Lauren Cheek and Priscilla Presley say research shows you have ninety-five percent more chance of success if you are accountable to someone other than just yourself. With that in mind, these two women created The Forward Female. This new co-working space in the Downtown L.A. Arts District offers members monthly check-ins to help keep projects on tr…

Coming to you from Venice, California at Bev Headquarters, talking to founder and CEO Alix Peabody about her female-first beverage brand Bev. Bev is a mission-driven #breaktheglass beverage company that has risen in a real phoenix from the ashes story. Alix got sick, really sick. Collapsing in agony, suffering an ovarian torsion, which is a severe …

Talking taking the career transition leap and being a conscious consumer with Remington Fraser founder and CEO of TheRevury.com, an online store for luxury consignment. While Remington has always had a passion for fashion and worked in retail throughout her school and college days, it was the business side of things that she was drawn to in the ind…

Entrepreneur Stacy Blackman is the founder of SBC, The Blacklight Channel, and Stryke Club. Stacy started her first business with two friend while still in business school. Upon graduating, the three of them sold their company to what eventually became The Knot. Stacy’s next venture, Stacy Blackman Consulting launched 20 years ago and today her cli…

Talking the business of show business with television journalist Brooke Thomas. Brooke moved to Los Angeles with a holding deal from Fox. However, the show never went ahead, and she found herself out of work in search of other television news opportunities. A small-town girl from Muskogee, Oklahoma Brooke grew up living with her grandparents after …

When Anja Skodda's beloved skateboarding bulldog Tony was diagnosed with arthritis, Anja used her years of experience working as a biotech scientist to develop a formula to help him and get back on his board. For the past 15 years, Anja has merged her science background with an entrepreneurial mindset diving into many successful business ventures. …

Sharing stories of women in business and how they get it done. Woman, ROAR! is about inspiring you to be bold, see your potential, and get doing! Coming to you from Health-Ade Kombucha HQ in Torrance, California. Health-Ade Kombucha Co-Founder & Chief Sales Officer, Vanessa Dew, shares her story of going against the advice of others and building a …

Sharing stories of women in business and how they get it done. Woman, ROAR! is about inspiring you to be bold, see your potential, and get doing! Create Hospitality Founder & CEO Lauren Koeppe shares her story of changing dreams and starting at the bottom to rise up in the hospitality world. We're going to take a look at what happens when plan A do…

Stephanie Galindo is a Drag King, and she likes to pack her pants with a sizable bulge when she is on stage as her alter ego Charles Galin. Stephanie named Charles in honor of Charlie Chaplin, whom she credits with saving her life. Each Christmas, on the anniversary of Chaplin's death, Galindo dresses up as Charlie Chaplin, heads into Hollywood, pu…

How do you take a leap when you don't know where you are going to land? Drag Queen and Trans activist, Gia Gunn, and Nadia Lee, owner of the international jewelry company, Adia Kibur, had to both face decisions that involved major life transitions. Nadia left behind her dream of becoming a diplomat to start her own company, using a fake business ca…

This show comes with a trigger warning. We hope it can be something that helps you if you’re in the process of healing. You are never alone. Find support at RAINN.org. Passion found a purpose for Claire Salvo, as she reached for a pen and began to sketch the face of the man who raped her. Salvo was 17 at the time of her attack. Her parents took her…

Take a leap of faith and follow your dream. Elite athlete and former Team USA figure skater Maddison Bullock proves that risks lead to rewards as she transitions into a career as an actress, producer, and screenwriter. Her first feature The Ice Movie is available now on Amazon and she is already working on her second through her production company,…

Authenticity is the "Queer Superpower" according to Singer Jaake Castro. Hosts Melanie Camp and Enrique Jesus Hernandez talk to the singer-songwriter and host of the live gAYGUTs show at Boardners, about growing up Christian, signing up for conversion camps, and believing he could "pray the gay away." Thank Goddess that didn't work! "You don't real…

“Words are how we record our thoughts and put them in other people’s heads,” says Brian Sonia-Wallace aka Rent Poet. Brian uses a typewriter and his poetry to pay the rent. Beautiful Hollywood host Melanie Camp chats with the wordsmith about poetry and getting paid. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beautiful-hollywo…

Setting intentions to have them manifest is something INA likes to practice. Even as a child, she would tell people something was going to happen as a way of hoping it would happen. This helped her survive a traumatic childhood and go on to live a Beautiful Hollywood dream as lead singer for Los Angeles pop-rock group KINGQUEEN. Listen to her story…

