This is What's Wrong with the Beauty Industry...
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
If you subscribe to my Substack (I love you!) then you would have seen my column about how wellness messaging on products has, in my opinion, gone too far. We are all entitled to create a spa-like experience in our own home but it's my belief that brands latching the benefits of their products onto you taking a moment to yourself is really quite disingenuous. In this episode, I explain why it got me so riled and why we should expect better of brands.
If you've been here a while then you'll know I am often vague when making a point about something contentious. I don't name names and I'm not interested in starting a fight with anyone. However, I break my own rule in this episode when it comes to the lack of reciprocity in podcasting. I was talking to a fellow OG podcaster (someone who also has 10 plus years of podcasts to their name) and we were saying how disappointing it is when you share your platform with someone and they seem indifferent and don't support you back...
Plus. there's a short but sweet update on my fitness and nutrition strategy. Short and sweet because I'm wondering whether too much focus on it is as helpful as I think it is...
Speaking of, this is the episode of Ready To Talk I mentioned in the show.
Please do chat with me and your fellow listeners over on Substack. I'd love to hear your thoughts.
EG xx
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I'm welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn Show. It is always a delight to spend this time with you. So thank you so much for tuning in. And I will talk a little bit later on in the podcast about just how much that means to me. |
| 0:21.5 | So we'll talk about that in a little while. |
| 0:24.3 | But first of all, let's talk about the thing that I've been talking to you about for months now, |
| 0:30.7 | which is diet and, well, fitness nutrition, fitness and nutrition, |
| 0:35.3 | the way that I've been working out, the way that I have |
| 0:37.7 | decided to tweak things so that my longer term strategy is slightly more, well, not just slightly |
| 0:45.7 | more, but more manageable. It's the whole working smarter, not harder vibe. Because I've had a couple of |
| 0:51.9 | interviews on the show recently, so we've had a little bit of a gap in my reportage of this. |
| 0:56.2 | So let's just quickly dip in, shall we? |
| 1:00.8 | So fundamentally, at the end of December, I decided that there was absolutely no point continuing on the way that I had been continuing to exercise because it wasn't getting me the results that I wanted. |
| 1:12.3 | So I decided to change tax and that tack was to go very much into three full body sessions a week as opposed to trying to get to the gym as often as possible. |
| 1:21.3 | And then when I was in the gym sort of doing exercises, but then if there was a machine free thinking, well, I'm here, I might as |
| 1:30.8 | well jump on that one. And so there was a little bit of inconsistency. There was a lot of effort, |
| 1:34.8 | there was a lot of discipline, there was a lot of will and sort of, I'll try anything. But perhaps |
| 1:39.6 | the, it was a slightly scatter gun approach and perhaps with not enough, not perhaps, but with not |
| 1:46.5 | enough sort of clarity and like let's do this to achieve this. And then combined with that, |
| 1:54.1 | the nutrition side of things that obviously is somebody who has a long history of |
| 1:58.4 | disordered eating was perhaps even though I hadn't realized it had been a little bit too restrictive |
| 2:05.7 | specifically when it came to carbs. |
| 2:07.6 | So at the end of December, beginning of January, |
| 2:10.1 | I not only reduced the amount of strength training workouts I was doing, |
| 2:14.6 | just down to three, but with more weights. And obviously, having done |
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