Be Seen, Get Paid, and Feel Confident At Any Age with Nikol Johnson

Earn Your Happy

Lori Harder

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Aging is inevitable, but losing your confidence isn’t. In this episode, I sit down with Nikol Johnson, founder of Nikol Beauty and a voice for women over 40. We talk about what it really means to embrace the beauty of getting older, why confidence is the ultimate beauty tool, and how to redefine standards in an industry obsessed with youth. Nikol opens up about her IVF journey, how she turned rejection into redirection, and why she’s on a mission to help women feel seen, beautiful, and powerful at every age. Tune in to reclaim your confidence and create a life that truly reflects who you are. Check out our Sponsors: SKIMS - I finally tried SKIMS and I get all the hype. Shop SKIMS Fits Everybody collection at SKIMS.com and let them know we sent you in the dropdown after checkout. Brevo - the all-in-one marketing and CRM platform designed to help you connect with customers and grow your business. Get started for free today - go to www.brevo.com/happy Blinds.com - Blinds.com makes it easy to get the designer look without the showroom markups. Get an exclusive $50 off when you spend $500 or more with code EARN at checkout. Shopify - Try the ecommerce platform I trust for Glōci, Sign up for your $1/month trial period at Shopify.com/happy Headway - the #1 daily growth app that delivers key insights from the world’s best non fiction books in bite sized 15 minute reads and audio. Save 25% off when you go to makeheadway.com/happy. Airbnb - Start making money by listing your home on Airbnb with an experienced Co-host, find a co-host at airbnb.com/host HIGHLIGHTS 00:00 The DM that started my friendship with Nikol. 05:15 How Nikol turned her gray hair into her signature. 13:00 What can infertility teach you about identity, motherhood, and resilience? 16:30 How Nikol’s Fierce Aging series began with a single client request. 20:30 Why most of the beauty industry avoids wrinkles. 23:45 What women were really struggling with when it came to their makeup drawers. 31:00 Lessons in grit, self-worth, and protecting your product’s purpose. 34:00 Why creating space matters for mature women in the beauty industry. 39:30 The #1 advice older women want younger women to hear. 44:15 How do you help women feel powerful in their skin again? 48:15 Advice for anyone reinventing their identity or purpose. RESOURCES Check out Nikol Beauty HERE! Watch Nikol’s Fierce Aging series on YouTube Join the 30 Day Audacity Challenge HERE! Join the most supportive mastermind on the internet HERE! Check out our FREE 90-Day Business Blueprint HERE! Listen to my free SECRET PODCASTS SERIES - Operation: Rekindle This B*tch Get glōci HERE Use code: HAPPY at checkout for 25% off! FOLLOW Follow me: @loriharder Follow glōci: @getgloci Follow Nikol: @freshbeautystudio

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0:00.0	This episode is sponsored by Shopify.
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0:06.3	Sign up for your $1 month trial period at Shopify.com forward slash happy.
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0:16.5	and business plans for the first three months of an annual subscription.
0:19.6	Blinds.com.
0:20.7	Blines.com is giving our listeners an exclusive $50 off when you spend $500 or more. Just use
0:26.0	code to earn at checkout, limited time offer. Rules and restrictions apply. See blinds.com for details.
0:32.9	When we're in our 20s and 30s, I'm just being so open and vulnerable. I think we dread getting older. I think we're so afraid of it. Despite what society says, despite what social media says, I want to be strong. I want to be doing things. I mean, I look at these centarians and I'm like, that's what I want. I'm actually in the same boat. I'm literally like, okay, I want to make sure I'm still skiing and playing pickleball. I think it's important to really have that vision now and not being like, oh, well, I'm 80. I can't do that.
1:06.4	Nicole, welcome to the podcast. I'm so excited to have you on. Thank you. You have had just such a
1:14.0	beautiful career and created a career on something that I'm super passionate about. And every year
1:20.8	I get older, I'm a little more passionate about. And that is really celebrating women in aging in such a beautiful way. And, you know, we were
1:31.3	just chatting and I'm like, when did we even come into each other's worlds? And you had said maybe
1:35.7	2017 or 2018, you have sent me some lipstick. Yes. And the titles of your lipstick are super
1:43.9	empowering. Just tell me that little story. And the titles of your lipstick are super empowering. Um, just tell me that
1:46.8	little story and then we'll, we'll talk about the progress of everything you've done. Okay.
1:50.9	So I was when I was just getting into podcast and it was a really great time to like escape when
1:55.7	I was walking my Frenchies and like take that time to really get some takeaways to be able to be inspired, whatever it was.
2:03.2	And I landed on yours somehow and I just loved it. And I loved just always tuning and hoping there
2:08.8	was like a new one for like the walk and everything. And there was this one particular, it was a
2:13.1	couple of them, I think, in a series. And I remember it was like a spring summer. And you kept
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