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I Choose … Chips on the Treadmill 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: exciting news. Okay, my second annual I Choose Me Live
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  Speaker 1: Summit Women's empowerment event is coming to Los Angeles on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: April twenty fifth, and I want you to be there.
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  Speaker 1: The I Choose Me movement began as three little words
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  Speaker 1: on Beverly Hills nine O two one oh in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety five, but it has evolved into something so much
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  Speaker 1: more than that. A revolution, you guys. It's a message
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  Speaker 1: I feel so passionate about. I wrote the book on it.
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  Speaker 1: So please join me for this one day party shining
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  Speaker 1: a light on self care and self love. Our panelists
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  Speaker 1: are incredible. This year we have Amanda Klut's, Bethany Joy Lenz,
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  Speaker 1: Genie Mai, Gabby Reese, Sarah Shah, my dear friend, Gabrielle Carteris.
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  Speaker 1: And this year we are going to be doing a
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  Speaker 1: and all of the info will be in our show notes.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Welcome to I Choose Me, the
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  Speaker 1: podcast about the choices we make, the ones that shape
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  Speaker 1: our careers, our families, and even how we choose to
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  Speaker 1: get ready and out the door each day. My guest
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  Speaker 1: has spent nearly three decades helping women feel beautiful when
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  Speaker 1: they look in the mirror. Laura Geller is a legendary
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  Speaker 1: makeup artist, an entrepreneur, a mom, and has been advocating
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  Speaker 1: for women with mature skin. And I'll put that in quotations,
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  Speaker 1: long before the industry cared what older women actually wanted.
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  Speaker 1: It is my pleasure to speak with my friend Laura Geller.
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  Speaker 1: How are you beauty good? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Talk about beauty. Oh my god, I'm so good. We've
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  Speaker 2: got sunshine here. I'm so happy.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you are you New York?
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  Speaker 2: In my apartment? Yeah, I'm home. Well, I have a
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  Speaker 2: show at four o'clock.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. We've got to get this done so
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  Speaker 1: you can.
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  Speaker 2: We got to get this, We got to get this
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  Speaker 2: show on the road. Say sure, And I'm going to say,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say when I go on that I
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  Speaker 2: just Courtney. I'm going to say, i just did a
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  Speaker 2: podcast with Jenny, perfect podcast. So I'm so happy, thank
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  Speaker 2: you for having me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so happy to have you finally.
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  Speaker 2: God, I know, I know we've been trying to figure
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  Speaker 2: this out.
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  Speaker 1: I will never forget the first day we met officially,
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  Speaker 1: like face to face. Yeah, was at the summit in Vegas, right, yes,
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  Speaker 1: And I was just like, you were the nicest person.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Jenny, that was so like, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Just pleasantly surprised at how kind you are, nice you
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  Speaker 1: are and present, You're so present, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I really felt, I really feel strongly about GBC, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And there's lots of thoughts. We could talk another time, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: but I know what it did for me and how
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  Speaker 2: it changed my brand and how it put me on
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  Speaker 2: the map and opened doors to a million other things.
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  Speaker 2: And I really feel like when somebody comes to me
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  Speaker 2: and says, you know, do you have any advice or
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  Speaker 2: you know, I really feel like I have a lot
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  Speaker 2: to share. And my success next year is thirty years
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  Speaker 2: thirty years, wow, thirty years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think I came up to you and said,
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  Speaker 1: tell me every thing I need to know or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Are you having a good time?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I am. I love QVC, I like hell I'm
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  Speaker 1: working with them, I love the customers. I really am
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  Speaker 1: enjoying myself. So thank you for making it such a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful environment to work in.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, Sis, I'm here for you. And if you ever
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  Speaker 2: want to talk to me, you know, off offline and
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  Speaker 2: you got it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'll call you. I'll call you here here. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you have been in the beauty industry since you were
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  Speaker 1: is it eighteen years old?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's what I thought, long, long, long before,
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  Speaker 1: like the clean girl, aesthetic or Glaskin or skinamalism or
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  Speaker 1: whatever they're calling these buzzwords. Now, I know, I know
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  Speaker 1: when you started Laura Keller Beauty. What was the problem
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  Speaker 1: that you were trying to solve that nobody else out
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  Speaker 1: there was addressing?
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  Speaker 2: You know, Jenny, this is so interesting because a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people think I had a plan for this business.
