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All right, welcome to Press Send.

I'm Shna Alexander and this is a podcast where we talk through your problems

and we have a

give you our best advice.

Today we have we have a guess that I'm just I'm beside myself.

I'm beside myself. We have Linda Wells here.

I she needs no introduction but she's going to help me with all of your burning questions. So,

Linda and I actually just met five minutes ago, but I feel like I've known you. I think you are probably one of the most influential people's in my beauty

journey that's so nice you're like really really? It's a long journey.

No, I remember, I mean from when I was young,

just trying to find any sort of beauty content

and back then there wasn't you know no internet so just

finding whatever I could and learning about products and things like that I've loved

them my whole life and so you were influential in that.

But if you don't know Linda Wells, which have you been hiding under a rock, I'm going to let you give a little

backstory on yourself and you can give story in your personal life,

professional life, anything you want to.

So I am the founding editor-in-chief of Allure magazine.

So that was my real beauty claim to fame.

And it was a big one.

It was great because before that it was in New York

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