How I Built 5 Multi-Million Dollar Companies: Marcia Kilgore

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Marcia Kilgore is responsible for revolutionising the beauty industry through the multiple multi-million dollar businesses she’s founded and built. She’s the woman behind Beauty Pie, Fit Flops, Bliss spas, Soap and Glory and Soaper Duper. Marcia moved to New York with just $300, which she spent on a gym membership, became a personal trainer and started a one room studio where she provided facials and spa treatments. Within a few years she’d built a spa empire and sold it to LVMH for millions and millions of dollars. What’s incredible about Marcia is she never stops moving and innovating, and she hasn’t just got lucky once with one successful business, but has managed to do it again and again. Now, Marcia runs a beauty empire. Today she tells us what it took to get to that point, what she’s learnt along the way, and what she had to give up. Follow Marcia: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/marcia.kilgore Twitter - https://twitter.com/marciakilgore Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know what you have that kind of experience early you grow up very fast and you know what's important and you prioritize so
0:07.2	Another deep question. Yeah, okay, so do you feel like a bit of a fraud? No. No. I totally thought I knew what I was doing.
0:14.2	People don't do that.
0:15.3	They don't just like change...
0:16.6	You do when you're 20, right?
0:18.0	People came back.
0:19.0	Madonna and Uma Thurman and Oprah. I can't actually believe that one human being could have achieved that many
0:38.2	successful business exits back to back. She's built companies like soap and
0:42.4	glory like Bliss, Beauty Pie, which she's building at the moment.
0:46.0	And these companies have sold for tens and hundreds of millions. They've made hundreds of millions in annual revenue.
0:53.2	And the remarkable thing is she's not just done it once, she's not just done it twice,
0:57.2	not three times, not four times, she's done it five times.
1:00.8	And I sat here with her trying to figure out why her.
1:03.2	What was it about Marcia that made her achieve such tremendous things in her life?
1:08.6	And I think we finally got there.
1:10.4	I think we finally found the answer. And is it something that you can replicate? A lot of it is,
1:16.1	and I think that's what makes this podcast today so interesting. So without further ado,
1:20.8	I'm Stephen Bartlett, and this is the diary of a CEO. I hope nobody's listening, but if you are, then
1:26.6	please keep this to some degree too. We don't always see ourselves as being unique because we're inside of our minds and we're you know we're behaving in the way that feels natural to us. But when I look at your your story and the decisions you've made since you were very, very young,
1:54.8	it's so clear to me that there's something so different about, many things that are so different about you,
1:59.9	and I want to kind of get to the root of that, what is the foundation of that difference? What was it? What was the cauldron, the experience that created the person you went on to become for the following, you know?
2:11.0	Wow, that's starting with a very very deep question isn't it? It is yeah yeah I mean I think that I grew up in a very small town and a small city in Canada at that time was you know relatively simple and I always
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