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A (0:02)
Hey, guys. Welcome back to skim Anarchy.
B (0:04)
This is Ekta.
A (0:04)
I'm so excited about her today because we have such a special guest with us. I've been trying to get her on the podcast for, I think, three or four years now. So I'm very excited that we're finally doing this. She is the creative genius behind the brand maid. She has had such a phenomenal career in the beauty industry, and I am just so excited to be hosting her. So please, without further ado, please welcome Denise Vasi. Welcome, Denise. I'm so honored to host you.
C (0:26)
That was such a sweet intro. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so glad we finally got to do this.
A (0:31)
Me too. I'm really excited, and I honestly, when I asked you to come on, I just want to learn more about you. I love watching you on socials and all the amazing progress you've made with just made and the brand and all the beautiful things. So if you could walk us down memory lane, tell us, where did your journey begin with, like, the beauty industry and everything, you know?
C (0:49)
Absolutely. Thank you. I started in beauty as a model very young. I was signed by Eileen Ford to Ford Models. At some point, they realized I wasn't going to get Runway height, and they pivoted my career into beauty. I grew up on set with some of the most incredible glam artists of our time. I did many beauty campaigns, from Bobby Brown to Kevin o'. Coins. I was touched by many legends and learned a lot of what I know and how I formulate through those years on set. Also, I grew up with a grandmother who just absolutely dies for beauty. She was an esthetician who left that career to raise her family. I spent a lot of my time in the kitchen with her, either cooking dinner or doing facials and running skincare routines. From there, I went on to be an actress. I got married and my first child and decided to stay home with my daughter. And I launched Made Co, which was kind of editorial plus blog platform. I had a byline of myself that, you know, I spoke and wrote about, wrote to, and then my writers, who also, you know, had their own bylines. And we spoke about everything from clean living, health and wellness, intentional living. I focused on clean beauty and motherhood. All that time, I was growing a community on Soulful. This was before we addressed social media as a community, but I was talking to mostly women all the time, just a little bit about everything, like why I chose certain products over others or why I was eating a certain way or if there was a New exercise craze, but all played into the lifestyle I was curating for our community. I've always loved beauty. I think growing up as a little girl, you're like, wow, I'd love to have a beauty brand, but how is it possible, possible now? We live in a world where information is at our fingertips and you can reach out to anyone and ask for advice, understand how things are made so much easier than we did before. Not that it makes it any easier, but at least the information is more accessible. In 2019, I just had my son and I went into my agency that was managing my career at the time, and I said, this is what I want to do. April, who was the head of my team at the time, was like, okay, let's do it. And so that kind of was the start of a very long journey to developing the ritual and the collection that you see now at Sephora.
