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Hi, this is Pia Barancini and welcome to everything is the best, the podcast where I get vulnerable

and make others do it with me.

The goal here is to deep dive into interesting people's journeys, finding common denominators,

and hopefully making you feel not so alone. So let's laugh, let's cry, and let's get inspired to live our best lives.

Hello my darling. Welcome back. This week we have Kristen Noel Crowley, who to me and a lot of people is an icon.

She is a jewelry designer, gallery owner, and founder of KNC Beauty, you know, those charming

and lip and under eye masks you see on every human being on Instagram. And she now runs the

KNC School of Beauty which provides the

information necessary for people to start their own businesses.

Christine grew up in Chicago and eventually made her way to Los Angeles with her

husband and two young boys.

Her fascination with beauty products and willingness to share them led her to become an L

magazine contributing beauty editor.

After coming across Lippmasks on a trip to Tokyo, she realized they tasted horrible and that they were filled with toxins. Fast forward KNC Beauty was born. We talk Beauty, duh, and the importance of networking, her journey, why she started the

school of beauty and a lot of other really funny shit you don't want to miss.

Thank you for joining me. Okay, I would love from your mouth to give everyone your background where you came from, where you grew up, I think it's important because

everybody looks at you and they're like this girl is so fly and this is like the point of the

podcast is like you earned all of this.

Yeah, I feel like I low-key kind of manifested it but there was never a plan.

I just kind of had this vision in my head of like how I wanted my light to me or how you know what I wanted to do or how I wanted to dress or look or whatever and I just kind of went for it. But I'm from a small town in Illinois. The town that I was born in, I'm not going to say any names. My mom lives there, but the town that I was born in was like maybe 5,000 10,000 people.

Oh wow. You know and then we moved to a bigger kind of city, still very small, but you know I grew up in the country like I

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