EPISODE SUMMARY:
This episode gives your audience hope, creativity, healing, and empowerment — all through the unlikely but powerful intersection of fashion, science, and memory.
In this inspiring episode of Frank About Health, fashion disruptor Lacie Cupani joins memory expert Vicki Mizel for a transformative conversation on how science, style, and healing intersect. Lacie shares her journey from medical research to creating Cupani Fashions, where her surgical precision, innovative stitch techniques, and energy-based use of color bring emotional uplift and empowerment to her models. As she competes for the Style Icon title to launch a 2026 global fashion show benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation, Lacie highlights the importance of diversity, inclusion, and fashion as advocacy for HIV awareness. Vicki complements this mission with her Brain Sprouts™ Memory Program, revealing how creativity, emotional engagement, and positive energy strengthen cognitive resilience. Together, they offer a powerful vision of how fashion and memory can heal, inspire, and ignite global change.
Lacie Cupani:
Website: www.cmgworldwidefashionweeks.com/cupani-fashion.html
Facebook: www.facebook.com/lacie.cupani/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/cupanifashion/?hl=en
Vote For Lacie Cupani for 2026 Style Icon: styleicon.org/2025/lacie-cupani
Vicki Mizel:
Website: vickimizel.com/
Brain Sprouts Memory Program: www.brainsproutsmemory.com/
LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/vickimizel/
Check out Vicki Mizel at: https://iremembervicki.com/
Frank opens this episode of Frank About Health by introducing Vicki Meisel and Lacey Kupani. He explains that the episode will focus on healing and memory through Brain Sprouts, as well as Lacey's medical background and her involvement with Elton John's AIDS Foundation. Frank mentions that viewers can vote for Lacey to become the 2026 style icon, as she is currently in first place in the semifinals. The episode aims to discuss challenges and issues in health and life, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Vicki opens the second segment by sharing her personal journey from teaching to acting, highlighting how her BrainSprouts memory program strengthened her neuroplasticity and led to newfound creativity. She emphasizes the importance of embracing one's passions and breaking free from societal expectations, drawing parallels to Lacey's journey in fashion design. Vicki discusses how healing past traumas and accessing childhood memories can empower individuals to pursue their true calling, using examples from her own life and her work with clients.
The thirds segment begins with Vicki sharing her personal journey of following her mother's advice to be happy by pursuing her passions, which led her to become a teacher, speaker, and actor. Lacey ends the third segment by discussing the timing of artistic inspiration, comparing it to a divine language that emerges when needed.
In the closing segment Lacey begins by discussing her passion for fashion and diversity, emphasizing the importance of unique expressions and freedom in art. She shares her journey from a medical background to becoming a fashion designer, highlighting how her experiences have shaped her creative process. She goes on to explain her stitching techniques and the benefits of hand activities for brain health, particularly for older adults. Additionally, she talks about her participation in the Elton John AIDS Foundation's style icon competition, where she is a semifinalist, and her plans to use the competition as a platform for fundraising and promoting HIV prevention efforts.
00:00:51.270 --> 00:01:05.210 Frank R. Harrison: Hey everybody, and welcome to a very powerful episode of Frank About Health. I know it's been a while since I've seen you all. It is today, December 4th, 2025. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
00:01:05.209 --> 00:01:17.080 Frank R. Harrison: I bring two voices of disruption, but one of which you've already seen before. That is Vicki Meisel, and she and I were here talking about her powerful program, Brain Sprouts.
00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:19.990 Frank R. Harrison: Healing, or a brain spouts memory?
00:01:20.520 --> 00:01:27.159 Vicki Mizel: It… you know, it's Brain Sprout's memory, but it is Brain Sprout's healing, because
00:01:27.260 --> 00:01:45.119 Vicki Mizel: You can actually use the system to change the pictures in your mind, and heal trauma, you know, help anxiety, help nervousness, and to be able to use pictures to help you feel vibrant, alive, focused, able.
00:01:45.730 --> 00:01:52.390 Frank R. Harrison: And then we also bring Lacey Kupani, a innovator, fashion designer.
00:01:52.590 --> 00:02:08.239 Frank R. Harrison: medical historian, more on that later, and at the same time, someone that both myself and Vicki had the chance to see at New York City's Fashion Week on September 13th, 2025, and at that particular show.
00:02:08.410 --> 00:02:27.259 Frank R. Harrison: I learned all about her medical background, which you're gonna learn about today, and at the same time, she and I were discussing about the future involving Elton John's AIDS Foundation, which is the big win that I think that this particular episode will manifest.
00:02:27.350 --> 00:02:40.120 Frank R. Harrison: how your brain sprouts advocacy and opportunity in 2026. So I'm very excited, because you'll have a chance out there, if you're watching on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, or Twitch.
00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:47.379 Frank R. Harrison: to vote for Lacey Kupani to become the 2026 style icon. Currently, she's in first place in the semifinals.
00:02:47.470 --> 00:02:55.259 Frank R. Harrison: And we'll talk more about that later as well. So therefore, I think I'll give both an official episode to the title.
00:02:55.610 --> 00:03:00.889 Frank R. Harrison: Fashioning the Future of Healing with Lacey Kupani and Vicki Meisel.
00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:02.350 Frank R. Harrison: However.
00:03:02.760 --> 00:03:14.099 Frank R. Harrison: I don't think I really need to issue a disclaimer, because we're not going to talk about anything that could be considered controversial in nature. We're going to be talking about how when you are dealing with challenges.
00:03:14.110 --> 00:03:23.670 Frank R. Harrison: and issues in your health and in your life, you're doing something about it. That's been my mission with this disruptor campaign that began back in September.
00:03:23.880 --> 00:03:27.569 Frank R. Harrison: Now, that being said, the only disclaimer is I hope you enjoy the show.
00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:30.330 Frank R. Harrison: Alright? That all being said.
00:03:30.830 --> 00:03:43.950 Frank R. Harrison: I know, Vicki, we will definitely feature you with Lacey, talking about a very important issue in our society today, diversity, equity, and inclusion. But for the first segment, let's go right into Lacey Kupani's background.
00:03:43.990 --> 00:03:57.249 Frank R. Harrison: I have a lot to say, but Lacey, I give the floor to you to completely tell us everything you want us to know about your history, your medical background. You'll have to unmute first, but when you do, the floor is yours.
00:03:58.300 --> 00:04:01.440 Frank R. Harrison: And welcome both of you, to Frank About Health.
00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:05.870 Vicki Mizel: There you go.
00:04:06.150 --> 00:04:06.630 Frank R. Harrison: Yeah.
00:04:06.630 --> 00:04:09.240 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Yeah, did I mute? Hi, everyone.
00:04:09.820 --> 00:04:21.209 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Hi, I'm Lacey Kupani, and my company is Kupani Fashion, so that I register here in the United States in 2013.
00:04:21.209 --> 00:04:29.829 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: But by my… my background, I was medical doctor in the field of transplantology.
00:04:29.860 --> 00:04:47.730 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And I was selecting identical donors for blood transfusions, bone marrow, organ transplants, and tissue transplants, so that I work in this field, particularly, like, 10 years. And then I wrote grant.
