Speaker 1: Hey, they're folks, And in this episode of Amy and TJ,
Speaker 1: a confession. I have been lying to Amy Roebock for
Speaker 1: the past several months, and you all, along with Robock,
Speaker 1: are going to hear for the first time exactly what
Speaker 1: that lie was, and you are going to hear her
Speaker 1: real reaction to it. And with that, Welcome to.
Speaker 2: This episode of Amy and t J Road.
Speaker 1: Mommy, Mommy, Mommy, mommy, and mommy.
Speaker 2: Yes, we're getting ready for my Mother's day Robes.
Speaker 1: I would you don't have it on you know, we
Speaker 1: don't have a way to check you don't have your
Speaker 1: Apple watch. I would love to see what your heart
Speaker 1: rate is.
Speaker 3: So it's so funny.
Speaker 4: I was just about to say, my heart is pounding.
Speaker 4: I have no idea what you're referring to.
Speaker 3: I mean, it really is, but does it.
Speaker 2: It makes you? What is your mind?
Speaker 1: Immediately go and I again to our listeners, right now,
Speaker 1: this is not a joke. Robot is here under false pretenses.
Speaker 1: I have brought her here for a much different reason,
Speaker 1: and she has no idea. Why what is your give
Speaker 1: me your best guess, ropes.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm hoping that it's something good, because I
Speaker 4: don't think you.
Speaker 3: Would obviously not.
Speaker 4: But my mind is racing like what could it be?
Speaker 4: What could he be talking about?
Speaker 2: What would I referring to?
Speaker 1: What would I do publicly in this way? Because you
Speaker 1: know I would not take chances like this unless it
Speaker 1: was guaranteed to be a success.
Speaker 2: What do you think?
Speaker 4: I honestly am speechless. I have stop. I have no
Speaker 4: idea what you're doing. I'm not going to propose to
Speaker 4: the podcast obviously don't. That would be a private thing.
Speaker 4: But you reach into your pocket.
Speaker 3: I was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 1: That that was my edibles there in my pocket, and
Speaker 1: that's what that is. But no, folks, in all serious
Speaker 1: is yes, we have been setting up this particular episode
Speaker 1: for a while now, and it took a lot of people.
Speaker 1: A lot of folks were involved. There are one, two, three,
Speaker 1: Well we got five people in this room. There were
Speaker 1: probably nothing short of thirty plus people that helped get
Speaker 1: this together. In one way former fashion, Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: all for you and it is related. We just had
Speaker 1: an interview the other day on an episode talking about
Speaker 1: Mother's Day yea, and parts of it kind of broke
Speaker 1: my heart because you talk about how you feel about
Speaker 1: some of your parenting. I suppose are you just nodding? Okay, everybody,
Speaker 1: she's naughty. She's getting more and more nervous. So this
Speaker 1: is what I'm gonna do, folks. We are going to
Speaker 1: reveal this surprise finally, which I can we can all
Speaker 1: breathe because we've been holding onto it. But the surprise
Speaker 1: has to do with someone who is about fifty feet
Speaker 1: away from us, hiding away in another room here at
Speaker 1: I heeart okay, and said person and is waiting to
Speaker 1: come in and just blow you away. Okay, So Emma,
Speaker 1: can you help me out or something?
Speaker 4: You got it?
Speaker 1: Okay, Emma's gonna do it for Emma. Can you bring
Speaker 1: in our special guests for our surprise? You are genuinely
Speaker 1: I thought you had more fun.
Speaker 4: You were so good on the train in here, because
Speaker 4: we kind of said, we don't know exactly how we're
Speaker 4: gonna format this podcast, but we knew it was gonna
Speaker 4: about Mother's Day. So I had stories in my mind
Speaker 4: and stories about what I wanted to talk about, and
Speaker 4: and you were even you were even on the train
Speaker 4: saying wait, I had a plan and I just lost it,
Speaker 4: like you were, and you seem stressed a little bit
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 3: So you were you should have been an actor.
Speaker 1: I was stressed about something else. And again, folks, seriously,
Speaker 1: our produced super producer Emma just walked out to get
Speaker 1: our special guest, our surprise guest that Robes has no
Speaker 1: idea about. Now the guest is going to be a surprise,
Speaker 1: but the guest is gonna bring something that's even a
Speaker 1: bigger surprise.
Speaker 2: Damn, I am not. I am not over selling this, folks,
Speaker 2: in the least bit. What I am not. I can't.
Speaker 3: It's I'm literally scratching my I might.
Speaker 2: Even be under selling this. I might be.
Speaker 1: So she's turning around, folks, and she's taking a look
Speaker 1: at Now our special guest us in the room. And
Speaker 1: for you all to know, we have with us the beautiful.
Speaker 2: Carissa Bodner is in the room. She's a CEO of
Speaker 2: Thrive Cosmetics.
Speaker 1: She is one of the superstar CEOs in this country.
Speaker 2: As you all know.
Speaker 1: She has been a guest on the podcast before talking
Speaker 1: about some of her cosmetics, which are of course directed
Speaker 1: towards all the times women cosmetics, aus cosmetics, medics.
