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Sarah Lee: Glow Recipe Co-Founder and Co-CEO

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Second Life

Clique Media, Female Founder, Entrepreneurship, Career Change, Career Pivot, Fashion & Beauty, Hillary Kerr, Personal Journals, Who What Wear, Clique, Career, Arts, Business, Careers, Second Life, Career Advice, Self-made, Entrepreneur, Mydomaine, Society & Culture

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Korean skincare expert and Glow Recipe co-founder Sarah Lee spent years in the corporate beauty world at L'Oreal Paris before making the leap to start her own company, which has created cult products that have sold out numerous times on Sephora. Learn about her fascinating career journey on the newest episode of Second Life.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, I'm Hillary Kerr and this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who

0:11.8

have truly inspiring careers.

0:14.4

We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting

0:18.8

aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their Second Life.

0:23.9

Today I am so excited to have a newer entrepreneur on the podcast, one who left a

0:29.9

very illustrious career in the corporate beauty industry to start what would become her

0:35.1

own incredible company with a cult following.

0:38.3

Her name is Sarah Lee and she is the co-founder and co-CEO of Glow Recipe.

0:43.9

For those of you who don't know Glow Recipe, it is a groundbreaking company that is

0:47.9

both an e-commerce destination that retails a curated selection of natural K-beauty products

0:54.7

as well as a skincare company with a hugely successful product called the Watermelon Glow

1:00.6

Sleeping Mask, which was a 2017 phenomenon and sold out seven times on both GlowRecipe.com

1:08.5

and Sephora and at one point had a wait list of almost 10,000 people.

1:14.5

The company is growing in leaps and bounds and releasing new products all the time, but,

1:20.1

as I'm sure you might have guessed, it wasn't Sarah's initial dream.

1:24.5

She actually spent her entire pre-glow recipe work life at the same company, L'Oreal Paris,

1:31.6

where she worked her way up from a junior position in the company's career office to assistant

1:36.9

vice president and head of hair care at L'Oreal Paris in New York.

1:41.3

It is a fascinating ride through a corporation and beyond and I really think you're going

1:46.6

to enjoy it.

1:48.2

Now on Second Life, it's Sarah Lee of Glow Recipe.

1:54.2

On this podcast, we always like to start at the beginning.

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