Welcome to my podcast. I am your host Amanda Ensing and you're tuning in to Liberty Before Lipstick.

Welcome. Welcome to my brand new show and my first ever podcast. Hello to everyone in the podcast world if you're tuning in from there and also hello to my

YouTube family if you're watching on YouTube. I'm not new to creating YouTube

content but I am new to the whole podcast thing so bear with me I've

transformed my beauty studio into a podcast studio. You can see if you're watching on YouTube. My wall is painted.

Olive I had to go with Olive. If you are not familiar with me, it is my favorite color.

Olive Green is my favorite color, so I wanted to give you guys that ambience and that vibe.

I wanted to take today's first episode and give you a little introduction on who I am, my background, why I started this podcast and what to expect, so I will just jump right into it. My name is Amanda Ensing. If you are not familiar with me or if you're new to my space, welcome.

I have been creating beauty content in the YouTube Instagram social media space for about a decade.

I am a proud Christian and a proud conservative and once I started speaking up on my values, my beliefs, and my views,

I realized there was a need for conservatives

in the beauty industry.

But I had a lot of encounters with God and experiences the last year to where I felt God calling me to something beyond makeup, which is why I started this podcast. I'll go into a little bit later. So I grew up in a very small town in Tennessee and I went to the

University of Tennessee. I majored in political science and business administration I

double majored and I was getting ready for a law school whenever I stumbled

across the beauty realm on YouTube.

So I started filming beauty makeup tutorials in my bedroom and next thing you know I had people

following me and asking me for advice on makeup and beauty.

All I had was my laptop and I would stack it up on my school books in front of my little

nightstand in front of my window and I would just film makeup

tutorials and makeup product reviews. I couldn't afford a whole lot because I was a

broke college student and I worked to pay for everything. I paid for everything myself.

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