Fill Me In: An Aesthetics Podcast
On Fill Me In: An Aesthetics Podcast, Jon LeSuer NP-C and Nicole Bauer FNP-BC dive deep in the world of aesthetics. As aesthetic nurse practitioners with their own medical practices, Jon and Nicole fill you in on everything in their field.
Fill Me In: An Aesthetics Podcast
Work-Life Balance in Aesthetics | Episode 32
In this episode of Fill Me In, Jon and Nicole share valuable insights on balancing work and personal life in the competitive field of medical aesthetics. Nicole shares her recent experiences as a new mother, discussing challenges like labor, postpartum recovery, and breastfeeding. The hosts also dive into finding the right work-life balance, hiring and managing staff, and the importance of staying current with industry trends.
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On Fill Me In: An Aesthetics Podcast, Jon LeSuer NP-C and Nicole Bauer FNP-BC dive deep in the world of aesthetics. As aesthetic nurse practitioners with their own medical practices, Jon and Nicole fill you in on everything in their field.
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Jonathan LeSuer, MSN, NP-C
Jonathan LeSuer graduated from Le Moyne College with his Bachelor’s in Nursing in 2014 and a Family Nurse Practitioner degree in 2017. He began his career at St. Joseph’s Hospital as a Registered Nurse on a cardiac medical-surgical unit. He transitioned to the Nurse Practitioner role in 2017, working for Hospitalist Medicine, where he became the coordinator for the team’s Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners. In 2020, he started his career as an Aesthetic injector and quickly found out that this was his passion. On March 15th, 2022, he opened Tox & Pout Aesthetics. He is now a Master trained injector & National trainer for Allergan Aesthetics, offering Botox, Dysport, Hyaluronic acid fillers, Kybella, SkinViVe skin booster, and Sculptra. Jonathan is known for his empathy, profound bedside manner, and outgoing/warm personality. He has a deep love for aesthetics, and his patients’ confidence is his main priority.
Nicole Bauer, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC.
Family Nurse Practitioner
Nicole graduated with her Associates in Applied Sciences and began her journey as a registered nurse 10 years ago in 2014. She worked hard to combine her love for beauty with her passion for caring and healing others, attending aesthetics school while working as a hospital night nurse. After graduating as a licensed aesthetician, Nicole left the hospital where she had been for 3.5 years and began working as a registered nurse for a plastic surgeon. An experience of over 6 years that would leave her with so much knowledge and respect for the aesthetic world. It was during those 6 years that she pursued her Master’s Degree and obtained her license as a Family Nurse Practitioner, leading the way for where she is now; owning a state of the art medical aesthetic practice and being a national Allergan Trainer. Nicole takes pride in treating her patients holistically, focusing on facial balancing and enhancing one’s natural beauty. She believes education stands as the cornerstone of aesthetics and is why she is dedicated to both training others while always focusing on expanding her own knowledge as well.
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Welcome back guys, to another episode of the Fill Me in Pod. I'm injector John,
and I'm aesthetic nurse Nicole.
And I feel like it's been a minute.
I know it has
and it has because Nicole gave birth.
Oh my God.
She's a mother.
I'm a whole ass mother.
Oh my God. So when is his birthday?
June 2nd. He was one day away from my niece.
It's funny, I have twin sister for those that don't know, and my niece was born on June 3rd, so we were seeing if they were gonna be on the same day, five years, years apart. He wanted, he wanted his
own separate day. He wanted his
own birthday. Yep. I love that. That was, uh, that was a wild ride. I know we did a poll.
Uh, I was trying to go natural. It did not happen. And
who won? Baby. But you also like had like back labor for how long? Yeah, that was
terrible. Two days. Oh, it was? That was, yeah. No one prepares you like I didn't know you could be. That picture you sent
me. I think we should show it. I really do. Yeah.
I'll send it to Joey so you can put it in here.
I, I looked at that. Oh, you pour honey? You looked Oh my god. You were making it look so easy, but I'm sure inside you were like, get out of me. Oh,
it was, it was terrible. Yeah. I went into labor on Friday. Mm-hmm. And then my water broke on Saturday. Like my, the contraction started Friday, water broke Saturday.
