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Welcome back to the Life with Mary and a Podcast. I'm your host, Mary and a Hewitt.

In this episode, I'm joined by KJ Miller and Amanda Johnson, co-founders of Menteb Cosmetics.

We chat about their experience at Harvard Business School,

advice for new businesses, and their pinch me moment with Oprah.

Keep listening to learn more about Menteb.

Thank you both so much for joining me on my podcast today.

Thank you for having us.

Yeah, thank you.

And for people who don't know about you too, I would love to hear a little bit more about

both of you and about the brand.

Sure. Well, this is KJ. I'm co-founder and CEO of Menteb Cosmetics.

Amanda and I, we met in Harvard Business School where we both graduated from 2014,

and shortly thereafter had the idea for Menteb,

which is a pigment first feeding brand celebrating women of all hues and prioritizing women of color.

And we had the idea because Amanda mentioned to me one night while we were, you know,

sharing a bottle of wine that she'd been looking for the perfect new lipsticks for three years.

And I immediately could relate because I couldn't find any lip color that was suitable for me,

much less a nude lip color. And I think for both of us, that was really our aha moment where we

said how crazy is it that we can't find something as classic and as simple as an everyday nude

lip color. And that was the moment we decided if other brands weren't going to make it for us,

that we'd make it for ourselves. So Menteb really was born out of the problem that we had,

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