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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
A listener production. I'm Bec Chard. And I'm Jess Roberts. And we're done with the smoke and mirrors. Fainish shares honest stories about what it takes to look amazing because we did not wake up like this.
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Hello, babe. How are you going today? I'm good. I'm good. Been busy because obviously first week back at school.
Yeah.
But yeah, I'm glad they're back because they costed me a fortune. Yeah. Tell me about it. The kids are bloody expensive, aren't they? They are. All the things they want to do, like go to the movies, go to bowling, like all of that just obviously costs. And then I didn't get any help at home because my family lived down the coast and live in
And Val and I are both working and so sometimes I have to go, River, can you do some babysitting? And she's like, yeah, okay, at what cost? And how old is she? She's 14. Okay.
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Chapter 2: What inspired Lana Wilkinson to become a stylist?
And she's like, yeah, $400.
Wow.
$400.
I mean, everything is really expensive right now and inflation and cost of fuel and everything. But that river, that is like adding some extra, extra, extra mayo.
Exactly. So guess what I got her down to? $200. $200? Yeah, for five hours. Oh my goodness. She wasn't going to do it. She just would have walked out the house, gone and seen her friends. So I had to literally... So $40 an hour is a going rate for a babysitter now.
Babysitter, yeah. But what are her duties within that time?
So her duties are to not be on devices, make sure Jagger's not on Nintendo or whatever, like to go out onto the tennis court and play basketball and soccer, go walk the dogs, do a load of washing. So they've got tasks to do. It's not like she's just sitting there. Yeah, on her phone. And if I do get home and find out she was just sitting there, You're not paying up.
Well, no, I had to pay up front. Oh, you what? You paid up front. I paid up front because I say this all the time and I probably, I was okay giving her the $200 because I kind of semi-owe her. I go, can you look after the kids? I'll pay you $50 while, you know, I go out and do whatever.
And that would be like going out for dinner with ā and Belle and I go out for dinner with you guys and whatever like that. So I've never kind of given her the money.
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Chapter 3: How did Lana transition from styling to launching her own footwear brand?
To In-N-Out, 11 minutes up the road. Yeah, that's a very expensive In-N-Out burger. Always worth it though.
Always worth it.
Oh, it's so funny. That gets me thinking back to when we were kids and the stuff we used to do to make money. Like, you know, what were your money making missions when you were a kid? What did you do?
Well, I called mum and like, mum, what did I do to make money? She goes, nothing. You never got pocket money because you did nothing. What? Yeah, I was ā well, also, I'm living in a family where my dad's got OCD and my mom's got OCD. So even if I tried to do something, they would, you know, redo it. So I just kind of gave up. I like could literally ā they called me Messy Jessie.
Messy Jessie. You are like the complete opposite now.
Opposite now. Like I've got ā Messy Jessie. Messy Jessie. I'm going to use that. Yeah. Friday nights when I'm going out with you girls, you should see my room. It's like I'm a teenager. It is like a tornado. Yeah.
I'm a part of that when we go out, when we stay in a hotel room together. Yes, yes. We have to put that on our vanish.
Messy Jessie and bad girl Becky. No, but we need like a messy Becky.
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Chapter 4: What challenges has Lana faced with motherhood and her career?
Or like there's like something. Needs to run with a B. Needs to run with a B. We'll get to that.
Yeah. We'll chat GPT that. We will chat GPT that. Yeah. That's funny. But what if, like, when you wanted to go and buy something or go out with your friends and get a milkshake or, I don't know, a burger or go to Supre and buy something, where did you get your cash from and how? My mum would just give it to me.
Oh. Yeah, yeah. She'd just feel like. She's too good to you. Yeah, she was good. I think because I never asked for money. I never asked for anything. So when I did ask, it was like, you know, can I buy a $10 top from Supray? So she'd give it to me. You know, Maccas in those days, can I get a Big Mac meal, whatever it is. It was like $4.95. Yeah.
You know, that.
I didn't do a lot. I did so much dancing that I didn't have time to do. To do house stuff.
Yeah, yeah. You know what? We were so poor growing up and we didn't really get pocket money on. We might get like a dollar a week or something and we'd go to the shop on a Sunday and get a $1 lolly bag and that was like it. But my sister and I, Kate, we were like bloody human metal detectors. So we would go to netball.
We'd be at netball from 8 in the morning so mum would coach, we would play and then mum would play later at like a 4 o'clock game. So we'd be at netball from... Like 8 in the morning till 6 o'clock every Saturday and Kate and I would just walk up and down the 30 courts, up and down, up and down, up and down, just staring at the ground looking for money.
And we would find money every single weekend. What? Every single weekend. Oh, my God. Yes. Like how much? Like... I don't know, anywhere between $2 and $10 a Saturday, we would find money and go to the canteen and buy lollies. Oh, my goodness. It was the best. That is amazing. Yeah, always look down. That's why I never stand in dog poo because my eyes are trained to always look down. Yeah.
But you know what, Jess? There was a way that Kate and I made even more money and I've got her on the phone now to tell the story. Hi, Kate.
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Chapter 5: How does Lana maintain her beauty and wellness routine?
That is? $10. Oh, my God. Like this was in the 80s. That's like $70, $80, $100. Yeah, Kate got it. It was like three of a kind or whatever and someone had scratched it and just thrown it in the bin. So we used to go through the bin and get the old scratchies. $10. That is so good. I've never forgotten it. Kate, was that one of the biggest moments of your childhood?
