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[Music: melodic guitar]
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Hi, I'm Billie,
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I'm the owner of Fierce Bodies.
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We make products for skin and hair
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that are fiercely natural and fragrance free.
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Right now we're trying to raise $2,300,
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and that's basically the amount that we need
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for all the supplies, and the raw ingredients,
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and the labels and jars to release our first line.
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And I'm actually particularly excited for these labels
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because we commissioned Christy C. Road [http://www.croadcore.org/]
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who's one of my favourite artists, to draw the labels.
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And they're really incredible.
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I've been making my own skin and hair products
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for kind of a while now,
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and, um, they're always a big hit.
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I give them away as presents every year,
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and my friends and family really really enjoy using them,
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and have been coming back to me for refills.
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Eventually I just realized that it was actually something that, um,
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more people might be interested in.
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And it would be a good way for me to earn a living from home.
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I've been sensitive to, ah, fragrances and airborne chemical pollutants
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for about 5 years,
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and about 3 years ago I was diagnosed with something called
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Benign Metastasizing Leiomyomatosis,
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and basically it's a tumor condition and I have lung tumors.
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And so, getting that diagnosis just confirmed what I already knew,
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which was that I had a lung condition,
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that I was sensitive to chemicals.
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And uh, myself and my family and my community, we've all worked together to
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adjust our lifestyles to make sure that they are very non-toxic.
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I really believe that, y'know, people's beauty routines, are part of their...
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of how they shape their identity,
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and I know that it can be really important for people to have access to things that
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make them feel beautiful and, y'know,
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keep their skin and hair healthy.
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I think that can be something that can be really important for people, for individuals.
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And there are some gaps in things that are available
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that are fragrance and chemical free.
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And, um, once I decided to start Fierce Bodies
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I started to get feedback right away,
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um, of lots of requests for different kinds of products.
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And the first thing that people asked for were hair products.
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So that's what we're starting with.
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Assuming that our fuindraising campaign is successful,
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we will have a full line for release in late summer (2011),
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and that will be available on our website
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fiercebodies.com
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and also hopefully through some local stores.
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If you don't see the product that you're looking for in our first line,
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don't worry, let us know and we'll probably make it in the future,
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so still donate.
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And when you buy something from Fierce Bodies, you can feel good about it because
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you know that you're supporting a good company,
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with good values,
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and that's something that we can all be proud of.