36: America's Next Bestseller - Jay Manuel, TV Personality, Creative Director and Author

Caviar Dreams, Tuna Fish Budget with Margaret Josephs

Dear Media

Society & Culture, Business

4.7 • 760 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Is there anything Jay Manuel can't do?!... Entrepreneur. Creative Director, TV personality and now Author. Surprisingly, Jay actually moved to New York as a classically trained opera singer yet found himself a career as a Makeup Artist working with some of the industry’s most creative visionaries and beauty icons. A chance he took giving Tyra Banks free glam for a photoshoot turned into an 18 cycle span as Creative Director and Judge on one of the world's most celebrated reality shows "America's Next Top Model". His extensive career has seen him spend more than 20 years on both sides of the camera working with the world’s most celebrated magazines and Jay firmly established himself as an authority on all things fashion across many networks like E! and global red carpets. Such a career could leave you with serious stories to tell... and now as an author Jay Manuel has written his first book, a fictitious novel The Wig, The Bitch & The Meltdown chronicling the fast paced fashion industry that burst off the pages with larger than life characters that leave you questioning does life imitate art or vice versa? See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Do you dream of being CEO of your own empire, running your own company, achieving your life's goals,
0:06.0	yet wake up in a cold sweat next to the last night's take out leftovers and a pile of bus ticket
0:11.1	stops? You are not alone. Like many others, you are suffering from a classic case of caviar
0:17.6	dreams, tuna fish budget. I'm Margaret Josephs.
0:21.4	And I'm Lexi Bobbuto.
0:22.7	And every week, we'll be talking to influencers, trailblazers, disruptors, and risk
0:27.0	takers who'll share their own journey to Caviar Dreams on a tuna fish budget.
0:32.0	Side effects may include increased motivation, boundless happiness, and a fast track to success.
0:35.7	Hello, Caviar Dreamers.
0:37.4	We have the best guest today. We have Jay Manuel. motivation, boundless happiness, and a fast track to success. Hello, Kevin Y'all Dreamers.
0:39.5	We have the best guest today.
0:41.4	We have Jay Manuel.
0:50.6	America's next top model, 18 seasons, household name, you know, fashion correspondent for E,
0:54.3	someone that has aged in reverse and that all of you will recognize.
0:56.0	And now he wrote a book.
0:58.5	As if we couldn't fan girl anymore over him.
0:58.8	I know.
1:02.1	And he wrote it himself, the wig, the bitch, and the meltdown.
1:03.5	And it's causing quite a little stir.
1:04.6	It is.
1:12.7	And it's causing a stir for a couple of different reasons because I think people look at the cover and expect one thing and then they open the book, start reading. I realize it's such an introspective, interesting
1:18.1	journey into the psyche of the industry also. Yes, I agree. It's a great, great book,
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