I finally couldn't take it anymore. So we went to the hospital on. Sunday morning. Mm-hmm. I, I like can't even remember. And then it was like 6:30 AM when we got there and 12 or 13 hours in, they started me on Pitocin. 'cause I just was not dilating on my own. They started that Pitocin and a few hours in I was like, get me that damn epidural.
Oh my God.
I was screaming for it.
Well, I remember Alicia, my. My injector at my office. Mm-hmm. She said the same thing. She was gonna try and go all natural. Mm-hmm. And she has such a high pain tolerance, which I feel like you do too, Nicole. Um, but she literally goes, John, there was a point where I thought I was gonna throw up Yeah.
From the pain I was gagging. Like I just couldn do. Oh god.
Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And my mom was there and she was like, when you're throwing up in pain, it's time. Mm-hmm. Like, get the epidural. Mm-hmm. I was so. Genuinely terrified of the epidural just because it's like a needle in your spine. Sure. Like I was terrified to do that.
Mm-hmm. And it was so funny, they had, my doula was like holding me 'cause I was like, hold me still, I don't wanna move. Yeah. And then they had Kevin sat in front of me and I was like, white knuckling his arms. I'm like, you're gonna be bruised. So
you gave birth in a hospital? Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay, great. And your doula.
And I
glad I did because thank God I had the option of the epidural. 'cause I don't know what I would've done. Right. And some
doulas do go to the home mm-hmm.
From what I understand. Right. Home birth. And they're also, um, birthing centers now. Okay. Which are incredible. And I'm like, everybody's labor's different.
My sister did, did all natural. She didn't even moan like I ci like a dying cow.
I would be a dying cow. Yeah. But
we made it, it was 22 hours from when I got there to when he was delivered. Yep.
That's insane. Yeah. How is, how is life like. As a new mom, like brand new. Oh man. It's crazy. Yeah, it's so
crazy.
It's, mm-hmm. Again, no one can prepare you. I think I was obviously prepared for the baby, but I wasn't prepared for how beat up. I would feel like I'm three weeks and I'm still feeling it, you know, you're feel, what are you feeling? It's, it's just pain, like soreness, like, okay, I'm pumping, I'm not breastfeeding, but I'm, I'm exclusively pumping and I plan to do it for like another week or so.
Uh, but that's another. Thing in itself. Mm-hmm. Like, God bless the moms that fully breastfeed and fully pump like it is, it is a whole job.
I can only imagine.
Oh my God. And half the mornings I wake up and I'm like, my boobs feel like boulders. And they feel like they're gonna fall off. You're
breast assist probably feel like they're
exactly gonna pop.
Exactly.
I I, I feel for my injector, she's, she's nine months in and I, Nicole and she's still breastfeeding. Oh God. Bless her. God bless her. But she told me she's off this week mm-hmm. For her birthday. Mm-hmm. And she goes, I'm trying formula. Yep. And she, I think she's gonna try and wean. She's like, I don't know.
Yeah. Yeah. We'll see how it goes.
We've, we've been doing, um, combo, like I'm doing formula and breast milk because everyone's been like, warning me how, you know? Yeah. They, they react different to the formula. Yeah. So I'm like, okay, if we can keep him mm-hmm. Kind of on both from the beginning, you know, I've, maybe we'll set ourselves up a little better, but, you know, I feel like every baby too, it's just like, just depends, you know?
Yeah. But he's a really good baby. He just cries when he is hungry or when he is wet. Oh, that's good. Yeah. Is he sleeping
good at night?
Yes. We actually, the other night, got a six hour stretch. We're only three weeks in, and he slept for six hours. Oh.
We'll take it.
We woke up, we're like, oh my God, we need to feed him.
Yeah,
yeah. But yeah, no,
he's an angel.
I feel like you like knew what Tired was. Oh yeah. But you don't know what tired is until you're a mom. Mm-hmm. Or your parent because like Yeah. It's so funny they him first. Right. It's so funny because
we'll be like, me and Kevin will be talking like we were driving the other day and he said something and just did not make sense whatsoever.