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  Speaker 2: Is I never had a plan. I didn't know where
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  Speaker 2: I was going. I was living in the moment, being
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  Speaker 2: a makeup artist in New York and in Hollywood and
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  Speaker 2: just enjoying myself and as the opportunities arose, I would
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  Speaker 2: follow them out the door. And one of the things
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  Speaker 2: that kept happening with real women, but then with high
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  Speaker 2: profile celebrities was they would say to me after I
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  Speaker 2: made them up, Wait, this is you need to teach
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  Speaker 2: me how to do this, Like I need those products, right?
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  Speaker 1: And I always say that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'd say, well, I don't. I'm not selling them,
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  Speaker 2: you know, but I can get them for you. But
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  Speaker 2: then they would say, but you know, you need to
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  Speaker 2: teach me. And I would say to my celebrity clients,
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  Speaker 2: you know you're never going to do this on your own.
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  Speaker 2: You can afford to have somebody do it, so why
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  Speaker 2: bother me with this? You know, do hire somebody? Get
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  Speaker 2: it done. No, No, you don't understand. There's sometimes I
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  Speaker 2: can't hire somebody. And I just yeah, I heard this
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  Speaker 2: over and over again. So then I look up a
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  Speaker 2: place in New York where they sold theater and film makeup,
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  Speaker 2: stage makeup, but they also sold a regular line of makeup.
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  Speaker 2: It was famous. I mean, you would go there. It's
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  Speaker 2: no longer there. Anybody in TV and film would come
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  Speaker 2: in for makeup, I mean, and the most famous photographer,
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  Speaker 2: Scaboulo and way bandy, and they would come in and
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  Speaker 2: I was really well trained because I studied theater and
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  Speaker 2: film makeup. But they had private rooms in the back,
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  Speaker 2: and the rooms were where somebody could come in and
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  Speaker 2: have a makeup lesson. I remember it was twenty five
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  Speaker 2: dollars in those days. I have a makeup lesson, What
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  Speaker 2: a deal?
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  Speaker 1: What a deal?
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  Speaker 2: What a deal? And then also if I sold ninety
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  Speaker 2: dollars worth of products, I got five bucks, but if
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  Speaker 2: I sold one hundred and thirty, I got ten bucks. Ooh,
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, I need that one hundred thirty.
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  Speaker 2: I got to get to that one hundred thirty. And
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  Speaker 2: I saw that I had that little bit of hunger
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  Speaker 2: to sell. But then I saw that I was selling
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  Speaker 2: like crazy because I had a way of breaking it
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  Speaker 2: down and explaining it where people really understood it. And
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  Speaker 2: because they understood it, they bought it. They were eager
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  Speaker 2: to bout it. And that lasted ten years. Ten years,
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  Speaker 2: and I probably would have stayed, but they fired me
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  Speaker 2: because I asked for two weeks off and they were
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  Speaker 2: not happy that I asked. They only wanted to give
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  Speaker 2: me one week, but then they gave into giving me
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  Speaker 2: the two look what they lost. Believe me, I stayed
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  Speaker 2: friends with the owner for years after. When I opened
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  Speaker 2: my own thing, he came up to help me and
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  Speaker 2: congratulate me. But so that is what led me to
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  Speaker 2: realizing that women everywhere just wanted instruction and.
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  Speaker 1: Right, It's so true. Every time I sit down in
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  Speaker 1: a professional makeup artist chair, I am like, tell me everything.
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  Speaker 1: I need to know. What's that product? Can I take
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  Speaker 1: a picture of it? How do I get that? Where
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  Speaker 1: does that go? Do I put on my my upper brow?
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  Speaker 1: My lash line? I'm asking all the questions. And you
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  Speaker 1: would think I would know everything about makeup at this point,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm always curious about what's new, what's fresh, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, and I love learning about new products. Which, hello,
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  Speaker 1: you you send me some good stuff, lady, I know
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  Speaker 1: I know what you have. Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with your Baked line, all.
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  Speaker 2: The baked thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: The foundation, Baked balance. Yes, yes, I'm loving that one.
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  Speaker 1: I've always loved that one and I recommend that to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And I love the Highlight whatever that one's called.