Speaker 3: But Chrissa, how you doing good to see hi, Carissa.
Speaker 4: We've been trying to get together and been missing one
Speaker 4: another in l A and here in.
Speaker 2: New this is this is what happened. I have to
Speaker 2: make it happen.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Yes, for women's relationships to thrive, you need a man
Speaker 1: to be involved in getting.
Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I think that was actually and I
Speaker 2: met before you. Oh yeah, I got.
Speaker 1: That joke from Dave Chappelle, I believe. But Carissa, it
Speaker 1: is good to see you in the room. I am
Speaker 1: not going to leave her hanging any longer. Her heart
Speaker 1: is jumping out of her chest. But I want you
Speaker 1: to please do the honors now and explain why you
Speaker 1: are here.
Speaker 5: Well, I am so excited to share something that we've
Speaker 5: been working on.
Speaker 6: For a little while.
Speaker 5: Okay, I don't know if you remember our last podcast.
Speaker 5: We were talking about something, asking about something that you love.
Speaker 4: Yes, like lipstick, lip gloss, chopstick, whatever, anything to cover
Speaker 4: my lips.
Speaker 3: Right, that's I'm obsessed. I have an obsession. I always
Speaker 3: have a yes.
Speaker 6: So I'm very very excited.
Speaker 5: After we were together last time, I got to work
Speaker 5: in the lab and we have the amy in sheer strength.
Speaker 3: It's amazing. I love that. Thank you get it cool?
Speaker 2: Yes? You all?
Speaker 1: Robot is being handed right now her very own shade.
Speaker 1: There is a new shade that they are putting on.
Speaker 3: A cause I love, and that is your suit Baby.
Speaker 1: Cosmetics that is specifically for Amy.
Speaker 2: Please explain.
Speaker 5: So when we were talking last time, when I was here,
Speaker 5: you were describing your perfect shade and your perfect product.
Speaker 5: And so thanks to the amazing team here, including TJ,
Speaker 5: thank you very much. We created the Amy and it
Speaker 5: was so serendipitous that you chose the Share Strength as
Speaker 5: one of your favorite products because you embody share strength.
Speaker 6: You really do.
Speaker 5: You are such a badass, like whether it's you running
Speaker 5: a marathon or beating cancer, you are such an inspiration
Speaker 5: to so many people. And also you're so generous with
Speaker 5: sharing your struggle and how that ultimately has built strength
Speaker 5: within you, because that's what inspires all of us. And
Speaker 5: I feel so lucky to have been able to be
Speaker 5: a fan of yours for so many years and also
Speaker 5: now to call you a friend. And just the way
Speaker 5: that you share your journey, like you don't have to
Speaker 5: share the way that you do, and I hope you
Speaker 5: know what an impact it makes on the whole world.
Speaker 4: Well, I so appreciate that.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: I mean, I am beyond honored, and I love the
Speaker 4: shade and I love how it goes on and feels.
Speaker 3: I mean, you nailed the texture, like.
Speaker 4: It can't be too sticky, it can't be too Greek like.
Speaker 3: It's just perfect. So I love it.
Speaker 4: It's like the perfect blend between a chapstick and a
Speaker 4: lip gloss and it's gorgeous. But thank you for all
Speaker 4: the things you just said and we met. You know, obviously,
Speaker 4: if people don't know your story, they should go back
Speaker 4: and listen to the podcast where you told it. But
Speaker 4: clearly you took something that was devastating. You lost your
Speaker 4: best friend to cancer, and you watched her fight like hell,
Speaker 4: and you took that fight that she had in her
Speaker 4: you and you gave so many other women a reason
Speaker 4: to feel good in the morning when they're in the
Speaker 4: middle of this fight and when you're struggling whatever it is.
Speaker 3: It's just true, when.
Speaker 4: You put on a good shade of lipstick, it can
Speaker 4: actually brighten your day, it can make you feel better.
Speaker 4: It's the look good, feel good method. And when you're
Speaker 4: going through stuff and you're down on yourself, sometimes it
Speaker 4: just takes one little pick me up. And to know
Speaker 4: that when we purchase your products, it goes for a cause,
Speaker 4: it goes to help others. That is to me, like
Speaker 4: the most amazing business model ever. And so I have
Speaker 4: applauded you and watched you when you had almost zero sales.
Speaker 3: No to just keep what's zero sales?
Speaker 6: She's the day one. Animan's a day one, It's true.
Speaker 4: And then you just kept going and going and going and.
Speaker 3: Look at you now. So you are an inspiration to me.
Speaker 4: And really to have seen you from the very beginning
Speaker 4: to where you are now, I'm honored to call you
Speaker 4: a friend and so honored to have oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: one of your beautiful shades named Amy. Thank you, Like
Speaker 4: that's the best gift. I mean, your friendship's the best
Speaker 4: gift of all. But thank you. This is an honor.
Speaker 1: Can you give us the backstory here because I was
Speaker 1: finding out about it the first when you were here
Speaker 1: last time.