Quentin Ring is the Executive Director at Beyond Baroque, a literary arts center in Venice, CA. To celebrate National Poetry Month, Beautiful Hollywood host, Melanie Camp, chats with Quentin discovering how poetry can change your life. Plus, find out more about the Wednesday Night Workshop which has run continuously since 1969 and is where the like…

gAYGUTs is new series on Beautiful Hollywood that shares the stories of queer artists in Los Angeles. See them live at Boardners. Listen to their stories here. Domestic violence survivor, musician, and gAYGUTs creator, Enrique Jesus Hernandez makes space for queer artists who have a story to share through art. The gAY GUTs slogan is Unity Through V…

Kelly Donohue is the woman of WearsKelly.com a fashion blog that began in 2013. Initially, Kelly moved to Los Angeles to study at UCLA and like so many other, act. Kelly’s dreams were on track, and WearsKelly was merely a hobby, a creative outlet and a way of giving the uncertain life of an actor a bit of structure. That transitioned, and WearsKell…

Elizabeth Taylor once told Venice Art Crawl president and photographer Sunny Bak she was up way past her bedtime, but that is just how it goes when you’re rolling around New York with paparazzi as a teenager. Beautiful Hollywood talks to Bak about how a need to make money to buy theater tickets turned a passion into a lifelong career, hanging with …

From celebrity clients to campaigns for PETA and Old Navy, to editorials for People and Nylon magazines, Aaron Barry has 12 years experience in makeup and 15 in hair. But it wasn’t always red carpets and Hollywood glam. Aaron grew up in Ireland struggling against gay stereotypes and having no idea what he wanted from his life. Once he found his pas…

Graffiti artist Narrator is paid to create art all over town, including Venice and Mid-city, but his art hasn’t always been a welcome commission in the City of Los Angeles. From graffiti to jail to selling paintings worth thousands of dollars when it comes to creating, for Narrator, it has been a fine line between art and crime. --- Support this po…

*Trigger Warning. This story has content that may be triggering to anyone who has suffered abuse or violence. Ultimately, it is a story of surviving and thriving and because of it thousands of lives have been saved.Living on the streets for several years and working as a prostitute, one night Lauri Burns almost died when gang members, on a mission …

Singer Tara Macri shares her story of dream chasing all the way to the Billboard Top 100. She says songwriting is her version of journaling, helping her keep her feet on the ground as she sets goals to send her music to outer space. Next stop Mars...how about it, Elon?--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beautiful-holly…

At 29, Ian Doig had no car, no job, and no idea what to do with his life. Today, he works as an animal co-ordinator on many hit TV shows including; DC Legends of Tomorrow and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. It all began with a Polar Bear! Beautiful Hollywood host Melanie Camp sits down with Doig to chat about perseverance, and training cats and…

Make up artist Michelle Q glams many of the faces you see in reality television. Working on Botched, Vanderpump Rules, The Hills New Beginnings, and more! However, eight years ago Michelle arrived in Los Angeles with all her belongings in a couple of garbage bags and only a few pennies to her name. Find out how she stuck to her dream and found succ…

Award-winning producer, Lauren Wilkins shares how she cracked the tough world of television, won an Emmy®, and where she keeps her statue. “I’m the kind of person who writes affirmations in the morning. I have to do my inner work before I get to work, so I’m not looking for anyone else to validate me," Lauren tells host Melanie Camp.--- Support thi…

Dr. David Chong grew up in the most isolated city in the world, moving from Malaysia to Australia when he was five years old. A leading Australian plastic surgeon, David spends three months a year volunteering for Mercy Ships and Operation Smile saving thousands of faces, giving many a second chance at life. Almost kicked out of medical school thre…

Host Melanie Camp chats with entrepreneur Peter Grundberg in Budapest, Hungary and discovers how a unique hospitality concept called BrodyLand was born like a phoenix rising from the ashes of the global crash in 2008. Peter and his business partner Will almost lost everything but as Peter says, “out of crisis is born opportunity.”--- Support this p…

Welcoming Beautiful Hollywood into her home, and bed, Astrologer & Psychic Michele Knight chats with host Melanie Camp about the magic of dream chasing and as she puts it, how you can be a “sorceress of your own reality.”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/beautiful-hollywood/support…