On Bucking Beauty and Wellness Trends with Jessica Defino
Episode Description
Today, journalist, author, and beauty industry visionary, Jessica Defino joins us to deconstruct the underbelly of beauty and wellness and what we can do as individuals and communities, to interrogate our relationship with these industries to create a more magical and collectively empowered future.
[0:02:00] Intro to today's guest, Jessica Defino, a journalist who deconstructs unrealistic beauty and wellness standards and trends [0:06:00] Jessica describes her journey into beauty journalism and what brought her there [0:13:00] How to work in the beauty and wellness industries but not be of it [0:14:00] What Jessica believes the beauty industry is founded on [0:17:00] The difference between personal vs. collective empowerment in the beauty industry [0:25:00] The similarities between anti-aging and anti-living [0:35:00] The difference between adornment and concealment in the beauty industry [0:37:00] Why does putting on makeup make us feel human? [0:42:00] Why Jessica began self-publishing and how it's felt to transition to working for herself
Jessica’s book will be out by May 2022. Follow Jessica on IG @JessicaDefino_, or sign up for her newsletter at https://jessicadefino.substack.com/
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“There can be no construction without deconstruction.” — Jessica Defino
“The whole beauty industry is built on this really awful foundation of what I see as four main forces: patriarchy, white supremacy, colonialism, and capitalism. The industry didn’t create all of these standards, but it capitalizes on them.” — Jessica Defino
“I'm starting to accept that I might never feel super powerful within this limited human world of capitalism and patriarchy, but I can feel personal power within the actual world.” — Jessica Defino
“There's a big difference between adornment and concealment.”
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[0:02:00] Intro to today's guest, Jessica Defino, a journalist who deconstructs unrealistic beauty and wellness standards
[0:06:00] Jessica describes her journey into beauty journalism and what brought her there
[0:13:00] How to work in the beauty and wellness industries but not be of it
[0:14:00] What Jessica believes the beauty industry is founded on
[0:17:00] The difference between personal vs. collective empowerment
[0:18:00] Power within the world that humans have created versus power within the world that created humans and how this difference in power leads to conflict
[0:25:00] Aging should not be seen as a disease and our skin can still do amazing things even when we're older! Skin cells have an unlimited ability to reproduce no matter how old you are!
[0:28:00] The correlation between aging beauty standards and how we treat and view the elderly in our society
[0:29:00] Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women - Book by Silvia Federici
[0:35:00] How we can understand the difference between adornment and concealment
[0:37:00] Why does putting on makeup make us feel human?
[0:42:00] Why and how Jessica began self-publishing her articles that publications tried to "kill" and how it's felt to transition to working for herself
[0:48:00] Jessica’s book will be out by May 2022. Follow Jessica on IG @JessicaDefino_, or sign up for her newsletter at https://jessicadefino.substack.com/
Resources and People Mentioned
Khloe Kardashian @khloekardashian
Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women - Book by Silvia Federici
Follow Jessica on IG @JessicaDefino_, or sign up for her newsletter at https://jessicadefino.substack.com/
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