Speaker 2: That you do?
Speaker 1: I mean, how many, Shaye and you do you name
Speaker 1: them in honor of women who've.
Speaker 2: Been through hell?
Speaker 1: Essentially a lot of ways have overcome in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. So give a little backstory on how you
Speaker 1: started doing this and how many there are out there
Speaker 1: and some of the other folks you've honored with.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's so like this is such a full
Speaker 5: circle moment because being with you two today is so special.
Speaker 5: And what I'm remembering is the day that we met.
Speaker 5: And when I met Amy, we had three products that
Speaker 5: were named after inspiring people, one named after my friend Christy,
Speaker 5: who inspired Thrive Cosmetics. And I remember sitting in Amy's
Speaker 5: dressing room and you had recently beat cancer.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was within I think that first year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you were such a source of inspiration for
Speaker 5: so many people throughout that journey and also an advocate
Speaker 5: for early detection and so so I mean literally ten
Speaker 5: years ago when I met Amy, I was already a fan,
Speaker 5: obviously because the whole world is.
Speaker 3: But I don't know about that. But thank you.
Speaker 5: Well, you know what this actually is, I think an
Speaker 5: important just an important thing to underscore what a great
Speaker 5: person you are.
Speaker 6: From day one.
Speaker 5: You don't you've never cared whether somebody is you know,
Speaker 5: a superstar or somebody who's building a business out of
Speaker 5: their apartment like me. And you were at the top
Speaker 5: of the top of the top when we met. And
Speaker 5: it's just you're so kind from You're just such a
Speaker 5: humble and kind person and I just yeah, I just
Speaker 5: love you. And so, you know, to go back to
Speaker 5: that moment of ten years ago, at the moment I
Speaker 5: met her.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh my gosh, I got to name
Speaker 6: a product after her.
Speaker 5: But it had to be the right product, and it
Speaker 5: had to be the one that really embodied something that
Speaker 5: not only you love, but something that means something about
Speaker 5: who you are. And so that is why we're Yes,
Speaker 5: we the shades after people, but it has to be
Speaker 5: the perfect shade.
Speaker 6: So this is the perfect shade.
Speaker 3: We hailed it.
Speaker 5: When you kiss Amy, you're going to be kissing Amy,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You just messed it up. Now I'm going to be
Speaker 1: kissing Amy. Thinking about Christ's so weird.
Speaker 5: You know, I mean, because the name means sheer strength,
Speaker 5: and that's I mean you, you are sheer strength. And
Speaker 5: so it's it's so special to have a shade that's
Speaker 5: not only going to look gorgeous on her, but it's
Speaker 5: also going to empower so many people to feel that
Speaker 5: sheer strength when they are going through all different types
Speaker 5: of things in their lives.
Speaker 1: Okay, can I get the I want to make sure
Speaker 1: I get the product description right. Sheer strength hydrating lip tint.
Speaker 1: Shade name Amy shade description peach, pink shimmer.
Speaker 4: Love it, that's my colors. I mean I love that
Speaker 4: whole look. I mean, you really did apps sslutely nail it.
Speaker 4: And I'm curious when people go on to purchase whatever
Speaker 4: shade that they prefer.
Speaker 6: The Amy Obviously it's the bestseller, it's going to be.
Speaker 3: The bestseller right now.
Speaker 4: Of how much when people do purchase this, how much
Speaker 4: goes to the cause or to a cause? Can you
Speaker 4: give people a sense of where their money is going,
Speaker 4: not just for the product.
Speaker 6: Yes, So literally, when somebody purchases.
Speaker 5: An AMY, we're going to be donating an Amy.
Speaker 6: That's how it works.
Speaker 5: And so when somebody is using the shade, they can
Speaker 5: know that they've also given back to a cause that
Speaker 5: they care deeply about and that's going to help someone.
Speaker 5: And I think what's really special also is after we
Speaker 5: surprise somebody, then we ask them what charities we want
Speaker 5: the donations to be directed towards, and so that's where
Speaker 5: we start the philanthropy and then from there we build
Speaker 5: it with the community.
Speaker 4: So, oh, that's really cool. I have a few organizations
Speaker 4: in mind. Tell me, yes, absolutely. Well.
Speaker 3: The first one for.
Speaker 4: Me is, yeah, they've lost some billions, a lot of
Speaker 4: billions of dollars. No, My first organization that I have
Speaker 4: been an ambassador for over the years that I believe
Speaker 4: strongly in is BCRF, and this was the organization that
Speaker 4: was founded by Evelyn Laughter. She actually created the pink ribbon,
Speaker 4: but she was a breast cancer survivor. She didn't talk
Speaker 4: a lot about it publicly. She ended up succumbing to
Speaker 4: ovarian cancer. But this is a woman who talk about
Speaker 4: changing lives and saving lives. Her awareness campaign and what
Speaker 4: she did for the cause, I actually credit to me
Speaker 4: finding my cancer because she was in part the reason
Speaker 4: behind October one, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, that pink ribbon
Speaker 4: that we see so much of, and that is the
Speaker 4: reason why I walked into that Mamma Van and got
Speaker 4: my baseline mammogram at forty that found my stage two
Speaker 4: invasive breast cancer. So it was a full circle moment
Speaker 4: for me when her husband came up to me and said,
Speaker 4: I'd like you to be an ambassador, and he said,
Speaker 4: my wife would have loved you, and so I said,
Speaker 4: she is in part a reason why I'm standing here today.
