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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.

We went to a contract manufacturer in Los Angeles, literally sort of fell on our swords, and told them all our dream,

gave him the pitch, and said, we need you to do like a test run for us.

He said, look, I have absolutely no reason to do this, because 99% of everyone that sits opposite me,

telling me this story does not succeed, but for some crazy reason, I think you've got something interesting,

and I want to be in for the ride.

From NPR, it's how I built this, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists,

and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Roz, and on today's show, how Jane Werwin went from doing facials for women at a beauty parlor

to building one of the leading skincare companies in the world, Thermalogica.

So the story about Jane Werwin really begins about a month before she turned three, because that month, her father passed away.

Jane barely remembers him, but what she does remember is that all of a sudden, her mom had to get a job.

There were four girls in the family to feed, and she now had to do it all on her own.

This was Scotland in the 1950s, and Jane's mom happened to have a skill, she was a qualified nurse.

So even though she hadn't worked for many, many years, she was able to find a job, and also pass along an important lesson.

The five words that changed my life, were my mum saying to my sisters and myself, learn how to do something, learn how to do something.

She was absolutely adamant that we each of us had to get a skill set training, that no matter what happened if we were somewhere anywhere in the world,

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