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The Rich Roll Podcast

Gregg Renfrew Is Making Counter Moves in Clean Beauty

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

Gregg Renfrew is the founder of Beautycounter and now Counter—a pioneer in the clean beauty movement. Five years after our first exchange, Gregg returns with her story about navigating imposed change. After losing her company, she bought it back out of foreclosure in 48 hours—then let it die to save it. Today, we explore identity collapse, decoupling self-worth from success, why selling control means losing it, and the beauty industry's toxin loopholes. Along the way, we confront rebuilding when everything you've created is stripped away. This is an honest conversation about ego, humility, and the courage to begin again. Enjoy! Show notes + MORE Watch on YouTube Newsletter Sign-Up Today’s Sponsors: Go Brewing: Use the code Rich Roll for 15% OFF👉🏼https://www.gobrewing.com Seed: Use code RICHROLL20 for 20% OFF your first order👉🏼https://www.seed.com/RichRoll20 Squarespace: Use code RichRoll to save 10% off your first order of a website or domain👉🏼http://www.squarespace.com/RichRoll Whoop: The all-new WHOOP 5.0 is here! Get your first month FREE👉🏼https://www.join.whoop.com/Roll Momentous: High-caliber human performance products for sleep, focus, longevity, and more. For listeners of the show, Momentous is offering up to 35% off your first order👉🏼https://www.livemomentous.com/richroll On: High-performance shoes & apparel crafted for comfort and style👉🏼https://www.on.com/richroll LMNT: Get a free LMNT Sample Pack with any purchase👉🏼https://www.drinklmnt.com/richroll   Check out all of the amazing discounts from our Sponsors👉🏼https://www.richroll.com/sponsors  Find out more about Voicing Change Media at https://www.voicingchange.media and follow us @voicingchange

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0:00.0

How do you arm people with enough information that they can make an informed choice without fear

0:06.5

mongering, without scaring them to death? And how do you show financial and business success? And you

0:11.5

catch the attention of those that are still using the old school practices and seeing, well,

0:16.0

they're actually winning. What would, you know, some of these great leaders that have come before me,

0:20.3

what would they have done if they had been afforded this opportunity? And can I look at this as a gift and can I give myself the space to really think? I think our health is worth fighting for. I think women are worth fighting for. You know, I say there's no better way to change the world than lighting a fire under the asses of a bunch of women who care. If I'm being completely honest, it's still hard that there are people that hate me or angry

0:41.6

with me about things that I didn't actually do, and I have to just live with that.

1:00.6

I... What's up, people, at Podcastlandia.

1:02.1

Good to be with you today.

1:07.3

I've got a feeling that today's guest, my friend Greg Renfrew, back for round two,

1:12.3

might have attracted at least a few people brand new to me. So if that's you,

1:17.6

my name is Rich Roll. I'm an ultra endurance athlete. Got a few books to my name. I'm also a husband and a father of four. And this show, which I started way back at the end of 2012, is basically

1:25.3

in service to becoming our best selves. For the diehards out there, you might be

1:30.8

looking for a little bit of a life update on that note. The back is continuing to heal slowly.

1:36.4

I've been able to ride the indoor bike. I've been able to get a little bit of swimming in.

1:41.0

And it's been a busy few weeks. I was in Florida, where I was able to get in the ocean,

1:45.9

which was fantastic. And I was there to speak at this conference called Unimonia, which was my

1:50.7

first time attending what is a fairly new wellness event, but appears to have quickly become like

1:57.0

the event, a sort of Sundance meets South by Southwest meets Expo West for the

2:03.2

health and longevity set. And that has left me reflecting on the state of the wellness

2:09.1

industrial complex movement. And I think I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand, it is

2:16.3

kind of astonishing how much this movement has grown

2:19.2

over the last decade. There were literally thousands of attendees at this event, hundreds of

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