The Bossticks - #130: Dr. Jason Diamond - The Art Of Facial Plastic Surgery, Facial Reconstruction, Rhinoplasty, Facial Rejuvenation, & The Golden Ratio

Episode Date: August 14, 2018

On this episode we dive into the world of facial surgery with Dr. Jason Diamond. Dr. Diamond of the Diamond Face Institute is a top facial plastic surgeon in his field and has helped thousands of pat...ients achieve a more youthful, natural-looking appearance with the wide range of facial surgical procedures that he provides. Dr Diamond Chooses to not dilute his focus and concentrates exclusively on the face. Some of his patients include the Kardashians, Amber Rose, Erika Jane & Kate Upton to name a few. He is double board certified and was once on the popular show Dr. 90210. In this episode we cover topics like facial reconstruction, the golden ratio, facelifts, rhinoplasty, facial rejuvenation, plastic surgery and more. To connect with Dr. Jason Diamond click HERE To connect with Lauryn Evarts click HERE To connect with Michael Bosstick click HERE Read More on The Skinny Confidential HERE For Detailed Show Notes visit TSCPODCAST.COM To Call the Him & Her Hotline call: 1-833-SKINNYS (754-6697) WOO FOR PLAY is the all natural and organic coconut love oil that is changing the way we have sex. With only 4 all natural ingredients WOO is the perfect personal lubricant to spice up your sex life.  All Him & Her Listeners will receive 20% off your entire order plus free shipping when when visiting www.wooforplay.com & using promo code HIMANDHER at checkout. This episode was brought to you by Fabletics. Your new go to for all athletic wear.  Fabletics is offering our listeners an incredible deal you don't want to miss: Get 2 leggings for only $24 a ($99 value) when you sign up for a VIP membership. Just go to Fabletics.com/skinny to take advantage of this deal now. International shipping is available and there is absolutely no commitment when you purchase your first order!  Fabletics.com/skinny Terms and conditions apply.  This episode is brought to you by THRIVE MARKET. We use Thrive for our online grocery delivery on a weekly basis. They provide the highest quality products and ingredients delivered straight to our door with unbeatable prices.  Be sure to grab our deal by going to to https://thrivemarket.com/skinny to receive 25% off your first order + free shipping and a 30 day trial.

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Starting point is 00:01:30 Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. The craziest thing probably, this guy who was a body modification guy, and he had every modification you could have. He had the huge earring stretched things. He had the full nose pierce all over place. He had his tongue split down the middle. All these things I'd seen before. He had earrings in his eyelids.
Starting point is 00:01:56 Like that I had never seen before. He had like metal. ball's implanted under his form. I'd never see. It was just nasty stuff, but he had something I'd never seen before, and that was horns implanted in his head. He had these horns implanted his head to look like a demon or a devil, and they were silicone horns that somebody put in in some basement. The guy wanted him removed out because he wanted to start, like, normalizing his life. Welcome back to the skinny confidential him and her show. If you are new to the show, thank you for joining. That clip was from our guest of the show today, Dr. Jason Diamond.
Starting point is 00:02:29 On this episode, we dive into the world of facial surgery covering topics like facial reconstruction, the golden ratio, facelifts, rhinoplasty, facial rejuvenation, plastic surgery, and more. Guys, what's up? I'm Lauren Everts. I'm the creator of the skinny confidential. Blog, a book, a brand, and a podcast. And I'm Michael Bostic. I'm an entrepreneur and business operator. Most recently, the co-founder and CEO of Dear Media, a podcast network focused on the digital space and female voices. And you're the proud owner of... of new boobs. I, in a way, am the proud owner of new boobs because you have new boobs. I was greasing him up this weekend. I know. What's going on with you, man? There's kids out there. There's kids.
Starting point is 00:03:10 There's parents. They're trying to have breakfast. There's kids out there trying to relax. There's dads and moms and you're out there with these things flopping around. You're going to knock someone out with those cannons. When you get a new car, you drive it around in the most obnoxious way. So when I get new boobs, they're going to hang out for like a year. I'm all for it. You do you. Be confident. Woman hear you roar. Whatever you want to. to do, but how long are we going to be doing this for? What if you got a dick implant? You would want it bunched up in your jeans for a good year? No, in my case, I'll need to get a reduction. A reduction? It's too much already, you know what I mean? All right. Guys, remember that there was two episodes last week.
Starting point is 00:03:46 Episode 128 was with Emily Schumann and Jeffrey Fuller from the brand cupcakes in cashmere. And then we had Rachel Hollis on Thursday, who was a bestselling author. She wrote Girl Wash Your Face, which is currently crushing it on Amazon's top charts. Make sure you check out both of those episodes because they're both gems. So, yes, I love both those episodes. I'm so irritated because I was listening to this episode and I was editing it. And I sound, it's when I was sick. No, no, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:04:17 No, no, no. I'm not going to talk about how you're sick. No, so I'm not going to talk about how I'm sick. But my voice is a little off, which sounds right. But then I started thinking about how I was irritated. And then I started thinking about some of the dogs that I saw this weekend. and some of the dog owners, and I got even more irritated. There are so many shitty dog owners out here.
Starting point is 00:04:33 It just really pisses me off. It grinds my gears. It's way too hot. These guys are out here. They're dragging their dogs around. The feet are burning. They're leaving them strapped up to these posts. And the dogs can't breathe.
Starting point is 00:04:44 And they're panting and they're not getting water. It just pisses me off. What makes you more mad than a dog not being treated at 100% level at all times? I mean, oh my God, it makes me sick. These people, they just, they're being rude to dogs. I literally saw this guy. He had this dog chained up. He was sucking down water.
Starting point is 00:05:01 The dog was panting. Then later I saw this girl. This West Hollywood grossed to me out. I love it here. But this girl literally, you saw this. Her dog took this giant shit. And she literally took two leaves and put it over the shit like inside. And then walked away.
Starting point is 00:05:16 I love to give you hypotheticals. What would you do if someone was rude to your dogs? If someone was rude to my dogs, I would literally, I would be going to jail. Really? I would, I defend those dogs more than I would defend, like, probably even you. Okay. Because I feel like you could defend yourself and you could like take care of yourself a little bit and
Starting point is 00:05:35 like, you know, there'd be a, it would have to be an extreme situation for me. You have to step in. I remember that one time that guy reached down your pants in the back of that bar and I had to do something? Yeah, you guys, there was this one time just a super side note. I was leaning over a bar a little bit and I was wearing jeans with a belt. And this guy came up to me from behind and stuck his dirty finger down my jeans next to my but hole almost and Michael saw it, you were.
