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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

Listen to the LifeKit podcast from NPR.

You know, you're bursting at the seams and you can't accommodate people and your neighbors are starting to look at you like, what's going on in there?

I mean, we were actually watched at one point for suspicious activity.

Because people are just ringing the bell and going inside and they come out with bags like, what's going on in there?

From NPR, it's how I built this.

A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Raaz, and I'm the show today, how Lisa Price whipped up some homemade body butter in her apartment, sold it at a flea market, and then turned it into one of the biggest beauty brands, the women of color.

If you log on to Carol's daughter.com, you'll see this beautifully polished website with dozens of hair products, body creams, and butters, oils, and treatments all for sale.

And you'll see this incredibly diverse range of women as well, all types of skin tones and hues, curly hair and straight hair.

And if you scroll all the way down, you'll see in small type, a division of L'Oreal, and L'Oreal, if you don't already know, happens to be the world's largest cosmetics company.

L'Oreal bought Carol's daughter in 2014 for an undisclosed amount of money, but you can safely bet that it was for a lot of money.

Now, that's not so unusual, a big multinational buying another company, right? But what is unusual is that Carol's daughter literally started in Lisa Price's kitchen, a one bedroom apartment in Brooklyn.

And if you haven't already guessed, it started out as a passion project, because Lisa already had a career, in fact a pretty cool one.

In the 1980s, she landed a job as a writers assistant on the Cosby show, which at the time, of course, wasn't yet tarnished because of Bill Cosby.

In fact, it was the hottest TV show in America.

I thought that I had found the career that I was going to do for the rest of my life, because it was an amazing experience.

It was particularly incredible being an African American woman, and what that show meant to me and my family to see African Americans depicted in such a positive light.

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