He said, sure. English, like, I can speak English, I swear. Oh my
God.
Mm-hmm. It's just like your brain is not firing at all. Yeah. All cylinders are not going. But no, it's, it's been interesting.
Yeah. Well, I feel like we wanted to talk about in this episode, guys, like honestly life outside of injecting. Mm-hmm.
Like what we do outside to like maintain our piece of our namaste and, and um, or we don't. Or maybe we just continue with the crazy, I mean,
exactly. Everyone's
different. There's people that are listening in that work for a plastic surgery office or a med spa. There's people that own med spa. Um, you know, so everyone has their own perspective on things.
Mm-hmm. I know for me, I feel like I'm still struggling with the work-life balance. Yeah. And I, I feel like it's getting there, but when it is your baby and you're wanting to make sure you're doing everything correctly, it's so hard to give up that control. It's impossible. It's impossible. Yeah.
Well, it's funny when.
John called me earlier and he was like, what topics are we doing today? And you were like, maybe we should do work life balance. Mm-hmm. And I was like, yeah, let, let's let us talk about work-life balance while you're posting. We're great examples. Cory on the phone at 10:00 PM with patients like,
oh, Corey. I know.
Yeah. It doesn't end. No, it
doesn't stop.
I know.
Family medicine. Mm-hmm. And that's why I feel like it's important to make sure you're passionate about it, because it mm-hmm. It genuinely doesn't stop. Like we have an emergency line obviously for mm-hmm. When patients have an issue and like I was in the shower the other day.
Baby's finally asleep, I hop in the shower.
Mm-hmm.
If someone calls the emergency line and my phone's ringing and I'm like, oh shit. So I pick it up, you know, like, it's just like it doesn't stop.
Mm-hmm. Because you have that, like, not that guilt, but that like fear that you're gonna miss something.
Right,
right.
I think.
Yep.
And I also feel like I have to check my dms every night. Mm-hmm. You know, just to make sure there's no god forbid issues, God forbid, right? Mm-hmm. Because some people don't reach out. At, you know, or call or text the work phone, they actually reach out via dm. Right. Which is
so tough because I don't think people don't realize that we really don't monitor that social media is really not monitored.
That's why we have emergency lines. Right.
And then we have the work phone, and I always bring it home every night. You know what I mean? Just in case there's a, a voicemail or anything. And people feel
bad. They're like, oh my God, I, I didn't wanna bother you didn't wanna call you like, I would so much rather you call me than DM me, because I promise you it's gonna get lost in my dms.
Yeah. For eight weeks.
Oh, a hundred percent. Hundred percent. It's gonna
be gone. It's gonna be gone. Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. I think now where I'm at, three years into owning a business. Mm-hmm. Like I don't know where you're at, Nicole, obviously. I mean, you're now a mom. It's so, so crazy. Mm-hmm. Like guys, for those of you that have followed me on Instagram, I had a medium reading recently, and apparently we might be having children in the future.
Yes. Which is very interesting, which I love that. I don't think we've ever talked about me having kids on here. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, I would love to have two kids, a boy and a girl, and whatever I get, honestly, but. Um, but like your journey's a little bit different. Mm-hmm. Like you opened up two, two
years ago.
Two years ago. Yep. Two years ago. Like last week. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. And you not, you don't really have control over it so much. No. Like me, I'm a guy, like I can control when I have kids and when I can't. And for me, of course, I would love to wait another like four or five years Right. Until we're in our new home and stuff like that.
And when I have the business where I want it to be. But, um. Yeah, that's,
that's kind of how I was too. Like I really, there's no perfect time. Yeah, there's, and that's the thing is like, I was waiting for the perfect time. Yeah. There is no perfect time, you know, and part of me is like, damn, I really should have done it when I worked for someone else, because I would've been able to really be mm-hmm.
Disconnected and take that maternity leave and not have anything to do. But, uh, it all, it all works out and that's why having a partner is so important in my opinion. Like, I would not be able to do what I'm doing without Melissa. Right. So I feel like having a partner, if you can find someone that you mesh with, is.
So helpful, because that takes a load off too.
