{"podcast":{"title":"Wellness Unfiltered Pod","slug":"wellness-unfiltered-pod-7782228","podcast_index_feed_id":7782228,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/8144069.rss","website_url":"https://wellnessunfilteredpod.substack.com/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/8144069/d182053910a9100b8ac94c82011c5ccb.jpg","author":"Lee Holmes","episode_count":10,"summary":"WELCOME to Wellness Unfiltered! 🎙️ Lee Holmes and Irene Falcone bring you real, raw, and refreshingly honest chats about wellness, minus the woo-woo. We’re here to keep wellness human, hilarious, and totally unfiltered.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wellness-unfiltered-pod-7782228"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 7: Carol's MKR Confessions, Geisha Beauty Secrets, the Perimenopause Toolkit & Justin's Snoring That Registered on the Richter Scale 🎙️","slug":"episode-7-carol-s-mkr-confessions-geisha-beauty-secrets-the-perimenopause-toolkit-justin-s-snoring-that-registered-on-the-richter-scale","published_at":"2026-05-05T08:13:37+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wellness-unfiltered-pod-7782228/episode-7-carol-s-mkr-confessions-geisha-beauty-secrets-the-perimenopause-toolkit-justin-s-snoring-that-registered-on-the-richter-scale","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wellness-unfiltered-pod-7782228","url":"https://wellnessunfilteredpod.substack.com/p/carols-mkr-confessions-geisha-beauty","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196514721/58bfa5fc6832b8dbfe323d9cf0a2cc4c.mp3","summary":"Hosts Lee Holmes and Irene Falcone are joined by Carol Molloy , a Japanese-Australian food extraordinaire, MKR contestant, and architect of unforgettable Japan food tours, for a conversation that roams from the secrets of geisha skincare to the gut-healing magic of soba noodles. Then Justin finally admits he snores loud enough to register on the Richter scale, Natalie checks in from the perimenopausal shapeshifting zone, and Lee delivers an acupuncture rave that will have you booking an appointment before the credits roll. Get ready for MKR behind-the-scenes gossip, a 15-minute Japanese weeknight dinner that will change your life, the truth about what geishas actually invented in beauty, and the perimenopause toolkit that no one tells you about; from flaxseed and creatine to magnesium baths and why your sleep is the most important lever you can pull. ✨ In this episode we chat about: 🍽️ What’s Popping: Meet Carol; Food, Japan & the MKR Confessional (00:00) • Fifteen Years, One Road, One Cabin: Lee and Carol go back over 15 years, teaching yoga together, and then somehow ending up across the road from each other in a sea-side location. Irene meets Carol for the very first time, live on air. • Food Is Love: Carol’s philosophy, shaped by a mum who is a brilliant Japanese cook and a dad with MS who meant the family always entertained at home. Cooking for people is Carol’s love language in its purest form. • The MKR Truth: Is it real? Is it staged? Carol delivers the unvarnished answer. Producers do nudge things in a direction, but everyone cooks their own food and says what they actually think. It is reality TV not scripted, not entirely real life ;). • The Raspberry Cheesecake Incident: Carol made two beautiful cheesecakes and forgot the raspberries. Adam sprinted to Coles…","meta_description":"Hosts Lee Holmes and Irene Falcone are joined by Carol Molloy , a Japanese-Australian food extraordinaire, MKR contestant, and architect of unforgettable…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3929,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wellness-unfiltered-pod-7782228/episodes/episode-7-carol-s-mkr-confessions-geisha-beauty-secrets-the-perimenopause-toolkit-justin-s-snoring-that-registered-on-the-richter-scale/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wellness-unfiltered-pod-7782228/episode-7-carol-s-mkr-confessions-geisha-beauty-secrets-the-perimenopause-toolkit-justin-s-snoring-that-registered-on-the-richter-scale.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}