Podcast appearances and mentions of christine chang

Summer means field days and food shows. Lesley talks briefly about the Eagle Lake, TX Field Day, while Michael brought back interviews and samples from the Specialty Food Association's 68th Annual Fancy Food Show that featured lots of U.S.-grown rice. He talked rice with people from Fancypants Baking Company, Olivia's Croutons, Hillside Lane Farms, the Dutch Waffle Company, and some innovators whose products only fault is that they weren't using U.S.-grown rice. Michael also shares information from education sessions he attended. All this, plus Bloody Marys, a new game, and ASMR! You're going to get hungry. https://fancypantsbakery.com https://dutchwafflecompany.us https://oliviascroutons.com https://hillsidelanefarm.com www.captaindanny.com/en With special guests: Maura Duggan, Founder & CEO, FancyPants Baking Company, Francie Caccovo, Founder & Owner, Olivia's Croutons, Bianca Letens, Dutch Waffle Company, Cathy Bacon, Hillside Lane Farms, Christine Chang, Captain Danny Hosted by: Michael Klein and Lesley Dixon

Continuing their special series on cultural topics, Catherine and Juliana discuss the ways Korean Americans are observing age-old traditions like Paebek (wedding tea ceremony), Dol (first birthday) and Jesa (ancestor veneration). Their first guest is event planner Christine Chang of Live Love Create in Los Angeles, who explains how her wedding and Dol clients are honoring their heritage in a “fusion” style that feels relevant to them. (Think: a shorter, more inclusive Paebek or a golf ball included in the doljabi.) Next, they chat with mother-daughter duo Laura Kim and Estella Riahi of Leehwa Wedding & Hanbok, a sought-after hanbok studio where LA's Korean community have been ordering custom garments since the early 1990s. Catherine and Juliana learn how hanbok styles have evolved and how Leewha has become the go-to source for celebs looking for hanboks for awards season. Finally, the hosts speak with Jennifer Kim, aka Mudang Jenn, a shaman based in New York who explains the tradition of Jesa and how Korean Americans are adapting the ritual for today.Christine Chang of Live Love Create Events @livelovecreateLeehwa Wedding & Hanbok @leehwaweddingMudang Jenn @shaman.mudangCheck out the full video on Youtube, link in bio!__________KoreanAmericanStory.org is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to create and preserve the stories of the Korean American experience.CREDITSCo-host, Producer, Photographer: Juliana Sohn @juliana_sohnCo-host, Producer, Editor: Catherine Hong @catherinehong100Audio Engineer: AJ Valente https://ajyval.myportfolio.com/Executive Producer: HJ LeeProduction Manager: Kimberly Young Sun @kimberlyyoungsun

Skincare has been a part of human life since ancient times, with people discovering various hacks to achieve flawless skin or eliminate acne across generations. Nowadays, many brands like Glow Recipe prioritize celebrating the individuality of their customers, rather than promoting an unrealistic ideal of perfection. In this episode, we'll listen to Glow Recipe founders Sarah Lee and Christine Chang as they share their love for skincare and the story behind their brand. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Lee and Christine Chang, co-founders and CEOs of Glow Recipe, have built a skincare brand that has become a hot target for investors globally. On Vogue Business's Beauty Radar podcast presented by Citi Commercial Bank, they chart their latest moves with senior retail, marketing and beauty editor Kati Chitrakorn.Use the code PODCAST20 to save 20 per cent when you purchase a Vogue Business membership for the latest beauty M&A, marketing strategies, innovations and more.https://bit.ly/3QE5LTm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kevin Kreider is back on the podcast to give an update on his love life and career in Asian Entertainment. Last time Kevin came on the podcast two years ago, he was single and had just finished season one of Bling Empire. Now he is in a long-term relationship with an old girlfriend Devon - a romance rekindled after Kevin became sober. Kevin Kreider & Christine Chang talk about love, business, and the Asian Entertainment scene. They discuss:Learning to be in relationship when you've been single for a long timeBoundaries when you work with you romantic partnerAlcoholism, getting sober, and the 12 step programAre Asians prejudice against good looking people?Kevin Kreider's Instagram: @kevin.kreider

On today's episode, we have the founders of one of the biggest skincare brands of the year, one that you'll find on the vanities of millennials, Gen Zers, and Gen Alphas alike. Glow Recipe's Sarah Lee and Christine Chang are our guests today and they're talking about brand longevity, influencer strategy, their thoughts on selling the company, and our current favorite topic — teen skincare routines. Plus, they share the story behind their newest product, Cloudberry Essence Toner! Tune in now. Buy the iconic Gloss Angeles sweatshirtDon't forget to vote in the Third Annual Gloss Angeles Awards!Shop Sarah and Christine's EpisodeGlossAngelesPod.comhttps://glossangeles.komi.ioCALL US: 424-341-0426Shop products from our episodesJoin our FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/glossangelespodcastInstagram: @glossangelspod, @kirbiejohnson, @saratanTwitter: @glossangelespod, @kirbiejohnson, @saratanEmail: glossangelespodcast@gmail.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Entrepreneur Aliscia Brorman shares her story of growing up in foster care and how it has impacted her intimate relationships. *Warning: This episode may contain triggers of sexual abuse and abandonment.During the conversation we talk about:Healing childhood trauma and healing an addiction to chaosDistracting ourselves through accomplishmentCreating a persona based on survivalLearning self love before helping othersWe also talk about giving back to foster youth (something I am very passionate about)! To get involved with Foster Love: https://www.fosterlove.com/Aliscia Brorman's Instagram: @the.ali.vue

Jules Aurora and Christine Chang have girl-talk about breakups + what they have learned so far in relationships. Jules had a public relationship that ended earlier this year. She shares what she has done on her healing journey, including writing music to share what's on her heart. I think everyone can agree that breakups are NOT fun! We talk about:- Healing our relationship patterns- The pressure of perfectionism in a public relationship- How to know your dreams are on the way. :)Jules Aurora's Instagram: @julesauroraJules Aurora's website: https://www.julesaurora.com/

Sarah Lee and Christine Chang are the dynamic entrepreneurial pair who founded the groundbreaking skincare brand Glow Recipe. A seasoned expert on the global beauty consumer, Sarah Lee boasts a deep and unique cross-functional resume that spans product development, business strategy, and global marketing. Sarah began her career at L'Oréal, leading product development and retail partnerships with a global lens. Sarah blends her deep understanding of product formulation science with years of successfully bringing brands to market to drive strategy and execution of Glow Recipe's vision. Sarah resides in Miami with her husband. Combining her passion for skincare with an extensive background in marketing, brand & business development, sales and product development, Christine Chang maintains a wealth of knowledge when it comes to international beauty. Christine's foray into beauty started at L'Oreal where she spearheaded global business development, retail, marketing and digital strategy. Christine's expertise in skincare formulations paired with her strategic experience in launching and growing brands is invaluable to Glow Recipe's mission. Christine resides in New York City with her husband and daughter.   Interviewed by Kate Doerge.

Christine Chang recalls the moment in the back seat of a cab, heading across Manhattan to her next appointment. She and her cofounder, Sarah Lee, finally had to have a tough conversation about the future of their beauty business Glow Recipe.The pair had originally built a successful business focused on curating Korean beauty products produced by other manufacturers. A business that had generated a significant customer following and an engaged fan base through savvy use of social media. A business that generated the majority of Glow Recipe's revenue, which was reported to be $1 million in their first year of business and growing triple digits year over year.But the other 10% of their revenue was calling to them. That was the revenue that began to grow in 2017 after Glow Recipe started its own in-house brand of beauty products. And there Chang and Lee sat, in the back of a cab in early 2019.“As a growing but small team, we were being pulled in multiple directions by having to manage a rapidly growing in-house brand and another business vertical together," Chang, BSBA 2004, recalled. “We talked seriously about whether this was sustainable. Five years from now, what will we wish we'd done? By the end of that cab ride, we had aligned.”The curation business had to go. Glow Recipe would be all-in with its in-house brand of products. People would have to be let go. Inventory had to be shed. Their online community of fans and customers—invested in one version of Glow Recipe—would have to be invited along for a difficult transition.Skincare brands are typically known to position their brands as either serious and clinically efficacious or whimsical and fun. Glow Recipe's mission was to combine both worlds into a line of products that delivered results but were also sensorial, joyful and approachable.“It was a massive pivot to shut down the curated business,” Chang said. “As the brand grew, we realized we couldn't do both.” Two years later, the pivot paid off as Chang and Lee's company continued an explosive growth trend.RELATED LINKSThe Glow Recipe websiteElanor Williams' page on the WashU Olin Business School siteChristine Chang's Instagram pageGlow Recipe on InstagramCNBC reports on the Glow Recipe storyA report by Katie Couric Media on Glow RecipeCREDITSThis podcast is a production of Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. Contributors include:Katie Wools, Cathy Myrick, Judy Milanovits and Lesley Liesman, creative assistanceJill Young Miller, fact checking and creative assistanceHayden Molinarolo, original music and sound designMike Martin Media, editingSophia Passantino, social mediaLexie O'Brien and Erik Buschardt, website supportPaula Crews, creative vision and strategic supportSpecial thanks to Ray Irving and his team at WashU Olin's Center for Digital Education, including our audio engineer, Austin Alred.

62. This week on Boujee Best Friend, we sit down with Sarah Lee, co-founder of Glow Recipe, a brand known for its fruit-forward, clean products for healthy glowing skin. Sarah co-founded the company with her best friend, Christine Chang. Glow Recipe has become a skincare favorite for many, thanks to Sarah's vision of promoting gentle and effective formulas that embrace the ever-changing needs of our skin and empower us to love and care for it. In this episode, we delve into Sarah's background, skincare philosophy, and career at L'Oreal, which helped her pave the way for her entrepreneurial journey. As a successful entrepreneur, Sarah shares advice on climbing the corporate ladder, public speaking, standing out, raising money from investors, finding the right co-founder (like her best friend Christine!), and more. Throughout the conversation, we dive deeper into the exciting story of how Glow Recipe came into existence—a dream born from their passion for skincare. Sarah tells us about the challenges she faced and how she and Christine found the right investors and partners who believed in the brand's mission. Join us as we explore Sarah's inspiring journey from a corporate professional to an incredibly successful entrepreneur. Episode highlights - Sarah's background - About your skin and skincare  - Sarah's career at L'Oreal  - Climbing the corporate ladder  - Advice for public speaking  - Creating Glow Recipe - How to stand out  - Shark Tank  - Finding the right investors - Working with your co-founder - Complimentary skills as co-founders  Timestamps: 0:00- 2:00 | Introduction 2:00- 8:00 | Sarah's background 8:00- 13:10 | Skincare experience  13:10- 14:20 | Sarah's career at L'Oreal  14:20- 20:10 | Climbing the corporate latter  20:10- 26:40 | Public speaking advice  26:40- 34:30 | Glow Recipe  34:30- 49:40 | Starting a beauty brand   49:40- 56:20 | Raising money for your start-up  56:20- 1:05:46 | Finding the right co-founder  CONNECT WITH SARAH: https://www.instagram.com/sarah_glow/  https://www.instagram.com/glowrecipe/  https://www.glowrecipe.com/  https://www.tiktok.com/@glowrecipe?  CONNECT WITH KOKO: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/kokobeaute/⁠  ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@kokobeaute⁠  ⁠https://www.instagram.com/boujeebestfriend⁠  https://www.boujeebestie.com⁠  https://www.youtube.com/@KokoBeaute⁠  JOIN GROUP: BOUJEE BESTIES https://links.geneva.com/invite/bec31d1b-7a42-4a90-8000-cbdc75108994

In today's episode, Kate is joined by Christine Chang, co-founder and co-CEO of Glow Recipe, the fruit-forward skincare brand that has taken the world – and TikTok – by storm. Over a glass of wine and a sheet mask – with their Korean heritage and successful careers in beauty alike – Christine and her best friend, co-founder Sarah Lee, developed Glow Recipe, a skincare brand that creates gentle yet effective formulas to deliver clinically proven results in a fun, fruity, sensorially delightful way. Their now-iconic Watermelon Glow Dew Drops pioneered the virality of beauty products on TikTok, forever changing the way we share, trial, shop and love beauty. Hit play!Products mentioned:Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Dew Drops™Glow Recipe Strawberry BHA Pore-Smooth Blur Drops™ Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow AHA Night Treatment Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow PHA+BHA Pore-Tight Toner Glow Recipe Papaya Sorbet Enzyme Cleansing Balm Glow Recipe Plum Plump Hyaluronic Cream Glow Recipe Plum Plump Hyaluronic Serum Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Lip Pop Read more on The Memo: Turning a friendship into a beauty empire with glow recipe's Christine Chang & Sarah Lee Five in five: multi-masking with glow recipe founders Christine Chang and Sarah Lee I tried glow recipe for the first time – and now I understand the TikTok hype!Host: Kate BlytheProducer: Kerri GordonEditor: Michael Liberale Loved the latest episode of MECCA Talks? Don't forget to follow, rate and review (and give us a shoutout in the group chat). If you've got any questions or suggestions, leave a review, send a DM our way via our Instagram, @meccabeauty, or spark a conversation in our official Facebook group, MECCA Chit Chat. MECCA Talks wishes to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we recorded this episode at our studio in Naarm: the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. We pay respect to Elders – past, present and emerging. We recognise their ongoing connection to this beautiful country, with knowledge and stories that have been handed down since time immemorial. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today, we're going back into the 9 to 5ish archives, to bring you one of our favorite episodes from last year - with Glow Recipe co-CEO and co-founder Christine Chang. We hope you enjoy Christine's advice on how to make the jump from a corporate job to a startup, and we'll be back with fresh episodes next week. Until then, please enjoy our conversation with Christine.  Every weekend growing up, Christine watched her mom and grandma go to the Korean bathhouses, rubbing things like tea and spoiled milk on their skin. And she's been hooked on skincare ever since. Now, she's the co-founder and co-CEO of the skincare brand, Glow Recipe. But before leading this new venture, she actually worked her way up the corporate ladder at L'Oreal. In this episode, Christine gives her advice on how to make the jump from corporate to startup, and what she learned at her desk job that she still uses today.  In this episode, Christine shares:  How she learned to lean on colleagues and mentors How having a co-founder eases the growing pains of a new business How her corporate experience helped in the startup mindset Why she and her co-founder turned down an offer from Shark Tank investors The important role that emerging technology like TikTok has played in her business

