82 - Follow Your Curiosity: Dr. Brent Ridge on Medicine, Martha Stewart, and Beekman 1802

Trust Your Innersense™ with Joanne Starkman · Sep 17, 2026 · 41m

The Letter He Sent to a Prison in West Virginia

In this fascinating and genuinely surprising conversation, Joanne sits down with Dr. Brent Ridge, co-founder of Beekman 1802, the beloved beauty and lifestyle brand built around the science and practice of kindness. Brent's path is one of those stories that seems impossible until you hear him tell it. He grew up in rural North Carolina stocking grocery shelves at 13 and working factory lines at 15. He went on to study aging at Harvard, trained at Columbia, and landed at Mount Sinai, where he developed a groundbreaking center for the science of…