Well, I think that's what's giving me anxiety is mm-hmm. You know, I have someone else in my practice that's great. Like she's, she's busy injector, which is awesome. But if I'm not there, right, like I know how busy I am mm-hmm. If I'm not there. Ugh.
Yeah. Like, you know what's gonna happen?
What's
gonna happen, right. Yeah. And of course when I have the baby, Corey has the baby. Yes. He can't be working or like, he's
gotta be home too. He's gotta be home too. Yeah. But
like.
Maybe you guys maybe do, you can do like, like Kevin's took Oh, like three weeks? Yeah. Yeah. So he's going back Wednesday.
Mm-hmm. So like, that was really nice to have him home and like, you know, have that help. Mm-hmm. And then, but I mean, he only works every fourth day. He's a fireman, so he, he has a really good schedule. But, uh, no, it's true. Like you, you wanna both take the time and mm-hmm. If you're both taking the time, who's at the office?
Oh my God. Well, I'm thinking in my head, I'm like, okay, John, you'll take two weeks off and then maybe do every other week.
Oh God. Yeah. For the first
couple months, and then you'll go back to like routine. Yeah. I have no freaking clue what I'm gonna do. Yeah.
I will tell you though, it's like as long as.
Colicky babies and things like that. I think you're really, unfortunately that just, you don't sleep, but like mm-hmm. If you have a good baby and they have good digestion, you can get a couple good stretches and then throughout the day when they sleep, like it's so funny, my friends will call me or like, Melissa tried to call me the other day, I have to work and I have my phone on do not disturb and she called me like three times.
So you know, if it's on Do not to disturb, but like the second call will come through. Right. I still, I still didn't wake up like it was like five 5:00 PM My God. You He was sleeping. I was knocked out. Aw. Mm-hmm.
We
were getting our rest.
Yeah.
But that's something I've had to do. I've never used do not disturb on my phone.
Mm.
I have never touched that button. You have to do it. I have to do it now. Yep.
See, I have to, I do it after 9:00 PM
mm-hmm. I,
that's my, that's been my thing for the past six months.
Yeah. It's, it's, and then it's honestly very useful because mm-hmm. Even like, it, it, it hides everything. Mm-hmm. Your emails, like nothing comes through.
And that's so important. 'cause like, the second I see something, my brain just starts going
Right.
I can't turn it off.
Right. I know. And then right when I get up, it usually at 6:00 AM it goes off. Mm-hmm. And then I, I'm on from 6:00 AM to 9:00 PM
Yeah.
So, yeah. I don't know. Yeah. I think that's a way of, uh, and especially like if you are.
In a relationship where you're married. Mm-hmm. I think it's so important. You can work, work, work, work, work. Right. I always, we, me and Corey have a rule. We work until 9:00 PM and then our laptops go away. Yeah. And our phones go away. And that's our moment to like. Chat catch up. Yeah. We watch a show together.
Yeah. And then we go to bed.
I love that. And then you really have to do that.
Yeah. Yeah. And then lately, honestly, what we've been doing is, is getting up together. Mm-hmm. Like around 6:00 AM or so.
Mm-hmm.
And having coffee together. Oh, I love to start the day. Love that. So we try mm-hmm. And watch news like old people.
Yeah.
Oh God. Keep the news off now.
Oh God. Yeah. We won't even. We get into that, we won't even get into that. Oh my God. But, um, but yeah, no, it's,
it, it is like, that is something that I'm learning. 'cause I've never, I've never had that. I've mm-hmm. It's never turned off. Even like vacations and stuff, Kevin's always like, can you put your phone away?
I'm like, no. There's something going on at the office. It needs to be out.
Yes.
You know, it's, it's so important that do not disturb in Me are best friends now.
Oh my God.
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But like, I always have this fear of missing out and like, if someone else is doing something, they're, they're thinking of that next big thing.
I have that in my head and I, yeah. I don't know if you feel like this Nicole too. Yeah. Like I get this fomo, right? Like
Yep.
Yeah. Or like a conference. Like, I need to go to a, I need to make sure I go to at least two conferences a year, maybe a cadaver lab a year. Um, just because I feel like I have this fear of missing out.
