Episodes

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June 6, 2018

Episode 61, Marcia Kilgore, Founder, Beauty Pie - What’s the Meaning of Life? | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Marcia Kilgore has held many founder titles: Founder, Bliss Beauty; Fitflops; Soap and Glory. And most recently, Founder, Beauty Pie. With this string of hits behind her, you have to wonder - what’s her secret to success? In this episode, she actually lays it all out by telling us what the meaning of life is for her. Don’t worry - this won’t be 30 minutes of new-agey platitudes. These are real-life tactics from the ultimate entrepreneur that’ll turn your mind upside down. #wherebrainsmeetbeauty...
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May 29, 2018

Episode 60, Angie Irish, Founder, OZ Naturals - What Would You Sell For Success? | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Angie Irish was an esthetician unhappy with the efficacy of natural skin care. So she decided to start her own line. But financing this new biz didn’t involve high-powered VCs or even a loan from her family. Instead, she sold her car, her washer/dryer set and “pretty much anything I owned with a motor” - talk about bootstrapping. Five years later, her line OZ Naturals brings in close to 8 figures in yearly sales. Hear why she took the leap and everything that happened after on this week’s episod...
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May 29, 2018

Episode 60, Angie Irish, Founder, OZ Naturals - What Would You Sell For Success? | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Angie Irish was an esthetician unhappy with the efficacy of natural skin care. So she decided to start her own line. But financing this new biz didn’t involve high-powered VCs or even a loan from her family. Instead, she sold her car, her washer/dryer set and “pretty much anything I owned with a motor” - talk about bootstrapping. Five years later, her line OZ Naturals brings in close to 8 figures in yearly sales. Hear why she took the leap and everything that happened after on this week’s episod...
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May 29, 2018

Episode 60, Angie Irish, Founder, OZ Naturals - What Would You Sell For Success? | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Angie Irish was an esthetician unhappy with the efficacy of natural skin care. So she decided to start her own line. But financing this new biz didn’t involve high-powered VCs or even a loan from her family. Instead, she sold her car, her washer/dryer set and “pretty much anything I owned with a motor” - talk about bootstrapping. Five years later, her line OZ Naturals brings in close to 8 figures in yearly sales. Hear why she took the leap and everything that happened after on this week’s episod...
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May 22, 2018

Episode 59, Erin Williams, Founder, Erin’s Faces - What’s Your Why? | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Erin Williams had her heart set on Broadway, not the beauty industry. But for all her efforts, performing wasn’t panning out, and her day job as a makeup artist was. It eventually lead to the launch of her skincare brand, Erin’s Faces, and the two experiences couldn’t have been more different. “With theater, it was like I was army rolling through the dirt, let’s get this done. With this [Erin’s Faces], I feel like I haven’t willed it . . . I feel like I’m being led on a path.” A path she shares ...
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May 22, 2018

Episode 59, Erin Williams, Founder, Erin’s Faces - What’s Your Why? | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Erin Williams had her heart set on Broadway, not the beauty industry. But for all her efforts, performing wasn’t panning out, and her day job as a makeup artist was. It eventually lead to the launch of her skincare brand, Erin’s Faces, and the two experiences couldn’t have been more different. “With theater, it was like I was army rolling through the dirt, let’s get this done. With this [Erin’s Faces], I feel like I haven’t willed it . . . I feel like I’m being led on a path.” A path she shares ...
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May 22, 2018

Episode 59, Erin Williams, Founder, Erin’s Faces - What’s Your Why? | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Erin Williams had her heart set on Broadway, not the beauty industry. But for all her efforts, performing wasn’t panning out, and her day job as a makeup artist was. It eventually lead to the launch of her skincare brand, Erin’s Faces, and the two experiences couldn’t have been more different. “With theater, it was like I was army rolling through the dirt, let’s get this done. With this [Erin’s Faces], I feel like I haven’t willed it . . . I feel like I’m being led on a path.” A path she shares ...
58
May 9, 2018

Episode 58, Laura Gerchik, Biologique Recherche, General Manager - If It Ain’t Broke. . . Really, Don’t Fix It | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Laura Gerchik, General Manager of Biologique Recherche, explains why the company doesn’t jump on every new marketing trend or churn out an endless parade of new products. Steady in their approach, confident in their product, she thinks “What we need to think about is that consumers are so much more educated today.” The same could be said about her life - she came to the studio with notes on hand. So consider this episode an argument for knowing when you’ve got a good thing going - and when to ju...
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May 9, 2018

