One of My Fav Episodes! Picking Up the Pieces w/Nicola Kilner of Deciem
Everything is the Best
Dear Media, Pia Baroncini
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Nicola Kilner is the co-founder and CEO of Deciem, the umbrella of many major skincare brands, including the game-changing The Ordinary. In 2018, the company made global headlines when its founder, Brandon Truaxe, made a barrage of erratic social media posts while suffering from mental health issues, that lead to alcohol, drugs, and ultimately, his untimely death. The empire they had built quickly came crashing down. Nicola knew Brandon was genius, and was determined to continue on with his core mission and rebuild, and rebuild she certainly did. This episode is one of my favorites. We discuss the personal toll of experiencing not only someone you love, but your business partner struggle with mental health so publicly, what she did to rally her employees, why they won’t ever pay influencers, the importance of branding, the vast scale of her responsibilities, and how she does it all while having two daughters. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:09.2 | Hi, this is Pia Baroncini and welcome to everything is the best. |
| 0:13.1 | The podcast where I get phone our bull and make others do it with me. |
| 0:17.3 | The goal here is to deep dive into interesting people's journeys, |
| 0:20.0 | finding common denominators and hopefully making you feel not so alone. |
| 0:24.4 | So let's laugh, let's cry and let's get inspired to live our best lives. |
| 0:30.7 | Hello my darlings, Nicolas Kilner is the co-founder and CEO of DCM, |
| 0:37.0 | the umbrella of many major skincare brands including the game changing the ordinary. |
| 0:42.8 | In 2018 the company made global headlines when its founder Brandon made a barrage of |
| 0:48.6 | erratic social media posts while suffering from mental health issues that led to alcohol, |
| 0:54.4 | drugs and ultimately his untimely death. |
| 0:58.1 | The empire they had built quickly came crashing down. |
| 1:02.0 | Nicolas knew Brandon was a genius and was determined to continue on with his core mission |
| 1:07.1 | and rebuild and rebuild she certainly did. This episode is one of my favorites. |
| 1:13.5 | First of all, her voice is just incredibly soothing you can tell what a nurturing kind |
| 1:17.7 | woman she is but we discuss the personal toll of experiencing not only someone you love |
| 1:24.3 | but your business partner struggle with mental health so publicly. |
| 1:28.4 | When she did to rally her employees why they won't ever pay influencers, |
| 1:32.9 | the importance of branding the vast scale of her responsibilities and how she does it all while |
| 1:39.0 | having two daughters. Enjoy. I will thank you for taking the time to come on this podcast. |
| 1:46.0 | It's a pleasure. Thank you for inviting me. |
| 1:48.5 | I know that we've gone back and forth for a while so thank |
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