00:04:47.790 --> 00:04:51.799 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Because also, at the same time, I was doing my PhD,
00:04:51.920 --> 00:05:08.129 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: In the field of the human immunogenetics. So, I learned about the different genes that are predispose in people to tuberculosis and developing drug resistancy. So, in…
00:05:09.220 --> 00:05:21.300 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: 1998… no, 1997, I wrote Grant, because I went for my PhD defense, I had all my package, and one day I saw a newspaper that
00:05:21.300 --> 00:05:32.000 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: University of Walt inviting women who would like to continue their studies as postdoctoral, so I applied, and I wrote grant about
00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:33.339 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: If…
00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:52.070 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: any people who has already particular genes that make them susceptible to tuberculosis, whether they're developing drug resistance or not. So, this was my grant that I applied, and after 1 year, I received… after 9 months, actually, I received a letter
00:05:52.070 --> 00:06:10.650 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: that I was invited to do universe… my, basically, research at prestigious university of Japan, such as University of Tokyo in Japan. So, and where I spent my two years, and I did research
00:06:10.650 --> 00:06:29.640 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And later on, I was invited by Polytechnic NYU, and I came to United States. So, I was with Polytechnic NYU, I was 5 years, doing special research on the DOD project, biosensor development for detection of bacteria.
00:06:29.640 --> 00:06:37.319 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Later on, my professor told that I have to look for some kind of continuation, my job.
00:06:37.320 --> 00:06:52.020 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: at other levels, so I applied… I was starting to search some positions, like assistant professor, so I was invited by Ohio State University, Scripps Research Institute for a job interview.
00:06:52.020 --> 00:07:04.929 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And you learn. So here in Arkansas, this is how I ended up in the state of Arkansas. In 2005, I got job offer, and I become assistant professor.
00:07:04.930 --> 00:07:24.519 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: at University of Arkansas at Little Rock. So I was teaching microbiology, immunology, tissue engineering, so basically, and also I was doing research in immunogenetics and the field of vaccine and immunotherapeutics development.
00:07:24.540 --> 00:07:27.300 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I have an American patent.
00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:33.430 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: for vaccine development. So, but then, in one day.
00:07:33.640 --> 00:07:41.040 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, my life changed. So, in 2013, I registered my Kopani fashion.
00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:58.610 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Kupani fashion that I really love it, because it helped me to express myself. I like to design, and my first dress, actually, I did from the dress of my mom when I was 7 years old, so I cut it her wedding dress, and I designed 3 dresses.
00:07:58.610 --> 00:08:09.470 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And we were, like, dancing whole evening. No, the whole day. In the evening, mom came, and she figured out that I destroyed her dress. So, they…
00:08:10.190 --> 00:08:28.279 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So I got punished, little bit, you know, like, my father said that I have to ask forgiveness from my mom, but I was talking about that. I did not feel that I did something bad, because I was so proud this was my first dress when I was 7 years old.
00:08:29.650 --> 00:08:52.519 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, my mom want me to be a medical doctor, so I graduated medical academy, so I get my PhD in immunogenetics and immunology and microbiology and infectious diseases. So, I got my postdoctoral studies, but after so many years, even as a tenured associate professor, I came back to something that I really loved.
00:08:52.680 --> 00:08:55.500 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And I want to be about
00:08:55.660 --> 00:09:12.309 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Sometimes we do what our parents want us to be, but then our lives bring us to what we really are, and since 2013, I'm doing cupani fashion, I'm crocheting collection, I have my clients.
00:09:12.310 --> 00:09:28.819 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And also, at the same time, I'm hosting CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks in New York, CMG New York City Fashion Week, CMG Paris Fashion Week, CMG Dubai Fashion Week, CMG Los Angeles Fashion Week, CMG…
00:09:28.920 --> 00:09:44.790 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Asia Fashion Week, and local fashion shows and fundraising activities that I get involved. Also, I have upcoming New Year with Kopani, with Lacey Kopani in Las Vegas. It's going to be this year.
00:09:45.480 --> 00:09:49.099 Frank R. Harrison: Wow! I didn't know that. That's your… this is the first time.
00:09:49.100 --> 00:09:50.160 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Yes, you…
00:09:51.130 --> 00:09:51.560 Frank R. Harrison: Oh!
00:09:51.560 --> 00:10:03.340 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: No, no, no, in the past, we had also, New Year Eve, like, a cruise with Lacey Kopani, and several models went and went for this cruise.
00:10:03.760 --> 00:10:06.040 Frank R. Harrison: Wow. That's impressive.
00:10:06.040 --> 00:10:09.210 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: You must… sorry, you must welcome to join us.
00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:13.400 Frank R. Harrison: Oh, wow, and you said it's in Las Vegas.
00:10:14.040 --> 00:10:14.920 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Yes!
00:10:15.450 --> 00:10:26.560 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Oh, well, I definitely will think about that. I mean, it's only a couple weeks away, but we'll see what happens. It's great, it's great, it's a great place to meet New Year!
00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:35.460 Frank R. Harrison: True, true, very true. But, by the way, the part about you switching from medical to fashion, was that out of…
00:10:35.520 --> 00:10:49.380 Frank R. Harrison: burnout, or was it out of a desire to use your techniques and medical skills and be creative with them? Or… because I know you still have a strong belief in finding the right solutions and advocating the right cures for people.
00:10:49.380 --> 00:10:56.929 Frank R. Harrison: So, is it your way of doing healthcare, but in a creative way? Or what would you say is the reason for the transition?
00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:01.709 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I think it's, like, maybe external forces?
00:11:01.850 --> 00:11:04.600 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: something that I was doing before.
00:11:04.730 --> 00:11:16.360 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: or maybe it was also some kind of healing power of the fashion and design that helped me. It was a difficult moment of my life.
00:11:16.640 --> 00:11:30.580 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: But I was… I compare myself to one person who was really my friend, he's 96 years old, and when we discussed, and I understood that
00:11:30.710 --> 00:11:48.490 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: My life, it did not end at that time, when I registered Kupani Fashion. I could do absolutely everything and use my education, my background, my skills, my expertise, my contacts, but in different dimensions.
00:11:48.850 --> 00:11:53.720 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Right. So, from the science and education, although I love this.
00:11:53.880 --> 00:12:01.049 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I love, I love to be in the scientific lab. I, I was working on very important project.
00:12:01.160 --> 00:12:10.560 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And for vaccine development and immunotherapeutics. But efforts like this, and we have to learn how to deal with life.
00:12:10.640 --> 00:12:22.390 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: But life is giving us every time, sometimes it's closing some doors, but it's opening for others' doors. Without this past my experience or life.
00:12:22.550 --> 00:12:33.870 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: wouldn't be Kopani fashion, and I would not travel around the globe, and I would not meet such talented people.
00:12:33.920 --> 00:12:43.479 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: That I'm meeting right now. And I'm with healthy, beautiful, enthusiastic, talented people. It's so exciting.
00:12:43.490 --> 00:13:03.419 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: This is what I love about the passion, and I like to promote people. This is my passion, so what I was doing in the science, I was stimulating students to submit abstracts, to do research, to achieve the greatest grades, A and B, no C,
00:13:03.460 --> 00:13:11.660 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, because life is every time amazing and beautiful, only A and Bs. So, but anyway… So…
00:13:11.660 --> 00:13:12.650 Frank R. Harrison: Nice, and…
00:13:12.650 --> 00:13:17.369 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I use this experience right now, what I have had.
00:13:18.530 --> 00:13:33.770 Frank R. Harrison: Vicki, that sounds like, to me, that she really was still transforming herself, like, as you would say on her passion quest, to still be involved in healthcare, but all through fashion. What would be your takeaway from that? It's an amazing story.
00:13:34.150 --> 00:13:40.309 Vicki Mizel: It's, it's like she's eight people in one, and then.
00:13:40.310 --> 00:13:41.090 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Thank you!
