A person must be a Very Important Person, VIP, if one gets invited first thing in the morning, at the last minute, for a very selective audience participation, for Kelly Clarkson Show, Kelly's rising talk show.
It takes a fellow celebrity to interview a celebrity, to dig down deep to get those little nuggets of wisdom.
During this scribe's time as an audience member, Kelly was interviewing Angela Bassett while playing a game of what irks them. What irks Kelly is a common celebrity problem, people wanting an autograph in the restroom or bathroom. Despite irking her, Kelly still takes a lot of autograph selfies in the restroom with fans. Note to her fans or any fans, please give your favorite celebrity a break in the restroom, wait then politely ask for a selfie.
There's a reason being a Kelly Clarkson Show audience member is so selective. It only holds no more than 30 audience members on average and the set is small.
Kelly does do "science experiments" stunts. A secret, since the set is small and her celebrity guests are busy, they do clear out the set to make room for the science stunts and for safety reasons, of course.
On the day of this scribe's audience time, she did a science experience stunt where she quipped, this chemistry teacher ought to make his student his talent manager, for suggesting he be on TikTok.
Since Kelly is very much a singer, she saves the best for last. A treat, she covers other artists' hits and classics. During this scribe's taping, she covered Rihanna's "Umbrella."
So, this is how it's like being a Kelly Clarkson Show audience member.
The chef-beloved urban/streetwear brand, The Hundreds, https://thehundreds.com/ know who they are, knows who loves them back and knows what their fans need, want, and love.
https://luxurist.blogspot.com/2018/10/millennial-gen-z-mens-hair-skincare.html This scribe first met them when they launched a limited edition men's grooming kit for their customers, which tends to be chefs and The Hundreds love their food as much as they love their streetwear and sneakers, which in return, chef love wearing them, on and off the clock.
A year later, The Hundreds launch their https://www.familystylefest.com/ Family Style Food Festival, a cross-cultural food festival where the world’s top culinary talent gather for one afternoon to collaborate with prominent streetwear brands and artists on one-of-a-kind dishes and limited merchandise.
The Hundreds' food festival is where and when fashion designers and chefs show off their love for each other by pairing meals with their favorite fashion designers then in return, fashion designers created limited edition clothes for their favorite chefs.
Chef Nancy Silverton, always one of the best dressed chefs, has a foodie fan in Anwar Carrots,
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/fashion/anwar-carrots-streetwear.html, the streetwear designer of Carrots by Anwar Carrots. So, he especially designed a streetwear capsule with her in mind. In return, her restaurant, Osteria Mozza joins The Hundreds' Family Style Food Festival and Anwar sells his limited edition Osteria Mozza x Carrots at the Family Style Food Festival Gift Shop by Doordash.
There's no way about it. The Hundreds' Family Style Food Festival is a Millennial and Gen-Z affair where hundreds (yes, pun intended) lining are pre-ordering the chef-streetwear collections on Doordash app so when they bee line directly to the sold-out Gift Shop where all the clothes are, the limited edition collectible merchandise will be a quick and ready pick-up.
Chef Evan Funke is such a well-respected chef, that Tommy Hilfilger designed a line of t-shirts just for him.
Since these in the know fans know that these chef-inspired clothes are limited edition, they sold out fast. These limited edition chef-inspired designer street/urbanwear is one heck of souvenirs that will be worn then framed for future generation.
Once guests get their collectible merchandise first and foremost, of course they know it's a food festival by the best chef that the City of Angels can offer.
The Hundreds are so profitable during normal times, that they held the third year of their food festival in CBS Studios, next door to The Grove/Farmer's Market.
Folks collected, gathered, sampled, snacked, lunched, dined, and bought ready-made dinners and the finest left-overs from LA's best restaurants.
A festival is also a great place to debut and launch new food dishes. Jolibee launched their McCharlie, their vegan take on the Big Mac and their Mango Hand Pies at The Hundreds' Family Food Festival.
How foodie is The Hundreds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN1ZmyVQ_MM Ben Hundreds of The Hundreds, hosts his own travel/foodie show on Tastemade, "Big Appetite hosted by Ben Hundreds," According to Ben Hundreds, “Two of my favorite things in the world are food and art, and being able to showcase them together through this new platform is a dream come true.” In some ways, that sentiment is what drives new cultural trends. While much can be said about food and flavor, the inspiration for the culinary experience can come from outside the kitchen.
His Family Style Food Festival is a physical manifestation of his Tastemade tv show, where fashion and food show their love together.
