Hey guys, welcome back to Skum Anarchy. This is Ekta. I'm so excited about her and

today because we have such a special guest with us. I've been trying to get her on the podcast

for I think three or four years now, so I'm very excited that we're finally doing this. She is

the creative genius behind the brand made. She has had such a phenomenal career in the beauty

industry and I am just so excited to be hosting her. So without further ado, please welcome Denise Vossi. Welcome to Denise. I'm so honored to host you. That was such a sweet intro. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so glad we finally got to do this. Me too. I'm really excited and I honestly when I asked you to come on, I just want to learn more about you. I love watching you on socials and all the amazing progress you've made with just made and the brand and all the beautiful things.

So if you can walk us down memory lane, tell us where did your journey begin with like the beauty industry and everything, you know?

Absolutely, thank you. I started in beauty as a model very young.

I was signed by Eileen

Ford to Ford models. At some point, they realized I wasn't going to get runway height,

and they pivoted my career into beauty. I grew up on set with some of the most incredible

glam artists of our time. I did many beauty campaigns from Bobby Brown to Kevin O'Coyne. I was touched by

many legends and I learned a lot of what I know and how I formulate through those years on set.

Also, I grew up with a grandmother who just absolutely dies for beauty. She was an aesthetician who left that career to raise her family. I spent a lot of

my time in the kitchen with her either cooking dinner or doing

facials and running skincare routines. From there I went on to be an actress.

I got married. I had my first child and decided to stay home.

My daughter and I launched maidid.co, which was kind

of editorial plus blog platform. I had a byline of myself that I spoke and wrote about, wrote

to, and then my writers who also had their own bylines. And we spoke about everything from clean living, health and wellness, intentional living.

I focused on clean beauty and motherhood.

All that time I was growing a community on social.

This was before we addressed social media as a community, but I was talking to mostly women all the time, just a little

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