444: How to Approach Beauty Treatments, Fitness, Hormones & Evolving Beauty Standards in 2026 with My Longtime Manager & Friend Chelsea Becker

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4.8 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week I’m sitting down with my longtime manager and close friend, Chelsea Becker--the type A to my type B--for an honest conversation about beauty, hormones, motherhood, ambition and what “having it all” actually looks like in this phase of life. We talk about navigating life with and without kids, the selflessness motherhood brings, and what we’d struggle with most if we switched roles. We get into the scrutiny women face in the public eye, the hypocrisy around criticizing women for being transparent, and why I regret talking so openly about certain procedures. We discuss whether confident, secure women can still want to change their appearance and why that conversation feels so charged.

On the beauty side, we break down the advice we got in our 20s that turned out to be a lie, the things we did as teens that now make us cringe, honest thoughts on peptides, basic laser protocols, the treatments I like for fine lines and pigmentation and how to find a provider you actually trust. We also talk about periods getting worse with age, perimenopause symptoms no one prepares you for and how hormones shift everything from your skin to your workouts.

On the fitness side, we get real about maintaining consistency with two young kids and a business, at-home workout recommendations, why we’re not chasing a certain physique at 40 (except maybe the Kardashian arm!) and focusing on strength and longevity instead. We also share a writing exercise to optimize your life, how recovery principles shape the way we approach beauty and ambition, and what being of service actually means in this season. It’s layered, funny, self-aware and very much a conversation between two women figuring it out in real time.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:05.9	This is Well, a podcast about wellness in all its forms.
0:10.0	I'm Ariel Laurie, and each week I'm sharing unfiltered conversations with people shaping how we feel, live, and look.
0:17.2	Come for the substance, stay for the honesty, and leave with the tools to be well, inside and out.
0:25.5	You guys have been asking for an episode like this for pretty much as long as I've had the podcast,
0:31.9	which is seven years now, or basically a form of this. So people often ask me to have a friend on because they want to
0:40.0	hear me talk to a friend, have the friend interview me and whatnot. So I had on my brand manager
0:47.9	of six years slash now manager slash friend who knows me in some ways better than some of my closest friends because we work
0:57.7	so closely together day in, day out. And she knows every aspect of my life. And I thought that she would
1:04.7	be the perfect person to come on because we are around the same age. She's a year younger than me,
1:10.7	but she's married. She has two
1:12.0	young kids and she's a business owner. So she brings a very different perspective to life than I do,
1:18.5	being unmarried, no kids, and being in the business that I'm in. She's on the other side of that.
1:24.5	And I just loved this conversation so much. We are very similar in some ways.
1:30.6	We always say that we have the same brain, but we're also different in other ways. She's more type A.
1:35.5	I am very much type B. But we really get into such real relatable stuff in this episode. So we talk about
1:44.0	being in your 30s and 40s and realizing
1:45.9	that life doesn't look exactly how you thought it was. Like I said, she has kids. I don't.
1:50.9	We get honest about what that actually means. The selflessness, the identity shifts, the freedom,
1:56.1	the tradeoffs. We even talk about what we think we would struggle with most if we switch lives.
2:01.6	And then we really go there on beauty.
2:04.4	So we talk injectables, not working like they used to, peptides, lasers for fine lines and pigmentation.
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