Meet Bridget

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  "I See People Through The Soul" - Franchesca Danino, Founder of Casa Bahdi 17.09.2026 56мин

  Franchesca Danino is the founder of Casa Bahdi, a semi-private body sculpting studio in Los Angeles. She uses lipo laser, cavitation, radio frequency, and EMS to help women with fat, loose skin, and muscle tone without surgery, injections, or weeks of recovery. She also takes the time to understand your lifestyle, your hormones, your history before she recommends anything. That combination of thoroughness and warmth, Keshiia said after her own session, is what makes the experience feel completely different from everything else in LA. In this conversation, Keshiia and Franchesca talk about what it means to build a practice around this kind of intimate, personalized body work — how Franchesca reads a client the moment they walk in, why the sessions become therapy without anyone planning for it, and what it cost her to take all her savings and start something she had never done before. They also go back. Franchesca grew up in Dallas with Soviet immigrant parents. Her mom is from Uzbekistan, her dad from Ukraine. She did not speak English when she started kindergarten. She grew up in a household where love was real but feelings were not always said out loud, and she spent years feeling like she was never quite good enough. She tried fashion. She tried skincare production. She kept learning and kept feeling empty. She discovered cavitation before her wedding, became obsessed, told everyone, and eventually took the leap. Looking back at everything — the beauty knowledge from Eastern European culture, the years in skincare learning how products are made, the PCOS that led her to the treatment that changed her body — she said: this was screaming in my face the whole time. She just had to find her way to it. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 172
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  "To Be Lost Is To Be Found" - Biet Simkin Glass, Spiritual Teacher & Best-Selling Author @guidedbybiet 11.09.2026 1ч 58мин

  Content note: This episode includes open discussion of heroin and cocaine addiction and recovery, the death of Biet's infant daughter from SIDS, and multiple significant losses. Biet speaks about all of it from a place of healing and gratitude. If you are navigating addiction or grief: SAMHSA 1-800-662-4357 | Call or text 988. Biet Simkin was asked to name her career in one phrase. She said magic. She said it immediately, and she meant it. Asha first encountered Biet at an event through a mutual friend — an evening of women in a room, not talking much, making eye contact, understanding each other without words. She was so impacted by the space Biet created that she had to bring her on the show. In this conversation, they talk about what it actually means to do the work that Biet does: holding space for people at the threshold of their own transformation, coaching the person who is moments away from blowing up the life they have built, and why her work is as effective as heroin without the repercussions. She says that plainly. She means it. They also go back. Biet was born in Queens, New York, a month after her parents immigrated from Russia — conceived intentionally as a freedom child by a father who had cured himself of tuberculosis through yoga and fasting in the Russian woods. Her mother died of pancreatic cancer when she was six. She healed that grief with music and got signed to Sony at eighteen. At twenty-six she had a daughter who died four months later of SIDS. At twenty-eight she was a full-blown heroin addict when her father died. She has been sober for seventeen years. This is not an episode about suffering. It is an episode about what is built from it. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 171
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  "I Was Just Someone with a Journal and Feelings" — Michelle Peñaloza, Poet & Award-Winning Author 03.09.2026 50мин

  Michelle Penaloza is a poet. She is also a farmer, a substitute teacher in a small town in Northern California, a James Laughlin Award recipient, and someone who first read her work aloud in a high school classroom while she was grieving her father. Her dad died when she was a teenager. The grief had no obvious outlet. A teacher made space for her in class, and she read. That was the beginning. In this conversation, Keshiia and Michelle talk about the life of a poet, what the creative process actually looks like from gathering to the book in hand, and what it means to build a practice out of listening to the world and writing toward what you find. They also talk about growing up Filipino-American in Tennessee in the 1990s, where there was virtually no representation, where people mixed her up with other Asian students constantly, and where she ran for student council with a poster that turned that confusion into a joke on her own terms. The grief of her father's death, the history of Philippine colonialism, the experience of being the only brown dot in a room and wanting desperately to connect with people who could not quite figure out what to do with her. Michelle's poetry does not separate any of these things. It holds them all. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode [#170]
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  "If You Are Stagnant, You Breed Disease" — MaKenna Bernardino, The Skullptress @makennabernardino 19.08.2026 1ч 12мин

