449: Inside the Mind of Edrice Simmons, Senior Vice President of Allergan Aesthetics
Beauty Bytes with Dr. Kay: Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon™
Kay Durairaj, MD, FACS @beautybydrkay
5 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Hey Beauties, on this week's podcast, I have the pleasure of interviewing none other than Allergan Aesthetics Senior Vice President of US Brands, Edrice Simmons. Simmons started her career at Eli Lily; an Internation pharmaceutical company worth $24 billion. Simmons has received countless awards, multiple performance-based promotions, and exceptional contributions throughout her time at Eli Lilly. Simmons then moved on to AbbVie as a Senior Marketing Director of Immunology where 5 years later she became senior VP of US Brands. We take a deep dive into how Edrice got to where she is today and discuss more on lifestyles, habits, and how we can better ourselves to become the best version of ourselves we can be. Listen in to find out more about Edrice and how to be a boss babe.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Vee Bites with Dr. K, secrets of a plastic surgeon. |
| 0:19.4 | And today on the podcast, I'm excited to meet one of my |
| 0:22.5 | role models, Senior Vice President at Allergan. This is Edris Simmons. Edress, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:29.8 | Thank you so much, and thank you for saying that. I think we're probably each other's role models |
| 0:35.7 | and mentors. |
| 0:38.4 | So thanks for having me. |
| 0:38.8 | Definitely. |
| 0:41.7 | I think for all of our women listeners out there, |
| 0:44.8 | it takes so long to become an overnight success. |
| 0:47.9 | The success that you have and then I have, |
| 0:50.1 | I have slaved for the last 20 years. |
| 0:51.8 | I don't know about you, |
| 1:02.0 | but I've worked very hard to struggle and climb up and to finally reach a position where your voice has authority and the ability to direct and change a platform. That must be so rewarding. Yeah, listen, I always think I never arrived. None of us ever have. And yeah, I think from a small time that I was a little girl, you know, my parents always taught us to do your best, be excellent what you do and be a leader. |
| 1:16.7 | And I didn't realize at 7, you know, that that would still be true today. |
| 1:20.7 | And I think I'm still always striving for that, but I will say that none of us get there without each other. |
| 1:26.6 | So I think it's through the partnerships |
| 1:28.4 | with people like you that I continue to strive to be that every day. But certainly haven't |
| 1:34.0 | arrived, but super thankful for the opportunities I have today. |
| 1:39.4 | Well, your journey started with Eli Lilly, which is an international pharmaceutical company |
| 1:44.1 | and a $24 billion company. |
| 1:47.0 | And then you joined Abbey directing their marketing for immunology, and two years later you were promoted again. |
| 1:55.0 | And now you're interested in cutting-edge technologies like AI and machine learning and I understand |
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