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I Choose ... National Mature Women's Day with Makeup Entrepreneur, Laura Geller · I Choose Me with Jennie Garth

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Girl. Hi everyone,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Welcome back to I Choose Me.
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  Speaker 1: We're diving back into our conversation with Laura Geller, makeup artist, entrepreneur,
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  Speaker 1: and the woman who taught us that beauty doesn't expire
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  Speaker 1: at forty. Here's part two of my conversation with Laura
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  Speaker 1: Geller speaking of motherhood. Okay, let's rewind though, to be
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning, when you were a young mom building
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  Speaker 1: a business.
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  Speaker 2: I was never a young mom. You're a business.
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  Speaker 1: You were a mom, let's just say that. And you
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  Speaker 1: were building the business.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, with a baby, with a baby, yeah, and.
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  Speaker 1: You had to make sacrifices. You had to do things
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  Speaker 1: that other people might not be doing. What do you
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  Speaker 1: have to say two moms, whether they're young or older
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  Speaker 1: or middle whatever, trying to balance motherhood and starting a business.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think it's not going to be news
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  Speaker 2: flashed from me to hear that. You know, you can't
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  Speaker 2: you can have it all, but you can have it
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  Speaker 2: all at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard this before, and I'm gonna I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: push back.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I want to hear your pushback.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, tell me, tell me what go more though,
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  Speaker 1: tell me more.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So I did have it all at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: because I had no choice. My business was really rapidly growing.
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  Speaker 2: I turned for and I went, uh oh, I put
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  Speaker 2: my business first, and I forgot to have a kid,
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  Speaker 2: and I went into motion, and at forty years old,
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  Speaker 2: became a single mom. There is no dad, there's no father.
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  Speaker 2: So for me talk about juggling at all, that was
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  Speaker 2: really rough. And so I was not perfect at motherhood
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  Speaker 2: because of that, because I couldn't be present all the time.
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  Speaker 2: And then my business was growing and I had to
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  Speaker 2: stop doing things that I was doing in my business,
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  Speaker 2: like by the clients, because I was growing a bigger
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  Speaker 2: piece of the business now a brand as opposed to
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  Speaker 2: my service. So when I say you can't have it all,
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  Speaker 2: I meant all perfectly at the same time. It's a
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  Speaker 2: juggling act. It's a juggling act, and it's a juggling
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  Speaker 2: act on a good day or a bad day. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: even if you're just a mom, we're just running a
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  Speaker 2: bit business, you know. Yeah, But I would say don't
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  Speaker 2: shy away from it. Do it. You have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: You have to whatever it is that's being presented in
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  Speaker 2: front of you, you must walk through that door and
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  Speaker 2: take it. You have to. Why, no matter do you
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  Speaker 2: not agree with me?
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  Speaker 1: I do absolutely agree with you. Walk through that door.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime the door cracks just a little bit, if it's
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  Speaker 1: cracking towards something that you want, something that is a
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  Speaker 1: goal for you or dream, yes, put your foot in
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  Speaker 1: there and go through that door. But right the just
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  Speaker 1: the concept of I've heard this before, like you can
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  Speaker 1: have everything you want, but you just can't have it
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  Speaker 1: at once. And I feel like at this moment in
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  Speaker 1: my life, this fifties era for me, I have designated
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  Speaker 1: it too specifically having everything all at once, Like I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm going to be, you know, when I'm
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  Speaker 1: sixty sixty two whatever. I want to have the choice too,
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  Speaker 1: do I continue pushing this hard or I step back
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  Speaker 1: and step away and reprioritize things. But like, I'm allowing
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  Speaker 1: myself this moment to have it all all at once.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, it's a juggle, it's not easy. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: you have to delegate. You have to have people that
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  Speaker 1: are helping you, because you cannot do it all alone.
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  Speaker 1: I think is the key.
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  Speaker 2: That's key, that is key, and I think you know
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  Speaker 2: when you're younger. You know, I started doing makeup at eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: but it was thirty seven years old that when I
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  Speaker 2: went on QBC in nineteen ninety seven for the first time,
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea that that business was going to
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  Speaker 2: grow the way it did. And so when you're younger,
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  Speaker 2: you're stressing out, you're worried when you enter your fifties,
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  Speaker 2: because I know how I was when I entered my fifties.
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  Speaker 2: You're sort of like, whatever it is, it'll be and
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  Speaker 2: it gets done. When it gets done, you don't have
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  Speaker 2: as many stressors. So I think part of the beauty
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  Speaker 2: of getting older is that you do prioritize and you
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  Speaker 2: do start to recognize what you can push aside what's
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  Speaker 2: important to you. I feel that way now in my life,
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  Speaker 2: and I have to say, you know, I think that
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  Speaker 2: comes with time. And so if somebody is listening to
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  Speaker 2: this and they're in their thirties or their twenties, you know,
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  Speaker 2: they don't know where it's like my son, he's twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to be twenty six this year. He doesn't
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  Speaker 2: know where. He's busy. He's working, he likes it, he's thriving.