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  Speaker 2: Oh the French vanilla maybe, yes it's not a swirrel.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, that's gelato. Gilded. Honey. Yeah, that's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I love that one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all made on the same terracotta tile. I
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  Speaker 2: mean I stumbled on this process two years ago. And
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell you we launched one product. It
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  Speaker 2: was a bronzer on that terra cotta tile, and my
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  Speaker 2: customer spoke loudly. They were like, we want everything baked.
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  Speaker 2: I did not know that was going to become the
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  Speaker 2: essence of my brand, but it has, and it has.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, of course we do other things.
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  Speaker 2: We're doing a cream palate now. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: you got that.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Look I'm wearing it right now. Look
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  Speaker 1: on my eyelids.
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  Speaker 2: Oh is she ready? She's pretty? She's pretty. And also
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  Speaker 2: we need it at a certain age. I mean you
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  Speaker 2: start to realize.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me why about the cream?
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's so funny because I say it like,
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  Speaker 2: there was a time where my skin was so oily.
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  Speaker 2: I never thought i'd beat dry. We get to perimenopause,
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  Speaker 2: postmenopause menopause and your skin changes and you don't produce
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  Speaker 2: as much oil and you need to feel creamy things
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  Speaker 2: on your skin. And I remember the pushback. Nobody wanted
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  Speaker 2: liquid foundation. Nobody wanted cream foundation. They felt it was icky.
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  Speaker 2: So now everybody's craving that creamy feeling. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's hard when your brand is known for something to
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  Speaker 2: step out of that and go into something else. But boy,
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  Speaker 2: we had this cream foundation palette with blush bronze or
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  Speaker 2: highlight eyeshadows lip and it's called better than best, better
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  Speaker 2: than best cream palate, and now it's so received so well.
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  Speaker 1: So the thing you need is right there. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I love about you too, is your kits. You put
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  Speaker 1: together all the things that we need and then all
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  Speaker 1: you have to usually do is like add a mask
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  Speaker 1: era yeah and you're done.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. It's so it has
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  Speaker 2: to be easy, otherwise people aren't going to want to
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  Speaker 2: do it. So the product has to be versatile. It
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  Speaker 2: has to be quick. It has to be that when
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  Speaker 2: you put it on, even if you didn't do a
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  Speaker 2: good job, you still look batter. And it has to
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  Speaker 2: be fast because the days of us wanting to labor
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  Speaker 2: over putting makeup on, I mean, there was a time
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  Speaker 2: women enjoyed the process and did it. Nobody. I don't
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  Speaker 2: care if you're a stay at home mom, or if
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  Speaker 2: you're a busy mom or whatever, you know, empty nester.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody wants to take the time to put makeup on.
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  Speaker 2: They just don't.
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  Speaker 1: How much time do you usually clock when you're doing
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  Speaker 1: your own makeup, like for today, for example?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well today it's like more than I'm going out
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  Speaker 2: with you and then I'm doing a QBC show on
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  Speaker 2: the air. Yes, so I think maybe a little more
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  Speaker 2: time today. I would say twenty five minutes tops, But
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  Speaker 2: I could do it. It's like name that tune. I
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  Speaker 2: could do a full makeup in ten minutes, and I
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  Speaker 2: mean everything, not cutting any corners yet.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm a makeup artists, you got it down.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I always thank Oh, I'm a makeup artist.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you.
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  Speaker 1: I know it comes in very Wait. But here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: When I do my own makeup. As I've gotten older, Laura,
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  Speaker 1: I've lost my eyesight. I cannot see without my glasses on.
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  Speaker 1: So that makes it very difficult to do eyeliner, mascara,
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  Speaker 1: anything unless I have a giant magnifying mirror.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then it's.
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  Speaker 1: Just too much.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I wish I had it. Unless I may,
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  Speaker 2: I may run back to my room. And get it
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  Speaker 2: and show you we are launching Did you know about that? No, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: we're launching glasses, not these obviously that Wait a second.
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  Speaker 2: This one eye, one eye, and so you can do
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  Speaker 2: the eye that's open because you can see from this
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  Speaker 2: glass to this glass. Then you flip it over and
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  Speaker 2: now you can see from this side to do that.
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  Speaker 1: All Okay, you are genius. I didn't have any idea.
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  Speaker 2: Can't believe me mentioned that. Ye, we're launching it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm excited to try that. I'm excited because it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a hassle, it's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Well it is. And I always say to women who
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  Speaker 2: don't use magnification mirrors, I'm like, all right, get over yourself,
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  Speaker 2: get yourself a magnification mirror.
