BONUS: Happy International Women’s Day!
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Happy International Women’s Day! Welcome to this very special bonus episode in partnership with our friends at amika. Today we’re coming at you LIVE from the brand’s Brooklyn HQ to chat with the two of the women behind one of the most successful growth stories in modern beauty: amika CEO Chelsea Riggs and Director of Diversity, Equity and Impact, Gianne L. Doherty. In an industry that often feels cut-throat and transactional, amika has spent 15 years proving that being a “friend to all” is actually the ultimate business strategy.
Tune in as we discuss:
- Why amika’s philosophy of “rising tides raise all ships” is the blueprint for the next generation of female founders via amika’s Rooted in Growth initiative.
- Nice guys don’t finish last? How staying true to core values – like B-Corp certification and net-zero goals gives amika a competitive edge.
- Gianne shares how amika moves beyond buzzwords to embed equity into their R&D and product testing for every hair texture and identity.
- Scoop alert! We get a sneak peek of their by-popular demand bodycare collection drop that’s in partnership with Forested, a women-led organization that supports both people and the planet through climate-positive, community-centered farming practices.
- Chelsea explains the internal culture of “radical candor” that helps make amika a “Great Place to Work” for three years running
- Pssst! In honour of Women’s Day and for a limited time only, get 20% off all amika products using code BreakingBeauty20 on loveamika.com from March 8th to March 15th 2026.
- And for any products or links mentioned in this episode, check out our website: https://breakingbeautypodcast.com/episode-recaps/
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:08.2 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, the podcast, all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
| 0:14.0 | We're your host, Jill Dunn and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:25.9 | This conversation tonight is going to be so much fun, and it's really all in celebration of International Women's Day. This is going to be a special bonus episode coming out |
| 0:29.7 | on International Women's Day. And I could think of no better way to celebrate it really. |
| 0:35.2 | So over to you. Yeah. So a lot of you may know, some of you may not, |
| 0:39.9 | we are breaking beauty podcast. We're going into our ninth year now. We are two former magazine |
| 0:46.2 | beauty editors. That's the world we came from. And now we are full-time beauty podcasters. |
| 0:52.3 | And every Wednesday, we're in your feed talking about the breakthrough people, products, |
| 0:57.5 | and moments in beauty. |
| 0:59.0 | And if it is your first time connecting with us, we have a catalog at 450 episodes. |
| 1:04.1 | So if you're ever in the mood to binge listen, we've got some good episodes with incredible |
| 1:08.8 | people in the beauty industry, everyone from |
| 1:10.8 | makeup by Mario to founders like Tracy Ellis Ross and Dr. Shereen Idris and the list goes on. |
| 1:19.0 | And even creators like Gloria George or Michaela Agarra. |
| 1:22.1 | So there's so much conversation to have in beauty. |
| 1:24.1 | And we're always grateful when people share the microphone with us. |
| 1:28.4 | Yes. Name drop, name drop, |
| 1:32.8 | name drop. Yes. And one of the things that I love about being the co-host of Breaking Beauty podcast, honestly, is all of the women's stories. You know, I feel like there's been such a shift |
| 1:38.7 | in the beauty industry where when we started, certainly when I first started at magazines, |
| 1:43.3 | it was still actually pretty |
| 1:45.2 | male dominated, which made no sense, considering that it was largely a women's market that, |
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