Salon Confessions Podcast

Mar 14 2025 55 ep. 53 mins
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Welcome to the Confessional! Salon Confessions Podcast is a unique podcast that provides both entertainment and education to its listeners. Tune into Jen & Harper's hilarious, confession-style discussions covering a wide range of topics such as managing stress, being a woman over 40, relationship advice, beauty BS and much more. With our blend of humor and in-depth conversations, we aim to bring joy and insight to your day.

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Extreme Healing! With Mari Ruddy

Mar 14 2025 74 mins  
On this episode, we invited Harper's friend Mari Ruddy to come in and get a pedicure and tell us about her story and her book Extreme Healing: Reclaim Your Life and Learn to Love Your Body.Extreme Healing shares Mari's journey of finding salvation through cycling, running, and triathlon. These activities carried her through trauma, type 1 diabetes, and three rounds of cance

Grey's Analysis: A Young Adult’s Take on Mental Health

Mar 09 2025 58 mins  
Ten years ago when Harper met her now husband Hudson, he brought a vibrant young 12-year-old into her life, her step-kiddo and soul-child, Grey. Grey is someone with depth, alertness, creativity, sensitivity, and an adventurous spirit. Grey has never walked the straight and narrow road, but has always found her way, meeting life's challenges with courage and confidence.Grey is

Twinkle Fingers, Twinkle Thumbs, That's The Way the LIFEHACKS Come!

Feb 28 2025 57 mins  
The great thing about Life Hacks is they can be ANYTHING. It can be things about cleaning your house or your stuff, managing your time, salvaging and repurposing, changing your mindset, cooking and meal planning, or just about anything that is a part of your daily life that someone has figured out an easier way to do. And really, all of us have life hacks. Maybe some of them are th

[Hypnotic Dreams]: The Elusive Good Night's Sleep

Feb 07 2025 57 mins  
Welcome to Season 5 of Salon Confessions!On our first episode of the season, we are talking about SLEEP! Do you remember being young and able to sleep through the night all the way until 11am or even noon? Harper was never great at falling asleep, but she didn’t suffer from sleepless nights very often. Yet every decade, that precious commodity of sleep just seems to slip further

BONUS EPISODE! Jen & Harper's 2025 Words of the Year

Jan 11 2025 54 mins  
Each year for many years, Jen and Harper have chosen a word of the year to help guide and direct our mindset for the year ahead. Choosing a word of the year is different than making a resolution. We are not about the “new year, new me” attitude that is so quick to fail. A word of the year is intentionally open to interpretation, and helps guide our thoughts, actions, and beli

A Very Glittery 2024 Ur-ine Review!

Dec 20 2024 62 mins  
In this episode, Jen and Harper are walking back through our 2024 seasons 3 and 4, reminding ourselves what we’ve done and how much fun we’ve had, and helping you get to know us a bit if you are new. And if you are a long-time listener, we hope this episode is a fun walk down memory lane too. We thank you so much for being here with us on this journey, for being loyal Confessio

Women’s Bodies: Why the HELL is This Still A Mystery?

Dec 14 2024 58 mins  
With the war that is raging over healthcare and women’s rights to have agency over the private choices that they make with their healthcare providers, we realize that our listeners want to talk about these issues more. Women of all ages are frustrated and outraged at the lack of care, the cost of care, and the poor quality of care. Even more than that, the research and education

Jen & Harper Try it Out: A Float Spa Horror Story

Dec 06 2024 56 mins  
A few weeks ago Jen and Harper kicked off a sub-series called “Jen and Harper Try it Out.” In our Try it Out Series, we give things a try that you might see ads for on social media that look really interesting but you aren’t sure whether they will be worth it or not. It might be a new kind of medspa treatment, or self-care, or unique therapy or experience. Harper recently s

Midlife Meds: Menobelly, Hormone Therapy, and Hyperfocus!

Nov 29 2024 60 mins  
This year has been a year of trial and error and learning for Jen and Harper, figuring out what treatments, prescriptions, and supplements will work for us as we go through perimenopause, Hashimoto’s, ADHD, and other women’s issues and aging issues. Since we’ve spent so much time sharing our challenges, we’re dedicating this episode to sharing some updates with you on what

To Dye or Not to Dye: The Salon Confessions [Battle Royale]

Nov 22 2024 57 mins  
Because we share a lot of very personal and intimate confessions on this show, we’ve chosen to keep our names and faces confidential, so you probably don’t know that Jen is a curly red head, and Harper is a long-haired wavy blondy-brown-silvery head. We both recently entered our 50s and talk a lot about the aging process on this show, but one thing we haven’t talked a lot abo