Hi guys, welcome back to the teacher anarchy.

This is your host Ecta, and I'm really, really excited today because we're going to go into

an area which I feel like never gets talked about, the law and the legal system around the beauty industry and everything that we see whether it's small brands or understanding the legal aspects of the industry.

We never really hear about it, I feel like, in like social media, at least I don't you know what I follow on

LinkedIn so I'm very fed about our guest today she's a distinguished legal professional

and lawyer and he's the founder and managing attorney of Kalella Legal Studio.

So without further ado, I want to introduce you guys to Antonella.

Welcome to show Antonella, I'm so excited to host you.

Thank you.

I'm excited to be here. Yeah, no, I'm excited to really kind of pick your brain today and understand how law fits into beauty and what

we should understand, especially from the perspective of small businesses because there's so many people that tune in that are either

entrepreneurs or they have their own skin care line and there's just nothing out there.

So before we dive in I was wondering if you could tell us a little bit about your law background and your own background. You know what got you into beauty and especially from the legal angle? What is it? Yeah, absolutely. I get that question all the time. So yeah, I've been an attorney for 15 years

and was always really doing business law

and doing transactional work.

And I worked at law firms.

I worked for companies in their in-house legal department.

One of the last jobs I had, which was at a law firm, I had my first beauty client, and that was probably

now like seven or eight years ago.

And so they, it was a team of it was like two best

friends that were starting a skincare brand and I loved working with them and we did

everything from the beginning stages of like the company, getting their contracts together, like

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