- I will pamper you,
but I will also maybe throw some acid on your face.
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I know, it sounds like a torture chamber.
My table actually fell apart when a client was on it.
I can hypnotize them,
and like connect with their inner child.
- How come I'm the only one taking it down?
All right.
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Hey ladies and gentleman, welcome to the show.
As always, this a show about missteps,
it's about failure,
but more than that it's about the grit,
the determination, the tenacity,
basically the hoot spa to take off on your own
to do something amazing.
On tonight's show,
we have a master esthetician ,
a spiritual hypnotist,
and a radio talk show host.
And that's all just one person,
it's gonna be really, really exciting.
I hope I figure out about my parallel lives in the universe.
But, before we do that,
let's turn it over to Mr. Jack Sanders,
our resident mixologist.
Jack, what are you making for us tonight?
- Thank you very much, Shawn.
I have a lovely drink tonight
called the Rise and Bloom cocktail.
It has Tequila Reposado,
Hibiscus infused from Centenario.
We have Lillet Rose,
Apertivo Wine,
as well as Pampleau Vin Apertivo Wine.
South African Brut Rose champagne with pink coconut water.
Lime bitters, and wild cherry blossom honey.
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- Everybody welcome to the show.
Tonight's guest is Sakura.
She is a master esthetician,
she's a spiritual hypnotherapist,
and she is a radio talk show host.
Sakura, welcome to the show.
- Thank you for having me.
- Yeah, this is gonna be great.
Before we do that,
let's have a drink.
- All right.
- We've got beautiful drinks here with frozen grapes.
It's sticky and.
- Fancy.
- All right, what do we toast to?
Any ideas?
- To?
- Spiritual hypnotherapy.
- Yes, that's good.
- Okay.
Fill me in.
A client comes in,
and then what happens?
Is their a consultation,
and then you're like,
"Oh, let me tell you what's wrong with your face?"
- Yeah, in a nice way.
- [Shawn] In a nice way?
Okay.
- For sure, but yeah,
I mean I don't have a lot of confusing services
on my menu,
because they don't know,
they're not the professional.
I'm the one that knows,
so I know what their skin needs.
So, I have them come in,
and then yeah we do a skin analysis
and see what they require at the time.
But like I said,
I'm not charging extras for you know,
"Hey, we need to also focus on your neck
"and your decolletage."
Because ladies, this is where we age first.
- Wait, your what?
- [Sakura] Decolletage.
- Decolletage.
- [Sakura] Decolletage.
- Are you supposed to do that when you say it?
- Yes you are.
- [Shawn] Your decolletage.
- See, you're learning.
- Yeah, I've got it down.
Do I have a decolletage?
- You do have a decolletage.
- But, so I am a master esthetician,
which they like to tear us in the state of Washington,
which is actually great for me.
Which means my experience is more clinical,
so I have worked with plastic surgeons,
and dermatologist.
So, my facials actually do something,
it's not just fluffy, you know?
I'm not just here to make pamper.
I will pamper you,
but I will also maybe throw some acid on your face,
and see results you know?
I know, it sounds like a torture chamber.
Every time my clients come in.
- [Shawn] Throw some acid on your face?
- Yeah.
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- Have you always done stuff on your own?
Like, just as your own business,
your own setup?
Because, as a master esthetician,
did you start at a company,
and then move onto something else?
- Yes, I started with some of my actual competitors
to this day.
So yeah, I was working with them
for quite some time,
before I decided to go out on my own.
So, and I've been on my own now,
as a master esthetician for almost 10 years.
- 10 years?
When did you decide to go out on your own then,
to do your own thing?
- Yeah, so it was in 2009.
And the reason why I decided to go out my own,
is because I wanted to have a more personal experience
with my clients,
and I didn't want to put a price tag
on every single little extra that I wanted to add in.
Because, I would see clients for different things,
and not everyone has the same skin issue.
So, I wanted to be able to tailor their treatment,
and so that was part of it.