No, absolutely. And I feel like too, that's like, that's one of the quotes that I've, I think I've reposted is like, you know. Some people may seem so successful, but it's because they just decided to start before you did. You know? Yeah. Like you can't sit on things. Like, I think about that all the time. If I had decided to stay where I was like, I wouldn't be where I am, you know?
Mm-hmm. And like things might be scary, but you do, you just gotta take the the plunge and go for it and work your as ass off. It's
so true. And work your ass off. Especially if you own a business. It is. I'm sorry, it's, it's nonstop yet, especially the first few years you're just, it's. It's sap, you're always on call.
There's always things you're doing. Yep. Um,
and thank God, me and Melissa, I mean the first two years we've been very successful, thank God. But like it does take three years to really feel I. You're in the green. Yes. And know what you're doing and, and feel like you have like a solid, well-oiled machine because Oh my God, we're, we're still figuring it out.
We're still going through the foundation the first
three years. Get the foundation, because then you can just change your foundation as you go. Mm-hmm. You know, like make sure you have mm-hmm. Yeah. Your protocols, your policy, all that stuff. Get that done. Yeah.
Yep.
It's the not fun things.
Yeah. That you have to do.
That you have to do, and you have to figure out how, like, I didn't know how to be a boss, God. Mm-hmm. I had no idea. I'm still learning things every day, you know?
Well, gosh. Yes.
So that's the other thing is, is trying to, you know, you can't be everyone's best friend. You could be friends. Mm-hmm. There's times when you have to kinda lay down the law.
Unfortunately.
I know. I always tell myself, okay. I'm like, okay. Six month review.
Yeah.
Um, I love you, but here we go. I love you. But here we go. Okay. And then I'm gonna put my boss hat on, but then don't worry, she'll come off and we'll have fun. Just, yeah.
We're like that, the TikTok, right? Yeah. Where it's like when my manager switches from friend mode to manager mode.
Yes.
Yes. That's
us.
At the same time, I wanna go up for drinks, I wanna like have, be, have team bonding. Yeah. And do things like that and have fun, but
mm-hmm. We still need the respect. Yeah, we do. Yeah. I
know. I think a huge
part too is like, as you grow. You need help. Like we hired a manager and now we, we've also hired, um, like a practice manager, so like an office manager and a practice manager.
And like, just having those people that are there to assist you and then also kind of handle the things that you might not have the time for, especially if you're an injector that's owning the place, like. You know, I'm seeing 15 to 20 people a day, but I'm also doing all the admin, like mm-hmm. It's near impossible, you know?
So as you get more successful, I think hiring those people is so important.
Well, and that's one thing that I've, I've learned to, to add onto that, is to make sure that we, we need to be where we wanna be, which is in the, in the room. Yeah. Like injecting. That's, we love to do. Um. And we need to find people that are in our corner.
Mm-hmm. And that would treat patients the way we want. Want them treated right. And work hard. Like we work hard. We have to find those people. They're so hard to find,
so hard to find. I was just gonna say that. Yep. And when you find them, you do not let them go.
Don't let them go. Yep. And treat them well.
Yeah. Just remember to hire slow. Mm-hmm.
You have
to hire slow. Don't hire too quickly if you hire too quickly. That's where you run into some issues. Yeah.
That was my biggest mistake in the beginning. We didn't know how to interview, we didn't know how to do any of that. We were just like, oh, I like your vibe, okay.
Mm-hmm. But, but like, you live and you learn. Yeah, exactly. Yep.
Yep. No, it's so true. I think you're doing
pretty well there, Nicole.
Thank you.
Thank you.
But it's true. It's like you learn, you learn the questions to ask and, and the answers to look out for mm-hmm. And the red flags and mm-hmm. You know, in the beginning you're just kind of like, okay, so what's your sign?
Oh. I know. I promise I didn't
do that. I promise. I know.
I'm so guilty of that though. I'm like, oh my God, I have all Geminis here. Yeah,
right. Like, oh wait. That's probably not a good thing.
I'm kidding. I don't know. I love Geminis. I an Aquarius. My son's a Gemini,
so I know I love them. I'm
an Aquarius.