Speaker 4: So Leonard latter asked me to be a part of
Speaker 4: the organization, and I happily did so. And this is
Speaker 4: a group that actually is the largest private funder of
Speaker 4: breast cancer research around the world.
Speaker 3: They are in.
Speaker 4: Part credited for the drug that I took for almost
Speaker 4: ten years to moxifen. So I just think this is
Speaker 4: an organization that actually, any private organization is going to
Speaker 4: find a cure for cancer or a way to make
Speaker 4: it a chronic disease, it's this one. So I am
Speaker 4: so happy to do that. And the other cause that
Speaker 4: I'm really passionate about. The other organization is five hundred
Speaker 4: forty and this is a group that gives back to
Speaker 4: women under the age of forty who are dealing with
Speaker 4: breast cancer.
Speaker 3: And they do have a huge campaign because these are.
Speaker 4: Young women who are dating, who are newly in the workforce,
Speaker 4: who hadn't even thought about what it would be like
Speaker 4: to have breast cancer, which I think a lot of
Speaker 4: people thought was an older woman disease. So they give
Speaker 4: makeup tutorials, they get wigs for these women, and so
Speaker 4: to be able to have Thrive cosmetics to provide for
Speaker 4: some of these women who are facing the unthinkable at
Speaker 4: a very early age. I love that, So right off
Speaker 4: the bat, those would be my two favorite organizations.
Speaker 5: Well that is perfect because we have them as giving
Speaker 5: partners as a part of our organization.
Speaker 6: So yeah, kis met. Yeah, that's so.
Speaker 5: Thank you for sharing all you did about BCRF in
Speaker 5: the way that they really help save your life. We've
Speaker 5: worked with them for many years. I did not know
Speaker 5: the depth of how much they have done for you
Speaker 5: and for others, so that's truly incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, doctor, go ahead.
Speaker 4: I was just going to also give a shout out
Speaker 4: to doctor Larry Norton, who is a huge part of
Speaker 4: the organization and probably one of the premier minds on
Speaker 4: breast cancer and specifically metastatic breast cancer. And for those
Speaker 4: folks who listen to our podcast regularly, you know, my
Speaker 4: are really good friend Morgan who is stage four metastatic
Speaker 4: who just had that baby through a surrogate. Doctor Norton
Speaker 4: actually reached out to her and is helping her now.
Speaker 3: Find better therapies.
Speaker 4: She's a seven year metastatics survivor right now, so he
Speaker 4: took the time to talk to her, to reach out
Speaker 4: to her, to consult with her. This is an organization.
Speaker 4: Just doctor Norton is the best, so I just wanted
Speaker 4: to sing his praises as well.
Speaker 1: You were mentioning everybody who buys an Amy, somebody else
Speaker 1: is going to don't. One's going to be donated essentially.
Speaker 1: But the other big part of what you do is
Speaker 1: clean beauty. When you explain that to me with your.
Speaker 5: Product, yes, I think, especially given everything that Amy just
Speaker 5: described about the people that we serve, especially in the
Speaker 5: cancer community, they're immune compromised, and so ensuring that our
Speaker 5: products are as clean as possible is very important. So
Speaker 5: it's pretty standard in the industry to make sure that
Speaker 5: you know you're doing baseline clinical studies, and not every
Speaker 5: brand does do that, but we have done clinical studies
Speaker 5: not only with dermatologists and plastic surgeons, but on cologists
Speaker 5: as well from the beginning, and so consulting incredible minds
Speaker 5: like doctor Norton, like you were talking about, I love
Speaker 5: our friend doctor Elizabeth.
Speaker 6: Oh, by the way, it's also.
Speaker 5: A share strength gamesake, so you are in good company.
Speaker 5: Gonna have to have a little party, well I have to.
Speaker 5: It's I mean, for those who don't know, doctor Elizabeth
Speaker 5: is another incredible advocate researcher, doctor oncologist in the cancer
Speaker 5: space specifically has saved so many lives in breast cancer
Speaker 5: as well, and a friend of mine and Amy, So
Speaker 5: this is it's it's really important to us that when
Speaker 5: we talk about clean, the way that we define it
Speaker 5: is the thousands of ingredients we will never use, as
Speaker 5: well as partnering with different doctors to ensure that they're
Speaker 5: safe for all people.
Speaker 1: Well, you also, what is Mother's Day like for a company,
Speaker 1: a cosmetic company and specifically one with a cause like yours.
Speaker 1: I guess what do you see around this time? What
Speaker 1: kind of messages do you get? It's not just a
Speaker 1: matter of sales, but I guess what do you all
Speaker 1: even take on is knowing this is a special time
Speaker 1: that you know a lot of folks who maybe not
Speaker 1: used to buying cosmetics to buy some for someone that they.
