The time is now.
Life doesn't get any longer. You know, life is really short. And the time is now.
“We don't have a lot of time. And if you have a dream and the worst thing that happens is”
you fail. And you try again. That's not a bad worst case scenario. Angela Brennan is a skilled, compassionate and wellness-focused nurse practitioner and master cosmetic injector. And the founder of Fab Facing Body. Through her work, she helps clients enhance their confidence and well-being through personalized aesthetic and wellness treatments while giving back to her community and inspiring others to bring out their inner fab. And you never meet an entrepreneur
that hasn't failed in some way shape or form. Just take the risk and don't be afraid of failure. Look at it as a way to grow and just take that first step. What advice do you have for somebody
that's out there that's like really struggling to take that first step? I always like to look at
what's the worst case scenario. You know, what is the first step? Like the first step might just be an extension of her. Open. Check hop on with the link. You said Paul is the bot just not on the planet. You can live your dreams. Welcome back everybody to another episode of the Living Your Legacy Podcast. I'm your host for today, Jason Tyler and I am joined by Ms. Angela Brennan from Battle Creek, Michigan. Angela, how are you doing today?
I'm doing great. Thanks for having me. Excited to be here. Thank you for being here. So we're about to go into filming your episode of Women Empower. First of all, how are you feeling? I'm feeling great. I'm excited. Excited. Little bit of nerves. Yeah. We're going to shake all those nerves out here on the slide. What do you think is like the number one takeaway that you would want people to learn from your story? I think the number one takeaway from my episode. I'm a mom with two daughters
and I want to give anyone even just one person, some type of empowerment to step forward, even just take one step forward to a dream that they have or something that they want to do that maybe they have this great idea and they just don't know how to do it. If I could just give one person a little bit of confidence to move forward with that dream that would be my big takeaway.
“The takeaway would be that the time is now. Life is really short and the time is now. We don't have”
a lot of time and if you have a dream and the worst thing that happens is you fail and you try again that's not a bad worst case scenario. I'm a big proponent of taking imperfect action, right? As long as you can just take that step, it doesn't have to be perfect. The main thing for a lot of people is like, oh, I want the plan to be perfected so that I can mitigate risk. Everybody wants to mitigate risk. Everybody wants their plan to be perfect so that they know that the steps are
going to lead to the desired outcome. Just take the step. If you wait for the right time to do everything,
you will never do anything. You will do absolutely nothing. A huge, huge believer in that.
So for our audience, our audience is very much entrepreneurial. They're very much business-minded. Let's give them an intro to Angela. Tell me a little bit about where you come from. What cloth have you cut from? Talk to me a little bit about who is Angela Brandon? Yeah. So I was born and raised Battle Creek, Michigan, a small town, Bellevue, right outside of Battle Creek and grew up on a farm, good old country living. Just playing in the dirt, riding quads, getting muddy,
looking for deer antlers and sheds and all the fun stuff. We had a beautiful farmhouse, loving home. My parents were divorced when I was young, but still a great, great childhood.
Growing up, I always knew I wanted to be a nurse. I never had any other thought on my mind.
It was just instilled with me that I knew I wanted to be a nurse so that actually made it very easy. Like the universe was just telling you, hey, this is going to be the thing. I bet my stepmom when I was nine and she was a nurse and just listening to her, come home excited about her day and how enthusiastic she was about helping people. She was a big inspiration. I really, I want to be like that. I want to love my job and I love people. I always
wanted to be a nurse, which was an easy way to find my direction, my brain to set nurse. Fast forward me a little bit to the founding of your business. Okay. So I was a registered nurse working in
“Tampa, Florida. That's what I was 23 years old. That's when I found the love for aesthetics.”
I worked with a lot of plastic surgeons. I just didn't know what I was going to do with it at that
Time.
became a nurse practitioner and decided to really go forward with this. So, you know, I always knew
I wanted to do something with it, just wasn't sure how it was going to come about. And there kind of has to be the right time, which is now what I would tell my younger self would be like, do it a little sooner, like go forward with it. You know, my kids waited for them to kind of, you know, go to sleep on their own or feed just at a diapers. I was waiting for that right time. My sister and I were sitting on our back porch and we were sitting there talking during COVID time. You know what I was like,
now's the tell, let's just start with a name. Let's think of a name. So we were doing play on words back and forth, distraught and stuff out. Beauty bar, beauty lounge, but this all the stuff and I'm a big fan of play on words. So we just moved back and forth and we said, like, you know, like, face and body, like fab and then fab, fab, face and body. We both looked like fab, face and body.
“That's what's to that. When I, you know, to the the website, soft LLC was available and started that way.”
Initially, I started going mobile and so I was working my full-time job and I would do mobile events. So I would go to salons and spas that didn't offer injectables and go out and just kind of promote myself. You know, throw a pop-up event to a mobile event and that's where I initially started. Until it was busy enough. I thought, okay, I could really use a brick and mortar, use a solid foundation and busy enough. That's the, I feel like that's the exciting. Oh, yeah. Right. We're like,
you really get to create a vision for what exactly. For me, I've built a lot of studios spaces like this. So like, I've built podcast studios. I got to build a podcast studio up in New Jersey for it. Well, actually, I'm on NDA. So I can't even mention who that client is. But I got very a very famous client. Like, you'll, I'll tell you off camera, but you'll know exactly what I've talked about. I got to go build their podcast studio in their house in New Jersey. That to me,
“I think being able to take a space and impart your vision on that space is the most fun.”
