Hello, we're back. We're back. Oh my god. We are Lauracane after dark and we are here in twenty twenty four. I can't believe it. Brand new set. I love it. I know we're going to be a little bit more casual, more comfortable, more accessible. I don't know. I hope that's the way you feel. I have to wear pants. I know you're home. I know. Now we have to wear complete outfits. I can't wear like sweatpants. Yeahs, Laura, I know, I know. Can I just sit in a box? No, you may not.
You have to dress up nicely from now on. I'm Laura Kane. By the way, this is Eric Rimmer, Hey, producer, Brian. Hi, Bryan, good to see you after all these weeks. It's been so long. We have so much to cover. But first I wanted to say congratulations to Monique Rona. She was the winner of the twelve hundred dollars Magical Holiday Box and I met her off of a off ramp in Escondido to
drop off the box, and she was so excited. And we sent off a huge chunk chunk of money because of you guys, to the women in recovery at the doll face sober living home and they are so very grateful. They needed it so much for supplies and they were scrambling. It just so happened. They were really scrambling at the time when we sent them that big chunk of money that you guys were so generous and gave so Thank you so
much for doing that. Thank you guys so much. Yes, that was really We have the best listeners, I know, the best and watchers listeners and watchers and watchers. Our special guest tonight is Monique Ramsey. I love that name. I love that woman. I do too. She is the chief creative officer of La Joya Cosmetic. She's also the host of the La
Joya Cosmetic podcast, which is skyrocketing excellent, I know. So we're gonna have her on because we're going to talk about twenty twenty four because you know what, this is the year of you where you are going to concentrate on you this year. Okay, that's well, I'm actually talking to myself more guys. I mean, we'll get to that in a minute. I want you to follow us on Instagram if you haven't already, that would be really
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Eric, Thank you. I wrote you a poem and I'm going to write it to you before our host check. Oh it's really bad, but I didn't get you a card, so I thought i'd write you a little poem that's even better. Okay, Happy birthday, Eric. Brother from another mother. He's kind, He's a fierce friend and someone I occasionally want a smother. Eric loves with all his soul and heart, and when the cameras aren't rote rolling, he always lets out a fart. Not always. I
turn to him when I am in need. Autobiographies are the books he likes to read. He poops eight times a day, by the way, which is freakish. Indeed, he's my bff number one, No question there, but his number one bff has brown hair, and it's cool. I don't care, it's unstund don't worry. Okay, thank you for being by my side all these years, through laughter, drama, crazy stuff, in tears. Your very presence brings people so much joy. It does for me too,
although sometimes you do annoy. Twenty twenty four will be your best year ever. And those gross videos you send me, I watched them never. I love you. My red Harry sold me. You're so handsome and your package is first rate. Happy birthday, Gord, not your birthday friends. I thought you liked it. That's the best card. Oh my god. Yeah, I really look great in that last line. Well, that last paragraph was well, I just may frame that. It's all true. It's
all true. I love you, Thank you. Okay, before we have Monique one, we need to do our host chat and a little bit of double D and so we all start with my host chat. So no big deal, no big deal, Oh, no big deal. Yeah, no big deal at all. I mean I didn't really even care. Last night I was on National TV. I'm just saying, oh, Dateline, No, did they bring back to catchup brother. Okay, I was on a show on TLC called ninety Day Diaries and it's a spin off of ninety Day
Fiance. Now. We filmed this back when I had a concussion, so that was like maybe May or April, and it just now aired. And the funny thing is when I have the clip, the funny thing is I had like the big gash on my forehead. This was the day after that we did the filming. I have no recollection. I don't remember driving, I don't remember setting up the cameras. I don't remember helping with the lighting or even talking or what I said. So this was all a big surprise
to me. And you know what's weird. They totally blurred out my injury because my full old forehead shows, but there's no there's no gash. That's what I love about TV. They could blur out my entire face and I would just be like two. As someone who edits, I can just imagine how much work you made for them. That's hours of work right there. That took so long to do. Oh, by the way, what was it called Mamma Mia or something? Is that that That was the title of
them recording it tonight. Okay, Kimberly's segment is the first one that runs, and it's like three little segments, and we're one of them. So here's the part where Jody and I took Kimberly to Manhattan and we went out and we had a girl's night. Who you are? We also cut that scene from the trailer where you look super ditsie while they're all laughing, all right, look I'm a zombie. Look I got a stream close up. Okay, you were playing Laura and you were us. Okay, So now
got back though to the restaurant. Now it's kind of blurred on the side because there were people eating. I know how they can't the people in there, so we look distorted that Kimberly looks good. That's all that appers. I think that really, Laura, the damn shame. Chris Hansen in the background, I was you were so last night the cheers and then last night we all went to Kimberly's house and we watched it together and it was really
really cool. I wish I could have been there. I know, we wanted you there, we wanted you there, but it was your birthday, I know. So anyway, that was extremely fun. And my mom got to see it and she was super excited and that always makes me happy. Well, my mom gets excited and happy. Your mom sent me the sweetest message for your birthday. Oh so did, Jenny? I love them? Oh my, Well, you're like, you're like our brother. You might as well be. Our brother's name is Eric with a kay and he has
red hair. You know what, wishould just trade alter in your family? It's fine, that's not listen. I'm already potty trained. I've already gone through all my education. Everything's paid for, everything's paid for. Your own money, I do so. Yeah, okay, good. Would your mom adopt me at fifty seven? Absolutely great? Okay, so what is your host chat? I can't wait to hear. So. Christmas this year was really simple, Like I, other than your team of gifts, I really
didn't have to do much. So on New Year's Eve, I went to a friend's house and their dog. This is a gift from their dog. I thought it was a vape pen and I was like, well, I don't kind of. I was like, oh, that's an interesting gift. It get. This is a lighter, A flameless lighter, flameless lighter, and it recharges, so you never have to get those matches, or you never have to get that clicker thing, that long clicker thing. It is fan. Wait, their dog got this for you. Yes, it was
a gift. It was a gift from Audie. That's so sweet, so thoughtful for a dog. Yes, he's very sweet. You walked in. I saw you holding that. I was like, that is like straight up that. I'm pretty sure that's like a weed pen. That looks like he's like about to get four. Yeah. Yeah, that is nothing that I possess ever. Yeah, no, but yeah, it's a great gift. Did you say it up till midnight? Come on? Got twelve o'clock on the dot? I was in bed, but did you make it to yes,
midnight? I got that. I got one of the new cards against Humanity. We were playing that. That is so the new is so dirty. Oh my god, I just ordered a new game that's worse and we're going to play it, oh times worse. I forgot what it's called. But it's coming and we're going to play it. I might we might not even be able to play. It might be even too raunchy, but we'll see, we'll see. Nothing is for us. Brian has a host I don't want to hear like, how was your like whole? Uh good?
