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hello everyone Karen glasser here and
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welcome to the little white light if
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you're just tuning in right now I'm
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excited and thrilled that you're here
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you and let you know how much I
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appreciate you so welcome to the show
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again it's Karen glasser and this is the
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little white lie and today the topic is
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about aging and beauty and why do we
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fall for that you know I've been talking
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about the little white lie and this
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journey that I'm on and how it's more
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than a hair color but again in the
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spirit of transparency I just have to
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show you where I'm at so far and it is
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growing in like a weed without
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absolutely loving but apparently this is
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really struck a chord I mean I have
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gotten a tremendous amount of responses
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we have over 2,000 views already on
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these lives that I've been doing some
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really really excited about that we even
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got a shout out from the back 40 Flyers
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who were inspired to write their own
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post about gray hair and they reported
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back to me that they love my little
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white life so let's talk a little bit
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about society and how society equates
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gray hair with being old especially for
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women does anybody out there remember
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Claire all you remember Claire all
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Claire offs go around but back in the
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day in 1943 what is their ad said this
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gray hair the Heartless dictator the
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Heartless dictator clairol swiftly
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surely and secretly eliminates the
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heartaches of gray or grey hair can you
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imagine that this is the kind of
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commercials and advertising's and youth
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paper and print ads that were out there
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telling us basically that if you have
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you for the messages that society was
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putting out there as we grew up and I
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don't forget to go check the latest post
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on the little white lie because I have
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some really cool shots and of the
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Clairol ad as well as some other things
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there so that you can go check that out
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so here I am on this little white lie
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journey and I'm thinking about what was
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going on in society years ago and I
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thought you know what why don't I just
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go to the source why don't I just fly
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down to Los Angeles and talk to my mom
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about her journey since she lived back
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then mom I'm not making you old but you
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lived back then at 30 when her white
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hair was coming in so I asked her what
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was it like for her and why did she
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choose not to color her hair and I
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thought he was going to tell me you know
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all those ads to hire grey and all the
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societal messages that oppressed aging
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women you know dictating that beauty was
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not gray or white hair well guess what
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surprise there was not even an inkling
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is that being a reason here's what she
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told me she said Karen I had four kids
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who has time who has planned to go color
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your hair she never gave the whole gray
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white transition thing any thought and
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she said she didn't even know anybody
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who was coing their hair and it was way
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too expensive and I guess it's you know
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when you have four kids and and all the
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things that are going on in life you
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have to spend that kind of money she
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calls herself low maintenance she only
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wears eyeliner and lipstick and she goes
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to the drugstore to buy it until they
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were discontinued and she really marches
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to her own drum sort of like her
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daughter and wow what an inspiration and
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I want you really to go check out the
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post because I have a picture of my mom
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and my dad they're in all of their white
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glory because they they really are an
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inspiration to me and an inspiration I
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think to anybody that sees these
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pictures so I'll go check it out and it
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really got me thinking why do we do this
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to ourselves I mean really why do we do
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this to ourselves why not listen to the
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Beckett 22 beating our own drums right
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just what is it that makes us tick we
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Cesc culture I want to give you some
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examples though of women who are doing
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it their own way they're not coloring
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their hair no plastic surgery and
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they're embracing their age helen mirren
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again I have pictures of all these women
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in the blog post it's up right now judi
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dench Nichelle Nichols you remember
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lieutenant her from Star Trek Jamie Lee
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Curtis Grace Slick all of these
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wonderful amazing women and I didn't
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even mention you know a ton of them but
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these women are marching to their own
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drum and they're not covering it up and
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they are expressing who they are to the
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world and then finally I want to talk
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about Cindy Joseph now Sidney Joseph
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started as a makeup artist for a lot of
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celebrities and actors and actresses and
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models she did a lot of print ad and she
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was the one who made these women look
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beautiful but she when she turned 49 I
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believe she decided enough of this and
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she went she just went to her natural
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white and she put her money where her
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mouth is and built an entire enterprise
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around being oneself being beautiful
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authentic you know self minimal makeup
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and she actually created a pro age
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cosmetic line you can read her story on
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the little white lie as well as seeing
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some photos of her and of these amazing
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women and next week we'll talk a little
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bit about products and things that we
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see out there that were being encouraged
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to use and some of them are good and
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some of them you might want to think
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about and what about my mom well she
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embraces her aging and I think we can
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all take take something from her when I
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asked her you know what did she feel
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about aging my mom is 81 years old she
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still works full-time in an orthodontist
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office and she said to me it's going to
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happen whether you wanted to or not
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perfect answer right whether you want it
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or not we are all going to age and why
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not do it gracefully and gratefully so
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this is what I have a question for you
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and I'd love for you to post down here
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what do you plan to do to follow the
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beat of your own drum this year what is
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the beat of your drum that you're going
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to be following this year and you can go
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over to the little white live.com and
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check in there and you're going to see
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some of these beautiful pictures of
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these amazing women you're going to see
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the products and services that some of
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these people do and there's a survey
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there I want to find out from you do you
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color your hair yes no maybe you used to
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maybe you're thinking about it go ahead
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and fill out that survey because i'd
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love to see what all of you are doing
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out there and finally don't forget to
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get my info graphic the five steps to
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uncovering your grey everything is right
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there on the site I really appreciate
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you being here with me each and every
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week on the little white line we'll see
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you next time on the little white lie
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see you later everyone