00:13:41.090 --> 00:13:57.929 Vicki Mizel: But she… she just grows and grows and grows and grows, and the passion that she had as a child for design, it just had to come out. Had to come out. It's her… it's her duty to herself to let her fate be her passion.
00:13:58.030 --> 00:14:15.449 Vicki Mizel: And then, because she'd immersed herself so much in medical, science, sharing, giving, learning, a-highing, wondering, creativity, creativity, creativity, it just… it had to… it just had to blossom out.
00:14:16.060 --> 00:14:24.660 Frank R. Harrison: You know what? That probably also, I think, Lacey, came from your genetics, because you did tell me that you are from the Kupani family in Sicily.
00:14:24.660 --> 00:14:25.730 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Yes, yes.
00:14:25.730 --> 00:14:26.400 Frank R. Harrison: Was it Francis?
00:14:26.400 --> 00:14:38.439 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Yes, yes, it's actually Kupani. Kupani family name is very ancient family name from the famous person, his name is Francisco Cupani.
00:14:38.440 --> 00:14:53.910 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: He is from a small city, Mizermi, near the Palermo, Sicily, Italy, and he was priest, and at the same time, he was also botanist. He was, before Lunaeus, he classified
00:14:54.170 --> 00:15:11.269 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: plans, so, and this is, you could find him on all over the internet. You'd just type Francisco Cupania, and it will be up here. So, it's a very ancient family name, and I'm using a lot of, too!
00:15:11.390 --> 00:15:19.600 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: you know, the flowers, and I love also gardening, I love to grow my organic garden, so I feel…
00:15:19.650 --> 00:15:33.280 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I have something, and also another… it's very interesting. He passed away in 17… in 1696, on January 19, and I was born in January 19.
00:15:33.930 --> 00:15:36.330 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, some connections.
00:15:36.490 --> 00:15:47.640 Frank R. Harrison: That is a DNA… that is truly a DNA connection, and you know, that shows how diverse your background is. We're about to take our first break, and when we return, we're gonna talk about exactly that.
00:15:47.740 --> 00:16:05.170 Frank R. Harrison: your diversity, your equity and inclusion. I know, Vicki, you're gonna lead the charge on that segment, because it'll show how fashion and healing, whether it's in a research modality or in neurological perspective, and all the other things that we've been touching upon.
00:16:05.390 --> 00:16:18.589 Frank R. Harrison: actually are interwoven, and most people don't realize that, but I can't wait till we bring that out in the open. So everyone, if you are watching live and have any questions for Lacey right now, or even Vicki, by all means.
00:16:18.720 --> 00:16:23.359 Frank R. Harrison: Put in the chat bot, we will answer them live. Please stay tuned, we'll be back in a few.
00:18:07.370 --> 00:18:09.670 Frank R. Harrison: Hey everybody, and welcome back.
00:18:09.850 --> 00:18:13.069 Frank R. Harrison: Right there, I have shown you during the first commercial break.
00:18:13.070 --> 00:18:33.169 Frank R. Harrison: an example of Kupani's Fashion Weeks, as well as her Instagram page, where you will find more detailed information about the most recent Paris Fashion Week in Se- I think it was October, as well as her upcoming style icon election, which ends tonight, to go into the finalist round, and then ends next Thursday.
00:18:33.170 --> 00:18:34.190 Frank R. Harrison: to win…
00:18:34.190 --> 00:18:44.869 Frank R. Harrison: the prize of hosting, Milan's Fashion Week in 2026 to support the Elton John AIDS Foundation, so more on that afterwards. But now…
00:18:44.870 --> 00:18:46.430 Vicki Mizel: Tell them how to vote for her.
00:18:46.730 --> 00:18:48.190 Vicki Mizel: Oh, yes. Tell them how to vote.
00:18:48.540 --> 00:18:55.170 Frank R. Harrison: Definitely. During the final segment of the show, that's when all the promotions will definitely come out. Okay.
00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:58.019 Frank R. Harrison: For now, we want to definitely focus on.
00:18:58.130 --> 00:19:00.779 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Memory, healing, and diversity.
00:19:00.890 --> 00:19:07.629 Frank R. Harrison: and pretty much show that through your BrainSprouts, you, Vicki, your BrainSprouts memory program.
00:19:07.720 --> 00:19:18.690 Frank R. Harrison: how creativity strengthens neuroplasticity, show emotional engagement leads to memory regeneration, and talk about Lacey's role
00:19:18.770 --> 00:19:35.269 Frank R. Harrison: with… well, talk with her about how she went from educator, therapist, and healer to global fashion brands. So, I'm… I'm gonna be sitting here as an audience member for this segment, and I look forward to hearing both of what you will discuss.
00:19:35.270 --> 00:19:39.760 Vicki Mizel: Well, I was impressed just with what we saw of…
00:19:39.990 --> 00:19:57.829 Vicki Mizel: all Lacey's designed, world view, you know, of Orientals and African, and Hispanic, and Venezuelan, it looked like, and, you know, all the different people, and…
00:19:59.080 --> 00:20:04.210 Vicki Mizel: when I was a teacher, you know, I'm a, like, little white girl from Tulsa.
00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:10.400 Vicki Mizel: And I really got my best education by being immersed
00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:16.129 Vicki Mizel: with Hispanic kids, Black kids, where I was kind of one of few.
00:20:16.720 --> 00:20:34.370 Vicki Mizel: And when someone… and one day, I was writing something on the… on the board, and the chalk fell. And so I bent down, the kids started laughing, and when I looked, I saw their faces, and all of a sudden, I realized I… I was different, but they were my students.
00:20:34.510 --> 00:20:38.739 Vicki Mizel: So I didn't see colors. I saw love.
00:20:39.310 --> 00:20:42.729 Frank R. Harrison: And I think that's really…
00:20:42.730 --> 00:20:55.240 Vicki Mizel: the greatest thing… I remember my first time going to Europe, I was 15, and I went on a ship with other kids from Tulsa and Beverly Hills and all over the nation.
00:20:55.390 --> 00:21:01.520 Vicki Mizel: And we went to, like, 9 different ports. We went to Yugoslavia, we went to…
00:21:01.660 --> 00:21:09.230 Vicki Mizel: A little Naples, Italy, and around in the Middle East… Mediterranean Sea.
00:21:09.590 --> 00:21:10.120 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:21:10.120 --> 00:21:18.730 Vicki Mizel: And I noticed everybody, this was yes. And everybody, this was no. And everybody saw baby.
00:21:18.750 --> 00:21:36.979 Vicki Mizel: they'd smile, and everybody would be, you know, receive flowers, they'd be excited. I just… I thought, wow, we're all so similar. We all are so human. And then I remember going swimming at 10 o'clock at night, because they'd let you.
00:21:37.010 --> 00:21:45.869 Vicki Mizel: And looking up at the stars, and I went, oh my god, those are the same stars I see in my… in my background, in my home, in my backyard.
00:21:46.490 --> 00:21:51.480 Vicki Mizel: So, to answer the question both of brain sprouts and
00:21:52.010 --> 00:21:57.510 Vicki Mizel: when I'd been teaching Brain Sprouts for… 18 years.
00:21:58.180 --> 00:21:59.050 Frank R. Harrison: Oh.
00:21:59.050 --> 00:22:03.860 Vicki Mizel: What happened was my brain had taken on such strength.
00:22:04.370 --> 00:22:10.880 Vicki Mizel: that Me Too had a desire that could not hold back anymore.
