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Work FriendsGregg Renfrew on A New Founder Era & The Launch of CounterThis week, Sali welcomes Gregg Renfrew, the Founder of Counter, a beauty company that launched earlier this year. Previously, Founder and CEO of the now-defunct Beauty Counter, Gregg has experienced all the highs and lows of entrepreneurship as she grew her first beauty brand into a $1 billion business—only for it to go into foreclosure a few years later. At the last minute, Gregg decided to buy back the rights to the company name and its signature product formulas. Enter: Counter and an all-new chapter for Gregg, the CEO.Counter offers some of the same bestselling products th...
2025-11-171h 00
The Retail PilotClean Beauty Movement: Gregg Renfrew on Reinventing Beauty with CounterIn this episode of The Retail Pilot, Ken Pilot sits down with visionary entrepreneur Gregg Renfrew, founder of BeautyCounter and now Counter, to explore what it truly means to disrupt an industry—twice.After building a billion-dollar brand and selling it to The Carlyle Group, Gregg faced the highs and lows of leadership, loss, and redemption. When BeautyCounter collapsed, she made the bold move to buy it back—relaunching as Counter with a renewed focus on transparency, high performance, and sustainability.Gregg shares her personal journey of reinvention: from navigating private equi...
2025-10-2851 min
FOMO Sapiens with Patrick J. McGinnisS14 E6 How BeautyCounter Founder Gregg Renfrew Is Redefining Clean Beauty Again with CounterIn this episode of FOMO Sapiens, Patrick McGinnis welcomes Gregg Renfrew, the visionary founder behind BeautyCounter and now Counter, for an honest and inspiring conversation about resilience, leadership, and reinvention. Gregg shares how a deep concern for health and the environment led her to pioneer the clean beauty movement, building one of the most trusted brands in the industry. But after selling BeautyCounter to The Carlyle Group at a $1 billion valuation, she faced a painful collapse that forced her to rebuild—personally and professionally. Now, with Counter, Gregg is redefining what “clean” means, focusing on performance, integrity, and community. She di...
2025-10-2342 min
What We Wore164. ARCHIVE | Live from the Brentwood Country Mart with Anya Hindmarch, Gregg Renfrew, and Laura Vinroot PooleAs my friend Gregg Renfrew re-launches her company and Anya Hindmarch visits our Charlotte store, I wanted to re-air this powerful conversation led by transformational coach, Ashley Wick.
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2025-10-0935 min
Second LifeGregg Renfrew Returns! The Founder of Beautycounter and Counter Is BackIn 2013, Gregg Renfrew founded Beautycounter—the beauty brand that pioneered what we know today as the clean beauty movement. The brand gained a well-respected reputation for its commitment to using safe ingredients in its products and for refusing to include any formulas that contained questionable or harmful chemicals. Renfrew’s commitment to customer health and her advocacy for cosmetic regulation set her apart from her competitors at a time when clean beauty was just an idea, not an entire industry. She last joined us in 2019, before the company's sale to a private equity firm in a deal that valued the...
2025-10-0653 min
Hired!The Ultimate Makeover: How Ousted Beautycounter CEO Gregg Renfrew Reclaimed Her ThroneCEO of Beautycounter Gregg Renfrew is the comeback queen. She shares her experience creating and growing the clean beauty brand into a billion-dollar business, effectively nurturing a movement of better skin products for women.
Gregg shares how, after being ousted as CEO, she regained control of her business in two years and made it better than ever. She explains why sometimes second chances are better than firsts, as the product or brand can be built back so much better.
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2025-09-2738 minEveryone Talks To Liz ClamanThe Ultimate Makeover: How Ousted Beautycounter CEO Gregg Renfrew Reclaimed Her ThroneCEO of Beautycounter Gregg Renfrew is the comeback queen. She shares her experience creating and growing the clean beauty brand into a billion-dollar business, effectively nurturing a movement of better skin products for women.
Gregg shares how, after being ousted as CEO, she regained control of her business in two years and made it better than ever. She explains why sometimes second chances are better than firsts, as the product or brand can be built back so much better.