Starting point is 00:05:59 I was mad, but first of all, what kind of fucking creep does that? But no, I think if somebody was mean to the dog, I'd for sure be going to jail. Some people don't deserve to have dogs. Listen, you have to take care of your dog. If you're going to get them, it's hot out there, people. Give them water. Don't leave them chained to a post, or I'm going to leave you chained to a post. If their feet are on the hot black asphalt, make sure they're not there too long,
Starting point is 00:06:19 it's burning them. Just don't do, don't let me catch you out there. Wipe their paws. Tell them how we wipe their paws. Wipe their paws. Just take care of your dogs. time the dogs go for a walk, which is once a day, we bring them home and we wipe their paws with little wipes. They're these natural wipes. I think you can get them on Thrive Market, but you wipe their paws because
Starting point is 00:06:35 they get allergies on their paws and they lick their paws and it gets into their eyes. It's like dust and all different kinds of things. Plus, if you have someone that comes and cleans your house or you clean the floors and it gets all those chemicals on their paws, you want to wipe it off. Anyway, I don't want to start the show too negative. This is very like a dog episode. I'm into it. Take care of your dogs. Plot twist. Don't catch you out there in the streets. The guy that stuck his finger in my jeans into my butt hole. That guy's fine. He can do that. Just take care of the dogs. All right. So, I want to talk about something different than Michael's talking about. I want to talk about the five outfits that I just ordered. Okay, guys? Not five pieces, five outfits, like two pieces,
Starting point is 00:07:17 okay? Off fabletics. There's this one that I got that is so flattering. It's like this black tight legging that sucks everything in with this big thick white band at the top this is super flattering because it sort of hits the hips at the hip bone and I have been living in them since I got my boob job
Starting point is 00:07:38 anyway it comes with this vibe black sports bra on top so you get a two piece set and it really pushes the twins up Michael loves it right babe friends are looking good okay wait I also need to mention this it's $35 for the entire set, which is nuts.
Starting point is 00:07:57 Okay, so make sure you go to Fabletics and check out the Pashley two-piece outfit. I got a medium top and small bottoms. It fits perfect. It sucks you in. You should know some background on Fabletics, okay? So it was born in 2013 and co-founded by actress Kate Hudson. God, I loved her and had to lose a guy in 10 days. Okay, so the founding team noticed a big gap in the active wear marketplace.
Starting point is 00:08:21 It was very difficult for people to find trendy, stylish gymware that was priced affordably. So Fabletics came to the rescue. I mean, you can see this clear as day because if you saw me in my $35, Pashley two-piece, you would think it was like $200. Okay. Fabletics mission is simple. They create clothing that's made to inspire physical activity in any type of setting. Now, let's get to the nitty-gritty.
Starting point is 00:08:45 Here's how it works. Number one, you take a style pop quiz for a personalized outfit recommendation. I did this. It takes two seconds. It just sort of vets everything for you. And then you shop from thousands of styles curated just for you. And number three, you check out as a guest or you become a VIP member. It's up to you. But I will tell you that VIP perks are up to 50% off regular prices, free shipping, and additional perks. I wore my get-up to Margaritas the other night. I threw on a knee-high boot and I felt like a million bucks. Okay, the offer. Let's talk about the deals and steals. Fabledic is offering our listeners and,
Starting point is 00:09:20 incredible deal. You don't want to miss this. Get two leggings for only $24 a $99 value when you sign up for a VIP membership. Just go to fabletics.com slash skinny to take advantage of this deal now. That's fabletics.com slash skinny to get two leggings for only $24. Also, free shipping on orders over $49. International shipping is available and there's absolutely no commitment when you purchase your first order. That's fabledics.com slash skinny. Terms and conditions apply. meet Dr. Diamond. Dr. Jason B. Diamond of the Diamond Face Institute is a top facial plastic surgeon in his field and has helped thousands of patients achieve a more youthful, we love youthful, natural-looking appearance with the wide range of facial surgical procedures he provides.
Starting point is 00:10:07 Dr. Diamond chooses to not dilute his focus and concentrates exclusively on the face. You can stock his Instagram where he showcases patients like Chris Jenner, Lala Kent, Van der Pumpump Rules cast, Kim Kardashian, Amber Rose, Courtney Kardashian, Erica Jane, Steph, Sheph, Kate Upton, to name a few guys. He is a double board certified plastic surgeon and was once on the popular show, Dr. 90210. I love that show. He's now joining our show, The Skinny Confidential, Him and Her. With that, welcome, Dr. Diamond.
Starting point is 00:10:38 Let's get into it with specifics. This is the Skinny Confidential, Him and Her. All right, Dr. Diamond, tell us how you got here. So give us your background. Starting with your childhood. My childhood, okay. So I'm from New Jersey. I grew up in a blue collar, just average household.
Starting point is 00:11:01 And I wasn't a super, I was just an average kid pretty much. But what got me interested in this world is when I was in high school, I had a friend who was involved in a car accident. He got his face smashed up. And it was a pretty big deal to see how it affected him and to see how it affected, you know, all of us. He was pretty beat up, pretty bad, needed some reconstructive surgery. He was worried no one would ever want to go out on a date with him. He was worried no one would ever want to go out with him and be seen with him. So it was big, like it had a big impact.
Starting point is 00:11:32 And he went through the surgery, got reconstructed, and they basically fixed him and made him whole. And it was, so the impact that that had on me and on his friends and on him, it was huge. And what's even more interesting about the whole thing is at the time, the surgeons had given him intraoperative photos of the surgery with like his scalp peeled down, exposure of all the bones with the plates on them to reconstruct them. And he'd bring these pictures into school from time to time and everyone was grossed out with them. But I was fascinated with him.
Starting point is 00:12:03 I wanted to see him. I'd stare at him for hours and like every couple weeks to be like, hey, can I see those pictures again? I was just fascinated with the whole anatomy, with the anatomy. It was crazy. And so I knew I had an interest in it. But to be a doctor, I grew up from a town where you weren't doctors and I'd be grew up in a blue collar, Italian town in New Jersey where, you know, people were mechanics and
Starting point is 00:12:23 stuff like that. It just, it just being a doctor, and no one in my family was a doctor, no one in my immediate family. Um, so it wasn't anything I really thought that I was going to be able to do, you know, well, look, being a doctor is too hard. You have to be too smart. You have to be like, you know, I wasn't smart enough. I don't know. I just, it just wasn't something I thought was possible. But I started taking the classes and I was like, you know, killing it and able, and I realized like, hey, I can do this. And I applied to med school and got in. And the next thing, I gravitated towards facial plastic surgery because I loved it and I was good at it and I did well in it. And it just sort of mushroom clattered from there.