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  Speaker 1: I know, But then that like that unleash. She's a
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  Speaker 1: whole beast, Like you don't look anywhere other than the eyes.
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  Speaker 2: With that, I know, I know, I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 2: But like I sit in front of that ten time,
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  Speaker 2: mine's ten time I sit in front of it. I'm squeezing,
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  Speaker 2: I'm plucking hairs. I didn't know right, hairs.
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  Speaker 1: That you're like where what? I didn't know You've been
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  Speaker 1: there all along.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, any see those hairs and not tell me?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think they're not visible?
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  Speaker 1: They're not. They're not people. Human eyes are not really okay, No,
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  Speaker 1: myself too.
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  Speaker 2: I always say, if you look good, if you get
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  Speaker 2: your makeup right in a five time or ten time,
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  Speaker 2: whatever it is you need, you're going to look really
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  Speaker 2: good in bright sunlight and you don't have to worry, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's you really got to check yourself.
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  Speaker 1: I mean for somebody like me, who is so detailed,
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  Speaker 1: like I want things to be the best they can.
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  Speaker 1: So when I am doing that, I do. I have
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  Speaker 1: a sense of confidence that, like, this looks perfect in
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  Speaker 1: this magnifying mirror. It's got to look good in real life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well did you ever turn your magnifying mirror over
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  Speaker 2: to the like normal size? And then it's sort of
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  Speaker 2: like whoa wait wait, I go yeah, I mean it's
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  Speaker 2: funny because I do it and I think it looks great.
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  Speaker 2: I go to one my bathroom and I have a
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  Speaker 2: mirror on the wall, but there's a window behind that mirror,
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  Speaker 2: and somehow I see because it's more light. Yes, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: oh no, it's too much. I didn't think it was
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  Speaker 2: too much, and then I'm taking a Kleenex and I'm
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  Speaker 2: putting water on it and wiping it down. So you
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  Speaker 2: do have to check. Really, the best place to do
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  Speaker 2: is take a mirror and go to the window and
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  Speaker 2: see what you look like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, double check. Don't they say what is that thing?
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  Speaker 1: They say put it on, take it off or something,
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  Speaker 1: or like, oh, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't know, day. Is there really a day expression? I
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  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yes, there's something that I've heard that it's basically
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  Speaker 1: put more on and then take some away, because chances
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  Speaker 1: are you've put too much on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would probably go the opposite way. I'd say
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  Speaker 2: you're better off doing less, right, I mean, the one
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  Speaker 2: thing I never want. And by the way, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: looking and examining when I see women and see my
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  Speaker 2: friends like you, I don't even notice it unless you
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  Speaker 2: say to me, can you tell me if I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: it right? And then I zero in. But I would
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  Speaker 2: notice if somebody had too much. And if I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at you and i'm seeing your makeup, it's distracting me
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  Speaker 2: from looking at you as the person. So I you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's so funny. I was just grolling before, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: leave them nameless. But somebody you don't know, but somebody
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  Speaker 2: I know who is in the public eye was being
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  Speaker 2: interviewed and I thought, who would let her go on
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  Speaker 2: air like that? Like she had so much eye makeup
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't see her eyes. It was I guess you
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  Speaker 2: know she likes it. And I always also say that,
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  Speaker 2: like you may have a look that you think is great, Jenny,
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  Speaker 2: like even yourself, but you have to be open the
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  Speaker 2: letting or going somewhere and letting somebody else see you
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  Speaker 2: through their lens and trying something different. Like maybe you think, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I could only wear nude lift colors. I would never
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  Speaker 2: wear a bright color because you just don't think you can.
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  Speaker 2: But then someone puts it on you when you hate it,
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  Speaker 2: hate it, But then I say to you, do not
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  Speaker 2: take it off. Go home, show your gorgeous children, show
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  Speaker 2: your gorgeous loved ones, and see what they say, because
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  Speaker 2: chances are they're going to be like, wow, I never
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  Speaker 2: thought i'd see you in a color like that. It
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  Speaker 2: looks really good on you. It's our thing that we
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  Speaker 2: feel we can't change a routine that we.
