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

Habits and Hustle

Jen Cohen and Habit Nest

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

4.4 • 763 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 58 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 [email protected] 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got his Tony Robbins you're listening to Habits in Hustle, Crush It.
0:07.0	Your background is interesting to me because you are obviously a maven and a legend in
0:17.5	the hair world, but you also were in the music world.
0:21.0	Yes.
0:22.4	Because I love music.
0:24.2	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, but we weren't
0:33.4	looking to sell.
0:35.1	And we just had to take it because it would have been insane.
0:38.6	And we were kind of at a loss.
0:40.2	I mean, it wasn't something we planned.
0:42.1	And during the last few years of John Frieda, we launched a line, Sheer Blonde.
0:48.4	And my daughters had blonde hair and they photographed really well.
0:53.4	And unlike they were with Ford because my sister brought them there, but they were in
0:57.5	school.
0:58.5	They didn't really model much.
0:59.5	They didn't like it anyway, but they loved to sing.
1:04.5	And they didn't care about their hair like a model.
1:07.2	They didn't have to keep it the same.
1:08.5	And so because they photographed well, we cut their hair, Sally Hershberger cut their hair
1:14.0	into these great styles.
1:16.0	And we did a music video with them with Dave Myers, who won every single MTV award for
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