In this episode of RETHINK Retail, host Gabriella Bock sits down with Sarah Lee and Christine Chang, founders of skincare sensation Glow Recipe. With backgrounds in both beauty and business, Sarah and Christine have revolutionized the skincare industry with their innovative approach to natural and effective skincare products. Their brand, Glow Recipe, has become synonymous with the glow skin skincare craze and has garnered a loyal following of beauty enthusiasts around the world. Christine and Sarah's commitment to empowering women to feel confident in their skin has made Glow Recipe a trailblazer in the industry and a force to be reckoned with. Listen in as Christine and Sarah share their story of the early days of the company and the media tactics they leveraged to fast track their brand into a household name in just three months. Sarah and Christine also share their advice for brands aiming to remain authentic in everything they do as well as how they leveraged beauty influencers and snowmobiles to test their latest skincare product and kickoff one of 2023's most viral beauty campaigns. If you enjoyed this episode, please let us know by subscribing to our channel and giving us a 5 star rating us on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. - - - - - - Host: Gabriella Bock Produced by Gabriella Bock Research by Maggie Schwenn

Themes: Parenting, Relationships, Personal Development, Marriage, Interracial Relationships, Authenticity, Boundaries, Transformation, Purpose Summary:  Today I'm jamming with my long-time friend, Christine Chang, a serial entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. Her book "Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women" has helped professional women all over the world create the relationship of their dreams. Tune in to hear Christine share her experiences growing up as an Asian American and how she handles comments about her interracial marriage, how she has navigated healing from generational trauma and finding her voice, and the importance of listening to your soul's desires to figure out how you want to show up in this world. As an entrepreneur having explored different paths (professional photographer, dating mentor, and branding specialist to name a few!), Christine drops her tips for branding and rebranding without relying on social media. Discover: How Christine went from being a celebrity wedding photographer to helping inspire women all over the world The importance of adding joy into your life and only doing the things that light you up Finding your own voice and identity without buckling in the face of codependency 00:00 Intro  01:35 The impact of negative online conversations 06:20 Finding your identity 10:19 From certainty to uncertainty 18:23 Importance of adding humor in parenting 21:54 Allowing kids to learn resilience on their own 26:51 Confronting stereotypes in interracial relationships 30:20 Having a voice through media representation 34:49 Start something new & be ok with sucking at it 39:02 Healing from generational trauma 42:22 The responsibilities that come with marriage 47:37 Negotiating boundaries in relationships 49:37 Effect of news and social media on your mental health 53:55 Bridging the divide 56:42 Disagreements and differences in relationships 58:53 When extroverts need introverts 1:00:32 Creating boundaries around technology 1:05:11 How to rebrand without relying on  social media 1:12:43 What's next and trying out new things Links: Instagram: @cchangandco Website 1: www.christinechangphoto.com Website 2: www.christinechang.com YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyv2WHLUch8m66QoKT2lZ0w Book: https://www.amazon.com/Show-Up-Finding-Independent-Women-ebook/dp/B08BBB446J/ Sponsors: Cymbiotika | Use code GROVES at checkout for 15% off your first purchase at cymbiotika.com. (Save up to 45% off when you buy a bundle!) Create the Love Cards | Use code CTLCARDS15 for 15% off at createthelove.com/cards See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you're a high-performing woman putting yourself out there in the dating world — I see you, and before I met Ajit, I was you. You are being brave, vulnerable, and opening your heart in the name of love — and it's no small feat! Or maybe you're already in a relationship, but your practice in this season of life is how to create better business relationships or deeper friendships. Whatever your situation is, what we all have in common is craving meaningful connections with others. My guest in this episode, one of my long-time besties, Christine Chang, learned through healing her own relationships how to help others do the same, so they can show up with the tools they need to have the right people in their lives.  Christine is a Relationship Author & Podcast Host who helps high-performing women create ideal relationships in their personal and professional lives by showing how to improve self-awareness, boundaries, accountability, and communication skills. Her best-selling book Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women has helped thousands of women all over the globe ease the dating process and find their life partners. Here's what we get into… - How to find love as a high-performing, ambitious woman - How your childhood wounds can show up in your adult relationships - Finding acceptance for yourself to accept others - Getting clear on what you want versus what you need from others - Why it's important to get outside support (therapy, coaching) before entering a relationship - How to be more vulnerable and brave in your relationships - And so much more If you loved this episode, make sure you check out…  - Find her on Instagram @cchangandco - Check out her podcast, Show Up with Christine Chang and find her on YouTube - Buy her book, SHOW UP: Finding Love For Independent Women - Episode 73: Calling In Your Partner, and Healing Through Relationships with Stefanos Sifandos - Episode 59: Understanding Love & Conflict Resolution With Your Partner with Annie Lalla - Episode 47: Mastering the Art of Communication to Level Up Your Relationships, Career, and Love with Sam Horn P.S. We talk about improving your relationships in this episode, and I have just the tool to help! When you pre-order 3 copies of my upcoming book, That Sucked. Now What? You'll get my FREE how-to guide for creating deeper friendships & leading your own Support Soul Posse. Grab your copies and juicy bonuses here, available for a limited time!

Do you have trouble telling or showing a guy that you like him? Do you want guys to ask you out more? If so, this solo episode is for you!

“One of the most important things you can do is to educate yourself on some of the key skin care ingredients and how they work with your skin: Because maybe there's a product that's formulated for your skin type or concern, but it contains an ingredient that doesn't work well for you. [It's important to have a] deeper understanding and deeper relationship with your skin,” says Sarah Lee. In this episode of Clean Beauty School, mbg beauty director and host Alexandra Engler chats with Korean Beauty experts and founders of Glow Recipe Christine Chang and Sarah Lee. The trio talk about how to stay on top of the beauty zeitgeist, what Western beauty media got wrong about Korean Beauty, and why we need to limit interacting with “perfect, flawless” images on our social media feeds.  Show notes: -Follow Christine Chang & Sarah Lee (and Glow Recipe!) -Read some recent stories published by the mbg beauty team: As Of Late with Norma Kamali, A Beauty Breakdown on Acne, a guide to “Indie Sleaze”, and introducing our new travel series Well Traveled   -Read more about topics mentioned in this episode: Watermelon for the skin, how to layer skin care, skin barrier, sensitive skin, BHA and AHA, salicylic acid, PHA, hyaluronic acid, skin tints, tinted SPF.   -Shop products mentioned in this episode: Glow Recipe Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask, Strawberry Smooth BHA + AHA Salicylic Acid Serum, Avocado Ceramide Recovery Serum, Papaya Sorbet Enzyme Cleansing Balm, Watermelon Glow PHA + BHA Pore-Tight Toner, Plum Plump Hyaluronic Acid Cream Take 25% off vitamin C potency+ with code VITAMINCPOD. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. Follow @alex_blair_ and @mindbodygreen Comments: podcast@mindbodygreen.com Sponsorship inquiries: sales@mindbodygreen.com 

Christine Chang and Sarah Lee are the founders of Glow Recipe and today's Female Founder World guests! The pair turned their friendship and $50,000 of savings into Glow Recipe: A beauty brand estimated to have earned $100 million in revenue in 2021. Our Female Founder World host Jasmine Garnsworthy figures out how they did it in this episode of the podcast. We talk about transitioning from an Instagram-built beauty brand to thriving on TikTok (they have 250k followers), the future beauty entrepreneurship, marketing ideas, and the book that all founders need to read. Enjoy! And don't forget to drop us a review (TYSM!).  Links Subscribe to the Female Founder World newsletter: https://femalefounderworld.beehiiv.com  Join our female founder community on Geneva: https://links.geneva.com/invite/00c30313-1566-470a-a764-62010d8301bd instagram.com/femalefounderworld instagram.com/jasminegarnsworthy

Happy Woo Wednesdays! I've been following Christine for 13 years on social and she is my girl crush. She is calm, trustworthy, and funny. I love everything she does for the wedding and creative industry. I was obsessed with every wedding she shot. Now I consider her the love doctor. This conversation is so deep. If you are looking for love or having a deeper connection with you SO, you are going to love this episode. Finding love for high-performers. We're often great at work but can find romantic relationships challenging. I know how demanding being in the events industry is, so I know the exact challenges and pain points of your audience, and how that can impact our romantic relationships. :) Bio FORMER CELEBRITY WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER, CHRISTINE CHANG IS A RELATIONSHIP AUTHOR & SPEAKER BASED IN LA. SHE HELPS HIGH-PERFORMING WOMEN CREATE THE RELATIONSHIP OF THEIR DREAMS BY TEACHING SELF-AWARENESS, BOUNDARIES, ACCOUNTABILITY, AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS. HER BOOK, “SHOW UP: FINDING LOVE FOR INDEPENDENT WOMEN” HAS HELPED THOUSANDS OF PROFESSIONAL WOMEN ALL OVER THE WORLD FIND THEIR LIFE PARTNER. Connect with Christine My book is available on Amazon if they are interested! https://www.amazon.com/Show-Up-Finding-Independent-Women/dp/1735097012 www.christinechang.com https://www.instagram.com/cchangandco/ https://www.instagram.com/christinechangphoto/ Connect with Carissa https://heckyesmedia.co/ https://instagram.com/carissawoo https://www.instagram.com/carissawoophotography/

Today, Abby sits down with dating coach and bestselling author Christine Chang.  Christine is an expert on dating with your prospects seem to find you intimidating or unapproachable due to your independence and success.Connect with Christine:christinechang.comIG: @cchangandcoCheck out Christine's book, Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women, here.https://www.amazon.com/Show-Up-Finding-Independent-Women/dp/1735097012/ref=asc_df_1735097012/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=509245866633&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=6911146513299151393&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9020758&hvtargid=pla-943866388471&psc=1Connect with Abby:thesocialmm.clubIG: @modernyenta@thesocialmmDon't forget to rate, review, and subscribe!

Host Mimi Banks is joined this week by Sarah Lee and Christine Chang, the Founders of Glow Recipe. They discuss how they have built a strong community of loyal consumers through digital forums, conversations, content, panels, and events. And how this community, The Glow Gang celebrate diverse beauty through self-care and expression.   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beautybizshow/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every weekend growing up, Christine watched her mom and grandma go to the Korean bathhouses, rubbing things like tea and spoiled milk on their skin. And she's been hooked on skincare ever since. Now, she's the co-founder and co-CEO of the skincare brand, Glow Recipe. But before leading this new venture, she actually worked her way up the corporate ladder at L'Oreal. In this episode, Christine gives her advice on how to make the jump from corporate to startup, and what she learned at her desk job that she still uses today.  In this episode, Christine shares:  How she learned to lean on colleagues and mentors How having a co-founder eases the growing pains of a new business How her corporate experience helped in the startup mindset Why she and her co-founder turned down an offer from Shark Tank investors The important role that emerging technology like TikTok has played in her business

Billy and Brian talk to Christine Chang, a bestselling relationship author and speaker. She helps high-performers create ideal relationships by teaching self-awareness, boundaries, accountability, and communication skills.Christine's podcast Show Up and book Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women have helped thousands of professional women all over the world create the relationship of their dreams.  She is here today to talk to us about balancing high performance, happiness, and relationships.We ask Christine: --How do we first find clarity within ourselves so that we actually know what it is that we want instead of what has been projected onto us through other people's opinions, standards, checklists? --Once we've been honest and clear with ourselves, how do we have those conversations with partners/future partners?--With regards to “if it's not a hell yes, it's a hell,” I wanted to challenge that idea a bit by throwing in the word “maybe”: Do you think that people who say “if it's not a hell yes, then it's a hell no” are actually using that as an excuse to not do the work that is required to make a relationship last or even using it as an excuse to procrastinate for the PERFECT conditions to start dating?  Is that where we could squeeze in the “maybe” so they stretch their comfort zone a little bit?--Your focus is on helping high-performing women create the relationship of their dreams.  What traits do you attribute to high-performing women?--What were your dating faux paus back in the day?  What was it about your husband Pete that set him apart from everyone else?  Or was that more about you getting clear with yourself first?  If you asked him, what was it about you that set you apart?--For the men out there who are seeking an independent, high-performing woman to date, what advice do you have?  What lessons could they learn from your husband Pete?Like what you heard from Christine Chang?  Contact her at:Website: www.christinechang.comYouTube:  Christine ChangInstagram: @cchangandcoLinkedIn:  Christine ChangThank you for listening to the Mindful Midlife Crisis!Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Topics you want us to cover?Email:  mindfulmidlifecrisis@gmail.comInstagram:  @mindful_midlife_crisisTwitter:  @mindfulmidlife"Like" and "Follow" us on Facebook: The Mindful Midlife Crisis PodcastPlease leave us a 5-Star Review!  Doing so helps other people looking for a podcast like ours find it!We hope you enjoy this week's episode!  If this episode resonates with you, please share it with your friends and family.  If you're really feeling gracious, you can make a donation to https://www.buymeacoffee.com/MMCpodcast. Your donations will be used to cover all of our production costs.Support the show