  MaKenna Bernardino, The Skullptress, is a body sculpting and lymphatic drainage practitioner who works in homes across LA and OC.  With her table in tow and a backpack full of tools, she works with a singular philosophy: Your body is NOT working against you.   Her job is to get stagnant bodies moving.  She works with women of every body type, shape and size, bucking the common misconception that body sculpting is solely to "make skinny girls skinnier".  Over the years, she has worked with countless women who have experienced major weight loss, post-operative clients, women in perimenopause, and women whose concerns have gone underappreciated or underwhelmingly overlooked.  She meets people where they are.   A fellow Redding native (like Asha!), MaKenna spent much of her youth, fishing, hiking, snowboarding, and playing competitive soccer.  To this day, it's still her happy place, heading back home to the mountains to decompress between awards seasons.  It's the same place that helped her hone many of the skills through her teen experiences.  From contracting mononucleosis and spending an entire summer bedridden to an eventual Hashimoto's Thyroiditis diagnosis, came years of self education and the continual pursuit of the understanding of her own body.   This episode dives into MaKenna's journey, and how the body and the wellness she had to fight for eventually became the foundation of how she treats and cares for other women now.   This one is warm, honest, and so so real.   If thyroid health or autoimmune disease is something you are navigating personally, your own advocacy matters. NAMI.org | Call or text 988 if you need additional support. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 169
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  "Same Style, Different Size" — Sabrina Chazen, Size-Inclusive Shopping Expert @sabrinachazen 12.08.2026 1ч 3мин

  Sabrina Chazen is the creator behind The Carpool Catwalk and the hashtag #samestyledifferentsize. She is a size-inclusive shopping expert who sits in the top one percent of creators on LTK and the top one hundred on Shop My. Her Instagram is a full-time job and her DMs are how she does most of the real work of it. In this conversation, Sabrina and Asha talk about what it actually means to build a career around inclusive sizing, how the Carpool Catwalk got its name, and what Sabrina makes of the body positivity versus body neutrality conversation online and why she does not fully buy into either framing. Her position: two truths can exist at once. You can feel uncomfortable in your body and still wear the bathing suit. You can want to make changes and still go to Hawaii. You do not have to love your body every day. You also do not have to stop living. She also goes back. Sabrina grew up in Newport Beach, played water polo, was genuinely happy as a teenager, and found as an adult that she has received more negative attention about her size than she ever did as a kid. She was thrown off a podcast once for saying that. The host wanted a story about being bullied for her weight. Sabrina said: my story was happy. That counts too. She also talks about what she is learning right now through watching her daughter navigate middle school social dynamics, what loyalty means to her, and why she has never once, as the biggest gossip in Newport Harbor High School history, gone on the internet to talk about a stranger. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 168
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  MEAN GIRLS - On Social Aggression and Online Dynamics with Teen Therapist Christina King, LMFT 05.08.2026 38мин

  We call it the Mean Girls episode. Christina King's first note is that she does not really believe in mean girls. She believes in mean behavior, which is different and actually more useful to know. In this conversation, Christina walks through what healthy friendships actually look like for teen girls, where closeness tips into enmeshment, and what is really going on when social aggression shows up in middle school. She explains why the fastest route to social inclusion is sometimes exclusion, how girls use cruelty to climb a social ladder they did not build, and why the same behavior looks different depending on whether it is relational or social in nature. She also gives parents and teens practical tools: the TALK acronym for navigating conflict, the three C's (curiosity, connection, correction, in that order), and the front stage and backstage framework for understanding why you have to earn your way into the real version of someone before they let you in. The digital piece gets its own section. Texts, social media, phone calls, the AIM era that Asha and Keshiia both survived. Christina's bottom line: when in doubt, put the phone down. A conflict that is escalating over text almost always gets worse before it gets better. Face to face is almost always the move. And the hardest thing she tells parents: the way to protect your kid is by giving them the skills to protect themselves. Going scorched earth on Katie is not one of those skills. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 167 Part 3 of 3 — Teen Mental Health Awareness Resources: NAMI.org | Call or text 988 @christinakingtherapy
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  "The Better I Do My Job, the More Lives We Save" — Erin McCarthy, Chief of Staff at CoreViva 29.07.2026 1ч