Well back to you, Eric, now the camera. I want to see you. People want to see We want to know what you did. How was your time with your family? It was great. I hadn't seen them in about a year, so that was fun, you know, pretty standard Christmas. My parents have a you could call in the state in the Carolinas they now live in through very cold out there, although it's pretty cold here right now too. So it was also my dad's birthday, so got to
celebrate that too. Flying was a little bit of pain. My flight got delayed on the way back, so I had to take two additional flights to be able to get home on the same day, so I had to fly to Denver and Missouri first before. Oh my god. Yeah, it was a nightmare, but it was fine. I got to see my dogs, love my dogs. And you brought your girlfriend with you. Yeah, she's come for the last three years. We did an escape room. I love escape rooms. Those are great. Actually, I want to do one so
bad. They're great. I love them. I did one with three other girls from the Traffic department and we failed. We couldn't get out. I believe that, but I'm pretty good at them. So I feel like us together, Hardy, we'll carry you on our shoulders. Actually, we should do one of those. That would be fun, if it makes you feel better. My family did not get out either, but my mom also accidentally booked the hardest one they had, so oh, okay, typical mom fast.
I also want to do axe throwing, and I want to go into one of those rooms where you can bring dishes and old TVs and stuff and just break stuff, get your aggressions out. That I want to do. But the axe thing throwing remind me next Thursday or this Thursday. Okay, I have a story for you. Let's just say if if we can have people vote. I was on a flight and I want people to weigh in if I got booted off the flight after what happened, or if I was
able to remain on the flight. This is on for Thursdays. This is Thursday episode. It is a barn burner. This is so unbelievable. I had this day and age that this happened. But we're saving it for Thursday. We're saving it. I will say for like two three flights in a
row visiting my parents. I either got grounded because someone had a stroke, my flight got outright canceled two consecutive times, or I one time I one of my flights got canceled, So I flew into Georgia and my dad drove all the way down from North Carolina and picked me up and drove me all the way back up on Christmas Eves I got. I got home at Christmas at four in the morning. Oh, it was a nightmare. But you see that Alaska Airlines flight where the whole entire like a window blew out.
They told me not to mess with the window paneling, but it was coming on. I mean when that happens, all the things dropped, all the oxygen masks dropped. I mean, did everybody have to put it on like what happened? No, I know, but like if they didn't, would they they might have trouble staying conscious. It depends at the altitude. How scary is that? That is terrify. It almost got sucked out and the mom would like had to hold him down. He lost his shirt, like
a shirt got supped right off of him. That would have been crazy. The pressurization is no joke. Yeah. Wait, and then New Year's what do you guys do for New Year's too? Oh? I want to talk about that on Thursday? All right, Well, what I did is I got a ball of champagne. Uh huh I drank it, okay. And then did you stay up to him? That's what I was doing? Okay? And then did you like bang pots and pans? Did you blow on horns? Did you like? Nope? Yell or kiss or okay? Anyway,
well, Alicia stayed up. I have. I'll tell you about my really super cool, very kind of spiritual New Year's Eve and where I was. You won't believe where I was on New Year's even cemetery. No, but uh funny if I got that right. But that's for Thursday too. Okay, let's get to your Double D news because we have Monique waiting to come on and I can't wait to talk to her. I know, so
I have. It's been a there were some things that happened earlier, but it's it's old news now, so nothing really big has happened except for the golden globes that were last night. Oh yes, I didn't. I don't know anything about this, ok like mini oscars? Okay, who won? What one? So Oppenheimer? Oh, by the way, odd, I watched it when I was in Vegas, and I'll tell this on Thursday. But I watched Oppenheimer in the hotel room and oh my god, excruciating.