2022.0421 時事新聞評論 - 檀島最真實的聲音 KNDI 1270AM 電台每週五晚上八點流金歲月節目播出 主持人：李麗仙、顏俊成 》北京攻金馬？金門前線緊張。金門目前兵力只剩3000人，真的要武力統一，直接攻取澎湖，台中清泉崗或是林口，拿下金門馬祖確實沒有什麼意義，反而會拖延戰機，讓美國及日本方便動員，而且金門馬祖屬於福建省，留在中華民國手中，象徵不放起中國大陸主權，一旦沒有金門馬祖，台灣可以徹底台獨化。 當年八二三炮戰，從某一種意義來說，是老毛與老蔣的不明說的默契，兩人都主張一個中國，而當時美國是希望國民政府放棄金門馬祖，老蔣不放棄，也代表了承認一個中國的主權。 》從美國角度看台灣，絕對與烏克蘭不同 》國務機票費除罪化修法，藍綠爆衝突；結果5分鐘闖關送出草案 》台灣藍綠惡鬥，讓台灣空轉20年。民眾期待第三勢力的興起 》現任台北市長柯文哲政績；臉書或油管帳號：「柯文哲」 》請參考連結：美中的這種對抗；大概未來15年大概跑不掉... https://youtu.be/Rzzsxr1prxU?t=515 》五月一日起，靠海邊房地產會推出新的重要政策！ 》股市現況報告；房貸利息已漲至五厘。有人操控股市的盤前盤後交易。同樣的桶子，玫瑰花比石油更貴。油價上漲盡量少開車 》4月22日世界地球日。節省能源 》Halawa - Hawaii Kai 的水源要注意！ 》華視製播連續出包；陳郁秀請辭公廣集團董事長。太離譜了！ 》2022年底九合一選舉；黨同伐異；派系問題 》參考【這就是科學｜柯文哲】：磁吸效應／草履蟲。https://youtu.be/I4eCoqmUdR8?t=84 》2019.08.06台灣民眾黨成立；柯文哲：「民進黨無台灣；中國國民黨只有中國。」 》夏威夷大學與夏威夷的議會發生衝突；民眾認為是議員們撈過界，權力鬥爭 》被燒傷的79歲老先生情況 》CCAC熱心替華埠和華人服務的羅玉朋女士（羅太）往生；R.I.P. 》翟墨是由蟻曉華引介到夏威夷 》前一陣子 Christine Chang 案子，與賞金獵人有關 》不要隨便替人帶貨 》趕快買短波收音機！早點準備以應急 》祝大家平安喜樂！ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aloha808/message

INTRO Christine Chang is a Bestselling Relationship Author & Speaker based in Los Angeles. Her book "Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women" has helped thousands of professional women all over the world create the relationship of their dreams. .CONTENT Christine starts by sharing her story and why she is so passionate about helping high-achieving women to find the right partner for them. How we drift into relationships instead of seeking clarity about what we really want The importance of Self Awareness and healing before seeking a new relationship  How to get clear on what we want Noticing the qualities that complement each other The importance of finding a supportive partner Why core beliefs are more important than physical looks   Christine Chang BIO Christine Chang is a Bestselling Relationship Author & Speaker based in Los Angeles. She helps high-performing women create ideal relationships in their personal and professional lives by teaching self-awareness, boundaries, accountability, and communication skills. Her book "Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women" has helped thousands of professional women all over the world create the relationship of their dreams.  CONTACT DETAILS / LINKS Website  - www.christinechang.com Linkedin  - https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-chang-author/ Instagram -  https://www.instagram.com/cchangandco/ Link to my book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Show-Up-Finding-Independent-Women/dp/1735097012/   ABOUT WENDY CAPEWELL Wendy is a Psychotherapist, Coach, Public Speaker, and Author. She helps people who are stuck either in their personal, professional or relationships, get to the root of the problem which is holding them back, let go - and move forward into a happier more successful life.   Connect with Wendy Here...... Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Copewelltherapies Linked in - https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendycapewell/ YouTube Channel -  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUovcqsmI_c3rQ5oGUbiZtA Website - https://www.wendycapewell.co.uk/ Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/wendycapewell/ Book –‘From Surviving to Thriving in a Romantic Relationship'- Link to Amazon Email – info@wendycapewell.co.uk Sign up for my Newsletter -  http://bit.ly/2RpjY8g If you have enjoyed this show then please leave a review.      

In today's episode, Nicole interviews Bestselling Relationship Author & Speaker, Christine Chang. Christine helps high-performing women create ideal relationships by teaching self-awareness, boundaries, accountability, and communication skills. In this episode we talk all about her book "Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women.” This book has helped thousands of professional women all over the world create the relationship of their dreams, and after listening to this episode you'll understand why! You don't want to miss it. Time to check in! Be sure to follow @DREAMCHECKPODCAST on instagram for more behind the scenes, inspiring quotes, and all updates!!For more on relationships and fun content, follow your host, @NICOLEMARIEIVANOVFor more behind Dream Check podcast, visit: www.nicoleivanov.com/podcast

Just in time for Valentines Day!  Christine and I have a LOT of laughs and fun as we discuss how being selfish can help us find love!  - how do independent women navigate the dating world and stay sane?  - why doing our work to heal is the #1 way to have a healthy relationship  - how we are sabotaging our success in finding 'THE ONE'  - I share some of my dating stories from the last year!  Christine Chang is a bestselling author and speaker based in Los Angeles. Her book, 'Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women' has helped thousands of professional women all over the world create the relationship of their dreams. Christine brings calmness, ease, humour and simplicity to relationships.  https://www.instagram.com/cchangandco  

In this new episode of Ellwed Talks, the first podcast about destination weddings in Greece, we talk with Christine Chang ABOUT Covid & Weddings - how to make your wedding Covid-Safe Founder of Live Love Create Events, a woman-owned business, Christine and her team have helped execute 500+ beautiful events. Being a seasoned planner and having an art background has helped Christine throughout the process of planning and conducting weddings for celebrities and working professionals! As a Fine Arts and Media Arts major, Christine worked on film and graduated at UC San Diego. As a wedding planner for over 12 years, her weddings have been featured in Brides, Carats and Cake, Grey likes, Style me pretty, CBS8, and many more In this episode, Christen shares her top tips on conducting covid-safe weddings by implementing Safety by applying all COVID protocols. FIND CHRISTINE: https://livelovecreateevents.com https://www.instagram.com/livelovecreate Christine(@)livelovecreateevents.com ON ELLWED: Read more on ellwed.com/podcast Get the Ellwed magazine at ellwed.com/magazine Follow Ellwed on socials for instant stylish inspiration from Greece at @ellwedmag Share this episode on your social media channels and help future brides with planning their destination wedding! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ellwed/message

Ready to take your relationship goals to the next level this 2022?   But are you one of those who haven't been ‘successful' yet in finding your ‘perfect match'?   Hang on a bit there—we all know it takes some work (a lot even for many!). This one with Christine Chang is for those who got big goals, in life and in dating and relationships!   Christine is a best-selling relationship author and speaker based in Los Angeles. She helps high-performers create ideal relationships by teaching self-awareness, boundaries, accountability, and communication skills.   Her book "Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women" has helped thousands of professional women all over the world create the relationship of their dreams.   And this episode from the Thrive State podcast is in it to help you on your 2022 #relationshipgoals! Catch Christine in her very own Show Up with Christine Chang and through her IG @cchangandco.   0:52 High Performers: People who are brought up to be overachievers. They want to take over the world.   2:18 Common Patterns and Challenges: They love to be on the climb. They usually tend to choose people who are emotionally unavailable, just out of their reach, or subconsciously putting themselves in situations where it's not going to work out. A healthy relationship that is stable can feel boring.   6:40 Both high performers in a relationship? It's possible for two high performers to speak together, but the emotional component needs to match. Many high performers have this purpose and mission they want to do, but leave their partners feeling unattended and neglected.    9:40 Prioritizing working on yourself is always a good idea. But dating is also a fantastic way to learn about yourself. But while you're dating, you can be respectful of the other person and be honest about where you are and give them a fair chance to make a decision as well. Communication is very important in that area.   12:03 A relationship is a great training ground to get some healing. In a relationship, there's sometimes a lot of arguments, a lot of old things come up. But that's good because as they come up, you can start to become aware of them and heal.   13:15 Getting clarity on the type of person you want: Just start writing things down. Be aware of what you want versus what you need. Focus on how you feel first rather than the qualities of the other person. Know your core values and then get clear on which ones are non-negotiable and which ones are.   16:38 Building up self-worth muscle: Affirmations. It takes time to build the muscle so that you do not get devastated when someone dumps you.   20:57 Relationships could be very messy at first during that growth process. But you should not be discouraged when conflict arises. It is an opportunity for growth and healing.   21:43 Fitting in a relationship? Get clear on whether or not you want to be in a relationship. If you're being honest with yourself and there is a part of you that would love that partnership, you have to create a little bit of space for that.   22:54 A lot of it is timing as well. But it's possible to be building something and also have a relationship. Date, create a relationship there. Ease was something that I looked for and ease is a good sign.   25:04 Christine's Best Medicine: Clarity. I feel good when I have clarity in life. And intimate relationships. I embrace really deep relationships because when it's our time to go, the only thing we have to take with us is the memories.

Hi Backbone Not Wishbone fam, today I'm chatting with Sarah Lee & Christine Chang, and bringing you an episode packed with 2 of my FAVORITE TOPICS OF ALL TIME - business (and how to achieve success) and skincare (trends, hacks, how-to's & more). When I interview a guest, I try to ask the questions I believe could provide in-depth value, so I really hope you'll find that value today & in every episode of our little podcast.   Check out Glow Recipe: https://www.glowrecipe.com @glowrecipe And you can find Christine here and Sarah here.   Please LEAVE A REVIEW & tell a friend about this podcast, if you enjoy it.   New episode: Every TUESDAY. Will taking a break after this episode for the holidays, and will be back in January. Can't wait to hear you again VERY soon!   Connect with me on IG @alexandrapotora   Lmk what topics to do next at 833-269-763 - text or leave a voicemail.   About my indie beauty brand:  VREA Cosmetics was founded at the nudge of my online community, who wanted me to create makeup with powerful skincare benefits, high performing and at reasonable prices. VREA is a transparent company, driven by performance, 100% Vegan, Leaping Bunny Certified Cruelty Free, clean, beautifully merging nature with science, and mindful of our waste and impact.  vreacosmetics.com      Thanks so much for listening!   Produced by Dear Media

