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Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

367: Breaking Stereotypes with Boss Babe with Johanna Leia

Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™

Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay

Business, Fashion & Beauty, Health & Fitness, Arts, Management & Marketing, Medicine

4.9608 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Hi, Beauties,

Welcome back to another episode of Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon. In this episode, I speak with Johanna Leia! She is a boss babe, supermom, and athletic advisor for her son signed to UCLA! Johanna gives us a sneak peek at navigating and holding her own in a male-dominated field. Tune in to hear how she beats stereotypes, deals with negative stigmas, all while maintaining her beauty and femininity.

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0:00.0

Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. Kay, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon,

0:21.4

and we are podcasting with the beautiful Johanna. Leah, how are you?

0:27.2

I'm wonderful. How are you?

0:28.7

Welcome to the podcast. It's so fun to meet you in L.A. here.

0:32.1

Thank you. I'm so happy to be here.

0:34.4

Well, you are trending. You're a boss girl who's in the news. I wanted to talk a little

0:40.3

bit about kind of your experience breaking into male dominated fields like basketball. And for those

0:47.2

of you who don't know, Johanna, let's do a little intro. Tell us a little bit about you.

0:50.8

Okay. So from Los Angeles, but grew up in Chicago. I have a 17-year-old son who just

0:59.3

committed to UCLA, and he's currently playing at Sierra Canyon, and Sierra Canyon has gotten a lot of

1:07.6

publicity the past few years with some of the students and athletes that have gone.

1:13.5

And my son is actually there. He just won a gold medal as a 16 U for USA.

1:20.3

He led the America and scoring, well, the USA, excuse me, in scoring. So it's been kind of

1:26.1

a big deal in the basketball world for him.

1:29.1

However, being his mother, has been a very interesting, interesting ride, to say the least.

1:35.3

So much congratulations. You must be a glowing, proud mom. But so you're having to go into this

1:42.5

field where I'm sure it's mainly dads that show up

1:46.1

who bring their kids to practice and to these amazing events and competitions, right?

1:51.0

Absolutely.

1:51.6

Well, you know, the perception is mothers don't really have an idea of what to do

1:58.7

with star basketball athletes. And for me, has that been hard to

2:05.5

learn? I'm not going to say it's been hard to learn. I think I've definitely been judged. You know,

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