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Salon Confessions Podcast
by Jen and Harper
Welcome to the Confessional! Salon Confessions Podcast is a unique podcast that provides both entertainment and education to its listeners. Tune into Jen & Harper's hilarious, confession-style discussions covering a wide range of topics such as managing stress, being a woman over 40, relationship advice, beauty BS and much more. With our blend of humor and in-depth conversations, we aim to bring joy and insight to your day.
Episodes
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Are the Ducks in a Row Yet???
The genesis of our episode topics is often what we are going through on any particular given day. And when we got together to record this episode, we found we were a bit unprepared about what to talk about. Jen said something like “we have to get our shit together,” and this episode was born. So...
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Ivana Plays Well With Others!
Back in Season 3, we brought on a guest, Zoe, who is a dear friend of Harper, to talk about being in an Ethically Non-Monogamous relationship. She educated us about terminology and common misconceptions, and shared with us that she does not identify as a “swinger” or as being part of “the...
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Jen and Harper Try It Out: Red Light Therapy
Red Light Therapy is all over the place these days, and as a woman with Rosacea, it’s been recommended to me to use red light or LED therapy to help treat it. We have both tried things like Botox and Dysport, but in the last year or so have stopped. Harper stopped because it felt like her…
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Social Media Sucks...but also...
So much of social media is bland self-promotion, too many ads, too much toxic content, and too little true “social” engagement. It’s a time suck, it feeds the billionaires, and it’s objectively addicting. On the other hand… Social media has built bridges of community, brought us insights from…
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Aligning with our Fire Horse Moxie - Welcome to 2026!
February 17 2026 kicks off the lunar new year - the year of the FIRE HORSE. The Chinese zodiac runs on a 12 year cycle, and each of 12 years is assigned an animal, and every repetition of each animal is assigned one of four elements - wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Additionally, each animal...
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Season 6: It's a Wrap!
Every season wrap is another moment to sit and be in awe that we have come so far. Our little show has continued to grow, and as we end one season, we begin looking forward to our season number ticking upward yet again, and we sit in gratitude and delight that we are about to be another season...
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Letting Go and Showing Up: Parenting After Divorce
On this episode, we are going to get really vulnerable and honest about life and motherhood after divorce. This show is all about confessions - talking about things that people don’t normally talk about it real life. And one of those things is the deep feelings we go through as moms after getting...
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Nail It or Fail It: Exercise and Menopause
On today’s episode, we dig into the topic of exercise and menopause, and how we are trying new things to maximize our physical health while we continuously learn new things about the measures of physical health that make a difference. Even just 10 years ago, we both were exercising and working…
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AestonWest with Kaitlyn Schneider - Skincare with Science and Art
Jen has an aesthetician’s license in skincare, which was her first license even before she started doing nails. So skin and skincare has been important to her for….forever. Harper, on the other hand? Her first facial moisturizer was Jergen’s, which remained her primary moisturizer into college....
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[Serpent Lungs] and Chas-T**ty Bras: The Boob Episode
When it comes to health topics, we’ve spent a fair amount of time talking about perimenopause and menopause, but we haven’t spent a lot of time talking specifically about breasts, even though they seem to be just as complicated and frustrating and confusing. October was breast cancer awareness...
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Survival of the Siblings: Confessions About Birth Order
In this episode, we are talking about birth order. Why? Because Harper's older sister and Jen were talking a few weeks ago and suggested it. Harper is a middle sister between two girls, and it’s a topic of conversation that tends to come up between them somewhat regularly. According to her…
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Sustainable Haircare and Pirate Audacity - Fun with Kate Assaraf
When passionate women with rich personal stories build businesses, they do so for much more than profit, and those are the people we love to talk to and share with you. Kate Assaraf is one of those women. Kate came from the beauty industry in product formulation and marketing, but started her...