Thanks to Baby Boomers and Gen-Xers, they erased the shame of Breast Cancer Awareness and Health into a normal part of life, that is striking even younger Millennials and Gen-Yers, and men.
The tickets were free on the October First Breastival, again kicking off what has essentially become Women's Health Month.
GUESS Originals, a division of GUESS?, Inc. and spearheaded by Brand Partnerships Director, Nicolai Marciano, presented this full-day pop-up festival along with the Pushing for Pink founders, Gary Rodgers and Mathew Matthews.
Rodgers and Matthews founded their non-profit in 2015 as an attempt to nurture the growth of breast cancer awareness and philanthropy among young adults while creating a community to celebrate loved ones who have won, lost, or are currently battling breast cancer.
To prove the Breast Cancer and Breast Health has been normalized, skateboard magazine sponsored the Breastival with a Breast Cancer Pink skate park.
Millennial and Gen-Z men proudly bought then wear their breast cancer pink Guess Originals' Carpenter Jeans with their matching Breast Cancer Pink t-shirts.
Vans sneakers and skateboards proudly jumped on board the breast cancer bandwagon with limited-edition Vans sneakers and skateboards to raise funds meal delivery for breast cancer patients and breast cancer health researchers.
The festival was fully kit out with mechanical bull riding, basketball matches, and day-long and all-night long hip hop concerts.
We Gen-Xers have always take charge. They normalized menstruation that coming of age Gen-Z men now accept it as a part of life and part of a relationship.
Now, that Gen-Xers are marching into mid-life. They're not putting themselves out to pasture that previous generations passively did, by society.
With people living to be hundred, menopause is not the end of life; and one should not be defined by reproductive and nor by reproduction.
The wonderful of menopause is that sexual intercourse is now part of overall health and wellness.
The out and proud Womaness brand is making overall health and sexual wellness to tackle and adjust to menopause. Making the freedom of menopause into "Menopositivy," where you're not chained to menstruaction and the fret of birth control but the freedom of fully explore while taking care of overall health.
Womaness is a modern menopause brand on a mission to take the “pause” out of menopause and spark the power of menopositivity: a radiant, dynamic outlook that embraces who we are today.
Womaness is changing the way we think about the change, empowering the 50M women entering or in menopause in the US.
It's timely that Womaness kicked off its tour on the first day of Breast Cancer Month, October.
Menopause has long been that period in a woman’s life that goes untalked about and often ignored by society in general. Sally Mueller had over 35 years of experience working for companies like Target and in areas focused on skincare, fashion, and beauty products. When she reached menopause she realized she wasn’t aware of many of the naturally occurring changes women go through hot flashes, dry skin, and sleepless nights - worse yet - there was no line of health and wellness care for her age bracket.
“I had spent lots of years identifying unmet needs in the business market. At the time I knew I was in menopause but didn’t know that all my symptoms I was experiencing were dead on and very common symptoms to menopause until I spoke with my doctor at the Mayo Clinic. She gave me a product on Amazon. There was simply nothing out there for the doctor to choose from.”
She had spent years personally crafting the vision of some of the world's most compelling brands like VERSED skincare, and knew key products were being disrupted.
“At that time so many legacy brands were being disrupted like with natural deodorant or Nair over razors. I felt a calling to disrupt health and wellness and create a category for menopause where there was none,” said Sally.
On a trip to NYC she got her friend Michelle Jacobs onboard as a co-founder. The two got to talking and realized this was an area ripe for opportunity.
“We knew so many women in their 40-50s with so much wisdom, talent, and creativity, and there is nothing for women my age in wellness.”
So the duo decided to create Womaness, a health and wellness product line in a menopause category. They did their own research, curation, and pulling from leading experts in the field. To do this they relied on focus groups to help them shape their brand and develop products to really address women’s major symptoms.
“At any given time there are 50 million women in the US going through menopause. The average length of time each person experiences menopause is 10 years. After that you are a changed person. It’s a time of transition. Women need to find a community and product line that speaks to them during this time period.”
There are many different symptoms of menopause and these vary person to person, butWomanesstook a stab at attempting to alleviate some of the symptoms associated with some of the top most common Menopause symptoms.
Skin changes due to loss of estrogen including much drier skin
Hot flashes
Night sweats
Vaginal dryness
Hair changes that include shifts in texture and for some hair loss
Sleep disruption
Incontinence
Diminished Libido
In addition to creating a line of 13 products to help deal with some of the symptoms associated with menopause, Womaness is also seeking to educate and create a community. Leading doctors and specialists in women’s health such as Dr. Ekta Kapoor and Laura Meihofer have used their insights and provide tips and expert opinions to the Womaness community, a private group on Facebook so women can ask questions, get advice, and help support each other. This community covers topics such as menopause, premature menopause, fitness, hormone replacement therapy, and how to advocate for your own health. The goal is just to help women become more informed.
