Roots to Rocket Science | Beauty, Health, and Everything Else KPS Essentials

In this week's episode of the Roots to Rocket Science Podcast, host Natalie Novak had Jonathan George. Known as "the human hitmaker". Jonathan is a singer, songwriter, and producer. Winning the title Grand Champion on Ed McMahon’s “Next Big Star”, a sequel to Star Search in 2001 helped launch his musical identity. He went on to serve as creative director of the Hollywood Pop Academy and continued his work in artist development. George founded JG Entertainment, where he is responsible for developing many young artists.

In this week's episode of the Roots to Rocket Science Podcast, host Natalie Novak had Sandra Diaz co-founder of Nu Evolution cosmetics. Sandra started her career in New York City’s fast-paced Commodity industry. She was responsible for the development and implementation of strategic marketing, advertising, and public relations programs for all Financial and Agricultural Futures and Options contracts.

Sandra’s confidence and determination landed her a job as Advertising Director at a top global financial publishing conglomerate. There, Sandra achieved record-breaking advertising sales for the publications she represented. Bringing in new clients from around the world, she continued to break records, and exceed forecasts before receiving a promotion in a new division, and becoming the top producer in her territory.

Sandra was later offered a partnership at a full-service boutique branding and design firm. At the time she joined the firm, the company was operating at a substantial loss. Since time was critical, Sandra quickly developed strategic corporate partnerships and executed aggressive sales, and marketing strategies to turn a profit in just twelve months.

Prior to launching NU EVOLUTION, Sandra ended her financial career on a high note in the Syndicated Leveraged Loan Market, where she created integrated marketing programs and achieved monumental sales year after year. Sandra holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing with a concentration in Finance.

After a successful career in healthcare, Shreya founded Hyve, a DTC company which is disrupting the cleaning products category with probiotic-powered, plant-based formulations. Hyve is a mission-driven company, focused on redefining ‘clean’ in every aspect and giving back to clean water initiatives globally.

The journey to hyve started with a simple question of “how clean is our cleaning culture?” Shreya found mainstream cleaning products to be unsustainable, both physically and environmentally -- single-use large plastic bottles, ingredients leading to disruption of home and skin microbiomes, and products unable to penetrate biofilm protecting most harmful bacteria.  With a background in science and a passion for the planet, Shreya developed products to address each concern -- packaging and formulation that reduces the company’s carbon footprint, ingredients that harness the power of biology not chemistry, and products that clean safely at the microbial level.  With Hyve’s subscription model, sustainable cleaning just got easier!

In this week's episode of the Roots to Rocket Science Podcast, host Natalie Novak had Tracy Ftacek. She has made a career out of empowering others to see their own beauty, lean into it, and unapologetically share it with the world. It’s not merely her decades of experience that make her an industry leader, although that’s part of it. After all, you don’t launch a successful business and mobile app without knowing your shit. But the true beauty of the Pretty Convenient model is that it’s built on meeting the needs of beauty professionals and clients alike—something Tracy has capitalized on simply because she understands women on both sides of the chair. Busy professionals need someone trained and reliable to make them feel beautiful. Stylists need to feel empowered to own their expertise and schedules. Put them together and you have something Pretty Convenient.

By creating a business and service built on trust, Tracy has disrupted the beauty industry. She doesn’t jealously guard her prolific beauty expertise and business acumen—she takes every opportunity she can to share it with others, in service of creating a more balanced community of stylists who are creative AND entrepreneurial, thus better able to serve an increasingly demanding client base. Because why should anyone be satisfied with the status quo?

Tracy will be the first to tell you that there’s always room to grow, whether it’s your team, your business, or your confidence in yourself. As a founder, boss, trainer, and mentor, Tracy recognizes the responsibility she has to pay it forward to help the next generation of creative entrepreneurs thrive. As an artist, confidant, and teacher, Tracy understands the privilege she’s been given to find what makes someone beautiful and bring it to life. It’s more than makeup and bigger than beauty. It’s beautifully disruptive.

In this week's episode of The Roots to Rocket Science Podcast, host Natalie Novak had Sarah Chatley, CEO of Organic Skin Den, join her for a teleconference. Sarah has devoted the last twenty years of her life learning and honing her skills as a holistic skincare therapist, incorporating Western and Eastern approaches with her clients. She has worked alongside plastic surgeons and dermatologists and has worked in world-renowned spas all over the globe. In addition to her skills as a skin therapist, Sarah is also a Reiki Master and Nutritional Health Coach. To learn more about Sarah and/or her services, go to https://www.organicskinden.com/.

As you listen to this episode, you will discover why Sarah decided to pursue entrepreneurship, how she balances work life with home life, what it means to adapt to the “inner voice,” and how to live an intention-based life. Prepare to be drawn into Sarah's amazing and unique energy!

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In this week's episode of the Roots to Rocket Science podcast, host Natalie Novak-Bauss had Susan Streur, a clinical patient of ours, join her for a teleconference to discuss her battle against DSAP (Disseminated Superficial Actinic Porokeratosis). DSAP is a rare skin condition that primarily affects the legs and arms of women, leaving reddish-brown lesions bilaterally on the lims. Susan has been battling this rare disease since 1998 and is starting to see results with the help of KPS’s products in conjunction with MLS Laser therapy! If you are interested in learning more about DSAP you can find information at https://dermnetnz.org/topics/disseminated-superficial-actinic-porokeratosis/.

Also, if you’re a fan of this podcast please leave us a review! Give us feedback and let us know if there is anything you would like Natalie, Ron, or the two of them to address together! Lastly, if you would like to learn more about KPS Essential’s founders, mission, or products, visit www.kpsessentials.com.