Blackbeltbeauty Radio

This week's amazing guest is Hailey Lott.   Hailey Lott is just such an amazing soul. She has this realistic yet spiritual approach to life that is both liberating and empowering. She has an excellent read on what the path to finding your truest self looks like. I love the insightful work she does, utilizing meditation and breath-work combined with the power of the mind to find self-compassion.  Hailey is a multi-faceted self-love scholar, co-host of the Mind Games podcast, a sound healer, a peak performance meditation specialist, and a yoga instructor. Hailey’s unique perspectives about surrendering to release anxiety and using the ego as your teammate is truly refreshing. In this episode, we dive deeper into the foundations of her work. Her light-hearted spirit radiates with genuine authenticity as she shares her own journey to personal acceptance. In this episode, we break down the power of breath-work and meditation and when done with consistency, one gains emotional agility AND discipline.

Carla Esparza (aka Cookie Monster) is one of the strongest most badass MMA fighters in the strawweight division of the UFC. She is on a 4 fight win streak with her most recent win on Fight Island in Abu Dhabi.  She holds the record for the most takedowns in women’s UFC history. Carla holds a lot of 1st’s: She was the first UFC Strawweight Champion, the first Invicta Strawweight Champion AND she was the very 1st guest on this podcast.   You might even know her from the reality TV series, The Ultimate Fighter, where her high-level MMA skills were showcased when she won the 16-woman tournament and gained her contract into the UFC. Carla is considered one of the best strawweight fighters in the world and she is proving to only be getting better. In this episode, we talk about leadership, emotional agility, fortifying strength, resilience + endurance in the race for victory. We also get down on some fun talks around beauty by way of Carla’s makeup/skincare routine and why having a routine is im

In this episode, I share some high-performance recovery practices that are consistently apart of my life. I share concepts around these practices with helpful insights as to why they are so valuable to how you perform and to feel great going the distance in your life, as you continue to perform with greatness.  Enjoy x A few valuable high-performance tools I mentioned in the episode for you: Get your free, 10-minute morning ritual download here: https://www.blackbeltbeauty.com/kickass-energy Get your Four Sigmatic Reishi Tea Here with 10% off use CAPABLE in the discount code: https://us.foursigmatic.com/?discount=CAPABLE&rfsn=3962935.5c15894 Check out this talk with Neuro Scientist Andrew Huberman on Joe Rogan's podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLJowTOkZVo  If you love this podcast/episode please share it on your IG stories and tag @roxylook @blackbeltbeauty || DM with requests for Solosode topics.  Subscribe to this podcast and give us a 5-Star review on Itunes

This week’s amazing guest is Carolyn Mahboubi. Carolyn is a highly successful Leadership + Life Coach, she is also a competitive Ultra Runner.  Carolyn has a story that inspires the idea that you truly can create a life from what truly lights you up at ANY point you decide to do it.  At the young age of 14, she landed her first taste in the fashion world. In fact, she begged the manager of Ann Taylor to give her a part-time job as a sweeper.  Fast forward being 14 years old and sweeping the boutique floors to just a few years later, Carolyn launched Gianni Versace on Rodeo Drive (at the age of 16!). From there she led a rich and powerful professional life within the fashion industry by serving three decades in management and executive roles at four of the top fashion companies in the world. While her life looked absolutely glamorous from the outside perspective, Carolyn has opened up that in her 40s she felt lost.  Her career trajectory, health, and relationships were a mess even though he

I am SO excited to finally get my FOREVER FRIEND, one of my very best girls, Keala Kennelly on the show for you. This Hawaiian-born badass is the definition of high-performance, not only in athleticism but also in the way she uses the power of her voice to advocate for the change and action she wants to see made in the world.  Kauai born and raised, Keala grew up surfing with icons like Andy + Bruce Irons, charging some of the island's heaviest waves and eventually competing against them in youth competitions.  She turned pro at 17 and began competing around the world on the WQS tour, quickly moving up to surf against the best on the WCT. She spent a decade ranked in the top 10 on the ASP World Championship Tour. And by 2003, Keala peaked as number 1 in the WCT rankings before ending the year as the 2nd best female surfer in the world. Being the multi-passionate crusader that she is, Keala decided to take a break from her surfing career in 2007 to pursue her love for acting and music (you might

