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Hi, I'm Shira Barlow, but you may know me as the food therapist.

I'm so excited to announce your media's first ever daily show, Good Instincts.

If you've ever found it challenging to eat thoughtfully while juggling a busy schedule,

then this show is for you. Instead of aiming to simply eat healthier,

we'll focus on tips and mindset shifts that streamline the process,

because balance is key, and the less complicated, the better.

Join me every Monday through Friday for Bite Size episodes,

designed to help you close the gap between where you are right now,

and where you want to go. Available wherever you get your podcast.

Hey, it's Mariana and welcome back to the Life with Mariana podcast.

In this episode, I have Amanda Diaz. She is a beauty creator and influencer,

and she has been creating content for eight years. She started on YouTube and then

really grew on TikTok, where she grew a couple of million followers just in the beginning

of her TikTok career. So in this episode, we talk about how she got her start,

her strategy on TikTok and YouTube, and how she plans her content based on different

platforms and how to be more comfortable and authentic. If you guys want to hear from Amanda,

keep listening, and don't forget to subscribe to my podcast, because I've got new episodes every Tuesday.

So my first question is where did you go up and when did you come to the US?

Okay, so this is something a lot of people don't know about me, and I'm trying to talk about it more,

because I feel like my newer audiences are still kind of getting to know me, but I was born in Cuba.

I was born in Havana, and I grew up there up until 2006. I was six years old. We moved to the US,

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