Oh, I was doing like backflips in the shopping centre. It was like the best thing ever.
Did you tell your mum? Oh, yeah. We ran straight into Farmer Jack's and we were like, mum. We've won the lotto. We had $100 to spend every Thursday night on the weekly shop. That's all we had. Yeah, for food. So to win $10, an extra 10%, like that was huge for our family.
Your mum's like, you've gone from normal mince to organic mince this week. Oh, my God. So good.
So today, we've got such an exciting show. We have one of our very, very best friends in the whole wide world coming in. It is Stylist. She also owns a global shoe brand that we love and we always wear. Yeah, we're obsessed with her and we know everyone else is as well. And also...
Can I just put out there, she's our girl when we are feeling really shit about ourselves and down about life, we give her a call because she always gives us a pep talk.
It's called a Lana Wilkinson pep talk. Yeah, and it's the best. It's the best. And you know what else we do? If someone is a bit down and we feel like we can't be that person, we'll call Lana and I'm like, hey, Lana. Can you call? Jess is wigging on this. And she goes, does she need a Lana chat? I'm like, she needs a Lana chat.
So then Lana will call Jess acting like she hadn't spoken to me and just like calls and gives the pep talk. We all do it for each other.
Yeah, we all do it.
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Chapter 6: What insights does Lana share about body confidence in her 40s?
A coffee table book. A coffee table book of all her quotes.
Yeah. Oh, my God. Lana-isms. Yeah, Lana-isms, like winning the day. Winning the day. Are you winning the day, friends? One team, one dream. Honestly, one of the most in-demand stylists in Australia, the woman behind so many iconic red carpet moments and now our favourite fancy party shoes. And not just party shoes, boots and flats as well. She listened to me. We're doing flats.
I'm waiting for a runner. Is there a runner coming? Yeah.
Lana Wilkinson, welcome to being here. Thank you so much. I'm so excited to see my besties in their big office studio. Are we big girls? Yeah, and thanks. Well, you are. We've got a job. We've got a job. And thank you for that amazing intro.
Well, it's a pleasure to be here. Oh, we're so excited to have you. How did you become Lana Wilkinson?
Oh.
Well, I think initially I'd worked in project marketing. So I worked for Westfield. And so I worked on some really incredible campaigns. And I often was like, I want to be... working on them.
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Chapter 7: What is the story behind Lana's upper and lower blepharoplasty?
I don't want to be like organizing them. So I started to do some styling on the side. And I think it was sort of really by word of mouth, actually. And then all of a sudden, I started doing like red carpets. I was doing the Brownlow Medal. I was doing Ari Awards. I was doing MTV Awards. You name it, I was doing it.
And then I sort of had to make the call to go, okay, instead of doing this as like a side hobby, I really need to lean in and just like Take a leap of faith, change careers and go in fully loaded and see what happens. And, you know, friends with some incredible people like our girl here who was like, hey Lance, I saw you did this. Can I organise to get you to do this for me?
What was the first look we did together? The first look we did, I remember it very distinctly. It was after a Logies and I got a text message and I was like, Bec and I had known each other for years through mutual friends. But I'd never gone down the road of like, oh, can I work with you? I never did that. Still don't do it, right?
You don't, yeah. I think none of us do that. No, ego, babe.
Absolutely not. If you think I'm good, you're last, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So when the queen says, oh, I want to engage you, it's time, blah, blah, blah. I can't remember the exact first thing we did. I feel like it was one of your campaign shoots, I think. I remember we got some jeton stuff. It was, you know, just a lazy jeton.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Was it a Spray Oz campaign?
Yes, that's right.
That's right. Oh, and was it Chaton at Bondi Beach? That's right.
I remember that. I actually think there was ones before that. Before that. Remember we did one at the George Ball Room?
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Chapter 8: What affordable beauty products does Lana recommend?
And then... I think there was like a shift maybe when I started to work with a manager because everything was all referral. And that was sort of the interesting thing about Instagram, right, which I think now is very much TikTok. So it's like I always say to everyone, if you want to be known, you've got to put yourself out there. Like, you know, there's no point telling us about it.
Tell everyone about it. And so I would just start posting all my work. And then I started to get hit up by internationals. Like, it was incredible. So I've got to work with some pretty amazing people. Amazing.
What was that moment where you're like, I've made it. I'm proud of myself.
Oh, there's been a lot. Like, I know I've probably told this story a bit. There was probably a couple like where there were internationals. And I don't mean that to sound like that's the pinnacle. But it is.
You're worldwide.
I remember when we literally were doing like, I think it was like the Portipolo. And I'd not long had, I think, Ava. And I was like, okay, we're hitting our strides. We're doing well. And it was right in the moment of like the hills and the city and Whitney Port had asked and requested for me. Whitney. And I was like, this is a moment. This is great. And it was just off the back.
I remember we'd done a photo shoot with Ruby Rose and she was doing Orange is the New Black.
Yes.
And then probably the person that came after that, I'm sounding like such a name dropper. No, name drop baby name. But for me, like hero wise, like and the reason I became a stylist was Rachel Zoe. So I remember when I got to work with her, that was just like... Oh, you got to work with Rachel Zoe? Oh, yeah. Was it for Crown? No, it came out here for Chadston.
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