00:22:11.180 --> 00:22:27.670 Vicki Mizel: And I wanted to be an actress. Really, really wanted to be an actress, because they were all… because I'd fool around with kids and do accents, and you guys do your… study your spelling test, and I'll do my barking dog for you, and, you know, whoop, whoop! You know, and I'll…
00:22:27.670 --> 00:22:31.840 Vicki Mizel: barricade for you. Mommy, Mommy, there's a doggie!
00:22:32.550 --> 00:22:42.959 Vicki Mizel: No, honey, that's a parrot, you know? And then, there's a doggie! So I would do all these things, and finally, when someone came up to me and said, you're a frustrated actress.
00:22:44.180 --> 00:22:49.570 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Once… and then I went back to acting class, and she said, my God, where have you been studying?
00:22:49.710 --> 00:23:01.669 Vicki Mizel: And I said, I haven't been studying anywhere. My brain is different from all these years of teaching memory. When I imagine in improv, I was in a canoe, I saw the canoe.
00:23:01.800 --> 00:23:20.430 Vicki Mizel: I saw the shellac on the canoe and the little beads of water. When I grabbed the oar, I actually could feel the water pressing against the ore. I could hear the fish jumping. I could look out and see the sky, could feel the wind, all in multi-seconds.
00:23:20.650 --> 00:23:22.930 Vicki Mizel: And I… and she said, well…
00:23:23.070 --> 00:23:31.530 Vicki Mizel: your acting's really improved, because that's what you want to do as an actor. You're… you're as interesting as you are charismatic.
00:23:31.530 --> 00:23:44.009 Vicki Mizel: And bright. And so, with Lacey, you know, we all want to do what our parents tell us in the beginning, because if… because, you know what? I learned this just the other night from Daniel Amon. He said.
00:23:44.630 --> 00:23:52.789 Vicki Mizel: If your parents want you to… he didn't say this way, but he said, if something happens where your parents do something, it makes you enraged.
00:23:53.380 --> 00:24:04.950 Vicki Mizel: You do not express the rage, because you need them. You need them to feed you, to clothe you, to be sweet to you, to tuck you in at night, tell you bedtime stories.
00:24:05.140 --> 00:24:10.129 Vicki Mizel: So, you keep it in, and that rage turns into a trauma.
00:24:10.810 --> 00:24:27.879 Vicki Mizel: Whether the parents are separating, divorce, possibly some kind of violence, or, you know, parents having to move and find new sets of friends, all those things lack… actually inhibit the ability to own yourself
00:24:28.220 --> 00:24:32.890 Vicki Mizel: Come from your greatest self, and give yourself all of yourself.
00:24:33.150 --> 00:24:46.440 Vicki Mizel: So, when you have a brain like Lacey's that just commands its abilities, it has abilities, she has this incredible strength and ability.
00:24:46.710 --> 00:24:53.899 Vicki Mizel: Yeah. But when you are… are in yourself, you're like, Something's calling to me.
00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:56.500 Vicki Mizel: And I have to be who I am.
00:24:56.600 --> 00:25:10.090 Vicki Mizel: And then you break free to whatever the creativity is. Some people are born lucky enough to start and do and be, and others honor their parents' wishes, and then when the parents die, they, oh, wait, I…
00:25:10.090 --> 00:25:19.290 Vicki Mizel: You know, there was a woman I just had on the PassionQuest program who'd been a bookkeeper, her whole family were bookkeepers, insisted she become a bookkeeper.
00:25:19.290 --> 00:25:30.930 Vicki Mizel: And she came to PassionQuest, and I said, what do you really want? She said, animals. I want to work with animals. And she said, you know, they're dead now, I'm not disappointing them. I've been disappointing me.
00:25:31.090 --> 00:25:35.990 Vicki Mizel: And then when she completed the course, she did her day in the life of, and…
00:25:36.140 --> 00:25:47.419 Vicki Mizel: her vision, and she said, I really want to own stables, an indoor and an outdoor stables, and bring horses to heal people.
00:25:47.560 --> 00:26:01.289 Vicki Mizel: And she made it like it was happening right now, with detailed description. We had her act it out, all the emotions and feelings in it, and day in the life of. Three days later, she found a stables.
00:26:01.500 --> 00:26:03.769 Vicki Mizel: With 8 stalls for horses.
00:26:03.770 --> 00:26:04.230 Frank R. Harrison: Fair enough.
00:26:04.230 --> 00:26:09.409 Vicki Mizel: At a price she could afford, that was an indoor and an outdoor ring.
00:26:09.820 --> 00:26:12.999 Vicki Mizel: And so, when you have that level of clarity.
00:26:13.580 --> 00:26:13.980 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:26:13.980 --> 00:26:16.969 Vicki Mizel: comes. You attract it, it comes to you.
00:26:17.160 --> 00:26:21.360 Vicki Mizel: And I think too many times people are squashed.
00:26:21.610 --> 00:26:28.540 Vicki Mizel: And forget what they wanted. You know, even Lacey said, well, when I was a kid, I was designing dresses.
00:26:28.770 --> 00:26:35.190 Vicki Mizel: And when people go back and remember their early childhood memories of what made them the happiest.
00:26:35.380 --> 00:26:50.100 Vicki Mizel: What are their greatest moments? What were their greatest accomplishments, and then they kind of bring it back in. It makes them see they're… they're great. They're great at something.
00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:55.139 Vicki Mizel: And, wow, if they're great, you know, let's keep going with that.
00:26:55.440 --> 00:27:01.149 Vicki Mizel: And so I think the healing of the memory program gives you strength in the brain.
00:27:01.340 --> 00:27:06.089 Vicki Mizel: When you have a strong brain, you can create, you can focus.
00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:09.370 Vicki Mizel: You can own what's yours.
00:27:09.650 --> 00:27:15.900 Vicki Mizel: And then when you let yourself have that permission to whatever it is your passion is.
00:27:16.290 --> 00:27:29.510 Vicki Mizel: Sometimes people will feel a heartache, or even cry, that they had left it, you know, alone, so on. But… but just like what you said, is you said, now you can act.
00:27:30.360 --> 00:27:46.949 Vicki Mizel: Whatever it is now, you can act. So, I wanted to be an actress. I became an actress. I did not make a living as an actress until 10 years later, 20 years later, I was an actress, teaching acting. Finally got paid to teach acting.
00:27:46.990 --> 00:28:01.069 Vicki Mizel: But because I did that, now I can be a speaker. I can be on stage, I can be a very, very interesting teacher, because I am free, you know, loosened up. And as a therapist.
00:28:01.900 --> 00:28:03.250 Vicki Mizel: I feel.
00:28:03.410 --> 00:28:07.050 Vicki Mizel: I feel and consent, and then B.
00:28:07.380 --> 00:28:10.560 Vicki Mizel: And when someone can actually be with you.
00:28:10.850 --> 00:28:16.769 Vicki Mizel: With whatever it is, the happy memories, the not happy memories, and let you feel it.
00:28:17.630 --> 00:28:21.589 Vicki Mizel: You don't keep holding onto it, it starts to dissipate.
00:28:21.820 --> 00:28:24.999 Vicki Mizel: And that's freedom. And that's healing.
00:28:25.540 --> 00:28:35.160 Frank R. Harrison: It sounds like in both your cases, especially, you know, when both Lacey and yourself have done what your parents wanted, and then you just broke free.
00:28:35.740 --> 00:28:47.850 Frank R. Harrison: you had internal disruption at play, I guess is the right word, and you were able to manifest it in an organized way and in a creative way to help others at the same time while finally doing what you wanted to do.
00:28:48.160 --> 00:28:57.620 Vicki Mizel: Well, actually, my mom… I asked my mom… she… our only… what we… the only thing she asked of us was to be happy.
