October 11, 2022 • 37 mins
My guest, Laura Geller, and I are celebrating women today - and mature women especially!
Laura Geller's line of beauty products is specifically formulated for women over the age of 40 (while used and loved by all ages!). She began her career as a theatrical make-up artist in New York City and soon had her own beauty and cosmetics boutique in Manhattan. Her decades of serving women of all ages and stages has helped her to build a signature line of beauty products that meets the needs of women too often undervalued. (But no more!) It's a great story I know you're going to love.
October is also Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we're taking the opportunity to encourage all you ladies to go get your girls checked! Early detection is key!!! ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ah, October has arrived with all of its offer rings,
the sights, the sounds, the crisp morning air, and even
crisp beer apples. Except for mine. My apple trees did
not produce a single delectable, delicious apple this year. We
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had such weird weather that none of my apples turned
out good. But I still love this kaleidoscope month of
color and change and everything it brings our way. If
you're so inclined, why don't you drop me a line
or two right, two stories at Delilah dot com and
tell me your favorite things about October, or about fall,
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or heck, your favorite things about anything or anyone. I
love reading your stories. Today, I have a story to
share with you. It's about a woman I have long
admired and I've been fortunate to get to know a
little bit better. I invited her to join us on
Love Someone with Delilah, and I invited her to join
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me this month because, as you all know, October is
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and that works into the
equation of today's show as well. You'll probably be familiar
with her name because it's also the name of her
best selling cosmetics brand that I have raved about for
quite some time. Laura Geller her story begins in New York,
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where she was born, raised, and grew to love beauty
and Broadway. By happy coincidence, she became a theatrical makeup
artist and then went on to open her namesake makeup
studio on Manhattan's Upper East Side twenty five years later.
Laura Geller Beauty focuses on empowering the invisible generation of
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them and those of us over forty, whose needs are
often overlooked in many ways, the beauty community being no exception.
She made it her mission to cater her products to
mature women with pro age messaging that makes us feel
seen and beautiful. Started by a woman, it's made by
a woman, and it's made specifically with the finest ingredients
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for those women over forty like me, and I love it.
I love it, and I feel so beautiful when I
use her products. As a breast cancer survivor, Laura Geller
and Laura Geller Beauty supports charities that in turn support
cancer patients, specifically working with cancer and Careers, a top
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resource for working women with cancer, and they've partnered with
actress Friend Dresser's charity creating a makeup kit that shares
twenty percent of its proceeds with cancer schmancer. She is
also generous Least supported the Dubian Breast Sinner where she
received her treatments, and she's committed to women fighting this
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spite as well as determined to dispense with the stigmatism
of aging in our youth obsessed culture. I'm excited to
welcome Laura Gellar to the podcast today, just after I
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the airwaves each night with me. Today is the amazing,
beautiful Laura Gellert. Laura, welcome to love someone with the Lilah. Oh,
thank you for having me. It's so good to be here.
I just want to comment how good you look. You
look so terrific. Well that's thanks to you, Laura. I
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gotta tell you this my sister, my sister who is
far more cool than me, Like she's hip and I'm not.
And I don't know how she pulls that off since
she doesn't have a TV, but somehow she knows, you know,
the little sweaters that you tuck in the front, and
the right length of your jeans and whether you're supposed
to cough them or not. She's up on all that.
So I told my sister when I first got your products,
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lore Geller products, I said, and I can't wear these.
These are really cool, these are really hip, these are
really young and she she sat me down and she said, no, no, no,
let me tell you about this lady. Let me tell
you about this company, because she had done the research.
She said, it's owned by a woman, and all the products,
everything is created without harming anything. It's natural, it's safe.
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And she said, but it's all made for women who
are mature. And I'm like, you're kidding me, Like I
can wear this, like I won't look goofy, and she said, no,
you look beautiful. So I have a friend who is
a makeup artist who came and showed me how to
best is the palette, what colors best work with me?
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And I don't think a day has gone by except
when I'm camping that I don't have at least two
or three of your products. Really, you do it yourself.
You're doing well. Yeah, she showed me how. So you
know it's kind of paid by numbers and once you
figure it out. Yeah, Like this is one of my favorites,
the Balance and right, and I think that is that Bronson,
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this is the Brons and Brighton that was the first
either I launched on QBC. That was the bike technology,
this whole thing um and it's set the whole trend
of my business two decades ago to having to do
everything baked because people love it so much. I love
it so much. And the speckle, And even if I
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don't wear makeup, even if I don't do anything else,
I have to put the speckle on after I, you know,
do a cleans routine in the morning, and I feel
beautiful good. I'm so glad because you look freaking gorgeous.
You know. The backstory with spaccle was I was Debra
Normal's makeup artist, her backup makeup artist. I'm talking thirty
years ago, years ago, and I used to go to
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do a makeup and she used to say, I need
more than makeup today, give me some spackle. It's it was.
It's a tongue in cheek expression used by a lot
of women all the time. Nora Ephron used to say
that all the time too. And I hadn't know how
moment because QBC was pressuring me to come up with
new ideas, and I said, what if I make a product?
I knew what she wanted for her face, what she
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was complaining about. I said, what if I come up
a with a product I name, it's Speckled, but I
had to buy the rights for the use of the
name by the paint company called me Rollo that owns Speckle,
which you're filling the walls. The first time I saw it,
I'm like, oh my gosh. That's because I love to
buy old houses and refurbish them. So I have sparckled
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a million walls and I have kids that put holes
in walls. You know, I gotta put a picture here
in the middle of the wall. You had to put
a nail, you know, a four inch nail. But I
would just whip out the speckle. So when I saw
the name, the name on the box, I'm like, oh
my god, that's hysterical, I know. And now I let
me tell you who knew that? Like I was onto
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something and now Debora Norvill we you know, we keep
in touch. She goes, and she's serious when she says that.
She goes, I really should be getting royalties, Like she'll
make a joke about it, but I know she means
it completely. She was the ones that I need speckled today. Yeah,
she she shows it. If it wasn't for me, you
wouldn't have that franchise. I'm like, okay, okay, all right,
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what's your favorite charity? And we're going to talk about
your favorite charities and about breast cancer and about all
sorts of things. But first, you you were born Where
were you born in New York? I was born in
the Bronx, but I was raised in a suburb outside
of Manhattan, like thirty miles outside of Manhattan, So I
kind of was raised in a little suburb, a little
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country town. But you were born and raised in New York.
