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Nicole Habib
When you feel beautiful and you exude confidence, that's transformative. It becomes your fuel, that fuels your dreams. And if you as the individual achieve your dreams, then.
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Narrator
Nicole Habib is a board certified physician, associate entrepreneur and the founder of New youw Medical Esthetics. As a pioneer in the medical aesthetics industry, she is redefining beauty through ethical care, natural results, and a patient first approach that empowers others to look and feel their best.
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Nicole Habib
So while I am working on somebody's exterior, my time with my client deals with both. Everybody just wants to have a nice, beautiful life. And looking good and feeling good is part of that.
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Ray Gutierrez
For anyone that's having a difficult time finding their inner power and their inner beauty, what's some advice you can give them?
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Nicole Habib
Try not to compare. They say that comparison is the thief of joy. Right. So if you just.
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Podcast Producer
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Podcast Producer
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Ray Gutierrez
Welcome back to another episode of Women in Power, our amazing podcast part of the Inside Success Network. I am Ray Guterres, your host. Joining me today is someone that's going to teach me how to love myself more is Nicole Habib. How are you, Nicole?
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Podcast Producer
Hi.
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Nicole Habib
I'm good, thank you. How are you, Ray?
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Ray Gutierrez
Fantastic, thanks for asking. Nicole.
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Podcast Producer
Hi.
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Ray Gutierrez
Walk us through the montage of how amazing you are and what you do.
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Nicole Habib
So I'm Nicole Habib. I am the first, proudly the first one of the first PA owned medical esthetics practices in Miami. I opened my practice in 2019 and since then, the montage is I'm trying to make everybody feel their best so that they go out into the world and achieve their dreams and go out into the community and be good members of the community.
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Ray Gutierrez
All right, Nicole, we got to rewind a bit. I'm. I'm almost certain that this didn't always start in such a happy place. Is, is there a reason why folks need to love themselves more?
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Nicole Habib
It's so empowering to have confidence, to feel beautiful. And when you feel beautiful and you exude confidence, that's transformative and that helps you to go out into the world. It becomes your fuel that fuels your dreams. It allows you to be present in your life. It allows you to step into the world confidently. And if you as the individual thrive, and if you as the individual achieve your dreams, then the community also benefits, your family benefits. You thrive in every part of your life.
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Ray Gutierrez
Absolutely. I completely agree with that. Do you remember a time when you were, when you weren't thinking this way? Like what was the day before? Like when you weren't in this mindset?
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Nicole Habib
When I started thinking about becoming a, a woman in power, that, that actually started really young. That was kind of ever since I was a kid. But when I was a kid, in the, the days I was trying to just enjoy, enjoy my everyday playing with my friends, going to school, being the best student I could be, being the best daughter I could be, but also knowing that there were goals to achieve. And so I did feel a pressure. There was always a pressure coming from parents of immigrants. If you're a child of an immigrant, you, you know what I mean? In that there is always a pressure to succeed. So yeah, that pressure was always there. And I may not have always known what that success would look like eventually, but I just knew that I had to do something. The great.
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Ray Gutierrez
You mentioned Miami. Why your connections to Miami?
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Nicole Habib
So I ended up going to grad school in Fort Lauderdale. So not far from Miami at no Nova Southeastern in Davie, Florida. And that was where I did my master's in physician assistant studies. And I just stayed. I loved it here so much. I mean, how could you not love Miami? Miami is amazing. What a beautiful place to be, full of beautiful people. And I'm just happy to be here. I'm happy to create my life here, my business here. I am, I am loving Miami and I'm. I'm just so glad that life brought me here.
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Ray Gutierrez
Who are your common clients and what are the before and after transitions like?
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Nicole Habib
Quite frankly, I'm very proud to say that my clients are the everyday person. They are moms, dads, teachers, brothers, sisters. Everyday people who work out into the world, who are, are contributing members of the community. I have one client who's a concert pianist. I have another client who is a teacher. I have stay at home moms, I have models, I influencers. A lot of my clients are male. I would say about 30% of my clients are male, which is amazing. It's. It's really everybody.
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Ray Gutierrez
That's awesome.
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Nicole Habib
Yeah.
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Ray Gutierrez
What's the, what's the transformation like? What's the common thread you see amongst your clients? Is it like I, I don't feel, I don't feel amazing enough to take on this, this new task or this meeting or to stand up to a boss. Like, what are some of the common threads you see with your clients?