Today on the podcast, we have acupuncturist Russell Brown; Founder of Poke Acupuncture LA, with over 15 years of experience practicing this ancient medicine with exquisite finesse. Using his distinctive voice and gentle wisdom, Russell advocates for a realisation of the constraints and meritocracy of the current whitewashed, capitalist-driven wellness industry. Russell is an educator and a brilliantly poetic writer who brings forth the kind of gentle healing one's soul longs to fall into at the end of the day. As a practitioner of acupuncture, Russell operates through the subtle energetic realms of Chinese medicine with ease, translating the insightful metaphors of this ancient knowledge into soothing remedies for the intensity of modern life. In this episode, Russell offers his nuanced perspective on the invention and westernised packaging of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the existence of cultural appropriation and privilege within the wellness industry, and how conscious social activism lies at the confluence of these topics. Tahnee and Russell discuss the Eight Extraordinary meridians, constitutional energy and life trajectory, The Five Elements, and the type of strength required of practitioners to support their patients through healing.    "I want you to experience beauty for an hour every week, every two weeks. I want you to be removed from the story of your life. I think that's the only way we're going to survive, frankly, is to have a chance to cushion ourselves from how hard the world is with some softness. And that's how I practice acupuncture now. I want people to be given an opportunity to catch their breath, to float, to not feel like the world is coming at them in a hostile way"   - Russell Brown     Tahnee and Russell discuss: The Wei Qi. Yuan Qi (source Qi). The Five Elements. The eight extraordinary meridians. Doing the work of social activism. The whitewashing of the wellness industry. Stomach 36 and our relationship to nourishment. The importance of creating and nurturing as humans. The history of Traditional Chinese Medicine communism. The institutionalisation and education system around TCM. Becoming very clear on your perspective as a practitioner.   Who Is Russell Brown?  Russell Brown, L.Ac, studied journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and enjoyed a career in feature film development (including The Fast and the Furious films and Cruel Intentions) before quitting his job on a whim and enrolling in Emperor's College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. After passing the California State Board in 2007, Russell opened Poke Acupuncture in Los Angeles in 2009.    Russell has operated pro-bono acupuncture clinics for the HIV/AIDS community in San Francisco and L.A. and was the in-house acupuncturist for the Alexandria House, a transitional home for women in Koreatown. He wrote a book on meditation titled Maya Angelou's Meditation 1814 and his writing on wellness has been published in several outlets including Bust and Lenny Letter. He sheepishly did acupuncture on Paris Hilton for her reality show in 2011, a real moment in time he only slightly regrets.    CLICK HERE TO LISTEN ON APPLE PODCAST    Resources: Poke Acupuncture Instagram Russell's website - Poke Acupuncture Subscribe to Poke Acupuncture Substack    Q: How Can I Support The SuperFeast Podcast? A: Tell all your friends and family and share online! We'd also love it if you could subscribe and review this podcast on iTunes. Or  check us out on Stitcher, CastBox, iHeart RADIO:)! Plus  we're on Spotify!   Check Out The Transcript Here:   Tahnee: (00:01) Hi everyone. And welcome to the SuperFeast Podcast. Today's guest is an acupuncturist from Los Angeles who's been practising for over 15 years and has, in my opinion, one of the freshest voices in the industry.   Tahnee: (00:12) He's an advocate for understanding the limitations of the industrial capitalist wellness machine, that's a mouthful. And he is an educator and a writer who, in my opinion, manages to put TCM theory into this most beautiful language and metaphor that's really accessible and relevant for modern humans.   Tahnee: (00:29) And Russell also has an ex-film producer background. And if you're a 90s kid you'll know some of those movies. Fast and the Furious, Cruel Intentions.   Tahnee: (00:36) So he's had this amazing 180 coming into this more subtle kind of energetic realm of traditional Chinese medicine. So I'm really excited to welcome you here today, Russell.   Russell Brown: (00:48) Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm so excited.   Tahnee: (00:50) Yeah, I'm so excited.   Russell Brown: (00:51) I spent some time in Australia by the way in the 90s.   Tahnee: (00:54) Did you?   Russell Brown: (00:54) Yes. I went to Sydney and then I was young and took a tour of the outback, which I'm sure you guys hate, but-   Tahnee: (01:01) Oh, nice. I love that.   Russell Brown: (01:02) One of the stops was at this farm in a place called Coonabarabran, I think.   Tahnee: (01:07) Yes.   Russell Brown: (01:07) I just stayed there. And so I lived on this farm for, I think like two months, and just worked on this farm out there. Yeah. And it was great and it was not my real life and it was nice to be not in my real life.   Tahnee: (01:19) And the stars.   Russell Brown: (01:21) Beautiful. Insane.   Tahnee: (01:23) Yeah.   Russell Brown: (01:23) Obviously coming from LA, like we don't really have stars in LA like that, so it was all very shocking to me so I have very fond associations with Australia.   Tahnee: (01:32) Yeah. They've actually preserved Coonabarabran, so the Warrumbungle is like a National Park there and that area is now a dark sky park, so.   Russell Brown: (01:39) Oh wow.   Tahnee: (01:40) They're trying to preserve it for yeah. Like, so you can't-   Russell Brown: (01:42) Because otherwise the development would come in and sort of just make it-   Tahnee: (01:45) Yeah. I don't know if they'd ever developed that [crosstalk 00:01:48] pretty far away. Yeah. But just more like, yeah, so people can't have, I don't know, flood lights on their farms or I don't know what people would do, but yeah.   Tahnee: (01:56) So you're the founder of Poke Acupuncture and you've got this amazing clinic going. I actually heard about you through lots of sort of connections in LA and then started following you on Instagram. And it's been a delight following you for a few years.   Russell Brown: (02:10) Thank you. It's so funny. Obviously I have such a take on wellness and part of that take is that I don't know that I need to be on Instagram.   Russell Brown: (02:20) I don't know that acupuncturists need to be on social media. I don't think that I have such an issue with like content creation. I don't think that I personally need to be making more content, but I also think there's something sociologically interesting about it.   Russell Brown: (02:33) And so I've sort of tried to find a use for Instagram that doesn't make me feel like a 17 year old. And I don't know if I'm succeeding at that personally, but I am enjoying the process of it most of the time.   Tahnee: (02:48) Yeah. I vote for you. I've had a really love, hate relationship with the platform and I really hear you on that. And I think it's evolved in really positive and negative directions, but there's this positive where it's this place to yeah, like share ideas and connect and use the kind of medium for education and inspiration.   Tahnee: (03:10) And I think you do a really good job of that and Wellness Trash Can just makes me laugh first of all. But also I'm always like, "This is so relevant big because we've got this culture," and something I've always said to my husband, the first time I went to LA was probably I think, seven or eight years ago.   Tahnee: (03:26) And I remember being like, "It's so artificial here. No wonder the wellness industry came from here," and my husband kind of looked at me and he was like, "What are you talking about?"   Tahnee: (03:33) And I'm like, "Well, everything's just plunked on top of the desert. It's not really meant to be here." And then we've got like this really toxic kind of culture there around aesthetic and lifestyle. And I'm sure you know all of that very, very well.   Russell Brown: (03:52) Well, I also think about it in context of one of the things about Los Angeles and Australia too, but really LA, we don't have seasons here, right? Every day is exactly the same weather wise. It's going to be between 75 and 85, right?   Russell Brown: (04:05) It's always going to be sunny. We have a couple weeks of rain, but there's no passing of time essentially. I wear the same thing to work every single day. I wear black t-shirt. I wear black pair of jeans every day. It doesn't really matter.   Russell Brown: (04:15) And I think as a result, we don't get the passing of time. We don't see it. There's no, the jacket comes out, the jacket goes away. Now summers here we get to go to the pool. We go to the pool every day here and as a result our relationship with ageing is affected by that. Our relationship with the way the body passes through time is affected by that.   Russell Brown: (04:38) And so I do think that wellness sort of came in as a sense of in part, because we have such a resistance to believing that we're ageing, people just can't believe that 10 years has passed because we didn't have any markers of that.   Russell Brown: (04:50) And I always say like if you're a man especially, like women you guys have a cycle, you have a menstrual cycle that says a month has passed. But for me, I really can't believe time is passing. I don't have children. I don't see any of that.   Russell Brown: (05:03) And so I think that wellness was really born a lot from this idea of how do I rectify the fact that I'm ageing even though I just can't believe it's to be true? And Los Angeles is really I feel like the epicentre of that.   Tahnee: (05:17) And if we drill right down to what you speak about a lot in your work anyway, we're talking like this idea of capitalism and how it's driving this kind of constant work ethic.   Tahnee: (05:28) And we can take that right back to the industrialization of the world and you speak about that online. The moving from it's a candle to get anything done at night to like, "Hey, we can electrify your whole house and you can watch TV or work on your computer or whatever."   Russell Brown: (05:44) Have that computer in your pocket and then go into your bed and so you can have the computer with you in the bed, in the place where you're supposed to be resting.   Russell Brown: (05:51) And then you wonder why you can't sleep because you've now made your bed into an office. And you're like, "I couldn't possibly meditate. There's just no way that could be." It's very, very complicated.   Tahnee: (06:03) It's a trip. And even if there's not that seasonal variance, we used to have that nocturnal rhythm, so there'd be dark and you'd have to go to bed at some point.   Tahnee: (06:14) I often think about that when I'm camping. I'm like, "Well, it gets a bit boring." You have a chat, you drink some wine and then you're like, "Well, let's go to bed." There's nothing else to do.   Tahnee: (06:23) So it's like, yeah, I think we've lost that natural kind of push to shut down. And so I think LA really, you've got the film industry there, not just that, but a lot of other kind of economies in that area that are just driving this kind of constant, hectic pace.   Tahnee: (06:40) And culturally, I think America too has had that anyone can achieve anything kind of push. And I see that in the wellness industry as well, it's almost like this kind of spiritual version of that sort of drive to succeed.   Tahnee: (06:55) And if you put your mind to it, you can be anything you want to be and create anything you want. And sometimes I'm very concerned about how toxic that is, so. Is that something you see?   Russell Brown: (07:04) Well, it's a lie, it's 100% a lie. And now like, especially lately in America being like, "Oh, actually it's still just intergenerational wealth."   Russell Brown: (07:13) The entire idea of American meritocracy is a lie, but we use that lie as a dangling carrot to make everyone feel terrible for not doing enough.   Russell Brown: (07:24) And I think the wellness industry is all braided up in that now. And that's part of the problem is that the foundation of it is that lie. It's not like manifesting, I don't believe and I don't think that's a thing.   Russell Brown: (07:34) I think this idea that you're supposed to rise yourself up in the bootstraps because allegedly one person did it one time, because Oprah Winfrey came from nothing and became Oprah Winfrey.   Russell Brown: (07:47) But she is the exception to the rule, which means that the rule is there that no one really can do it except for one person, two people, which are a complete, complete exception.   Tahnee: (08:01) They're unicorns. Yeah.   Russell Brown: (08:04) Totally. And now you are chasing a unicorn and thinking something is wrong with you is part of the problem, right? And that's the illusion of it all.   Russell Brown: (08:13) And I think America is starting to rectify or at least reckon with that lie, that it's not true. And part of the racial reckoning that's happening right now in America is like, "Oh, a lot of this meritocracy, the manifesting nonsense is for white people."   Russell Brown: (08:29) It's really not for any one of colour. It's certainly not for immigrants, queer people. It's really a very specific version of success that is not available to just about everyone.   Russell Brown: (08:41) And wellness is a part of that and that's why I am critical of it now more than I was before is that I see it and I see myself as the beneficiary of a lot of it too. And I feel like it's a lot of my responsibility to speak out on it.   Russell Brown: (08:55) One of the reasons why I am so critical of wellness and specifically acupuncture is because I am successful, but I am successful because I am a white man as an acupuncturist.   Russell Brown: (09:05) And I understand that media outlets like to see me and like to give me press, because it's easier to project Asian tradition and culture onto me than it is to actually just speak to an Asian person or an Asian American person.   Russell Brown: (09:22) And I feel that tension, even now on this podcast, I feel that tension. We're two white people talking about wellness and that feels odd to me. And I feel like it needs to be called out that I'm not from Asia. My ancestors are not from Asia. I learned this very generously from a Taiwanese woman in my school but I don't feel an ownership to this medicine.   Russell Brown: (09:48) And I feel very strange being a representative of the medicine often publicly, because I don't know that it's the most appropriate. I do the best I can, but I don't like often that I feel like sometimes when Caucasian people take up the spaces in these conversations they are doing so at a disservice to their colleagues who are minorities and I wrestle with that myself.   Tahnee: (10:19) Yeah. My husband, he has a comedy Instagram, he often says things like, "Look at the white people enjoying the empire," and it's as much a reflection on his own processes and people take it. They're like, "Oh, its not very kind."   Tahnee: (10:35) But we know we need to process this our own way. And I see that in your work with Wellness Trash Can and these things, it's like it's as much a self reflection as it is criticising the industry and we are a part of the problem.   Tahnee: (10:49) I have staff that are Sri Lankan and have different names and we've had people be really racist to them on the phone, like "Put me onto an Australian." And I'm like, "Jesus fucking Christ. You're buying Taoist tonic herbs from like two white people that have a company with some people with strange names in it. How can you be racist toward them?"   Tahnee: (11:07) And it's just a funny situation sometimes. And I often think, we have this amazing person in China we work with, with sourcing. And I often think if I put him front and centre on our social media, people just they would freak out. They wouldn't get it.   Russell Brown: (11:23) Well, that's the thing. What does it mean? Like what does it mean? Like what are we talking about here, especially like me as an acupuncturist, you're a yoga instructor.   Tahnee: (11:32) What are we doing?   Russell Brown: (11:33) What are we doing? And how did the industry become this place where it's like we have sort of appropriated a lot of these traditions. And now the industry wellness in general which is based on so many traditions of countries that are not Caucasian people. And yet the consumer is a white person who wants it to be a Caucasian thing and how that tension plays out.   Russell Brown: (11:59) I don't exactly understand, I don't know what to do with it. I don't know what to do with it, except for talk about it as much as I can and signal boost the other of practitioners who I'm close with and who I really believe in who I think need more attention put on them than I do.   Russell Brown: (12:19) But I don't know what it means about wellness. And it's one of the things that just makes me uncomfortable about wellness in general is knowing that how whitewashed it's become, how clean it all feels.   Russell Brown: (12:30) And it didn't actually come from a place of cleanliness. It's like a very superficial cleanliness. Particularly last year in America, there was so much anti-Asian violence because of COVID.   Tahnee: (12:42) And Trump.   Russell Brown: (12:42) That's like the least of it, I could just talk about forever, but for me to see acupuncture, white, Caucasian acupuncture, saying nothing about the anti-Asian violence really didn't ever compute to me.   Russell Brown: (12:58) And it would be like, "You owe your careers to Asian immigrants. You owe your careers to social activism on the part of racism. And now when racism is actually happening here in communities that are tangential to you and the work you do, you say nothing."   Russell Brown: (13:12) And that really just pissed me off last year. It still pisses me off. And there are friends of mine who want their Instagram and their social media to sort of portray that same cleanliness.   Russell Brown: (13:26) And I'm like, "The ship has sailed on that cleanliness." Your silence is what? What exactly do you think your silence is buying you around this? I don't understand it.   Russell Brown: (13:37) And COVID has only made it worse because of all of the conservatism around masks and the vaccines and things. And I think a reckoning is coming. I just think that the wellness industry can't continue to operate like this with a lot of these lies really at the heart of it.   Russell Brown: (13:56) And that's sort of where I ended up kind of going with my social media some of the time. And then sometimes I'm like, "Who needs to hear from me? I'm just like one more white guy who thinks that the world needs to my voice in it. And it doesn't." And I go back and forth with it. I go back and forth with it.   Tahnee: (14:19) Yeah. I really hear you on that. And I find pushing the button sometimes on publication myself very challenging. So I'm sure you have the same feeling.   Tahnee: (14:28) But I remembered you shared a whole piece on, is it Miriam Lee who was one of the advocates for Chinese medicine in your country and that was new to me. I didn't know that history.   Tahnee: (14:39) And I was really grateful you shared that. And if you don't mind, would you mind sharing a little bit about that? Because you talked about the politicisation of like all these wellness people avoiding politics, but really to get where we are now this is what's had to happen.   Russell Brown: (14:55) Well, Miriam Lee, we sort of consider her like the pioneer of Chinese medicine, at least on the west coast in America. She was a woman who came over from Asia I believe she came in 1969 and she was an acupuncturist in China.   Russell Brown: (15:07) And then she set up in the Bay Area in California and she was not legally allowed to practise medicine at the time. No one was really legally allowed to practise acupuncture at the time, but they did. They practised acupuncture.   Russell Brown: (15:19) And so she operated sort of under the radar and had a clinic and it was quite successful. And the versions of the story told of her is that eventually they found out about her. They came and arrested her and her patients came to court and demanded that she be freed.   Russell Brown: (15:43) And as a result, she was given licence to practise acupuncture. And which paved the way for California to be able to have licence.   Russell Brown: (15:51) The truth is is that she was not the meek, very subservient female acupuncturist that they portrayed. She was working with various organisations. She baited them to arrest her because she wanted to push the issue. And she actually had been lobbying for it. She bankrolled lobbyist's. She was out there actually doing the political work.   Russell Brown: (16:15) And I think that the difference is interesting because in one version we get to sort of just be either the victims of politics or the heroes of politics. But her version is actually no, you have to be a social activist.   Russell Brown: (16:31) The harder story to tell is this is a woman who knew exactly what she was doing and was doing it intentionally. And I think that that is a much better role model for acupuncture than just this very heroic tale of all of her patients worshipping her and wanting her to be able to practise.   