Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic

Surgeon, and it's time for a podcast.

Today we're going to be talking to boss girl, Karen Hinton. And for those of you don't know, Karen,

I'm going to give you a little intro. Karen is a Mississippi native. She's a nationally recognized

media professional in Washington and New York. And she's worked with some of the most major people

in politics from being a press secretary to the former housing secretary Andrew Cuomo and New York City

Mayor Bill de Blasio and also working with congressmen, working with President Clinton and the

Democratic National Committee. And from all this

experience, she's written a book. And she's going to teach us today about penis politics. With that,

welcome, Karen. Thank you for having me. I am so excited to find out about your experiences. You've done

so much as a woman and also at such an early age.

And you've had a bit of a rocky road and you've been so public about your experience to help

other women. So tell me what got you into politics. And then we're going to talk about what's

penis politics. Okay. Great. Well, I got into politics because I had been a journalist. I had gone to

Ole Miss and majored in journalism and political science. And I just was trying to decide, do I want to be a

journalist or do I really want to be in the middle of things? And I decided at some point that politics was my calling.

So I went to work for a man who ran for Congress.

He became the first black congressman from Mississippi since Reconstruction.

And Mississippi has the highest black percentage of any state. And so it was

about time that someone was their voice in Washington, D.C. and spoke to their issues. And I was

really passionate about the entire campaign and how we worked so hard to try to elect him.

Because I felt like growing up in Mississippi, which is one of the poorest states in the country,

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