Speaker 2: Love right now.
Speaker 5: Yes, well, you know I have to start with the
Speaker 5: cause because literally this just a couple days ago, I
Speaker 5: was in Los Angeles and we had what we call
Speaker 5: a giving event, which is essentially a party where we
Speaker 5: are teaching makeup master classes to people who are affiliated
Speaker 5: with our different giving partners.
Speaker 6: So in honor of Mother's Day.
Speaker 5: We worked with one of our giving partners, the Joy
Speaker 5: Taylor Foundation, which was started by Joy Taylor, who is
Speaker 5: an amazing broadcaster in the sports world, but is also
Speaker 5: a domestic violence survivor and she's very public with that,
Speaker 5: and so she started this nonprofit really to empower women
Speaker 5: who had experienced domestic violence, and in honor of Mother's Day,
Speaker 5: we got mothers together. We had a mom and aunt
Speaker 5: and a daughter who was pregnant so she's about to
Speaker 5: become a mother.
Speaker 6: I mean, it was so special.
Speaker 5: But we fill our event space in Los Angeles with
Speaker 5: all of these bright souls and we did a makeup masterclass.
Speaker 5: Then we had a full on photo shoot so they
Speaker 5: all got headshots. It was so fun and that's where
Speaker 5: we so you know, when we talk about donating an amy,
Speaker 5: we're also teaching people how to use it and making
Speaker 5: them feel really empowered through that.
Speaker 6: So I have to start.
Speaker 5: When I think about Mother's Day, I think about all
Speaker 5: the ways that we get to honor mothers through our
Speaker 5: cause and through our mission, which we could not do
Speaker 5: without our customers. Like that is truly when people are
Speaker 5: purchasing our Mother's Day sets, that's what they're supporting, right.
Speaker 5: So that's what I absolutely love about Mother's Day. I
Speaker 5: also know it can be a complicated holiday for people
Speaker 5: who've lost their mothers, and so we try to create
Speaker 5: a really special space for people with our different giving
Speaker 5: partners where they can celebrate all that motherhood is. And
Speaker 5: you know that it can also be beyond who your
Speaker 5: birth mother is. And so I think I think it's
Speaker 5: it's a really special holiday for me.
Speaker 6: I love my mom so much.
Speaker 5: Namesake as well, the Jenny and Impactful got to give
Speaker 5: a shout out to my mom.
Speaker 6: But she's also an Amy fan.
Speaker 5: She was there for the first segment that I did
Speaker 5: with Amy like a decade ago. She was yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: so anyway, but so Mother's Day, it's yeah, it's a
Speaker 5: it's definitely a gifting holiday. And so we do have
Speaker 5: a different collection, and we have many different collections that
Speaker 5: people can choose.
Speaker 1: You know what you just said there, And I'll bring
Speaker 1: this up because it just happened yesterday. You don't know this,
Speaker 1: but we had an interview with a parenting expert and
Speaker 1: she was giving good advice, but it was not it
Speaker 1: got heavy or heavier than I expected because of this one.
Speaker 1: Because of Robot because there is a lot she deals
Speaker 1: with and she talks about it openly. So I'm not
Speaker 1: saying anything she didn't put out there, like dealing with
Speaker 1: like she's got two wonderful daughters. But she almost the
Speaker 1: entire interview, everything out of her mouth was almost criticizing
Speaker 1: herself as a mother. Right, Almost everything that she said
Speaker 1: was was I too hard on them, I disciplined them
Speaker 1: too much. I did what my parents did. I did
Speaker 1: the best I could, and I can to you in
Speaker 1: a bad pad all of these things. So I was
Speaker 1: so I knew today was coming. Yeah, okay, So I
Speaker 1: just let her. I just let her go through emotions
Speaker 1: and let her do a thing. But this was important
Speaker 1: for that reason. Mothers, yes, are honored on this day,
Speaker 1: but there are three hundred and sixty four other days
Speaker 1: that mothers often don't get the attention and the credit
Speaker 1: they deserve. But also, Carissa, they're hard on themselves. They
Speaker 1: don't treat themselves, they don't honor themselves, and Robes, I
Speaker 1: don't know what to do in that regard. I mean,
Speaker 1: I speak to you, I talk to you all the
Speaker 1: times about this, but it's it's do you get Carissa,
Speaker 1: that mothers need to sometimes one treat themselves, but you
Speaker 1: give yourself a break.
Speaker 2: And I don't know how.
Speaker 1: Make up, I don't know how cosmetics ties into that,
Speaker 1: but maybe you could help me tie it in because
Speaker 1: it that is such an important part of women and
Speaker 1: mothers feeling their best.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, others should all get a special award.