Victoria Parsons Gracie is the definition of dynamic. From actress, dancer, model, choreographer, to author, head instructor of the Women Empowered Jiu-Jitsu Self-Defense program at Gracie University, certified doula, and parenting coach; she is constantly elevating the lives of everyone around her with ever-flowing love and compassion. After being in the entertainment industry for 15+ years, Victoria has grown passionate about protecting personal standards, boundaries, and self-worth. Her current work pushes others to turn inward and recognize their own exponential personal power within and exercise it in order to reach their highest level of potential. As a self-defense expert; Victoria teaches women self-defense techniques and boundary-setting skills to empower their confidence not only on the mats but in every facet of life as well. With the studio-influenced mindset that “you are worth defending”, she demonstrates the vital need for self-love to better protect oneself in every regard-- mentally, physical

In this new episode, I bring my girl Margie (BlackBeltBeauty’s production coordinator + my work-life wing woman) on the show to share some thought-provoking ideas + real-life examples around the importance of Self-Awareness+ how it gives you the ability to help you become LESS reactive to triggers + more responsive to them, keeping YOU the boss of your emotional state. It’s a fun, bite-sized episode that will be helpful in optimizing your life performance; keeping you empowered and the author of your life. Below are the 4 Self-Development questions I share in the episode for you. Are the emotions you’re feeling from this stimulus worthy of the trigger? Do you want to continue feeling these emotions from this stimulus? What emotions can you transmute into the emotions you wish to release/move on from? What is one thing you can appreciate from the situation regardless of it being “negative or disempowering.” We would love your support by sharing this episode up on your IG stories and tagging @blackbel

This episode’s guest is with one of my very incredible brothers, Arya Saffaie. Arya is a 4x Olympian professional bodybuilder and online training entrepreneur.   Arya turned pro in 2013 after training for just three months prior to his first competition. And while that’s very impressive, it’s fair to say that something gave him an extreme edge to be able to win that competition and turn pro as an all-natural competitor (with minimal training)...that something is his life-long passion and demonstrated excellence in athletics.  From the early age of five, Arya started lifting weights under the command of our father (who also had me bench pressing at 7!). We didn’t realize it at the time, but the influence of getting involved in fitness and sports at such a young age impacted our mindsets, physical performance, and ultimately our lifestyles forever. Arya has taken that impact and turned it into a highly successful career, standing on four Olympia stages to date, competing against the world’s top 3

This week’s incredible guest is Jill Coleman. Jill is a leading fitness expert + online entrepreneurial BADASS, whose passion resides in helping women take the stress out of health and nutrition to live life with optimal levels of happiness and strength.  Jill has been in health + fitness industry for 16 + years which includes degrees in Exercise Science +in Human Nutrition.   Jill launched her personal brand, JillFit.com, in 2010. Her work has since been featured in major publications and platforms including SELF, Family Circle, SHAPE, Women’s Health, Prevention, Yahoo Health, Livestrong, and many more. One thing I really admire about Jill is her vulnerability + honesty in sharing some of the great challenges of her past.  From her empowering growth mindset + living a life where she continuously shows up as a champion despite challenges, she has led other women into doing the same for themselves.  This episode is FIRE. In this talk you will learn: What it means to CHOOSE to be a champio

In this new episode, I’ve had the inspiring honor to interview one of my absolute favorite writers, thought-leaders in High-Performance/Self-Development— Dr. Ben Hardy. Ben is an organizational psychologist and best-selling author of, Willpower Doesn’t Work. He has made a name for himself through his life-changing pieces that have been featured on Forbes, Fortune, CNBC, and so many others. He is also well-known for his articles on Medium.com, in which he was named the #1 writer in the world— SO badass. His newest book, Personality Isn’t Permanent, that came out just a couple weeks ago is absolutely EPIC.  I’ve been a big fan of his writing for a long time. He is a master of crafting words simply + impactfully. His weekly emails add so much value to my ELEVATING mindset-priming in my morning “ME TIME’; in fact, his emails are the ONLY emails I open during that sacred time in the morning- straight up.  You’ll see exactly what I’m sayin’ in this episode, as we chat about his ideas around personality te

