What does it mean to live more with less? I'm Katie Wells and welcome to the Maximized Minimalist

podcast. If you found yourself caught up in the hamster wheel of modern day motherhood and want to

rewrite the script, congratulations you're in the right place. I'm here to be your guide and help you take

back your motherhood

and achieve a simpler, more joy-filled life. Cheers to being a maximized minimalist. Enjoy the show.

What's up, friends? On the show today, I have Kat Elizabeth. Kat is a professional stage and

screen actor, small business owner, and makeup artist who spends a huge

amount of time in front of the camera between her acting career, YouTube channel, and online

courses. She is so fun and so sweet, and Kat is known for teaching simple and natural makeup

techniques for busy women so that they can go from confused to confident in their makeup look

and always be camera ready, which, let's face it, we always have to be camera ready in the age

of smartphones. I know so many of you want to simplify your makeup look and routine.

And today, Kat will be sharing her insights on how to do just that. Let's dive in.

All right. So we have Kat here on the show. Welcome.

Thank you so much. Really happy to be here.

So I am dying to know what inspired you to get into the beauty industry. Was it just all those

years of being an actress and being on stage? Or what was it

that got you into the makeup scene? I think that was part of it. I mean, I first had to start

wearing makeup when I was about three or four when I was, you know, doing my dance concerts. And like,

the photo from back then is absolutely atrocious. Like the blue eye shadow, the red cheeks. Like,

and obviously that was, that was my mom's work. And I think it was when I was about 11,

that we had this huge fight over the, like, the mess that she'd made over my face at one

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