Brooke Devard on Career, Community, and Cultivating Creativity
Naked Beauty
The Naked Beauty Podcast
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this special year-end episode of the Naked Beauty Podcast, I’m the guest! My producer, Mbiye Kasonga, interviewed me, and we reflected on the challenges and triumphs of 2025, including my return from maternity leave, the impact of the LA fires, and the balance between my corporate and creative responsibilities. We also touched on the major beauty trends of 2025, the wonderful range of guests we’ve had, and my thoughts on the evolving podcasting landscape. Mbiye asked some great questions, and I really dug deep in this episode to share my insights on the joys of community, creativity, and the pressures of constant innovation. The episode ends with our personal reflections on beauty and exciting predictions for 2026.
Tune in as we discuss:
(00:00) Introduction and Year-End Tradition
(01:21) Reflecting on 2025: Fires, Maternity Leave, and Podcasting
(04:37 Balancing Work, Creativity, and Personal Life
(12:58) The Evolution of Podcasting and Industry Insights
(27:00) London Trip and Memorable Experiences
(32:04) Meeting Sabrina Elba: A Class Act
(32:51) Impact of Naked Beauty Podcast
(34:22) Balancing Work and Motherhood
(37:55) Influence of Patriarchy on Beauty Standards
(42:40) Personal Beauty Trends and Discoveries
(47:56) Reflections on Beauty and Future Trends
(01:01:03) Concluding Thoughts and 2026 Beauty Trend Predictions
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, this is Brooke DeVard, and you're listening to the Naked Beauty Podcast. |
| 0:11.3 | This is the last episode of the year. |
| 0:13.8 | And now we're doing what honestly feels like a tradition at this point where my incredible |
| 0:17.6 | producer, B.A., joins me, asks me questions. |
| 0:20.4 | So I'm going to like just literally take a big step back and be in the guest seat for today's conversation. |
| 0:26.6 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:27.6 | This is BA Kasanga, producer of naked beauty. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm actually really excited that this is a tradition now and I was very pleased last year that people enjoyed this sort of role reversal |
| 0:40.6 | with you in the guest seat but I think you see so much you have so many different conversations |
| 0:47.8 | and then on top of that you're like having dinners and going to events and getting mailings |
| 0:52.4 | and like we get so much perspective from everyone else |
| 0:57.5 | who comes on the show. So this is a great way to round out the year with some perspective from you. |
| 1:02.3 | Yes. And I took your suggestion and I poured myself a little mini glass of wine. Yes. And I fear I'm like |
| 1:09.4 | tipsy already because one, I like don't even, I haven't been drinking for |
| 1:13.9 | the past like two or three weeks. So this is the first glass of wine I've had in a long time. And then |
| 1:18.0 | I didn't get to eat that much at this holiday lunch thing I was at. So the white wine is flowing. |
| 1:23.8 | Here we are. I know. I kind of set you up for like an extra honest episode of naked beauty. |
| 1:29.0 | Well, I actually want to start at the top of 2025 because so much has happened this year. |
| 1:36.5 | So I want to transport us if you want to close your eyes. It is January 2025. |
| 1:43.3 | Jade is maybe two months old. The LA fires have happened. And you are due to come back from maternity leave to your very fabulous, very successful podcast, naked beauty. What was your mindset at the top of this year? |
| 2:04.0 | What were you sort of feeling, thinking about, dreaming about, fearing potentially? Oh my goodness. So I was |
| 2:12.7 | literally just telling Umu yesterday. I feel like I have like unresolved trauma from the fires. |
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