  Betsy Milne & Laura Milne are the two soulful entrepreneurs behind the epic coaching brand and Podcast, Luscious Hustle. The girls happen to have the same last name but are in fact NOT related… now that’s a cosmic connection if there is such a thing. They actually connected through an Instagram DM in 2016 with shared interests and quickly became best friends.   In their own words, they believe the Universe brought them together…the Universe, after all, works in wondrous ways and knew their path to their respective destinies better than they could have ever imagined. Such a rad story. They believe they were brought together because they were truly meant to be friends and business partners, and because they share a common purpose: to create a community, for women to feel luscious, light-hearted, and empowered in their lives.   They have a keen ability to show women how to discover their true calling, take aligned action to create a business you love &

In this new Solosode, I break down a thought-provoking idea that could be supportive to help you maneuver through adversity with fluidity. To experience feelings/emotions, learn from them, gain from them, and perhaps then, create from them.  I'll leave it there for now and let you dive into this bite-sized episode.  Enjoy! PS. My weekly LOVE❤️NOTES are ALIVE and ready to elevate your mindset + heart! Sign up to start receiving one weekly empowering, encouraging, bite-size LOVE❤️NOTE that is also available in audio format. I want you to start your day with this short but sweet love note so that you feel AMAZING as you tackle the hustle of your day like a BOSS.  You can sign up for them here VIA WWW.BLACKBELTBEAUTY.COM     Check out the full Instagram post read in this EP here Team ❤️HUMAN❤️ I truly believe my greatest contribution to this LIFE I share with all of the world is to be an UNWAVERING expression + source of LOVE. . To be an UNBREAKABLE pillar of STRENGTH to those in nee

Lauren Handel Zander is a celebrity life coach, public speaker, and the Co-Founder and Chairwoman of Handel Group®, an executive life coaching company based in New York City.  She is the creator of Inner.U: Learn to Human Better®, the online coaching course that teaches the entirety of The Handel Method, a method that has been used by dozens of celebrities, CEOs, and entrepreneurs since 2004. Lauren is also the author of Maybe It’s You  a no-nonsense, practical manual that helps readers figure out not just what they want out of life, but how to actually get there. She has spent over 20 years coaching thousands of private clients: entrepreneurs, couples, families, professors, politicians, Emmy, Peabody and Academy Award-winning artists, Grammy-winning musicians, and Fortune 500 CEOs.  Some of her corporate clients have included executives from Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Sony BMG, The New York Times,  Citibank,  LinkedIn, and Vogue. She is an absolute PRO and ha

This Birthday week Solosode offers you some thought-provoking ideas around: The power of being consistent Honoring boundaries that keep you elevated, healthy + avoid burn-out Staying TRUE to your most Authentic SELF Fighting for what you love, value + believe in--including yourSELF.  I shared some personal stories in this EP that amplify the ideas Im sharing that I think you will appreciate too. Enjoy!  xRx PS. My weekly LOVE❤️NOTES are ALIVE and ready to elevate your mindset + heart! Sign up to start receiving one weekly empowering, encouraging, bite-size LOVE❤️NOTE that is also available in audio format. I want you to start your day with this short but sweet love note so that you feel AMAZING as you tackle the hustle of your day like a BOSS. You can sign up for them here VIA WWW.BLACKBELTBEAUTY.COM    

Gina Brooke is an American beauty expert/makeup artist who is recognized as one of the leading talents in the world of beauty. She is known as the creative force behind some of the most memorable beauty trends and the development of numerous award-winning beauty products. Her vision and beauty philosophy is evident in the groundbreaking products she has developed as Artistic Director and Global Beauty Consultant for leading cosmetic companies.  Brooke’s dynamic approach to beauty and emphasis on “individuality” quickly attracted the attention of pop icon Madonna in 2003 – lead to over a decade of creative collaboration from countless editorials, album covers, red carpets, to video/film, media events, and five world tours. In 2004, L’Oreal commissioned Brooke as the Artist Director to the renowned makeup and skincare brand, Shu Uemura where she hand created lashes that revitalized the false eyelash industry that included the now-iconic diamond lashes which set a record-breaking $10,000 per pair that sold