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  Speaker 2: He's a worker like me, you know. But he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: know where he's going to be when he's forty. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't know where he's going to be when he's fifty.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't predict it either, you know. Nobody has
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  Speaker 2: that kind of crystal ball. So the advice I give
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  Speaker 2: him all the time is, don't think about where you're
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  Speaker 2: going to be and what you should be. Getting to
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  Speaker 2: live in what you have right now and make the
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  Speaker 2: best of it, because for sure something else is going
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  Speaker 2: to open up, for sure, even if you don't try
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  Speaker 2: for it. It's a door is going to open, and
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  Speaker 2: you're going to determine whether or not you want to
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  Speaker 2: walk through that door or stay, you know, complacent where
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  Speaker 2: you are. So that's the beauty of I think getting
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  Speaker 2: to fifty is that the doors opened for us and
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  Speaker 2: other things came that we got to pick and choose,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And I'm not being silly, but I really
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  Speaker 2: choose me now. And because on the other side of this,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't want to be morbid, but I love
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  Speaker 2: my life so much right now because it's unfiltered because
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  Speaker 2: I no longer have to worry the way I did,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm not going to be accepted all those things,
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  Speaker 2: those layers. But I also then look at how many
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  Speaker 2: years I have on the flip side, and you know
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  Speaker 2: it's not you know, it's not as much as I
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  Speaker 2: would like because I'm having so much fun. I don't
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  Speaker 2: want that to go away.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: So when people say it's prett getting older and it's
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  Speaker 2: a blessing and you woke up today, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but you also had that moment where you go, how
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  Speaker 2: long will I feel this healthy? And will my body
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  Speaker 2: not break down on me?
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  Speaker 1: You know, we can't listen to those people.
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  Speaker 2: And I know, I know, I know, I know you're right.
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  Speaker 2: You're right.
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  Speaker 1: Just tell them to thank you so much. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: busy listening to somebody else right now.
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  Speaker 2: No, you're right. By the way, I got your book
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  Speaker 2: and I just started reading it a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell you, I'm not a book reader
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  Speaker 2: and I can't put your damn book down. And I
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  Speaker 2: have comprehension issues where I need a page, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: and if I go to the next page, I'm like, wait,
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  Speaker 2: I have to go back to the You know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not finding that with your book really.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like you really did it, Like you were
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  Speaker 2: talking to me when you wrote that book.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to you, Laura gall.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was only me, right, I think so?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Did you do an audio version of that book?
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  Speaker 1: I did?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, just in case I start to yeah. Right,
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  Speaker 2: and it's beautiful too.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much and I'm really glad that
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  Speaker 1: it's speaking to you on any level, so.
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  Speaker 2: That m cast feel really good. Oh good, I know
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  Speaker 2: what a labor of love that is. That's easy feat.
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  Speaker 2: How long did it take to write?
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  Speaker 1: A couple of years? Like a year and a half
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah, it's a blur, but I thank you.
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  Speaker 1: That makes me so happy. I can't wait to see
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  Speaker 1: your post. Oh yeah, I did want to ask you
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  Speaker 1: this before our time is up. You brought the world
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  Speaker 1: the first makeup primer, and you called it Spackle. I
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  Speaker 1: love that name, because who does I have always said
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  Speaker 1: I need some more spackle on my face, like put
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  Speaker 1: more makeup on me.
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  Speaker 2: So how I came up with it?
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  Speaker 1: Really like it's like the foundation of something that's going
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  Speaker 1: to beautiful and it makes perfect sense to me. But
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  Speaker 1: did people push you back saying why do we need
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  Speaker 1: a primer? And how did you how did you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is why and continue forward with your vision.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was in the late nineties. I was working
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  Speaker 2: on a talent who was on TV and I was her.
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  Speaker 2: I was the backup to the makeup artist. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: in theater and film makeup school. And I'm sure you
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  Speaker 2: studied theater and film makeup because it's kind of required,
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  Speaker 2: I think when.
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  Speaker 1: You take out on the job on the job training.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, So we were taught that when you make
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  Speaker 2: up talent, you can't put moisturizer under their makeup. That
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  Speaker 2: it has to be yeah, because it has to last
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  Speaker 2: under hot lights, long days in a big house, and
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  Speaker 2: that any emolian will break down makeup. And I would
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  Speaker 2: go to do this this woman who remain good friends
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  Speaker 2: with and this was from Oh my gosh. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: she was one of the people who encouraged me to
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  Speaker 2: have ailed on my own and you will know who
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  Speaker 2: it is. But long story short, she would say, Oh
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  Speaker 2: my god, I hope you have more than makeup and
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  Speaker 2: your makeup kit. I hope you have spackle because I
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  Speaker 2: need some spackles today. Girlfriend and I had an AHA
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  Speaker 2: moment because she would hate the dryness, the feeling of
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  Speaker 2: dryness that I was putting mac things on her face.