Aquarius and Geminis. Oh
yeah. Okay. Yep. We
get along very, very well. Very well. And cancers too. Corey's cancer. Yeah. Interesting. Apparently it means a lifelong relationship. I have no idea.
That's great. Sips wine. Mm-hmm.
There you go. Cheers to that.
Amen.
Oh my god,
no. But you mentioned something Oh, about finding people that are gonna care for it the way
you do.
You would
care for it. Like that's so important is finding employees that kind of fit your
niche.
Yeah, because. Your customer service, like the way that I come off to a patient, I wanna make sure that that's from when they call, when they walk in the door to the ma bringing them back to me, coming in to them being checked out mm-hmm.
To them getting the aftercare, like, it's so important to just find people that mm-hmm. You know, follow your business plan and, and, and really kind of see what your, your bigger picture is.
Yeah. A hundred percent. As you want
that, that same flow.
I heard this recently. Um, actually my husband, I'll give credit to my husband, um, but he, I, I heard this recently that especially any new patient, um, that if there's someone new calling and they're trying to book an appointment
mm-hmm.
You have to get them in within two weeks. You have to. Yeah. Like, because if you don't, they will go elsewhere. They'll they'll find it. Yeah. Even, even if you are like the best Yeah. Like, or whatever, or like, it's so true. They hear you're the best they will go elsewhere. Yeah. There's other people that are good as well in your area, right?
Yep. Um, and you don't wanna lose them.
No, that's so true. And that's why, why gets pee of
mine is previously Yeah. Um, hearing, like, you know, and our walls are sometimes thin in my office and I can hear sometimes what the front says. And, and I'm so glad now that I have a good front. Mm-hmm. You know some if you are telling patients, oh, he's sorry, he's booking out four to six weeks.
Crickets, and that's
it. Like, and that's it. Yeah.
That's like,
oh, yeah.
And it's for facial balancing and sculpture.
Yeah.
What? Like you
cannot,
yeah. Oh my God. You have to get them in. Yeah. Like you can't, because they will go elsewhere. Yep. I always tell the front, if there's ever any issue, if you're looking through that schedule and it's, it's like a sculpture or it's a facial balancing, or it's a chin or any filler, like honestly, whatever.
Mm-hmm. They're like dying. They need to get in within two weeks and there's nothing. Just run it by me. Yeah. Or run it by the other injector. If they don't have an injector preference, just right. Run it by both of us. Mm-hmm. Well, one of you stay late or do you mind your lunch? Right? Like, well, this ones's
numbing, can you lunch?
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Like, '
cause honestly, like obviously we offer lunch to all of our employees, but like most of 'em, honestly, don't take it because, yeah. They'd rather see, they, they'd rather see patients. Yeah. And while they're under LED or something for 20 minutes, they can eat. They'll eat them. Yeah.
Or if one of my patients is numbing, I can take some bites of something, so. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. We have to get people in.
Yeah. No, and your ear, so, so right about that, and it's funny because I actually saw a video on Instagram, but it was, it was a hairstylist, but she was saying that if you see a client.
Four times, and you do the same thing every time and you don't offer anything new or like any suggestions, they're going to go somewhere else because they So true. They want that. They want
you to Yeah. Yeah. They want you to like recommend things. Yeah. Or notice something about, like a change in your skin.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Or skincare, you know, anything. Yep. That's,
that's a really good point because there's times where you, you know, you get really. Really close with some of the patients and stuff like that. And like you don't wanna bring up something 'cause you don't wanna give them a construct. Right. You know what I mean?
Mm-hmm. But there's times, and I, I think there were a couple times where I failed on that. Yeah. Where I kind of just did, did status quo. I did our normal Botox or I did our normal filler, but I never brought up any other like skin treatments or scope draw or bio STI or anything like that. Mm-hmm. Yep. And then I heard that same exact, uh, advice you just gave.
Mm-hmm. I started incorporating it and I had patients say, I'm so glad I can always trust on you to like bring up something I need to do and just make, make sure I'm booked for it. And I'm like, yep. That wasn't that hard, John, was it? Yeah. Yep.