00:28:58.000 --> 00:28:59.620 Frank R. Harrison: And then I said.
00:28:59.620 --> 00:29:04.359 Vicki Mizel: Well, how do you be happy? She said, well, you find what you like, and you be yourself.
00:29:04.620 --> 00:29:15.279 Vicki Mizel: So, my mom had already died when I became a teacher and a speaker and an actor, which made me horribly sad that she didn't get to see the fruits of her labor.
00:29:15.770 --> 00:29:24.080 Vicki Mizel: But… but she… I remember saying to her, when do you get married? When's the right time to get married? And she said, very wise.
00:29:24.310 --> 00:29:29.219 Vicki Mizel: When you're… when you like yourself and you're your own best friend.
00:29:30.820 --> 00:29:33.290 Vicki Mizel: When… let's see, what's the other one?
00:29:34.790 --> 00:29:40.150 Vicki Mizel: When you find the thing you love so much, you do it whether you are paid for it or not.
00:29:40.500 --> 00:29:51.699 Vicki Mizel: And then when you meet somebody who you like and you want to be with, not need to be with, but want to be with, just then you can get married.
00:29:52.310 --> 00:30:04.779 Frank R. Harrison: Well, we're about to take our second break, and we are going to feature in the commercial break your Brain Sprouts memory program. This is your special, Black Friday that you want to promote.
00:30:04.780 --> 00:30:10.919 Vicki Mizel: Yeah, I just want to quickly let people know, if they go to brainsproutsmemory.com shop.
00:30:11.250 --> 00:30:17.849 Vicki Mizel: And they purchased the audio tapes, 12 lessons, you can listen to them for the rest of your life.
00:30:17.900 --> 00:30:32.270 Vicki Mizel: I still listen to them, it really helps. If they… they sign up at midnight, by midnight tonight, they can actually start tomorrow around 1, 2 in the afternoon, and or the 13th of December.
00:30:32.380 --> 00:30:34.690 Vicki Mizel: I think around 2 o'clock.
00:30:35.190 --> 00:30:45.680 Vicki Mizel: And we're gonna meet one hour December, one hour January, one hour February. That way, you listen to the tapes, you practice, you come to a class.
00:30:45.680 --> 00:30:57.590 Vicki Mizel: You get correction, support, go integrate it some more, use it, come back, and by the third month, listening and doing, you've got it. You've got it integrated in you, and
00:30:57.890 --> 00:31:00.490 Vicki Mizel: You can go manifest your dreams.
00:31:00.490 --> 00:31:01.360 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Yes.
00:31:01.360 --> 00:31:16.719 Frank R. Harrison: Okay, so we will be back in a few to continue on with, the diversity, and then to get an overview of what techniques that she's been doing during this segment next to her mannequin, right over there. Please stay tuned, we'll be back in a few.
00:33:00.710 --> 00:33:05.920 Frank R. Harrison: Okay, everybody, sorry about that, little delay there in getting my audio mic back on.
00:33:05.920 --> 00:33:12.209 Vicki Mizel: Okay, I just want to quickly say that was Passion Quest, and then next break will be, Brain Sprouts.
00:33:12.850 --> 00:33:14.860 Frank R. Harrison: Well, at the same time,
00:33:14.980 --> 00:33:32.360 Frank R. Harrison: the next break, we also want to talk about not just Brain Sprouts, but also her style icon voting, and get everybody engaged on both programs. I wanted to make sure that we covered diversity with you, Lacey, because one of the things that you had mentioned is that you definitely qualify
00:33:32.360 --> 00:33:44.280 Frank R. Harrison: everybody based on their individual backgrounds using… with the use of color. So, did you want to talk about that while you're showing your technique with the mannequin, or did you have any comments about it from the previous section?
00:33:44.280 --> 00:33:48.959 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Yes, I just would like to a little bit add comments to the wiki point.
00:33:49.120 --> 00:34:02.880 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: You know, the art, I was just listening in, recently, you know, some, some lady, she was explaining why sometimes our passion, or what we like, coming in particular time.
00:34:03.090 --> 00:34:16.290 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Because, art is basically like language with God, and God is opening for us some space, and in particular time when it's needed.
00:34:17.110 --> 00:34:17.510 Frank R. Harrison: Yeah.
00:34:17.510 --> 00:34:28.880 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: We want, and we really, definitely, we would like to have something and do its opening, because there are needs, and it's just like a passion need.
00:34:28.940 --> 00:34:40.810 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, at that time, when I was, found out that my cupani fashion is really what is me and my expression.
00:34:40.870 --> 00:34:51.919 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: of myself, because life is completely different. You know, like, when you go into… on the street, you see particular people, you see diversity of the people.
00:34:51.969 --> 00:35:07.740 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: We are all different, different color, different language, we have different background, we have different dialects or accents, like mine, beautiful accent, I don't know from where it originated. But anyway, so, but we…
00:35:07.850 --> 00:35:14.670 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Like, we are so unique on this planet. It's written in our genes that we're unique.
00:35:14.890 --> 00:35:24.220 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: But we diverse, because if you look from the genetic point of view, or immunogenetic point of view, you will find that we
00:35:24.420 --> 00:35:35.430 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Because I studied population genetics besides the immunogenetics. Also, another background of my research was population genetics at University of Tokyo.
00:35:35.450 --> 00:35:46.139 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So you could see that certain population came from one single gene, or single, you know, the consonant, and then this spread.
00:35:46.240 --> 00:35:59.409 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Then we came to… for example, I came to U.S. and from Japan, and it was a little bit different, and I really love it, because it was all about diversity.
00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:17.980 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: It's like a melting point, we… I love New York, 5 years, it's incredible, incredible life, and all about, like, a melting with different cultures. We go to different parades, and it reminds me the place where I was born.
00:36:18.040 --> 00:36:36.329 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I was born in Central Asia, small country, Kyrgyzstan. If you picture world map, so it will be upper left corner, so above the China. Small country, Kyrgyzstan. In the country where I was born in Bishkek, we had 80 different ethnic groups.
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:44.739 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: That spoke in different language. So when I came to New York, I learned that New York speaks on 45 languages.
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:59.730 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, it was really so diverse, and what I like about you is it's so diverse, and it's so unique, and we are so free. When I go with my fashion shows, for example, to Paris, France.
00:36:59.850 --> 00:37:03.100 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I feel that we're a little bit different.
00:37:03.560 --> 00:37:18.640 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Because we are free, and… and in art, art is freedom, too, because it's, like, freedom of expression. So when I registered my company, and I started to do, in 2015, my fashion shows.
00:37:18.640 --> 00:37:22.009 Vicki Mizel: Cmg World Wild Fashion Weeks.
00:37:22.540 --> 00:37:31.510 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Worldwide, so I… I concluded that I would like to have diversity. So, because everyone should be dressed.
00:37:31.790 --> 00:37:35.700 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So I don't have particular height of the models.
00:37:35.850 --> 00:37:36.180 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:37:36.180 --> 00:37:45.169 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Probably you remember from Paris, we had included everyone, because everyone have internal and external beauty.
00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:54.260 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And everyone should be dressed and feel special. When I'm wearing my designs, I go outside, I'm getting maybe
00:37:54.750 --> 00:38:14.739 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: 200 compliments, everyone, woman, kids, and they're telling me how beautiful. Sometimes people even ask me if I'm wearing, for example, a jacket, they ask me, we were in Dubai, and girl came, you know, like, I don't remember which country, but somewhere from Middle East, and she asked me, could I… could I try your jacket?
