Love Your Body, Eat for Glow, and an Easy Way to Make Your World More Inclusive

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The goop Beauty Closet Questionnaire: Koya Webb

The Beauty Closet Questionnaire

Love Your Body, Eat for Glow, and an Easy Way to Make Your World More Inclusive

Jean Godfrey-June Megan O'Neill

goop beauty editors Jean Godfrey-June and Megan O’Neill love to ask—and answer—questions. On their
podcast, The Beauty Closet, they’re doing both. To
familiarize you with each week’s guest, we came up with a goop beauty (and
life) questionnaire.

THIS WEEK WE’RE TALKING TO:

Koya Webb, spiritual health and wellness educator, host of the Get Loved Up podcast, and author of Let Your Fears Make You Fierce

Listen to Koya Webb and you walk away with a revived confidence in yourself, your body, your love
life, and even your ability to kill it at work. On the latest episode of The Beauty Closet, the life
coach, motivational speaker, and yogi talks about how not to freeze when someone says something
insulting or offensive (the freeze—we know it well), the best foods for glowing skin, the difference between
healthy weight loss and disordered eating, and navigating the overwhelmingly White wellness space as a person of
color. Webb’s evolution from top athlete to model to wellness guru involved personal struggles with depression
and body image, and she uses that perspective in her work with clients to powerful effect. She’s one of the most
inspiring, genuinely enlightening people we know, and this conversation is as joyful and actionable as it gets.

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“Every day, start by trying to notice how skin color, socioeconomic status, or gender might subtly
impact how you treat someone,” she says. “Make a friend of a different culture—not forcefully, but really try to
get to know them.” Whether it’s how we can personally help make the world more inclusive, prevent insecurities
(body or otherwise), or use exercise and breathwork to get through something difficult, Webb’s advice is some of the most useful we’ve ever gotten. We managed to wedge in a little more by sending her the goop beauty
questionnaire.

First job?

Selling homemade pound cakes.

Mentor?

Motivational speaker and founder of Motivating the Masses Lisa Nicoles.

Blow-dry or air-dry?

Blow-dry a bit, then air-dry.

  1. goop pick


  2. Harry Josh Pro Dryer 2000

    Harry Josh
    Pro Dryer 2000
    goop, $249

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Best great-hair trick?

Wearing my hair like this in sisterlocks—tiny dreadlocks.

Favorite yoga pose for stress?

Child’s pose.

Wouldn’t leave home without?

Beautycounter lip gloss.


  1. Beautycounter Lip Gloss

    Beautycounter
    Lip Gloss
    goop, $29

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Lipstick or lip balm?

Lipstick, blot it off, then gloss forever.

  1. goop pick


  2. Westman Atelier Lip Suede

    Westman Atelier
    Lip Suede
    goop, $85

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Face oil or face cream?

Oil, except when filming.

  1. goop pick


  2. Vintner’s Daughter Active Botanical Serum

    Vintner’s Daughter
    Active Botanical
    Serum

    goop, $185

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Go-to weeknight recipe?

Banza pasta with spinach and marinara sauce.

Favorite vegan restaurant?

SunCafe in LA.

Best meditation app?

Insight Timer.

Proudest moment?

Writing my first book, Let Your Fears Make You Fierce.

Best yoga mat?

Liforme.

How often do you recharge your crystals?

Every full moon, under the stars.

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