S2 E18: Caroline Hirons: The most powerful woman in the beauty industry
Big Fish with Spencer Matthews
Global
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Caroline Hirons is a skincare guru and is described as the most powerful woman in the beauty industry. She started off on the shop floor, working on beauty counters at Harvey Nichols. Now she's the CEO of her own brand, Skin Rocks. She took the internet by storm after launching her blog over ten years ago, which has now been viewed more than 125 million times. That led to a Sunday Times bestselling book, which became the bestselling beauty book of all time.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Global Player original podcast. |
| 0:05.0 | If I wanted to make money, I'd have been doing sponsored deals, left, right and centre. |
| 0:09.0 | The money I turned down is considerable. |
| 0:12.0 | And there's difference between being arrogant and knowing your value. |
| 0:15.0 | People trust me. |
| 0:17.0 | But the trust of the people is more important to me than the dollar. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to Bigger but the trust of the people is more important to me than the dollar. |
| 0:26.6 | Welcome to Big Fish with me, Spencer Matthews. Each week I speak to inspirational people about how they reach the top of their game |
| 0:30.6 | and their mindset for success. |
| 0:34.6 | Caroline Hyrins is known as the most powerful woman in the beauty industry. The skincare guru |
| 0:39.8 | started her blog in 2010 and it's been viewed over 160 million times. She started out on the |
| 0:46.2 | shop floor at Harvey Nichols and is now the CEO of her own skincare brand and a best-selling author. |
| 0:51.8 | In 2022 she launched her own brand and app Skin Rocks, |
| 0:55.1 | which has already turned over 10 million in its first year |
| 0:57.8 | without any external investment. |
| 1:04.8 | Caroline Hirons, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 1:07.2 | Thank you for having me. |
| 1:08.3 | You've gone from working on beauty counters to being a CEO. |
| 1:12.8 | Was that always the plan? No. It wasn't always the plan, but I would say it, equally, it wasn't |
| 1:19.6 | the plan, which I know makes absolutely no sense. I just always knew if I was in a corporate role, |
| 1:25.4 | I always wanted more. I didn't like being put in boxes I don't like |
| 1:32.6 | being told what to do so ultimately I think I had to work for myself so how long did it how long |
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