  Erin McCarthy's career path goes: Harvard, McKinsey, woodworking apprenticeship in Belgium, sustainable furniture company in LA, Ruggable, professional volleyball in Norway, and now Chief of Staff at Coreviva. She is the first to tell you it looks a little chaotic from the outside. But she has also learned to trust the through-line: she kept going until she found work that actually means something to her every single day. In this episode, Asha and Erin talk about what it actually means to be a Chief of Staff, how that role looks different at every company, and why Coreviva, a preventative healthcare company with the most comprehensive full body MRI on the market, is the place she finally landed and did not want to leave. Asha shares that she has had a Coreviva scan herself and brought her own mom in, and they talk about what it really means to be proactive about your health rather than reactive. They also go back. Erin grew up in Manhattan Beach, was a self-described leprechaun at her first soccer practice, lost a little of her fearlessness in middle school when the popular girls stopped including her without any notice, and found her way back through volleyball, drama class, and a Harvard roommate situation that required her to go out on a limb and tell people she wanted to stay with them. Asha also shares that she had thyroid cancer in 2018. It is part of why she cares so deeply about proactive health and why this episode matters to her personally. The quality Erin named at the end: her body, and learning to love it. Her mom always told her she would. She finally does. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 166 Learn more about Coreviva: coreviva.com
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  "Strength Bleeds Into Every Single Aspect of Your Life" — Chelsea Leigh, Holistic Nutritionist & Women's Strength Coach @chelsleigh 22.07.2026 1ч 3мин
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  "71 Lines on the Card. 1,002 Ways to Win." — Jodie McCollum, Founder of Mahjong OC 15.07.2026 1ч 6мин

  Jodie McCollum learned Mahjong in 2023 at a friend's house in Dallas. She came back to Orange County, taught a neighbor group as a dare, walked away from that first class completely invigorated, and thought: I wonder if there is a demand for this. There was. Within a year she had taught 175 classes, reached 2,000 students, built a team of nine, and started expanding to San Diego, LA, and potentially London. In this conversation, Jodie talks about what it took to build Mahjong OC from a Friday afternoon game into a real business, how her corporate HR and marketing background all came back to her at once after years on a shelf, and why she thinks Mahjong is having a moment not because it is trendy but because it gives women exactly what they actually need: a room, a game, a reason to stay, and a conversation that happens on its own without any pressure. She also talks about growing up across three countries, what it felt like to land in American high school at thirteen with a New Zealand accent and no friends, and how the girl who coped by keeping her world small ended up building one of the fastest growing community businesses in Orange County. The detail that ties everything together: she was once the new person in a room full of strangers who all knew each other. She never forgot what that felt like. Now she makes sure nobody leaves her tables feeling that way. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 164
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  What to Do When Something Feels Off — Teen Mental Health with Christina King, LMFT 08.07.2026 32мин
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  "We Were Complete Strangers. Now We're Best Friends Running a Company Together." -Jewel Zimmer & Taylor Lamb of Juna 02.07.2026 1ч 29мин

  Two women. One supplement company. Zero plan to become best friends. Jewel Zimmer and Taylor Lamb co-founded Juna out of a simple frustration: neither of them could find what they actually needed. Jewel healed her postpartum experience through amino acids after conventional approaches left her without answers. Taylor spent three years with terrible gut health, acne, and depression before she did her own research and discovered that plants were the thing nobody had thought to suggest. When they met through mutual contacts in the marketing world, the connection was obvious. The company followed. In this conversation, Jewel and Taylor talk about the science and philosophy behind Juna, what it actually means to build from the root cause up rather than chasing symptoms, and why they believe plants carry something synthetics simply cannot. They also go back. Jewel grew up in a small mountain town in British Columbia that never felt like hers, moved to Europe at thirteen when her parents sold the house on a whim, and moved out on her own at sixteen because she needed out. She found her way to culinary school, then to some of the best kitchens in the world, then to cannabis, then to Juna. Taylor was diagnosed with ADHD in school, rebelled her way through high school in all the ways that look bad on a report card and excellent in retrospect, built her graphic design and brand skills one gig at a time, and became one of the most respected brand builders in the women's wellness space. The doctor who diagnosed Taylor told her parents not to worry. Most CEOs have this, he said. She'll be fine. He was right. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 162
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  "Jump and Build the Parachute on the Way Down" - Jacquelyn Umof, Founder of Barre Definition 24.06.2026 1ч 9мин

