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Maureen Kelly

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first: 2023-01-23
most recent: 2023-01-23
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“Make us do these egg weight masks and homemade candles and face masks and things like that and soaps. My sisters and I had like acne or pimple. She would like, you know, mix like turmeric or an aloe vera and like, you know.”
2023-01-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't know exactly, but in my heart, I really wanted to start a makeup company, but I knew that my parents wouldn't think that that was reputable enough. You know, since I was a little girl, I'd always like play with my mom's makeup and, you know, she was beautiful. And I would, you know, make my own like, you know, cheekstain and like the bathtub with like shaving cream and like, you know, cough syrup or like chalk or whatever hat. And I would take like lipstick and put it on my sister's and like their holly hobby dolls. It was something I always loved, right? And my mom used to like”
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“Was clear to me, but you know, I was young for sure. He was a couple three years older than me, but he proposed and we got married. And yeah, so he was really, really, really supportive of me. And I just, you know, he said, you always talked about doing something on your own. You've always wanted to start your own company and you've been, you know, for lack of a better word kind of afraid, you know? Because I think”
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“At that age, we weren't married yet. No, my parents are very traditional. So I was like, I'll just stay in a different bedroom. Of course, my parents believe that. Yeah. And then we actually wound up moving down to Stuyvesant Town. It's this like really cool rent controlled development. Yeah.”
2023-01-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We did. We moved in together when I was living with my sister. We had moved out of that studio apartment when she was going to law school and we got like a two-bedroom, five floor walk-up on the upper east side. But there was like some kind of an animal in the wall that died started smelling really bad. So I was like, okay, peace out. I'm moving across town with Mark. And she was like, what? And she was like, I'm telling mom and dad. I was like, don't you dare. And she told my parents, and they were not happy with me.”
2023-01-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He was. He was in finance at the World Trade Center, and just one of those guys that lights up a room, could talk to CEOs and janitors alike, you know, just made everybody feel like really special, just a really warm guy. He was 6'3", 230 pounds, a funny, just very kind, just a really, really kind person”
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“I met him in a bar on the upper east side. He was a rugby playing investment banker, and he had just come from like a rugby game, I think at like the New York Athletic Club. And he and his friends just came into the bar and started talking to my friends and I kind of.”
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“What you have to do, and I think that happens to a lot of people you get really far down a path, you know, and you just feel like I'm trapped. And I did feel like that. I felt like that. And I talk to my parents and they were like Maureen. You're all over the place. You have to just finish this. This is just get your PhD, just get your PhD finish your dissertation. And then you can decide what you want to do.”
2023-01-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did. You know, I love psychology, but I just wasn't sure, you know, part of our job, you know, our requirements as a graduate student was counseling the undergrads at Columbia. And so I would be sitting, you know, counseling them, listening, you know, doing sessions with them one-on-one. And I would find myself, you know, drifting off thinking about different things. And, you know, that's the exact wrong thing to be doing when you're sitting with a therapist or a counselor. And I'd be thinking, then I, you know, click myself back in and. Give some advice or feedback and reiterate what they were saying, recognize that I was listening to them. But I was thinking, gosh, I do not want to do this with my life. I don't want to do this. But I'm really far down this path.”
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“Yes, yes. I was really interested in psychology. It's something that's like always fascinated me and still does. You know, just, you know, like why people think the way they do and what motivates them. And then consumer psychology obviously is fascinating. So I went for”
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“And then, yeah. And then I was up in Binghamton where it was really, really cold for a couple years. But I finished college quick. I actually did college in two and a half years. And so I graduated and my sister was older sister was already living in the city, going to law school in New York. I was like, okay, Veronica, I'm not moving home. I'm moving in with you and I'll just sleep on your futon. And I did so. I moved to New York City and crashed on her futon. I got a bartending job and I applied to grad school.”
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“I didn't know, I'll be honest, my sister went there first. So my one sister went to Georgetown. My other sister went to Cornell, and then my older sister went to Binghamton and I visited her in classic metaboy at a party and was like, okay, I'm just going to go there. And of course, I got there. And I was like, hey, it's me. And he was like, who are you? I don't even know who you are. I don't even remember you. And of course I was crushed. But it was a very good early lesson.”
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“I would say that I did well in the classes I was interested in and not well in the classes that I was not interested in. I am told that I have ADD. I was never diagnosed as that. I think back in my time that like wasn't such a big thing. So I think that that kind of makes sense, right? With ADD, you have that hyper focus, right, on stuff that you're interested in. So I feel like I was like a classic with that.”
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“Mom growing up in Ireland definitely shaped who she was, and I think as a result shaped us, especially the girls, because she wasn't allowed to play any sports or do boy things. Like girls and boys had very different rules in Ireland. And so She said, you know, when she had girls, she would make sure that they could do everything, you know, and that they could be anything they wanted. And so that's kind of what she always, you know, said to my sisters. And there's three girls and two boys. And she was like, you guys can do anything. You can be anything. And, you know, she was just always talking about girlpower, girl power, you know, and I feel like that's such a big thing for me now. You know, I just, I guess I didn't think about the fact that my mom shaped that, you know, because of the fact that she couldn't have that.”
2023-01-23 · How I Built This with Guy Raz · Tarte Cosmetics: Maureen Kelly · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I can remember the beauty editor from Vogue came up to me and said, what is this and who are you And I was like, I'm worrying Kelly, and this is Tarte. And she's like, okay, so you're not a celebrity makeup artist and you're not an heiress, you're a nobody. I was like, okay, enough with everybody talking.”
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