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Nicole Habib
So, honestly, I think the common thread right now is not so much transformation, believe it or not. I think people really just want to preserve. So, like, preservation, I think, is what I'm really good at. And my clients tend to kind of look the same for as long as possible sometimes. It's not always about changing how you look or augmenting how you look. Sometimes it's just about wanting to look like yourself and recognizing yourself in the mirror and preserving that self for as long as possible. So I think a lot of my before and afters or transformation stories, quite frankly, are just somebody looking the same for years.
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Ray Gutierrez
I was just gonna say, is that. Do you think there's any reason why PE kids in the 80s look like they were in their 40s? Like, it was just a different time?
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Nicole Habib
Yeah, I saw that, like, little trend on Instagram. People were kind of talking about how high school kids looked older in the 80s. What do you think that is that's so interesting? Maybe it has to do with. I noticed that the kids these days, there's so much YouTube, there's so many tutorials. Like, there's no awkward stage. They just, like, know how to do their makeup already, and they know how to do their hair already, and they know how to make themselves look a little youthful. Like, what. You know, they. They're trend, and sometimes being on trend makes you look young. You know, you look. You look younger. So maybe because when the 80s. During the 80s, maybe it has to do with the fact that you didn't have all these little. These little tutorials to learn from. So you weren't. You were just learning from your parents. And maybe because your parents looked older. Older, you looked older. I don't know, but that's a good question. I wonder, what are you taught to
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Ray Gutierrez
today's youth that is so far advanced? Like, how do you materialize? I wouldn't say innocence or naiveness, but there is that moment where it's like, I want to experiment and put on makeup on my face or try a look now. It's just like, what's trending today? I have to look a certain way because. Yeah, and me, because my phone's telling me to do so.
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Nicole Habib
Right.
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Ray Gutierrez
How do you educate individuality and authenticity?
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Nicole Habib
Oh, it's so hard. It's really hard to go against the grain in an industry that everybody's trying to cheapen it, quite frankly. And it is hard to stay true to, like, the basics of beauty. To, you know, what's safe sometimes. And I am working against, against trends that do, quite frankly, like, cheapen my industry. And there's a lot of skepticism in my industry and there is filler fatigue, things like that. There's an over exaggerated look going on that's trendy at times. And like, yes, sometimes it is difficult to work against that and to stay with integrity in that and not looking at everybody as just a price tag. So that is quite difficult. And I think the way I present my social media, the way I present myself, the way I handle my, my clients and speak with my clients, I think the, the client that tends to find me is the client that values looking natural, having procedures done in a safe environment, and not necessarily looking different, as I mentioned before, but just preservation. I think those are the clients that tend to find me. So it's important to have the client look undetectable, to remain looking elegant, to remain looking beautiful without, without exaggerating a feature. Because that's not art like what you're doing in aesthetics. You're also doing art. And you have to artfully sculpt a face so that somebody doesn't look done. And with all the trends and Instagram face, it is difficult to maintain your integrity in that.
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Ray Gutierrez
It's, it's a form of enhancement really. Like I, I look at my face, I'm like, there's a couple things I'd like to enhance. But, but then I come from theater, I'm a stage kid. I understand that the, the exterior is what is part of the hustle.
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Nicole Habib
Yeah.
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Ray Gutierrez
Do you speak to a lot of folks that kind of understand that? Especially now that influencers are such a thing. It's all the exterior. Do you enhance more the exterior or the interior when they, when, when clients come to you?
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Nicole Habib
When my clients come to me, they sit with me sometimes for an hour, they, they cry in my chair. Sometimes it is a therapy session. So while I am working on somebody's ext, these visits are still so powerful that sometimes, you know, you are helping somebody from within somebody build the confidence from within. And the exterior is a reflection sometimes of how you feel on the interior. So oftentimes my time with my client deals with both the interior, what's going on in somebody's psyche and their mental health and how they feel about themselves and how they see the world. And then that is reflected in how they want to go out into the world, how they see themselves in their mind's eye and how they want people to perceive them out into that world. So the two are intertwined, the interior and the exterior. You. It's, it's one, it's, it's a Ying and Yang.
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Ray Gutierrez
What have you heard? What have you learned about the human experience? After so many clients, so many stories, so many, so many, so many transformations
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Nicole Habib
or preservations, I think people just want to be happy and live fulfilling lives at the end of the day. And one part of helping somebody fulfill their dreams is to give them the tools where they can go out and get and work towards their dreams. And if, if feeling beautiful helps you achieve those dreams, then that is the common thread. Everybody just wants to have a nice, beautiful life and looking good and feeling good is part of that.