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The LIVE Menopause Meltdown
For your listening pleasure today, we have captured a real-life hormonal meltdown of two perimenopausal women who are losing their ever-loving shit over…well…everything. We didn’t plan for it. We actually had an entirely different topic planned for this episode. But as soon as we started…
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[ig-NITE-ed] Value: Knowing Your Worth
Today’s topic is about Knowing your Worth, and in many ways, starting a podcast is a test of knowing and understanding your worth. We used to have the best conversations and when Jen suggested we start a podcast Harper didn’t know if anyone would care or want to listen. But as we’ve done this…
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The Energy of GIfts: [Dark Diamonds] and Precious Knicknacks
For this episode, we talk about the energy of gifts, which we thought was a great topic for the confessional, because it’s something that can sometimes feel like a secret, even if it’s a happy, special secret. So we dove into things like gifts from our dads and how rare that was, special gifts…
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Love, Truth, Leaky Bladders and Saggy Boobs: Real Talk with Jen & Harper
Here we are - kicking off SEASON 6 of our grand Salon Confessions adventure! Each episode, Harper heads into Jen’s private nail studio and we lock the door, pull the curtain, and confess to the altar of polish all of the things that women want to talk about but rarely do. We talk about the…
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Season 5 [Radiant Renewal] - Recapping our Longest Season Yet!
Welcome to the Season 5 wrap-up of Salon Confessions. This is our longest season yet, coming in at 14 episodes! We just couldn’t stop! At the end of every season, we like to give you a wrap-up of all the episodes so if you are new to Salon Confessions or missed anything you can get a recap and…
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Rethinking Skincare (and Roses) with Dr. Ebru of Aveseena
In this episode, we welcome one final virtual guest into Jen’s nail studio with us - Dr. Ebru of Aveseena Skin Care. Dr. Ebru is an internationally recognized immunologist with decades of research under her belt, and a personal passion for science, skin, and women's well-being. She has spent her...
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In the Confessional with a Menopausal Femme Fatale! Satori Shakoor
Our guest today has a litany of writing, performing, music, and acting credits to her name. Satori Shakoor began her career with acclaim as a background singer and recording artist, touring with George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic as one of the iconic Brides of Funkenstein - later becoming…
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A [Motley] Crew: Rue is live in the Confessional!
When we shifted from a sporadic side project to a consistent show, my first priority was learning how to edit. Because we record during live manicures, our setup is... challenging. Between “sound bleed” from sitting close together and the background noise—filing, beeping, clinking—we basically...
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Finding our Femininity - When do we feel it and Why?
What defines femininity, or masculinity, and how do you connect with those elements of yourself? That’s the question we are pondering in today’s episode. In our last episode, Jen and Harper went to a spa and did a Yoni steam, where we sat over pots of steaming herbs to help moisturize and...
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Jen & Harper Try It Out: A Royal Yoni Steam Adventure
This season, we haven’t yet done a Try It Out episode, and we really thought long and hard about doing a sauna and open water cold plunge, since we live in a cold weather state and cold plunge is supposed to be the best new health trend. But as this season crept on, we kept not scheduling that…
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I'm So Hot!! Why am I So Hot?!?!
As women in our 50s, we often turn to topics related to perimenopause and menopause, because frankly, there is no end to the things we can talk about in this area. One of the things we’ve both noticed is that our internal core temperature has seemed to be higher these days, but neither of us felt...
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Jen 'Recked' Her What? A Pelvic Floor Odyssey
The pelvic floor is the entire group of muscles, tendons, organs, and structures that make up the area that includes our bladder, vagina and uterus, and perineum, rectum and anus. For women, there is a lot going on down there, and when something is off, we might get sent to several different...
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Gigglefest Medicine- When Laughing with your Bestie is the Perfect Cure to a Terrible Day
We’ve been doing this for FIVE seasons now, and every season, we end up with an episode that makes us laugh more than any other. We call these our Gigglefests, and they are our favorite episodes to record and share with you. We think they best capture the essence of our friendship, and the…
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Extreme Healing! With Mari Ruddy
On this episode, we invited Harper's friend Mari Ruddy to come in and get a pedicure and tell us about her story and her book Extreme Healing: Reclaim Your Life and Learn to Love Your Body. Extreme Healing shares Mari's journey of finding salvation through cycling, running, and triathlon. These...