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2025-09-2738 min
the goop podcastBurnout, Boundaries, and the Business of Starting OverThis week on The goop Podcast, Gwyneth Paltrow sits down with Gregg Renfrew, founder and former CEO of cult-favorite clean beauty brand Beautycounter. Renfrew shares her story of building—and selling—a billion-dollar business, being unexpectedly sidelined, and ultimately pulled back in when things began to unravel. She opens up about letting go of ego, redefining success, and beginning again with clarity and purpose.
Now, through her new venture, Counter, she’s rewriting the rules—focusing on product, transparency, and building with integrity.
In this conversation, Renfrew opens up about managing burnout, setting boundaries, and the coura...
2025-07-151h 21
SHE MDBeauty Counter's Gregg Renfrew and her daughter, Phebe's journey with PCOS: Navigating Diagnosis, and the Path to WellnessPolycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is often overlooked, leading to delayed or missed diagnoses. In this week’s episode, Gregg Renfrew and her daughter Phebe, join us to talk about Phebe’s inspiring five-year journey from experiencing symptoms to finally receiving a diagnosis. We explore the complexities of PCOS, including its links to insulin resistance, eating disorders, and endometriosis, while emphasizing the importance of recognizing symptoms early. Phebe and Gregg also discuss the crucial role of self-advocacy in healthcare and disease prevention.Additionally, Gregg Renfew, Founder & CEO of Beautycounter, talks about her mission aimed at eliminating harmful chemicals from...
2024-10-2953 min
Rooibos cosmeticsBeautyCounter alum and Ritual chief impact officer Lindsay Dahl on how to lead a mission-driven brandBack in 2014, Lindsay Dahl’s career trajectory took an unexpected turn. She’d spent a decade working at chemical safety- and environmental-focused nonprofits in Washington D.C. before she got an offer she couldn’t refuse. “I never thought I would go to the corporate side,” Dahl told Glossy. “If I'm being honest, I really liked being a part of the nonprofit community where I felt like I could be both challenging companies and also challenging those in power in government.” But then she got a call from BeautyCounter. “I sat down and talked to Gregg [Renfrew], the founder and CEO, and she said...
2024-08-1546 min
The Glossy Beauty PodcastBeautycounter alum and Ritual chief impact officer Lindsay Dahl on how to lead a mission-driven brandBack in 2014, Lindsay Dahl’s career trajectory took an unexpected turn. She’d spent a decade working at chemical safety- and environmental-focused nonprofits in Washington D.C. before she got an offer she couldn’t refuse. “I never thought I would go to the corporate side,” Dahl told Glossy. “If I'm being honest, I really liked being a part of the nonprofit community where I felt like I could be both challenging companies and also challenging those in power in government.”But then she got a call from Beautycounter. “I sat down and talked to Gregg [Renfrew...
2024-08-1546 minWhat We Wore139. What We Wore Live from the Brentwood Country Mart with Anya Hindmarch, Gregg Renfrew, and Laura Vinroot PooleRecorded in front of a live audience at the Brentwood Country Mart, this conversation features Anya Hindmarch, Gregg Renfrew of Beauty Counter, and our host Laura Vinroot Poole of Capitol. This episode was hosted by transformational leadership coach, Ashley Wick and features profound insights from this powerful group of female leaders on entrepreneurship, reinvention, reframing fear, and so much more.Find Our Guests (and us!) on Instagram: @anyahindmarch @greggrenfrew@beautycounter@lauravinroot@brentwoodcountrymart@whatweworepodcast @shopcapitol Or on the...
2024-04-2754 min
Business UntitledGregg Renfrew: Leading Clean Beauty's Transformation | EP 25Gregg Renfrew's business story is one of resilience and leadership in the beauty industry. After selling her company for $1 billion, she makes a triumphant return as CEO, exemplifying the rare and powerful role of women in top corporate positions. She shares her journey of transforming the beauty industry with Beautycounter’s mission for healthier products.
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2024-04-0359 min
Be Well by Kelly LevequeSetting New Standards in the Beauty Industry with Gregg Renfrew, the Founder of Beautycounter #FabulousFriendsLet's welcome my friend Gregg Renfrew, founder of Beautycounter and a true pioneer of clean beauty, to today's podcast. She founded Beautycounter in 2011, charting an innovative and deeply personal path for clean beauty. A champion of the people – Gregg continues to set the highest standards for safety as she pushes the industry forward, testifying in front of Congress to advance legislative reform so that everyone has access to safer products.She's also inspiring a community of thousands of women to demand better for themselves by supporting women's entrepreneurship. She's led Beautycounter's growth as it's launched mor...