Now with 13 products and a recent launch in March 2020, Womaness is ready to take control of the menopause category and make it a staple. They are dedicated to assuring that these products are affordable with prices ranging from $8.99-$39.99. They are available both online and in select Target stores.
“We wanted to make sure that menopause products were able to help every woman.”
To that point, Sally highlights three products that she thinks most women can appreciate.
Let’s Neck - A neck roller that is great for hydrating this often forgotten and ignored skin that dries out in menopause.
Me.No.Pause - A hero supplement with all natural ingredients that have been clinically tried and tested help with hot flashes, night sweats, calming, and focus.
Daily V Soothe - A vaginal moisturizer that hydrates and can be used everyday or before being intimate.
Want to learn more about menopause and get your questions answered on the health and wellness products that are most useful to address your symptoms?
The average woman spends 1/3 of her life in menopause. What are the most common symptoms of perimenopause and menopause and what can you do to be better prepared and live an unstoppable life?" Learn more about this evitable transition called menopause from the founders of Womaness, a high-performance collection of modern menopause products created by women for women that offer solutions from head to toe (and everything in between).
During Womaness's first tour stop at Ulta's Santa Monica, first thing in the morning, Emily Morse - Host of Sex With Emily+ Doctor of Human Sexuality, openly and honestly, showed to use Womaness' vibrator in two ways, with the cover and the cover slipped off.
"Our mission at Womaness is to change the conversation around menopause and the women experiencing it, and Ulta Beauty is the perfect partner and place to reach those women," says Sally Mueller, Co-founder, Womaness. Michelle Jacobs, Co-founder, Womaness, continues, "Menopause is unfortunately the great unknown, and women need all the support they can get in this age and stage of life. We've teamed up with a few of the most knowledgeable professionals we know in the menopause space to do our part with The Menopositivity Tour."
"As the leading beauty retailer and destination for wellness essentials, we're thrilled to partner with Womaness to educate, inspire and bring awareness to this pivotal time in women's lives," says Penny Coy, vice president of merchandising at Ulta Beauty. "Now more than ever, women should feel empowered to celebrate every stage of healthy aging, and through The Menopositivity Tour, we're helping provide a space to do just that."
Being reproductive doesn't mean being alive. More than anything, it's stress being chained to being reproductive when it comes to reproduction rights and sexual freedom, in regards to sexual health and well-being. Womaness' "Menopositivy" means sexual freedom for sexual health and well-being for overal health wellness. Menopause isn't death. It's freedom to explore.
Kym Douglas - Beauty expert on Ellen, Author+ ProAging Leader, was a hard-core crime reporter from Detroit who became an entertainment and lifestyle once married then moved to LA. She wasn't fulfilled reporting to promote upcoming movies and tv series. However, she was intrigued then enlightened when celebrities give her quick, insider beauty tips that anyone can use. That's how she became Ellen's beauty expert.
Catch these "sex as beauty, sex as wellness" Womaness panel experts in Dallas on October 15th then in Chicage on October 22nd at Ulta.
Menopositivy is the freedom to continue, not the end.
Forget treadmill or the exercise bike that become impromptu clothes hanger.
Desire the benefits of swimming but don't have access to a swimming pool or just can't swim or have a fear of water?
You live in a typical New York City shoe box apartment doesn't and never had a pool.
CLMBR is here to the rescue. They took the humble vertical climber then elevated with Peleton-like intense workouts, that's a space saver in the corner.
CLMBR is the vertical climber version of SoulCycle, a vertical climber studio.
Avrum Elmakis, CLMBR's founder, always had his foot in fitness.
He took ballroom dancing as a kid then grew up doing triathlons.
That's where it hits him. Here he is doing extreme fitness and having the luxury of doing them, whereas the average person doesn't have the time, the access, or the space to do them.
Then, he discovered the Vertical Climber, that mimics swimming movements but on land and it's a space saver.
Since people already did Peleton and SoulCycle, why not apply to vertical climbers?
That's how CLMBR Fitness Studios came about.
Avrum says it's always okay to be different and when you do something different, you discover something new, like he did with CLMBR.