You shut your dirty mouth all right? Oh God, no art, there was so much talking. God, there was no car chases. Oh, I watched Sulburn. I also recently watched The Burn is so crazy it was And that last song, Murder on the Dance Floor is now the most downloaded song right now. It's a great song. Such a weird scene. It was such a weird scene. Well, there was a couple of scenes in
that movie that were the most shocking to me. Is still the last song where he's just hanging brain for like straight like four minutes, dancing around naked with things flopping around. What about the scene at the cemetery where he's on the when the guy dies and he's tastes off. That's kind of weird. Well what about what about the girl? Uh? Well, anyway, anyway, that wasn't as weird Comparatively, it was crazy. I really liked it. It was twisted and I liked it. Two things were the Matthew Perry's
cause of death was released. Yes, I mean yes, and they think that it might have just been some people are on that for therapy. Yeah. Yeah, so there was nothing else in his system, which was good to know. They think he just shouldn't have taken it before he sat in a hot tub. That's basically what they said. And then yesterday Shinad O'Connor's cause of death came out and it was natural causes, so it was not suicide, oh as everybody had speculated. So that was good. How do
you die at that age of natural causes? But okay, I don't know, but at least it put to rest all these rumors that she had probably killed herself. So unfortunately, but it's okay. So the Golden Globes it was the weirdest. Did you see Beef on beef? Yes? On that one? So much stuff. It was good. It's a really good show. You haven't watched it. It's based on a true story. For what the producer or the writer. It was based on something that happened to him.
Whoa, whoa. Yeah, So that swept Oppenheimer did really well. A lot of movies I've never heard of. Did very did Barbie do well? Barbie only won like one award? Okay, it was I forget what it was. It was at the very end. It was like cinema Achievement or something like that. It kind of got a pity award. Yeah, and I watched it. I actually watched it over Christmas and not like it.
Okay, you don't pass the boyfriend test, then wow, shocking, I know, shocking at girl's boyfriend test was Yeah, you didn't like the message, you didn't get the message coming on, I got the message. It was just dumb. It was also very heavy handed, Yeah, it was. I didn't like it. Felt like I got strapped down the theater seat and it slapped me with it. I will say I liked it at
the beginning, and then after that I didn't really. Did you get it when the guys were on the beach and they're like, we're gonna have a beach off so stupid? Yeah, that was stupid, but I didn't. I didn't equate that too. It was that was even more obvious. That was like right Over is fantastic in it, as is even Will Ferrell is really good in it too. Yeah, I just thought I was dumb. So my best dressed I had three. Okay, Rosamund Pike, who played
the mom in Sulburn. Oh, yes, she looked exquisite. She looked like a doll. She looks great for her age. She looks amazing. She had a black Christian Dure dress on and this Philip Tracy hat that she wound up taking off, which was great because it hid that beautiful face, had this big black veil on it, and she lost that once she got indoors, and she looked great. Jennifer Lopez looked really good. And Amanda
Seifried looked amazing. What is she she played? She's a character. She played like Linda Lovelace, and she played on that Netflix, that show about that woman who did correct. Yeah, you know what I'm talking about. And my worst dressed were all the women that wore the stupid dresses where you could see their underweary the sheer one. Beckinsdale looked amazing from the waist up. Okay, she usually does no wrong. She usually looks. I'm sure
she liked gray. From the waist down. She just was just part of your repulsion of the female anatomy. It's not because you couldn't see vagina underwear. Yeah, it was just all sheer and dumb, and I'm sure most everybody and every other male probably thought it was like fantastic. Yeah, probably were hoping for, like probably something to write up and like lip the fall Out or something. Jesus stop it. I'm not kidding. I mean it
was an awful who else? So Joe Cooy hosted it? Okay, Okay, I like him, but he's used to doing like I've seen have you seen a stand up on Netflix? He's got several specials and everything. He's used to playing these huge arenas as a host for the Golden Globes not so much. Did he tank or did he was it? I thought it fell really flat. And then when it did, he blamed the writers that wrote the other material, which is something I don't think you want to do.
So, and then that he made a joke at Taylor Swift's expence, something about the NFL and it gets more screen time than her something she gets more screen time. Yes, yeah, during the she was having a sip of champagne when she did it, and it was like that whole who's the Jada Pinkett Smith thing? During the Oscars. It was that whole like and then she was gone from the Golden Globes. She took off. Yeah, she was like, I actually seeing people make fun of her. Oh it was
she was pissed. She was so mad. So then the craziest part was they had a news segment which was stand up comedy, and so Ricky Gervais was nominated. No, Chris Any Schumer, Wanda Psykes. Well, uh, Ricky Gervase won. And you know he can't give a crap about their shows, Like he got kicked off hosting the Golden Globes because he was right, because he doesn't. He doesn't give a flip. He doesn't everybody say
stuff. So Jim Gaffigan came out, and I really like him. He made such an ill time joke about pedophilia and you could have heard a pin drop, like people were like what, so he probably won't be asked back. It was so bad. That's not his normal form. No, he's kind of a goodie goodie, like doesn't it's a hot topic topic issue. So yes, so comedians love making fun of Hollywood about pedophiles. Well, and he said something like I'm from Indiana, I'm not a pedophile and people
you literally could hurt a pin drop. I abe, just don't joke about that. Oh that's like, come on. His point was he doesn't want to be associated really with the Hollywood elites because they have a habit or a history of at least of protecting people or at least not giving them up, who have done some pretty terrible things right right right now. Guilty a little bit. Not guilty by association, but guilty by uh what do you call it? Indifferent? So yeah, so on that note, not that I'm
writing this thing, but have you seen the Sound of Freedom? Yes? I just watched, Okay, so did I. It was what unbelievable? It was really good. It was really it was scary to me having a daughter who's nineteen, who's walking the streets of New York City. Yeah, dude, Yeah, in Vegas there are signs everywhere about child trafficking. It was so weird to see that, I know, everywhere. I don't want to get into that right now, but like, I don't, I don't
get it. I don't know. It's just that movie got slammed too for being too conservative. Oh really too like politically right wing? Yeah, it did, which was weird because I'm like, this seems like kind of a neutral issue. Yeah, for sure. Jim Cavisa was really good, Mirror Sorbina was really good, and the little Girl was excellent. She was great. So that was pretty much. It was just the Golden globes and you know it was okay, it was what it was. Well, now we
have our very special guest coming up. We have special music for you. I'm going to turn the camera so we can you look fabulous. Monique is here from La Hoya Cosmetics and Surgery Center. There we go, there we go. Aus see, No, Eric, you have to sit closer to me. I know you, so we're all in the camera on Instagram. Hi Monique, it's so good to see you. Happy twenty twenty four. Thank you for coming in. I am so excited to be here. Is this good? Or do I bring it closer to your mouth? Yeah?