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Ray Gutierrez
Let's talk about being a woman in power. We just filmed your episode. Talk about what we'll learn from your episode.
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Nicole Habib
I think you'll learn that anytime you face an obstacle or a setback, that as long as you have a clear vision. And also it's very important to have a support system. I did have a great support system throughout my life. Very encouraging parents, very encouraging siblings. If you can go out into the world and see every obstacle and tackle it head on, little by little, step by step, you will slowly achieve your goals. And then before you know it, you will be where you've envisioned. It's just about putting one foot in front of the other every day, showing up as your best self every day, as often as you can, and keeping a clear head on the goals. And whatever you need to do to get there, just do it.
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Ray Gutierrez
I got to ask and enjoy enjoying asking this question is when it comes to being a woman in power, how much of it is being a woman versus being powerful or vice versa?
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Nicole Habib
I think in my industry it is an advantage that I am a woman, quite frankly. I think women want to go to, I think a lot of women want to go to other women for things like aesthetics. I think there's like a camaraderie, there's a, there's a shared experience. You know, maybe they feel just more comfortable being in the hands of a woman. So becoming a physician assistant, it's also a more female dominated field of medicine. So I do think being a woman there was an advantage for me. But as a pre med student in undergrad, that's where it necessarily wasn't an advantage or going to grad school. So as I continued to succeed, little by little by little, I do think it did shift. The pendulum slightly shifted towards having a disadvantage of being a woman. Growing up, you know, a little girl in the 90s and 80s, that might have been a disadvantage at the time, but now I feel at this point in my life it's actually become an advantage.
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Ray Gutierrez
Let's talk about a little bit of your episode. What will people learn? Or give us a preview of that episode and talk about the filming process.
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Nicole Habib
So I think, well, the filming process was really wonderful thanks to your production. So it was nerve wracking because you're always hoping that your words kind of translate into your sentiment and what you actually want to put out into the world and what you want to say. Um, but I think it flowed really nicely. I think you, you guys made me feel so comfortable, so reassured. It was really a lovely experience and part of my, my journey now and my story now. I hope that they learn that you can, you can achieve, you can go out into the world confidently, that you don't have to be somebody you're not. That you can come from immigrant parents and work really hard and still be successful. And anytime you have any adversity, you can still make it if you just keep trying.
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Ray Gutierrez
For anyone that's having a difficult time finding their, their inner power and their inner beauty, what's some advice you can give them besides come find me?
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Nicole Habib
Sure. I think the first thing would be try not to compare. They say that comparison is the thief of joy. Right. So if you just try to block what other people are doing out, how other people are looking out of your mind and focus on yourself, focus on what you love about yourself, focus on where you want to go in life and really hone in on, on your personal goals, not what somebody else is trying to tell you to be, not the influence of, of somebody else on your social media coming into your psyche. Focus on you look in the mirror and decide for yourself where you want to go and block everything out and work towards that goal. Try not to think about what other people are thinking. Try not to get embarrassed. Some people don't even start. And if you're just starting, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. That should give you strength. The fact that you are taking one step forward for yourself, that should give you strength and power and self confidence. And every step you take, you're only going to get stronger. Like working out in the gym. Every curl you do your own, your muscle is only going to get stronger. You have to exercise that. You have to exercise your inner strength. Keep going little by little by little, block out any noise. And I think that's how you slowly will gain personal strength every day. I think it's like exercising like like a muscle. It's. It takes practice, but eventually you will find that it'll come like second nature. And you're just going to continue to achieve because you're just going to be so focused. Nicole, I think that. I hope that made sense.
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Ray Gutierrez
I mean, that made tons of sense. Any closing comments before we wrap up?
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Nicole Habib
I just hope that we, as a community of young women and men out there, that we try to focus on what matters. Although I do work in aesthetics, really, what matters is the confidence from within. And whatever you can do to help yourself be confident. If that's a little bit of filler or tox or skincare or laser treatment or working out or being your best self or reading a book or going for a walk, even whatever makes you present in your life and going out into the world confidently and being a beautiful member of your community, that's what I hope that we as a generation can achieve together, and that's my life's work, too, is to help people feel good about themselves so that we can strengthen the communities.
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Ray Gutierrez
Nicole, thank you so much for your time and energy. Thank you for your powerful words of wisdom. That concludes our episode today of Women in Power.
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Nicole Habib
Thanks for having me. It was such a pleasure.
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Ray Gutierrez
It was such an honor. Thanks again for listening and watching. That concludes our episode today. I'm Rey Gutierrez with the Inside Success Network.
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Podcast Producer
Bye, Sam.