In this episode of Stacy Phillips & Friends, Stacy sits down with co-host Jade Nikolaou and the incomparable Tai Beauchamp — wellness visionary, former beauty director at 17 Magazine (yes, at just 25 years old), and the woman behind the Morning Mindset with Tai platform. What starts as a conversation about Tai's dazzling media career quickly unfolds into something much more personal: a candid, warm, and genuinely funny exploration of burnout, spiritual awakening, self-trust, and what it actually means to stop doing and start being.Tai has had bylines at Oprah Magazine, Essence, Good H...
In this episode of Stacy Phillips & Friends, Stacy sits down with co-host Jade Nikolaou and the incomparable Tai Beauchamp — wellness visionary, former beauty director at 17 Magazine (yes, at just 25 years old), and the woman behind the Morning Mindset with Tai platform. What starts as a conversation about Tai's dazzling media career quickly unfolds into something much more personal: a candid, warm, and genuinely funny exploration of burnout, spiritual awakening, self-trust, and what it actually means to stop doing and start being.
Tai has had bylines at Oprah Magazine, Essence, Good Housekeeping, and Harper's Bazaar — but she'll be the first to tell you that all that striving came with a cost. She's burned out more than once, exited a beauty brand she founded, and made a seven-and-a-half-week solo trip to Bali to figure out what came next. Spoiler: what came next is pretty great — including a new TV show she's set to host and produce, a Bali retreat she's leading in April 2026, and "her person" who slid into her DMs (87% women followers and somehow he found her — universe at work).
This episode is also a masterclass in Stacy and Jade being their fully unfiltered, wonderfully relatable selves — debating what to call your partner when "boyfriend" sounds too high school, confessing their love for Hallmark movies, and connecting over the shared struggle of being type-A women learning to trust their gut and let go of the shoulds.
It's the kind of conversation you want to have with your most inspiring friend over a really good glass of something. Pull up a chair.
✨ EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
- From 17 Magazine to Morning Mindset — Tai's unexpected path from beauty media powerhouse to wellness trailblazer
- What "transformational wellness" actually means (hint: it's about way more than green juice and gym selfies)
- Burnout as a blazing trail and why Tai says "if you're blazing trails, there's going to be some fire"
- The seven-and-a-half-week Bali trip that changed everything
- The "shoulds" that keep women stuck — and how to start honoring what you actually need
- Jade's Bali moment with a spiritual teacher who told her: "You're not going to find peace because you don't want it"
- Stacy on trusting your gut and the courtroom story that proved her right all over again
- What's coming next for Tai: a new TV show, the Bali retreat, and a life lived more intentionally
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🕒 TIMESTAMPS
00:00 — Stacy and Jade introduce Tai
01:35 — Tai on being a girl's girl and why she's in a different season now
02:38 — Why Tai exited her beauty brand for transformational wellness
03:20 — What transformational wellness actually means — all 8 dimensions
06:06 — The power of just being — plus Tai's new TV show
06:47 — Why women carry everyone's emotions (and do 97 million things a day)
07:39 — What do you even call your person when "boyfriend" sounds like high school?
09:52 — What Stacy actually loved about the Golden Bachelor
10:33 — Burnout as a blazing trail — Tai on burning out at 26
12:36 — Non-linear paths, burnout, and why social media makes it worse
13:46 — Stacy on the shoulds — and how she was raised by them
14:47 — Hallmark movies as self-care — true confessions
15:32 — How Tai met her person (he slid into her DMs)
16:33 — Why Stacy closed her firm and joined Blank Rome after 26 years
19:35 — Living in a world of chaos — and the only real antidote
20:44 — Jade's Bali trip and the spiritual teacher who told her the hard truth
21:58 — Tai's seven-and-a-half-week Bali trip — that started as three weeks
23:25 — Tai's April 2026 Bali retreat: Unleashed — Wellness and the Writer Within
25:29 — Jade on resetting in Thailand — beach cleanup, elephants, and finding calm
25:47 — Why "reset" has "rest" hiding inside it
27:22 — Trusting your instincts — a courtroom story and a Mother Teresa quote
30:31 — Why women don't trust themselves enough to act on what they already know
31:39 — The perimenopause awakening — and learning to trust yourself