2023-12-081h 02
The Reboot Chronicles with Dean DeBiaseBeautycounter & Carlyle Rebooting Beauty - The Reboot Chronicles with Gregg RenfrewAs a CNBC disruptor fifty and one of the most innovative companies on Fast Company’s list, Counter Brands, LLC, parent company of Beautycounter, a clean high growth certified B Corp, is redefining the beauty industry. Recently partnering with The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), the global investment firm acquired a majority stake in the company, valuing the business around $1 billion. Taking this big leap and now looking ahead into their hyper growth phase, Beautycounter Executive chair and Founder Gregg Renfrew sat down with me on The Reboot Chronicles podcast, to talk about this burgeoning stage for her company.Gregg Ren...
2022-08-1630 min
The Beauty VanguardThe True Meaning of CleanGregg Renfrew is an inspiration and motivation to always do better. Whether that’s with beauty or any business. When she launched Beautycounter in 2013, the term “clean” wasn’t quite the well known word or understood category it is now, but Gregg was undaunted. She has since built a billion dollar company and movement that’s not only a robust line of non-toxic personal care and beauty products for the entire family, but a vehicle for education and change at the highest levels of government. Beautycounter shows us the potential beauty has to build a new paradigm and make what we us...
2021-11-0225 min
The Most Important QuestionBest of the Best: Do We Really Know What’s in that Moisturizer (& Where the Hell Did it Come From?)In light of new research on toxic ingredients, it looks like America might finally start regulating cosmetic products, so it’s a great moment to re-run one of our most popular episodes with Beautycounter CEO Gregg Renfrew.In episode 87, Quinn & Brian ask: what, exactly, are we putting on our bodies (and why aren’t more people asking questions about it)?Our guest is: Gregg Renfrew. Gregg is a serial entrepreneur who, most recently, founded Beautycounter to increase transparency and safety in the personal care industry. She also actively lobbies for regulation in the cosmetics industry. She...
2021-06-221h 03
What We Wore80. Gregg Renfrew | Clean Beauty BossGregg Renfrew is the founder of Beauty Counter, a pioneer in the clean beauty space. But, this is not her first time as an entrepreneur. Gregg’s journey as a serial entrepreneur and an activist for change in the beauty world is impactful and inspirational.Find Gregg (and us!) on Instagram: @greggrenfrew@beautycounter@whatweworepodcast @shopcapitol Or on the web:www.beautycounter.comwww.shop-capitol.com
2021-05-0440 min
The Sakara Life PodcastThe Clean Beauty Frontier with Gregg RenfrewIn this episode, I sit down with Beautycounter’s CEO and founder, Gregg Renfrew to discuss her incredible work as a pioneer of the clean beauty movement and her advocacy work on Capitol Hill. We chat about the need for transparency in the beauty (and food) industry and how so many of the products used on a daily basis contain harmful, endocrine-disrupting ingredients. Gregg shares her “never” list as well as which products are “okay” to use even if they’re not the cleanest. We also talk about the incredible mission behind Beautycounter and her advocacy work, along with some useful...
2021-04-0641 min
EntreprenistaStrong Female Leadership with Gregg Renfrew of BeautycounterGregg Renfrew launched Beautycounter without any experience in the beauty industry but with a fierce desire to make clean beauty as accessible as possible. Today, with over 60,000 independent consultants, Beautycounter is taking the world of beauty by storm with locations on both coasts, and Gregg joins us to share the story of how it all started.Today, you’ll hear how Gregg started Beautycounter without any experience in the beauty industry. She talks about how Beautycounter coined the term “clean beauty” and why this is so important to her mi...
2021-03-2949 min
Talks at GSGregg RenfrewIn this episode, Beautycounter Founder and CEO Gregg Renfrew discusses founding and growing her cosmetics company, which has disrupted the industry with a direct-to-consumer business model and a focus on healthy products. The interview is moderated by Goldman Sachs' Kathy Elsesser.This podcast should not be copied, distributed, published or reproduced, in whole or in part, or disclosed by any recipient to any other person. The information contained in this podcast does not constitute a recommendation from any Goldman Sachs entity to the recipient. Neither Goldman Sachs nor...
