What happens when you grow up in a world where everyone else's life is constantly on display?

Today on The Glow Show, Dr. Alexis Parcells sits down with Kira, a Gen Z woman who has grown up alongside social media, for an honest conversation about beauty standards, influencer culture, comparison, and the pressure to keep up with the seemingly perfect lives we see online.

From the early days of Instagram and celebrity culture to TikTok influencers and carefully curated lifestyles, Kira shares how her relationship with social media has evolved. Together, Alexis and Kira explore why comparison is no longer just about looking like a celebrity. It's about keeping up with people your own age who seem to have the perfect wardrobe, beauty routine, career, vacations, and social life.

They discuss:

✨ What it was like growing up with Instagram and social media from a young age

✨ How influencer culture changed beauty standards and made comparison feel more personal

✨ Why the pressure to keep up with trends can be different from feeling insecure about your appearance

✨ The difference between an influencer's curated lifestyle and the reality of working a nine-to-five job

✨ Why content creation can become a career that's difficult to switch off

✨ How parasocial relationships can blur the line between knowing someone and simply following them online

✨ The challenges parents face teaching children about social media, online safety, and digital etiquette

✨ Why the pressure to have a picture-perfect life now goes far beyond beauty

✨ How authenticity, relatability, and smaller creators could shape the future of social media

This conversation is about more than Instagram, TikTok, or beauty trends. It's about growing up in a culture where comparison is always within reach, learning to separate real life from curated content, and finding a healthier relationship with the online world.

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What happens when women become the people shaping beauty culture?

Today on The Glow Show, Dr. Alexis Parcells sits down with Dr. Christina Pasick, a plastic surgeon and colleague at Parcells Plastic Surgery, for a candid conversation about female plastic surgeons, patient trust, surgical training, motherhood, cosmetic surgery, reconstruction, and what women are really asking for when they walk into a consultation.

Together, they discuss how working inside aesthetics changes the way you understand beauty, why plastic surgery is so much more than celebrity transformations, and what it means to care for women through decisions that are deeply personal, emotional, and often years in the making.

They discuss:

✨ Why all-women plastic surgery practices can feel different for patients

✨ How Dr. Pasick found plastic surgery during medical school

✨ Why mentorship and kindness can shape an entire career

✨ The difference between academic plastic surgery and private practice

✨ Why cosmetic surgery is more complex than people often assume

✨ How motherhood, pregnancy, and body changes influence the way women think about surgery

✨ Why revision cases require emotional processing, communication, and careful planning

✨ What patients often misunderstand before a plastic surgery consultation

✨ Why the culture of a practice matters as much as the procedure itself

✨ How trust, honesty, and communication shape the patient experience

This conversation is about more than breast surgery, tummy tucks, revision work, or surgical training. It is about the women behind the beauty industry, the responsibility of shaping beauty culture thoughtfully, and the importance of creating a space where patients feel understood, informed, and never judged.

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When does the drive to improve stop helping you and start working against you?

Today on The Glow Show, Dr. Alexis Parcells sits down with Torey, a nurse practitioner in plastic surgery and former Division I athlete, for an honest conversation about competitiveness, beauty, self-improvement, patient care, and learning how to be kinder to yourself.

Torey shares how growing up in sports shaped her work ethic, discipline, and competitive mindset, and how that same mindset shows up in her life today, both personally and professionally. Together, Dr. Alexis and Torey explore what happens when the desire to be better enters the world of beauty, where there may not be a clear scoreboard, but women still often feel like they are being measured.

They discuss:

✨ How competitive sports can shape confidence, discipline, and self-expectations

✨ Why high-achieving women often struggle to turn off the pressure to improve

✨ What plastic surgery patients may be feeling before a consultation

✨ Why feeling seen, heard, and not judged matters in aesthetic medicine

✨ How working in the beauty space can change the way you see yourself

✨ Why access to treatments does not mean you have to do everything

✨ The difference between self-improvement and self-criticism

✨ Why being competitive with yourself can be helpful, but also exhausting

✨ Why “be kind to yourself” is advice women often need to hear most

This conversation is about more than sports, plastic surgery, or beauty treatments. It is about the internal scoreboard so many women carry, the pressure to keep improving, and the importance of making sure that drive comes from a place of self-respect, not self-judgment.

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