You were fascinated with all things beautiful? Yeah, and with Broadway. Yeah,
well it's the first Broadway show you went to, Laura Geller, Oh,
the first one I went to. My father used to
take me to all of them. I think it was
Camelot Um in South Pacific, there were all those old shows,
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those classics. My father was a Broadway fanatic, and we
would come into New York and go to all of them.
So I'm pretty sure it was camelot That's what came
to my mind first. And did you do that Christmas Spectacular?
Every Winner? Not every Winner, but we went, and I
went recently. It doesn't get old boy I'll tell you,
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and they keep reimagining it. So if you haven't been
to Rockefeller Center to Radio City. In fact, I'm going
to Radio City tonight to see Diana Ross. Yeah yeah,
my word, m m. But you've got to go to
Everybody has to go to the Christmas Spectacular. It's nothing
that short of a Christmas miracle. It is, it is,
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And the Tin Soldiers never gets old. I love it,
the tin Soldiers and the Living Nativity. Oh my gosh,
what was the last time you had a chance to
go three years ago? I go almost every year because
I have so many kids and so many grandkids. Uh
when we try to make it, Yeah, what a gift
and what a memory you're creating every year. And I
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cannot see a tin Soldier anywhere on a Christmas card
anything without smiling ear to ear and I remembering you
know so. But we are in the month of October
celebrating Breast cancer Awareness month. Back to yours. I want
to get back to your story first. So you you
you did beauty, you did make up on Broadway and
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then for television movies. When did you have that that
aha moment where you said I could make this myself,
like Why am I using other people's products when I
could probably do something better? When did that happen? It
happened when the talent I would work on would say
to me, you know, you've got to teach me how
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to do this myself because I can't always have access
to you. And I go, all right, I'll give you
a makeup lesson. And I would teach them and they
really understood it. I didn't realize. I was like a
really good educator and they go all right, can I
buy it? And I go, oh no, this is just
like my stuff. And they're like, well, can you get this,
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you know, the stuff for me? And I'd go I
could try, and then I would have to amass like
a dozen of something and it doesn't and I would
leave little begs at their buildings with their dorman and
I was like, this is ridiculous. I really need to
start a makeup line. And I saw that there was
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an opportunity that I didn't ever plan for. But I
feel like, you know, build it and they will come
kind of thing. It was like everything that kind of
happened for me happened by the demand, not because I
projected and went I'm going to do this one day.
It was customer man, basically, And when did you decide,
you know what, women over forty really are marginalized in
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a lot of the beauty heck and a lot of everything.
You know, every magazine you pick up has eighteen year
old models. When did you say, hey, wait a minute,
you know, we're still beautiful, We're still glamorous, we still
want to feel pretty even though we're over thirty or
over forty or over fifty. Like, when did your line
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take that trajectory? Because the thing that I love about
your products is it doesn't like go into my not
that I have a lot of wrinkles, but not. I
was a son worshiper in the seventies. I did do
the baby oil with iodine in it. What were we thinking?
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What were we thinking? Did you have the reflector? Yeah? Yeah,
and you had to lay on a white blanket on
cement or the roof of someone's home and then lemon
in my hair to give the sun streaks. Yes, Oh
my gosh, you're really taking me back. We all did it,
and we all ended up with that hyper pigmentation all
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over our face. Yeah. And the lovely thing about my
Laura Geller products especially when I use the spackle. Thank
you a lot of makeup that you use when you're
my age. An hour later you pass a mare and
you go holy like accentuates those hyper pigmentations and lines,
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but lovely all day. Oh Delilah, you're just making me
feel so good. You know it's not And again, that's
not an accident. I think, you know. I started doing
makeup when I was eighteen and I'm sixty four, and
so I would work on women in their forties, fifties, sixties.
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But I was young, and I really didn't have an
understanding for what was going on with them. I sort
of knew how to do their makeup, but I couldn't
empathize because I was eighteen and gorgeous and living in
the city. Yet Yeah, and you know, they would start
to perspire because they were having a half flesh moment,
and I'd be like, why are they Why are you sweating? Please?
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Don't sweat like you makeup please. But I think what
changed everything, honestly was that. I think because I personally
have been working all these decades and living the same
pains that an eighteen year old to an eight below
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and beyond lives and doing the makeup for people in
all those age categories. I think I learned how to
combat the issues, but then even better, learned how to
create product to combat those issues. And I think, you know,
I had a store in Manhattan for twenty one years,
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a makeup studio where people came and I had first
hand knowledge and feedback of what people wanted. It was
like my own focus group. You didn't have to pay
someone for research, You were the research. That's exactly right.
So I knew that like what people didn't want, by
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the way, at any age group was to fuss. They
didn't want it complicated. They wanted something that was fun
to use so that they would use it, and they
needed good education behind how to do it. And I
think that I learned quickly how to embody and really
sort of deliver on all those cylinders. And I think
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that's I'm going to give myself a pat on the back,
because if there's one thing I knew how to do
is create product and do makeup. I mean there's so
many things I fell short of, but not in that area.
So I leaned into my customer, who really was forty plus,
and realized I was doing her a disservice because we
were using young models because it was aspirational even for them.
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But they would say to me, I don't look like her.
Can't you use somebody that looks like me, you know?
And I want to see what it looks like when
you do somebody that looks like me. And I kept
hearing that here and then I was like, why am
I avoiding the obvious and why am I not delivering
on my customers needs. So it was about three years
ago and we did a whole new you know, a
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whole jep dive in a brand review, and we knew
that our demographic was forty plus. It's not like your
daughter wouldn't have heard of me, though, because I still
get stopped by young women who go, oh my god,
you're the highlighter queen. You're the o G of highlighters,
you know. So that always makes me happy. But for
the most part, we are working with real women and
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enhancing and not transforming. The enhancing. Yeah, I mean, I
did the eighteen year old modeling thing and and all
that stuff back in the day, but then I became
a mom and the whole universe shifted, and you know,
my thing, I do this little radio show. But my
thing is yeah, you know, I do this little radio show.
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But my my true gifting or my true calling is
caring for children, especially children that have no one else
to care for them. And I don't have time for
for an hour long or two hour long makeup routine. No,
you can't be like, get your shoes on, I gotta
go put my blush on. I'll be right back. Yeah.
But but my my Laura Gella products. I mean literally,
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my makeup routine is no more than three to five minutes.