Plus I also wanted to be recognized
for what I was doing,
and honestly just work less hours
and live my dream, my passion.
- Master esthetician, you're doing this,
you're doing...
It sounds well,
I mean you're getting the clients.
How did you get into then hypnotherapy,
spiritual hypnotherapy after that?
- So yeah, my clients that were coming in
were coming in with rare, chronic skin conditions.
We normally see acne,
but then I was seeing more rosacea, psoriasis,
those sorts of things.
And so, I knew that I had this hypothesis if you will,
that I felt they were rooted in emotional baggage,
an emotional trauma.
- [Shawn] Oh okay, yeah.
- Yeah.
So, I mean I already have an intimate relationship
with my clients.
You know, they hug me,
it's very personable.
I learn about all their dark secrets
before all their friends do,
including their spouse that they're gonna divorce,
and all of that, right?
- [Shawn] Sure.
- So, I already have that relationship established.
And so, I took it further,
and I thought, "Well, if I can help them deeper,
"on a subconscious level.
"If I can help them to release this emotional baggage,
"their skin will clear up."
So, originally.
- Wait, so a theory though?
- Yeah, this is my theory.
- [Shawn] Like the body knows,
but the mind hasn't quite gotten it down yet?
- Caught up yet.
- Okay, okay.
- Exactly.
- What's fascinating to me
is you started with skin care hypnotherapy.
So, spiritual hypnotherapy related to skincare,
and then took it the rest of the way.
- Yeah, and I actually had to rebrand.
Because, when I first started my business,
it was Sakura's Skin Shop.
And then I rebranded when I brought in hypnotherapy,
and I made it Sakura's Skin and Mind.
- So wait, so the whole thing is hypnotherapy,
and still the master esthetician.
It's not two different setup?
- No, one place.
Yeah.
One pit stop.
- Were gonna fix all sorts of things.
- [Sakura] Exactly.
- Holy cow, that's amazing.
So, you deal with people
that have larger sort of medical conditions.
But, you have other people that will come in
that's just in general,
they're dealing with like mild things,
or they just want to look better?
- Yeah, they wanna look better and youthful.
- Would the hypnotherapy be apart of that as well?
- Well, hypnotherapy if they look fine,
it's really not for that.
It's deeper issues, something else.
And maybe it's,
I don't know what I wanna be when I grow up.
Or, I even have a lot of clients
that come in,
have worked for a IT company for 30 plus years,
and they don't know what they wanna do.
They actually are done with working for that company,
and they wanna branch out on their own.
And so, it's kind of two for for me,
because I'm self-employed,
I'm an entrepreneur.
So, I have that background to feed with them,
and give to them about going out on your own
and how gratifying it is.
But then also on a deeper level,
I can hypnotize them and connect with their inner child.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Their actions, right?
- [Shawn] Drink some more, that's really creepy.
- Drink to that.
- Yeah, I'm like...
How come I'm the only one taking it down, all right.
There you go, cheers.
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When you went out on your own,
were there moments where you were like,
this is a bad idea?
Or, you would make mistakes and be like,
that's really funny,
but I'm gonna keep doing this?
- No, absolutely.
There were some failures in the beginning.
One is I tried to go on the cheap side of things,
like purchase the cheapest equipment,
which wouldn't last.
And then I'd have to go through
and buy whole new equipment again.
And so, I learned that way.
Also, even with just my web presence and graphic designers,
and going the cheap route there too.
I mean, I had like a cheesy, teriyaki looking logo.
And I'm not a,
I mean Sakura yes,
but I'm not a teriyaki restaurant.
So, I mean of course.
- [Shawn] People show up and they're like, "I want noodles."
- Right.
- Yeah, so if you use cheap equipment, what happens?
Do people come out horribly disfigured?
(laughing)
- No, no, no.
My products were still high quality of course,
I wasn't skimping on my products.
But, the table actually.
- [Shawn] Here's some Ivory Soap.
- My table actually fell apart
when a client was on it.
- Wait, do they lay down on the table?
