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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is about how old dogs learn new tricks.

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Speaker 1: Even if you have been doing something the same way

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Speaker 1: for a long time, you can learn to do it differently,

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Speaker 1: as long as you have a reason and find the

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Speaker 1: right guide along the way. People who listen to my

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Speaker 1: other podcast, Best of Both Worlds, know that I recently

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Speaker 1: made good on a goal to learn how to do

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Speaker 1: my makeup better. I have been wearing some sort of makeup,

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Speaker 1: though not much, for decades, but it is not a

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Speaker 1: subject that has ever particularly interested me. I bought stuff

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Speaker 1: at the drug store. I put it on roughly how

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Speaker 1: I thought it told go on. I could see professional

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Speaker 1: makeup artists made me look much better than usual for

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Speaker 1: professional photo shoots or TV appearances. But I figured that's

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Speaker 1: like saying people look good on their wedding days. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 1: but that has little to do with normal life. But

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Speaker 1: I have noticed that other people look very nice in

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Speaker 1: normal life, and as I get older, it's a little

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Speaker 1: hard to pull off the effortless look. So I decided

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Speaker 1: to do something about it. Fortunately, as I was pondering this,

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Speaker 1: I heard from Jenny Eversol, who runs the Virtual Styling

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Speaker 1: Business Style space. She was a long time Best of

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Speaker 1: Both World's listener and offered to set me up with

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Speaker 1: some sessions. So I did two virtual meetings with makeup

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Speaker 1: artist Rebecca Kirkwood. During the first one, she looked at

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Speaker 1: my face, asked what I normally wore, and asked about

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Speaker 1: my life. Then she sent me links to various products

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Speaker 1: in the shades I should buy. My first take away

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Speaker 1: was that I had a lot to learn. These were

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Speaker 1: independent brands that aren't usually sold in drug stores, and

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Speaker 1: there were things like brow Gel which had never entered

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Speaker 1: my mental space. Once my hull showed up, I did

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Speaker 1: a second virtual session where Rebecca taught me how to

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Speaker 1: apply it. I will say that at the end I

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Speaker 1: did look doier and more rested than usual, so that

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Speaker 1: is a win. I am now doing my makeup differently

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Speaker 1: than I was for the past twenty five years. Maybe

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Speaker 1: an old dog can learn new tricks, and maybe you

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Speaker 1: can too. If there is something you have been doing

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Speaker 1: a certain way for a while but you are not

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Speaker 1: particularly thrilled with how it's going, that is a good

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Speaker 1: sign that you might want to pause and think. You

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Speaker 1: can probably change things. You just need to follow a

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Speaker 1: few steps. First. You have to want to change. There

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Speaker 1: are a great many things in this world that I

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Speaker 1: don't care about. I am probably shampooing my hair completely wrong,

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Speaker 1: but I may go to my grave shampooing my hair wrong.

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Speaker 1: It will be okay. You have to genuinely be interested

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Speaker 1: in doing something differently. Then you have to find the

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Speaker 1: right guide. When you get older, you have less time

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Speaker 1: to mess around, but you also probably have more resources,

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Speaker 1: So ask other people who they have found useful. You

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Speaker 1: can certainly watch YouTube videos and that might be a

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Speaker 1: good start, but if you can swing one on one

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Speaker 1: instruction that might be more helpful. You also need to

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Speaker 1: be willing to commit the resources to it, I mean

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Speaker 1: time and money. I'm sure Rebecca could have worked her

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Speaker 1: magic with drug store makeup if she needed to. But

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Speaker 1: if I am going to the trouble of enlisting an expert,

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Speaker 1: I am probably us off buying what she tells me

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Speaker 1: to buy, even if it's pricier than my usual fare. Similarly,

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Speaker 1: if you are taking cooking lessons and your teacher tells

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Speaker 1: you to buy a certain knife, you should get it.

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Speaker 1: You should get the tennis racket your coach recommends, or

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Speaker 1: go to the batting cage a certain number of times

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Speaker 1: if that is the prescription. But if you do these

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Speaker 1: three things, decide you do want to change, find a

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Speaker 1: guide and commit the resources, you can probably do all

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Speaker 1: sorts of things, and then the old dog can do

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Speaker 1: his new trick for many years to come. In the meantime,

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Speaker 1: this is Laura. Thanks for listening, and here's to making

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