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Grey's Analysis: A Young Adult’s Take on Mental Health
Ten years ago when Harper met her now husband Hudson, he brought a vibrant young 12-year-old into her life, her step-kiddo and soul-child, Grey. Grey is someone with depth, alertness, creativity, sensitivity, and an adventurous spirit. Grey has never walked the straight and narrow road, but has...
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Twinkle Fingers, Twinkle Thumbs, That's The Way the LIFEHACKS Come!
The great thing about Life Hacks is they can be ANYTHING. It can be things about cleaning your house or your stuff, managing your time, salvaging and repurposing, changing your mindset, cooking and meal planning, or just about anything that is a part of your daily life that someone has figured…
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[Hypnotic Dreams]: The Elusive Good Night's Sleep
Welcome to Season 5 of Salon Confessions! On our first episode of the season, we are talking about SLEEP! Do you remember being young and able to sleep through the night all the way until 11am or even noon? Harper was never great at falling asleep, but she didn’t suffer from sleepless nights very...
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BONUS EPISODE! Jen & Harper's 2025 Words of the Year
Each year for many years, Jen and Harper have chosen a word of the year to help guide and direct our mindset for the year ahead. Choosing a word of the year is different than making a resolution. We are not about the “new year, new me” attitude that is so quick to fail. A word of the year is...
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A Very Glittery 2024 Ur-ine Review!
In this episode, Jen and Harper are walking back through our 2024 seasons 3 and 4, reminding ourselves what we’ve done and how much fun we’ve had, and helping you get to know us a bit if you are new. And if you are a long-time listener, we hope this episode is a fun walk down memory lane too. We...
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Women’s Bodies: Why the HELL is This Still A Mystery?
With the war that is raging over healthcare and women’s rights to have agency over the private choices that they make with their healthcare providers, we realize that our listeners want to talk about these issues more. Women of all ages are frustrated and outraged at the lack of care, the cost of...
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Jen & Harper Try it Out: A Float Spa Horror Story
A few weeks ago Jen and Harper kicked off a sub-series called “Jen and Harper Try it Out.” In our Try it Out Series, we give things a try that you might see ads for on social media that look really interesting but you aren’t sure whether they will be worth it or not. It might be a new kind of...
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Midlife Meds: Menobelly, Hormone Therapy, and Hyperfocus!
This year has been a year of trial and error and learning for Jen and Harper, figuring out what treatments, prescriptions, and supplements will work for us as we go through perimenopause, Hashimoto’s, ADHD, and other women’s issues and aging issues. Since we’ve spent so much time sharing our...
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To Dye or Not to Dye: The Salon Confessions [Battle Royale]
Because we share a lot of very personal and intimate confessions on this show, we’ve chosen to keep our names and faces confidential, so you probably don’t know that Jen is a curly red head, and Harper is a long-haired wavy blondy-brown-silvery head. We both recently entered our 50s and talk a…
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Laughter: The [Tango Passion] of A Great Marriage
Jen & Harper have a lot of fun with their husbands. Jen & "OfJen" and Harper & Hudson spend a lot of time laughing in their marriages, and in today's episode, we are sharing some of our best and funniest marriage stories. These are the gut-busters, the giggle-fests, and the truest of true...
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Time to Spill the [Teal] on The Forever Date
Back in Season 2, we did an episode called “Drive Thru Pie: The Fine Art of Dating Your Spouse” and it is one of our top 10 episodes. During that episode, I referenced a couple I know that does a monthly date day, and during the pandemic when we were all stuck inside, their date day was building…
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Exploring the Shadows: What We Don't Say About Caring for Aging Parents
There are plenty of articles and videos that talk about caring for aging parents. These headlines often focus on the logistical challenges of aging and navigating the healthcare system or planning for retirement or choosing when to transition parents into assisted living residences. But do you…
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Jen & Harper Try It Out: Confessions About The Harmonic Egg®
We love trying new things (thanks ADHD!), and since we are out there doing it anyway, we figured we would share our experiences with you and give you our perspectives together in a more organized, coordinated way. Hopefully, anyway! So we are starting a new sub-series of Salon Confessions called...