2021-02-1817 min
The Rich Roll PodcastBest Of 2020: Part One: The Rich Roll PodcastIt’s time to pause. Reflect on the past twelve months. Set new aspirations. And visualize the year to come.I think we can all agree it’s been a challenging year. All the more reason to optimize body, mind and soul to tackle 2021 correctly.In furtherance of that end, allow me to introduce what has become a tradition on the RRP—our annual ‘Best Of’ series wherein we reflect upon the previous 12 months with a 3-part compilation of clips excerpted from a handful of the year’s most compelling guests.Think of it as a refre...
2020-12-242h 00
Business SchoolInnovating by Doing the Right Thing with Gregg Renfrew, Founder & CEO of Beautycounter
Stephen and Phineas speak with Gregg Renfrew, Founder & CEO of Beautycounter, about how she’s built a health and beauty empire by advocating for clean ingredients and selling through a community of over 60,000 independent consultants.
2020-10-0137 min
Business SchoolInnovating by Doing the Right Thing with Gregg Renfrew, Founder & CEO of BeautycounterStephen and Phineas speak with Gregg Renfrew, Founder & CEO of Beautycounter, about how she’s built a health and beauty empire by advocating for clean ingredients and selling through a community of over 60,000 independent consultants.
2020-10-0137 min
The Mentor Files86 Gregg Renfrew - Founder of Beautycounter on Why All Capital Is Not The SameLearn how Gregg Renfrew uniquely combined the philosophies of DTC and retail, how she developed her products, and who has inspired her the most in her life. "I started to draw parallels between things that were detrimental to the Earth and things that were detrimental to our bodies." - Gregg Renfrew. Learn more about this episode of The Mentor Files with Monica Royer at www.monicaandandy.blog/86
2020-08-0537 min
2020-08-0432 min
The Kara Goldin Show53 Gregg Renfrew: Founder & CEO of BeautycounterOn this show, Gregg Renfrew talks about being a purpose and mission-driven entrepreneur as the CEO and founder of Beautycounter. She talks about how she created a beauty brand with no experience in the beauty industry, why she decided to use a multi-level marketing model for her business, what consumers are actually looking for, and much more.
2020-05-2539 min
Green Living with TeeGetting safer products into the hands of everyone with BEAUTYCOUNTER Manager, Amanda LuxThere are so many skin care and makeup products with harmful chemicals in them. BEAUTYCOUNTER is one company, started bt Gregg Renfrew after she realized there were so many harmful chemicals in products she was applying to herself and her children. Amanda Lux, a manager with BEAUTYCOUNTER, helps to guide us through the mission of BEAUTYCOUNTER and all of the great non-toxic products they have. She will also tell us about their Blueprint for Clean standards Please join our Facebook Group called Healthy Living and Toxic Free(HLTF) and become part of our community on living a healthier life and a...
2020-05-2318 min
Rooibos cosmeticsBeautycounter CEO and founder Gregg Renfrew on the opportunity and responsibility to succeedBeautycounter isn't your typical beauty brand. Given its network of roughly 50,000 independent consultants marketing and selling its products, company founder and CEO Gregg Renfrew feels "an enormous sense of responsibility to make sure that we are operationally sound," she said on the Glossy Beauty Podcast. "I say it's both our opportunity and our responsibility right now," she said of the company's place amid the current coronavirus' outbreak. "Because it may be just a three-month, short term gig for them." But for others, she added, it could be a way to "continue to pay their mortgages, their rent, when other things...
2020-04-2335 min
The Glossy Beauty PodcastBeautycounter CEO and founder Gregg Renfrew on the opportunity and responsibility to succeedBeautycounter isn't your typical beauty brand. Given its network of roughly 50,000 independent consultants marketing and selling its products, company founder and CEO Gregg Renfrew feels "an enormous sense of responsibility to make sure that we are operationally sound," she said on the Glossy Beauty Podcast."I say it's both our opportunity and our responsibility right now," she said of the company's place amid the current coronavirus' outbreak. "Because it may be just a three-month, short term gig for them." But for others, she added, it could be a way to "continue to pay their mortgages, their rent...