Russell Brown: (16:46) But actually she was out there working in Sacramento, which is the state capital, to make sure that this legislature went through. And I think that that is something that we don't talk about enough is that we have to be really doing the work of social activism and not just hoping that our patients speak on our behalf, which is the fantasy that is told about Miriam Lee.   Tahnee: (17:09) Yeah.   Russell Brown: (17:09) The part that's also tangential to that is that Miriam Lee was only arrested because essentially what happened was is this cohort of Caucasian men at UCLA essentially discovered acupuncture in the 70s. They had never even heard of it before and learned it in about a year and a half from a teacher here in Los Angeles.   Russell Brown: (17:30) And as a result, they used their connections to get themselves permitted by the government to be able to practise medicine. But the terms of their permitting were that anyone who wasn't associated with medical school, they were with UCLA, anyone who wasn't associated with a medical school, then they became illegal.   Russell Brown: (17:50) So Miriam Lee was only arrested because these white men decided that they should have control of the laws around acupuncture. And they then went on to found most of the acupuncture schools in America, the curriculum of what it takes to become an acupuncturist, and worked with most of the states around the licencing of acupuncture.   Russell Brown: (18:11) And to me, that is the much bigger conversation is how it is that this group of white men basically decided that they should own the medicine, be responsible for the medicine, of which they had no connection to, to the detriment of the practitioners who actually this was their legacy. This was in their family. This was lineages of knowledge.   Russell Brown: (18:33) And that's why I think of myself as someone who is now one more in a lineage of white men who thinks that they should be the spokesperson for this medicine. I don't like that.   Russell Brown: (18:44) And I am very cautious of that because I understand how these things work. And I wonder, that when I am even on this podcast now talking to you, is there a Miriam Lee out there who's paying the price for my speaking on behalf of Chinese medicine in a way that perhaps I shouldn't be. And it's something that I think about.   Tahnee: (19:05) Yeah. We have a friend, Rhonda Chang, who's a Chinese-   Russell Brown: (19:10) Rhonda Chang's, and she was like, "I'm done, I'm not doing this anymore."   Tahnee: (19:14) This is what I was going to say. She just was like, "This fucking system is broken and you've taken my medicine and you've turned it into something that it's not, and I'm taking it back."   Tahnee: (19:26) And we've both been deeply inspired by her work and we spoke before we jumped on about the challenges of the institutionalisation and the education system around this work.   Tahnee: (19:37) And people like her, I'd much rather sit at her feet than the feet of some of the people I was studying with, so yeah it's a really tricky situation.   Tahnee: (19:48) And it sounds like you had a beautiful teacher from the little bit I've heard. Yeah. Could you tell us a little bit about your experience at school and how that went down?   Russell Brown: (19:57) I had a few teachers, but my first real primary teacher was a woman named Christine Chang, who, the first time I saw her, she had a man in a headlock on the floor of the clinic because she was cracking his neck which, of course we're not really allowed to do, but she doesn't care.   Russell Brown: (20:10) And she looked like a small woman wrestling a bear. And I was just like, "Who is this woman? I need to know everything she knows."   Russell Brown: (20:18) And so I followed her around and basically just made her talk to me and she was from Taiwan and she was the first person that would look at it like a point I was needling. And she'd be like, "Who told you to needle that?" And I'd be like, "Oh, Dr. Jai." And she'd be like, "Don't listen to Dr. Jai. Dr. Jai is a communist."   Russell Brown: (20:36) And I didn't know what she was talking about but come to find out that she's not wrong. I would be like, "No, Dr. Jai was born in America. I don't think she's a communist," because my understanding of what that was.   Russell Brown: (20:51) But what she was actually basically saying is that how when the communist party took over China in the 40s and 50s, they basically created acupuncture out of nothing.   Russell Brown: (21:01) It was an invented tradition that sort of took what they liked about eight principles and applied it to dialectical materialism, which is sort of communist ideas and sort of syphoned it down into a version of Chinese medicine that they could then package and sell to the west that would appeal to sort of Orientalism.   Russell Brown: (21:25) But it stripped out a lot of the things that she really believed the medicine to be. And Rhonda Chang, that's exactly what she speaks about, is that this sort of communist hybrid that they've made is not interesting to her at all. And it doesn't speak to the lineage she understands.   Russell Brown: (21:39) And so she is doing work that's around that but that's what my teacher was basically into and is that there was TCM, Traditional Chinese Medicine is a communist invention, and she's from Taiwan where they didn't subscribe to the TCM.   Russell Brown: (21:55) And so she was very strong about that and making me understand the difference between the two. And I was very fortunate of that. She was a real firecracker and just a very strong woman and taught me to be very strong in terms of my perspective on the medicine and having a perspective on the medicine. And I think that that's really ultimately what I teach.   Russell Brown: (22:20) And when I work with students now is that I want to say that there's a lot of ways of looking at the medicine. This idea of TCM, that there's one thing, it was never true. It never looked like that in Asia. There's always different perspectives on this.   Russell Brown: (22:36) Whether it's Five Element, all of them, whatever Rhonda Chang's doing. And the idea I always want is that you just see what you see and really own your perspective on it.   Russell Brown: (22:47) I like to work with a lot of students on just honing that perspective. What is your version of it? Do you see the world through the eight extras? Do you see the world through secondary vessels? Do you see the body through whatever mechanics? Orthopaedic mechanics?   Russell Brown: (23:02) But really becoming very clear on your own perspective is I think the most important thing. And I associate that with any success that I think that I have is that I've always had a pretty clear perspective. I see it the way I see it and I can own that.   Russell Brown: (23:17) And I'm sure a lot of that has to do with the fact that I'm a white man and so culture allows me to own my perspective in maybe a way that other people wouldn't. But I really think that that's the most important part of it.   Tahnee: (23:27) Mm.   Russell Brown: (23:29) I got that from my teacher.   Tahnee: (23:30) Well, I'm interested in that because, this is from my background research, I believe you were raised Jewish?   Russell Brown: (23:36) Yes.   Tahnee: (23:37) In kind of a fairly alternative household model, which if you want to talk about that you can, and then you studied journalism, then you've ended up in film and then you suddenly had a restaurant like, "Okay, I'm going to go study TCM."   Russell Brown: (23:51) Correct. You done your research.   Tahnee: (23:51) What is Russell's journey? Because how did you find your voice in all that? Because it doesn't really like seem particularly clear from my side of the pitch.   Russell Brown: (24:01) It's interesting. So yeah, I grew up Jewish is sort of a little bit of a stretch. I had a Bar Mitzvah, but that was about it and it was LA Jews. And my family was going through a very strange transition around the time of my Bar Mitzvah.   Russell Brown: (24:17) My mom had just left my dad to be with a woman. And so she and Diane had gotten together. My dad got remarried right away after that. And so by the time I was like coming of age, whatever that actually looks like, at around 13, it had been a long couple of years.   Russell Brown: (24:35) And so I just wanted to be done with that particular chapter and move on with my life. So I don't know that I ever really like thought like of myself as a Jewish person, even though my family was, but gosh, I never really thought about the full story.   Russell Brown: (24:53) One of the things that I knew growing up was is that there's more to be felt than to be seen in the world. And I think I always sort of like that. I always thought that there was magic. I always thought there was magic. I just really thought that there was things that I could see that other people couldn't see and that those were the things that impressed me the most, that I liked the most.   Russell Brown: (25:22) I had a grandfather who had a park and he would take us to the park and he knew every tree in that park in New York. And he would put bird seed in his mouth and the birds would sit on his chin and eat it out of his mouth because he would go there every day and the birds knew him. And I understood that to be the real world. I just knew that that was real and everything else was not.   Russell Brown: (25:45) And he played music and I understood that that was real and music was real. And I think that from a very early age, I understood that beauty was the point. The point was beauty and finding beauty in the world that is becoming increasingly ugly has always mattered to me.   Russell Brown: (26:03) And when I was, as you said, I got into the film industry and was working in films. And I think that that's a really beautiful service actually, out of the time to provide, I think we work hard, we deserve to be transported for a couple of hours to something else. I think we deserve to see other stories and to be transported by the stories of other people.   Russell Brown: (26:23) And I thought that was a really beautiful service to provide. I worked on the Fast and Furious movies and though those movies are ugly in a lot of ways. I think what a beautiful gift to give young people, to say to a 17 year old, "You could be somewhere else for a few hours. You could be in a flying car for a few hours. You don't have to be in your life that is hard."   Russell Brown: (26:47) And I still think that that's a beautiful gift and I knew that I wasn't going to be in that profession for long. But I still think that what I do now is a version of that.   Russell Brown: (26:59) I want you to experience beauty for an hour every week, every two weeks. I want you to be removed from the story of your life. I think that's the only way we're going to survive, frankly, is to have a chance to cushion yourself from how hard the world is with some softness.   Russell Brown: (27:17) And that's how I practise acupuncture now is I want people to be given an opportunity to catch their breath, to float, to not feel like the world is coming at them in a hostile way. What could it feel like to just be soft and to sit alone in the dark and wait for something to happen?   Russell Brown: (27:40) I just think is such a beautiful way to be for a little bit of time, especially in Los Angeles where it's not like that. And it's hard and we drive cars and everything feels hard here in a way.   Russell Brown: (27:51) It's easy here in LA, but it's also hard in that like parallel parking and all of that, the tiny streets and part of the Los Angeles lifestyle is it's a hustling lifestyle, right? Like these are people who are here to make things happen and that hustle is hard and it feels like it's coming at you.   Russell Brown: (28:09) And I like to offer people a space where it doesn't feel like the world is coming at them for a little bit. And I think that's beautiful. I think that that's what I'm still offering is beauty.   Russell Brown: (28:20) I like to think that I'm giving them a chance to feel what it could be like in a soft world where your grandfather gets birds to sit on his chin and eat out of his mouth. That's all really I'm trying to do. That's really all I'm trying to do.   Russell Brown: (28:36) And so I don't know that I'm a great acupuncturist in that way. I don't know that I know the most about endometriosis or herbs, but I do know that that's how I'm trying to practise, is to give people that small space in their lives for some magic to fill it.   Tahnee: (28:54) Hmm. What do you do for you to get that same thing?   Russell Brown: (28:59) The best question. The blacksmith does not get his shoe shined. I go through phases where I'm good at it and where I'm bad at it.   Russell Brown: (29:09) I had a place in the desert and the desert really helped me out a lot there because it is so quiet and it's so peaceful out there. I spend a lot of time with my dog.   Tahnee: (29:17) Backpack.   Russell Brown: (29:19) Backpack is my dog, but Backpack is really helpful because Backpack is a reminder that the world is polite. He's a very, very polite dog. He doesn't take anything for granted. He always asks for permission. Even like to sit on the couch, he looks at me like, "Will you please invite me on the couch?"   Russell Brown: (29:36) And just being in relation to that kind of gentleness is incredibly healing for me. And it slows me down and he just wants me to put my face on his face and I just think that's the best. And I find that kind of sweetness is very, very medicinal for me. So we spend a lot of our time together when I'm not at work.   Russell Brown: (30:01) I read a lot. I write a lot as you know. I really like to write and part of that writing is that I get to spend time with myself and it's a place of creation for me. And creation is really important for me.   Russell Brown: (30:12) And so I have to remember that when I hit the send button on the Instagram post that I'm embarrassed about or that I think is too much it's as much because that kind of creation is very important for me. I don't toil over it too much. I just need to be able to make and to create.   Russell Brown: (30:29) And that's how I sort of restore myself a lot is just with that kind of creation is helpful for me. I don't have kids. I'm not interested in parenting like that, but I do think that creation is still important. I think nurturing is still really important and that's how I nurture.   Russell Brown: (30:49) I eat. I like to eat. I like to watch TV. I like to check out, I need that too. I need stupid. I have a boyfriend and he's a genius, but he's also very stupid. And that balance is very, very important for me.   Russell Brown: (31:05) He's one of the stupidest geniuses I've ever met and will just make me laugh. We've been together a long time and I just can't believe he still makes me laugh, but those are some of the things I do. Yeah.   Tahnee: (31:18) That's really nice. Do you receive treatment yourself from anyone or?   Russell Brown: (31:21) I do. I go to an acupuncturist who does not know I'm an acupuncturist.   Tahnee: (31:26) Secrets.   Russell Brown: (31:27) Yeah. I don't need him to know. I prefer he think that I'm not so that I don't have an opinion or a position and I don't want to talk about acupuncture.   Russell Brown: (31:39) So he thinks I'm a law clerk, which is a job I don't know what is.   Tahnee: (31:41) I was going to say, what does a law clerk do?   Russell Brown: (31:45) I have no idea. Actually someone told me, I can't say I don't know what it is, a lawyer finally told me a law clerk is a lawyer who works for a judge in America.   Russell Brown: (31:53) So like when a judge does a whatever judges do when they make rulings and they write out their rulings, the law clerk writes it out. So that's what I do. My understanding is it is the most boring profession there is because there is no follow up question you could ask to a law clerk. Like there's no like, "Oh you wouldn't." And so he just never does.   Russell Brown: (32:15) And whenever I've said I'm a law clerk, because I'll say at a party. Because sometimes I don't-   Tahnee: (32:18) So just shut downs conversation.   Russell Brown: (32:20) It just kills a conversation dead.   Tahnee: (32:23) Love it.   Russell Brown: (32:23) There's nothing you can ask. There's nothing you can ask about a law clerk, but there's something about being an acupuncturist, especially in LA, I don't want to talk about it.   Russell Brown: (32:31) Especially in certain settings in LA, at an LA party, the minute you say you're an acupuncturist, then you're like in a whole place. And a lot of times I like it. My boyfriend's always like, "You will find some woman with a menstrual disorder at any party who wants to talk to you about her menses."   Russell Brown: (32:48) And I love it. Nine times out of 10 I love it. But like I will always be at a party at a chocolate fountain talking about menstrual cramps and my boyfriend will always walk up and be like, "How? How did you find this woman to talk about her cramps with you?"   Russell Brown: (33:00) But I like it most of the time, but sometimes you just don't want to talk about that. And so that's when you say you're a law clerk and people change the subject or they never speak to you again.   Tahnee: (33:09) I'm so stealing this.   Russell Brown: (33:11) Law clerk's the best.   Tahnee: (33:13) There was a time about six or seven years ago, where if we said we worked with medicinal mushrooms, people would kind of back away.   Russell Brown: (33:18) Oh, yeah.   Tahnee: (33:20) But now it's unfortunately you're-   Russell Brown: (33:26) You're just a law clerk.   Tahnee: (33:26) Yeah. Got to get there. So on clinical practise, and I want to bring it around to that because we've spoken about this before we came on, but I have a little bit of background in understanding some of the basics of what acupuncture means to be as a practitioner and-   Russell Brown: (33:40) You know more than the basics. I think you probably know more than most acupuncturists.   Tahnee: (33:44) Well, yeah. I've had some really amazing mentors and like you said, people who are pushing back against that sort of communist industrial sort of model.   Tahnee: (33:54) So they've pushed me to learn very deeply, which has been something I'm really grateful for. But I wouldn't feel comfortable sticking needles in someone just yet.   Russell Brown: (34:04) You can do it. It's not that hard.   Tahnee: (34:07) I know my husband's always like, "You can test it on me maybe." But yeah, some things I've really noticed about your work which I find interesting, is you work a lot with the eight extraordinaries. So for those that don't know, could you explain a little bit about and how you came to work with those in clinic?   Russell Brown: (34:23) Absolutely. But people don't know is when they go to an acupuncturist, most of the time the acupuncturist is doing like, "We're working on the liver channel, working on the gallbladder channel."   Russell Brown: (34:30) But when they say that they're talking about a very specific type of meridian. There's 12 primary meridians. And those are the ones that most acupuncturists use. Stomach channel, the heart channel. Those are meridians that deal with blood that go to the organ level.   Russell Brown: (34:47) But when an acupuncturist is selecting to use the primary meridians, often they're doing that because those are the meridians that are taught most in schools, but not necessarily because those are the ones that are the most clinically relevant to what is happening with the patient.   Russell Brown: (35:02) The primary channels are the middle level of energy in the body, but there's two other levels of energy that are accessible by acupuncture.   Russell Brown: (35:08) There's Wei Qi, which is the superficial level of energy, which is deals with the skin and the musculature of the body. The Wei Qi levels have no organ connection. They're really just superficial levels. And you can access them through different types of meridians called the sinew channels and the diversion channels, which is a different type of meridian.   Russell Brown: (35:31) And then there's the deepest level of energy that is below the blood level, that deals with something called Yuan Qi, which is source Qi, constitutional Qi, really the energy that is dealt with.   Russell Brown: (35:43) And we sort of talk about more with destiny, like the actual curriculum of your life. And that is what the eight extras are. The eight extras are the deepest level. These are vessels that deal with the trajectory of your life.   Russell Brown: (35:55) And I like them because often when you're dealing with the eight extras, when you deal with the primary channels, this is the thing that they don't tell you much is, the primary channels are a response to life.   Russell Brown: (36:07) The thing happened and then it affected your body. And now it's in the meridians, the primary meridians. And so by the time you're working on the stomach channel, it's because of all the bad things that already happened to your stomach.   Russell Brown: (36:18) When you deal with the eight extras, you're saying, "Life didn't matter." This is energy that was not affected by anything that happened to you after you were born, this is energy that is related to your constitution and what you have to learn in this lifetime.   