  Content note: This episode includes brief discussion of a history of amenorrhea and a stress fracture connected to undereating during the guest's teenage ballet years. It is discussed as a resolved part of her past. If this is something you are navigating, support is available through the National Alliance for Eating Disorders helpline. Jacquelyn Umof trained as a professional ballet dancer before a fractured tibia at seventeen ended that chapter of her life. Her mom signed her up for a Pilates class to get her out of the house. She got certified at seventeen, walked into a USC gym with zero teaching experience, and asked for a job anyway. That is basically how she has done everything since. In this conversation, Jacquelyn talks about building Bar Definition from a beach camera and thirty videos into a real business, the years of bootstrapping before she would let herself spend real money on ads, and the moment her now-husband convinced her to make one good ad instead of a post every single day. She talks about collecting certifications not because she needed all of them, but because she didn't have a fitness degree and wanted to feel sure of what she was teaching. She also goes deep into motherhood: a genuinely painful pregnancy connected to hypermobility, a three hour home birth she calls the hardest and best thing she has ever done, and the recalibration of her relationship with her body and her time that came after. She talks honestly about the pressure to look a certain way after having a baby, and her decision to prioritize breastfeeding over getting her body back faster. And she goes back to seventeen year old Jacquelyn: quiet, introverted, more comfortable expressing herself through movement than words, competing only with herself, never her sister. The tibia fracture that looked like an ending turned out to be the beginning of everything she has built since. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 161 Resources: National Alliance for Eating Disorders helpline
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  The Choiceful Timing of Vulnerability — A BFF Conversation with Asha & Keshiia 17.06.2026 25мин

  No guest this week. Just us. We have been thinking a lot about the difference between vulnerability as connection and vulnerability as performance. About what it means to go through something hard in an era when everyone has a camera and a comment section and the cultural message is that sharing equals healing. We do not think that is always true. In this episode, Asha and Keshiia talk about what it actually looks like to process something hard without putting it on display. The value of cocooning. The small group of two or three people who get access to the raw version. The difference between being honest that you are going through something and live-streaming the middle of it. The way oversharing while you are still in it can actually slow the processing down, not speed it up. We are both going through things right now that we are not naming here. That is intentional. It is also the whole point. For anyone who is in something hard and feels the pressure to perform it publicly before they have processed it privately — this one is for you. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode [#1160]
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  "Will This Help Heal Me?" - Alec Treffers, Food & Fitness Influencer @alectreffs 10.06.2026 1ч 16мин

  Alec Treffers started What Alec Eats as a question, not a strategy. She was a freshman at Arizona State, had just blown out her knee playing Division I volleyball, and was quietly developing an eating disorder she had no name for and no plans to talk about. She started posting food on Instagram because she wondered if falling back in love with cooking might help her fall back in love with food. It did. Eventually it became her career. In this conversation, Alec talks about the injury that changed everything: the athletic identity that got ripped away in a day, the months in a soft cast watching her leg muscle deteriorate, the mental weight of rehabbing a knee when you do not know if you will ever play again. She talks about how orthorexia developed in that void — the need to control something when everything else felt out of control — and how Instagram became an unlikely path back. She also walks through the career timeline honestly: seven years in corporate PR including Taco Bell, getting laid off in COVID, giving herself six months to make real money from content creation, and the moment she called it a business and never looked back. She talks about counting macros as a second healing — how the woman who once tried to survive on Special K red berries ended up eating over 2200 calories a day and finally trusting her body. And she ends with the trait she has carried since childhood that she once found annoying and now understands completely: attention to detail. The kid who color-coordinated her crayons is the one who makes the content that other people cannot stop watching. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 159
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  "Life Is Not Meant To Be Lived All At Once" - Shannon McLaren, Founder of Prairie Interiors 03.06.2026 1ч 4мин

