Ladyface AM Show Notes

Men walk into aesthetic medicine clinics thinking they know what happens there. They don't. This episode strips away the mystery around what men actually come in for — and it's not what you think.

Celeste breaks down the clinical reality: testosterone replacement, peptides, weight loss medication, and Botox for the glabella lines that make you look perpetually angry at your job. But the conversation goes deeper. She explains rosacea through thermal imaging, walks through how broadband light (BBL) actually works on inflammatory skin conditions, and addresses the elephant in the room — why men feel like aesthetic medicine is gatekept territory.

There's real talk about confidence as the most attractive trait regardless of gender, why men don't notice what women think they notice, and how a simple wrinkle-smoothing treatment changes the way someone takes up space in a room. The episode also covers lip filler for men with beards, acne scarring treatments, and the peptide stack conversation that deserves its own episode.

Blane gets scanned with a 3D imaging device, gets called out for his rosacea pattern, and discovers his digital twin. Whitney asks the questions the audience would ask. Celeste answers with the authority of someone who trains national injectors.

This is aesthetic medicine without the marketing gloss.

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Ladyface AM: Ketamine Therapy — What Actually Works (And What Doesn't)

Celeste sits down with Austin Frankham, NP, and Candice Crousone, LCSW — the clinical team behind Therapeutic Alternatives, a premier ketamine therapy clinic in Utah — to separate the hype from the medicine.

The conversation cuts through the noise: ketamine isn't a cure-all, and it's not the same as recreational use or the Matthew Perry headlines. What it actually does is create a safe container for your nervous system to process trauma, depression, anxiety, and OCD — often faster than SSRIs, which can take weeks to work.

You'll hear what makes someone a good candidate (spoiler: it's broader than "treatment-resistant depression"), why teenagers respond differently than adults, and why the experience matters as much as the medicine itself. Austin and Candice explain the screening process, dosing protocols, cost structure, and why six sessions became the studied standard — plus what happens after.

Whitney brings the real questions: What about addiction history? How does it compare to ayahuasca or psilocybin? Can you take it while breastfeeding? And Celeste shares her own PMDD protocol — using ketamine strategically during her luteal phase for fast, reliable relief.

This is clinical expertise delivered without the corporate sanitization. If you've seen ketamine trending on TikTok and wondered what it actually does, this is the episode.

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Ladyface AM: Boob-dentity — Body, Confidence & What It Means to Be a Woman

What does it mean to own your body as a woman? Celeste sits down with Whitney and Jen McMullen to talk about something most women think about but rarely discuss openly: how breasts shape identity, confidence, and the way we move through the world.

From early puberty to motherhood to a bilateral mastectomy, these three women share radically different relationships with their bodies—and why that matters. Jen walks through her genetic BRCA diagnosis, the decision to have a preventative mastectomy, and why she chose body tissue reconstruction not for herself, but as an example for her eight-year-old daughter. Whitney talks about growing up with a large chest in Utah's LDS culture, the shame that came with it, and how she's learned to use that body confidence in her career. Celeste, who never experienced the same shame, breaks down why—and what that generational difference reveals about how we raise our daughters.

They also tackle the real stuff: the ethics of aesthetic medicine, how hormones affect confidence and skin, why women police each other's bodies, and what it actually means to feel feminine when society's definition keeps shifting.

This is a conversation about body ownership versus body image, the pressure to fit into boxes, and why a community of women who don't tear each other down from the inside is invaluable.

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