Practical shop talk for aesthetic practitioners.
Inside Aesthetics follows the real working concerns of cosmetic injectors and aesthetic business owners. Episodes move between anatomy, toxins, digital marketing, practice finances, advanced treatments, and the awkward business decisions that shape a clinic.
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Inside Aesthetics is made for people who already understand that cosmetic medicine is part clinical craft, part business, and part constant recalibration. It speaks to injectors and aesthetic business operators in the language of actual practice. The show is conversational, sometimes messy in the productive way, and usually built around a guest who can talk from experience rather than theory. It can start with a practical question and then range widely before landing on the useful part. Anatomy is treated as living knowledge, not something safely finished after training. In the cadaver-course discussion with Dr Lucas de Siqueira, the conversation gets into why even experienced practitioners can feel exposed when tested in front of peers. That same practical streak runs through the toxin episodes, where Dr David Eccleston talks about complications, off-label education, pharmaceutical limits, and the problem of expecting advanced training to be free. Business is handled with similar directness. Episodes on clinic ownership and market pressure talk about financials, leases, staff, underused devices, pricing, supplier choices, and the uncomfortable decisions that follow from reading a profit and loss statement properly. Marketing is not treated as a side hobby. With Rick O'Neill, the show moves through SEO, websites, AI, ChatGPT, agents, and what digital competition now looks like for aesthetic clinics. The masterclass format gives room for narrower clinical subjects, including biostimulation and male sexual aesthetics. Those episodes can be frank, specialist, and clearly not aimed at casual consumers. The show also has a recurring interest in how practitioners build sustainable working lives, from answering phones in a growing clinic to bringing family into office management. Its best moments come when the conversation moves from technique to consequence. What does a training model incentivize? What happens when a clinic is too big for its numbers? How should a practitioner think when Instagram teaches what formal education avoids? Inside Aesthetics stands out because it keeps those questions close to the floor. It is useful, opinionated shop talk for an industry where clinical confidence, commercial pressure, and patient-facing risk are always sitting in the same room.
Made for: Inside Aesthetics is for cosmetic injectors, aesthetic business owners, and medical professionals working around injectables, training, and clinic growth. It assumes the listener wants practitioner-level detail, not consumer treatment advice.
What sets it apart: The show combines clinical technique, complications, business operations, and marketing in the same conversational frame. It is strongest when it connects a treatment-room detail to the commercial or training system behind it.
Inside Aesthetics (IA) is the world's most listened to podcast for cosmetic injectors and aesthetic businesses. Co-hosted by Dr Jake Sloane & David Segal, each episode explores injectable-related content, aesthetic topics and insider business knowledge. New episodes are released every Friday. Disclaimer: If you are a patient seeking medical advice or treatment-related information, you should seek the help of a qualified medical professional and have a bespoke, in person consultation. The information shared on our podcasts for entertainment only and is aimed at health care practitioners in our industry.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Inside Aesthetics turns clinic ownership into practical business decisions about cash flow, staffing, equipment, pricing and professional training.
Inside Aesthetics treats an aesthetics clinic as both a medical practice and an operating business. Dr Jake Sloane and David Segal move between conversations with practitioners and their own practical exchanges, asking how clinical decisions meet staffing, equipment, pricing and…
That $100,000 clinic device looks different when you remember the loan sitting beside it.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A candid case for anatomy training where experience leaves room for uncertainty and basic questions are welcome.
Cadaver training becomes a test of professional judgment: how does anatomical knowledge become confidence when every person is different? Lucas handles that tension well. Anatomy may be constant in principle, but injectors never stop having things to learn.
A practical look at how economic pressure exposes fixed costs and forces clearer decisions in aesthetic clinics.
Inside Aesthetics links Middle East instability to economic pressure, fuel costs, and aesthetic businesses already feeling strain. Its most useful thread is practical: fixed expenses can drain a clinic's P&L quickly, so owners need to locate the real problem before reaching for…
A practical look at how sponsored training shapes advanced toxin education.
Inside Aesthetics looks at a practical training bind in off-label toxin education. Pharmaceutical companies can teach licensed uses, but practitioners still need a stronger grasp of how treatments work in real practice.
A practical review of patient selection, penile filler, and the copyright risks behind aesthetics training.
Male sexual aesthetics is framed as a precise clinical and commercial niche, with Dr John Leonardo tracing a path from penile toxin treatment to PGIRTH, a filler-based technique focused on girth.
A candid look at a cosmetic practice growing from solo overload into a two-person operation.
Clinic growth is framed through the small operational details that usually sit behind polished treatment results: the move downtown, the drain of handling phones and emails alone, and a husband stepping in as office manager and patient coordinator once the practice got busier.
A grounded reminder that clinic health depends on cash, liabilities, and equity, not revenue alone.
Clinic growth in early 2026 is framed here as a matter of knowing what the business can really afford, not just what it appears to earn. Inside Aesthetics turns to the first three months after the Christmas rush and makes its most useful point by separating revenue and profit…
A consultation-first approach to aesthetic planning that puts individual skin health ahead of trends.
Dr Ferial Fenian puts the first consultation at the center of long-term aesthetic care. The initial 45-minute-to-one-hour assessment becomes an individualized five-year program shaped around seasonal timing and budget.
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
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Aesthetic business experts discuss how injectors can successfully integrate laser and energy-based devices into their practice to expand services and grow revenue.
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Inside Aesthetics hosts Jake Sloane and David Segal ask whether aesthetic practitioners have become commodities as clinics and patient choices multiply.
Anatomy sounds fixed until Lucas starts talking about the room itself.
Dr Jake Sloane and David Segal discuss current trends affecting aesthetic businesses, including geopolitical impacts, credit card surcharge laws in Australia, and conference fatigue.
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Rick O'Neill discusses digital marketing strategies for aesthetic clinics in 2026, focusing on AI and SEO.
Aisling Walsh discusses buying the doctor-led practice where she worked as a nurse injector, covering risks and lessons learned.
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Dr Ferial Fanian discusses the definition and classification of biostimulators in aesthetic medicine.
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Aesthetic business experts discuss how injectors can successfully integrate and invest in aesthetic devices to expand their practice.