Episode 58, Laura Gerchik, Biologique Recherche, General Manager - If It Ain’t Broke. . . Really, Don’t Fix It | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Laura Gerchik, General Manager of Biologique Recherche, explains why the company doesn’t jump on every new marketing trend or churn out an endless parade of new products. Steady in their approach, confident in their product, she thinks “What we need to think about is that consumers are so much more educated today.” The same could be said about her life - she came to the studio with notes on hand. So consider this episode an argument for knowing when you’ve got a good thing going - and when to ju...
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May 9, 2018

Episode 58, Laura Gerchik, Biologique Recherche, General Manager - If It Ain’t Broke. . . Really, Don’t Fix It | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Laura Gerchik, General Manager of Biologique Recherche, explains why the company doesn’t jump on every new marketing trend or churn out an endless parade of new products. Steady in their approach, confident in their product, she thinks “What we need to think about is that consumers are so much more educated today.” The same could be said about her life - she came to the studio with notes on hand. So consider this episode an argument for knowing when you’ve got a good thing going - and when to ju...
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May 2, 2018

Episode 57, Stacey Levine, Glo Science, Co-Founder - All In the Family | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

An entrepreneur since the age of 10, Stacey Levine has been working with family one way or another for decades. The former retailer and current co-founder of Glo Science smile brightening tools shares how she’s navigated the professional with the familial, from her mother, husband and two adult sons. She also offers candid advice on how to dissolve and gracefully move past business partnerships when they’re just not working anymore - a must listen whether you’re working for Mom or working for Th...
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May 2, 2018

Episode 57, Stacey Levine, Glo Science, Co-Founder - All In the Family | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

An entrepreneur since the age of 10, Stacey Levine has been working with family one way or another for decades. The former retailer and current co-founder of Glo Science smile brightening tools shares how she’s navigated the professional with the familial, from her mother, husband and two adult sons. She also offers candid advice on how to dissolve and gracefully move past business partnerships when they’re just not working anymore - a must listen whether you’re working for Mom or working for Th...
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May 2, 2018

Episode 57, Stacey Levine, Glo Science, Co-Founder - All In the Family | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

An entrepreneur since the age of 10, Stacey Levine has been working with family one way or another for decades. The former retailer and current co-founder of Glo Science smile brightening tools shares how she’s navigated the professional with the familial, from her mother, husband and two adult sons. She also offers candid advice on how to dissolve and gracefully move past business partnerships when they’re just not working anymore - a must listen whether you’re working for Mom or working for Th...
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April 25, 2018

Episode 56, Laszlo Moharita, Johnson & Johnson, Global Director, Beauty Products - It’s All In the Details (That You’ve Probably Never Noticed) | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Call him a 21st century renaissance man: Laszlo Moharita, Global Director of Beauty Products at Johnson & Johnson, describes himself as a “squared up engineer who also likes to paint.” This yin-yang quality is more likely than not how he’s found himself in charge of creating everyday objects so well designed, we all take them for granted. Lotion pumps, dental floss, perfume bottles - Laszlo is the brain behind the most minute details of these items, from how much lotion comes out of the bottle t...
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April 25, 2018

Episode 56, Laszlo Moharita, Johnson & Johnson, Global Director, Beauty Products - It’s All In the Details (That You’ve Probably Never Noticed) | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Call him a 21st century renaissance man: Laszlo Moharita, Global Director of Beauty Products at Johnson & Johnson, describes himself as a “squared up engineer who also likes to paint.” This yin-yang quality is more likely than not how he’s found himself in charge of creating everyday objects so well designed, we all take them for granted. Lotion pumps, dental floss, perfume bottles - Laszlo is the brain behind the most minute details of these items, from how much lotion comes out of the bottle t...
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April 25, 2018

Episode 56, Laszlo Moharita, Johnson & Johnson, Global Director, Beauty Products - It’s All In the Details (That You’ve Probably Never Noticed) | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

Call him a 21st century renaissance man: Laszlo Moharita, Global Director of Beauty Products at Johnson & Johnson, describes himself as a “squared up engineer who also likes to paint.” This yin-yang quality is more likely than not how he’s found himself in charge of creating everyday objects so well designed, we all take them for granted. Lotion pumps, dental floss, perfume bottles - Laszlo is the brain behind the most minute details of these items, from how much lotion comes out of the bottle t...
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April 18, 2018

