17+ Unfiltered Skin Truths with Esthetician Joanna Czech
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Joanna Czech believes that three minutes of sun exposure a day is good for your skin - say what?! The celebrity facialist with more than four decades of experience (her client roster includes everyone from Anna Wintour, Kim Kardashian and Hailey Bieber) also thinks you should incorporate vitamin A “training” before any skin treatments and/or plastic surgery. Plus, are exosomes just a trend?
This week we’re welcoming Joanna back to the show and getting totally unfiltered about everything skin-related, so buckle up — you’re in for a thought-provoking ride!
You’ll discover:
- How to transition your routine for summer — why Joanna doesn’t believe in switching creams based on the weather, but rather on your skin’s specific needs
- How to practice intermittent sun exposure the right way — and yes, she does believe it’s good for you
- The No. 1 treatment to get rid of hyperpigmentation, according to the pro
- Microneedling for rosacea? It’s a yes, says Joanna
- Why “vitamin A training” is a must before any professional skin treatment or surgery, in her experience
- Exosomes in skincare? Not for this esthetician
- Why your daytime skin routine really begins at night
- Vitamin A 101: why she is saying ‘no’ to prescription retinoids, and yes to over-the-counter derivatives for better results
- The importance of resetting your skin pH before the rest of your skincare steps
- Her surprising expert hack for using clay masks!
- The one supplement she uses every day that truly makes a difference
Pssst - If you want to learn more about Joanna’s spas, you can find more info on her New York atelier here, her Dallas spa here, and her Beverly Hills outpost here.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:08.1 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
| 0:13.8 | We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:24.6 | Hello and welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast. I'm your co-host, Carleen Higgins, and I'm here with my other co-host, Jill Dunn. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, everyone, and thank you for joining us on this fine Wednesday. |
| 0:34.4 | We are to longtime magazine beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. We're in your feed |
| 0:39.4 | each and every Wednesday. And Carleen, I feel like the people that we get to talk to on the show, |
| 0:45.6 | like 450 episodes into nine years. Yes. We get to talk to the most iconic people in the industry. So |
| 0:52.2 | that could be Chris McMillan for hair. Dr. Shereen |
| 0:54.8 | Idris as a dermatologist, makeup by Mario. And we have an iconic person with us today. |
| 1:02.3 | Yes, we have none other than aesthetician to the stars, Joanna, check. Welcome to the podcast. |
| 1:09.7 | Thank you for having me. Of course. Of course. |
| 1:13.2 | So Joanna first joined the podcast back in 2022, where she helped us cultivate big skin |
| 1:19.6 | energy for that year. And in today's episode, we're going to be asking her for the unfiltered |
| 1:24.7 | truth about skin care's hot topics. And if you're not familiar, Joanna is |
| 1:29.8 | dubbed as fashion's favorite facialist. She has a huge list of A-list clientele and just some of the |
| 1:36.3 | ones that we can name include Kim Kardashian, Haley Bieber, Cara Delavine, and Joanna has been an |
| 1:42.6 | aesthetician for more than four decades. So she really |
| 1:45.1 | knows what she's talking about. And her mantra really is all about a long-term, holistic approach |
| 1:50.6 | versus the quick, short fix. Although she does love TikTok and she's good on social media. |
| 1:57.9 | Joanna divides her time between New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas. |
| 2:02.6 | I was fortunate enough to have a facial last time I was here in New York, and I was getting compliments for weeks. |
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