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9 to 5ish with theSkimm

Amy Shecter, CEO of Glamsquad: “You have to read signs... And you can't just push for what you want.”

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Amy Shecter is the CEO of Glamsquad, a beauty and technology company that’s a Skimm HQ favorite and offers on-demand, at-home beauty services. Amy’s leadership roles have spanned marketing to executive management. While her career trajectory hasn’t always fit into a clearly defined box, she’s paved a path pivoting skills to find success. On this episode, Amy discusses how to give hard feedback to your boss (12:09), what it’s like to translate vision into tactics (14:30), and shares the conversation with her daughter that changed her career (20:16).

Transcript

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0:00.0

Today's skim from the couch is presented by John Hancock. We are partnering with them to help

0:05.1

you face the future. More on that later, but for now let's get into the episode. You have to read signs, you have to pause and assess and you can't just push for what you want you have to encourage to get what you want.

0:27.0

I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg. Welcome to Skim from the couch.

0:32.0

This podcast is where we go deep on career advice

0:35.0

from women who have lived it.

0:36.0

From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team.

0:38.0

To the rough stuff, like negotiating your salary

0:41.0

and giving or getting hard feedback.

0:44.1

We started the skim from a couch, so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch? Joining us today is Amy Schechter, CEO of Glam Squad, a company that we know and use frequently because they offer on demand at home beauty

1:05.8

services and so much more, which is very helpful in our day today.

1:10.5

Amy's business leadership doesn't seem to fit in one box, but it certainly checks a lot of them.

1:16.4

Her career has spanned a range of industries and environments from brands like D.K.N.

1:21.2

Y, Cole Han, Tori Birch, Seem Wonder, and Core Power Yoga.

1:26.9

I love Core Power.

1:28.0

That's the best.

1:29.0

Excited to get into that.

1:30.2

And across digital and physical channels, both domestic and international. and

1:34.0

under a physical channels both domestic and international under Amy's leadership she's taken Glam squad into hyper growth mode.

1:39.0

Love that term. The company has more than doubled in scale opened new markets

1:44.4

launched some proprietary tech taken on new partnerships and recently

1:48.8

launched branded products that's a lot Amy thank you so much for joining us today. We don't know when you have

1:56.2

a chance to sleep with all that you're doing, but we are very excited to have you here.

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