Episode 215: Gail Federici - Building a $400 MILLION beauty care empire

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen

Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

4.5 • 818 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Gail Federici was the co-founder and CEO of the iconic brand John Frieda and has leveraged her experience to build her latest venture, Color Wow, a professional hair-care line geared towards color-treated hair. Gail has always strived to have break throughs in the beauty industry and has zero interest in ever following a path paved by another creator. At John Frieda, Gail was the first to design products that combatted frizz. Eventually selling the business for over $450 million long before beauty acquisitions were a common thing. After a couple years, Gail eventually launched Color Wow, which is a collection of problem-solving products geared towards colored hair. In a wide - ranging interview together, we talk about her life before her success as an entrepreneur and being in the music industry to how she came to launch a business of her own. Gail also shares how being a mother was a perspective shift for her and drove a lot of her future success. Follow Jennifer – Instagram – Facebook – Twitter – Jennifer’s Website Did you learn something from tuning in today? Please pay it forward and write us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts. If you have feedback for the show, please email habitsandhustlepod@gmail.com Find out Jen’s secret to getting anything you want out of life Go to athleticgreens.com/HABITS. and get a free 1-year supply of Vitamin D and 5 free travel packs with your first purchase. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/jennifer and get on your way to being your best self.

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0:00.0	Hi, guys. It's Tony Robbins. You're listening to Habits and Hustle. Crush it.
0:09.6	Your background's interesting to me because you are obviously a maven, a legend in the hair world, but you also are in the music world.
0:20.8	Yes, because I love music.
0:24.1	And when we sold the company, I wasn't ready to sell.
0:29.1	I mean, they just gave us an offer that I felt it would be irresponsible,
0:32.7	but we weren't looking to sell.
0:34.9	And we just had to take it because it would have been insane. And we were
0:39.1	kind of at a loss. I mean, it wasn't something we planned. And during the last few years of
0:45.4	John Frieda, we launched a line sheer blonde. And my daughters had blonde hair and they photographed
0:52.2	really well. And unlike, they were with Ford because my sister brought them there, but they were in
0:57.6	school.
0:58.0	They didn't really model much.
0:59.4	They didn't like it anyway.
1:00.6	But they loved to sing.
1:04.1	And they didn't care about their hair like a model.
1:07.1	They didn't have to keep it the same.
1:08.3	And so because they photographed well, we cut their hair.
1:12.4	Sally Hersberger cut their hair into these great styles.
1:15.7	And we did a music video with them with Dave Myers, who won every single MTV Award for his videos with pink and a million other.
1:23.7	Everybody that was anything, he was doing their videos.
1:26.6	And we did a video with him for
1:28.7	sheer blonde the line and the girls love to write they love to sing and once we sold the company
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