Beauty talk with nerves, jokes, and honesty.
Just A Smidge More is a warm, chatty show built around skin treatments, surgery recovery, laser education, and the messy feelings that come with changing a life or a face. The conversations move fast, with beauty details sitting right beside self-worth, family, local stories, and jokes.
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Just A Smidge More sits at the intersection of aesthetics, friendship, and plain-spoken self-inquiry. The show is full of lasers. Halo, Contour TRL, Moxie, ProFrac, BBL Hero, Cool Peel CO2, Nano Laser Peel, Modus AY, and stacked treatments all come up as practical subjects rather than distant brochure copy. The conversations explain what treatments are meant to do, who might use them, and why recovery or downtime matters. But the show is rarely only about skin. A facelift episode becomes a conversation about fear, bruising, swelling, hyperbaric recovery, and trusting the process. A nanofat transfer episode turns into a frank discussion of what happens when a procedure could have been better optimized. A laser episode can pause for jokes about names, football-game people-watching, and who is assessing whose face. That looseness is part of the identity. The show often sounds like several people talking over the same thought until the point arrives naturally. It can be funny. It can also be unexpectedly serious. In the episode with Carrie McCoy, wanting more out of life sits beside a discussion of women giving themselves permission to be the main character in their own story. In the episode with Lauren Glaze, identity gets tugged between athlete, influencer, and wife of Andy Glaze, with laughter softening the sharper edges. In the episode with Trey Henry, small-town familiarity becomes the starting point for talking about backstory and being reduced to shorthand by people who think they already know someone. The result is a beauty and wellness show with a strong social pulse. It cares about procedures, providers, devices, and results, but it also cares about what those choices mean to the person making them. Listeners looking for detached instruction may find it too conversational. Listeners who want aesthetics talk with warmth, teasing, nerves, recovery stories, and a real appetite for self-permission will understand the rhythm quickly.
Made for: For listeners interested in aesthetics, laser treatments, facelift recovery, and beauty routines who prefer conversational detail over sterile explanation. It also suits people drawn to women talking frankly about aging, confidence, family, ambition, and wanting more.
What sets it apart: The show treats aesthetics as lived experience, not just procedure education. It moves from treatment mechanics to recovery feelings, small-town stories, and self-worth without losing its casual table-talk energy.
Everything you want to know, without an appointment. Brandy Henson PA-C and Holly Stillings sit down and discuss medical aesthetics and related fields with guests.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Personal conversations make the decisions, recovery and emotions surrounding medical aesthetics easier to understand.
Just A Smidge More treats medical aesthetics as both procedure and lived experience. Holly Stillings and Brandy Henson move through laser treatments, makeup hygiene and facial-surgery recovery in loose guest conversations, asking the practical questions that arise before, during…
Brandy and Holly take you from sponge hygiene to anger at God; bring room for both.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A loose, honest conversation about wanting more without asking permission.
The episode centers on women naming what they want and treating that desire as enough reason to move. With Carrie McCoy back, the talk stays plainspoken as it moves through ambition, travel, family, therapy, and the shift that can make self-permission feel less like indulgence…
A facelift story with recovery detail, calm reassurance, and just enough promo gloss to show through.
Just A Smidge More starts with a facelift reveal and stays with the part most people actually want to hear about: the aftercare. Holly and Dr.
A tired, honest talk about faith, anger, and the work of showing up anyway.
This episode starts in a tired, low-key register and stays there. It moves from a friend facing brain surgery into church hurt, prayer, and the choice to keep showing up when faith feels bruised.
A plainspoken look at grief, anger, faith, and the emptiness that lingers.
Just A Smidge More keeps the focus on Brandi Henson's father's death without dressing it up. Holly Stillings lets Brandi sit with grief, anger, faith, and the strange way time seems to freeze after a loss.
A practical spring beauty chat that turns Mother\'s Day gifts, beauty blender care, and monochromatic looks into useful guidance.
The episode keeps its feet on the ground. It moves from Mother\'s Day gift ideas to beauty blender care and then to the case for monochromatic spring looks, with Sarah steering the chat in a way that stays easy to follow.
Tyler Selhorn interviews remote-work founders and researchers on building distributed team culture.
Adi Ignatius and Alison Beard interview scholars and executives on management and AI.
Carrie McCoy returns for a loose, honest talk about what women want from their lives and how they go after it.
Holly and Dr.
This episode discusses the contour TRL laser hair removal system, its painless features, and personal anecdotes about beauty assessments.
This episode features a conversation with Lauren Glaze, discussing her life as an influencer and wife of ultra marathon runner Andy Glaze, along with a brief promotion for the Halo Laser treatment at Reverse Gravity.
This episode features an interview with Tray Henry, exploring her experiences growing up native in a small town and sharing personal backstories beyond surface-level perceptions.
The hosts discuss the Moxie laser for skin treatments and upcoming Citon conferences focused on education in different regions.
Brandi Henson and Holly Stillings discuss laser skin treatments, focusing on the Halo laser and its benefits for skin resurfacing.
The hosts discuss the Contour TRL laser and a repeat nanofat transfer procedure with a Beverly Hills surgeon.
This episode features an interview with Marisa Deegan, a motorsport family matriarch, discussing her life and the show's medical aesthetics theme.
The hosts discuss the Halo Laser treatment and interview their podcast editor Christy about her background.
Discussion of medical aesthetics treatments and the complex interplay of obesity, genetics, and mental health in women.
An interview with Dr.
The hosts discuss New Year's resolutions and introduce a GLP-1 weight loss membership program.
The room starts tired.
This episode explores the concept of the mother wound, discussing how mothers impact lives regardless of relationship quality and emphasizing the importance of self-work and therapy for healing and improving relationships.
The hosts discuss a new lactic acid resurfacing serum and then transition into a conversation about marriage and divorce.
Hosts discuss a hydrating cream and interview a fellow physician assistant about her medical aesthetics business.
Hosts discuss a new soothing facial mist product and share personal anecdotes about car troubles and family life.
This episode features a conversation with Dr.
Discussion of a brush-on sunscreen product and a detailed walkthrough of a Halo laser treatment appointment.
Hosts discuss a new hydrating facial mist and interview a laser expert about the benefits of laser treatments for skin rejuvenation.
Brandi and Holly re-record the whole thing.
Interview with Melody Workman, creative executive director of Sandals Church, discussing her journey as a female pastor in a male-dominated field.
The hosts discuss their current obsessions including wellness trends, life hacks, and personal anecdotes.
A discussion about non-surgical cosmetic procedures, specifically facelifts, with a plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills.
Hosts discuss a red light therapy face mask and introduce a visiting plastic surgeon for a popular procedure.
Hosts discuss a hydrating cream for post-procedure skincare and preview their upcoming 100th episode with a special guest.
The hosts celebrate their 100th episode by interviewing a renowned plastic surgeon about his work and philosophy.
Hosts discuss their recent laser skin treatments, explaining the differences between fractionated and fully ablative lasers.
This episode features Dr.
The hosts discuss the differences between Botox and Dysport, two popular neurotoxin treatments, and share personal preferences and patient advice.
The conversation starts with Mother's Day gift boxes and quickly wanders into beauty talk.