Starting point is 00:12:55 And that's how it all got started. I also feel like I know that you're smart, but you're also an artist. And I was telling Michael this. There's a difference, I think, with a doctor that's an artist and one that's not. Can you kind of explain the difference just for anyone who's listening that doesn't know what I mean? Yeah. There are different skills involved. in being a good doctor and different doctor, different specialties require different skills.
Starting point is 00:13:24 And some of the smartest people I have ever met, people I still talk to to this day, aren't very coordinated with their hands. Just because you're smart doesn't mean you have good hands. And just because you have good hands doesn't mean you're smart. It's a completely different thing. And so to be a good plastic surgeon, well, I mean, to be a surgeon period, you have to have so many hours under your belt of experience and you've had to have passed so many exams and studied. So we all, there's at least a baseline of like, you know, this person has put the hours into study and learn the appropriate anatomy and to learn the important surgical principles and things.
Starting point is 00:14:00 But to be a good plastic surgeon does require a finesse and an aesthetic judgment. And those things are, you can't really teach those things to. some degree. Most of it, I think, is you either have it or you don't. It's a nice way of saying you have to have a natural given talent. I think you have to have a natural given talent for, I think 80%, let's just put a arbitrary number on it. I'd say 80% of my ability to do what I do is probably natural, God given, and 20% has been, you know, learned, I would say, if I had to put numbers to it. Now, different specialties are different, you know. Um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, A lot of specialties require just a ridiculous amount of reading and staying on top of literature and studying and things like that.
Starting point is 00:14:55 And that's different because they're diagnosing things visually and they're not using their hands to fix things. But when you're using your hands to fix problems like surgeons do, particularly plastic surgeons, but many, most of the surgical specialties, your finesse and your feel, that's really what. it separates the, you know, separates the real masters of their specialty from, from the others. And I think, in my opinion, a fair amount of that is God-given. But with hours and hours and hours, too, you can develop your skills. But even there are certain people who start off out of the gates and are just better than others, and it's because of their hands and their aesthetic judgment and the way their brain interprets things and how they see things.
Starting point is 00:15:41 It's similar to any other artists or like musician or like that. You can learn and you can study You can be the smartest guy in the room But if you don't have that natural talent You're only going to go so far Let's make, I like to make the analogy all the time I think it's very similar to a guitar player or a piano player I mean there are those people who come out of the gates
Starting point is 00:15:57 And they just have that talent and that feel And they know how to hit the keys They know how to strum the strings right And there are people and you know Artists get better and better at it But there are some people who you know have been who come out of the gates And it's so a lot of it is God given But it's definitely a mix of God given ability
Starting point is 00:16:14 and hours and hours and you've heard the principal I think uh 10,000 hours the 10,000 hours. The Maxwell, uh, Maxwell, uh, Mc Gladwell. You know, we were talking earlier. He has a podcast too. Does he really? Yeah. Malcolm Gladwell. Yeah. Malcolm Gladwell. Yeah. The 10,000, and I believe in the 10,000, hour principle. And he said that, you know, to be a master, it's something you have to put 10,000 hours in. And I believe that there's probably a lot of truth to that. But even if you put 10,000 hours in, those people who have that God given ability will be just better.
Starting point is 00:16:44 at it than those who don't. And so that's my opinion on the topic. I mean, I tried to play guitar when I was a kid, and I played a little bit. And her cousin has God-given natural guitar talent. He's like, oh, I'm going to try that too. And he came in. He heard one song in the song that I took months and months to learn. He picked up and just played it
Starting point is 00:17:01 right away. I was all right, you know what? I'm going to be self-aware here and realize, like, this is probably not my calling. But it's true. I want to know why you went into plastic surgery instead of other things on the face, because there's obviously you could have gone into the brain, you could have gone in eye surgery. Why did you pick plastic surgery? Well, again, because seeing my friend go through that experience where he was, you know, the, how it changed, how the, his mindset, his psychology, how it was so affected by how he was going to look and how, you know, at the time he's 16, he's like, no girl's ever going to want to date me.
Starting point is 00:17:32 That's a big deal because I was going through the same thing. We were all, you know, and to see how that affected us a lot. To see how when he got fixed, that was all better. It was like, wow, that's like amazing. You know, it was a big deal. And so that's what got me interested in looking into plastic surgery as a med student, kind of gravitating towards it. And then I just love the anatomy. And within plastic surgery, there's many different sub-specialties.
Starting point is 00:17:54 I'm a facial specialist. I love the facial anatomy. It's very intricate, and to work on it requires just a different type of feel and finesse than working on the body. They're two different skills. And I like the facial work. I just like the detailed nature of the anatomy. me it's very complex. I loved studying it and learning it and just conquering and understanding it's very rewarding because it is very difficult to understand really what's going on as far as
Starting point is 00:18:23 the anatomy goes. And then to be able to work on it in a skillful way, it just requires the utmost finesse and feel. And it's just something that I just liked and I was good at it. And for me, when I'm good at something, I get better at it. And the better I get at it, the more I like it. And it just spirals up and I like it more and I get better at it I like it more and I it just you know that's kind of how it progressed and I definitely found what I you know I tell people I'm I'm very good at a few things and not good at a lot of things I sucked at guitar I started playing guitar too like you when I was when I was a kid my cousin was amazing and he gave me his guitar I took lessons and I played and I in fifth grade started a band with a couple kids and I was terrible
Starting point is 00:19:08 and this one of the guys who joined us, he was playing guitar and he just was so good at it. And he had just started, just like your story. Same thing. And I was like, I'm not good at this. And I just realized, and I quit too. There are certain things I'm very good at.
Starting point is 00:19:24 And this just happens to be one of them. I found, you know, doubling down, tripling down on your strengths. Yeah, yeah. Thinking about I had a little band tune, God bless those parents that sat through and listened to those terrible, terrible sessions. You kind of like,
Starting point is 00:19:37 I was looking at this app the other day. They have this new app out called the Golden Racial. Do you go by that? The golden ratio. In general, as a facial surgeon, I don't like look at the golden ratio before I go into a room and say, okay, I'm going to create this. But what I do, the facial sculpting techniques and the surgical techniques that I do, we're sort of replicating that. And can you tell anyone that doesn't know what the golden ratio is? Can you kind of explain it?
