Lipstick on the Rim

Brooke DeVard has spent 10 years and 400+ interviews going deep on beauty — and she's figured out a few things. The Naked Beauty podcast host and Chief Content Officer at Refinery29 joins Molly and Emese for a conversation that's equal parts obsessive and refreshingly real.

They get into the four habits she's noticed in every woman with genuinely great skin, why she thinks your morning makeup is actually a primer for your evening look, and the wellness trends she'd send straight to the trash. Plus what it was like starting a beauty podcast in 2016 when no one knew what a podcast was, how she thinks about beauty as self-expression rather than performance, and the Bio-Dance mask she swears by over everything else.

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Spring is here, and Molly and Emese are cleaning house — beauty shelf included. This solo episode is their full edit of what they're actually reaching for right now. On the list: a $25 K-beauty blurring powder that went viral for a reason, the Gucci bronzer the internet is panic-buying before it disappears, Emese's Manuka honey essence that's been quietly rebuilding her skin barrier all winter, and Upneeq — the prescription eye drop that lifts your look without surgery. Then there's YSE Beauty's brand new Extreme Glow Dewy Peptide Plumping Serum -- a launch that's very close to Molly's heart, and you'll hear exactly why in the episode. Plus a $49 foundation that rivals a $110 one, a body oil that stays hydrated for hours, and a fragrance moment neither of them saw coming. Your spring shelf just got a serious upgrade.

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Liz Moody has spent years asking the world's top researchers one deceptively simple question: what actually works? As the author of 100 Ways to Change Your Life, she's built a career on turning cutting-edge science into habits real people can stick to — without the overwhelm, 17-step routines, or the guilt.

Molly and Emese sit down with Liz for a conversation that cuts through the noise on pretty much everything — burnout, brain health, the friendship science reshaping how we think about connection, and why discipline is one of the most overrated ideas in wellness.

From the morning walk that resets your entire circadian rhythm to the science of why physical touch is more important for your health than almost anything you eat — plus a three-step neurological trick for rewiring your brain toward happiness.

If wellness has started to feel like one more thing on your to-do list, this episode is the reset you didn't know you needed.

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When Linda launched Allure in 1991, people said she'd never fill a magazine about beauty every month. She proved them wrong for 25 years — giving readers the information they actually needed, without the judgment.

Molly and Emese sit down with Linda Wells, the legendary founder of Allure Magazine, for a sharp, no-nonsense conversation about what's actually worth your time and money in 2026.

Linda gets real about the plastic surgery obsession sweeping Hollywood and why you should never walk into a doctor's office telling them what procedure you want.

She breaks down the skincare ingredients she's excited about, calls out the treatments that are just expensive pampering, and shares the one beauty rule she thinks needs to disappear for good.

From GLP-1s and injectable peptides to the deep-plane facelift debate, Linda cuts through the noise the way she always has. Honest, sharp, and a little bit ruthless about the stuff that doesn't work.

Chapter Markers 

0:00 Intro: Meet Linda Wells

1:06 Emese's Allure Obsession & Beauty's Evolving Definition

2:40 How Social Media Changed the Way We See Ourselves

4:12 Navigating Beauty Without Personalizing It

7:12 Diet Culture Then vs. Now: GLP-1s & the New Wellness Landscape

8:08 The Shame Around Beauty Procedures — and Why It's Fading

9:00 Why Linda Thinks GLP-1s Will Change the World

10:06 Plastic Surgery in 2026: Are We Going Too Far?

12:00 The Danger of Telling Your Doctor What You Want

13:57 Skin Science: The Ingredients Linda Is Actually Excited About

18:09 Copper Peptides & DNA Repair Enzymes 

19:30 Manuka Honey: The Underrated Skincare Hero

21:10 What's Overhyped? 

23:00 CO2 Lasers & “Baby” Treatments 

24:10 Hair Loss: The Advances That Actually Work

30:40 Rapid Fire: Overrated Trends, Beauty Rules to Ditch & What Makes Her Cringe

32:30 Best Beauty Advice She's Ever Received

33:42 Advice to Her 10-Year-Old Self

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Molly and Emese sit down with Belle Burden, author of Strangers: A Memoir of a Marriage, whose story—a sudden betrayal, COVID lockdown, and a marriage that ended overnight — became one of the most talked-about pieces in The New York Times Modern Love column.

Belle gets candid about the prenup clause that came back to haunt her, why so many women unknowingly hand over their financial power in a marriage, and why she refused to pretend any of it was "amicable." And she shares the slow, unglamorous process of coming back to herself—and what she'd tell every woman to do differently.

This isn't a bitter divorce story. It's a story about self-trust, financial awareness, and the surprising gifts that can emerge from a life coming undone.

Strangers: A Memoir of a Marriage is out now.

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