Podcast Episodes

Nutrafol CEO Giorgos Tsetis on changing the company's sales vehicle in a matter of weeks

Telemedicine visits may be up, but people have less usual access to their doctors and other hair specialists (like stylists and plastic surgeons) for…

6 years, 4 months ago

Biossance president Catherine Gore on how skin care answered growing health concerns for consumers

Biossance president Catherine Gore has always considered skin care as medically significant, and believes customers will be more inclined to share th…

6 years, 5 months ago

AmorePacific U.S. President and General Manager Jessica Hanson on the lasting power of K-Beauty in a pandemic

Korean-based and -inspired beauty companies expanded rapidly in the U.S. and globally in the last few years, but AmorePacific turned to e-commerce so…

6 years, 5 months ago

Beautycounter CEO and founder Gregg Renfrew on the opportunity and responsibility to succeed

Beautycounter isn't your typical beauty brand. Given its network of roughly 50,000 independent consultants marketing and selling its products, compan…

6 years, 5 months ago

ReVive Skincare CEO Elana Drell-Szyfer on navigating crises in the beauty industry

RéVive Skincare CEO Elana Drell-Szyfer has been in the beauty industry long enough to weather past global crises. "I've lived through them all," she …

6 years, 5 months ago

Sylvie Chantecaille on selling luxury beauty online without Amazon's help

Sylvie Chantecaille has no illusions about the commercial difficulties presented by the coronavirus pandemic.

"Basically our business went dead overni…

6 years, 6 months ago

Josh Wood on his hair-color business during the pandemic: 'DTC has gone crazy'

Like many entrepreneurs, hair colorist Josh Wood has had to change how he does business in the midst of the pandemic.

"We have no salon operations at …

6 years, 6 months ago

BeautyBio's Jamie O'Banion on a CEO's responsibility to plan for the 'worst-case scenario'

BeautyBio founder and CEO Jamie O'Banion describes part of her job as "always thinking through worst-case scenario and planning for it." With the cor…

6 years, 6 months ago

Ilia Beauty founder Sasha Plavsic on riding the clean category's 'extreme growth pattern'

Sasha Plavsic is pretty clear that she picked the right beauty category to start a business in. "The clean category, as they're calling it now, is on…

6 years, 6 months ago

Drew Elliott: 'I've always thought of MAC as being at the center of pop culture'

When Kim Kardashian 'broke the internet' by way of a photo shoot in Paper magazine, Drew Elliott was its chief creative officer. Now a few months int…

6 years, 6 months ago