BONUS: Small Business Day Special! How-to Level-Up and Unlock $$$ Working in the Beauty Industry with Lead by L'Oréal
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Happy Friday and happy *almost* Small Business Day! If you’ve ever dreamed of being a beauty industry creative, a salon or spa owner, or a successful marketing executive with a corner office, you’ll want to tune into today’s episode on how to make it big in the beauty industry with Lead x L'Oréal Institute. This program is transforming the beauty industry from trade to profession by offering a bachelor of applied science degree in beauty and wellness.
Tune in to hear from Francis Tesmer, Founder and CEO of Lead, ROLFS Global Institute, alongside Sherilynn Smart, who graduated from the program last year. This uninterrupted BONUS episode is brought to you in partnership with our friends at Lead by Rolfs Global Institute Powered by L’Oreal Professionnel USA – the award-winning, first-ever college and university degree program designed specifically for beauty professionals.
You’ll discover:
- Accessibility – How the Lead x L’Oréal program works, including the Associate and Bachelor of Applied Science degree you can walk away with, studying online
- Global impact – Everything to know about scholarships and a new international apprenticeship program, so that you can earn credits and money while you work
- Innovation – The types of courses you can take with Lead’s beauty education curriculum, from finance to psychology and more
- Growth – What the degrees can do for you post-graduation, including valuable networking and job promotions to help empower beauticians in business
- Real world success – Having begun her career as an educator and artist back in 2001, Sherilynn explains what it was like to go back to college while holding down a full-time job as Redken’s Regional Education Manager at L’Oréal, with zero regrets
To learn more, visit LeadInstitute.Degree
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:08.1 | 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. |
| 0:24.1 | Hello and welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm your host, Carleen Higgins, and I'm here with my fierce co-host, Jill Dunn. |
| 0:30.2 | Hello, darling. |
| 0:33.8 | Hi, Carleen, and hello, a Breaking Beauty pod fan. |
| 0:39.6 | We're almost at the weekend, you know, we're coming into your feeds for a little bonus this week. |
| 0:49.6 | And longtime listeners know that we are two beauty editors turned beauty podcasters. And we're in your feeds each and every week chatting about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
| 0:55.1 | And today we are delighted to deliver an uninterrupted bonus episode on this Friday in partnership with our friends at LEED, the Rolf's Global Institute, powered by L'Oreal Professional USA. |
| 1:00.4 | So this is the award-winning first ever college and university degree program designed |
| 1:05.7 | specifically for beauty professionals. |
| 1:08.5 | And it's fitting that we're chatting about this now, given that tomorrow is |
| 1:11.6 | National Small Business Day. Yay. And so many amazing individuals own a small business in beauty, |
| 1:19.2 | whether they're a salon or spa owner or an independent creative in the industry. So love that |
| 1:24.5 | this timing seems just right. Yes. And lead by L'Oreal is single-handedly transforming the beauty industry from trade to profession by offering a Bachelor of Science degree in beauty and wellness. So cool. |
| 1:37.8 | And today we're joined by Francis Tesmer, founder and CEO of Lead Rolf's Global Institute. |
| 1:47.3 | This is Francis's sophomore appearance on our show. |
| 1:56.1 | She first joined us back in 2022, and she is with us alongside Sherry Lynn Smart, who graduated from the program last year. |
| 2:01.9 | And Sherry Lynn is a Redkin Regional Education Manager at L'Oreal. I love Redkin, by the way. |
| 2:09.9 | Get me that Sabrina Carpenter. Please. Have you begun her career as an educator and an artist back in 2001? And now she leads in salon and virtual training experiences empowering beauty professionals through |
| 2:15.3 | education and industry innovation. |
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