We have our Yeah, we've a closer there you go. Yes, these are our new mic stands, so this is like our first You're our first guest on our first our new set. Love it, yes, and we thought it would be really great to start off the new year talking about you as in like you as in like you as in focusing on you this year. I think for me personally, I realize that that's something I really need
to do more of. Instead of worrying about this person doing this person, focus on me, because I mean I had a little bit of a breakdown
over the holidays. I'm like, you know what, twenty twenty four and I think that I think that you being here is really good because I know a lot of people are interested in things that Lahoya, CAUs, medic Surgery Center and medspall have to offer, and and just talk about maybe some things that you got, maybe new things that you guys have going on, or anything you want to talk new, you new twenty twenty four, Bring it on. Yeah. So I was thinking about this today and it is so
perfect. And this is my third year coming here at the beginning of the holiday or the new year, and so I was thinking about there, okay, okay, we're all good, eat it. There we go, yees. So I was thinking about, you know, the New year renewal and giving yourself permission. Not all of us do that very well. We, like you said, we'll prioritize all these different things and we don't necessarily prioritize ourselves or we don't give us our permission to just do it. And there's
never really a good time either. So let's say I'll give you my example that I thought of today from my real life. So I have had, you know, teeth that are not fabulous my whole life. I didn't ever have orthodonics, but I needed it. And so finally, like things are moving around, I'm like a turn fifty six on Christmas Day and I'm like, what's happening? So I decided to do in vis a line. Well, it's like the money, Okay, I don't want to spend the money.
And then it's like, well should I start it now? Should I start it later? My son's getting married in a month, and like all these things, and like why maybe I shouldn't, But I thought about it. Is it going to change at this time next year? Is it going to be different? No, it's not gonna be different. It might be worse. Is it gonna be convenient now or later? Or it doesn't.
It's sort of like never the perfect time. And so my message is sort of to give yourself permission to do what you want to do for yourself, and it's never ever the perfect time. It's never, but you really can prioritize yourself and just say, you know what, I'm going to do it because what I see, and now I've been in this business thirty two years and with Laoya Cosmetic for all of them, what I've seen is when I talk to patients after having a procedure, the first thing they say is I
should have done it soon. That's what I said, I should have done it exactly what I say. If you really think about that, it's like, okay, that's let's say you put it off to next year. That's one more year. You don't get to enjoy it, and it sort of takes up your mental space. So you know, if you don't fix it, then you're thinking about it or it just is bothering you, whatever it
is. And so it's like, you know, have that freedom to sort of indulge and take care of yourself in a way that you might not usually do. Don't feel guilt about it, and you know what, if you take care of yourself, it trickles down to everybody else, your kids, it trickles down to your friends, to your coworkers, to work. It may if you're happy, boom your life is better. If you feel like
you look better, then you're going to act better. Yeah, and it was like right after your surgery when you were on she came on the podcast. It was awesome. And you know, I'll usually ask that question of patients. You know, what advice do you have for people going forward? And what would your advice be? Do it? Do it? If it's something you've been thinking about, there is a way to do it now. If you think, oh my gosh, it might be too expensive, I
can't. There are options. There's always options, right, and that's something we never want to be a barrier, like you're talking about a mommy makeover, a facelift or some surgery. You know, botox can get pricey too, because it's very addicting, but you know it's those all those procedures. Who goes and buys a car and plunks down cash for the car, not a lot of people. Do we finance it and we don't think about We don't think twice about it. So same with surgery, same with you know,
things in the MEDSPA. You can put it on. You know, they have a bunch of different financing companies they work with and you can make it affordable and it's nice because you don't have to think about putting it off for well, I haven't saved enough or budgeted. It's like it's never, Like I said, it's never the right time or the perfect time. But at least let yourself. Wherever you decide to go, it doesn't have to
be us, but wherever you decide to go, it really does. I would That's where I'd pick because our surgeons are amazing and our our MEDSPA providers are incredible, and there you know, we've been around now thirty five years and you really do have a very good staff. Yeah, that work for you. Yet we're really proud of that. And you know, it takes a special kind of organization to keep the best people to tracked and retain the
best people in the industry. And you know, a lot of the people in our medspa they're national trainers for threadlifts, for Allergan products like Botox and juveni and for galderma. Like it's amazing how much knowledge for lasers and they all all this stuff. I'm like, I had it done, had it done, had done. Listen, it's why do you think I work there? Oh my gosh, it must be so fun to work there, and
I don't even have time for all of it. You know, it's like hard to get in and they're busy, and you know, I've I have on my list keeps getting longer too, But I you know, I do try to make sure I get at least one facial year, which is sad, but I will. I won't ever miss the botox. The Bottos thing is like that is that's a non starter. You got to do it and and you won't look funny. I think that this is the thing that people,