00:38:14.830 --> 00:38:32.010 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: could I take a picture? I said, okay, take a picture. Okay, she put my jacket. Anyway, so when I started to do, and I want to multiply this, because it helped us from the single Kopani fashion, from the single
00:38:32.160 --> 00:38:47.130 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: mannequin that I'm using. I don't meet anyone while I'm designing. After Paris Fashion Week, early October, I usually started my new collection that should be ready for New York for September. I don't meet anyone.
00:38:47.160 --> 00:38:55.809 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: But then, when I see my creation at the different people, sometimes more than wanted to wear this particular design.
00:38:55.950 --> 00:39:10.329 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And they kind of, could I wear, could I wear? I said, okay, I'm going to assign to you, you go first. But if you still would like to model this dress, dress up and go second. It doesn't matter whether you go first.
00:39:10.330 --> 00:39:20.069 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Or second, it's completely different feelings. And sometimes models ask me how we should model, how we should walk on the runway.
00:39:20.070 --> 00:39:33.889 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I said, for my collection, you just have to walk like you feel, because crochet design is so special. I put in every stitch my love.
00:39:33.890 --> 00:39:42.629 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: if I will stretch maybe within 13… 12 years, 12 years of the fashion, I think I could, you know, I could…
00:39:42.810 --> 00:39:47.230 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: wrap it up planet Earth several times with yarn that I'm using.
00:39:47.230 --> 00:39:48.350 Vicki Mizel: Yeah, we are the ones.
00:39:48.350 --> 00:39:50.759 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Cool. Yes, yes.
00:39:50.760 --> 00:39:51.710 Vicki Mizel: consciousness.
00:39:52.120 --> 00:39:52.560 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:39:52.560 --> 00:40:08.140 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Yes, and I want this unity between different people from different backgrounds, different walks of their life, different colors, different genetic background, that they will feel, and they will feel unique
00:40:08.150 --> 00:40:15.090 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Through my fashion, and they will present so that audience will be able to see
00:40:15.350 --> 00:40:20.090 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: On the different complexion of the people, and different color.
00:40:20.290 --> 00:40:28.370 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So that you will see that, this particular design is not… is… is… make them very special and unique.
00:40:28.490 --> 00:40:43.590 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: This is what I wanted to give, and when I see this, when different girls are coming, and, you know, the models, male models, female models, kids, and sometimes I'm crying, because…
00:40:44.070 --> 00:40:58.090 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: When you don't meet anyone and you design something, you have to imagine, and while I'm designing, I'm listening music, positive music, not just because I have to listen, but I listen what I like at that time.
00:40:58.090 --> 00:40:58.610 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:40:58.610 --> 00:40:58.970 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: You know, bye
00:40:59.360 --> 00:41:13.829 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: frustrating, and people tell me how many compliments they're getting when they're wearing my designs. So, this is what I would like to give people, and, art
00:41:13.960 --> 00:41:20.019 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Like, I'm repeating again, art is a landage with the God.
00:41:20.150 --> 00:41:31.420 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: God give me this ability. Okay, I was medical student, and I was dreaming that I will be a plastic surgeon. This was my dream in medical school.
00:41:31.510 --> 00:41:46.839 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Yeah. So my mom wanted me to go to one, you know, the school. I… I picked by myself, and I wanted to be plastic surgeon. So, at the third year of medical school, I was already in the surgery room.
00:41:46.870 --> 00:42:05.430 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: practicing with surgeon how to, you know, the stitch skin correctly so that we'll be power, for example, someone from the trauma or whatever accident, and we have to fix the face and skin and make this person handsome or beautiful.
00:42:05.480 --> 00:42:16.110 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, or you just have to open Furuncul, you know, like, or a person can die, you know, like, sometimes you… you're afraid to cut, but…
00:42:16.170 --> 00:42:21.450 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Surgeons told us, okay, if you feel pity for the person.
00:42:21.540 --> 00:42:23.790 Frank R. Harrison: Disease will take over.
00:42:23.790 --> 00:42:29.339 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: You should not afraid to cut, because later on, you will stitch, you will heal.
00:42:29.490 --> 00:42:37.090 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Anyway, so, from the medical, you know, the stitching from the surgery, I learned and I become
00:42:37.110 --> 00:42:48.469 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: sturgeon of the soul, through the beautiful fashion and beautiful designs. I'm also using different colors, see?
00:42:48.470 --> 00:43:01.010 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And I want to… before, my favorite was black color, and I love beautiful black dresses, it's really unique, very strict, you know, the protecting. But right now.
00:43:01.010 --> 00:43:13.640 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I'm using a lot of colorful designs, because I feel, when I meet my clients and they come in and I ask, what color do you like? They said, black color.
00:43:13.870 --> 00:43:31.990 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And then they tried different, you know, the different designs. I said, okay, 45 I had. Once we were, like, doing 5-hours fit-ins. I have my favorite friend, and she's my client since 2015, she's opera singer.
00:43:31.990 --> 00:43:35.519 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: She's coming, she said, I need… I need dress for my…
00:43:35.970 --> 00:43:49.580 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: you know, performance. First, my dress was on the Broadway show. She was using black Enigma dress, and also later on, she bought, NGL skirt, you know, like, two beautiful dresses.
00:43:49.800 --> 00:43:57.709 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: But this year, she came to me before New York Fashion Week. My collection, 45, 43 pieces were ready.
00:43:57.800 --> 00:44:13.049 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: 5 hours. She was trying, in the end of the tour, to make a decision, ask her which color would you like to buy? Black or this one? And she brought… and she bought the most colorful!
00:44:13.250 --> 00:44:24.149 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And I said, look at you! When she was putting dresses by dresses, and when we're using different colors, she looks so young! This is, you know, like…
00:44:24.360 --> 00:44:40.169 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: when I go shopping and I see dresses that are available in the shops, they kind of already precasted opinion what this particular woman of this age or this age should wear.
00:44:40.430 --> 00:44:40.910 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:44:40.910 --> 00:44:52.089 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: You know, when you design exclusive dress, it will be just you. Nobody will be wearing this dress. So, when I see those dresses in the shop.
00:44:52.510 --> 00:44:57.670 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: our Macy's, our dealers, and I'm thinking, how…
00:44:58.050 --> 00:45:07.010 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And I've tried it on myself. Sometimes I would like to buy my own dress, you know, like, when I'm trying to buy, and I feel so old.
00:45:07.340 --> 00:45:14.160 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: and those dresses, then I go to another shop, you know, the Michaels, or Hobby Lobby.
00:45:14.160 --> 00:45:16.080 Frank R. Harrison: I bought my yarn.
00:45:16.080 --> 00:45:21.649 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So I'm… And I'm designing something that makes me so unique.
00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:28.189 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: and other people unique too. When I'm designing, I'm asking people, just give me 3 words.
00:45:28.190 --> 00:45:30.310 Frank R. Harrison: What you would like to express.
00:45:30.310 --> 00:45:35.730 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: with this particular design. And I look at the person, I get 3 words.
00:45:36.150 --> 00:45:44.870 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And I designed the dress. My, actually, first dress, my line became Line of the year in 2014, here at Little Rock.
00:45:44.970 --> 00:46:04.249 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Line of the year, and after that, I went for many, many fashion shows, and in December, just before New Year, you know, the wife of the governor, Hutchinson, invited me to design dress for her for the inauguration of the governor, Asa Hutchinson.
00:46:04.700 --> 00:46:05.200 Frank R. Harrison: Beautiful.
00:46:05.200 --> 00:46:06.580 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: go for cruise!