2020-04-2337 min
Nina's Got Good NewsEpisode #70 - Changing The Beauty Industry From Home (w/ Beautycounter CEO Gregg Renfrew)On this week’s episode of Nina’s Got Good News, host Nina B. Clarke is joined by her Good News VIP Guest of the Week, Gregg Renfrew! Gregg is the Founder and CEO of Beautycounter, a company dedicated to the clean beauty movement.
Nina and Gregg discuss how Beautycounter has adapted to coronavirus and the nationwide quarantine. Gregg talks about the change in buying trends that she’s seen since the quarantine began, the camaraderie that has risen between executives in the clean beauty product industry, and what she and others have been doing to stay safe and productive!
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2020-04-1736 min
The Most Important Question#87: What's In Your Moisturizer, Anyways?In Episode 87, Quinn & Brian ask: What, exactly, are we putting on our bodies (and why aren’t more people asking questions about it)?Our guest is: Gregg Renfrew. Gregg is a serial entrepreneur who most recently founded Beautycounter to increase transparency and safety in the personal care industry. She also actively lobbies for regulation in the cosmetics industry to limit the number of harmful chemicals included in products sold in America because, you know, less poison in and on our bodies is a good thing — a good thing that many other companies in the beauty industry fight vehe...
2020-03-091h 04
Hired!Gregg Renfrew: Coming CleanHost of FOX Business Network's The Claman Countdown, Liz Claman is joined by Beautycounter founder, Gregg Renfrew. Gregg shares how her upbringing empowered her to follow her entrepreneurial spirit early in her career and to persevere in the face of setbacks. She shares the importance of humility in leadership and how her experiences led Beautycounter to its incredible success.
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2020-02-2744 min
The Rich Roll PodcastGregg Renfrew Leads The Clean Beauty MovementYou might be surprised to learn that approximately 84,000 chemicals currently find their way into commercial products -- with over 1,500 new chemicals released annually. Despite evidence of health harms, most of these chemicals have not been adequately tested for their impact on humans. Nonetheless, many of them find their way into a vast and problematic array of skincare, beauty and cleaning products.Moreover, due to laws that haven’t been updated in 80 years, I was shocked to discover that the Food and Drug Administration -- the regulatory authority charged with ensuring the safety of such products -- doesn't ne...
2020-02-061h 44
Art of the HustleGregg Renfrew - Entrepreneur/Businessperson and the Founder and CEO of BeautycounterIn this episode, Jeff sits down with one of the leading ladies and pioneers in the clean beauty movement, Gregg Renfrew. Greg is an entrepreneur and businessperson and the Founder and CEO of the brand who has paved the way in the clean beauty movement, Beautycounter. Listen as Gregg explains what it was like working for big names like Martha Stewart and Susie Hilfiger as well as her footprint in the clean beauty industry. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2019-10-2147 min
Well Made93 Fixing Broken Beauty Laws with Lindsay Dahl, SVP of Social Mission at BeautycounterIn the U.S., federal regulations are lagging decades behind the science of the beauty industry. That's why Beautycounter hired its own lobbyist.
The last time the beauty industry had a significant regulatory update was in 1938, so Beautyconuter founder Gregg Renfrew hired Lindsay Dahl to lead the charge and bring U.S. beauty regulations into this century. As a self-proclaimed "professional agitator" and veteran public health lobbyist, Lindsay is in the trenches. She travels back and forth to D.C., holding strategic meetings with elected officials, and presenting Beautycounter's science-backed issues and proposed solutions.
In...
2019-08-2852 min
Life Lessons with Hillary KerrGregg Renfrew: Beautycounter Founder and CEOGiven the number of companies she’s founded and led over the course of her career, we’re going to go ahead and call Gregg Renfrew a serial entrepreneur. She built The Wedding List (and then sold it to Martha Stewart!) in 2001, and her latest venture, thriving all-natural brand @beautycounter, has reportedly received over $80M in funding. In today’s episode, she’s sharing valuable life lessons, including how she recovered from being fired as a CEO, what it takes to raise money as a woman in today’s market, and why advocating for regulation in the beauty industry is actuall...
2019-06-0554 min
Second LifeLife Lessons | Gregg Renfrew: Beautycounter Founder and CEOGregg Renfrew has been an entrepreneur practically all her life… She started her own business cleaning summer homes when she was in college at the University of Vermont, she founded The Wedding List soon after she graduated (and later sold it to Martha Stewart!), and eventually she founded her current business, Beautycounter, which will be familiar to most of our listeners as a company that transformed the way we think about the ingredients we slather onto our skin. Tune in to Life Lessons for her wise words on collaboration, knowing when to cut your losses, and explain what compelled he...
