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09/19/24 • 59 min
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.
Follow Taylor here
Check out Tate & Taylor here
Book Rec: Many Lives, Many Masters by Brian L. Weiss, M.D.
09/21/23 • 76 min
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!
04/14/22 • 51 min
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.
She shares:- 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
The Profound Impact of Teenage Girls Who Sparked America's Social Movements: with Mattie Kahn
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06/15/23 • 54 min
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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09/14/23 • 56 min
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.
Follow Jessica on Instagram here
Listen to Jessica’s new podcast: inretropod.com
What does it mean to be Man Enough? Today we are digging in with Justin Baldoni. You probably know Justin from his role as Rafael Solano on the massively popular series ‘Jane the Virgin’, or as a director of the acclaimed film Five Feet Apart. He is on a mission to ‘undefine masculinity’— strip away unhealthy expectations and create more space for men (and everyone else) to fully be themselves.
In his book Man Enough’, which has evolved into a podcast community, he shares stories of how society rarely provides space for men to be whole. Today Justin shares his own hurt and the learnings that have come from those experiences. We talk about:
- How he realized he was “crowdsourcing” his personality.
- The key differences in male friendships vs. female ones and what needs to change in order for men to have stronger friendships with other men.
- The number one question we need to start asking men and boys.
- Why men need to learn to allow themselves to feel.
- Why bad feelings can be good.
- The Patriarchal Pyramid
- The insecurities men face when it comes to their bodies.
- Why women need to be mindful of their own misogyny.
- How he knew his wife Emily was ‘the one’.
Produced by Dear Media.
09/09/21 • 56 min
- What it means to Kelly to be the breadwinner of her family.
- The one person that changed the future of and leveled up her business.
- The moment she realized how to make more money and her advice to women who are making the same mistake she did.
- What Jessica Alba is really like and how the support from her celebrity clients changed the game for her career.
- How she took her job from side hustle to full-time
- Her biggest financial failure, the importance of an “Oh Sh*t” fund and how she rebuilt after an investment gone wrong.
- How she is learning to hold boundaries in order to show up best as a mom, in her marriage and at work
- Investing in herself instead of in furniture.
- Almost not going back to school to become a nutritionist and why it’s never too late to go after what you want.
- Why she finds Instagram to be alienating, especially in the wellness space.
Produced by Dear Media.
Creating Systemic Change: Keely Cat-Wells on The Untapped Power of the Disabled Community
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10/24/24 • 58 min
Keely Cat-Wells is an entrepreneur and disability rights advocate that truly believes kindness can change the world. At 17, Keely was living her dream of attending a dance academy in London when she started experiencing health scares which led to multiple surgeries, medical malpractice and ended with a permanent ileostomy. It changed the trajectory of her life, and it led Keely to create monumental change for the disability community with the launch of her businesses C Talent and Making Space – both aimed at creating space for disabled talent. Most recently, Keely worked with disability rights advocate Sophie Morgan to get more disabled talent employed on NBC’s Paralympics coverage as well as a first look deal with Hello Sunshine. Today, on PRETTYSMART, Keely reflects on how she’s helping disabled artists and creators achieve their dreams and why starting her own business was the smartest decision she’s ever made. She shares:
- How she went from living her dream as a dancer to navigating malpractice and mistreatment by the health system at 17.
- How her life changed when she realized that even though she may not live her original dream, she can still help others realize theirs.
- How she understands her own disability in the disability community.
- How she lost a job because of disability discrimination, and how it led her to creating her own agency for disabled artists: C Talent.
- That she’s made peace with the journey she’s currently on as opposed to what could’ve been.
- The untapped power of the disability community, and how she’s trying to harness it to create long lasting change.
- What portrayals of disabled characters she’d like to see in Hollywood.
- The parallels between entrepreneurship and the lived experience of disability.
- How the mission of her company, Making Space Media, is to center the disabled voice.
- How people can be an ally to the disability community.
- What she’s learned from Gloria Steinham.
- How Making Space worked with NBC Sports to increase the employment of disabled people at the Paralympics.
Follow Keely here
Check out Making Space here
Book Rec: Driving Forwards: An inspirational memoir of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury by Sophie Morgan
Life is for The Living: with Nora McInerny
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07/11/24 • 66 min
Nora McInerny is an author, speaker and host of “Terrible, Thanks for Asking” - a podcast that lets people be honest about the hard things in life. Nora lost her husband, Aaron when she was just 32 years old and is currently remarried and raising a blended family. Today she shares:
- What it was like finding out her boyfriend had a brain tumor after about a year of dating - and why deciding to marry him was the best decision she ever made.
- How she coped with grief and what she wishes she would have done differently.
- Why it’s so important to be honest with those close to you about how you’re doing.
- How she and her window’s family have maintained such a close bond and why that is sadly not always the case.
- How her current husband and kids make space for her husband who passed.
- How she continues to celebrate her husband Aaaron and keep his memory alive.
- How she has been able to use humor to deal with all of the painful things she’s experienced.
- Why time is almost meaningless to her now.
- Dealing with extreme burnout and how she’s navigating it.
- Why she wishes she had more compassion for herself.
- Why Parenthood is the biggest examination of your own ego.
Follow Nora here
Grab a copy of Nora’s books here
Recommended books from Nora:
- On Our Best Behavior - Elise Loehnen
- The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz
- Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl
Career transitions are an emotional rollercoaster, especially with today's uncertain job market. Lauren McGoodwin, Founder of Career Contessa, joins us to offer invaluable insights on navigating these shifts. Today she is empowering all of us with her tangible takeaway that will change your life! Today we dive into:
- What defines a fulfilling career (spoiler: it’s not money!)
- Why she thinks you shouldn’t strive for your dream job
- Her prediction for the career trend of 2024
- The harsh reality of our current job market
- Sustainable practices for being proactive in your career
- The mindset shift you need when it comes to networking
- How to use breadcrumbs to figure out a career that fulfills you
- Ways to use AI to streamline your interview process (and some bonus tips + tricks!)
- How to spot a toxic workplace
- The types of questions to ask at the end of a job interview
- An easy way to win at work (that also benefits you!)
- Her own tough career transition
Follow Lauren on Instagram @CareerContessa and check out her podcast Career Contessa.
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How many episodes does PRETTYSMART have?
PRETTYSMART currently has 173 episodes available.
What topics does PRETTYSMART cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts, Arts and Business.
What is the most popular episode on PRETTYSMART?
The episode title 'Olympian Alexi Pappas: How To Achieve Your Ultimate Dream + Bravely Care For Your Mental Health' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on PRETTYSMART?
The average episode length on PRETTYSMART is 48 minutes.
How often are episodes of PRETTYSMART released?
Episodes of PRETTYSMART are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of PRETTYSMART?
The first episode of PRETTYSMART was released on Feb 18, 2021.
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