I can have as a human being. Like, is that, is that the feeling that you get when you're starting up your brick and mortar? And you just get this black canvas to kind of say, all right, this is about to be my everything. Yep. The first time you, you know, you're working on your your logo and go through one after another after another in different colors and they're for that. And then the one that's showing in front of you. And that's it. That's it. That's it. That's
it. And you just see it. You're like, yep, right there. Right off the bat. That's the one. I feel that way every single day when I walk into our space, I walk in. It's just like so much me and there, I'm happy. It just makes me happy. So they're walking indoors. I love that. I love that. I want to take a second here to just kind of highlight, like, for our viewers, again, very entrepreneurial, very business-minded, their self-starters, their go-getters, what advice do you have for somebody
that out there that's like really struggling to take that first step? I always like to look at
what's the worst case scenario? You know, what is the first step? Like the first step might just be going on and seeing like picking your name and going on and seeing if, you know, there's an LLC. I don't know, like something small. And what's the worst case scenario? So if the failure, what's the failure? You know, if the failure is, you know, you're going to lose your house and everything you've ever worked for, maybe on the street, you know, then find a different first step.
“Find a first step that you just look at, oh my gosh, what's the worst that's going to happen?”
They don't have the LLC I want, the building I want isn't available. The space, oh okay, well, let's look at it and just do it. Find a first step that the risk reward there is, like, if it didn't go forward with it, well, yeah, it's not that big of a deal. It's fine. I'm still going on my house. It's so important that you bring that up because a lot of people, I mean, I feel like for a lot of people that want to get into entrepreneurship,
they want to get into business. They start off in a position where, you know, working in job, working salary job, or working nine to five somewhere. And they're like, I have this idea, I really want to get out of this situation that I'm in, but I got to wait until all the pieces are in place or I've saved up enough money or Yadiyada Yada Yada. But if you're able to take,
take a first step that is just start the LLC, you can do that with a job. Just create a logo.
You can do that with a job. Name the business. You can do that. You can do that while you all of those little first steps. You don't think of them as steps, but every little action is a step in the right direction of creating the thing that will eventually go on to become your business. So like, if your, for our viewers out there, if you're thinking about starting something, if you're on the fence, maybe thinking, you know, I don't know what's going to go. What's going to happen?
But I have this idea and I want to, I want to get started. Just take one step. Take one single step and you will already be further along than you are right now. Give me the basic breakdown
Of fab face and body.
Fab face and body is a full service medical spot and we really try to encompass the whole. So face and
body, yes, you know, we pretty much have a modality that do anything on the face and body. So we do injectables, Botox, fillers, we do lasers, resurfacing, body sculpting, body contouring, massages, facials, full service beauty medspa. We've definitely gone so much deeper than that. Especially in the past couple years, we're now focusing on more wellness and the person on the inside and feeling your best and then just exuding that energy. So we are offering hormone replacement
therapy. We do weight medical weight loss. So we're kind of encompassing the person as a whole in
“our. When you say medical weight loss, are you talking about like GLP ones, peptides, things like that?”
Yep. Cool. Cool. I know that's like a huge hot topic on the internet right now. I know people are going to hear that. I mean, like, what do you mean? Yes. Another thing that's a very hot topic on the internet right now, which I want to get your take on is I hear, I hear this term all the time, lymphatic drainage, lymphatic drainage. What is, how does that work? So lymphatic drainage? I mean, you can achieve lymphatic drainage almost any time you're touching the body or touching the tissue.
So it's light touch and what it does is, you know, our lymph, they hold fluids and toxins that
“need to be excreted and you're just helping them drain. So lymphatic drainage can be achieved through”
a lot of different modalities. I mean, even just walking with motion, light touch, light massage, you know, certain facials with certain devices for the facials that come with the Gwasha. Gwasha, yeah, we have like the hydrophacial device comes with a tool that you do lymphatic drainage with kind of contours and drains the lymph. If you could, if you could send a message to anybody out there right now, who's on the other side of that camera who's watching, what message would you send?
The message I would want to send is the time is now. Take the first step. Time is right now. You're not getting any younger, life doesn't get any longer and gets short. Actually, that's kind of
the whole thing. Kind of how it works. Yeah. Yep. And you never meet an entrepreneur that hasn't failed
“in some way, shape or form. You have to just take the risk and don't be afraid of failure.”
Look at it as a way to grow and just take that first step. Perfect. Perfect. So guys, before we start to wind down here, I want to make sure that you guys check out Angela's episode of Women in Power, which will be coming out shortly after this podcast episode, airs. So make sure you stay tuned to that to get a full breakdown of her story, a full in-depth dive into who is Angela Brandon, which thank you so so much for hanging on the show
with us today. If the people out there want to find you on social media, where can they find you? Mainly on fab, underscore, face and body on Instagram. I am the fab injector on Instagram, fab face and body. That's my life. That's my heart and that's well be. Guys, if you're still watching at this point, make sure you tune in to Angela's episode of Women in Power. Again, this has been another episode of the Living Your Legacy Podcast. I'm your host Jason Tyler
and I will catch you guys in the next one.