2019-06-0553 min
This Week in BusinessAdvocating for Safer Beauty Products with BeautycounterBusiness Radio Special: Host Joey Zwillinger, Wharton Alum and Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Allbirds, talks with Gregg Renfrew, entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Beautycounter, about her inspiration behind the brand and why she's passionate about advocating for safer beauty products Purpose Built.Tune in on Business Radio SiriusXM 132 and Insights SiriusXM 121 for more great content. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
2019-04-1752 min
Superwomen with Rebecca MinkoffBeautycounter's Gregg Renfrew Explains: The Toxic Crap In Your Beauty Products How do you know the ingredients in your beauty products are safe?
In this episode Gregg Renfrew (Founder and CEO of Beautycounter) explains how the United States is way behind other countries in regards to what ingredients can be used in the products we put on our bodies. She also gives us helpful tips for ways we can create our own safer beauty alternatives, and she talks about the power of using women to start a movement.
You can also find Beautycounter's "Never List" of ingredients here: https://www.beautycounter.com/the-never-list
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2019-04-0229 min
Meaningful Conversations with Maria ShriverThe Toxic TRUTH About The Beauty Industry with Gregg Renfrew"There's an incredible lack of awareness around personal care cosmetics because people think that the FDA, like it does in the food industry, has the ability to protect the American consumer. And the reality of the situation is, that we have laws dating back 80 years that are insufficient and chemicals of concern in the products we use every day."
-Gregg Renfrew
Have you ever stopped to think about the ingredients in the beauty or skin products you use every day? I have to admit, I never thought twice about it myself… at least not before I met Gregg Renfrew.
Gregg is a...
2019-03-1149 min
Tune into WellnessBeautycounter founder Gregg Renfrew talks with Dr. Frank LipmanDr. Frank Lipman sits down with Gregg Renfrew, the founder of Beautycounter, a company that creates safe and clean cosmetics. She talks with Dr. Lipman about the community she's building and how she’s driving a national movement for improved transparency in the beauty industry. She explains the origin story of Beautycounter and encourages everyone who might be skeptical about natural skincare products to stop assuming they don't work and give them another try. Renfrew launched Beautycounter in 2011 after becoming passionate about environmental health and making changes in her own life to reduce her exposure to chemicals an...
2019-02-2227 min
Women RuleWhy Beautycounter’s Gregg Renfrew wants to regulate your makeupAs celebrities like Kourtney Kardashian lobby Capitol Hill for regulations around cosmetics products, the fight is getting another advocate for reform: beauty mogul Gregg Renfrew, the CEO of Beautycounter. Women Rule talks to Renfrew about her fight for natural beauty products, how she recovered after a public firing, and what's next for Beautycounter.
2018-07-2525 min
9 to 5ish with theSkimmFounder Chat: Learning How To ManageOn the couch, Gregg Renfrew talked to us about being a manager. And how it’s not exactly her favorite thing to do. We can relate. Figuring out how to manage people was something we had to learn along the way. This week, we’re answering some of our go-to interview questions about management mistakes, bad advice, and how we made failure a part of our company culture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-06-1409 min
9 to 5ish with theSkimmGregg Renfrew: Founder and CEO of BeautycounterGregg Renfrew is all about side hustles. On her resume: everything from starting a cleaning company in college...to launching a biz to make dress shopping less awful for bridesmaids. These days, she’s the founder and CEO of Beautycounter. Aka the company that makes beauty and skincare products, minus all the harmful chemicals. On the couch, she talks to us about tapping into the female millennial community, learning how to be a manager, and trusting her gut. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2018-06-1323 min
Colorful EatsEpisode 74: Clearing Up Confusion on Changes in the Skincare IndustryWe’ve been talking a lot about creating a non-toxic home on the podcast so we wanted to make sure we didn’t leave out one of the most important aspects, your beauty and skincare routine. These are the products we use daily, that sit on our skin for hours and hours and ultimately find their way into our bloodstream, making their safety a major concern.