Oh no, did it go all the way down?
- Yeah, she was kind of larger,
and the bed couldn't withstand the weight,
and when I came back into...
You know, she had to change
and then get on the table.
When I came in,
she was completely tilted to the side.
- Oh, so part of the table is even broken.
It's not even completely down,
she's just.
What did she say,
do you remember?
It's just embarrassing.
- Well, she kind of played it off
like she didn't know what happened, and you know.
- [Shawn] I've broke the table.
- She didn't say that, no.
- [Shawn] I would've said that.
- But, it's also my fault for buying such a cheap table, so.
- Got three card tables put together,
I started my own business.
- Exactly, yeah.
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- You did this for awhile,
now how did this get into talk show,
like talk show host stuff?
- With radio, yeah.
So, my radio show Love from the Hip,
actually came about because I...
- Wait, Love from the Hip meaning hypnotherapy?
- [Sakura] Hypno, you got it.
- Really?
- [Sakura] Yeah.
- I'm so smart, okay.
Keep going, sorry.
- [Sakura] I had to make it catchy.
- Yeah, I don't know why I just picked up on it.
(laughing) - No problem.
So, I ended up actually getting...
I was very ill last year,
and to a point where I almost died.
I have a rare autoimmune disorder,
it left me debilitated.
I couldn't walk,
I had trouble eating and sleeping,
and all the daily things that you take for granted, right?
So, during that time I couldn't run by business either,
so there was fear of losing my business,
and all of that going on, right?
Aside from being in pain,
it was just physical pain.
I ended up doing weekly hypnotherapy sessions
with a colleague of mine over the phone.
- [Shawn] With somebody else?
- Absolutely.
So, I ended up pitching my show to a radio session,
and already had the name Love from the Hip,
already had a logo.
Already had my domain with GoDaddy,
so I was good.
(laughing)
And so, the show is a lot about that too.
It's inspirational,
it's to help people really just dive forward
into their dreams.
When you're pursing your dreams,
you're on your souls path.
To me, it actually was a blessing.
I mean, being sick was a blessing,
because it changed me, you know?
- [Shawn] Now you have a show.
Now the radio show. - [Shawn] Like further, yeah.
To help other people.
- Exactly.
I'm using it to pay it forward.
I'm using it to help other people
who maybe are struggling or suffering just as I was.
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- Now, you talked to a lot of people.
They have ideas,
they want to take the leap,
they want to branch off and do other things.
You have a lot of,
I think a lot of experience,
not just your own,
but outside of that.
What do you tell people,
they wanna do that,
they can feel it kind of in their soul,
but they're too scared to take the leap,
or to do something on their own.
What type of advice do you give them?
What do you say to them?
- Yeah, I mean and that happens a lot.
And it's usually most often people that are older than me.
And so, I just tell them,
"Are you gonna continue to live someone else's dream?"
Because, that's really what you're doing.
You're fulfilling someone else's dream.
- [Shawn] And they're older than you?
- Exactly.
- So you're not like,
boy that's really sad,
you're like 62 and.
You're done, it's passed now.
- No, because there's different thoughts,
and different times.
There's different generations
as far as how they were brought up,
and what they learned, right?
So, no judgment.
But yeah, are you gonna continue
to fulfill someone else's purpose?
I mean, fulfill your own purpose,
and having been sick,
I can say that this is it.
Is this how you wanna spend it, you know?
So, your passion is worth way more than a paycheck,
way more.
- That's really, really fantastic.
- [Sakura] Thank you.
- Sakura, this is fantastic.
Thank you, thank you, thank you so much
for being on the show.
- Yeah.
- Like, this is beautiful.
Maybe I'm just wrapping up the show,
so I can ask you more about past life regression,
and things like that.
(laughing)
- My favorite.
- No, I know, I appreciate it.
- Thank you so much.
Thank you for the opportunity.
- Cheers to our passions,
and getting hypnotized.
- Follow your passion.
- Yeah, follow your passion.
That's wonderful, thanks Sakura.
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