Speaker 5: I think the work that you do to not only
Speaker 5: bring life into this world, but also the struggles that
Speaker 5: you deal with on a day to day basis. We
Speaker 5: have so many mothers on our leadership team and all
Speaker 5: throughout the organization, and I just know a fraction of
Speaker 5: what they do. And I think that you know, for makeup,
Speaker 5: it's really a celebration of your inner beauty. And it's
Speaker 5: also a moment of self care because mothers are caring
Speaker 5: for themselves constantly. And all I can say, Amy is
Speaker 5: that you are such a great mother.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you.
Speaker 5: And I know you're a perfectionist, and I mean, you
Speaker 5: don't become who you are, you know, you you built
Speaker 5: Amy Robock into who you are. You know, and and
Speaker 5: your daughters are so lucky to have you as their mother.
Speaker 4: I mean, and I have to I obviously have to
Speaker 4: give credit to my own mother, just because of the
Speaker 4: sacrifices she made. I mean, she had she got pregnant
Speaker 4: with me at eighteen, she had me at nineteen. She
Speaker 4: gave up college, she gave up friends, she gave up
Speaker 4: a career really truly, or one that she might have
Speaker 4: a path she might have been on had I not
Speaker 4: come around.
Speaker 3: So yeah, she got Yeah.
Speaker 4: But you look at that, and it's funny because I
Speaker 4: think it for me, at least, it wasn't until I
Speaker 4: became a mother that I recognized all that she did
Speaker 4: and gave up, and all the things you want to
Speaker 4: point to and say, why did my mom do this?
Speaker 3: Why did my mom say that?
Speaker 4: And then when you become a mom, you think to yourself,
Speaker 4: oh my goodness, I had no idea what I was
Speaker 4: talking about. And even as I get to now be
Speaker 4: a mom of older girls, you think it gets easier,
Speaker 4: and sure, day and day out it does. But then
Speaker 4: I start reflecting back as TJ was just pointing out,
Speaker 4: and thinking I should have done this, I should have
Speaker 4: done that.
Speaker 3: Why did I do this? Why did I say that?
Speaker 3: Why did I choose this?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Why did I choose a.
Speaker 4: Career even that ended up biting me in the app
Speaker 4: you know, when I could have been more with them.
Speaker 4: So you start going over all of the things that
Speaker 4: you now you can't change, but you can understand in
Speaker 4: a better and bigger way. But I think about my
Speaker 4: mom and my grandmother, and we all do right as
Speaker 4: just these women who gave us the runway, gave us
Speaker 4: the platform, and gave us the ability to to build
Speaker 4: something bigger and better than they were able to. And
Speaker 4: so that's what we always want for the next generation.
Speaker 4: And so I just wanted to take that moment to
Speaker 4: just say thank you to my mom and to my grandmother,
Speaker 4: and then you know, hopefully passing on the good and
Speaker 4: hopefully not as much of the bad.
Speaker 2: Good kids. Those are two good kids, all right, and
Speaker 2: you have a fifty success for it, right. One of
Speaker 2: them is stellar and the other one is just.
Speaker 3: That funny?
Speaker 2: Isn't that bad? And how about it? Don't they say?
Speaker 2: You say this?
Speaker 1: Sometimes? What is the mark of you being a good parent?
Speaker 1: If your kid gets in trouble, whether they're in the
Speaker 1: police station or then emotional trouble or whatever, what's their
Speaker 1: first call? Your kids first call is always you.
Speaker 3: It might be to each other first, but then.
Speaker 4: They call each other.
Speaker 2: But that's it they do.
Speaker 1: And so it pained me a little bit yesterday to
Speaker 1: hear you go through it and talking on the microphone,
Speaker 1: and I scolded you afterwards about it. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to do it on the mic. But look, we all
Speaker 1: doing the best we can. And you have done an
Speaker 1: above average jump for sure with your kids.
Speaker 5: And also I say this with all the self awareness
Speaker 5: that I'm not a mother, I also like to be
Speaker 5: inspired by you, and like what you were saying about
Speaker 5: why did you choose a career. Because you chose your
Speaker 5: career and because you worked as hard as you did,
Speaker 5: your daughters are going to know that they can do that,
Speaker 5: that they can go through just unimaginable things like you
Speaker 5: have and survive and thrive.
Speaker 3: Yep, I mean that's true.
Speaker 4: And I told myself is that I was working and
Speaker 4: building my career, that this was I was setting an example.
Speaker 4: But you still think, but they didn't care about that,
Speaker 4: you know, they just wanted mom. So you know you
Speaker 4: look at it like that. But there it's all a balance,
Speaker 4: and you don't we none of us get it right
Speaker 4: exactly right.
Speaker 3: None of us actually are perfect.
Speaker 4: So that's the thing where you do have to kind
Speaker 4: of give yourself a break and just say I did
Speaker 4: the best I could, and I still am trying to
Speaker 4: do the best I could.
Speaker 3: But I'm always trying to learn. I'm always trying to
Speaker 3: be better and do better. I think that's where I
Speaker 3: am now.
Speaker 4: Just how can I how can I start right now
Speaker 4: being even better?
Speaker 1: You're going to get a lot of credit for having
Speaker 1: your own They're gonna say, where's my.
Speaker 2: Is it available now? When can we get it?