That's all I wanted to be, by the way, and
I feel lovely. I don't feel like I look made up.
I feel like I look pretty enhanced. You know, I
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can't thank you enough because you really summarized what I'm
trying to achieve. And now I when I hear it
the way you said it, I know I've conquered what
I was trying to do. Like that, that's everything to me.
And I continue like, I'm not going to sit on
my laurels and be like, Okay, don I did it.
I did it. I did it. I'm the o G.
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You do have a medazine highlighter, but eyeshadow, you know
the octagon thingies that really pretty little pieces that have
oh well, because we put ingredients in there that are
a soothing to the skin and the tissue of the
lid um and like softening butters and things that when
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you wear them, even if they have shimmer, they don't
exasperate like a dry lid or a hooded lid or
so women should not be afraid of using something with
a little shimmer to it, because I was, and I
was my sister that sent me straight and said, oh no, no,
now wait till you try these. But I'm going to
confess something here. I'm an artist. I like to draw
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and paint, and I got your last kit. I was like,
I want to reproduce these colors on my path to Lila.
Maybe we could do like I'm going to talk to
my team, I want you to create something. I was
trying to match my paint colors to the colors in
my eye box I had just got, and I finally said,
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forget this, and I painted with your makeup, painted what
I was working on, some flowers, and I wanted this
rose color that was in my eyebox. I couldn't match it,
so I wet my paper and I used your eye
color and it's like a pasta. I want to see.
What do you have the picture? I don't. I gifted it,
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but I could do another one for you. Okay, I
have an idea. We can talk offline, but let your
listeners know that I'm on too. I have a brilliant
idea and they should look forward to it in time
to come. That's all I'm gonna say. I have an idea.
So I'm confessing to you that I used my makeup
that you gifted me to enhance a painting because I
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love the rose color. It was a rose gold color
that I couldn't match with my paint. So you really
are an artist. See, I wouldn't have thought to do.
Oh gosh, I I use anything in my artwork. I
use everything. I use anything and everything. But is this
just for your own satisfaction? Like? What do you do
with this art stuff? Is it hanging in your house?
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Do I have any of my artwork in my house?
I don't think so. I usually sometimes I auction it
for my charity for point hope, and sometimes I gift
it and oftentimes it ends up in people's closets or
their basement or you know, and that's okay, it's my therapy.
Do you have? I mean, shame on me for not knowing,
But is it? Are there any pictures ever that exist
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on your Instagram page or on a Facebook page or
in social media somewhere sometimes Okay, I'm gonna look. Yeah,
I'll tell you offline about my last project. But let's
get back to October. And you're wearing sort of a
shade of pink, kind of a heathery, purply pink. But
it's breast cancer Awareness month and you have been incredibly
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motivated to help women and to encourage women and to
take the stigmatism away from talking about breast cancer. And
I love that. So tell me a little bit about
your journey. I mean I know personally, but tell our
listeners why you embrace this and why you give so
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much of your time and energy and resources to it. Well,
you know, I have to say, my whole life, I've
always done things for charity and wanted to give back,
and breast cancer awareness was always something that I thought,
you know, it was on my radar, and from time
to time I would do something as a favor for
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somebody until it hit home and I got breast cancer
in two thousand nineteen. And you know, my mother had
gotten breast cancer in her eighties, and I remember getting
tested and they said, oh, you don't have the Brocka
gene and you don't have to worry, it's not gonna happen,
and blah blah blah. And I always had mamograms every year.
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I'm very conscientious of doing those things. Um, my friend,
my very best friend from childhood, had passed away that
same month from ovarian cancer, and she knew was right
before she passed. She had found out that I got
breast cancer. And I thought, that's it. I'm on a
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mission now. And I was one of the fortunate ones
because I only had stage one and I live in
New York City, and because I have people and no people,
I was able to be directed to Mount Sinai in
New York, one of the best, one of the best,
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the Dubian Breast Cancer Center here in New York. And
I have to say they saved my life. And of
course the radiologists that found my cancer saved my life.
But I thought, that's it. So many people don't believe
it's going to happen to them. So many people have
it so much worse. I hear those stories on a
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regular basis, not just friends, but family and you know,
relatives and customers. And I thought there is a lot
of research about it, but there isn't enough talk about it.
So I teamed up with the Duban Breast Center. Actually, UM,
I think it was last year, and we donated UM
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a portion of sales to Duban Breast Center. And I
continue to work closely and now I'm on their board
and very active in all the new things that are
happening with the breast cancer and innovations that are coming,
so many wonderful things that nobody in this world today
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has to miss out on the advance this UM that
are going on. I mean, of course, not everybody as
stage one. Most people find out too late or you know,
it won't have the outcome I had. So I just
think it's important. I I you know, I didn't think
when I turned sixty one, but this was going to
happen to me. So thank you for asking me, UM.
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But I will continue to advocate for women for everything,
not just breast cancer, you know. So tell me about
your partnership with fran Dresser. How did that come about? Oh?
My gosh, I've never met her, but I love her. Yes.
So that's there's another example of things we do at
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Laura geller Um. She has a charity for those who
don't know, and she has a wonderful book called Cancer
Schmancer Kansas. Smant the answer schman You can hear her
thing right, I know. So she actually loved our products
and we knew that she did, and we reached out
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to her and she wanted a team up with us,
which was huge because you know, when you get a
celebrity of that magnitude and they want to team up
with your brand, you know that you're doing something right.
Laura has lived is living a fascinating and inspiring life.
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a few weeks ago that was a montage of fran
Dresser's dresses, her sparkly dresses. Oh my word, is that
woman beautiful? You know when you watch her old the
reruns or whatever, what strikes you as her humor obviously,
but she puts herself together a boy well for well,
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what a cute figure she has, what a past? Yeah,
I mean just her whole style and her personality. And
I watched it twice, just loving every second of it
and to me too. And you know, every time somebody
purchases one of her collections that we have, and we're
doing a new one now with her, I mean, we're
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on this journey with her. Of the proceeds go to
her charity, Cancer Shancer. So we're constantly um teaming up because,
let's face it, she has a bigger reach, she has
more followers, and we want to be part of anything
we can do to help anybody who's really making making
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a difference. And she's making a huge difference. Well, you're
making a difference. You're making a difference by your products,
thank you, You're making a difference by your charity work,
but mostly you're making a difference just by you, by
by your personality. And you're so mind It's true I
love meeting women who don't take no for an answer.