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  Speaker 2: And I had that moment where I felt, what if
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  Speaker 2: I can make something that's cold spackle because it's a
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  Speaker 2: tongue in cheek expression, And what if I can work
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  Speaker 2: with an R and D lab where they make it
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  Speaker 2: so it feels like it has the slip but it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't penetrate the way moisturizer does, so that you can
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  Speaker 2: put your makeup on and feel hydrated, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: break down the makeup. And we came out with the
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  Speaker 2: first spackle. It was opalescent color, but it went on
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  Speaker 2: clear and it was in a jar and the minute
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  Speaker 2: I put it on people they were like, oh, and
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  Speaker 2: the makeup didn't move. It actually hugged the makeup. Who
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  Speaker 2: knew I should have what trademarked the name or patented
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  Speaker 2: this or I didn't know I was onto something? And
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  Speaker 2: now we have I think like ten different kinds of
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  Speaker 2: spackles for you. Do I know?
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  Speaker 1: I love them so much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really one of the best things that franchise
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  Speaker 2: and the baked franchise is what I'm the brand is
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  Speaker 2: known for.
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  Speaker 1: Right whenever I do my makeup with and I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be on camera, but be wearing it
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  Speaker 1: all day long and lights and then whatever I use
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  Speaker 1: the spackle without.
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  Speaker 2: It, shouldn't use. This is not a spincare lesson. But
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  Speaker 2: that's all you need because we made it with enough
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  Speaker 2: hydration that you don't need to put layers and layers
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  Speaker 2: of moisturizer as well under it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good to know. What about I have another question?
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  Speaker 1: Was it with a cream the palette that you that
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  Speaker 1: you have. Yes, do I use spackle under that to
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  Speaker 1: keep it from doing things? Because well normally cream kind
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  Speaker 1: of makes me think it's gonna move.
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  Speaker 2: It will. So here's my question. Yes, you should put
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  Speaker 2: spackle first, but are you not wearing foundation on some
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  Speaker 2: days and just going right to the cream blush or
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  Speaker 2: the cream bronze.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, some days?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so it makes me there it's making it a
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  Speaker 2: little too creamy. Maybe, So what I might tell you
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  Speaker 2: it's a good question because now I have to remember
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  Speaker 2: to talk to people about that is put your spackle on,
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  Speaker 2: but let it set, okay, and then don't do it
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  Speaker 2: right away because there's too much slip in it. Let
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  Speaker 2: it set as a pad et size.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, I hope anybody that's wondering about that, because yeah,
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  Speaker 1: when I think of cream, especially eyeshadow, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna I'm hot and it's gonna move. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: it makes me a little nervous.
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  Speaker 2: Our pencils don't move. Do you have those? Do we
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  Speaker 2: send those to you? What is that? An eyeliner, A
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  Speaker 2: thicker eyeliner. It's in like a the crayon. It's called
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  Speaker 2: kaj a l doesn't move, doesn't move until when put
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  Speaker 2: until you take it off. You could cry, you could
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  Speaker 2: do hot yoga, you can have a hot moment. I
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  Speaker 2: am telling you, I don't know what's in it, but
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  Speaker 2: it's not bad for your eyes, I promise.
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  Speaker 1: But you can put it. It doesn't move, It.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't it's I mean, people talk about it. They say
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  Speaker 2: that they've fallen asleep by accident and they wake up
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  Speaker 2: and it's exactly the way they put it on. It's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna look for.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to look for. I'm probably already have it
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  Speaker 1: in my drawer somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's not a thin eyeliner pencil.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, are okay God, I could talk about makeup
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  Speaker 1: with you, you know, all for hours and hours and hours.
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  Speaker 2: You should host one of my shows. You got me
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  Speaker 2: all fired up right now talking about my products.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good good?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god. I hope I have the same adrenaline
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  Speaker 2: in twenty minutes when I have to actually present them.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, call me. I'll pump you up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, you already have Okay, I'm on fumes
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, you can do this. Oh my gosh. I've
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  Speaker 1: learned so much from you, Laura Geller. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: sharing your makeup and experience, and everybody listening have an
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  Speaker 1: amazing week, you guys. I'm very excited to share that
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  Speaker 1: my book I Choose Me Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose and
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  Speaker 1: Embracing Reinvention is coming April fourteenth, and it would mean
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  Speaker 1: the world to me if you would pre order a
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  Speaker 1: copy or the audiobook wherever you get your books. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: I am definitely narrating the audiobook, so it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be so fun.