if you've never done anything for yourself, listen to. In the cosmetic world, the one thing that I think people are worried about is looking crazy because that's who we see, Like some people who are overdone, pulled too tight, their lips are gargantuane, like all these things that are sort of you know, on the edge, which isn't normal, and it's not it's not normal in terms of there's people you probably walk by that on the street,
or people you work with where they've had a little something done and you don't know it, but you know, the things in the media is always that edge, you know, and it's more about you know, looking like yourself but a little bit better, a little refresh, a little bit younger, or you know, my skin texture is better, or my you know, I like my curves better. We had. There's a patient of ours who has come on the podcast and she's got a she's a hairdresser and she
is just darling. Her name's Kayleie and she's at the skinny BBL. So at the skinny BBL and she just complained and she's, you know, like, I don't know, not even thirty, maybe I don't know. Wait, what is the skinny BBL? So, okay, skinny BBL is really it's the Brazilian butt lift. But first of all, you don't have to like be super curvy to then be able to do that, because some people think, oh, well what if I don't have enough fat to take away
and move it somewhere else? So there, but there is a skinny BBL, which is meaning that even if you're thin or thinner, there's always some fat to take and reposition. You're going to reposition that fat. So I want to do that. You don't have any fat? I have no butd either, Oh we'll see there you go. So they would find some fat and like make you a little a little booty. And and this is I
mine's the flattest. It's terrible. But so Kayleie with her skinny bbl she you know, really after she had her surgery, she had been making clips unbeknownst to us of the whole process. And I mean, this girl was so elated. I mean she just she's like I was straight up and down. I never could wear anything like, you know, like a dress, because my legs were my best asset. But I always wore like a big jacket to cover up to try to make people not see that I was sort
of straight. There was no waist I have. And so she had doctor Brahmy did her surgery and moved fat from here to there and her arms in her back and her you know, and she was not really heavy at all, and she'd been working out and dieting for years years and she's like nothing was changing. I was at my lowest weight and I just couldn't change my shape. So he did and he moved everything around. And she has a
waist. And she said, I mean, the saddest thing she said in in our podcast, as she said, I never even thought I would get married because I'd never wear a wedding dress or she goes, and now I've been asked to be in my friend's wedding and I said yes, and I
can wear a dress, and I'm so excited. And it's like those little things that takes up a lot of headspace, Like if it's something that you're obsessing about, you think about it, you think about it, and you're not really you know, you're not using that brain power to think of good things or you know, to do other things with you know, if you walk in your closet and you hate it, you're not going to fit in anything, or you don't like the way certain things fit on you, and
you can change that twenty twenty four. Do it. At least go in and get a consultation, because that's free, right, it's free. Yeah. And Monique is the host of the La Joya Cosmetic podcast, which has been now is it three years now? Almost? Yeah, we're coming up on three yeah, and it is just really it's skyrocketing. You guys are doing great. We are. We've been talking about so many different types of
procedures and we have lots of patients who come on as guests. We've had patients husbands come on as guests, you know, like thinking, well, if my wife gets this surgery, what's going to happen? You know, because they don't know, You don't know, you don't know what you're what's that road ahead going to look like? And I think we've always believed in patient education. The more that we can arm you to make a really good decision, that's that's what's most important. Do you know how to pick a
board? Certified plastic surgeon? Do you know what that means? And do you know what to look for that aren't the like real boards? Do you know what the accreditation of the facility? What is that? You know? Is it down in a hallway? Which before nineteen ninety six surgeons could do
surgery in this house. Prior to nineteen ninety six, there was no there were no laws about where in terms of in terms of like the laws on where that could be performed and the level of instrumentation or the level of you know, all your oxygen and all the different things that they need in the oor to make it safe. So there was I mean, there was you
know, the was the wild, wild West. So in ninety six they came up and they're like, okay, every facility has to be accredited, and so you know there's you just never want to take a short cut with your health no any way or cheap out or so and it's like there's so much to choose from here, and so this is why we really felt it was important to explain to people or and help empower them to be able to make a good decision. So like, do I feel comfortable with this doctor?
Do I know that you know? Could this doctor do this procedure in a hospital? Are are they? Are they licensed stories to hospital? Give them permission to do that procedure in the hospital, because that's where you find the outliers of the doctors who, oh I can do it here in my or for you, but like could I do it across its scripts? And sure the answers know it's not who you want to go to. So if you're authorized to perform that procedure in the hospital, that's that's an important thing.
But we have a whole page on the website explaining you know, what does board certification? I mean, what you know, what do you look for in the facility? What about anesthesia? You know a lot of people are scared about anesthesia and they think maybe local anesthesia. Oh that's safer because it's local. It seems less scary, but it actually isn't till we love
being put under. We did fine. So we've done i think one or two podcasts on anesthesia just about that, and one of our anesthesiologists came on and really helped debunk some myths, talked about you know, just some basic education of like it doesn't need to be scary and you're actually asleep anyway.