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I I had an epiphany. I don't know, I was
maybe in my thirties or forties, and I realized, you
can do one of two things. You can stand in
front of me and try to stop me, or divert
me or redirect me. Or you can stand on the
sidelines and applaud me. Or you could go do your
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own thing and live your own life and and have
your own successes. But if you stand in front of
me and try to stop me, you will get hurt.
I will mow you down. Oh my gosh, that's me too.
I know that, and I love that about you. I
love that women who if you don't like the situation,
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go do something. Fix it. I'll tell you what makes
a little bit of a difference. And you have to
agree with this. You've got to find the thing that
you're passionate about. If it's raising money for cancer, what
were Maybe you don't have to be an outgoing person
like maybe I am, or like you are. You could
be an introvert. You can be shy, but you have
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to find something to clamor onto and say, Okay, I
got this, I like this, that can change the trajectory
of who you are and what you accomplish in life.
Because I know everybody's not like me, an outgoing find
a passion, you know, and if I can get there
and you can get there. I am telling you I
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didn't have any mentorship. Nobody gave me money. I didn't
come from money. I just found a passion, and makeup
was my personal passion. I didn't know that it would
ever be something. I thank everything in this world that
I was able to get there. But it was my
tenacity and my drive. If you're right, you gotta have it.
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My problem is I have too many passions. You do
It used to be they were They were all men
um and that was a problem. Uh. Thank god metopause
has slowed that down. But oh, I don't relate. But
I have a lot of passions, and so I'm kind
of like a ping pong and a dryer most of
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the time. But um, I am lucky. I am blessed
because I have been able to see and do things
I never dreamed as a kid I would ever get
to see her do. The difference is you didn't say no.
You never said no. You gotta roll with life, do
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I remember when I started in the business, somebody said
dazzle with I was going to do a Broadway show,
my first Broadway show, and the actress, I won't mention
it who was but um, they said to me, just
dazzle her with brilliance and baffle or bullshit. And I
knew what they meant. They went, you know, just talk talk,
talk talk. I was so nervous, honestly, I couldn't anxiety. No,
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I talked, trust me. He was like, she was like,
who have you made up? And I was like, oh, Barber,
stry Fan, Butler. No, I never made any of them up.
But I remember Baffle and with Bullshita, and I was
a wreck before I had to go do that show
and her. But I wouldn't say no. And by the way,
I didn't get paid. It was a non paying job.
But I knew that if I got that on my resume,
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that was going to change my trajectory. It was an opportunity.
And every single person listening who may be saying, okay,
but I'm not the lial and I'm not Laura. I
wasn't Laura my whole life. Trust me. I was a
different person when I was, you know, in my twenties, thirties, forties.
You just can't say no. You're so right, can't no,
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You can't say no. You got to say yes to opportunities,
Yes to dreams, yes to people you love, Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
I'll try, Yes, I'll try. Sometimes you got to say
no to protect your sanity. Yeah, but you know, I
was just us to participate with my daughter and girl scouting,
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and I'm like, yes, I can do that. I loved
it when I was a girl scout. I love going camping. Yes,
you can come and camp at my farm. Oh my gosh.
If if anything comes out of my conversation with you,
and I know we all hear it all the time,
don't say no and push yourself, you know, outside your
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comfort zone. But it really is true. I wouldn't have
gotten more I got, and I'm not done yet, by
the way. Just I still look and go there's more opportunity.
I haven't done this, I haven't done that. So that's
the other piece of it is keep saying yes, because
opportunities keep coming and knocking on your door and you
just have to find them and look at them. Well,
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thank you, Laura Geller for your beautiful products. Thank you
for your beautiful soul. Thank you for helping other women
navigate breast cancer. I praise God have not fought that
battle yet. You may not and may never, but it
may be another battle that comes your way of some kind. Yeah,
and I've discovered pretty much every battle that God has
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called me to fight, it's for a reason, and it
developed something in my character that didn't exist before. Sometimes
I wish I were an easier student, you know, that
I could learn just by other people's mistakes or other
people's battles or whatever. But I'm not. I have to
go through the flames. I have to go through the fire.
But that's okay. I love the life that God has
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given me. You're an amazing woman who just so you know,
you're changing lives daily, and I think that's something a
lot of us don't give ourselves credit for it. But
you are just by having me and taking the time
to listen to me, and whatever I could have possibly
imparted today, you do this on a regular basis. You
do it in your real life. I just applaud you
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and I look up to you. All right, now, you're
gonna come in and meet my zebra. I know I'm
picturing myself in overalls. I'm picturing my self literally no makeup. Well,
you do want to put the spackle on because it's
got that little sparkle in it, the gold ish one.
Oh that's the champagne. Yeah, I'll share my champagne's okay,
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so we'll both sport some spacle. But I need to
come out of my comfort zone because feeding a zebra.
The closest I got to animals was a safari at
Great Adventures the v I p toa and that was
the last time I came then close to animals. So
it's it's I think I'm do and I think this one.
I can't say no to Laura Gallar. Thank you for
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spending time with us today. This has been delightful. And women,
get the girls checked. If you've not had your your
yearly exam, get the girls checked. So important, so important.
And what's frands cancer schman Sir cancer schmancer And of
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the proceeds from her collections on Laura Geller dot com,
we'll go to her charity and so really important. You know,
any place that gives back, I'd rather put my money
towards places like that. Amen, Thank you so much, have
a great rest of your autumn, and thank you find
the overalls. I've got the boots, but you find the overalls. Well,
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thank you sweethought it was a pleasure and so much fun. Ladies,
we need to be here for each other in every
stage of our life and through all the challenges that
life sends our way. We need to be our own
best champions and to take our roles as sisters, daughters, mothers,
aunties and friends. Seriously, we need to support and cheer
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each other on. I know you know this. It's called
preaching to the choir, but I want to implore you
to put a little extra effort into that this month.
Go get your mammograms, take a friend or a loved
one to get There's two. Early detection is the key.
My guest today is doing a remarkable job of reminding
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us that no matter our age, or perhaps because of
our age, we are beautiful. We are wise, we have value,
and we are seeing. Look at your reflection in the
mirror and remind yourself of that as well. And if
you want to treat yourself to some affordable luxuries, visit
Laura Geller dot com where you might find a product
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or ten that you don't want to live without. It's weightless,
silky color that never cakes and has made for you.