00:46:06.670 --> 00:46:17.739 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: For cruise, and ask her. We picked for her yarn, we went together and shop, we picked yarn, and 11 days of my cruise, 7 days cruise.
00:46:17.750 --> 00:46:31.029 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And after the cruise, I returned home, I was crocheting for her to deliver a dress. This is how everything started. Success never came. If you… if you get this success, like, it's like a wave.
00:46:31.660 --> 00:46:32.170 Frank R. Harrison: That's…
00:46:32.170 --> 00:46:33.899 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Get buried by vain.
00:46:34.010 --> 00:46:39.890 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: But just grow with the wave. You have to take one wave, then life gives you another wave.
00:46:40.200 --> 00:46:55.559 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, if you will not take this wave, you will bear the opportunity. So, it means those waves of the life, or opportunities, or passion, I don't know how to call… you could call any names, you know that.
00:46:55.560 --> 00:47:04.869 Frank R. Harrison: Well, I mean, we're about to take our final… no, no, we're about to take our final break, and I don't want to go over, because I want to promote, your, your, your, your icons.
00:47:04.870 --> 00:47:05.500 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Thank you, thank you.
00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:24.069 Frank R. Harrison: No, but at the same time, both of you have been talking about, really, the brain taking over when necessary. And you did say something, Vicki, when we came back from the last commercial, about showing next the Brain Spouts program. Are you talking about the website, brainsproutsmemory.com? Is that what you want me to show?
00:47:24.070 --> 00:47:27.779 Vicki Mizel: Yeah, brainspotsmemory.com slash shop.
00:47:28.200 --> 00:47:28.930 Frank R. Harrison: Okay.
00:47:28.930 --> 00:47:40.429 Vicki Mizel: And then they can, know that they'll be able to, pay no… they'll pay money for the audio lessons, which are amazing, you know.
00:47:40.880 --> 00:47:48.730 Vicki Mizel: The association method, remembering names, remembering large amounts of information, absent-mindedness, relaxation, all those things.
00:47:48.820 --> 00:48:02.740 Vicki Mizel: That they pay for, but then I'll give them a free class every month so that they can learn the method, practice, listen to the audio, let it sink in, and then go out and venture, and then come back the teacher.
00:48:02.740 --> 00:48:14.459 Vicki Mizel: make corrections and support, add new lessons, and add it in. That's really the way to learn it, use it, practice it, and integrate it, because when you use it, that's when you get all the power.
00:48:15.010 --> 00:48:28.230 Frank R. Harrison: Well, we're gonna show that right now, so I'm gonna quickly leave. We'll show the two websites and how to vote for Lacey as a style icon for the Elton John AIDS Foundation, and then we'll wrap up. Stay tuned.
00:50:01.230 --> 00:50:19.720 Frank R. Harrison: Hey everybody, I'm still on my commercial template, because in 2 minutes' time, trying to get all the messages out there, and I decided to start this segment with the Brain Sprouts Memory Shop icon. Can you walk me through this, Vicki, so that you can let everyone know what your Black Friday special is?
00:50:19.720 --> 00:50:25.660 Vicki Mizel: Yes, if they go to this, let's see, go down, little bit down…
00:50:26.080 --> 00:50:37.839 Vicki Mizel: Little… there you go. So if they go to Brain Sprouts Memory, all one word, brainsproutsmemory.com, then shop, right here in the shop.
00:50:38.010 --> 00:50:48.650 Vicki Mizel: If they purchase, they can call me and tell me whether they want the CDs or the MP3s, and then you can go back up again.
00:50:49.320 --> 00:50:50.060 Frank R. Harrison: Okay.
00:50:50.060 --> 00:51:06.129 Vicki Mizel: go back up again, and then they will get this, the Remembering Names course for free, and instead of doing it all in 3 hours, we're going to break it up an hour per month, and then, depending on who signs up, we'll decide the other two
00:51:06.130 --> 00:51:13.270 Vicki Mizel: two sessions. So, for the memory course, tonight's the deadline to purchase the audio.
00:51:13.280 --> 00:51:17.910 Vicki Mizel: And then tomorrow, around 2 in the afternoon,
00:51:18.610 --> 00:51:29.259 Vicki Mizel: East Coast time, we'll have the first lesson, and then from there, we'll look at everyone's calendar and decide when to do the second lesson in January, and then the third lesson in February.
00:51:29.640 --> 00:51:31.410 Frank R. Harrison: Awesome So…
00:51:31.410 --> 00:51:42.670 Vicki Mizel: And it's… it's what I use. And, you know, besides being a teacher, therapist, actor, speaker, I got brain injured twice. Seriously.
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:44.939 Vicki Mizel: From a big rig truck, and then.
00:51:45.610 --> 00:51:56.710 Vicki Mizel: 20 years later, from a speeding car, it wasn't even protected by a car, and I got my brain back using this method, so it's really powerful. It even helps Alzheimer's people.
00:51:56.910 --> 00:52:02.050 Vicki Mizel: Little kids, old kids, Alzheimer's CEOs, students…
00:52:02.050 --> 00:52:03.370 Frank R. Harrison: Yes. You know, it's…
00:52:04.150 --> 00:52:07.900 Vicki Mizel: It's never failed, unless you don't use it.
00:52:08.460 --> 00:52:15.999 Frank R. Harrison: Correct, correct. Now, Lacey, you were saying to me prior to our show that as we only use 7% of our brain.
00:52:16.080 --> 00:52:22.809 Frank R. Harrison: The stitching technique you use, or that individuals have to learn to be more physical with their hands.
00:52:22.810 --> 00:52:37.110 Frank R. Harrison: Especially after they've retired. Can you get into that? Because we were just talking with Vicki about especially people with Alzheimer's who can benefit from her memory program. Tell me how they can benefit from your stitching technique, or what it is you were telling me earlier about as people get older.
00:52:37.570 --> 00:52:39.470 Frank R. Harrison: You have to unmute first.
00:52:40.360 --> 00:52:42.130 Frank R. Harrison: Yeah, unmute, unmute.
00:52:42.720 --> 00:52:44.010 Frank R. Harrison: Oh.
00:52:46.310 --> 00:52:52.229 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Okay, either each human being, we are using from 5% to 7% of our brain.
00:52:52.630 --> 00:52:58.609 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, when we get retired, or we're getting old, the activity of brain decreasing.
00:52:58.760 --> 00:53:01.699 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, will this help us to stay sharp.
00:53:01.780 --> 00:53:19.570 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: We need to use the old techniques, I mean, with our hands, whether it's crocheted stain, where's the knitting, where it's painting, where's the cooking, or where you do something, but you need to use your hands, because we have here receptors.
00:53:19.640 --> 00:53:37.169 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: medical receptors that directly go to our brain activities and activate new centers. So, when you stop to do a particular job, you got retirement, and you're happy, you're sitting, and you don't use anything.
00:53:37.410 --> 00:53:49.049 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, when you're starting to do something, in Japan, it's called gakusai, means happy living, when you're getting older. So, when people in Japan, they retired.
00:53:49.050 --> 00:53:58.830 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: They started to grow bansai. When I was in Japan, I was the youngest student in the group, because everyone was, like, 80, 90 years old.
00:53:58.830 --> 00:54:02.519 Frank R. Harrison: Wow. And they were learning how to do bunsize small trees.
00:54:02.520 --> 00:54:11.600 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Also, I learned how to do Chigiri especially, you know, that special Japanese paper, Vashi, named Washi. So I did art.