Today we’re getting into some of the nitty gritty of the beauty industry with our dear friend and a woman who is passionate about health, fitness and safer beauty, Kate Criswell. Kate is a Mana...
2018-04-0200 min
Retail Gets RealBeautycounter’s foundation of empowermentGregg Renfrew believes that a woman with passion can really make a difference. She is the founder and CEO of Beautycounter, a health and beauty empire that empowers women with advocacy, education and safe products. Learn how Renfrew nurtures a remarkable connection with her coalition of consultants and how the company achieved exponential growth in just five years.
2017-11-2720 min
ExchangesBuilding Brands, Creating Communities: Beautycounter and Zola
From the 2017 Goldman Sachs Builders + Innovators Summit: Shan-Lyn Ma, co-founder and CEO of online wedding destination Zola, and Gregg Renfrew, founder and CEO of skincare and cosmetics brand Beautycounter, are joined by Goldman Sachs co-head of Investment Banking John Waldron to discuss fundraising, recruiting top talent and building brands that last.
This podcast was recorded on October 19, 2017.
The information contained in this recording was obtained from publicly available sources and has not been independently verified by Goldman Sachs. Neither Goldman Sachs nor any of its affiliates makes any representation or warranty as to the accuracy...
2017-11-2226 min
No Limits with Rebecca JarvisGregg Renfrew, Beautycounter Founder and CEOGregg Renfrew is the founder and CEO of Beautycounter, a cosmetics company with a mission: making safer products accessible to everyone. Gregg has been an entrepreneur since college when she started a cleaning business on Nantucket to earn money to study abroad. In 1997, she launched The Wedding List - a company she sold to Martha Stewart Living. She continued to establish herself in the fashion and retail world, but it was the realization of the toxins and cancer-causing ingredients in makeup that propelled this mother of three to create Beautycounter. Renfrew explains how she is changing the beauty and skin...
2017-05-1225 minColorful EatsEpisode 8: Safe Skincare—More than Just a Movement with Kate CriswellBeing healthy is not just about the food we eat, though that is very important. It really is about so much more—it comes down to sleep, relationships, contentment and a big portion especially in today’s world is non-toxic living.
We wanted to specifically talk about safe skincare, products that as women, we use most days of our lives. This topic is gaining so much popularity in the mainstream news or circles today and we truly believe that this is more than just a movement, it’s not a fad that is going to fade in a week or even a...
2016-10-0300 min
Take Out With Ashley and RobynEpisode 12 with guest Christy ColemanSince Beautycounter launched in 2013, Christy Coleman has served as Head of Creative Design. A fashion and celebrity makeup artist with over 30 years of experience, Christy develops the company’s collection of safer personal care products and cosmetics, while ensuring each one meets the highest performance standards. Her work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and Vanity Fair and in advertising campaigns for Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger, and Victoria’s Secret. She also counts Alessandra Ambrosio, Connie Britton, Miranda Kerr, and many more among her high-profile clients.
In 2007, Christy made a groundbreaking commitment to use safer products—and in the process...
2016-03-0243 min
Girlboss Radio with Sophia AmorusoGregg Renfrew, CEO BeautycounterGregg Renfrew is a serial entrepreneur. She was the CEO of the Wedding List, an online bridal registry company, which she sold to Martha Stewart Omnimedia in 2001. She's also consulted high end brands like Bergdorf Goodman and Intermix. In 2013, she launched her latest company, Beautycounter, a cosmetics line that creates safe, healthy and fashion forward beauty products. On the podcast, Sophia and Gregg discuss Gregg's early days at Xerox, her unexpected foray into politics, and Beautycounter's mission to better the world.
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2016-01-2142 min
Ambition 2.0Gregg Renfrew, CEO BeautycounterGregg Renfrew is a serial entrepreneur. She was the CEO of the Wedding List, an online bridal registry company, which she sold to Martha Stewart Omnimedia in 2001. She's also consulted high end brands like Bergdorf Goodman and Intermix. In 2013, she launched her latest company, Beautycounter, a cosmetics line that creates safe, healthy and fashion forward beauty products. On the podcast, Sophia and Gregg discuss Gregg's early days at Xerox, her unexpected foray into politics, and Beautycounter's mission to better the world. Today’s show is brought to you by Freshbooks. If you believe that living your best life includes bei...
2016-01-2143 min