Enjoy everything October has to offer. Join me on the
airwaves each night, catch my daily podcast, Hey it's Delilah
for a few minutes of inspiration each weekday, and meet
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me right back here in a couple of weeks, where
I'll be joined by another guest with another wonderful story
to tell.
Ah, October has arrived with all of its offer rings,
the sights, the sounds, the crisp morning air, and even
crisp beer apples. Except for mine. My apple trees did
not produce a single delectable, delicious apple this year. We
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had such weird weather that none of my apples turned
out good. But I still love this kaleidoscope month of
color and change and everything it brings our way. If
you're so inclined, why don't you drop me a line
or two right, two stories at Delilah dot com and
tell me your favorite things about October, or about fall,
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or heck, your favorite things about anything or anyone. I
love reading your stories. Today, I have a story to
share with you. It's about a woman I have long
admired and I've been fortunate to get to know a
little bit better. I invited her to join us on
Love Someone with Delilah, and I invited her to join
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me this month because, as you all know, October is
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and that works into the
equation of today's show as well. You'll probably be familiar
with her name because it's also the name of her
best selling cosmetics brand that I have raved about for
quite some time. Laura Geller her story begins in New York,
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where she was born, raised, and grew to love beauty
and Broadway. By happy coincidence, she became a theatrical makeup
artist and then went on to open her namesake makeup
studio on Manhattan's Upper East Side twenty five years later.
Laura Geller Beauty focuses on empowering the invisible generation of
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them and those of us over forty, whose needs are
often overlooked in many ways, the beauty community being no exception.
She made it her mission to cater her products to
mature women with pro age messaging that makes us feel
seen and beautiful. Started by a woman, it's made by
a woman, and it's made specifically with the finest ingredients
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for those women over forty like me, and I love it.
I love it, and I feel so beautiful when I
use her products. As a breast cancer survivor, Laura Geller
and Laura Geller Beauty supports charities that in turn support
cancer patients, specifically working with cancer and Careers, a top
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resource for working women with cancer, and they've partnered with
actress Friend Dresser's charity creating a makeup kit that shares
twenty percent of its proceeds with cancer schmancer. She is
also generous Least supported the Dubian Breast Sinner where she
received her treatments, and she's committed to women fighting this
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spite as well as determined to dispense with the stigmatism
of aging in our youth obsessed culture. I'm excited to
welcome Laura Gellar to the podcast today, just after I
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the airwaves each night with me. Today is the amazing,
beautiful Laura Gellert. Laura, welcome to love someone with the Lilah. Oh,
thank you for having me. It's so good to be here.
I just want to comment how good you look. You
look so terrific. Well that's thanks to you, Laura. I
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gotta tell you this my sister, my sister who is
far more cool than me, Like she's hip and I'm not.
And I don't know how she pulls that off since
she doesn't have a TV, but somehow she knows, you know,
the little sweaters that you tuck in the front, and
the right length of your jeans and whether you're supposed
to cough them or not. She's up on all that.
So I told my sister when I first got your products,
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lore Geller products, I said, and I can't wear these.
These are really cool, these are really hip, these are
really young and she she sat me down and she said, no, no, no,
let me tell you about this lady. Let me tell
you about this company, because she had done the research.
She said, it's owned by a woman, and all the products,
everything is created without harming anything. It's natural, it's safe.
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And she said, but it's all made for women who
are mature. And I'm like, you're kidding me, Like I
can wear this, like I won't look goofy, and she said, no,
you look beautiful. So I have a friend who is
a makeup artist who came and showed me how to
best is the palette, what colors best work with me?
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And I don't think a day has gone by except
when I'm camping that I don't have at least two
or three of your products. Really, you do it yourself.
You're doing well. Yeah, she showed me how. So you
know it's kind of paid by numbers and once you
figure it out. Yeah, Like this is one of my favorites,
the Balance and right, and I think that is that Bronson,
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this is the Brons and Brighton that was the first
either I launched on QBC. That was the bike technology,
this whole thing um and it's set the whole trend
of my business two decades ago to having to do
everything baked because people love it so much. I love
it so much. And the speckle, And even if I
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don't wear makeup, even if I don't do anything else,
I have to put the speckle on after I, you know,
do a cleans routine in the morning, and I feel
beautiful good. I'm so glad because you look freaking gorgeous.
You know. The backstory with spaccle was I was Debra
Normal's makeup artist, her backup makeup artist. I'm talking thirty
years ago, years ago, and I used to go to
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do a makeup and she used to say, I need
more than makeup today, give me some spackle. It's it was.
It's a tongue in cheek expression used by a lot
of women all the time. Nora Ephron used to say
that all the time too. And I hadn't know how
moment because QBC was pressuring me to come up with
new ideas, and I said, what if I make a product?
I knew what she wanted for her face, what she
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was complaining about. I said, what if I come up
a with a product I name, it's Speckled, but I
had to buy the rights for the use of the
name by the paint company called me Rollo that owns Speckle,
which you're filling the walls. The first time I saw it,
I'm like, oh my gosh. That's because I love to
buy old houses and refurbish them. So I have sparckled
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a million walls and I have kids that put holes
in walls. You know, I gotta put a picture here
in the middle of the wall. You had to put
a nail, you know, a four inch nail. But I
would just whip out the speckle. So when I saw
the name, the name on the box, I'm like, oh
my god, that's hysterical, I know. And now I let
me tell you who knew that? Like I was onto
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something and now Debora Norvill we you know, we keep
in touch. She goes, and she's serious when she says that.
She goes, I really should be getting royalties, Like she'll
make a joke about it, but I know she means
it completely. She was the ones that I need speckled today. Yeah,
she she shows it. If it wasn't for me, you
wouldn't have that franchise. I'm like, okay, okay, all right,
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what's your favorite charity? And we're going to talk about
your favorite charities and about breast cancer and about all
sorts of things. But first, you you were born Where
were you born in New York? I was born in
the Bronx, but I was raised in a suburb outside
of Manhattan, like thirty miles outside of Manhattan, So I
kind of was raised in a little suburb, a little
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country town. But you were born and raised in New York.
You were fascinated with all things beautiful? Yeah, and with Broadway. Yeah,
well it's the first Broadway show you went to, Laura Geller, Oh,
the first one I went to. My father used to
take me to all of them. I think it was
Camelot Um in South Pacific, there were all those old shows,
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those classics. My father was a Broadway fanatic, and we
would come into New York and go to all of them.
