✨ SMB POD Episode 19 | The glowy face

What’s the secret behind that glowy, healthy skin everyone’s chasing? 👀

In this episode, Ashley breaks down what actually improves skin quality — and it’s not just about trends or filters. From real aesthetics treatments to the science behind better skin, she shares what truly makes a difference (and what’s just hype).

If you’ve ever wondered how to get that natural glow… this one’s for you. 💧

🎙️ Tap in and learn how to invest in your skin the right way.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Speaking to the glowy face. Um so I've had a really amazing opportunity with Revans Aesthetics. Let's take it back. In order to talk about what we have moving forward, we have to talk about the past. And everybody knows Botox, right? And we've had this chat several times, Michelle. Botox was the original FDA-approved neuromodulator here in the US market. And now we have options, which is great. Speaking to also products, pharmaceutical companies researching and uh really having dynamic products now on the market for aesthetic providers to utilize. But my love is Daxify. And Daxify is a neuromodulator that is peptide powered, and the peptide peptides are kind of all the rage this year. You hear the word about that word, yeah. Yes. And we now have a neuromodulator that That's a big word.

SPEAKER_01 1:06

What does that mean?

SPEAKER_00 1:08

Basically a wrinkle relaxer. Okay. It relaxes those wrinkles. Okay. But also works on skin quality. And if you don't mind me saying this, that's that's what you know we use in your face. That's um what I utilize in my own face and inject for most of my patients, but I I'm rambling.

SPEAKER_01 1:31

I'm so no, it's good. You know, what because I have tried before, and I have to say it's my daughter Ashley who said, Mom, I think that you could benefit from maybe Botox. And I was like, I don't want to do any of that. Like, no, I'm gonna age gracefully. I'm gonna, you know, I I've earned every wrinkle. And then one day I looked at myself in in the mirror closely and I was like, well, maybe, maybe a little. And so it was, I I my very first treatment was down in Clovis, California, to with Ashley's, my daughter Ashley's um provider. And then um I tried Disport, um, and it was okay. And then you really are uh an advocate and lover of Daxify, and it does have a much longer lasting effect for most or for me, it it it does. So yeah, and and then I'm you know, I'm just gonna be open here. I wanted to have a little more collagen stimulation, and so then you educated me and introduced sculptra, um, which is a lot longer lasting and it's kind of it released, I don't know what that your terminology, but it has like a different releases, like it's not instant. Yes, but it's like a what a two-year yes.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

The FD indication is two years in terms of longevity for sculptra, but sculptra is not a filler, and right, it's a biostimulant here in the US. We utilize radius and sculptra, and sculptra is beautiful because it also works on skin quality and helps to rebuild the foundation in the face. In our 20s, we start we stop producing collagen and then we start to lose collagen every year. And I think of sculptra as that 401k for your face and your aging, really, because over it it works kind of gradually over time, and you don't see those immediate results right away, but it gives a beautiful natural look that uh really works on the skin quality in the face, and even fillers going back to as aesthetic providers, how we're injecting a little bit differently, and the products that we have in our hands now are very dynamic. Fillers are I use a filler in my practice that mimics hyaluronic acid that we have in our face naturally, and that gives a really natural look and is made to move really naturally and beautifully with facial movement and not to look funny, odd, um, especially upon animation.

SPEAKER_01 4:21

So yeah, I remember when we consulted, I was right, you know. I mean, I was not for any of that. And I was like, I just want to look rested. Yes, right? I just want to, I don't want to look fake. Yeah, I want to be natural and feel I want if my face to feel rested.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

Yes, absolutely, 100%. And that is probably every patient that walks through my door, that's exactly what they say. They want things to be undetectable, and quite honestly, that is the hardest, that is the best work is the undetectable work. Somebody that might ask you, Michelle, your skin, you know, what what products are you using, or you look just really well rested, you know. Did you go on vacation? Your hair, those are the comments that I want my patients to get, not oh, you know, you're look at your cheeks. I don't want your cheeks to walk through the door or your lips to walk through the door. I really want you to just look refreshed in the best version of you. So yeah. And yeah, you're excellent.

SPEAKER_01 5:26

Well, you're excellent.

SPEAKER_00 5:28

Are you kidding me? Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_01 5:30

I I've just had fun on this journey with you. Um, and look, I look where we're at today. I know. I mean, I know here we are doing this podcast, heroing for women and entrepreneurs.

