What's up, Batty Bees? I'm Brianna, mom, wife, serial entrepreneur, and host of the badass basic bitch podcast.

Each week, I sit down with a seemingly ordinary woman who's doing extraordinary

things and I get to share her story with you. So let's go. Buckle up as we're going to get real

and dive into the shit nobody talks about. Welcome to the Batty B Club. So if we have a difficulty to talking about the kind of negative sides or the ways that it can hurt us, the way this is that beauty culture can hurt us, that's exactly what you and I should be talking about on a podcast.

It's exactly what book clubs should be reading and thinking about because we have an opportunity to reshape our attitudes and the way that we judge

ourselves and judge one another towards a much more compassionate view. And we can't do that

without actually talking about what makes us uncomfortable. Welcome back to another episode of Badass Basic Bitch.

On this week's episode, we have Elise Hugh, a Los Angeles-based journalist, podcaster, author,

and media entrepreneur.

She is the host of TED Talks Daily, a correspondent of Vice News Tonight, a host at large at NPR, and the author of the book

Flawless, which is all about lessons in looks and culture from the K-Beauty Capital.

And today, we are going to be talking about Alisa's book, Flawless, and the impact of the

beauty industry on women.

So thank you so much for being with us.

I'm thrilled to be here. Thanks for having me. So why don't you give our listeners a quick summary

about who you are and what you do? Yeah, sure. You really covered the big, the main points there.

But basically, I'm a journalist. That's the quick way to describe it. I ask

questions for a living. So it's really hard for me to be on this side of the mic, actually,

because I typically get to be the one asking the questions. I started in TV news and I worked

in a bunch of different markets in TV news, Missouri and South Carolina and Texas,

and then jumped over to do digital news at a

startup in Austin called the Texas Tribune. And from there, I got hired away to move to Washington,

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