So I'm pretty sure it was camelot That's what came
to my mind first. And did you do that Christmas Spectacular?
Every Winner? Not every Winner, but we went, and I
went recently. It doesn't get old boy I'll tell you,
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and they keep reimagining it. So if you haven't been
to Rockefeller Center to Radio City. In fact, I'm going
to Radio City tonight to see Diana Ross. Yeah yeah,
my word, m m. But you've got to go to
Everybody has to go to the Christmas Spectacular. It's nothing
that short of a Christmas miracle. It is, it is,
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And the Tin Soldiers never gets old. I love it,
the tin Soldiers and the Living Nativity. Oh my gosh,
what was the last time you had a chance to
go three years ago? I go almost every year because
I have so many kids and so many grandkids. Uh
when we try to make it, Yeah, what a gift
and what a memory you're creating every year. And I
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cannot see a tin Soldier anywhere on a Christmas card
anything without smiling ear to ear and I remembering you
know so. But we are in the month of October
celebrating Breast cancer Awareness month. Back to yours. I want
to get back to your story first. So you you
you did beauty, you did make up on Broadway and
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then for television movies. When did you have that that
aha moment where you said I could make this myself,
like Why am I using other people's products when I
could probably do something better? When did that happen? It
happened when the talent I would work on would say
to me, you know, you've got to teach me how
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to do this myself because I can't always have access
to you. And I go, all right, I'll give you
a makeup lesson. And I would teach them and they
really understood it. I didn't realize. I was like a
really good educator and they go all right, can I
buy it? And I go, oh no, this is just
like my stuff. And they're like, well, can you get this,
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you know, the stuff for me? And I'd go I
could try, and then I would have to amass like
a dozen of something and it doesn't and I would
leave little begs at their buildings with their dorman and
I was like, this is ridiculous. I really need to
start a makeup line. And I saw that there was
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an opportunity that I didn't ever plan for. But I
feel like, you know, build it and they will come
kind of thing. It was like everything that kind of
happened for me happened by the demand, not because I
projected and went I'm going to do this one day.
It was customer man, basically, And when did you decide,
you know what, women over forty really are marginalized in
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a lot of the beauty heck and a lot of everything.
You know, every magazine you pick up has eighteen year
old models. When did you say, hey, wait a minute,
you know, we're still beautiful, We're still glamorous, we still
want to feel pretty even though we're over thirty or
over forty or over fifty. Like, when did your line
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take that trajectory? Because the thing that I love about
your products is it doesn't like go into my not
that I have a lot of wrinkles, but not. I
was a son worshiper in the seventies. I did do
the baby oil with iodine in it. What were we thinking?
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What were we thinking? Did you have the reflector? Yeah? Yeah,
and you had to lay on a white blanket on
cement or the roof of someone's home and then lemon
in my hair to give the sun streaks. Yes, Oh
my gosh, you're really taking me back. We all did it,
and we all ended up with that hyper pigmentation all
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over our face. Yeah. And the lovely thing about my
Laura Geller products especially when I use the spackle. Thank
you a lot of makeup that you use when you're
my age. An hour later you pass a mare and
you go holy like accentuates those hyper pigmentations and lines,
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but lovely all day. Oh Delilah, you're just making me
feel so good. You know it's not And again, that's
not an accident. I think, you know. I started doing
makeup when I was eighteen and I'm sixty four, and
so I would work on women in their forties, fifties, sixties.
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But I was young, and I really didn't have an
understanding for what was going on with them. I sort
of knew how to do their makeup, but I couldn't
empathize because I was eighteen and gorgeous and living in
the city. Yet Yeah, and you know, they would start
to perspire because they were having a half flesh moment,
and I'd be like, why are they Why are you sweating? Please?
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Don't sweat like you makeup please. But I think what
changed everything, honestly was that. I think because I personally
have been working all these decades and living the same
pains that an eighteen year old to an eight below
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and beyond lives and doing the makeup for people in
all those age categories. I think I learned how to
combat the issues, but then even better, learned how to
create product to combat those issues. And I think, you know,
I had a store in Manhattan for twenty one years,
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a makeup studio where people came and I had first
hand knowledge and feedback of what people wanted. It was
like my own focus group. You didn't have to pay
someone for research, You were the research. That's exactly right.
So I knew that like what people didn't want, by
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the way, at any age group was to fuss. They
didn't want it complicated. They wanted something that was fun
to use so that they would use it, and they
needed good education behind how to do it. And I
think that I learned quickly how to embody and really
sort of deliver on all those cylinders. And I think
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that's I'm going to give myself a pat on the back,
because if there's one thing I knew how to do
is create product and do makeup. I mean there's so
many things I fell short of, but not in that area.
So I leaned into my customer, who really was forty plus,
and realized I was doing her a disservice because we
were using young models because it was aspirational even for them.
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But they would say to me, I don't look like her.
Can't you use somebody that looks like me, you know?
And I want to see what it looks like when
you do somebody that looks like me. And I kept
hearing that here and then I was like, why am
I avoiding the obvious and why am I not delivering
on my customers needs. So it was about three years
ago and we did a whole new you know, a
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whole jep dive in a brand review, and we knew
that our demographic was forty plus. It's not like your
daughter wouldn't have heard of me, though, because I still
get stopped by young women who go, oh my god,
you're the highlighter queen. You're the o G of highlighters,
you know. So that always makes me happy. But for
the most part, we are working with real women and
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enhancing and not transforming. The enhancing. Yeah, I mean, I
did the eighteen year old modeling thing and and all
that stuff back in the day, but then I became
a mom and the whole universe shifted, and you know,
my thing, I do this little radio show. But my
thing is yeah, you know, I do this little radio show.
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But my my true gifting or my true calling is
caring for children, especially children that have no one else
to care for them. And I don't have time for
for an hour long or two hour long makeup routine. No,
you can't be like, get your shoes on, I gotta
go put my blush on. I'll be right back. Yeah.
But but my my Laura Gella products. I mean literally,
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my makeup routine is no more than three to five minutes.
That's all I wanted to be, by the way, and
I feel lovely. I don't feel like I look made up.
I feel like I look pretty enhanced. You know, I
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can't thank you enough because you really summarized what I'm
trying to achieve. And now I when I hear it
the way you said it, I know I've conquered what
I was trying to do. Like that, that's everything to me.