This week's EPIC podcast guest is Dr. Jade Teta. Jade is all kinds of amazing things. He is a super smart Naturopathic Physician, An Author, A philosopher, a strength and conditioning specialist, a podcast host to his epic show, call the Next Level Human Podcast, and in addition to all of that, Jades operates a HIGHLY successful multifaceted online business.   Outside of that incredible list — from my perspective, Jade is a warm, creative, wise, and deep individual who I could have kept talking to for hours.  I love this talk so much because Jade and I have so many shared passions from health/fitness/performance/self-development + philosophy so picked his brain in all of those areas as much as I could in this talk without making it a 5-hour talk— not an easy task at all.  I will say this talk takes a DEEP dive Self-Development so talks around self-identity, passion, purpose in life, process + Jade's powerful perspectives/ frameworks in these areas. A few of the powerful takeaways you will gain

Mike Mutzel is a clinical nutritionist, speaker, functional medicine consultant in the natural product industry, an author, podcast host to one of the best health podcasts out there, High-Intensity Health and a highly knowledgeable, very passionate human, that pumps out valuable content through to optimize your health and well-being in life. I've been a real fan of Mike's podcast for several years now. He is an absolute wealth of knowledge when it comes to nutrition, metabolism, fasting, and overall health--mindfulness included.  He's one of the experts that I trust most because he shares evidence-based information from deep non-biased research, in addition to attaining a lot of valuable information from his own health journey. In this episode, Mike and I are fired up in quarantine and talk about a lot of important subjects related to Health and immunity while facing COVID-19 such as: Navigating around the news + the facts with COVID-19 Who is most at risk for this disease? How lifestyle: nutr

In this new episode, I shared 3 of my personal methods that effectively help me self-soothe + pivot the energy of unease to ease and STRENGTH. My goal with this EP is not only the offering of these proven to work methods in my own life but to also empower you to turn INward to work through these feelings. Resilience is built + fortified when you learn how to handle your emotional rollercoaster ride. Resilience is essential to build a life from passion, purpose + vision.  Love you guys, stay STRONG. xRx PS. My weekly LOVE❤️NOTES are ALIVE and ready to elevate your mindset + heart! Sign up to start receiving one weekly empowering, encouraging, bite-size LOVE❤️NOTE that is also available in audio format. I want you to start your day with this short but sweet love note so that you feel AMAZING as you tackle the hustle of your day like a BOSS.  You can sign up for them here VIA WWW.BLACKBELTBEAUTY.COM

Inna Topiler is a certified clinical nutritionist practicing a functional medicine approach to health. She is the Founder of Complete Nutrition and Wellness – an integrative nutrition practice, and the host of an amazing health podcast called: Health Mysteries Solved.  Inna is a high-level expert who has not only attained an incredible amount of knowledge through her years of education in the health field but equally through her own health journey over her life.  She was diagnosed with Hashimoto's by the age of 20, she also suffered from mercury toxicity, adrenal issues, parasites, candida, and the list goes on.  It's a heavy load of issues that Inna had to problem solve on her own to get her into the healthy state she now robustly lives from.  It’s from that journey of tremendous and unique problem solving, Inna has been able to help so many others who suffer from similar issues through nutrition and life

I got my girl Tracy Lynn back on the podcast for you guys in this very special episode. For those who are not familiar with who Tracy is yet, she is an INCREDIBLE yoga + movement instructor as well as a fusion dance + fire performer— basically, she’s a UNICORN that has such a uniqueness about her that is absolute infectious to all who connect with her. She is MY girl. She’s been on the podcast a few times and I highly suggest checking out our other episodes here: EP. Unplugged with Tracy Lynn EP. 53 Tracy Lynn In this episode Tracy and I get down on talks around how we are navigating around COVID19 by way of emotions, mindset, lifestyle habits, business as well as noticing areas we need to edit, rethink recreate and from that, develop new, expanded progress in desirable ways.  Essentially you guys, it’s leveraging this crazy challenge we are all facing to make real gains from within and out. Additionally, Tracy gifted all of us this amazing mediation and sound bath that she recently shared