Speaker 6: It is available in June, in June.
Speaker 5: We are doing this surprise and honor of mothers say,
Speaker 5: and in honor of.
Speaker 6: You, because we wanted to celebrate you and all that
Speaker 6: you are.
Speaker 3: Three orders available. I will do my best.
Speaker 6: No, no, but we are. We are.
Speaker 5: We We had to surprise you in person, and we
Speaker 5: really wanted to do it in honor of Mother's Day.
Speaker 5: And I want to say thank you so much to
Speaker 5: the team here for making this so special in TJ.
Speaker 5: For being our co conspirator. You're the best. You're the best.
Speaker 4: Tell me what was going on so I can get
Speaker 4: a sense now that I know, because honestly, genuinely, you know,
Speaker 4: I was surprised.
Speaker 2: I'll talk to you about her over drinks. This is
Speaker 2: a lot. This has been going off a month.
Speaker 1: From the moment she when it was that it really
Speaker 1: when it was last September. Yeah, from the moment she
Speaker 1: walked out, we've been collaborating essentially.
Speaker 2: It was I.
Speaker 5: Literally went to the lab with the team and we
Speaker 5: were mixing it. We were like, we have to make
Speaker 5: this happen, and we wanted to make it happen in
Speaker 5: honor of Mother's Day.
Speaker 6: And so we've been like, run, run, run, run, run.
Speaker 3: That is so good.
Speaker 2: Sydney and the Emma.
Speaker 1: They have had to coordinate and we tried to get
Speaker 1: this study at the right time and when she's going
Speaker 1: to be here. All this had to come together. We
Speaker 1: had to balloon. I thought it was going to give
Speaker 1: it away because you'd recognize the color, you know what
Speaker 1: a balloon it's and put it together.
Speaker 3: I didn't.
Speaker 4: And honestly, when you said there was a special guest,
Speaker 4: I was like, did you fly my mom in here?
Speaker 3: Did she just not tell me?
Speaker 1: Tell me the truth? I said, a special guest? How
Speaker 1: many went through? What was the top five?
Speaker 3: I thought? I thought my mom?
Speaker 4: I thought Ava perhaps, and I knew it couldn't be
Speaker 4: analyst because she has party plans birthday this weekend, and
Speaker 4: she's always complained about having.
Speaker 3: To share her birthday with Mother's Day, but it happens
Speaker 3: like every few years, so we're a day apartment.
Speaker 4: I was like, Nah, it's not gonna be her, So
Speaker 4: I thought my mom or Ava, that's who I thought.
Speaker 2: That was it?
Speaker 3: Wow, Like I didn't have much time to process. Who
Speaker 3: could possibly be in the other.
Speaker 2: Three minutes of time.
Speaker 1: I see those heels she had to walk slowly together.
Speaker 4: It's so funny, but no, I not for one second.
Speaker 4: And then when Christa came in. I don't know if
Speaker 4: you could see my brain, but I was like putting
Speaker 4: it all together.
Speaker 3: And then I was like green green, Oh, this is
Speaker 3: Chris's color. This is Ry Cosmetics color.
Speaker 4: Okay, that makes sense now, but I still wasn't totally sure.
Speaker 3: And then when you said you developed, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: my gosh, it's a lipstick.
Speaker 6: I get it.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 3: The sheer strength.
Speaker 1: But we have to thank Danielle on our team, with
Speaker 1: Amy Sugarman as well.
Speaker 2: They were a big part of this.
Speaker 1: Really, Sidney Emma have been golden throughout this thing. Andy
Speaker 1: of course, has a hand in everything.
Speaker 2: We freaking do.
Speaker 1: I swear he decides what we eat for dinner every night.
Speaker 1: He's still involved in our lives at this point. But Chris,
Speaker 1: I'm saying this to you, thank you. This is a
Speaker 1: big deal. I'm with her day and day out. I
Speaker 1: see her parenting more than anybody. I see her pain,
Speaker 1: I see her tears, I see her joy, I see
Speaker 1: your frustration with those two girls. And I see her
Speaker 1: roll her eyes like, oh my god, their face timing again.
Speaker 1: I see every bit of the parenting and to be recognized,
Speaker 1: and I go to the events and the breast cancer
Speaker 1: awareness things and allus to take a moment. She doesn't
Speaker 1: take a moment necessarily to get honored. She doesn't take
Speaker 1: a moment necessarily. People want to come out and take
Speaker 1: a picture and hear the story and all these things.
Speaker 1: But you took time in a moment. You dig into
Speaker 1: the story.
Speaker 2: And this has essentially been something in the works for.
Speaker 1: The past decade, and so this isn't a small thing.
Speaker 1: And I know it's fun. We've got balloons and all.
Speaker 1: But I am saying to you, sincerely, thank you for
Speaker 1: what you've done for this one who is everything to me.
Speaker 1: And so I just want to thank you publicly and
Speaker 1: in person here for what you did. This is a
Speaker 1: very very big deal.
Speaker 6: Oh, thank you so much, TJ. And thank you Amy.