Russell Brown: (36:33) The directionality of your life, as given to you at birth, the minute of conception even. And so when you deal with eight extras, you're really dealing with life trajectory. And I often think that that's probably, for me, that's a more useful place for what I want to do with patients, which is to step back from the bad thing that happened and actually have some perspective on maybe what that bad thing means to the bigger story of your life.   Russell Brown: (37:02) Or even to forget that the bad thing happened and actually see yourself as so much bigger than that all together. And that is how I think you get back to healing is to widen your imagination back to how you were actually considered before you were even born.   Russell Brown: (37:17) And so the eight extras are a way for me to look at the body that way, or to explain the body that way. Could we just look at your primary resources? Could we look at the way you think of nourishment? Can we look at the way you think of curiosity?   Russell Brown: (37:35) The eight extras are a really good set of metaphors for that curriculum I think. And so that's how I was always taught them. But again, it's about the selection of them. I don't do the eight extras on every patient. Some patients they have a stomach ache and they need to be worked on their stomach. And so then you do a primary channel and that's what it's there for.   Russell Brown: (37:53) But what happens is because the boards tend to only test on the primary channels, acupuncturists don't learn anything but the primary channels. And so they think those are the only ingredients. But there's other options.   Russell Brown: (38:04) And what we're talking about is they're Russian nesting dolls. It's like the primary's in the middle but there's bigger ones and they're smaller ones. And so I want to pick the nesting doll that is most appropriate to where my patient is and that I just want to have as many tools as possible.   Tahnee: (38:21) Well, I've heard acupuncturist claim that you can't clinically work with the eight extraordinaries, which I know not to be true through people like yourself and other people I've worked and studied with.   Tahnee: (38:32) They say, "Oh, once you're born, once you're incarnate there's no effect there." But my experience is that's not true. So what would you say to those people? They just haven't learned enough or?   Russell Brown: (38:46) What we're talking about now is...   Tahnee: (38:49) The woo woo.   Russell Brown: (38:50) It's not even the woo woo. I'm just like, well, it's how literal you want to interpret anything as far as I'm concerned.   Russell Brown: (39:00) I think that the primary meridians are metaphors, frankly. I think Stomach 36 is a point that everyone uses, which is like the big point for digestive function.   Russell Brown: (39:10) But I don't actually think that when I put a needle into Stomach 36, it sends a signal into my stomach that helps me digest food better. I don't think of acupuncture as operating necessarily on the most literal level.   Russell Brown: (39:23) And so I think of the eight extras in terms of all of that. I think all of the meridians are metaphors, frankly. I think they're all poems that I'm trying to talk to the body through. And again, that's what I'm speaking about before is that I think the whole thing is poetry, frankly.   Russell Brown: (39:38) I think that the points are all poems. I think that the metaphor of Qi moving through the body, of feeling stagnant is the metaphor I think. The metaphor of how I digest the world, make sense of it, use it to make me stronger and dispose of the waste. That's the metaphor of digestion I think.   Russell Brown: (40:02) And so perhaps none of it is true. I'm open to that possibility. But I do think that those metaphors are still powerful and I think they're more powerful than any medicine, frankly.   Russell Brown: (40:12) And so that's where I come at it from. I can't say that you can or can't use certain vessels. I think it's sort of a silly conversation to have at some point.   Tahnee: (40:24) So what do you think is happening when you needle 36? Is it your intention? You've been educated and you're sending that through that person?   Russell Brown: (40:34) I'm not going to use Stomach 36 by itself. I'm going to use it in the context, the conversation about how one uses nourishment. What are we talking about when we talk about where you think nourishment is? What do you think it means to take something in and make sense of it? How much worth do you think you have that you deserve that nourishment?   Russell Brown: (40:53) I think that there's when we get into stomach stuff, we're talking self worth obviously. We're talking about how much I want to take care of myself, how much I learned how to invest in this body, to invest in my life.   Russell Brown: (41:07) And so I'm often involved in sort of a larger conversation when it comes to that. And that's why I think like my version of Stomach 36 is going to be different than your version of Stomach 36 because I have my own take on what digestion is and which is informed by my own mom issues. And which is what stomach is, is about how we-   Tahnee: (41:31) Oh, I know all about that one.   Russell Brown: (41:33) I'm sure. Yeah. As a mom and as a daughter, but like, yeah, how much I feel safe in the world and how much I trust nourishment and how much I trust to be continued to be taken care of in this lifetime and how much I trust my capacity to give care relative to my capacity to receive care.   Russell Brown: (41:54) I think all of those things are involved in that. Stomach 36 is a particularly one because in five element tradition, it's the earth point on the earth channel, which means it is really about rectifying that relationship to digestion.   Russell Brown: (42:07) It is saying, "You had it all wrong. You were confused actually about what that relationship to nourishment is." And so we are saying, "It's time to reset that relationship."   Russell Brown: (42:19) So when you do Stomach 36, you're basically instructing the body that you're from an earth standpoint, your earth is confused and we're going to restart, which is why it's such a powerful point and why everyone uses it, because it is a way of basically resetting your understanding of basic nourishment on the deepest level there is.   Russell Brown: (42:40) And that's why, for some acupuncturists, that's the only point they need to use. They only want that because the idea is that if I can get a patient to just understand clearly nourishment on a very basic level, then all the rest of the body processes will come back online. And I think there's some truth to that.   Russell Brown: (42:58) So I do use Stomach 36 quite a bit, but I don't think that it's just going in there and telling my body to help me not be lactose intolerant anymore. I'm still lactose intolerant.   Russell Brown: (43:12) But that's why like then you do earth points on the other meridians. And you're like, "Oh, Lung Nine is actually this beautiful point for saying nourishment... Grief is part of nourishment."   Russell Brown: (43:22) That's what the lung points. The metal element is about loss and what the earth point on the lung channel is about saying is like, could you take all of that loss that you've experienced in your life and understand that even that was a way of taking care of yourself? That even that was a version of self love.   Russell Brown: (43:38) That is the most beautiful thing I think Lung Nine is so beautiful as to say, "All of that loss you ever had, that heartbreak that you had, that was for you, that fed you too. There was actually nutrition in all of that loss." What a beautiful way of looking at that loss I think from point of nutrition, from the point of nourishment. I love Lung Nine.   Russell Brown: (43:59) And doing Stomach 36 to say, "You've had it wrong. Now we're going to think of nourishment a new way. And you're going to take that understanding to lung, to your broken heart, to all that grief." Perfect treatment, as far as I'm concerned.   Russell Brown: (44:12) Those two points, that's it, I'm done. I'm out. Those are primary channels. That's not secondary vessels, but that's a perfect treatment, I think. But that's how I look at it.   Tahnee: (44:21) And your work, especially your writing I suppose, but even how you speak is so poetic and my husband was supposed to see you, but didn't get the chance because of COVID.   Tahnee: (44:32) But I get the sense from your writing that you speak to your clients about their lives and use these beautiful metaphors from Chinese medicine.   Tahnee: (44:42) And I think that's something I've really loved about your work is you bring a really fresh... A lot of people just repeat the wrote learned kind of chart of five element theory.   Tahnee: (44:52) Deliver, "You might feel frustration or irritability." I get a little bit like, "Oh, okay, can we evolve this conversation now?"   Tahnee: (45:00) And yeah, I think that it's not an embodied or useful way, I suppose of speaking to these things. And I wonder if you could, I know it's a long conversation, but could you give us a quick journey through the five elements from your perspective?   Russell Brown: (45:16) I really think that the seasons are such a perfect way of looking at it. And that's why I sort of wrote about it recently is that we learn the five elements and then learn the seasons, which I think is sort of backwards because they're going to teach you wood, which is means nothing, right?   Russell Brown: (45:30) They're going to teach you metal which means nothing. And these are all the things. Wood is frustration. What is anger? Wood is spring. Wood is green. And you're like, "Oh, okay." But they teach it that way because they're going to test you multiple choice. Right? So they just want to make sure that you've covered the bases.   Russell Brown: (45:46) But I like to go the other way. I want to start with the season. By season I think of spring and that's wood, right? And what's spring about? Spring is about the force that was required for a seed to break through snow and want to grow.   Russell Brown: (46:03) The liver and wood is about understanding the path forward. It's the journey that's taking you up. And that is really what we're talking about when we talk about wood. It is vision for the future, capacity to plan, knowing which way you want to go.   Russell Brown: (46:21) The wood is the general, it's like, "This is how I want to go. I want to go this way. That's how it is." And that's what spring is. It takes a lot of energy to crack that seed open after winter and that's what the wood energy is.   Russell Brown: (46:34) And so when you meet a wood personality type, those are aggressive people who know what they want, they are competitive and they're prone to anger.   Russell Brown: (46:43) And the reason why they're prone to anger is because they want to grow so badly that when life gets in the way they take it personally. They don't understand that obstacles are part of growth. And they perceive it as a stagnation. They perceive that as someone blocking their capacity to grow, and that is what anger comes from.   Russell Brown: (47:03) And so that's how you get to anger. You can't learn anger first. You have to understand that the end of it is where, oh, it's like, "Yeah, those people are really angry because they think that growth is supposed to just be a free flow of energy." And it's not. Growth comes with challenges.   Russell Brown: (47:23) Kites rise against the wind, not with the wind. But if you think that the world is coming at you hostilely and it's trying to prevent you from manifesting the plan that you see so clearly in your mind, you're going to be frustrated all the time.   Russell Brown: (47:35) And that's what a wood type is essentially. But that's how it is. So then you get through wood. Next is fire and fire is the culmination of that, that's summer, right? It's like the height of life.   Russell Brown: (47:47) And I have always sort of joke that I never like fire because fire people tend to be so full of life and in LA a fire type is like an actor, right? We're a fire city. People come to LA because they're fiery. And I hate that. I never want to talk to those people generally.   Russell Brown: (48:03) And as I was younger, I was like, "They're too vexing." Like that kind of fullness, that kind of like so much fire is about inspiration, being enlightened is fire, which could be annoying.   Russell Brown: (48:15) And especially in LA and love is fire, which I find to be just sort of treacly and basic. But as I've gotten older, I'm like, "No, actually those people are right. What else is there?" It's what we're trying to do. We're trying to reach up to fire.   Russell Brown: (48:32) That is the point of fire is that we should be looking for love. We should be inspired. We should want to be set on fire with excitement for living like that is the point. And that's summer.   Russell Brown: (48:45) Summer's not my season. I don't like being hot and I don't like parties and I don't like splashing or in the pool, but I get it now that if you have come from snow and if you live in not LA, but you live in some place snowy, you love summer and you just want it to be sun and summer all the time. And that's really what the fire element is about.   Russell Brown: (49:05) And then you get on the other side of fire and you're in fall, which is where I'm at now, which is about the pairing back. The bloom is over. And now we're actually coming into a state of decline again.   Russell Brown: (49:18) And it's about the tree losing its leaves, but it doesn't lose the leaves for pain. It's losing the leaves because it's going into a state of hibernation and it's going back into a state of contraction.   Russell Brown: (49:29) And I'm writing a lot about grief right now, and it's not that the grief is meant to break people's heart. It's about to see yourself clearly and what metal is about, metal is fall, and metal is about letting go of all of the things you thought you were, but you weren't really.   Russell Brown: (49:46) And that's why the metal organs are the lungs and the large intestine, because the lungs and intestine are filters. The large intestine is saying, "All the things you ate that you said were who you are, you're not." And actually you could just let them go. It's a filter.   Russell Brown: (50:01) That's the idea is just because you digested it, it didn't become who you were, your job isn't who you are, your mom isn't who you are, your role as a mother isn't who you are. There is an essential you underneath it.   Russell Brown: (50:14) And if you could let those things go, you actually get a chance to see yourself more clearly. And you take that essential part of you into the hibernation of winter, which is what the water element is about. And that's where you go after that.   Russell Brown: (50:28) Water is the conservation period. It's about saying, "I need to actually incubate for a little bit." Water is so interesting. And I'm looking at it now from a different point of view, which is that if you look at the five element cycle, water is the beginning. It's actually the beginning of life, but it's the dark part.   Russell Brown: (50:46) And the idea is that life begins in darkness and then brightness comes out of darkness. And that's really what water is about saying, "It's going to be dark. Can you move through the fear to know that there's life on the other side of that?"   Russell Brown: (51:03) And I think that that's so much part of the life experience is that the Big Bang itself was about light coming out of dark.   Russell Brown: (51:11) And that's what the water element is about, is that this virtue is the wisdom of saying, "I don't know, but I am willing to go into darkness in my belief that life will come after this, that there will be something that comes after this. I'm not sure I'm making peace with that darkness because I believe that there is light that comes out of the darkness."   Russell Brown: (51:35) And trusting that that is the case. And that's really where you get to when you get with the water element, which is why water types tend to be wise.   Russell Brown: (51:44) We think of the water type is the wizard because the wizard is the one that's like, "I don't need to control things. I don't need to know everything. I'm actually just going to soften myself and move really slowly and trust that there's light here."   Russell Brown: (51:58) And that then turns into spring again, which is the burst of light that comes out of that, which is insane. And it's deranged, completely insane that there would be grass growing under snow. I just think it's crazy. But that spring, it comes back around.   Russell Brown: (52:16) And so I didn't do a great job explaining the five elements, oh, I skipped earth, shit. Earth is a tricky one.   Tahnee: (52:21) Well, they can stick it in the middle and then nobody knows.   Russell Brown: (52:24) Earth is in the middle. Either Earth is in the middle, earth is after every season or earth is in the fall, right? Is in that period of fall where it's harvest, but earth is about reaping what you sew basically.   Russell Brown: (52:36) Earth is about saying after summer you actually get to collect all of the things that the summer gave you and bringing it back into a place of nourishment.   Russell Brown: (52:45) Earth's the most important one for any of us who are listening, because it's all going to be healers who are listening and we're all earth types, because that's why we got into healing to begin with is because we all have inappropriate relationships with giving and receiving care. It's the only reason you become a healer to begin with.   Russell Brown: (53:00) And hopefully we get that worked out, but that's also why we're all burnt out is because we give more care than we get. And that's the earth, that's the earth deficiency.   Russell Brown: (53:11) But that's how I am looking at the cycle now. And I see that cycle in myself and I see that cycle in myself every day, because that cycle is every day when I wake up in the morning and then I crash at the end of the day.   Russell Brown: (53:23) And I see that cycle in my patients and explaining some of that helps me contextualise a lot of where patients are. And I think it helps, like I said, to step back from where you are in the immediacy of your life and be like, "Oh, this is just one part in this big story."   Russell Brown: (53:42) And actually the context is important because if you are lost in darkness and you are lost in grief right now, and you don't understand that the grief is so important and that it's actually incubating something very special in you. And you just think that all of the leaves on these trees are falling because it's sad and your heart is supposed to break for it.   Russell Brown: (54:04) And you don't know that actually that tree is alive under there. It looks like it's dead, but it's not. And that is what actually metal is about, is that you are being stripped down to what is most bare in you so that when you come back, you come back stronger.   Russell Brown: (54:19) I think that that's such an important part that we don't get from just talking about regular old metal and grief. I just think that parts of it are missed if you don't actually sort of put it in the context of all the other organs and elements.   Tahnee: (54:34) Yeah. And I was taught the word poignancy, which is like the beautiful grief and then the counter to that almost, the courage that comes from facing what we don't want to face and actually that growth.   Tahnee: (54:48) And that for me really transformed because I was a grief avoider for sure. Especially in my 20s. And yeah, I remember when I was taught that it was a bit of an epiphany for me. And you mentioned an epiphany earlier. Should we segue to epiphanies?   Russell Brown: (55:06) I would love it. I'm in a class with an acupuncturist. I won't mention his name because there may be some patient confidentiality stuff, but I'm with a teacher who I've been with for years. And he's an acupuncturist and he's brilliant.   Russell Brown: (55:20) But I also kind of think he's a little bit pompous in a way that a lot of-   Tahnee: (55:26) They tend to be.   Russell Brown: (55:28) Acupuncturists can be, and his arrogance does something visceral to me that makes it hard, but I just find him to be so brilliant.   Russell Brown: (55:35) And so we're in this weekend courses now where we basically are watching him do intakes with patients and he does pulse and he doesn't actually do needles on anyone. It's all just intake. And then we talk about the patient after that.   Russell Brown: (55:45) And so people in the class bring in a patient and normally the patients are of a certain type, just like, oh, maybe a little trauma, maybe a little psycho emotional stuff, because that's kind of his focus, but they're all interesting.   Russell Brown: (56:00) But then a couple days ago I was in one over the weekend. We had this patient who was probably like a 45 year old electrician, like a blue collar guy, which isn't classically someone who would show up to an acupuncture workshop.   Russell Brown: (56:16) And he was sort of doing a little bit of like he would talk to my teacher and then he would sort of talk to us, like he was kind of entertaining a little bit and wanted to sort of have a laugh and be a little bit of a performer for us, which I appreciated.   Russell Brown: (56:30) But when it came down to it, he ultimately was talking about h