00:54:11.680 --> 00:54:28.700 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So my… my art, I was only one foreigner with, you know, the beautiful sunflower art that was on… in Tokyo Downtown Exposition, and my art was there. So, it means the older we are…
00:54:28.870 --> 00:54:35.359 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: The more you have to be… get involved in something that you never did.
00:54:35.470 --> 00:54:47.959 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I'm talking to my husband every time. I said, we bought this house, we need to remodel, not just because we need to remodel, because we have to stay sharp here, in our brain, and if we
00:54:48.400 --> 00:55:08.360 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: do something, it will make you not… okay, when you're also doing something, if it doesn't go well, don't worry, it's okay, because you will learn how to do these particular techniques. Or, for example, I did not know how to mix concrete.
00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:23.940 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I started to learn how to mix concrete, and how to do beautiful, you know, the pouring concrete, and put the art in the concrete in our house. Anyway, so you need to use those brain activities to stay sharp.
00:55:24.050 --> 00:55:25.090 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: a.
00:55:25.570 --> 00:55:26.040 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
00:55:26.040 --> 00:55:27.209 Vicki Mizel: And we can't be like…
00:55:27.210 --> 00:55:28.210 Frank R. Harrison: You. No, go ahead.
00:55:28.210 --> 00:55:34.030 Vicki Mizel: And also, you want something to retire to, that's creative and purposeful.
00:55:34.040 --> 00:55:36.190 Frank R. Harrison: Absolutely. That makes a big difference.
00:55:36.190 --> 00:55:48.399 Vicki Mizel: I know in the Orient, a lot of the grandparents pick up the kids from school, and then spend time with them, and make dinner, and snacks, and stuff like that, so they're engaged together.
00:55:48.910 --> 00:56:07.699 Frank R. Harrison: Well, both of you are living examples of using the brain and sprouting new directions and stuff like that. I just want to say to everybody, in addition to the Brain Sprouts memory program, which you have until tonight, to purchase and get the free, what was it?
00:56:07.700 --> 00:56:08.430 Vicki Mizel: lessons.
00:56:08.430 --> 00:56:19.459 Frank R. Harrison: the free lessons, you have to vote for Lacey Kupani, who is currently in first place position in the semifinals for the style icon.
00:56:19.580 --> 00:56:21.050 Frank R. Harrison: Next Thursday…
00:56:21.050 --> 00:56:21.820 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Thanks, Shannon.
00:56:22.200 --> 00:56:28.230 Frank R. Harrison: Yes, next Thursday, the competition ends, and you're one of 16 people in the finalists.
00:56:28.400 --> 00:56:37.169 Frank R. Harrison: And why don't you tell everyone what that value being a style icon will be for both healthcare and the fashion world?
00:56:37.710 --> 00:56:51.799 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Anyway, so this, 2025 style, competition was sponsored by Elton John Foundation, Elton John AIDS Foundation. The purpose of this, you know, the… it's basically a fundraiser.
00:56:51.800 --> 00:57:10.699 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: We are the designers and stylists, we're helping Elton John Foundation to fundraise money for the initiatives, for different programs, what he's supporting worldwide in United States as well, because HIV and AIDS are increasing.
00:57:10.700 --> 00:57:19.199 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, you could see from my, you know, either Instagram or Facebook Lacey Coupani, or Coupani Fashion, or on our website that…
00:57:19.200 --> 00:57:36.759 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Hiv is growing everywhere, so… but there are needed new preventive methods. Although, diagnostics and treatment is available, we still require little bit funds. So anyway, he established this one, he's invited.
00:57:36.760 --> 00:57:49.929 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: people in the end of the August, I applied for this competition, and I won top 20, top 15, top 10, top 5 wildcards.
00:57:49.930 --> 00:58:07.890 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And I want quarterfinals, and right now I'm on semi-finals, that will be ended today at 7pm Pacific time. Please vote, just go on my YouTube… not YouTube, Instagram, or on the link that, Frank showed you, and just vote.
00:58:08.010 --> 00:58:22.300 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, today will be only… from today, only 16 people will enter tomorrow into finals. School will be reset, and we will begin running for the final.
00:58:22.460 --> 00:58:40.450 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And finals will be ended in December 11th, and only one trendsetter will go and will participate at the Milan Fashion Week with Versace. Versace… Donatella Versace is famous Italian designer.
00:58:40.480 --> 00:58:51.679 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: She's very supportive, too, for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Last year, she donated $300 million toward, you know, the initiatives.
00:58:51.680 --> 00:59:08.240 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: And as a designer, I'm super honored to represent each of you who is voting for me, United States of America and Copani Fashion at the Milan Fashion Week. And also, if as a winner, there will be also award.
00:59:08.260 --> 00:59:26.900 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: It's $20,000, you have to pay your tax, but then I was asked how I'm going to use money, so I was… I was, planning to launch Kupani Fashion Style Icon Gala, and do shows around the world, and of.
00:59:26.900 --> 00:59:27.420 Frank R. Harrison: Beautiful.
00:59:27.420 --> 00:59:46.099 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: fundraise money, 25% will go to Elton John Foundation, and 25% will go to Arlovsky Orphanage. Since 2015, we're supporting 36 orphans of Arlovsky Orphanage.
00:59:46.510 --> 01:00:01.610 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: annually, and through our fashion shows, through the tickets, and all the events that we are all hosting. So, this way I would like to do, and why I would like to win, because I think it's a very good cause.
01:00:01.650 --> 01:00:18.299 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: To promote, you know, the prevent disease spread, because it's so difficult to treat, but better to prevent, because HIV is increasing among the young women, among the girls.
01:00:18.330 --> 01:00:30.469 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Right now, we have Instagrammable, you know, the sex. People posting pictures, they travel to other countries, and they bring in something. So we need new methods, we need to educate population.
01:00:30.520 --> 01:00:41.180 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: We need something that if a person is exposed, and he or she may get a treatment. Treatment is available. Diagnostic is available.
01:00:41.240 --> 01:00:47.389 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: People should stay informed and should do this. And we are the designers.
01:00:47.470 --> 01:01:03.850 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: I'm helping every day with this fundraiser, and we did a tremendous effort to fundraise. Okay, when we have 2X days, it's going to be 2X days. On 2X days, you may donate, and the votes will double.
01:01:03.850 --> 01:01:16.970 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: So, as a designer, I'm getting just woods, but Elton John Foundation and people in need, and new programs that could be… could be financed through this particular foundation, a big.
01:01:16.970 --> 01:01:17.310 Frank R. Harrison: Yes.
01:01:17.310 --> 01:01:20.220 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: the most. Thank you for your support.
01:01:20.220 --> 01:01:20.590 Frank R. Harrison: Thank you.
01:01:20.590 --> 01:01:24.240 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: for votes, go and vote right now, and vote.
01:01:24.240 --> 01:01:36.310 Frank R. Harrison: Sorry behind the scenes for us going over, but it is important because of the two major deadlines. Ladies and gentlemen, I will talk more about this next week on Frank About Health. Thanks, Vicki and Lacey, for being here.
01:01:36.960 --> 01:01:37.430 CMG Worldwide Fashion Weeks Producer Lacie Cupani: Thank you all.
01:01:37.430 --> 01:01:42.679 Vicki Mizel: Passion Quest, thank you. Deadline is January, December 7th.
01:01:43.010 --> 01:01:44.559 Frank R. Harrison: Okay, see you all next week.
01:01:44.560 --> 01:01:46.780 Vicki Mizel: Thank you.
01:01:47.090 --> 01:01:49.080 Frank R. Harrison: Bye-bye.
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