And I continue like, I'm not going to sit on
my laurels and be like, Okay, don I did it.
I did it. I did it. I'm the o G.
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You do have a medazine highlighter, but eyeshadow, you know
the octagon thingies that really pretty little pieces that have
oh well, because we put ingredients in there that are
a soothing to the skin and the tissue of the
lid um and like softening butters and things that when
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you wear them, even if they have shimmer, they don't
exasperate like a dry lid or a hooded lid or
so women should not be afraid of using something with
a little shimmer to it, because I was, and I
was my sister that sent me straight and said, oh no, no,
now wait till you try these. But I'm going to
confess something here. I'm an artist. I like to draw
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and paint, and I got your last kit. I was like,
I want to reproduce these colors on my path to Lila.
Maybe we could do like I'm going to talk to
my team, I want you to create something. I was
trying to match my paint colors to the colors in
my eye box I had just got, and I finally said,
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forget this, and I painted with your makeup, painted what
I was working on, some flowers, and I wanted this
rose color that was in my eyebox. I couldn't match it,
so I wet my paper and I used your eye
color and it's like a pasta. I want to see.
What do you have the picture? I don't. I gifted it,
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but I could do another one for you. Okay, I
have an idea. We can talk offline, but let your
listeners know that I'm on too. I have a brilliant
idea and they should look forward to it in time
to come. That's all I'm gonna say. I have an idea.
So I'm confessing to you that I used my makeup
that you gifted me to enhance a painting because I
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love the rose color. It was a rose gold color
that I couldn't match with my paint. So you really
are an artist. See, I wouldn't have thought to do.
Oh gosh, I I use anything in my artwork. I
use everything. I use anything and everything. But is this
just for your own satisfaction? Like? What do you do
with this art stuff? Is it hanging in your house?
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Do I have any of my artwork in my house?
I don't think so. I usually sometimes I auction it
for my charity for point hope, and sometimes I gift
it and oftentimes it ends up in people's closets or
their basement or you know, and that's okay, it's my therapy.
Do you have? I mean, shame on me for not knowing,
But is it? Are there any pictures ever that exist
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on your Instagram page or on a Facebook page or
in social media somewhere sometimes Okay, I'm gonna look. Yeah,
I'll tell you offline about my last project. But let's
get back to October. And you're wearing sort of a
shade of pink, kind of a heathery, purply pink. But
it's breast cancer Awareness month and you have been incredibly
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motivated to help women and to encourage women and to
take the stigmatism away from talking about breast cancer. And
I love that. So tell me a little bit about
your journey. I mean I know personally, but tell our
listeners why you embrace this and why you give so
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much of your time and energy and resources to it. Well,
you know, I have to say, my whole life, I've
always done things for charity and wanted to give back,
and breast cancer awareness was always something that I thought,
you know, it was on my radar, and from time
to time I would do something as a favor for
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somebody until it hit home and I got breast cancer
in two thousand nineteen. And you know, my mother had
gotten breast cancer in her eighties, and I remember getting
tested and they said, oh, you don't have the Brocka
gene and you don't have to worry, it's not gonna happen,
and blah blah blah. And I always had mamograms every year.
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I'm very conscientious of doing those things. Um, my friend,
my very best friend from childhood, had passed away that
same month from ovarian cancer, and she knew was right
before she passed. She had found out that I got
breast cancer. And I thought, that's it. I'm on a
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mission now. And I was one of the fortunate ones
because I only had stage one and I live in
New York City, and because I have people and no people,
I was able to be directed to Mount Sinai in
New York, one of the best, one of the best,
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the Dubian Breast Cancer Center here in New York. And
I have to say they saved my life. And of
course the radiologists that found my cancer saved my life.
But I thought, that's it. So many people don't believe
it's going to happen to them. So many people have
it so much worse. I hear those stories on a
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regular basis, not just friends, but family and you know,
relatives and customers. And I thought there is a lot
of research about it, but there isn't enough talk about it.
So I teamed up with the Duban Breast Center. Actually, UM,
I think it was last year, and we donated UM
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a portion of sales to Duban Breast Center. And I
continue to work closely and now I'm on their board
and very active in all the new things that are
happening with the breast cancer and innovations that are coming,
so many wonderful things that nobody in this world today
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has to miss out on the advance this UM that
are going on. I mean, of course, not everybody as
stage one. Most people find out too late or you know,
it won't have the outcome I had. So I just
think it's important. I I you know, I didn't think
when I turned sixty one, but this was going to
happen to me. So thank you for asking me, UM.
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But I will continue to advocate for women for everything,
not just breast cancer, you know. So tell me about
your partnership with fran Dresser. How did that come about? Oh?
My gosh, I've never met her, but I love her. Yes.
So that's there's another example of things we do at
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Laura geller Um. She has a charity for those who
don't know, and she has a wonderful book called Cancer
Schmancer Kansas. Smant the answer schman You can hear her
thing right, I know. So she actually loved our products
and we knew that she did, and we reached out
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to her and she wanted a team up with us,
which was huge because you know, when you get a
celebrity of that magnitude and they want to team up
with your brand, you know that you're doing something right.
Laura has lived is living a fascinating and inspiring life.
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a few weeks ago that was a montage of fran
Dresser's dresses, her sparkly dresses. Oh my word, is that
woman beautiful? You know when you watch her old the
reruns or whatever, what strikes you as her humor obviously,
but she puts herself together a boy well for well,
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what a cute figure she has, what a past? Yeah,
I mean just her whole style and her personality. And
I watched it twice, just loving every second of it
and to me too. And you know, every time somebody
purchases one of her collections that we have, and we're
doing a new one now with her, I mean, we're
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on this journey with her. Of the proceeds go to
her charity, Cancer Shancer. So we're constantly um teaming up because,
let's face it, she has a bigger reach, she has
more followers, and we want to be part of anything
we can do to help anybody who's really making making
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a difference. And she's making a huge difference. Well, you're
making a difference. You're making a difference by your products,
thank you, You're making a difference by your charity work,
but mostly you're making a difference just by you, by
by your personality. And you're so mind It's true I
love meeting women who don't take no for an answer.
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I I had an epiphany. I don't know, I was
maybe in my thirties or forties, and I realized, you
can do one of two things. You can stand in
front of me and try to stop me, or divert
me or redirect me. Or you can stand on the
sidelines and applaud me. Or you could go do your
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own thing and live your own life and and have
your own successes. But if you stand in front of
me and try to stop me, you will get hurt.