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  Speaker 1: Have absolutely or like you know, when someone's stuck with
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  Speaker 1: that double black rimmed eyeliner look and heavy, heavy mascara.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's something they learned in high school. Maybe that's right,
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  Speaker 1: and they think, you know, this looks great. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: stick with it. But I think it's important that we,
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  Speaker 1: like you said, be open to updating our look.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think our skin changes. And I always say
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  Speaker 2: you have to meet the needs of your skin and
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  Speaker 2: the shape of your face where you're at, and that
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  Speaker 2: means making changes. And you know it's I know you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna laugh at this, but like two days ago, I
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  Speaker 2: looked in the mirror and I was like, wow, my
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  Speaker 2: eyes are really hooded. They did not appear to look
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the way they looked in the last two days. Chances
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: are they became hooded. It's real. It's a real thing.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Too much sodium, Yeah, probably Chinese fud for dinner. I
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: don't know, could.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Be, could be a lot of pasta. And I just thought,
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: you know, I've got to re sculpt the way I'm
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: putting on my eyes now and color with color.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I think you really do listen. It's only
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: if it's important to you. I'm not here to say.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Believe me, most of my friends are not makeup people.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: They are very natural, and I don't ever impose my
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: beliefs on them because they're comfortable. That's the way they
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: look and they should, right. But if you care and
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: you're asking me, I'm going to tell you.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Laura's going to tell you the truth.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: People, I'm gonna tell you.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I love that about you. Yeah. We run into each
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: other in the hallways at QBC sometimes and we were
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: talking last time, I joking, probably doing a TikTok together,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and you were saying, how you've become a social media
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: content creator and an influencer all of a sudden at
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: this point in your life and career, and we were
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: laughing about it, but it's the truth. And how has
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: that changed your business better or for worse?
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: What a great question? That is such a good do
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: you know nobody's ever asked me that.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Well, because you've seen that how it changes things because
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: you were here, You and I were both here before social.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Before it, before it, you know, and I was doing
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: it for a while, but only in the last two years.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: I think I've become more relatable and I think that oh, yes.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: You have hold sorry to love you. But the one
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: where you're laying on the treadmill and you're eating the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: track of chips. That's my favorite one.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was my New Year's resolution to be on
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: the treadmill at least thirty minutes a day.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, and you were laying that's right.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Nobody said what I had to do on the treadmill
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: or how I had to do it. So I laid
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: down and I brought a bag of chips and I
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: was doom scrolling on my phone. It was so by
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: the way that video got. I know that's probably small
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: potatoes for you, but two point seven million views.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: That's a that's a big number because of it. Like
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you said, it's relatable.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: It's relatable, and I think my team, you know, I
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: have young women who are on my social team, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: I think I underestimated that they know who I am
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: at the core, and that part of me is that
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: I really want to be a stand up comic and
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: they're they're pulling that out of me, that side of
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: me out and when I do it with them, I'm like, oh,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: this is fun, and then I forget that that's going
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: to be like student on social media and then when
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I see it it's a little cringe worthy for me. Yes,
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: but the response, but the response has been great. Yeah,
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: it's hard to watch.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: It really is welcome to my life. Yes, yeah, watching myself.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: I say it all the time. I do not know
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: how you could be an actor. I'm just going to
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: say it. I would, I would want to. Like listen,
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: I'm always flattered when someone wreckonognizes me and stops me.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: But it grounds me and it wipes me out. I
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: can't imagine going out daily and having to be looking
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: good and because you don't know who you're going to
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: run into and who's going to recognize you. It's a lot,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: a lot.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I don't leave my house anymore. Laura.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: I know, I get it. It's so safe in your house, right,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: it really is. I know, I know, but you don't
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: have your own anonymity, and it's that's tough. That's really tough.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Okay, So I have to ask you. I've loved talking
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: about everything with you, but I just love your message
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to women our age in general, and it kind of
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: really kind of is simpotico with the I Choose me
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: of it all. My message is so important to me,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Laura Giller, what was your last I Choose me moment?
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And then also tell us how we can find and
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: have our I choose me moments.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Okay, can I pick to you?
