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Episode 102, Rita Hazan, Celebrity Colorist and Product Innovator - Last (Wo)man Standing | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY® Apr 03, 2019

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Rita Hazan, a celebrity colorist, product innovator and salon owner, has been in business for 20 years strong. Hear how she’s managed to keep innovating and stay relevant even as trends and fads cycle faster and faster through the consumer experience. Consider this episode a masterclass in career longevity.

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WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY™ | Beth Russell, Founder, House of Potentia: Smell Your Full Potential Mar 26, 2019

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This week’s guest, Beth Russell, Founder of House of Potentia, sits down to talk about her mission to encourage personal change through perfumery. With a background in pyschology, she created House of Potenia with the idea of “olafactive induction”, or as she says, “Using scent as an agent of change and a reminder of how you want to feel.” Get a deeper look inside her brand and its purpose, and get to know her other life as an alpaca farmer and advocate for adoption.

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Episode 101, Beth Russell, Founder, House of Potentia - Smell Your Full Potential | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY® Mar 26, 2019

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This week’s guest, Beth Russell, Founder of House of Potenia, sits down to talk about her mission to encourage personal change through perfumery. With a background in pyschology, she created House of Potenia with the idea of “olafactive induction”, or as she says, “Using scent as an agent of change and a reminder of how you want to feel.” Get a deeper look inside her brand and its purpose, and get to know her other life as an alpaca farmer and advocate for adoption.

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Episode 100, Trish McEvoy, Founder, Trish McEvoy Beauty - How to Lead With Joy | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY® Mar 20, 2019

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For decades, legendary makeup artist and cosmetics mogul Trish McEvoy has led her namesake brand with one focus: The customer. From making pro-quality brushes accessible to consumers to innovating the iconic Makeup Planner, she’s changed the landscape of beauty to the advantage of women everywhere. Hear how she’s managed to maintain the independence of her brand in a marketplace noisy with investors and acquisition while doing it all with a sense of joy. Part of our Podcast in Residence series in partnership with Saks Fifth Avenue.

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Episode 99, Eloise Cheung, Editorial and Celebrity Hairstylist - When Your Career Finds You | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY® Mar 13, 2019

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Sometimes a career finds you and not the other way around. That’s what happened for Eloise Cheung, a hairstylist who has clocked in over two decades of editorial, advertising, and red carpet jobs. In college, she majored in engineering for a year before dropping out; that move led to a series of fortuitous breaks which would eventually cumulate into the job she loves now. Hear how she went from Chinatown shampoo girl to apprentice at John Freida to a sought-after freelance stylist, along with advice on managing a freelance career and how to break into the world of hair circa 2019.

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Episode 98, Laura Slatkin, Founder and Executive Chairman, NEST Fragrances - Wall Street vs Scented Candles | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY® Mar 06, 2019

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Back in 1992, Laura Slatkin and her husband Harry both had lucrative Wall Street careers on the rise. But their entrepreneurial spirits got the better of them, and that year they left the safety of a steady paycheck to open a home-fragrance shop. This eventually lead to Laura founding NEST Fragrances. In this episode, she recalls the challenges of creating what’s essentially today’s home fragrance industry, why she did it, and how she holds her high-octane life together. Recorded live as part of our Podcast in Residence series with Saks Fifth Avenue.

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Episode 97, Andrea Bifulco, Founder, Nose University - The Language of Scent | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY® Feb 26, 2019

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If you’ve ever looked into the perfume-making process, you probably know there’s someone called a “nose” involved… as in a job title, not a body part. Andrea Bifulco is herself familiar with these mystical wizards of scent, having stumbled on a career in fragrance development thanks to a fateful temp job at Estée Lauder. Now currently the founder of Nose University, an educational olfactive program aimed at kids, she lets us in on the often mysterious process of fragrance creation, the secret language of scent and how vital smell can be to living a mindful, perceptive life.

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Episode 96, Rachel Braun Sherl, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of SPARK Solutions for Growth - The Vagipreneur | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY® Feb 20, 2019

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If you have a vagina or know someone who does, then this episode is for you. Meet Rachel Braun Scherl, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of SPARK Solutions for Growth and author of Orgasmic Leadership: Profiting from the Coming Surge in Women’s Sexual Health and Wellness. Or as she likes to call herself, a “vagipreneur®” (Yes, she registered the term). As a business consultant focused on women’s health, she’s been influential disrupting the feminine care industry, calling out double standards that exist in marketing women’s reproductive products vs men’s and creating better solutions for periods, pregnancies and personal pleasure. Hear how she found herself at the intersection of commerce, health and female agency and why she wrote a book on it.

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Episode 95, Kimberly Soane, Executive Director, Bobbi Brown - Great Intentions Lead to Great Careers | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY® Feb 13, 2019

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Don’t have a clear career path? At a crossroads? Then take Kimberly Soane’s lead. The veteran makeup artist and Executive Director of Artistry at Bobbi Brown has a career she loves, and gets clear about what motivated her. She went from psych major to beauty counter manager, to traveling the world with legendary makeup artist Bobbi Brown. Hear her full story in this episode.

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Episode 94, Natalie Ismiel, Beauty Expert and Ambassador, and Sue Ismiel, Founder and Global Beauty Ambassador, Nad’s - It’s a Family Affair | WHERE BRAINS MEET BEAUTY® Feb 05, 2019

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This episode welcomes Natalie and Sue Ismiel of Nad’s to their first podcast recording. The former is the inspiration behind the brand, the latter its creator. This daughter-mother duo takes us back 30 years to the creation of Nad’s, the “green goo” made for hair removal, and its metamorphosis into a global beauty hit thanks to its efficacy and Sue’s charismatic infomercials. Hear how they’ve kept the brand family owned for 3 decades and 3 generations through the power of adaptability, expansion, and gratitude. And if you’ve ever wondered what “Nad’s” means, well, they’ll tell you that, too.

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