I will mow you down. Oh my gosh, that's me too.
I know that, and I love that about you. I
love that women who if you don't like the situation,
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go do something. Fix it. I'll tell you what makes
a little bit of a difference. And you have to
agree with this. You've got to find the thing that
you're passionate about. If it's raising money for cancer, what
were Maybe you don't have to be an outgoing person
like maybe I am, or like you are. You could
be an introvert. You can be shy, but you have
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to find something to clamor onto and say, Okay, I
got this, I like this, that can change the trajectory
of who you are and what you accomplish in life.
Because I know everybody's not like me, an outgoing find
a passion, you know, and if I can get there
and you can get there. I am telling you I
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didn't have any mentorship. Nobody gave me money. I didn't
come from money. I just found a passion, and makeup
was my personal passion. I didn't know that it would
ever be something. I thank everything in this world that
I was able to get there. But it was my
tenacity and my drive. If you're right, you gotta have it.
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My problem is I have too many passions. You do
It used to be they were They were all men
um and that was a problem. Uh. Thank god metopause
has slowed that down. But oh, I don't relate. But
I have a lot of passions, and so I'm kind
of like a ping pong and a dryer most of
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the time. But um, I am lucky. I am blessed
because I have been able to see and do things
I never dreamed as a kid I would ever get
to see her do. The difference is you didn't say no.
You never said no. You gotta roll with life, do
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I remember when I started in the business, somebody said
dazzle with I was going to do a Broadway show,
my first Broadway show, and the actress, I won't mention
it who was but um, they said to me, just
dazzle her with brilliance and baffle or bullshit. And I
knew what they meant. They went, you know, just talk talk,
talk talk. I was so nervous, honestly, I couldn't anxiety. No,
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I talked, trust me. He was like, she was like,
who have you made up? And I was like, oh, Barber,
stry Fan, Butler. No, I never made any of them up.
But I remember Baffle and with Bullshita, and I was
a wreck before I had to go do that show
and her. But I wouldn't say no. And by the way,
I didn't get paid. It was a non paying job.
But I knew that if I got that on my resume,
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that was going to change my trajectory. It was an opportunity.
And every single person listening who may be saying, okay,
but I'm not the lial and I'm not Laura. I
wasn't Laura my whole life. Trust me. I was a
different person when I was, you know, in my twenties, thirties, forties.
You just can't say no. You're so right, can't no,
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You can't say no. You got to say yes to opportunities,
Yes to dreams, yes to people you love, Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
I'll try, Yes, I'll try. Sometimes you got to say
no to protect your sanity. Yeah, but you know, I
was just us to participate with my daughter and girl scouting,
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and I'm like, yes, I can do that. I loved
it when I was a girl scout. I love going camping. Yes,
you can come and camp at my farm. Oh my gosh.
If if anything comes out of my conversation with you,
and I know we all hear it all the time,
don't say no and push yourself, you know, outside your
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comfort zone. But it really is true. I wouldn't have
gotten more I got, and I'm not done yet, by
the way. Just I still look and go there's more opportunity.
I haven't done this, I haven't done that. So that's
the other piece of it is keep saying yes, because
opportunities keep coming and knocking on your door and you
just have to find them and look at them. Well,
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thank you, Laura Geller for your beautiful products. Thank you
for your beautiful soul. Thank you for helping other women
navigate breast cancer. I praise God have not fought that
battle yet. You may not and may never, but it
may be another battle that comes your way of some kind. Yeah,
and I've discovered pretty much every battle that God has
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called me to fight, it's for a reason, and it
developed something in my character that didn't exist before. Sometimes
I wish I were an easier student, you know, that
I could learn just by other people's mistakes or other
people's battles or whatever. But I'm not. I have to
go through the flames. I have to go through the fire.
But that's okay. I love the life that God has
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given me. You're an amazing woman who just so you know,
you're changing lives daily, and I think that's something a
lot of us don't give ourselves credit for it. But
you are just by having me and taking the time
to listen to me, and whatever I could have possibly
imparted today, you do this on a regular basis. You
do it in your real life. I just applaud you
(34:50):
and I look up to you. All right, now, you're
gonna come in and meet my zebra. I know I'm
picturing myself in overalls. I'm picturing my self literally no makeup. Well,
you do want to put the spackle on because it's
got that little sparkle in it, the gold ish one.
Oh that's the champagne. Yeah, I'll share my champagne's okay,
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so we'll both sport some spacle. But I need to
come out of my comfort zone because feeding a zebra.
The closest I got to animals was a safari at
Great Adventures the v I p toa and that was
the last time I came then close to animals. So
it's it's I think I'm do and I think this one.
I can't say no to Laura Gallar. Thank you for
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spending time with us today. This has been delightful. And women,
get the girls checked. If you've not had your your
yearly exam, get the girls checked. So important, so important.
And what's frands cancer schman Sir cancer schmancer And of
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the proceeds from her collections on Laura Geller dot com,
we'll go to her charity and so really important. You know,
any place that gives back, I'd rather put my money
towards places like that. Amen, Thank you so much, have
a great rest of your autumn, and thank you find
the overalls. I've got the boots, but you find the overalls. Well,
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thank you sweethought it was a pleasure and so much fun. Ladies,
we need to be here for each other in every
stage of our life and through all the challenges that
life sends our way. We need to be our own
best champions and to take our roles as sisters, daughters, mothers,
aunties and friends. Seriously, we need to support and cheer
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each other on. I know you know this. It's called
preaching to the choir, but I want to implore you
to put a little extra effort into that this month.
Go get your mammograms, take a friend or a loved
one to get There's two. Early detection is the key.
My guest today is doing a remarkable job of reminding
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us that no matter our age, or perhaps because of
our age, we are beautiful. We are wise, we have value,
and we are seeing. Look at your reflection in the
mirror and remind yourself of that as well. And if
you want to treat yourself to some affordable luxuries, visit
Laura Geller dot com where you might find a product
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or ten that you don't want to live without. It's weightless,
silky color that never cakes and has made for you.
Enjoy everything October has to offer. Join me on the
airwaves each night, catch my daily podcast, Hey it's Delilah
for a few minutes of inspiration each weekday, and meet
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me right back here in a couple of weeks, where
I'll be joined by another guest with another wonderful story
to tell.
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