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Yes, you can do as much as you want.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: I choose me. I chose me on Saturday when I
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: cut out all the noise from people going I want
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: to get together, want to you want to have brunch,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: you want to go to dinner? And I took Gigi,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: my little doggie, down to the river because I lived
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: on the river on the east side of Manhattan. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I walked with her and played ball with her, and
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I didn't take a call, I didn't look at my phone.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: I was so present and I had such a good time.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: It brought me back to when I was young, when
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: there was no social media, when I didn't have to answer,
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: you know, business questions calls. That was my first time
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: in a long time where I chose me and did
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: something alone.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: That's as good.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: But just this morning, I chose me Jenny and I
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: signed up for a spa retreat. That's not that's not
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: typical me.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Really. Yeah, it's not something I do for myself either.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the thought of like taking off time,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: you know, in advance, like I'm just not good at
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: it because I'm always like my team will have me
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: busy every day if they can, and I love it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: I'm enjoying it. But I carved out this spa retreat
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: that other women are going to be going on. I
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: would love to share it with you because we would
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: love to have you. It is. I did it last year.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: It is not cheap, but it was the best couple
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: of days from my mind, body and soul. And I thought,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: I'm invited again. I'm going wait, where's going?
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Just where is it?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: San Diego? Oh, Calvi, Calevi.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You're coming over to my coast.
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I think you need to come, because
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: when you you the women that go on this trip
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: are not my friends. I mean I like them if
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: they were listening to this. Don't get me wrong, you're
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: all my friends. Oh no, no, no, we're all part
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: of a tribe. Now there's high profile people in there,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: but they and they all different businesses all and we
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: have these fireside chats and it's so incredible and then
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: we all help each other through this chat group that
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: we're all in and so when somebody needs something, they go,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: does anybody know somebody who does? X y Z. I
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: love that everybody's got an answer, And so I would
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: say to anybody listening, you know, if you're invited somewhere
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: that you typically wouldn't go to or doesn't appeal to you,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: but you're tempted, I think you walk through that door too,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: because I would have never I'm not a spot. These
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: gals are like you. They were doing hot yoga, they
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: were on trappezes, flying upside down. I even I was
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: laughing at them. I was not doing any of that.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I was doing that Laura Geller, my flying from the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: trapeeze days are over. Yeah, I mean I want to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: sit on the guage with you when we have time off.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. So you know, for me, it was like
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I did what I could and it was invigorating and
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I was pleased, and you know, I got everybody up dancing.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: I had I always bring a speaker when I go
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: away and I'm the DJ, and I played I have
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: the best playlist, and I got everybody dancing, which was
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: not part of the schedule. But that's what I would
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: tell women, like, do something out of your norm because
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: it feels so so good.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: It really does. You are that such good advice because
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: it's it's scary to step out of your box, your
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: comfort zone. It is the things you're familiar with. But
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: when you do, when you like take a step like
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that or a leap into the unknown, it just opens
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: up your visual of like what life can be or
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: what you know different people can bring into your life
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and what you can share with other people. That also
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: feels very very good, Like you really do their dance party.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: They probably wouldn't have had a dance party if it
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: weren't for you.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Do you know that? They all said to me, the
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: best part of that trip. You know what I did.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: I took the speaker. I drank a little wine. I'm
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: not going to lie, and I went and in their
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: little cottages. You know, everybody gets their own cottage and
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: we take over the whole spa. And I got my
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: speaker and one gal was coming out of her college
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: and I said, come on. I had the music playing
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: and then we would knock on the door of the
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: next one in everybody was coming at one of their rooms.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: You're like a hide piper.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: It was exactly like that. And I said, oh no,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: I'm going to bring a bigger speaker this time. Don't worry.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: It was fun, but you know, again, out of my
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: comfort zone. And you know, I love I Choose Me.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: It's such a good adage because anytime an opportunity comes up,
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: I think everybody has to question, who are you choosing?
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: Are you giving it to someone else? Okay, you know
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: I always I'm a giver. I'm sure you're an m
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: path two. I put everybody first before me. But it's
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: like my time now.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I love this. I love this, Laura Gelli, You're the
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: best girls. Gal. I'm so happy to be a gailler.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Gal.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I love working with you, but I also love knowing
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you as a friend.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: So I love you, honey, Thank you, have.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: A great live. I love you. Thank you you guys.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I'm very excited to share that my book I Choose Me,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Chasing Joy, Finding Purpose and Embracing Reinvention is coming April fourteenth,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and it would mean the world to me if you
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: would pre order a copy or the audiobook wherever you
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: get your books. And yes, I am definitely narrating the audiobook,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: so it's going to be so fun.