Today's guest is Jannica Olin. You may remember her from a bonus episode back in Season 1. I am so glad to have her back, talking about an exciting opportunity where she will perform her one-woman show, IM Perfekt next week in NY City. Jannica is a Swedish born actress and TEDx speaker, and is known as Hollywood's Bald Blonde. I'm super excited to share this interview with you, and to have you learn more about all Jannica is doing to encourage her audience to examine disempowering thoughts about identity, beauty and labels.  *More About Jannica - A graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse i ..read more

 Many of you have been listening to Alopecia Life since the beginning, and others have just started sharing time with us. Thank you so much for being here. Each guest that comes onto the show is meant to give you, as a listener, some insight into their alopecia experience, and to let you know you're not alone.  I love hearing back from those of you who have mentioned how helpful a certain conversation with a podcast guest has been, or that hearing about a product we mentioned has been a game-changer for you. Some of you know about my own alopecia areata experience, especially if you ..read more

 It's still Alopecia Awareness Month, and what better way to spend it than with our guest,  Abby Wren, today. Abby is a creative makeup artist and outspoken advocate for inclusivity throughout the beauty industry, media, and beyond. For those of you who have seen her work, you might already know that her signature bald look has become her iconic canvas as she transforms herself into colorful, mind-blowing creations and characters. I won't share much more with you here in the intro because I want you to hear it from her during the interview. Here's today's episode.  Random fun f ..read more

Welcome to this episode of Alopecia Life. September is Alopecia Awareness Month, and today's guest is Frank Cornine. Frank was a teenager when his hair started falling out. Affter a decade, he found a local support group, and soon realized there wasn't something that specifically shed light on alopecia and what boys and men were specifically experiencing. Frank started the Alopecia Connection podcast earlier this year, and is looking forward to sharing interviews with men and boys, and others who are living with alopecia in order to connect each other through story.  *More about Frank ..read more

Trigger Warning:  We discuss suicide in relationship to bullying within this episode. This is our back to school episode of Alopecia Life. It's the beginning of the school year here in the US, and for many of us around the world. Every year, I hear from parents whose children are new to alopecia. Starting school is a huge topic of discussion in my coaching. Questions like, "How do we share about alopecia in the classroom." and "How do we get the school to allow my child to wear a hat." In previous back-to-school episodes, we've covered topics like these, and I'll definitely put those lin ..read more

Thank you for sharing your time with me and guest, Teresa Younkin today on Alopecia Life. I met Teresa at a conference last year. We were talking about healthcare reform and what she does, and I was super impressed. What started out as personal advocacy for her family has led to something more expansive around healthcare. Teresa is super excited about the health information exchange, and she shares more about that with us today, along with how to ask for what we want to make the most of our doctor's appointments. Her life mission is to leave the healthcare industry in a better way than she fou ..read more

 Welcome back to Alopecia Life and season 4. It's so great to be back, sharing about topics that are important to those of us living with autoimmune hair loss. I've been on a brief hiatus as I've been working on releasing a course for parents and caregivers of children living with alopecia. If you haven't yet checked out my website https://www.alopecialife.com/, feel free to head on over there to see what it's all about.  I'm super excited to release episodes this season. Guests are always phenomenal, and I know they provide such great insight as they share their stories with all of ..read more

Welcome to Alopecia Life. Normally, I would have an episode releasing this week, but I've been so busy with an exciting upcoming project that I decided to take a short break. I want to thank you for listening in as the episodes are released, and look forward to resuming all of this very, very soon. If you are hoping to hear more about a certain topic, a product, or from an amazing person living with alopecia, please let me know by direct messaging me.  Support the show ..read more

 Welcome to another episode of Alopecia Life with Integrative Nutrition & Gut Health Coach, Lisa Taylor. Last October, Lisa shared about gut makeovers and autoimmunity. Since then, Lisa and I have been wanting to connect again to share some lifestyle tools to add into our healing journey. The importance of self-care is often overlooked as we are going about our busy lives, and Lisa is here again to help us implement healthy habits into our daily routine.  Thanks so much for spending your time with us today on Alopecia Life. Lisa took the time to prepare all of this information, j ..read more

Welcome to this episode of Alopecia Life.The past few weeks have been ones full of awareness around alopecia areata. It's brought to light more than we ever could have anticipated, especially around the complicated relationship amongst the black community and hair loss. This interview was scheduled months ago to be released today. Our guest deeply connects with the topic with understanding, representation, and also one of passion. Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley is an activist, a legislator, a survivor, and the first woman of color to be elected to Congress from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ..read more