Starting point is 00:20:03 The gold ratios, yeah, it's just a pattern that has been. I don't even think it's the words, I don't know what the right word, it's not discovered, but identified that is consistent with the best-looking faces in nature. And it's just the ratios between the proportions of the upper part of the face, the middle part of the face, and the lower part of the face. And you can put a number to it. Like there's certain percentages, a percentage distance that each eye should be from each other in relation to the ears and that type of thing.
Starting point is 00:20:32 So it's a pattern that has been identified that the most beautiful faces in the world have in common. So before I go to bed tonight, Michael, I want you to look at me straight in the eye and say, wow, Lauren, you have the golden ratio. I want to tell you where I first found you. And maybe Michael, I don't know if you know this. Before I let everyone know where I first heard about Dr. Diamond, I want to talk about my new Thrive Market Select page.
Starting point is 00:21:03 Okay. So I went through all of Thrive Market and added all my services. selects that are all TSC approved to this page. We went through the master list. We went through everything and found the top favorites. So you can expect a very TSC-esque page. One thing that I need to talk to you about that Michael and I are obsessed with right now is Annie's organic BBQ sauce.
Starting point is 00:21:28 It's a sweet and spicy barbecue sauce. That's how you say BBQ? You say barbecue. How do you say it? Barbecue. Okay. I say BBQ. Bbecue, okay.
Starting point is 00:21:36 You actually tricked me because then I said that's how you said, Babycue. So I made Michael this barbecue chicken cauliflower crust pizza. I got it off F F Factor. So it's full of fiber. And basically what you do is you make a cauliflower pizza crust and then you add your Annie's organic original barbecue sauce or BBQ. I got mine off Thrive Market.
Starting point is 00:21:58 This one has four grams of sugar or less, which we love. Then we added chicken breast on top, a little red onion, some shredded cheddar cheese, little mozzarella, and of course, fresh cilantro and tons and tons of lemon. Michael loved it. This is such a good recipe to make the kids because I feel like it tastes just like CPK's version. It was some damn good BBQ. It is some damn good BBQ. Anyways, on my page, you can find this barbecue sauce, as Michael would say, and a bunch of my other selects and you can just shop everything at once. And you guys know Thrive's been a sponsor of this show for a long time. We love it. It breaks down every type of diet, every type of item. If you need household
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Starting point is 00:23:24 saw Dr. Diamond, you know what I'm going to say, on Dr. 90210. Is that what it was called? Dr. 92010. Yeah, that was back in 2000. Like the television show? Yes. Okay. Yeah. So tell us about how you got there. So Dr. 1902 and O, okay, that was, I think the first year of Dr. 902 and O was, I think, 2002. They had their first season, and it was created by a plastic surgeon named Robert Ray. He was the guy who wore the cutoff sleeves and did all the karate and stuff. It was his idea. He's a very creative guy, and he came up with this idea to have this show, and it was a huge hit. I was not on it that first season.
Starting point is 00:24:00 Their first season was eight half-hour episodes. And it was this huge hit. So they got picked up for a second season, and they went, they got picked up, they went from eight half-hour episodes to 13 one-hour episodes. So they more than doubled their airtime. So they needed to add, quote-unquote, talent. I always laughed that people call me talent on these teams, but they had to add people. But you were actually a practicing doctor?
Starting point is 00:24:26 Yes. I had just started. I just started my practice. I was in practice for a year. I think I started my practice the same year that came out, maybe six months. before that show came out, I had just started. And so when they got picked up for their extra air time, they needed to add plastic surgeons to feature.
Starting point is 00:24:45 They needed to fill that time. And so they were looking for a woman, and they interviewed the 20 potential, you know, pretty, you know, camera-friendly female plastic surgeons that were in the Southern California area. And they liked Linda Lee, who has become a friend of mine, great doctor and great person. and they were looking for the quote unquote the hot shot up and comer that was the other role they wanted to fill and they interviewed the 20 or 30 people that were appropriate for that and they heard my name as one of those guys and they came and interviewed me and they liked me for that part and I got that I got that role and again the rest is history that's what is it like being a year
Starting point is 00:25:26 into your practice and being thrown on television in Beverly Hills and becoming like the hot plastic surgeon, I can only imagine your office has like a line up the door. They're like, this guy has the golden ratio. Yeah. Yeah. It was pretty crazy. And actually, it was quite interesting because at the time, it was a different time. I mean, it's crazy to think.
Starting point is 00:25:45 Like, I still feel like I'm, I still feel like I just moved to L.A., but yet I'm now like one of the old guys. Like, it's crazy to me that that was 20 years ago. Like, I'm no longer. So the reality is it's a whole different world now. And I feel so old. that it's just so weird to wrap my brain around that but it was a different time and at that time there was no social media marketing was considered extremely taboo at that time doctors
Starting point is 00:26:11 didn't market they didn't market marketing was considered taboo in the doctor's profession in the doctor profession if you marketed it was equivalent to the ambulance chasing lawyer if you marketed you were considered just a the bottom of the barrel the the bottom of the food chain if you marketed okay there were a few plastic surgeons that were marketing at the time and they were considered by the medical community bottom of the barrel they were just the low at the lowest of the low end that's what it was considered at the time and this show came out and it was a little different because it wasn't so much marketing it was a show but yet there was still a lot of taboo about being on the airwaves about doing this there were and you know because I wasn't on that first season but I heard all the doctors the
Starting point is 00:26:58 local doctors talk about it and they were like, you know, just taking every, but they were taking every shot they could at Robert Ray and the few doctors who had made appearances on it. It was all about him that first season, but there were cameos from other doctors, but every doctor in the community was taking shots at those guys trying to knock them down. And I'm sure there was a lot of jealousy involved too. And I was just getting started and getting the feel of the lay of the land. So I didn't really have much of an opinion on it. But there was one thing I knew. I knew that my mentors wouldn't approve of it. I knew that. because I learned from like, I spent a lot of time studying with the most famous top guys in the field for two years before I opened up my practice.