So just like you say, exactly, Yeah, So chances are if there's something that you've been interested in or have questions about, like a procedure, you've done a podcast on it. Pretty much pretty much, yeah, pretty much on anything, on everything. Yeah, and talk to all the doctors. I know you talked to many of the doctors and it's it's a good way to get to know them. And when doctor Salazar, he said that one of his patients came in and she started crying, like right away,
He's like, what what happened? Or is everything okay? She goes, I feel like, I'm just so happy I've met you, and she felt like shed you know, met a rock star. Oh, but you know, I mean, and they are rock stars, they are amazing, they're wonderful people. But I think she felt like she knew him and she and she did a lot of research. And sometimes it's scary to make the first phone call or to make that first contact and you're like, I don't know, am I gonna like them? Well, you can get to know them
on the podcast, and that again, it's so on YouTube. We have the video versions. I think we started doing that, I don't know fourteen or fifteen months ago with having video, and prior to that it was all audio. But yeah, it's we've talked about everything, and I think it is really helpful to debunk myths or to just make you feel a little safer, and then you can be armed with that good knowledge and go out and
find the right doctor for you and wherever that doctor is. And although I will preface that by saying wherever that doctor is okay, maybe not in Turkey or somewhere outside of the country, only because if something goes wrong, you don't you're you're back here, the doctor's over there, or whether there's issues with travel, and so sometimes I think we do get tempted. I love
a good deal don't. That is not something you should. But this is something that is really really scary and well I think also in other countries, their level of accreditation or whatever is vastly different than it is, right. Their laws are different in terms of what they make you have. Yeah, I mean if you go state to state, it's like hr laws are different
in Ohio than they are in California. I mean, so it's you're very right, and there's great doctors everywhere, and there's also bad doctors everywhere, and they could be right down the street really good or really bad. So that's not that so much about the country. It's more about your safety in flying in you know, if you get home, if you get back here and then you have an infection, who's taking care of you. We're not doing that. We're not doing that. We're going to La joya cosmetic surgery
center. And here's what you're gonna do. If you because this is the year of you, you're gonna if you do some research. Go on the website. It's glamfam dot com. There's a treatment planner on there that you can see what like what things that you could get done, things that you are interested in, and what things are available. There are thousands of reviews,
thousands on thousands on thousands getting closed. We have almost or maybe we've just surpassed ten thousand five star five stars reviews because we've been surveying our patients. We used to do it with paper surveys, so we weren't counting those ones at the time, but now we have a third party that does all our So after every consultation, every patient is getting a survey on how is that consultation because we want that process to be really good and if it needs
improvement, we want to know. We can't fix it if we don't know. And then after surgery as well, and so you can look by every procedure. So say you go to the LiPo section page, you're going to see real reviews from our patients about that procedure. You'll see which doctor did it, and then when you go to the doctor pages, you'll see links to all their reviews. So if you wanted to see okay doctor Bryster, you know, I want to see what her reviews are. You can you
can learn and before and afters right and all of it. Oh, I love before and after pictures and something that you wouldn't necessarily know. So our gallery you can you know, filter by doctor, filter by procedure. But there's a lot of people, and I don't blame them, who might not want to share their photos on the web. Right, so not you know, sometimes you don't mind sharing your friends or but there's a lot of patients
who will share their photos for other patients in a consultation. Oh so even if you so, what you see on our web gallery is one thing, but then there's thousands more pictures we are allowed to show you when you have a consultation, and so there's if you don't see it, or if it's something that's like you know, the lady bits. We do some vaginal rejuvenation, women's rejuvenation, and we're not gonna put those on the website. Sorry,
right, I know how much you love it, Captain fantastic. Yeah, I know, yeah, listen, you know, but there are some things that it's better in a consultation have the doctor explain what's you know and so, and especially things for facial surgery, because you know, if I'm looking at somebody's tummy, I don't know who's tummy it is or their breasts.
Okay, good to know, but you don't know. But if it's a face lift or it's eyelid lift or next surgery, they're putting their whole face out there, and not everybody wants to do that, which is totally understandable. So yeah, there's more things you can see at a consultation. And and the other thing we do. We have a specials page Specials and events, and so it has whatever specials we've got going on, and then
it has upcoming events and past events and all our past events. Have you know, the doctor the topics we're talking aboutout videos, before and after pictures, and it's and you can play those all on demand, so you fill out a little form and then you can play it on demand. So that's something good too. If you're like, oh, shoot, I missed the one about all therapy, or ooh I missed the one about you know, breast augmentation, you can you can play it on demand. So go to
the website, get the phone number, make the phone call. This is the year of you. You're going to take care of yourself. You're going to put yourself first. You're going to get that free consultation and then you're going to book your surgery or your botox or whatever you want to do, and you know what, you can finance it so you don't have to pay for it right away, So you're gonna get it done this year. I'm
really passionate about that. I really feel like this is the year that we should, especially as moms and you know, taking care of everybody else. It's like, yeah, you know, let's not feel guilty. Okay, and there's let's not feel guilty about it. So two more things I want to say if we have time to do, yes, of course, yeah, okay, two things I want to tell you about. One I'm not supposed to tell you about it, so I'll hold that one for second,
okay, and help my boss isn't watching. Oh I'm so excited. This is exciting. It's almost as exciting as Thursday, which I want to hear about this airport debacle. So two things. So, one new thing that we've had this year is called ella core And if you ever see those stars who've had four facelifts, their mouth is like by their ears, you know,
it's like wind tunnel effect. Well, some very ingenious surgeons came up with a solution for that, and it's called ella core e l L A c R. And it's kind of the idea of what micro needling would be in a medspa. So lots of little micro needles, you know, injuring, making a superficial injury to the face to help stimulate growth factors and collagen
and you know, texture improvements. So taking that idea of like a little stamp with lots of little needles and taking it to a technology where those needles are actually hollow and they go in and they pull out, they extract some tissue and so it's something that is done in this surgery realm. It's not a huge deal, but it's not kind of medspa. So it's like surgery light. Is this what doctor Salas I was talking about at the party?
