Your Magic Comes from the Heart: Nancy Twine of Briogeo

Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Rebecca Minkoff

Society & Culture

4.8 • 543 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to business, you’re not often told to let your heart be your guide, but it’s probably something that more schools should teach. When Nancy Twine realized that finance was not the path for her, she took it back to basics, focused on times in her life she had been the happiest, and took it from there. Recalling days spent making beauty products at home with her chemist-physician mother, Nancy knew she was onto something. Time spent researching and connecting with others in the personal care space confirmed what her instincts already knew; clean beauty was about to take off and she wanted to make hair care her focus. Now nearly 10 years old, Briogeo is aimed at supporting all people with all hair types. Lucky for us it can be found worldwide! Thanks for listening! Don't forget to order Rebecca's new book, Fearless: The New Rules for Unlocking Creativity, Courage, and Success. Follow Superwomen on Instagram. Social Media @briogeo @nancytwine Big Ideas Unsure of what direction to take? Think about moments in your life when you were happiest and take inspiration from there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, you're listening to Superwomen. Today's guest is Nancy Twine, the founder and CEO of
0:10.2	Griojillo. She has an incredible founder story that led her from a finance career at Goldman Sachs
0:16.1	to becoming the youngest African American woman to launch a brand at Sephora. So far, for 2022, she's introduced
0:23.4	two new first under her brand as excited to bring more innovations this year to market in the
0:28.2	competitive prestige hair care landscape. Take a listen. Nancy, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for having me really excited for this. I was excited when
0:41.7	I saw you are the leading authority on green beauty and the youngest African American to launch a
0:49.3	product line at Sephora. That was that I got very excited at both those facts. Thank you. Yeah. So I'd love to
0:58.4	to kind of go back and what gave you the idea to launch Friogio. Yeah. You know, it's really
1:05.5	funny because one of the cool things about being in the beauty industry is finding out that a lot of my
1:11.2	beauty industry peers like myself actually didn't start their careers in beauty. They were doing
1:16.7	something very, very different, as was I. I actually started my career in finance. So straight out
1:24.5	of undergrad, I went to the University of Virginia, and I was always really interested
1:29.5	in entrepreneurism. I had lots of little, you know, kind of side hustles when I was in high school and
1:36.3	college, but there wasn't like an entrepreneurism track at UVA. So kind of the closest thing to it was
1:43.3	going to the undergrad business school,
1:45.7	where I eventually became a finance major. And that ultimately led me to my first career in finance.
1:52.3	So I ended up spending the first seven years of my career working at Goldman Sachs in the
1:59.3	commodity sales and trading division. And when I started at Goldman,
2:03.8	the year was 2007. So it was right before that big 2008 financial crisis. And it was just a really,
2:11.0	really hectic, stressful, overwhelming time to be working in the industry. And I feel like very shortly after being on the job,
2:20.3	I realized that, you know, being in finance wasn't my life calling, but I didn't really know what
2:26.4	my life calling was. And unfortunately, halfway through my career at Goldman, I lost my mom.
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