily sequence live on camera, so you can follow along at home in about five minutes.

They also cover:
• Chelsey's story - leaving home at 15, starting her first business at 19, and building the movement behind Boob Camp
• Lymph node removal, lymphedema, and what women aren't told before and after breast cancer surgery
• What “arm puffs” are, and the other early signs worth knowing
• Why she's not a fan of compression garments, and what she recommends instead
• Practical tools: gloves, creams, pressure therapy, harmonising mats
• Rapid fire - sauna vs magnesium pool, yoga vs pilates, and the one symptom women have wrongly accepted as normal

Chapters
00:00 - Welcome
01:55 - Leaving home at 15 and starting out at 19
12:20 - The lymphatic system, explained
17:37 - When should women start looking after it?
20:21 - Taking responsibility for your own health
29:24 - Tools for the home
31:19 - The five-minute daily sequence, step by step
32:59 - Lymph nodes, surgery and lymphedema
35:51 - “Arm puffs” and the signs to watch for
43:40 - Water, iodine and what we're missing
48:36 - Rapid fire
52:39 - Every woman deserves to know

This episode is a conversation about general wellbeing and is not medical advice. Please speak to your health practitioner about your own circumstances.

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In this episode of Your Next Space Conversations, I sit down with Camilla Thompson to explore what it really means to optimise your health—not through perfection, but through understanding your body.

Together, we unpack the science and practical strategies behind living well, including:• What biohacking really means (beyond the trends)• Nervous system regulation and why it’s foundational for longevity• Recovery as a performance tool, not a luxury• Women’s health and creating sustainable habits that support long-term wellbeing• The small daily rituals that can create meaningful change over time

To understand your body better go to: https://www.biohackme.com.au/dna-package and you can book a free 30 min health optimisation call Camilla

This conversation is an invitation to slow down, become more curious about your body, and create your own next space for health, resilience and longevity.

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Thank you for listening to Your Next Space Conversations.

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