BE THE MATCH w/ Jared Lipscomb [Leukemia Warrior/Be The Match Ambassador, Celebrity Makeup Artist & Podcast Host of Back On Air]

JAMPACKED

EPISODE 87
JUNE 30, 2021

BE THE MATCH

✨🏳️‍🌈 JARED LIPSCOMB [Celebrity Makeup Artist, Podcast Host of Back On Air & @bethematch Ambassador] joins to talk how he found out he was diagnosed with leukemia, how he almost didn’t get his transplant in time, need for diversity in bone marrow registry, the LGBTQ+ community is welcome to donate with Be The Match vs. blood donation verbiage with others, and more!

We play STORYTIME to create names for makeup lines with a country twist with Diet Dr. Pepper & 805 Beer!

WATCH: https://youtu.be/95Wh4E-GMpY
BLOG: https://www.jampackedshow.com/post/be-the-match
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ABOUT:
✨🏳️‍🌈 Jared Lipscomb is a celebrity makeup artist, host of the podcast Back On Air, and as of april 2021 a Leukemia Survivor. He uses his platform to share his beauty work as well as to advocate for the queer cancer community by spreading awareness for Be The Match. As an ambassador, he is focusing on diversifying the bone marrow registry and spreading the importance of signing up. Jared loves chihuahuas, the color pink and Britney Spears.
@jaredlips
#bethematch

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SHOW NOTES:

0:00 Show Intro

1:30 Jared Lipscomb Intro

3:25 Meet Jared Lipscomb

8:50 Growing up around the south to moving to Florida

11:50 finding confident gay kids at his high school

13:20 Moving to LA from Florida

14:40 power of positive thinking

• going from the Venice bubble to how his philanthropy got him started as a makeup artist

22:00 when he began to feel sick and found out he was diagnosed w/ leukemia

30:00 how he almost didn’t get his transplant in time w/ the travel ban

34:00 what it was about pop music that got him through that also helped him with his breathing

37:20 Drinking Game: STORYTIME remix, making up cosmetic lines with a southern twist

55:00 importance to Be The Match for someone that needs a transplant.

59:00 donating blood

• Process of how to find if you’re a match
• Process of donating blood (not intrusive)
• What being on a private registry means
• How Be The Match is lgbtq+ friendly

1:06:16 Words of Wisdom

The mantra that I lived by in the midst of the most suffering that I was going through with my cancer treatment.

This is temporary. For me it meant, that pain, suffering and hardship of what I was going through, that it was all temporary. If you’re going through a rough patch, remember it’s temporary.

1:08:00 fighting laws that homophobic legislature and language in donating blood.

- homoglobin is fighting for the LGBTQ+ community

1:10:00 outro