Hi, this is Alisa Likt, and this is Leave Your Mark the podcast, where I brew fresh

career advice with some of my most inspiring and successful friends.

It's professional advice that you can action immediately, whether you're just starting out

in your career or well on your way.

With a massive to-do list and a large cup of coffee, I promise that you can get it all done and still

have time to post about it.

I am so excited to welcome a very, very old friend and colleague Larissa Thompson to leave

your mark, Larissa.

We know each other for so long and your journey has been wild as far as my point of view.

And I can't wait to share your story with everyone.

But for everyone listening, Larissa co-founded onto beauty in December of 2016 with an aim

to create a beauty and spa destination dedicated to a curated collection

of clean, conscious, and safe beauty products.

But the whole story of like the founding of this and the unfounding and then the rebate,

I mean, there's so much to it.

So we're going to get into it.

But Larissa and I know each other, not from Honda, but from her old school

fashion magazine days where she was just a fixture in the fashion industry. And I want to first

start off with a little bit of how you even got started in fashion in the first place. I know you're from New York, so I can only imagine you had like amazing internships when you

were growing up.

But tell us a little bit about the fashion start and then that moment where you were like,

I'm getting out.

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