Starting point is 00:27:38 I just went, I traveled a lot and learned from the best to the best. So I was learning from these like old school, you know, purists, these, these old guys. And the thought of even, these guys wouldn't even have like their number listed in the phone book. I mean, this was like, you know, you did it. their thought was you do it all based on time and word of mouth and good work and reputation that's built from the ground up and that's how that's how it was done and these were the guys that I respected the most and these were my mentors so I knew they wouldn't approve number one that's going to be difficult because these are guys you look up to and at some level you want their approval and you
Starting point is 00:28:16 want them to be proud of you absolutely absolutely I wanted these guys I wanted their approval I wanted them to be proud of me and you know I wanted them yeah absolutely so I knew so I knew that. Number two, the other thing was, I knew my work would blow away anything that was seen in season one. I knew that too, because I, you know, look, Robert, Robert Ray starred this show, and he does a million breasts and he's great at those things, but he was doing some face stuff on that show, too, and he wasn't a face expert, and he'll be the first to tell you. I mean, he's referred me a million face things over the years, and I've referred him breast things, but he'll be the first to tell you he's not a face expert, but he was doing some facial things
Starting point is 00:28:54 and some of the other guys were doing some facial things, and here I was, I had the top techniques, and I was already getting great results. I knew my results would blow away anything that the airwaves have ever seen for facial work. I knew that, too. And so I was torn between do I, you know, upset my mentors and how I would feel about that versus having, like, show the world what really the top techniques could deliver.
Starting point is 00:29:24 And so what was the ultimate decision maker? Well, I knew that I knew that there would be a lot of good that came from being on there. I knew there'd be bad. I knew there were conflicting. There was pluses and minuses, but I believe that the pluses that weighed the minuses. But I had to convince my wife, she said, don't do it. My nurse at the time, who was my right-hand man, had been in the business for 25 years and worked with a lot of these top guys. And she was very influential on me and helped me start my prideus.
Starting point is 00:29:53 Both beautiful blondes, if I remember correctly. This nurse you hadn't met, she's already left, but she was beautiful too. She said absolutely not. So the two most important people to me at the time, as far as my business and my life, both said, absolutely not. You can't do this because they knew of the taboo. They knew that you weren't supposed to do this. But I said, you know what?
Starting point is 00:30:15 We're going to show the world what first-rate facial surgery is like and it's going to change everything. And I made that decision and we did it. And that's exactly what happened. And I think, like I like to tell people, we were sort of part of the revolution. Like before this show came out, I think most of the world thought plastic surgery was just for Hollywood celebrity, rich, famous Hollywood celebrities who didn't care to look weird. Like, everyone thought of Michael Jackson and Joan Rivers and all these craziness.
Starting point is 00:30:43 If you lived in Middle America, that's what you thought of plastic surgery. And I knew that we would be able to change that. And I think that we did. because now the rest of the country, this was a very popular show. It was seen, not only, I've seen like 150 countries, but all these viewers viewing this show saw these perfectly natural face results, these perfectly natural rhinoplasty results.
Starting point is 00:31:05 People look beautiful, but like themselves, undetectable type of work. And all of a sudden, I was getting emails from other plastic surgeons in the middle of the country thanking me. They were telling me their practices have blown up because now people are like, oh my God, you can get a natural, looking nose. It doesn't have to look like Michael Jackson knows. You can get a natural
Starting point is 00:31:24 facelift. I don't have to look like Joan Rivers. So I think it helped really make plastic surgery mainstream. I think our show really did that. And I think it helped other plastic surgeons worldwide. And I think it helped the population realize if something bothers them that affects their self-esteem negatively, that they can really have it fixed in a very safe, natural way that's going to benefit their life. And then social media comes in. And this is years after the showers, right? Social media came in. So when Dr. 902 and O was on the air, I became, when people start, all of a sudden,
Starting point is 00:32:01 it was so weird, people started recognizing me all over the place, airports, traveling. I mean, people started. So interestingly, at that time, maybe two or three years into Dr. 902 and O, Facebook had come out. I think MySpace was first, but I didn't use that. Then Facebook came out. And I remember, I would get, no joke, 20. 30 Facebook requests a day. And I didn't accept one of them.
Starting point is 00:32:24 I didn't do it for... Like friend requests or just people reaching out asking... People reaching out, friend requests, all... Like, I mean, on a daily basis, maybe more. It was just... It may have been hundreds. I don't know. It was tons of...
Starting point is 00:32:39 And I didn't do it. I just like, I don't need this stuff. And I just, I didn't do it for this one up for like three years. So, but that was becoming a thing. Probably whatever. You guys probably know as well as me. Face... I mean, we're probably talking 2007.
Starting point is 00:32:50 2006, 2007, somewhere in that range, and I didn't do it. But so I didn't get involved in social media because I was late, again, similar to my thought process on, you know, marketing is taboo. Even though I was on this show, I still am like an old school guy in that respect. And I was very late to the game in social media. So I didn't start doing Instagram, I think, until like two years ago. It was a lot of people were doing it. And a lot of plastic surgeons start hopped on that as well as the Facebook years ago well before I did it.
Starting point is 00:33:24 The thing that made me start Facebook, I mean start Instagram. I don't even do we, we do Facebook now, don't we? I don't even know. I've never seen our Facebook page. I think we have one, but Tammy runs it. Tammy, you're doing a great job. Incredible job. Tammy, you're killing it.
Starting point is 00:33:39 But I do look at the Instagram. I do check that. So I understand the importance of Instagram. I still don't even understand. Honestly, just show how stupid I am. I don't even understand what Facebook does. Like I know what Instagram is. I understand how to use it and what you get from it.
Starting point is 00:33:52 I've never looked at a Facebook page, not mine, not anyone. But you're delegating it. So you're outsourcing it. So it's still great. Right. It's still great. But the point is, so I digress. So I got sidetracked.
Starting point is 00:34:02 So I was in Dubai and I was seeing a very famous Dubai, like Middle Eastern person. She was on what Arabia has talent or Dubai. This person flies you out to Dubai? I was going to Dubai. I was going Dubai to take care of some people, to take care of some high in people. Yeah, Michael, he works. Don't you work some of the time in Dubai?
Starting point is 00:34:23 I don't, I mean, I've been there. I don't know how this works. We won't have to get into details about who it is, but some of the things say, hey, listen, Dr. Diamond, I need, we need to get out here. Yeah, Dubai is huge for plastic surgery. We're not coming over there, and then you're like, okay, and you pack up all your gear
Starting point is 00:34:36 and you head out and you got a whole facility set up. It's kind of how it worked. Like, we, you know, I had, based on the show in itself. No, people, people, yeah, people have sent planes before. So, for sure. Private planes? Yeah. Goal streams?
Starting point is 00:34:50 People have sent private planes, yes, yes. Yes, for long trips, yes. Fuck, I got in the wrong racket. Yes, yes. So, but because I had a big Middle Eastern following from being exposed on that show, because Dr. 90210, I aired in the Middle East, so a lot of these royalty knew who I was, and they wanted me to do their work. So a lot of them were coming here.
