Hi guys, welcome back to the YouTube channel, Esca.

And thank you very much for being a fantastic brand and the CEO and co-founders here with us today.

But I wanted to preface by just saying that, you know, I know there's a lot of brands out there for, like, I last grossed their serums, for example.

And this is one of the products in their lineup, but this one is really special to me personally, because I'm not, like, I have very short and semi eyelashes.

So it's very hard to get them to grow, but I've definitely seen a lot of success with their products and, you know, just in general, their whole range is just absolutely fantastic.

So without further ado, I want to introduce you guys, like I said, to the CEO and founder of the last in Leah Garcia, welcome to show Leah.

Thank you so much for coming on at dad. Thank you. What a lovely intro.

No, it's I'm so honored to be hosting you. I love your brand. And like I said, you know, I'm a tough critic there because my eyelashes hate, you know, growing for some reason.

So I really like my brand too, just for the record. And I'm not I'm not the beauty maven. I'm an expro athlete that grew up on a ranch that wrote horses my whole life.

And it's interesting that I I chose this this category for business, but I love products that deliver on the promise.

And as a pro athlete, I really wanted to stand behind something that was efficacious and science backed and that was literally performance based.

So it makes sense. If you look at the whole picture of how I ended up in the beauty industry.

But I too suffered from very short lashes, although that wasn't the original allure to the whole project.

But you remember back, I'm probably too young. I'm 59 years old. And when I was in grammar school, we did this silhouette where we'd all sit there right and the teacher would do something.

And then we would get this silhouette of our face. And I remember I went to school with a lot of Hispanics and Olivia and Sylvia and all of my little classmates had these eyelashes that just went off the page.

And I'm looking at mine and going, oh, wow, that's weird. So literally my short eyelashes have haunted me my whole entire life.

Oh, my God. I feel like we would have been best friends. We would have been the short stubby eyelash squad like because I made up for it in personality. I promise you.

Oh, yeah. I mean, obviously I already know that's so shining though. I love that you have that background. I want to learn more about it. Though if you could dive in further because that's so interesting that you were you're in, you know, in athletics and then you know, you kind of geared your way towards the beauty industry.

I'd love to hear the whole journey.

Well, the whole journey needs a glass of wine. I promise you, but the condensed version looks something like this.

I have, again, grew up on a ranch, rodeoed for most of my life, played competitive softball. So athlete, athlete, athlete, rough and tumble.

And yet I had this mother who was just as elegant as they get. And she was the one who was mismanners and really wanted to make sure that even though I was a tomboy, I was a lady.

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