You're not hurting anyone's feelings. You're not hurting anyone's
feelings 'cause they're coming to the expert.
Right. Right. They wanna
know what you suggest. Yeah. Yep. It's so true. Oh my god. And and, but like how you said, like they'll find somewhere else. They will. And if they see an Instagram about sculpture mm-hmm. If you don't have it, they're gonna go find it, you know, they will. Yep. So I think staying on top of the trends, that's actually gab our new injector.
I mean, she's not new. She's been injecting for almost seven years now. Uh, but she's very on top of all the new stuff. Yeah. So we got, we got PDGF finally, but she's also really
good. Yeah. Uh, which I'd bathe in every day. Yeah. Um, but I, it's also important obviously to preface this, like, just because it's a trend doesn't mean it's good.
Yes. Yeah.
Um, and I think Gabby, I think all of us are really good at like, making sure we do our research and Right. We due diligence and finding that to stand the market. And here the reviews of it. Look at the studies. Are there studies that there's not Right. Red flagging, maybe it's
not worth getting into.
Exactly. Yep. So,
um, but no, Gabby was, yeah, she's great. Love. Yeah, I know. We love her.
We love her. She's such a great addition. Seriously. She is. She is. She fits the vibe so perfectly. Yeah. And her work is great, which is important. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So, so important. Mm-hmm. We can, we can trust her, you know? Mm-hmm.
It's hard. It's hard what we do because if you hire someone and you feel like you can't fully trust them, you can't sell them to your clients. You know, you True. You don't feel safe pushing them off to your patients, so, yep. It's so hard to, to find people and like really scout them out. It, it took us, I feel like over like six months to hire.
'cause
it's like, you know, you're just, it's so hard to find the right fit. And of course you want, you want to have people that are different in your practice because not everybody is meant for you. Right. Right. You know, different personalities. It's good to have different personalities. Yep. Even different
techniques, you know.
Oh yes. There's so many different ways to do filler and Botox safely.
Mm-hmm. Yep. Um. This was a fun episode.
Yeah. This was, I feel like we just kind of, uh,
yeah,
we're just hanging out. It's like a FaceTime. We're
hanging out. Yeah. It's so true. Oh, I just started playing pickleball.
Oh, I saw that. Yeah. You know, I'm so annoyed that we don't live closer 'cause I would totally play pickleball with you.
Yeah. Are you, you're, and you're competitive.
Yeah. Oh yeah. I would, I would eat that up. I know I'm so competitive.
Oh. Um, but I just started, started. Don't, don't lose friends
over pickleball. Okay.
I know, I know. But, um, no, I just started getting into pickleball again. I I, when I worked at the hospital, like, it, it, you know, it's just when you have your own business, it's 24 7, like we said.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. So like, I always feel like when I come home, there's something to do for the business. Right. So, like, I always felt guilty not doing things. Like for the business? For leisure? Yeah. Or like for the business, but like also doing things for yourself. Oh yeah. For
yourself. Yeah. Yeah. Like stress
relief or just things you love to do.
And I finally feel like I'm starting to get into that, especially this summer. Yeah. I made a vow to like either play tennis or do um, pickleball and I finally played and it was the best. I was sore for like a week. I know.
I love that. I love that. Not for the
week.
No. 'cause you're jumping around and you're, you're jumping around.
It's also like, uh, it's also good for your brain, I feel like, because you're like watching the ball and it's hand-eye coordination. Right. That's gotta be good. Listen, if you play
pickleball, there is a link to decrease risk of dementia.
There probably is. I guarantee you
there probably is.
I gotta start working out because we just went out before and I carried the car seat and I was like, oh, this is heavy.
Oh my God, you are fine. You've worked. You work out more than me.
I've haven't worked out. In quite some time. That's fine. I have to, I have to give it a little bit more time. You carrying walking? I've carrying an eight
pound baby. Yeah, it's okay. Yeah. That wild. And then And then some.
Yeah. We didn't even say that He was 8.6 pounds and 22 inches long.
Oh
God. He is gonna be tall.