Starting point is 00:35:09 And, you know, L.A. is in the summertime, is one of the most highly traveled places by the Middle Eastern royalty. Now with the travel bands, and stuff. It's changed the last two years, but before that, there were tons of Middle East nurses who traveled here for their summer. So I was taking care of loads. And finally, enough people worked it out so I could go over there and help take care of them over there. So I was going over there from time to time. Let me ask you this. This is, we're digressing here, but you got to be careful with some of those royalty. I mean, if you, not that you would,
Starting point is 00:35:36 but if you screw up one of these jobs, you get a lot of trouble with some of these guys. Well, I don't screw around. I mean, I only do things that I know. And if I don't, home run every time. Yeah. And people will tell, like, I get, you know, unfortunately, I'm very honest with patients and that unfortunately sometimes upsets them. Like if I don't think I get a good result, I tell them. And I, you know, I don't, honestly, I haven't even looked at a Yelp page in three years. But I used to like every other one else, I'd stress every day what's on the Yelp, you know, and one back, and I don't even know what's on there now.
Starting point is 00:36:07 I don't even care to be honest with you. But at the time when I did, three years ago, there was someone who wrote a bad Yelp review on me because she said, Dr. Dime said I was too fat and wouldn't get a good result. I want, but I was being on it, and I never used the word fat. I wouldn't insult somebody, but I think, um, you have to set the expectation at a realistic level. I just said, look, you're not going to get what you want. I can't give you what you want because, you know, and I always tell people because
Starting point is 00:36:28 your anatomy is just not favorable and it's some, and I'm honest with people. And this lady wrote a terrible review that I was rude and mean. And I was like, look, I was just being honest and I'm honest with everybody. So unfortunately that upsets people from time to time, but I'll never do something in someone I don't think I get a great result on. So if I know I can get a good result, I'm going to get a good result. Okay, so you're out in Dubai with the Arabian princesses. Yeah, Michael.
Starting point is 00:36:47 I derailed. And it wasn't an area. This was a celebrity. This was the, like, the most popular judge on Dubai has talent or Arabia's got talent or one of those. She was a very, and she said to me, she's like, hey, I'll do an Instagram thing for you. What's your Instagram? And I'm like, this was like two years ago. I'm like, I don't have one.
Starting point is 00:37:04 And she's like, what? She's like, if I do this thing. She's like, at the time two years ago, she had like 20 million followers. She was like one of the biggest in the world at the time. What's it? This was five years ago. Oh, five years ago. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:37:17 Anyway, whatever it was. She had a bunch of followers at the time. And she's like, let me just put this out for you. And you'll get like, you'll be. And I said, I don't even have Instagram. So I called Tammy. I was in Dubai. I said, Tammy, this person and her name was Al Shemizi.
Starting point is 00:37:29 She's actually posted so I can say it. Al Shemizi, I think. And I'm like, she wants to post something. Do we have an Instagram? Tam's like, no, but I'll make one right now. So she made it right then and there. And she did a little something for us. And that's how it's how our Instagram started, however many years ago that was.
Starting point is 00:37:42 So it wasn't that long ago. And now you guys are utilizing it a lot. Has that helped with business? Yeah, now I do utilize it. Now I understand. So like I said, the world has changed. The world is totally changed. And now it's the way, it's just the way it works.
Starting point is 00:37:55 So even though our forefathers and the guy, my mentors would totally disapprove, sorry, it's the way the world. You've got to put your work out there for people to see. So yes, we use it a lot now. And fortunately, I've got a lot of influential people who trust my work. And they readily post for me because they want other people to have that same type of experience. So we use it a lot. and it's been very, very good.
Starting point is 00:38:17 What's the wildest request you've had? I mean, in terms of someone's like, I need you to come here, or I need you to come here. I'm trying to think of... Tammy, do you know? Oh, well, one... The craziest thing probably was, yeah, this was for an MTV show. I can't even remember the name of the show,
Starting point is 00:38:37 but they called and they said they had this guy who was a body modification guy, and he had every modification you could have. He had, you know, the huge earring stretched things. He had the full nose pierce all over the place. He had his tongue split down the middle. All these things I'd seen before. He had earrings in his eyelids.
Starting point is 00:38:54 Like that I'd never seen before. He had like metal balls implanted under his form. I'd never see. It was just nasty stuff. But he had something I'd never seen before. And that was horns implanted in his head. He had these horns implanted his head to look like a demon or a devil. And they were silicone horns that somebody put in in some basement.
Starting point is 00:39:14 And crazy enough, whoever put him in did a surgically skillful job. Like, I don't know if I could have put him in as well. It was done by some probably guy like him, some body modification guy in some basement. And he did the most skillful job ever. But the guy wanted him removed out because he wanted to start like normalizing his life.
Starting point is 00:39:34 So I went in surgically and I removed these silicone horns. And that was probably the craziest thing I ever did. The weirdest thing I'd ever did. But it worked and it made him look more normal. So that was kind of weird. I'm a people, people know me. I'm a very conservative type of surgeon. I go for very natural results.
Starting point is 00:39:54 I want people to look like themselves. So I typically don't get, people don't come to me for craziness. There are doctors who do craziness, and those doctors have those reputations, and they have those patients. I typically don't get those people. I get people who want to look just great and normal. So it's luckily for me, it's not often someone comes in. and ask for crazy stuff because it's not my niche and I don't like to do it.
Starting point is 00:40:19 And whenever I get stuff like that, we usually send it away. What are some trends that you're seeing right now? Like how is social media, obviously Kylie Jenner, Kim Kardashian, they're sort of changing the conversation. I feel like what are trends that you see people coming in for more and more? Yeah. So, yeah, there are those, man, the Kardashians, they're just amazing family and they are in the forefront of beauty and fashion.
Starting point is 00:40:39 And I mean, they are influencers and they deserve every bit of every accolated and every reward they've ever had they deserve because they're just they're there's an awesome group of people and they're generous and they're smart and they're they're knowledgeable and they're just they're just awesome so um they have influenced the world they really have and um and it's amazing to be a part of that uh i think the one of the biggest things i've seen is people embracing that they can make changes younger um people don't now know now know that they don't need to wait till they're 60 to dress something that bothers them. If something bothers them when they're in their 20s, 30s, then it's okay to have that addressed. And I make the analogy to everybody. To me,
Starting point is 00:41:25 people often ask, well, isn't it vain or isn't it, you know, shouldn't you accept what God gave you? Well, my answer to that is, right now as we speak, what would be our guess is to how many people are in a gym right now worldwide? A billion? Right now, there's probably a billion people exercising somewhere, at minimum, maybe more. And why are they exercising? They're exercising to, what reduce a fat, to get a six-pack, to slim out their thighs, to improve their biceps, whatever the reason is. And that's because people want to improve their self-esteem and want to feel better about themselves.