  Shannon McLaren did not set out to become an interior designer. She set out to be in fashion. She studied business in London, worked at Stella McCartney, moved back to LA to become a celebrity stylist, and spent years working for Petra Flannery — her most formative mentor — learning how to run a small team, stay proactive, and never say die. Then she accidentally flipped a house. Someone asked who staged it. She said she did. And that was that. In this conversation, Shannon talks about what it actually looks like to build a design practice from staging to studio to retail, why her sweet spot is twelve clients and four or five in active construction, and what it means to design for how people live rather than how it photographs. She talks about the through-line from styling to interiors that she did not see coming: the same skills, the same brief, the same instinct for the unexpected mix. She also goes back to the girl she was: an only child rearranging her room in the middle of the night so she could sleep, drawing floor plans at thirteen on the shores of Lake Washington because it was just fun, transitioning from middle-class Orange County to living down the road from Bill Gates and figuring out how to show up somewhere new. And she ends with the quality she now cherishes that nobody would have told her to keep: her impulsiveness. The gut that fires before the brain catches up. The instinct she did not know was the whole thing. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 158
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  "It's Okay to Not Be Okay." -Brooke Medina, Founder of AR Workshop OC 27.05.2026 51мин

  Content note: This episode discusses themes of substance abuse, grief, and loss. Resources available at SAMHSA.gov or by calling 1-800-662-4357 (free, confidential, 24/7). Crisis support: call or text 988. Brooke Medina grew up around craft. Her dad owned a craft and floral store. Her mom was an interior designer who helped people fall back in love with the things they already had. Creativity was everywhere, but for a long time, she wanted nothing to do with it. In this conversation, Brooke shares the story behind the story. The teenage years marked by instability, loss, and substance use. The overdose at 18, the drug class the morning after, and the pregnancy that arrived less than a year later that she calls the thing that saved her life. The grief she carried through early adulthood — a stepbrother, a grandfather, a best friend, a mother — and what it took to learn to carry it without being buried by it. She also talks about the pivot she did not plan: closing her brick-and-mortar AR Workshop after seven years and going mobile. Why she calls it the best decision she ever made. What it looks like to let go of something before you are ready and trust that the next thing is already forming. And she talks about building community as a practice, not a marketing strategy. The way hands-on creativity drops people's guards. The women's networking group she just started. The belief she has carried since long before it was a tagline: there is a seat for everyone. This one is honest, warm, and goes somewhere real. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 157 Resources: SAMHSA.gov | 1-800-662-4357 | Crisis line: 988
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  "Comparison Is the Thief of Joy" — Leland Drummond, Co-Founder of AZIONE PR & LDMA 20.05.2026 1ч 8мин

  Leland Drummond has spent over 20 years building other people's brands. Somewhere along the way, she figured out the only way to do that well is to understand yourself first. In this conversation, Leland walks through the dual life of running two businesses at once — Azione, the PR and marketing agency she co-founded that works with brands like Sol de Janeiro, Hoka, Caraway, and Sweetgreen, and LDMA Activewear, the active women's brand she built from the inside out, literally: starting with underwear and bras before working outward. She talks about what it's like to be a creative person who became a CEO, the chaos and the humility that comes with it, and why she still believes quality of output matters more than hours clocked. She also goes back. To boarding school at 13 after her parents separated, to arriving in a place where relationships were already formed and feeling very alone, to snowboarding down a mountain in Connecticut because of a boy she had a crush on, and to the career that built from a blown-out knee and a few brand sponsorships she didn't want to lose. And she ends with the word she had to dig for: discernment. The quality her mom recognized when she was a baby. The thing that looked like aloofness in high school. The instinct that has guided every business decision, every partnership, every person she's allowed into her orbit. She always had it. She just finally has the word. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 156
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  "Are You Happy?" - Christina King, MS, LMFT, Teen Therapist 13.05.2026 38мин

  She was the moody, overwhelmed teenager nobody would have guessed would become one of the most empathetic voices in teen mental health. Christina King, MS, LMFT sits down with Asha and Keshiia this Mental Health Awareness Month to share the story behind the therapist — the undiagnosed ADHD, the pivotal moment her mom asked "are you happy?", the trauma at 19 that tested everything, and the slow, beautiful journey back to herself. This is one of the most honest conversations we've had about what therapy actually is, what it costs to do it well, and why the teens who need it most are often the least likely to ask for it. What we cover: → The reality of being a teen therapist — emotional limits, self-care, and community → Growing up high-achieving and undiagnosed with ADHD in a pressure-filled environment → How one question from her mom — "are you happy?" — sent her to therapy and changed her life → Her trauma at 19, the social fallout, and why the fastest way out was through → How COVID, her mom's breast cancer diagnosis, and graduate school collided — and what she found → The mother-daughter retreat work she's building and why it's deeply personal → What therapy actually looks like — and why it's a tool, not a last resort → Opening her own practice designed to feel like a living room, not a clinical office Resources mentioned: → CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists): camft.org → Christina on Instagram: @christinakingtherapy → Mental health support: NAMI.org | Crisis line: call or text 988 Connect with Meet Bridget: → Instagram: @meetbridget → Asha: @theashagabriel | Keshiia: @keshrose → Website: meetbridget.com → Partnerships: [email protected] Mental Health Awareness Month — May 2026. This episode is part of a three-part series with Christina King on teen mental health. Stay tuned for the next two episodes dropping this month.
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  "It Wasn't Going to Be Handed to Me" — Heather Altman, The Altman Brothers Team 06.05.2026 1ч 4мин