Christine Chang Lee continues Advent series. Title: Joy and the Kingdom of God. Text: Isaiah 52:1-10 and 52:8 Worship by Pastor Aaron and RC3 Team

Watermelon Masks. Shark Tank. A brand color palette that, if used for that new interior design project you've been keen on, would have all your neighbors seething with jealousy.  But it's the pivot from K-beauty curation to creation that sets apart Glow Recipe. Co-founders Sarah Lee & Christine Chang talk about how they used their industry expertise and Glow Gang community to develop their own original line of products. Learn more: The Shake Up HubSpot Podcast Network

In this episode, my guest is relationship expert Christine Chang, sharing her amazing tips to that help women who are looking to find their life partner. A Bestselling Author and worldwide photographer based out of Los Angeles, Christine Chang's work has been published in numerous magazines including People, US Weekly and Modern Luxury. Her authentic style has attracted celebrities like Clint Eastwood, Pierce Brosnan and Jane Fonda. Corporate Clients include AOL, Appirio, Mind Valley. Her book “Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women” has helped thousands of professional women all over the world find their love partner. Guest Social Media links Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cchangandco/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/cchangandco Twitter - https://twitter.com/cchangandco TicTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@cchangandco?lang=en You Tube - https://www.youtube.com/c/cyschang Website - http://christinechang.com/ Victoria Lowell is a financial advocate, coach, international bestselling author of “Empower your Worth: A Woman's Guide to Increasing Self-Worth and Net Worth.” and the founder of Empowered Worth, a financial-education platform that empowers women to become active participants in their own financial future and well-being. In late 2018 she left Wall Street and followed her passion to help women assert themselves fiscally. Her expertise in this field has led to her hosting this podcast, conferences and webinars, motivational speaking and being a guest on many tv, radio and podcast shows. Thanks for listening! It means so much to us that you listened to our podcast! If you would like to continue the conversation with us, head on over to www.empoweredworth.com . With this podcast, we are building a community of Empowered Women that we hope to inspire to a better their lives and take their place at the financial table. If you know somebody who would benefit from this message, or would be an awesome addition to our community, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Join our private Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1092671450939354/ Social Media links Instagram - @empoweredworth Facebook - @victorialowellew & @empoweredworth Twitter - @empoweredworth Pinterest - @empoweredworth You Tube - @empoweredworth Website – www.empoweredworth.com Sign up for our FREE MEMBERSHIP and get our Basic On-Demand Personal Finance Course. https://empoweredworth.com/product/basic-membership Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a note in the comment section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe on the podcast app on your mobile device. Leave us a review We appreciate every bit of feedback to make this a value adding part of your day. Ratings and reviews from our listeners not only help us improve, but also help others find us in their podcast app. If you have a minute, an honest review on iTunes goes a long way! Thank You!!  

