web02.fireside.fm Wed, 06 May 2026 14:38:41 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) https://narratingutah.fireside.fm/tags/social%20media Tue, 06 May 2025 14:00:00 -0600 Westminster College en-us episodic Secular stories from the Holy City of a small global religion. Eileen Chanza Torres Westminster College no Eileen Chanza Torres echanzatorres@westminstercollege.edu https://narratingutah.fireside.fm/40 87b46961-e582-412f-ae1c-11a007fda830 Tue, 06 May 2025 14:00:00 -0600 Eileen Chanza Torres full 6 Eileen Chanza Torres In this episode, we explore the relationship between Utah's homogenous culture and the skyrocketing rates of plastic surgery. People of all ages are pulled to plastic surgery through the influences of social media, homogenous culture competition, and normalization of these cosmetic procedures. 29:12 no <p>In this episode, we explore the relationship between Utah's homogenous culture and the skyrocketing rates of plastic surgery. People of all ages are pulled to plastic surgery through the influences of social media, homogenous culture competition, and normalization of these cosmetic procedures. We talked with Dr. Susan Madsen, Founder and Executive Director of the Utah Women and Leadership Project. She explained the negative affects cosmetic surgery and homogenous competition has on young women, and added in a method to slow down and deal with these strong influences. </p> plastic surgery, mormon, utah, social media, homogenous In this episode, we explore the relationship between Utah's homogenous culture and the skyrocketing rates of plastic surgery. People of all ages are pulled to plastic surgery through the influences of social media, homogenous culture competition, and normalization of these cosmetic procedures. We talked with Dr. Susan Madsen, Founder and Executive Director of the Utah Women and Leadership Project. She explained the negative affects cosmetic surgery and homogenous competition has on young women, and added in a method to slow down and deal with these strong influences.

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