What does it actually mean to take care of yourself when your job is beauty? In this episode of Finding Beauty Every Day, Gabbi Pascua traces the through-line between her career as a makeup artist and the wellness practice she built alongside it — from a career panel at beauty school that changed how she thought about her body, to the morning routines, journaling habits, and spiritual observations that became the foundation of how she shows up.

She gets honest about the early years: the erratic call times, the oversleeping, the missed jobs, and the slow realization that grounding herself wasn't optional — it was professional. She also shares a story about a friend's offhand comment that stung precisely because she was at her healthiest, and what that moment revealed about comparison, projection, and the quiet battles everyone in the beauty industry is fighting.

This one is personal, reflective, and real — a reminder that the most successful people Gabbi has ever worked with all had one thing in common: they knew how to take care of themselves first.

In this first daily audio exclusive, Gabbi Pascua gets honest about comparison, divine-guided pivots, and why she stopped holding out on the audience that was actually showing up. She reflects on how Los Angeles shaped her relationship with health, spirituality, and creative freedom — and why the world is finally catching up to what she's always known: that wellness isn't a trend, it's a lifeline. A conversation for anyone building something different, pivoting with purpose, or learning to stop looking left and right.

In this episode of A Student of Beauty, we sit down with Shale Albao, the visionary founder and classically trained perfumer behind Tadhana. Shale shares her incredible journey from running a chemical distribution business to following a "wild" desire to study perfumery in Versailles and Grasse, France.

We dive deep into:

The Meaning of Tadhana: How destiny and "unexpected surprises" shape her fragrance philosophy.

Global vs. Local: Why she chose to base her brand in the Philippines despite the allure of the world’s perfume capital, Grasse.

The Power of Ingredients: Bringing unique Philippine raw materials like Calamansi and coconut water to the global stage.

Starting Over at 38: Honoring your creative "spark" and finding your ikigai (purpose) later in life.

Whether you're a fragrance enthusiast or someone standing at a crossroads in your career, Shale’s story is a powerful reminder to anchor yourself in your "why" and have the courage to start again.