After becoming acquainted with one another through their day jobs at L'Oreal, Christine Chang and Sarah Lee founded the wildly popular Glow Recipe. Dive into this episode to get inspired by their clear vision for K-beauty and how their leadership style impacts the brand's success.#wherebrainsmeetbeauty@wherebrainsmeetbeautypodcastwherebrainsmeetbeauty.com

After becoming acquainted with one another through their internship at L'Oreal, Christine Chang and Sarah Lee, founded their own beauty brand, Glow Recipe! It was through a sheer amount of work that their vision came to be — which was introducing the very popular ‘K-Beauty' into the American market. Listen to what they have to say!#wherebrainsmeetbeauty@wherebrainsmeetbeautypodcastwherebrainsmeetbeauty.com

You might know Glow Recipe for their watermelon mask. Or maybe you saw Glow Recipe on Shark Tank. What you might've missed was their seamless shift from K-beauty curation in Sephora to K-beauty inspired creation all their own. Co-founders Sarah Lee & Christine Chang sit down to talk about how they use their industry expertise and Glow Gang community to inform how they develop their own original products. Learn more: The Shake Up HubSpot Podcast Network

Today's guests are Sarah Lee and Christine Chang, co-founders of the K-beauty-inspired Glow Recipe. In this age of globalization and cross-cultural influence, it certainly seems like South Korea is having its moment in the sun. Between K-Pop, Korean BBQ, and K-beauty, South Korean culture is really taking the world by storm. Christine and Sarah met while they were working for L'Oréal in Korea, but it wasn't until they had moved to New York City that they saw the potential in being a distributor for K-beauty products in the states. It wasn't long before the American consumer was snatching up everything they offered, and ever the savvy entrepreneurs, they capitalized on this success to dive into manufacturing their own products as well. Listen in as we cover everything from how there's no one-size-fits-all skin type and therefore no one-size-fits-all skincare, why the beauty industry needs to stop using unrealistic terms like pore-less and flawless, and we take a deep dive into their Shark Tank experience; how they struck a deal with Robert and why they ended up walking away from that deal after the episode aired.

Connect with Christine on Instagram  @cchangandcoGrab your FREE  First Date Guide (http://christinechang.com/first-date-guide/). Grab your copy of Christine's Book  "Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women"  (https://www.amazon.com/Show-Up-Finding-Independent-Women-ebook/dp/B08BBB446J/)Screenshot the episode and share your biggest takeway. Don't forget to tag the podcast so I can cheer you on from the sidelines @unstoppableyou20 on FB & IGConnect with me on IG and Tik Tok @iamsantina_rlGrab your FREE Unstoppable Babes class: https://www.santinarigano.com/Join Hype Squad at - https://www.santinarigano.com/hype-squad

Connect with Christine on Instagram  @cchangandcoGrab your FREE  First Date Guide (http://christinechang.com/first-date-guide/). Grab your copy of Christine's Book  "Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Women"  (https://www.amazon.com/Show-Up-Finding-Independent-Women-ebook/dp/B08BBB446J/)Screenshot the episode and share your biggest takeway. Don't forget to tag the podcast so I can cheer you on from the sidelines @unstoppableyou20 on FB & IGConnect with me on IG and Tik Tok @iamsantina_rlGrab your FREE Unstoppable Babes class: https://www.santinarigano.com/Join Hype Squad at - https://www.santinarigano.com/hype-squad

The queens of K-Beauty, Sarah Lee and Christine Chang, founded the world recognized Korean skincare brand Glow Recipe. From their appearance on Shark Tank to now creating one of the best-selling brands at Sephora, their story is truly an impressive one. We discuss the influence of Korean beauty in today's world, working with loved ones and how going viral on TikTok impacted their business. I hope you will enjoy this episode of Founded Beauty and if you do, please share with a friend who you think will love it too.Founded Beauty is available on all podcast platforms and we release new episodes every Monday and Thursday so be sure to follow the podcast to be notified. We really appreciate every single listen, share, and review. It goes such a long way and helps us reach new listeners. As a little thank you, I will be hosting a giveaway each week on my Instagram channel (@mehta_a) where you can win some exciting goodies. Stay connected with Akash, Sarah Lee and Christine Chang:Akash Mehta: @mehta_aFable & Mane: @fableandmanewww.fableandmane.comSarah Lee: @sarah_glowChristine Chang: @christine_glowGlow Recipe: @glowrecipewww.glowrecipe.com For more information about Founded Beauty please visit: www.foundedbeauty.com#foundedbeauty See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the latest episode of TheIndustry.fashion's The Beauty Edit podcast,  Co-founder Antony Hawman speaks to the founders of Glow Recipe,  the Korean inspired skincare brand that is clean, fruit powered and unapologetically fun.  Christine Chang and Sarah Lee learned the power of using fruit based ingredients to soothe and nourish the skin,  from their mothers and grandmothers who would incorporate ingredients from the kitchen in their home beauty recipes.Their very first product, the Watermelon Glow Sleeping Mask was inspired by a childhood memory of their grandmothers rubbing watermelon rind on the skin in the hot summer months, to soothe irritation and heat rash.  Christine and Sarah tell us about the importance of finding the perfect retail partner,  their stance on clean beauty and sustainability plus,  we get some tips and tricks on how to achieve the ultimate glowing skin. You're welcome!

In today’s episode, Samantha talks to Christine Chang, relationship author and speaker who wrote the book “Show Up: Finding Love for the Independent Woman.”Starting as a lifestyle photographer, Christine was drawn to events but more so the wedding scene because of the connections you can make with the families.  When COVID hit, she took it as her opportunity to move on to something even greater and decided to write her book, to help strong independent woman find true love.We Cover:Self-work and feeling good about yourselfHow she met her husbandThree important questions to ask when picking a partnerRecommendations on how to make the first moveHow to know if you are with the oneHow she navigates woman to feel good in front of the cameraMore tips when going to photoshootsWhat’s next for Christine Connect with Christine Chang:Instagram: @CChangandCoYouTube: @Christine ChangPodcast: Show  Up with Christine ChangHer book Show Up: Finding Love for Independent Woman is available on Amazon.Connect with Samantha Ruberto:Website: www.samantharuberto.comInstagram: @hellobeyoutifulpodcastJoin Hello BeYOUtiful's Facebook Community: @hellobeyoutifulpodcast 

I'm delighted to share episode 8 with you, and in this session I'm joined by the beautifully grounded Christine Chang. Relationship Author and Speaker, she helps high-performing women create the relationship of their dreams by teaching self-awareness, boundaries, accountability, and communication skills. We have a wonderful conversation about why people are drawn to a certain "type" when it comes to picking our romantic partners.

Series: The Resurrection Life Title: The energy of God Text: Philippians 2:12-18 Summary: In the finale of this series, Christine Chang explores the unique phrase from the Apostle Paul that we should "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling." Though the word 'work' can conjure certain ideas, this verse sounds completely different when we look at it through the etymology of the word energy.

It's back to the movies for the Rock N Roll Archaeologist! But for the first time the film in question is a fictional narrative dramedy called, The Incoherents and it is directed by Jared Barel and stars Alex Emanuel, who also wrote most of the music. Jared and Alex break down the film and we try our best not to spoil too much, but do consider this a warning!! Maybe watch the film and then listen to the interview?Bruce Flansburgh is a bored, 40-something New York paralegal who hasn't let go of his dream of rock stardom. While slogging through an increasingly unbearable day to day existence, it dawns on him that the reunions of The Pixies, Soundgarden and other alternative/indie rock bands from the 90's could inspire his former group, THE INCOHERENTS, to reform. The group Jeff Auer as Bruce the vocalist, Alex Emanuel as Jimmy the Guitarist, Casey Clark as drummer Tyler and Walter Hoffman as bassist Kieth, each mired in some sort of midlife malaise, reunite their 90's indie rock band for one last shot at stardom. Starring Jeff Auer, Alex Emanuel, Walter Hoffman, Casey Clark, Amy Carlson, Annette O'Toole, Kate Arrington, Robert McKay, Margaret Anne Florence, Christine Chang. Directed by Jared Barel.Jared Barel is a filmmaker, illustrator, designer, and graphic novelist. He is the owner and founder, along with his brother, Jordan Barel, of Loaded Barrel Studios, an award winning publisher of comics and graphic novels and the production studio behind Jared's film work. Jared is an accomplished director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, animator, and producer. He has worked on a plethora of major label and independent music videos, features, short films, trailers, documentaries, and industrials.Alex Emanuel is a professional theatre, film and tv actor, producer, filmmaker and director, as well as a former touring/recording rock musician, writer and visual artist. He was born in the Little Italy area of NYC to artist parents and alternated time growing up between there and Western MA. Alex earned a degree at Skidmore College in Fine Art and trained as an actor in NY and in Chicago. He's a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA, and has worked regionally, on all three coasts, in the UK and in Eastern Europe.Alex's feature film work include roles in The Incoherents, Inside the Rain, When Everything's Gone, The Luring, Stealing Chanel, Orgami, Black Wake, Keep the Change, 39 and 1/2, Juvie, Uncaged, Blowtorch, Trooper, Buster, Together, 2 Wks 1 Yr, Brother 2 among other films.His TV credits include roles on Succession, Public Morals, Bronx SIU, 50 Central, Blue Bloods, House of Cards, Rescue Me, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hack, Sex and the City, As the World Turns, All My Children, The Other F Word and The Whitest Kids You Know among other shows.Alex has acted in more than his share of short films as well, many of which have garnered awards at festivals, and also appeared in many music videos and commercials.https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.10b87ed7-0270-ff78-36e5-08ab06f280ee?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_pvt_aiv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_pvt_aiv-20 http://www.jaredbarel.com/https://alexemanuel.com/

It's back to the movies for the Rock N Roll Archaeologist! But for the first time the film in question is a fictional narrative dramedy called, The Incoherents and it is directed by Jared Barel and stars Alex Emanuel, who also wrote most of the music. Jared and Alex break down the film and we try our best not to spoil too much, but do consider this a warning!! Maybe watch the film and then listen to the interview?Bruce Flansburgh is a bored, 40-something New York paralegal who hasn't let go of his dream of rock stardom. While slogging through an increasingly unbearable day to day existence, it dawns on him that the reunions of The Pixies, Soundgarden and other alternative/indie rock bands from the 90's could inspire his former group, THE INCOHERENTS, to reform. The group Jeff Auer as Bruce the vocalist, Alex Emanuel as Jimmy the Guitarist, Casey Clark as drummer Tyler and Walter Hoffman as bassist Kieth, each mired in some sort of midlife malaise, reunite their 90's indie rock band for one last shot at stardom. Starring Jeff Auer, Alex Emanuel, Walter Hoffman, Casey Clark, Amy Carlson, Annette O'Toole, Kate Arrington, Robert McKay, Margaret Anne Florence, Christine Chang. Directed by Jared Barel.Jared Barel is a filmmaker, illustrator, designer, and graphic novelist. He is the owner and founder, along with his brother, Jordan Barel, of Loaded Barrel Studios, an award winning publisher of comics and graphic novels and the production studio behind Jared's film work. Jared is an accomplished director, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, animator, and producer. He has worked on a plethora of major label and independent music videos, features, short films, trailers, documentaries, and industrials. Alex Emanuel is a professional theatre, film and tv actor, producer, filmmaker and director, as well as a former touring/recording rock musician, writer and visual artist. He was born in the Little Italy area of NYC to artist parents and alternated time growing up between there and Western MA. Alex earned a degree at Skidmore College in Fine Art and trained as an actor in NY and in Chicago. He's a member of SAG-AFTRA and AEA, and has worked regionally, on all three coasts, in the UK and in Eastern Europe.Alex's feature film work include roles in The Incoherents, Inside the Rain, When Everything's Gone, The Luring, Stealing Chanel, Orgami, Black Wake, Keep the Change, 39 and 1/2, Juvie, Uncaged, Blowtorch, Trooper, Buster, Together, 2 Wks 1 Yr, Brother 2 among other films.His TV credits include roles on Succession, Public Morals, Bronx SIU, 50 Central, Blue Bloods, House of Cards, Rescue Me, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Hack, Sex and the City, As the World Turns, All My Children, The Other F Word and The Whitest Kids You Know among other shows.Alex has acted in more than his share of short films as well, many of which have garnered awards at festivals, and also appeared in many music videos and commercials.https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.10b87ed7-0270-ff78-36e5-08ab06f280ee?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_pvt_aiv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_pvt_aiv-20 http://www.jaredbarel.com/https://alexemanuel.com/

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