Yeah. And his head was almost 15 inches.
I don't know what that means, but that sounds big.
It was.
Oh my God. I love it. Love it, love it. Oh, you know what too,
I wanted to say, because I get so many nice messages about everyone saying. How great I look and how well I've bounced back.
And I love those. And you, you
have,
thank you all so much. You look incredible. But I wanna make sure that people don't forget, like it's hard, you know? Mm-hmm. Like what you see on Instagram is only half of it. So don't compare yourself to people. 'cause I know you know, it's. When you see stuff like that, sometimes it's a little like triggering or Oh god.
Yeah. Tough. But I am riddled with stretch marks under here, so
you know what though? Like there's time I'm gonna do, I actually took
pictures 'cause I wanna be able to show and like mm-hmm. Show my progress and, and show what I've done. That can help and maybe help other people too.
Yes. Yep. A hundred percent.
A hundred percent. Um, and to all of our listeners, um, something really exciting is coming along for toxin P, which is my business. Mm-hmm. Which I can't wait to share. Um, and we'll be announcing soon and I'm gonna be taking you guys for the journey of it too. Yes. Which is really great. Um, do you have, you have TikTok?
Yes, I have TikTok. It's, I feel like,
I feel like you should totally like vlog every aspect of. Of your new journey?
I, any future meetings I have with the architects and everything for the whole design, I'm gonna start taking little clips and videos of it.
Yeah.
I wish I did more before because we, this has been going on for six months.
It's, there's been so much that's gone into it. It's insane. Yeah. Yeah. Excuse my French. No, and you
gotta, you gotta show every bit of that.
Yes. It's so much work. Start blocking that stuff. Yeah. It's so much work. Yeah. And there's so much I've learned that architects do. Oh my God. Right? Like they're the center for everything.
So I can't wait to share with you guys what's coming along well and all the
codes. Right. You gotta be sure you're up to code on everything. Well, thank God we
have them to deal with that because I,
that's what we pay them for. Right? That's what we pay. What'd you say earlier? Mm-hmm. The good stuff is not cheap.
Good stuff's not cheap. You're right. And Wow.
Yeah. Yeah, I can only imagine.
Yeah. Yeah. But so
exciting. So exciting. Very exciting. Yes. And then we're gonna do some fun stuff. Me and John are gonna team up and maybe do some trainings and stuff. Oh,
maybe it's happening. Yeah,
so stay tuned for that. That's, that'll be really fun.
And I'm sure we can also do it one in Jersey too. Yeah. Absolute. I mean, expand. We'll try to, you have some room, but like, I'm gonna have a huge. Well,
you're planning for it.
We're planning for it, yeah. Yeah, so
it, we'll probably do more in his space, but we can definitely, if there are Jersey people that really wanna come to one, we can make a work at exhibit for sure.
Okay, great. Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Absolutely. So I love, this is fun. So fun. Anything else we wanna touch on? I don't think so. I think our main takeaway from this episode mm-hmm. Like, we basically wanted to, from, I don't know if we even got the point across, but remind people to slow down
mm-hmm.
And do what makes you happy at the end of the day.
Yeah. Because, uh, you know, you could fall into that hustle culture. We both do.
I know. And it's important
to slow down.
You truly only live once. Mm-hmm. And don't forget what's all around you live in the present moment and absolutely. I think your late twenties and early thirties is all about hustling.
Mm-hmm. And finding yourself and establishing yourself and what you truly love to do in life. And then you're supposed to live out your thirties doing that, and then when you get into your forties, I hear it's just supposed to be just like a continuum, but like less stress than having. More help in your life.
Yeah. Especially if you run a business.
Yeah. Yeah. And don't compare yourself to others. No. If you're not where someone else is, do not worry. You're on your own path.
Focus on you and your dream. Yep. Black out all the haters. And if you do have haters, you're doing it right.
That's right.
Truthfully.
Uh yes.
Yes. Oh, well, thanks for listening, guys.
Yes, we love you. Until next time. Thank you for tuning into this week's episode of the Fill Me In Pod. I'm injector John.
And I'm aesthetic nurse Nicole.
See you guys next time. Bye.