270: Former Miss America and 4th degree blackbelt, Nia Sanchez, speaks on body inclusivity and plastic surgery
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
4.9 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, I am excited to be joined by the 2014 Miss USA winner, Nia Sanchez. Nia is a pageant and life coach, a women's self-defense instructor, and a 4th degree blackbelt. We talk about the beauty pageant world and how it has changed since Nia competed. As a coach, Nia focuses on emotional and mental wellness, and getting her girls to feel confident and practice self love. She has a passion for helping women feel strong and empowered. We also discuss her skincare routine and past procedures, such as lip filler and Dysport for wrinkles. I hope the Beauty Bytes enjoy this episode and find it informative! Have a question or something you’d like covered on the podcast? Send me a DM or email info@beautybydrkay.com
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon. |
| 0:19.2 | And today on the podcast, I have the gorgeous and |
| 0:22.6 | fabulous Miss Mia Sanchez. Nia is a pageant participant who won the Miss USA contest in 2014. |
| 0:32.4 | And she subsequently went on to participate representing the United States in the Miss Universe 2014 competition |
| 0:39.4 | and placed first runner up. |
| 0:41.3 | So welcome Miss a beautiful Miss USA. |
| 0:44.1 | How are you, Mia? |
| 0:45.6 | I'm good. |
| 0:46.6 | How are you doing today? |
| 0:48.0 | So good. |
| 0:49.0 | It's really exciting to podcast with you. |
| 0:51.2 | So right now you're a model, lifestyle coach, an influencer, and a pageant coach. |
| 0:57.3 | Is that right? Yes, absolutely. And I also teach women's self-defense workshop. So I would say |
| 1:03.6 | the modeling was the former part of my career. I do a little more commercial acting, |
| 1:09.5 | coaching, and then self-defense instructor as well. |
| 1:13.0 | Wow. When did you pick up self-defense? Was that a skill you used during the pageants? |
| 1:17.9 | I know, right? That would be really fun. No, I actually started training in martial arts when I was |
| 1:23.2 | eight years old. I trained in three different martial arts over the span of two plus years. |
| 1:29.2 | I'm a fourth degree blackbell and I'm now currently training in jujitsu. And if anybody knows |
| 1:34.3 | Jiu Jitsu, they probably know the Gracies. I'm training at Gracie University here in California, |
| 1:39.5 | which is one of like the top of the line Jiu-jitsu schools. And I really enjoy it. |
| 1:45.3 | So my lifetime of martial arts transferred into teaching self-defense because I have a |
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