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

And today on the podcast, we're

going to talk about a topic near and dear to my heart. And many of you out there, we're interviewing

a very special lady, Shannon King. She is a wonderful R& in aesthetics going to be a nurse practitioner

soon. We were on a panel together in Vegas at Amspa, and I thought

she said so many insightful things. So welcome to the podcast, Shannon. Thank you, Dr. Kay. Thank you for

having me. My pleasure. So we did this awesome panel about diversity and inclusion and aesthetics.

What are your core thoughts on that? Because I want to

just dive right in. I think in aesthetics, there's so much glossing it over and putting people

on brochures. And I'm not sure how meaningful that is. Yes, I agree. I couldn't agree with you more.

There's a lot of glossing over. So I feel like the world of aesthetics were a little bit

behind compared to all of the other industry or all the other beauty industry aspects.

You know, we have a lot of work to do. But I think we are starting to lean in the right direction.

Tell me a little bit about your background.

So you started in a surgical setting, then you transitioned to aesthetics.

What drove your interest in that?

Well, when I was in, when I was a circulator for plastics, I couldn't wait for the patients to wake up. I would be so

excited. I really enjoyed working alongside of the plastic surgeons and the outcome for the

patients. So as I moved forward in my nursing career, I knew I wanted to do something very

similar. Of course, plastic surgery wasn't an option.

So I kind of gravitated towards the next best thing, which would be aesthetics in helping them bring out the best version of themselves and be excited about the services that they were receiving.

I thought some things you said on the panel were really valuable.

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