It took me three years to make a dollar.

Yeah.

That's really funny.

It was rough.

So I packed all my stuff and I went.

And then when I got to the house, Courtney, I cried.

All of a sudden, something else completely blindsided me that I was not expecting.

The instructor comes running in the room and says, get the fuck out.

Just very, very terrified is what I was feeling.

You know, you tried to basically cut me off when I was a young girl, and all I did was work hard for you. So fuck you. And so they're like, Mary, we did some house cleaning. Like, what happened to you wasn't fair. And I was like, you're damn right. It wasn't fucking fair. You can, you should, and you will in this life. You just have to be willing to try. Perseverance and determination are

like super important than success. I launched the business in January 2020, two months before

everything started to close for COVID. All of these changes happening at once, right? Like,

it was a lot. He can't play.

He has to retire.

You're engaged and you're getting married.

And you're starting this blog where you're like, okay, I'm going to put this music thing on the back burner for now.

I still love it.

But I'm really, like, you were drawn to this other passion. How did this, like how did it get started? What gave you the idea? Like, what brought you there? So I was always that person for my friends. I was the go-to girl for everything beauty related. A lot of times it was style related or just advice in general, like life advice, but primarily I would say beauty was my focus

at the time I started the blog and I would get texts from my friends at all hours. I'm in

Sephora. I'm in Ulta. I'm in Nordstrom. I have a date. Help me. Help me. I have oily skin.

I would like be getting selfies from people. What do I buy? Like I want to, you know, to achieve

XYZ look like whatever. And so I was giving all these people advice.

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