Speaker 5: I mean, is it's so special to be able to finally.
Speaker 6: Do this with you.
Speaker 5: It's just it's you are such a special person. And
Speaker 5: I love what you said about celebrating Amy, because I
Speaker 5: think anytime somebody is really high performing like you are,
Speaker 5: literally in all aspects of your life physically, emotionally, professionally,
Speaker 5: as a as a I mean, everything that you do,
Speaker 5: You're just an amazing high performance person, and I think
Speaker 5: it can be challenging to celebrate. And I really hope
Speaker 5: that you celebrate you and I hope every time you
Speaker 5: put it on you feel celebrated and you feel all
Speaker 5: the love because you are. You mean so much to
Speaker 5: the world, and I know you also mean the world
Speaker 5: to your girls.
Speaker 3: So thank you, Thank you, Carissa. This is so sweet.
Speaker 4: This is one of the sweetest things that anyone's ever done.
Speaker 4: So I really appreciate it, and I am honored. I
Speaker 4: am at a little bit of a loss of words
Speaker 4: because I'm not really great at, you know, accepting praise,
Speaker 4: but I really do appreciate it, and I really do
Speaker 4: thank you for the recognition and I cannot.
Speaker 3: Wait to buy you out so you sell out of
Speaker 3: Amy's right. Thank you?
Speaker 5: How you're so welcome And how cool is it going
Speaker 5: to be when we do these giving events with the
Speaker 5: different giving partners that.
Speaker 6: You love and that we love, and.
Speaker 5: We get to donate the AMY and we get to
Speaker 5: watch that impact on their self esteem. I mean, I
Speaker 5: can't tell you like what you were saying about, you know,
Speaker 5: when you put makeup on when you are, whether you're
Speaker 5: going through chemo or somebody who's emerging emerging from homelessness.
Speaker 5: I mean, there are so many people who will be
Speaker 5: inspired by your story and so to be able to
Speaker 5: put on that Amy and really feel that sheer strength,
Speaker 5: I know it can be a little woo wu, but
Speaker 5: I'm like I swear when I when I put on
Speaker 5: the Amy, I feel a little more badass and polished.
Speaker 6: That's what she mean.
Speaker 5: She's badass and polished, you know, like you're so dropped
Speaker 5: dead gorgeous.
Speaker 2: Spent some time with you at home?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he sees me at three am every day. Yeah,
Speaker 4: with my reading glasses and my hair and a bun
Speaker 4: and the make And what do.
Speaker 1: I say to you I'm not put in it.
Speaker 2: What do I say to you?
Speaker 4: You actually said you like me best that way, and
Speaker 4: then you follow it up with and I have no
Speaker 4: incentive to tell you that, because if I didn't like
Speaker 4: you like that, I wouldn't encourage you.
Speaker 3: But he was like, yes, he did say that. It
Speaker 3: was very sweet and it was.
Speaker 4: It made me laugh, and he said, I literally have
Speaker 4: no incentive to tell you that.
Speaker 2: So makeup except for the Amy.
Speaker 4: You know, I always have to have something on my life,
Speaker 4: so that's perfect.
Speaker 1: Carissa, lady, thank you, it's good to see you in
Speaker 1: here again.
Speaker 2: Thank you for making this happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, she's saying thank you, but as her partner, thank
Speaker 1: you for doing this for her.
Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Again.
Speaker 1: It's available now, well in June, it's coming out. You
Speaker 1: get it, folks, the Amy, the New Shade, Happy Mother's
Speaker 1: Day baby.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 4: Thank you, Carissa, thank you TJ, and thank you Emma,
Speaker 4: Andy and Sydney and all the folks at A heart
Speaker 4: iHeart for making this aheart. I know now I'm getting
Speaker 4: all self centered. I love to name it Ahart No,
Speaker 4: iHeart sorry, Ahart, I heart Radio, iHeart podcast.
Speaker 5: Okay, can I also just say the team was when
Speaker 5: we told the team, they were screaming on the phone
Speaker 5: because we were like, I'm always like, don't put this
Speaker 5: in writing, like this is like a top secret, like
Speaker 5: this is the top secret mission, and they're like, the
Speaker 5: first thing I said was we can't tell TJ until
Speaker 5: right before.
Speaker 3: I think the secret.
Speaker 1: They've been on me for weeks about no, Hey, we
Speaker 1: need to set up a meeting, we need to call,
Speaker 1: and I'm with it.
Speaker 2: We're together all the time. It's fun.
Speaker 5: But yeah, they were so excited to celebrate you because
Speaker 5: of the way that you celebrate everybody and the way
Speaker 5: that you've You've dedicated your whole life to putting people
Speaker 5: on a plat and giving them a platform.
Speaker 6: So it's really so special.
Speaker 5: So your team loves you very much, which is a
Speaker 5: reflection of you and what a great person you are.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you everybody, and happy Mother's Day to all
Speaker 4: the moms out there. Really appreciate it and appreciate all
Speaker 4: of you. Hope you all have a wonderful day celebrating
Speaker 4: the incredible women