Women in the beauty industry, with Marcia Kilgore and Anna Brightman
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In celebration of International Women’s Day, Liz chats to two fantastic female beauty brand founders, UpCircle’s Anna Brightman and Beauty Pie’s Marcia Kilgore, for the latest episode of The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show.
Liz recalls her personal experience of building a successful beauty company, and Marcia and Anna also share what led them to launching their disruptive beauty brands.
Liz, Marcia and Anna discuss the differences in dialogue often used to describe male and female brand founders, as well as the importance of sustainability in the beauty industry.
They also cover the impact of ageing and menopause in the workplace, and how we can better look after our own wellbeing and that of our colleagues.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Visit Beauty Pie here
- Visit UpCircle here
- Listen to How to be a boss at ageing, with Anniki Somerville here
- Subscribe to Liz Earle Wellbeing Magazine
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| 0:00.0 | Going back to the sorts of words that women in business are often described as, I am always |
| 0:04.8 | described among family and friends as the tough one. So in a way, there's never really been a |
| 0:10.3 | limit to how much will be asked of me because ultimately I'll always do it if it's in the best |
| 0:16.4 | interests of the brand. So when the goings get tough, you know, I will step up. I now have a team |
| 0:22.1 | of 20 other people that we support and they all have their own individual needs and I think I've |
| 0:27.8 | learned perhaps in the last two years that I have to protect my own mental health and well-being |
| 0:34.8 | before trying to protect, well not before but at least alongside trying to protect all of |
| 0:39.9 | theirs at the same time. And that's the voice of Anna Brightman co-founder of a very interesting |
| 0:47.5 | disruptive beauty brand called Up Circle and this is the Lizelle Wellbeing Show, the podcast |
| 0:52.5 | helping us all to have a better second half. I'm Lizelle and this is going to be a very special |
| 0:57.7 | episode of the podcast in celebration of International Women's Day on the 8th of March. And it's been |
| 1:04.3 | interesting actually to think back over my own journey in the beauty business which although I'm |
| 1:08.6 | no longer connected to, I was obviously very much part of for many many years as a female founder |
| 1:14.0 | and how that changed. I remember when Kim, my co-founder and I first started and we went to see |
| 1:20.1 | all kinds of suppliers who were so dismissive of these two young women and it was almost as if |
| 1:25.2 | we were sort of being patted on the head and being told well you know why don't you run away |
| 1:28.7 | and play shops little girls you know and leave the beauty industry to the experts. Well of course |
| 1:33.9 | all that changed when we managed to build such a big business together and it's also interesting |
| 1:40.1 | to see how actually the whole beauty and the wellness industry has changed itself over the last |
| 1:45.5 | 30 years or so. In particular I'm thinking about care for menopause, menopause at work. I feel |
| 1:52.7 | very guilty actually looking back. I remember there was a woman in our team in her late 40s, |
| 1:58.4 | early 50s who was clearly struggling and we didn't really pay any attention to it at all. We just |
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