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The Emma Guns Show

Elise Loehnen | Creating the GOOP Revolution.

The Emma Guns Show

Emma Gunavardhana

Inspiration, Feel-good, Society & Culture, Health, Inspiring, Life Lessons, Empowering, Health & Fitness, Fun, Honest Conversations, Arts, Mental Health, Self Improvement, Deep And Meaningful

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Elise Loehnen is the Chief Content Officer of Goop and she joins me in this episode to talk about a career that started out in print journalism and currently finds her at the helm of one of the world's most innovative media outlets.

In this episode Elise tells me about career choices, taking risks, the criticism levelled at goop and why she needed to be a bit 'goopy' herself...

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0:00.0

Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emmer Gunn Show I am your host,

0:06.5

Emmergan Awardner and in this episode I am joined by the Chief

0:10.3

Content Officer of Goop, the Lifestyle Brand created by Gwinneth Paltrow that started as a newsletter

0:16.6

and is now an online publication, physical books, beauty brand wellness portal, and so much more.

0:27.2

That's right, Elise Lunin is joining me on the show. I'm very excited about it because if you think Goop, you may think about Jade Eggs's

0:30.9

intimate steams and alternative therapies and you'd be right to in many

0:34.8

ways because, well that's what tends to make the headlines, the stuff that makes you go,

0:39.6

they put what wear, or they pay that much to do what it's very very easy to throw shade it really is

0:46.5

but there's no denying the team at group have created something interesting that obviously

0:51.2

speaks to a lot of people so I was interested to speak to

0:54.4

Elise to find out how they've created such an intimate and trusted dialogue with

0:58.8

so many millions of readers for what's coming on to now at their 11th year.

1:04.0

Goop has been slightly ahead of the curve from day one though it has to be said.

1:07.6

trends they talked about at the beginning, the things that were criticized even,

1:11.6

are now completely normal. The concept of gluten-free was seen as, oh gosh, ridiculous. But now we're all aware of a gluten-free diet. We've all heard of it. We've all even

1:21.9

potentially tried it. We've all heard of it, we've all even potentially tried it. We've

1:23.5

definitely probably eaten a snack that was gluten-free thinking it was not

1:26.7

going to make us blow in the afternoon. I know I have. But they've also been

1:30.6

ahead of the curving wellness generally in beauty and health and also how they reach people.

1:36.4

They identified and filled white spaces.

1:39.4

And white spaces is a white spaces where an unmet and unarticulated need or needs are covered to create

1:46.4

innovation opportunities.

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