Episode 55, Paul Peros, FOREO CEO - What I Learned From Gen Z | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

As a former management consultant and now CEO of personal care device brand FOREO, Paul Peros, like many Gen X’ers, spent the early part of his career working long hours. Like most of his peers, working late equated to working harder. “Unfortunately for us, I think we’ve been a part of the culture of all-nighters and things like that,” he observed. Fast forward to 2018, where he now heads a company made up of employees mostly under 30 - and they’ve changed his perspective on what constitutes ha...
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April 18, 2018

Episode 55, Paul Peros, FOREO CEO - What I Learned From Gen Z | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

As a former management consultant and now CEO of personal care device brand FOREO, Paul Peros, like many Gen X’ers, spent the early part of his career working long hours. Like most of his peers, working late equated to working harder. “Unfortunately for us, I think we’ve been a part of the culture of all-nighters and things like that,” he observed. Fast forward to 2018, where he now heads a company made up of employees mostly under 30 - and they’ve changed his perspective on what constitutes ha...
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April 18, 2018

Episode 55, Paul Peros, FOREO CEO - What I Learned From Gen Z | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

As a former management consultant and now CEO of personal care device brand FOREO, Paul Peros, like many Gen X’ers, spent the early part of his career working long hours. Like most of his peers, working late equated to working harder. “Unfortunately for us, I think we’ve been a part of the culture of all-nighters and things like that,” he observed. Fast forward to 2018, where he now heads a company made up of employees mostly under 30 - and they’ve changed his perspective on what constitutes ha...
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April 11, 2018

Episode 54, Cassandra Bankson, Online Beauty Pioneer - Bullied - But Not Broken | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

As a model and YouTuber with over 1 million subscribers, it would seem Cassandra Bankson leads a charmed life. But just a few short years ago, she was the scourge of her peers, mercilessly bullied for extreme cystic acne that covered 90% of her face and upper body. Years were spent enduring stares and taunts of Worthless! Disease! Filthy! Outside of school, her afternoons were spent cycling through endless doctors appointments and medications in what would prove to be a futile attempt at a cure....
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April 11, 2018

Episode 54, Cassandra Bankson, Online Beauty Pioneer - Bullied - But Not Broken | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

As a model and YouTuber with over 1 million subscribers, it would seem Cassandra Bankson leads a charmed life. But just a few short years ago, she was the scourge of her peers, mercilessly bullied for extreme cystic acne that covered 90% of her face and upper body. Years were spent enduring stares and taunts of Worthless! Disease! Filthy! Outside of school, her afternoons were spent cycling through endless doctors appointments and medications in what would prove to be a futile attempt at a cure....
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April 11, 2018

Episode 54, Cassandra Bankson, Online Beauty Pioneer - Bullied - But Not Broken | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

As a model and YouTuber with over 1 million subscribers, it would seem Cassandra Bankson leads a charmed life. But just a few short years ago, she was the scourge of her peers, mercilessly bullied for extreme cystic acne that covered 90% of her face and upper body. Years were spent enduring stares and taunts of Worthless! Disease! Filthy! Outside of school, her afternoons were spent cycling through endless doctors appointments and medications in what would prove to be a futile attempt at a cure....
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April 4, 2018

Episode 53, Caroline Fabrigas, CEO, Scent Marketing Inc - The Altruisms of Networking | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

“Networking”. It’s a word that can conjure up ideas of aggressive, winner-take-all, shameless self-promotion, yet it’s supposed to be the most effective way to find new work and useful connections. In this episode, guest Caroline Fabrigas, CEO of Scent Marketing and Co-CEO of Scent Invent, offers up a new definition of networking, one she says is more about “Putting out a hand instead of taking one.” Plus, she shares her tips on where to draw the line between work and family when you work with y...
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April 4, 2018

Episode 53, Caroline Fabrigas, CEO, Scent Marketing Inc - The Altruisms of Networking | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY®

“Networking”. It’s a word that can conjure up ideas of aggressive, winner-take-all, shameless self-promotion, yet it’s supposed to be the most effective way to find new work and useful connections. In this episode, guest Caroline Fabrigas, CEO of Scent Marketing and Co-CEO of Scent Invent, offers up a new definition of networking, one she says is more about “Putting out a hand instead of taking one.” Plus, she shares her tips on where to draw the line between work and family when you work with y...