CLMBR, is a vertical exercise machine that works on your upper and lower body, "...the best kind of primal movements that a person can do," says founder Avrum Elmakis. CLMBR was founded in 2019 and involves investors such as JayZ, Lebron James, Pitbull, Ryan Seacrest, Oliver Trevena and Novak Djokovic.
Grammy Award-winning artist and Co-Founder of Marcy Venture Partners, Jay-Z, and Novak Djokovic, the No.1 men's tennis player in the world, have joined the CLMBR investment team to support the 2021 launch of CLMBR Connectedand CLMBR Purevertical climbing machines. Their participation continues to build on CLMBR's reputation as an innovator in the fitness and lifestyle industries.
"Vertical climbing has been known to be an incredibly efficient total body workout without impact. In addition, it puts your body in a neutral spine alignment, which is important for me as an athlete. The on-demand classes and programmatic workouts are a huge bonus! I'm excited to be part of this team and look forward to sharing this fun and powerful workout with the world," said Novak Djokovic.
CLMBR is an ergonomic and innovative vertical climbing machine. It's the first vertical climber to feature a large-format touch display with on-demand, instructor-led classes. The patent-pending design has a high-quality build, minimal level of required maintenance, and features an integrated audio system that can fill an entire room with sound, enhancing excitement for the user. It also offers a state-of-the-art companion app to display key metrics, including vertical feet climbed and workout targets reached.
"We are excited to work with JAY-Z and Novak to bring the best modality in fitness to consumers," said Avrum Elmakis, founder and CEO of CLMBR. "Unlike bikes, treadmills, and rowers, CLMBR has less impact on the joints while providing the most efficient calorie burn per minute of any machine in the marketplace. CLMBR disrupts the way that people work out and offers something new in a segment that has not seen a lot of meaningful innovation, and I'm excited to share the machine with consumers around the world as we become the leader in the connected fitness market."
Jay-Z and Novak Djokovic join venture capital and private equity firm KBW-Ventures; exercise physiologist and CEO and Founder of 22 Days Nutrition, Marco Borges and co-founder and former CEO of YouTube, Chad Hurley, as key members of CLMBR's investment team.
Sinead O' Connor was "woke" before the term existed. She follows the long tradition of musicians and singers as activists, challenging norms while righting wrongs. She was non-binary when it was unheard of and fluid was shamed underground. She was a forerunner to what is socially norm right now. Sinead is s brave woman and mom who marched to her own beat.
For die-hard fans who wonder what happened to her, director Kathryn Ferguson saved the best for last.
There's Sinead as who she is now. In her fifties but still proudly shaven and still politically rocking.
She has a rocker son following her footsteps, with three children of his own. Sinead is a grandma.
Stick thru from beginning thru the middle, which explains everything in the end.
Want adult, grown-up, and mature cocktails that you can easily gulp and guzzle without the after-taste and the stinging hangover?
Want to refresh freely with the bartender cutting you off because you're definitely drunk.
Need to re-socialize with friends because you got a DUI?
Hooking up with a hot hunk or hottie but there's a catch, he or she is alcoholic or a recovering one and y'all need some fun!
Or, you're simply tired of being restricted to unhealthy diet sodas or overtly sugared sodas meant for children with kids' taste, when you want a grown-up drink that won't get you hammered with a hang-ovcr and a DUI?
Are you a frustrated parent trying to teach your tween kids how to properly sip wine in a wine glass, that doesn't involve milk or soda or water?
Thank goodness for maturing Millennials leading the charge in non-alcoholic spirits, wines, and champagnes that are only alcohol-free but healthy to begin with, fully charged with antioxidants that aging Gen-Xers and Baby Boomers can fully need while imbibing safe and healthy.
Following in mature Millennials' footsteps, are the newly legal Gen-Zers who want something just as mature as it is fun to drink, without worries of the baggage of DUIs, hangovers, and drunken toxic relationships, that a many Gen-X, Millennials, and Gen-Z growing up in broken homes and multiple divorces from their parents and themselves.
The "Silicone Beach" Venice on Lincoln Blvd., The New Bar, https://thenewbar.com/1821 S Lincoln Boulevard, Venice, CA 90291 on the corner of Lincoln Boulevard and Marco Place in Venice, California, is a cozy nook of alcohol-free spirited spirits fun.
It's like a quicky convenience shop for drinks, not sodas, but alcohol-free mixers, wines, and bubblies.
If guzzling freely among Venice's techies intimidate you, you can guzzle freely in Boisson's Brentwood and Beverly Hills locations where the atmosphere is more elevated.
Boisson's free sommeliers can calmly direct you to wines and alcohol-free spirits and beers.
