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12: what i'm listening to, not spending my money on and reading (and hating)...

Listening to…

A conversation on beauty and mortality with Kate Lee, makeup artist to Keira Knightley, Lily-Rose Depp and Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones fans know!!) for How to be a Woman on the Internet. It’s an incredibly impactful listen about aging, dying and being ok with it all. It’s one that I’ll reflect on and revisit time and time again.

Here are some of my favorite takeaways, but be sure to listen for yourself:

• Women of my generation between 50 and 60, are pretty much the richest we've ever been. And we’re the ones that are driving most of the beauty brands, even though you wouldn't know it was aimed at us if you look at the advertising.

• I would rather create in the background. The hamster wheel of self-promotion does not appeal to me. I'm only just learning to be okay with it now, but that is a real pressure within my industry.

• Death has a 100% success rate. No one's getting out of here alive. I do think this also plays into the beauty industry — why we're not allowed to see people over 50 because everyone is mortally afraid of dying.

• Beauty then becomes something completely different because it becomes about the joy in your life, the experiences that you've had. When you're at the end of your life, you won't care about whether your eyebrows were even or not, you won't care about whether you looked 50 when you were 45. You will care about who loves you, who you loved, what you're leaving behind.

I’ve also been listening to the Daily podcast episodes on the Supreme Court’s ruling on putting freedom of expression over freedom from discrimination and their decision overturning affirmative action, which discussed what it means not only for universities and the demographics that make up the student body, but what it means for diversity and inclusion within the workforce, which has a problem with lack of representation as it is.

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Thinking a lot about…

How incredibly small the world can be sometimes. In the past couple weeks, I’ve been in situations that reminded me just that.