I want to but you're this one. No, this is exciting. So what is so exciting because if you think about that, especially the lower So it's creative for the lower face. And we're one of only fifty practices in the country wow, who have it because they wanted it in the hands of board certified plastic surgeons who are really good and so we were chosen, which we love. And it's really meant to address sort of this lower face, neck, jowl area because if you pull, if you think about how do
I smooth that out? You could put fillers there, but that doesn't work for very long, and it can look really weird and your mouth looks super distorted. You end up with this like bizarre top shelf lip thing because you're
trying to smooth those wrinkles out or you're trying to add volume. So this technology is going to remove up to eight percent of the tissue across that area wherever you're treating, but mostly it's made for around here, and then your skin just sort of heals back and after a few days and then you do that three times, so it's not non invasive. It is invasive because it's going out, it's taking out, but it really there's nothing else out there.
You could do surgery, but again you're pulling from a far direct, a far distance. You know, if you're thinking about trying to address the mouth area or the jowl area, you can do things for a while, but they won't work forever. So threads or lasers or fillers or but you just can't. But elicorp or something that eli cour So my aunt had it
and I had her on the podcast Marie and she's had two. I don't think she's had her third one, but she had two and then the holidays came so she was like, I but you know, she's going to turn eighty, so she's had two facelifts in her lifetime. Incredible she does so in forty years she had two facelifts an easy access. Most people would be
like, well, why would you need another one? She's like, I need a little mini touch up. But a lot of times she was trying to deal with this area here, so she had the elakor loves it. We've also used it on younger people, so people who might think I'm aging, but I'm not ready for any facial surgery, right, And that's a
really great group of people. The one of the inventors we had on the podcast with us with doctor Brami, and he was saying that his girlfriend came in on a Friday and at the end of the day he did her elakore. On Sunday, they were working out in the gym and she had makeup on and not everybody's going to heal that fast, sure, because my aunt who's almost eighty, and she was like, no, it was more like
a week I was going to just ask you what the recovery time. Yeah, so I think somewhere between three to five days, but it and then how far apart are the sessions. I think it can be maybe six weeks or two apart. Yeah, okay, yeah, but usually three three treatments is kind of what most people who want. If you really want to address it, you might be happy after one, but if you really are trying
to address something very specific. So that's kind of a cool new technology and it really can kind of help with this extra marrionette lines the gobled the Gobbledygoogle. It also sounds like it might be a good procedure for somebody that's had a very dramatic weight loss and they have a lot of that. You are right there with me, okay, So so many many people are talking about ozempic. Face. This is that term ozempic. I haven't heard this term.
Oh yes, So the Semaglue tide is ozempic or moonjarro. There's a couple of different ones. It's the injectable weight loss and it's for it's for diabetes, and so I unfortunately am a Type two diabetic. Lovely Lifestyle Choices catch Up with you and being overweight and struggling with weight my whole life. So in the last two years, I've lost forty four pounds and now I'm like, wait a minute, what's all this? You know, like you don't think about that, yeah, or like you know, like things are
drooping a little bit. But it's so one of the things is that, yes, surgery is great for that, and elcor can be really good for that, depending on where where your sure stuff is loose. Well, because especially since this whole zembic thing has taken off, and it's so dramatic and it's so quick, a lot of it's very quick. For me, it was like quick and not quick and kind of and then they kind of change
your dosage and then there's a shortage. So but you know what, I know, then where you really really see it or where I've seen it is especially when people that don't really need it do it and they get that really gaunt followed out. If you're already at a weight that would be considered good, right, yeah, then why are you going to go down ten more pounds? Right? But yeah, it's it really works, and so that's the thing I'm not supposed to really talk about yet because it's not really I
launched it. We haven't launched it yet, but we are adding that a skinny shot a skinny shot component. And really part of the reason is, you know, so it's going to be physicians supervised and we'll be starting it up kind of in a slow launch in the next month. Wait wait, wait, this is different from elkoor. So you're going to do with something that's a skinny shot like like like elikor light like ozempic, like ozempic right,
like ozempics. Because you know, we have a lot of patients and especially I think the women who your mom's and it's hard to get that body back. And I completely understand because that it was for me after the first kid was really not a problem. Getting back after my second it was like
impossible. And then hormonal changes and so like say, you want to do something about your body, and the doctor says, well, you know you really would be You'll get the best result if you're within close to your goal weight. Well, sometimes it's you know, twenty twenty five pounds that you're like, God, I just can't do it. My goal weight is my birth weight. God, your driver's license weight from when you were fifteen.
Yeah, well that is kind of a we're going to have that for our patients and have that as something that you know, because I know there's a lot of places out there that where you can get it, but you think that will like in the next month, So I would even let your listeners because I trust you guys to you can email me, So it's Monique at LJCSC dot com and I'll we'll put that on We'll put that on our website.