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Friends by Choice, Family by Chance
In this world of precious relationships, there is one very special category that stands on its own, and that is the family members that we choose as friends. These are the ones who you call or text after a bad day or when you have a ridiculous story to tell. But these are also the people who know...
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Spooky Spooky Woo Woo: Gettin [Deep Violet] In the Confessional
It’s October, the season of Halloween, ghost stories, and mysterious, unexplainable events. In the confessional, we call that any day that ends in Y. Jen & Harper's has deepened through the years as we share stories of things that are unexplainable, metaphysical, energetically connected, and...
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Fears of Tears: Jen & Harper Try Not to Hate Crying (as much)
Hey Confessionistas! We are back AT LAST! Way back in May, we closed out an outstanding Season 3 with promises and intentions to be back in July, and then life got LIFEY. I mean, really, REALLY lifey. It’s safe to say that this is a time of TRANSITION for Jen and Harper, and while that growth and...
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Harper’s [Old and Blue Again] and Retail Therapy is Not Allowed (FFS!)
Welcome to the Season 3 Finale of Salon Confessions Podcast! This episode is the last episode in our Season 3 lineup before we take a break for a few weeks to get ready for Season 4. We have explored a lot of ground this season: S3-E1: Jen & Harper share our words of the year S3-E2: A Man's Take…
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Worky-Work Confessions with Kay from F* My Work Life Podcast
Kay is co-host and producer of the Fuck My Work Life Podcast, and she responded to our Perimenopause series with her own confessions about Perimenopause BS. She shared her experiences and frustrations in a letter on our "Butts and Bikinis" episode [S3:Ep9], and we asked her if she would join us…
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Bethany Helps Us Calm Down About Pronouns
Today, we are talking about pronouns. Jen and Harper have a diverse circle of family and friends from all kinds of backgrounds. We have a core belief that inclusion matters, and we stand allied with marginalized and underrepresented people across race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious...
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Behind the [Masquerade]: Zoe Answers our ENM Questions
Zoe is a friend of Harper's who opened up last year that she practices ENM (Ethical Non-Monogamy) while they were floating around on paddleboards one sunny evening. Her take was so informed and positive that Harper asked if she would be willing to come into The Confessional to share her…
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[Butts & Bikinis]: Catching Up with Jen & Harper
In each episode of this podcast Harper goes to Jen’s nail studio, affectionately called “The Confessional” and we talk about health, beauty, and relationship topics that we think need to be more out in the open and widely discussed. These are the things we often carry shame or fear about bringing...
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Laurie's Story: Menopause and Incontinence
One of Jen’s good friends and clients is Laurie. And as Jen and Laurie were discussing menopause-related issues, Laurie shared her story about incontinence. We always assumed that age-related incontinence was mostly due to going through childbirth, and was a separate issue from hormonal changes....
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Power Cords and Furry Toes: How Women Deal with Body Hair
Body hair! Our culture has really wild standards about what women should do about body hair. The beauty industry also has ever-evolving methods for removing it. Shaving, waxing, tweezing... Does anyone remember the Epilady? Now we have electrolysis and laser hair removal. What are we missing? The...
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Confessions from Jen: Secrets of a Nail Care Expert
Harper's a gel polish girl, and acrylic has always mystified Her. So in this episode, she asks Jen a bunch of in-depth questions about what acrylic and artificial nails are, and what people should think about when getting those services. Harper's been going to Jen to get her nails done for 8 or 9...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to the Confessional! Salon Confessions Podcast is a unique podcast that provides both entertainment and education to its listeners. Tune into Jen & Harper's hilarious, confession-style discussions covering a wide range of topics such as managing stress, being a woman over 40, relationship advice, beauty BS and much more. With our blend of humor and in-depth conversations, we aim to bring joy and insight to your day.
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