Welcome back to The Final Edit—the podcast for high-level founders rewriting what success, legacy, and leadership actually look like.
In this bold and heartfelt episode, we sat down with Samreen Arshad—founder, immigrant, and beauty industry disruptor—for a conversation that’s part masterclass, part movement.
From teaching herself makeup on YouTube during postpartum depression to landing on QVC, Costco, and Harper’s Bazaar, Samreen’s story is anything but linear. She’s built a multi-six-figure cosmetics brand from scratch, turned down Shark Tank, and paused it all to build something deeper: a brand rooted in culture, confidence, and community.
We talked rejection, reinvention, and raising capital when nobody in the room looks like you. But more than that? We talked about what it means to belong—and why creating space for your story might just be the most powerful thing you do.
This episode is for the underdogs, the visionaries, and the women building empires the world’s not ready for (yet). 🌍💋
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🎧 EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS 🎧
[00:00:00] Samreen’s origin story—from Pakistan to powerhouse
[00:07:45] Finding makeup during postpartum and self-healing
[00:13:55] From being rejected at Sephora to building her own brand
[00:17:30] The vision behind her rebrand and global scale
[00:26:10] Navigating funding rooms as a South Asian woman
[00:32:30] “I didn’t come this far just to come this far.”
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