PRETTYSMART

At just 14, Taylor Hill became a full-time model, and by 18, she had booked the career-defining role of walking in the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, becoming one of the youngest models to do so. Since then, Taylor has graced the covers of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar and walked for fashion powerhouses like Versace, Chanel, and Dolce & Gabbana during Fashion Weeks in New York, Milan, and Paris. Now 28, Taylor is stepping into a new chapter as an entrepreneur, launching Tate & Taylor, a brand offering a holistic shopping experience for pet owners. On PRETTYSMART, Taylor reflects on her 14-year fashion career as a supermodel and the unconditional love driving her latest venture. She shares:

• How modeling helped her with her self confidence as a teenager.
• The difference between a good model and a great model.
• How showing off her personality helped her land a top modeling job as a Victoria’s Secret Angel.
• How the VS Angels became like big sisters to her.
• Why she respects Gisele Bündchen so much
• Learning how her self-image and self-worth needed to come from her and not her job.
• How her company, Tate & Taylor, was inspired by her late labradoodle, Tate, and his battle with cancer.
• How her late pet Tate was there for her when she needed him the most.
• The moment she knew she had a connection with her new dog, Salem.
• Her journey from fashion model to business founder in the pet industry.

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Book Rec: Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss, M.D.

Elaine Welteroth is many things, including inspiring. She’s a New York Times Bestselling Author, Award-winning Journalist, former editor-in-chief of “Teen Vogue,” TV host, mother and wife. We dive deep into her book “More than Enough,” and today Elaine shares:

• What does greatness entail?
• How to maximize the mountain climbing phase of life
• Why celebrate the little wins can make all the difference
• Why she struggled with feeling not enough and too much
• Being a deep-end friend (versus a shallow end friend)
• Having big expectations of friendships + being let down sometimes
• How to tap in to your ‘zone of genius’
• The importance of community and the solo journey (seasons)
• Her experience with the urgency on the call of her life
• Leaving her dream job because she was being called to pursue something else (and how she knew)
• Having the courage to ask for more money
• The scariest and smartest things she did in her career
• Giving herself a promotion
• The importance of creating boundaries from naysayers
• Where her most creative ideas come from
• More insight into one chapter in her book that she’s NEVER talked about
• Her light and the relationship that dimmed her big/bright aura!
• Recognizing when love is not love

Follow Elaine on Instagram @elainewelteroth and check out her book More Than Enough!

As we watch a war in Ukraine unfold before our eyes, there is one woman who believes that while humans are responsible for all war we are also the only ones with the power to stop it. Dr. Samantha Nutt is the founder of Warchild USA, an organization that aims to help children in war torn communities taking a long term approach to breaking the cycle of poverty and violence. Dr. Nutt has worked in dozens of conflict zones and is a leading voice on current affairs, international aid and foreign policy. Dr. Nutt has worked with children and their families at the frontline of many of the world’s major crises – from Iraq to Afghanistan, Somalia to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Sierra Leone to Darfur, Sudan. Today she is here to share her experiences and help educate us on what we must know about when it comes to war and ways we can help stop the cycle of war around the world.

• Working in war zones and how it opened her up to the large scale problems of war.
• Why we are all implicated in the suffering and abuse that civilians living in war experience every day (and what we can do to change that).
• How we are unknowingly complying with war - and even profiting from it.
• How living through war affects the generations that come after.
• Why it’s not enough to want to do the right thing (and things you CAN do to help war zones)
• The biggest lessons living through wars has taught her about life.
• The problem with only focusing on short-term needs when wars break out.
• Why we can’t forget about other areas of conflict in the world even if the media is only focusing on Ukraine.
• Ways to help even if you don’t have money to give.

For more information on Dr. Nutt or ways to get involved with War Child please visit www.warchildusa.org or www.samanthanutt.com

Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was fifteen. In 1912, women’s rights activists organized a massive march in support of women’s suffrage. Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement, but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better-known movements for workers’ rights began, over 1,500 girls—some as young as ten—walked out of factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nation’s first-ever labor strikes.

The untold story of the people who have helped spark America’s most transformative social movements throughout history: teenage girls. Young women have been disenfranchised and discounted, but the true retelling of major social movements in America reveals their might: they have ignited almost every single one.

Mattie Kahn is an award-winning writer and editor. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Vox, and more. She was the culture director at Glamour, where she covered women’s issues and politics, and a staff editor at Elle. She joins the pod to talk all about her new book, “Young and Restless: The Girls Who Sparked America’s Revolutions.”

She shares:

• Why she always believed she could be and do whatever she wanted in life.
• How she felt as a teenage girl and her thoughts on teenage girls today.
• What it means to be an activist and why change so often occurs because of teenage girls.
• Why things aren’t as bad as they might seem,
• The positive and negative impacts of social media on activism.
• Why it’s important to cultivate a community of women of all ages and generations around you.
• How to get involved in making change without feeling overwhelmed.
• How to keep hope alive even when it seems hard.
• Why teenage girls can get away with more than women when it comes to activism.
• The impact of friendships on activism.

Follow Mattie on IG @matkahn

Get a copy of Mattie’s book here

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Jessica Bennett has spent her award-winning journalism career focusing a gender lens on social issues and culture — from the persistence of workplace inequality, to cultural trends like Playboy magazine to rebrand and the evolution of Miss America, to the ripple effects of #MeToo. She was the first-ever gender editor of The New York Times and is the author of two bestselling books, Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace (HarperCollins) and This Is 18: Girls’ Lives Through Girls’ Eyes (Abrams). She is an adjunct professor of journalism at NYU. Fun fact: She once wrote a viral piece about her Resting Bitch Face.

In 2021 Jessica wrote a piece that I have been thinking about since then. It was title, Speaking of Britney ... What About All Those Other Women? Monica Lewinsky. Janet Jackson. Lindsay Lohan. Whitney Houston. We are living in an era of reappraisals. It questioned if we were rethinking how we treated the the “wild" girls of the 90’s and 2000’s—Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Pamela Anderson, Monica Lewinsky. We break it down and discuss how we are treating women in the media today and what that means for how we see ourselves and each other.

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Listen to Jessica’s new podcast: inretropod.com