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You can't acid your way to better skin. The industry sells intensity — stronger actives, more treatments, faster results — but the thing showing up on your face usually started somewhere else entirely.
This week the tables turn. Stephanie hands over the mic to Tessa Lloyd and becomes the guest on her own show, talking through twenty years in skin, wellness and the family business that raised her.
Steph is a dermal therapist and co-owner of Skintrition, the clinic her mum started three decades ago. She takes us back to being brought in after school at 13, the rule that she had to study something else before she could work there, and the shift from spa to clinical and back again. Then she gets into the part she could talk about forever: why skin is the last place a problem appears, not the first.
They also cover:
- Why your skin is a non-living organ, and what that means for how you treat it
- Fascia, jaw tension and where emotion physically gets stored
- Why Steph doesn't do injectables, and what she'd try first instead
- The brick wall analogy that explains your skin barrier in thirty seconds
- Acne, hormones, and why you'll never fix one without the other
- Face mapping, and reading a hormonal issue without a $20,000 camera
- Building your team: GP, integrated practitioner, skin therapist
- Why buying supplements online without knowing your baseline is money down the drain
- The three products she'd keep if everything else went in the bin
Chapters
00:00 – Welcome
00:32 – Turning the tables: Steph in the hot seat
01:32 – The clinic at 13, and the rule about studying
03:46 – How the brand changed: spa, clinical, and back again
06:04 – Biohacking, longevity, and new words for old practices
08:58 – Working with mum and dad
11:08 – Why Steph doesn't believe in work-life balance
16:43 – Skin is the outside of an inside problem
18:12 – Fascia, jaw tension and stored emotion
20:48 – Botox, root causes, and what she'd try first
22:30 – Skin needling, lymphatic drainage and lasers
24:15 – The skin barrier, explained with a brick wall
27:08 – Why you can't trust the trend cycle
28:49 – Doing too much and expecting too soon
33:29 – Acne and hormones: the link nobody mentions
34:06 – Face mapping and the signs to look for
35:14 – Building your team of practitioners
36:38 – Stop buying supplements online
39:10 – The biggest mistakes people make
41:07 – Acne, the inner child and mental health
47:09 – Why home maintenance decides everything
49:50 – The one tool: sleep and a regulated nervous system
50:02 – The three things that actually matter
This episode is a conversation about general wellbeing and is not medical advice. Please speak to your health practitioner about your own circumstances.
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