Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast.

I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostus, Sarah Nicole.

And each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.

So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

space together. All right, everyone, welcome back. I'm so excited to have today's guests on. I was

actually introduced this brand a few years ago, and we're a big fan of them in our house, especially amongst

my older girls in this house. And we have the founders of Glow recipe here, Sarah and

Christine. They are a brand that you probably have seen pop off on social media multiple times

across the years. But I'm excited to have them on, learn about the brand, learn about how you guys got

everything started and what it is to, I don't know, work with a friend too. There's so many layers

of curiosity that I have there, but why don't you introduce yourselves? Christina, I'll let you go

first and sort of let me know how this all came, how you guys started Glow Recipe.

So this is actually Glow Recipe's 10th anniversary, which is surreal to us. I can't believe it's already been a decade. And it's

been an incredible year for us to not only think about how we've engaged with our community

over the years, but also how we started. And those very early days, we actually,

I mean, Sarah and I have been friends for years, right? We met at L'Oreal in Korea at the time. We were

both in beauty marketing. And then somehow our paths ran parallel to us both living in New York. So

Sarah started at Loreal at the headquarters. I joined her in a couple years.

And throughout that time, our friendship was just this really special thing that not only

helped us talk about all the challenges, but joys of working in the beauty industry,

but also just as two people who genuinely adored and

were obsessed with beauty products to come together and talk about that. And so initially,

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