I'll keep a list because we're when we're ready to launch and when we're ready to say okay, if you want to try it, and we're going to do some webinars so you know, you can learn like what's the deal, what's the you like, we want the facts out there because there's a lot of misconceptions out there about it and who's it right for and what if you you know, one lady said, well, I heard you just gain all your weight back, and I'm like, well, my hairdresser did it,
and her doctor wouldn't let her go for very long and she's kept it off for a year and a half. She looks amaze and she lost like fifty pounds. So you can't you can, you know, keep it off, and that's part partly why we want to make sure there's a whole program around it. It's not just the drug. Well it's very responsible yeah as
well. Yeah, but I think it's nice because then you can also you know, then if you do have that kind of goal of maybe a mommy makeover or certain things on your list, then again, the closer you are to your goal weight, that better you're going to heal, the less risk you are in surgery. If you have a high BMI and that's your body mass index and we have there's a you can google it on you know, just look for BMI calculator, but we have one on our website too,
and you can then see, you know, what is your BMI. And if your BMI is too high, they don't want to have you in the surgery room because it's more risky. So there's ways to you know, it's going to be health benefits on top of maybe getting you to that goal. So then then you can do that surgery you were thinking about. Awesome.
Yeah, so you guys can email me and I'll put you I'll start a little list, Okay, because they're not quite ready to launch but you know me, I'm going to talk about Oh my god, we'll put it on the website now. I asked this question to my kids, and I asked this question like I think online, but I want to hear your answer. What is your one word to describe twenty twenty four for you? Wow? I want you to do this too, and I'll give you mine first.
Okay, let's hear yours. And actually I stole it from my son, pivotal pivotal in all in all good good ways. Yeah, yeah, that's good. I feel like mine is just like having that. I think it's courage, courage, courage. I love that courage to cause. Okay, so fifty six fifty seven I don't even know, and I'm not going to askfty five if I'm fifty five. I hate saying it, but whatever, But you know, sometimes doing things at our age takes a little courage.
And whether it's trying something new or breaking or breaking a old habit. I have a lot of bad habits and I'm like, I'm lazy. I'm sorry, people, I am, I'm really lazy. But that's not good, that's not healthy. Like I need to build some good habits. But that takes courage, So I feel like sometimes that's what you so, Yeah, that's my my word. Love it. What's your word? I just thought of it. I forget, wait, hold on, elevate? Oh oh, and on all levels, Brian, do you have a word for twenty
twenty four that's going to represent? Uh? Not specifically? No, Come on, what do you want twenty twenty four to be about? For? You know? I don't have any radical upheaval plans. Give me your word, hope, crime crime you are Why did I even ask? Why did I even ask? Right? Anyway? You if you have any questions about anything, I'm sure there's a podcast La joya cosmetic podcast. You can find
it anywhere. You can find it now on YouTube too. And if you have any questions about any kind of surgery, botox, you know, even facial stuff the doctors, you have an episode on it. Yeah. And then your website, glamfam dot com has all the stuff on there, and then we'll we'll have a link on our website for the weightless Yeah. And I am all about skincare. I love, love, love skincare and it the products that you guys set me up with are the compliments. He's been
getting is no same. It's amazing changing, very cool, and there's some new stuff out. Skin Viv is one. It's an injectible but it helps with skin like glowiness. Oh injectable, I want it, Oh boy. And so skin viv And then but the skin Medica it's the same company, skin Medica products, I mean, and they are a little bit of an investment, but they do make a difference. It is there's nothing like spending
money on something that doesn't work. But if you stick with it and you're really religious about good skincare, that medical grade skincare, yeah, that is because that's skain changing. I think it is a game changer. It's not the stuff at Costcode. I had a friend asked me that one time she goes. You know, they have like the three pack at Costco. No. Sorry, I wish I could say yes, because they'd be so much easier. Yes, right, but it's sometimes that doesn't know it is night
and day everything else just wet in the trash. It was like I was on like day three of it, and I'm all, it really does work. Yeah, And it's one of those things where especially for men and any of us, but women are more patient with a long regimen of products. We will do. We'll put ten things on. We don't care. Yea, we don't care, but men they won't. And there's two things in that chamber and so you get all the NA accidents and all the growth factors.
And it's like one pump in the morning and one pump at night, and that's all you have to do. And yeah, the TNS is I think I put on. I think it's about nine or ten products a night from He's different, he's different than most. He loves his products. My bathroom looks like a counter at yeah Loa Cosmetics. It's not every but you
know, if you're and I think that's good. And you know a lot of times our aestheticians will be asked like, okay, if I just I just want the bare minimum, get started to get comfortable, and then okay, if you're going to add something in, what would you add? And then you know, kind of piece it in. Yeah, if I was going to recommend any guy that wanted to do get the tn S, the TNS Advanced Plus and the the color correct or the oh the oh, the h a FI, Yes, thank you. I get so excited about it.
I love it all right, you guys, we could talk, I know all night. If you remember Monique, how I it was really ruddy in here. Yeah not anymore. It's completely gone. Wow. Yeah, stuff works everything. It's amazing. Boy. Cosmetic Surgery Center and Medspot is the place goes in our backyard. We are so very lucky. Thank you so much Monique for starting off you twenty twenty four. I love coming with this, all this good knowledge and the doctor and really your word courage and
you. This is the year of you, you guys, and you can do it. And okay do you remember our little yes? Okay, so I'll say it first, then year turn and then Eric Stern and thank you so much for watching on Instagram, you guys, thank you so much for watching on YouTube. Thank you so much for listening. It's so great to be back. And love your podcast. Love your podcast, Love your podcast. I love you, my sweet babies. Bye, guys, bye, thank youst you On Thursday,