  Heather Altman | @heatheraltman | Million Dollar Listing LA | The Altman Brothers Team She started in real estate at 17 with a fake engagement ring and a contract she'd learned to write the day before. She survived a market collapse, moved to LA with nothing lined up, and built one of the most recognized real estate teams in the country. Heather Altman of the Altman Brothers Team and Million Dollar Listing LA joins Asha for one of the most candid career conversations of the season. This episode covers what it actually takes to build something real in a commission-based, client-first industry — and the teenager who was quietly carrying all of it before she even knew it. What we cover: → Starting real estate at 17 in Las Vegas during the pre-crash boom → Surviving the market collapse and working three jobs to stay afloat → Moving to LA to start over and learning under a top Beverly Hills agent → What the Altman Brothers Team looks for when hiring agents → How 17 years on national television shaped her brand and her resilience → The shy, Gothic-phase middle schooler she once was — and the Laguna Beach summer that unlocked something new → Why she didn't learn to advocate for herself until her early 30s → The quality her childhood friends say has never changed about her Resources mentioned: → The Altman Brothers Team: altmanbrothers.com → Million Dollar Listing LA (Bravo) → Heather on Instagram: @heatheraltman Connect with Meet Bridget: → Instagram: @meetbridget → Asha: @theashagabriel → Keshiia: @keshrose → Website: meetbridget.com → Email for partnerships: [email protected] Heather's Protein Waffles 🍌🧇 Ingredients 1 heaping cup rolled oats 1 cup cottage cheese 1 large egg 1 ripe banana 1½ teaspoons vanilla extract 1 teaspoon baking powder or baking soda 1 tablespoon agave (adjust to taste) Additional rolled oats, as needed (to thicken batter) Chocolate chips, for sprinkling Instructions Add the rolled oats, cottage cheese, egg, banana, vanilla, baking powder (or baking soda), and agave to a blender. Blend until smooth. If the batter is too runny, blend in a little more rolled oats until it reaches a thick but pourable consistency. Preheat your waffle iron. Pour the batter over the iron, sprinkle chocolate chips and then mix into batter so they are covered completely. Close the waffle iron and cook for about 3½ minutes, or until golden and cooked through. Carefully remove and serve warm. Optional Toppings Fresh berries Extra banana slices Maple syrup or honey Nut butter    
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  "Staying Calm Is My Core Trait" - Joanna Young, Founder of Quiet Beauty 29.04.2026 55мин

  What does it mean to build a career out of the belief that people deserve to feel genuinely cared for? For Joanna Young, it started not in an aesthetics school or a luxury spa — it started in a garage, with a makeup compressor and a friend who had skin cancer, and a simple conviction: I'm going to help her feel beautiful without hurting her. That instinct — to nurture before she had credentials, before she had a plan — is the thread that runs through everything Joanna has built. From a hotel dining room in her teens to a commodities trading floor to her own practice in Newport Beach, she didn't follow a straight line. She followed the feeling of her hands doing something that mattered. In this conversation, Joanna talks about the art of intentional touch, what it really takes to prepare a space (and yourself) for someone else's energy, why she screens job candidates by asking if they cook for their families, and what she's building next with her "quiet beauty" concept — a hotel spa feel, right in your neighborhood. She also goes back to the girl she was: bullied, shy, and told she was "too emotional" — qualities she now recognizes as the foundation of everything she's good at. This one is quiet, warm, and goes deep fast. 🎙️ Meet Bridget | Season 6, Episode 153