Starting point is 00:41:56 Well, the face, you can't exercise away. You can't exercise to make those types of changes. So what's the difference between exercising to get a six-pack or doing a little filler to to your chin to create a better chin shape and improve the weakness that you have, right? To me, it's the same exact principle and the same concept. So I think that what the Kardashians are a big part of making people realize, like, you can improve things at any age. If it bothers you, that you can improve it. And so I think that's the biggest change that I've seen is people coming in and understanding that coming in at younger ages to address things that bother them.
Starting point is 00:42:29 The biggest thing for me, and I think that this is, if there's a takeaway from me, and what it makes me happy is that we're, I think we're getting to a place where if somebody wants to do something, people are supportive. Like, okay, you do you. If that makes you happy, if you feel more confident, then do it. I hope that we're getting away from a place of society where it's like this person did that and then everyone jumps on to judge them and puts them down like I think that's a very unhealthy space and you wouldn't you're right you wouldn't do that to somebody who's in the gym trying to improve in that area I mean something you may be somebody that you know your nose doesn't bother you so you don't think about it but if someone's nose they look at it every day in the mirror and saying I don't like the nose that I was given like they should have the right to go and get something done and that should be their sole decision it shouldn't it should have nothing to do with anyone else thinks I don't know why anyone cares what anyone else does well for a lot of long time it was really taboo right like you do something and people would you know you'd be in the news or if you're a famous person or if you did something and your group of friends found out they would talk everybody has to talk about and I just think like that's really unhealthy as a society because who really cares I mean listen there's the extreme examples where people maybe take it too far and I'm sure you've
Starting point is 00:43:28 seen a lot of that where it's like well slow down you're you're you're going over the edge but for somebody that just wants to make a minor change to feel more confident I don't think there's anything wrong with it and there's definitely and what you say I agree with you 100% the one the one the one exception to that is somebody who's not psychologically sound and there's a there's a you know most people by now have heard of body dysmorphic disorder but that's where somebody doesn't see themselves appropriately they see something that other people don't see and they obsess on fixate on certain things and those people will have a hundred procedures to that's a different story those people need psychological help not surgical help and so that's the only caveat happens if someone like that comes in to see you
Starting point is 00:44:07 Yeah, and I do see, I'd say I probably see a person a month like that maybe, and I'll just, and I just tell them, listen, I don't think I can help you. And I'll, as gently as I can say, you know, there's, you know, try to point them in the direction of maybe seeking psychological help for, you know, obsessing on certain things. And some people will accept that and other people will get upset that I, you know, talk to them about that. But I'm not going to do anything that's not going to help somebody. And so that's the only exception. But other than that, normal people, hey, this bump on my nose affects my self-esteem. I don't like my pictures.
Starting point is 00:44:40 To have that fixed, to me is as honest and appropriate as going to the gym to get in shape. I know that you specialize in the face, but how are you seeing a lot of BBLs? I feel like I'm seeing that everywhere. What the hell is a BBL? Brazilian butt lift. So, right. So I don't do that type of work, but I do have people ask quite often who they should go to for that. So it's definitely something that's out there.
Starting point is 00:45:07 from what I have been told, it's decreasing in its popularity a little recently. And maybe those fashion icons who make that popular have now gone a different direction and what they're saying about it. I'm not sure because I don't do that work. But certainly it's a very popular thing. And people ask all the time. So I refer them to someone who I know does good work in that regard. Okay.
Starting point is 00:45:30 So if someone comes in to you for your face, what would you recommend that they need to do? Do they just come in and talk with you? Do they need like a checklist? If someone maybe can't have access to you and there may be in Minnesota, is there a list that they should ask their doctor before they get anything done? I guess if you were giving advice to your daughter, what would you tell her before seeing someone that specializes in the face? Yeah, so for me, I tell everybody, anything I do is predicated on an exam.
Starting point is 00:45:59 I got to see you first. Now, we take care of probably half of my practice comes from outside of L.A. probably 50% of the people I see from different countries, different states. So we have a lot of people who we will Skype with first and we'll do a full Skype exam. And I'll spend as much time as I can evaluating them that way. But I tell them all, listen, what I see on Skype, I think you're a good candidate for these things. But there's a chance you get here. And when I put my hands on your face, I tell you, you know what?
Starting point is 00:46:26 I don't think I can give you what I thought I can give you. So I tell everybody with that caveat that you may get here and I may turn you down. But Skype, I would say if I had to put a number on it, is probably 85% accurate. I'm probably accurate 85% of the time, meaning my hands will feel what I think they're going to feel based on the Skype. But I won't do anything without examining that person first and talking to them first. If the leader of North Korea wants to fly you out to examine his face, what would you tell him first? What's his preliminary exam? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:46:55 What type of plane does the leader of North Korea need to send? Has to be something nice to go there. To go there? Yeah, I'd have to bring Dennis Rodman with me because I know I'm safe then. I heard that guy throw some wild parties over there. I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it at all. So if someone's going, if someone's listening, like I said, and they want to, they can't go to you, what kind of checklist should they ask their doctor?
Starting point is 00:47:19 Should they ask anything? Obviously board certified, right? Is that how you call it? Yeah, so, so basically the question you're asking is how do you find someone who's appropriate for you? Like you. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I think it's important to find somebody who's board certified.
Starting point is 00:47:35 in their specialty. And this world, again, it's, it always surprises me that the public at large still doesn't understand what board certification is. There's all kinds of perversions of that term that aren't real. So the real board certifications for facial surgery, there are really two specialties that can be board certified to do facial work. a board certified plastic surgeon and a board certified facial plastic surgeon. And I would, if it were me and I'm informing somebody, I would have them understand what
Starting point is 00:48:16 those two terms mean if you just do a quick Google search. Because those are the two specialties where you are truly recognized as a board certified specialist, meaning you've passed the appropriate exams, you've met all the requirements for understanding the facial anatomy. So what does that leave? that leaves a whole bunch of other specialties that are not the same, but they use sexy terms like board certified cosmetic surgeon. Board certified cosmetic surgery is different.
Starting point is 00:48:46 It's not to say there can't be good board certified cosmetic surgeons, but it's not the same thing. You don't have to have the same qualifications. It can be people outside of different specialties. I mean, you know, OBGYNs can be board certified cosmetic surgeons, all different kinds of different specialties. So my recommendation would be to see a board-certified facial plastic surgeon or board-certified plastic surgeon to have your facial work done.