SPEAKER_00 5:44

And that was our goal is not just to sit here on this couch and talk about us. We're passionate about our businesses and what we do, truly, but to empower others and to be champions of other men and women.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Right.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

And I think to also speak to just the journey of entrepreneurship as well, and to be real about that and transparent because I think from the beginning we've said that we're in different phases of business ownership, we're in different stages, but you know, it's it's all hard and wonderful at the same time, and you know, um, just being real, real about that.

SPEAKER_01 6:30

I know. I mean, sometimes it's just a beautiful mess. You and I were talking before we started shooting um this morning that you know, to learn to love the plateaus because there's there's a lot of storms and mess in in choosing to work for yourself and building and you know, building a practice. Yes, building a practice, deciding if you want to have a partner, deciding if you want to hire employees. I mean, there's just a lot, a lot to it. And there is just, you know, I I just grit and grace, right? Grit and grace. And it's, you know, sometimes somebody asked me, like, how did you how do you weather? Because like in real estate, there's there's lots of storms, right? There was like the dot-com.

SPEAKER_00 7:17

Oh my goodness, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:18

Right. Um, 2008, there was 9-11, there's COVID, there's all of that. Yeah. And, you know, my business partner Lupe and I would say, we just put our heads down and we we go to work. You know, we don't get consumed by all of the noise that's going on because people still want and need help. Right. And so put your head down, go to work. Or turn off, turn off, turn down the volume of the noise.

SPEAKER_00 7:48

That's that's a wonderful point to bring up because it it can feel, you know, with you know, political, economical noise, right? It but like people are always gonna they're gonna need to sell and buy houses no matter what, period. So yeah. I think also knowing that we can't do this alone, or I can't do this alone, it takes a village, it takes you know, our partners, our families. Um I think speaking to that too. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:26

Yeah, let's talk about the quiet force behind us, right? Danny and Bruce, our children, right? They're our they're our cheerleaders, they advocate for us. But right, Bruce has been home for the winter.

SPEAKER_00 8:40

Um I know and spent so loved seeing you two in the garage.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

Okay, we did some garage time again. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Yes, I really, really love seeing you guys in your garage, just you know, hanging out on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

I kind of don't want Bruce to go home or to go back.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

I know, I know. He's he's ready though. He's ready to get back to he says the mountains are calling, it's time to go. So um, but you know, with the busy, early, busy spring market for us. I mean, I come home and he's got meals cooked. In the morning after I'm done working out, I come home. The other morning he made like avocado toast with a poached egg, and it was like there on the counter. Like he just wants to make sure that I'm fueling myself because he's seen that the days are long, seven days a week, yeah, open houses, all the things, right? And it's um, and he always has been a quiet force. I can't honestly say he's always in the in the early days, he wasn't always supportive of my choice to go into real estate and be commissioned only and the sacrifices the family made, but boy, he stepped up and um I know Bruce is Bruce is wonderful, and I would have to say my Dan is is the same.

SPEAKER_00 9:59

I think I was just telling you he, you know, will put like a crock pot dinner together on a busy week for me. He'll always kind of be in the background making sure, you know. Do you need anything at Costco? What can what can I help you with? You know, let me go grab Peyton, you know, take Peyton to, and of course my mom too, and those other moms in my life that that know I'm busy and hey Ash, do you need help? You know, taking taking Peyton to baseball, like that just means so much. And it it honestly takes a village. It really does.

SPEAKER_01 10:34

And it's it's it's you know, all of our little communities, right? Because I'm like, I have my gym community, yeah, I have my church community, like just your different communities and subsectors, you know, of life who um were just there for each other, you know. Yes. I mean, I I it literally when I had I asked Bruce, you know, and I remember when I went in to get this CO um procedure done, it was foggy, you know, it was January because you're supposed to do it when you're not gonna this, you don't get these treatments when it's sunny. And um laser. I'm like, you know, it's all the way out in Folsom and you have to be be there by you know six o'clock in the morning. And he he just didn't even hesitate. He's like, of course of course I of course I'll take you over there, you know. So um, but I I I laughed because I saw that Dan had made like I didn't know it was a Costco run, but like you were running low on some cleaning supplies, and then in your corridor outside the office, you know, he had just stacked all of the supplies. So thank you, Dan and Bruce. Shout out to you guys.