Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love. I'm your host, Don Hutchison.

Every Tuesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

On Fridays, I interview an individual with many years of experience from one of the most popular or interesting occupations or professions who shares an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.

Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Rhonda Barrymore, and our topic, A Day in

the Life, What's it like to be a celebrity makeup artist? Welcome, Rhonda. Thanks, Don.

Rhonda, are you using your talents doing work that you love?

I am so grateful that I get to use my talents in the things that I love.

Well, good, good, because we want to hear that whole story.

Rhonda Baramore is the founder and president of Help Me Rhonda, a worldwide provider of

physical appearance products and services she's worked

locally and globally to make up and style some of the most well-known and prestigious people in the

world some of her services include beauty and special effects makeup as well as skin care

hair styling wardrobe styling prop styling and her extensive skin care and makeup product

line for all branches of the media and personal use, including but not limited to film

production, high-definition TV production, print photography, and live performance.

Well, as I explained in this introduction earlier, Rhonda, this show is all about helping listeners get an up-close and personal look at some of the most fascinating and interesting occupations and professions in the world.

So before we start, I just want to give listeners a few statistics from some national surveys from Bureau of Labor Statistics and Career Explorer

that talk about your occupation. Number one, in the U.S. this year, they're 4,800 makeup

artist. The job skills needed are, as you well know, strong sense of fashion, artistic nature,

also time management and interpersonal skills.

The median salary this year is a little over $64,000.

So the job outlook for the next 10 years for makeup artist, hairstylist, cosmetologist, and

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