Starting point is 00:49:14 That would be my first recommendation. And I just wouldn't veer outside that. You take on, you just hear about it. That's the best I can say about it. But I think at this point, the buyer has to do some of their own work. They've got to take responsibility for their decision. decisions to some degree and understand really what the training is of who it is that they're seeing. It just becomes because somebody advertises a certain way, doesn't mean that they have
Starting point is 00:49:42 the, this, the skillful training to give you the best results possible. But board certified plastic surgeons, board certified facial plastic surgeons are the appropriate specialties to see for your facial work. Okay. Okay. If someone's in LA and they want to come to you, what are some procedures that you really specialize in? So the most common procedures that I perform are facelifts, rhinoplasties. I'm coming to you, I told you, and when I get older for a face lift. In 20 years, yeah, yeah, maybe 30 for you.
Starting point is 00:50:12 30, okay, yeah, yeah, maybe 30. Maybe next week for me. Sorry, go ahead. So probably the most common surgeries I perform would be, you know, facial rejuvenation surgeries, which include just making people look more youthful. That's tightening the neck and jaw line with facelifts, necklifts, noses, rhinoplasties, reshaping the nose.
Starting point is 00:50:31 Those are probably the most common surgeries that I perform. Probably one of our signature things, and I have people come from all of the world for those things. One of the signature things that I perform that is a unique procedure that is unique to our practice. It's called the Diamond Tripartite procedure, and that is my way of using customized facial implants where I actually get CT scans of the face
Starting point is 00:50:58 and create implants that are customized. to an individual and combining that with some deep lasering and some deep muscle tightening to create the most contour and the most chiseled appearance that I can give for somebody. Symmetry for the face. Symmetry for the face. Sculpting for the face. Now we do it non-surgically as well, but this is the surgical. So there's a surgical tripartite and a non-surgical tripartite.
Starting point is 00:51:25 But the surgical tripartite is the most powerful way there is for like a, you know, a 35 year old to say I need a more, I'm just, don't have the, I want the Brad Pitt neck and jawline. And it's the most powerful way to do that. And it's scarless. There's no, it's not a facelift. A facelift is a different thing. That's tightening the muscles and tightening the skin. Here we're talking about enhancing and sculpting the facial structure. So it's very powerful. It's one of my favorite things to do. And we do it surgically and non-surgically. Surgically is, of course, a permanent, significant change. Non-surgically, we do it in the office with what we call a diamond facial sculpting.
Starting point is 00:52:03 It's my non-surgical way to enhance and sculpt the face. So those would be my unique sort of signature procedures. And so that combined with facelifts and rhinoplasties would probably be the most common things that I do. Going back to the beginning, your buddy that had face trauma, how much of your practice now, if any, deals with trauma, someone that's been in like some kind of terrible accident or got their face matched in. And then obviously the, I don't want to, not vanity, but for aesthetics. So how much, somebody come to you and say, hey, this guy was just in a really bad accident and we need to fix his face. Like, how often do you see that now?
Starting point is 00:52:41 That's a great question. I don't see as much reconstructive work anymore for facial fractures. And the reason is because that usually requires a university setting. Okay. And once you get into private practice the way I am, we're just not involved. with the universities anymore. And so I don't do much of that anymore. I still do nasal reconstructions.
Starting point is 00:53:01 People have had their nose broken badly or, you know, that kind of thing, because that doesn't require as much of the university situation. So I still do that. People bring you into consult ever? I will get people to ask just from, you know, if they're going to do something, what I think cosmetically would make sense from a balance standpoint, even though I'm not going to do the procedure. So, you know, I used to do a lot of that, but I don't really anymore.
Starting point is 00:53:23 You did Chris Jenner's ears on keeping up. with the Kardashians. So you just cut the lobe off the ear. I just reshape the earlobe. Yeah, there's certain techniques to reshape in earlobe. After certain procedures or with aging, the earlobes can get a little funky looking or a little wonky looking or a little just aged looking. I'll be checking your earlobes tonight to see if you need that.
Starting point is 00:53:44 Yeah, there are methods to reshape that. So, yeah, so we did that for Chris. And I can say that just, I can only talk about what was aired. What, you know, I can only talk about what people posed and what people air. And that's what we, yeah. So that's what we did. What is a book, a resource, a podcast, anything that you would recommend to our audience? Maybe they're out there.
Starting point is 00:54:02 They're listening. They're hustlers. Some of them are working nine to five. Some of them are entrepreneurs. What's something that you really, really like that set the tone of your life? Could be a book, podcast, movie, TV show. That's really a good question. And it doesn't have to be so, like it could be anything.
Starting point is 00:54:20 Like even something like lighthearted. Well, my, well, my favorite. I think my favorite poem would be Lord Alfred Tennyson's story about Ulysses, and it starts to strive to seek to find and not to yield. That's how Ulysses tries to amp up his troops that are going to go on a long, dangerous, glorious, potentially expedition. and the warrior king, that's how he, that's how he start to strive to seek to find and not to yield. And I've always loved that. That amps, meaning like, just keep you say it in your head. You never stop.
Starting point is 00:55:06 And that's how, that's my mindset of how I've always been. I will, even to this day, I will just not stop trying to become better, trying, striving for perfection. Just I won't stop trying to learn and get better. And that's just the way I am. Even that's how I started in med school. It's how I went through residency. It's how I was in the beginning of my career. And it's even what drives me to this day, that type of mindset.
Starting point is 00:55:32 And it's one of the things I think has led me to rise to the place that I've gotten to because I think like that. That's how my brain works. Dr. Diamond, you are amazing. Thank you so much for coming on. That was so informative. Where can everyone find you, pimp yourself out? Give us your Instagram handle, your website, where they can both? everything.
Starting point is 00:55:53 Instagram is, I got to ask with Taney, what is it? Dr. Jason Diamond. Dr. Jason Diamond. That's DR. Jason Diamond. Our website is
Starting point is 00:56:01 www. www. Jason B. Diamond.com and we're in Beverly Hills. And you have to promise me that if
Starting point is 00:56:09 the leader of North Korea flies you out there that I can come, I don't offer this to most people. I'll hold your gear. We'll bring Rodman. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:56:16 we'll go see some of those wild boat parties that guy's thrown. Yeah, I'm in. I'm in. Yeah, I can make that guy a lot better.
Starting point is 00:56:20 Once he listens to this episode, But then we'll go back around with him. And I would do the diamond tripartite on him. It'd be amazing. Thank you so much for coming on. You're welcome. You're welcome. My old guitar.
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