Keeping Face with Kathleen Baird-Murray
Forever fascinated by what motivates, shapes and guides the talented, hard-working and driven individuals behind some of our favourite beauty brands, Keeping Face is about the weak spot, the scary moment, the part of the story in each founder’s narrative, where things looked like they might go wrong - badly wrong. How did they get around these moments? How did they turn weakness into opportunity? Did they feel vulnerable? Was it hard to rally and rebound? Who was there to support them through this? What was helpful? As they tell us about that difficult time, Keeping Face will leave the listener feeling inspired, informed and entertained, as we learn how they got around these moments, and learnt from their mistakes or whatever disasters life had thrown at them.At a time when the world is experiencing huge disruption, this endearing and relatable series shows us how fallible we all are as humans, but also how indestructible, resilient and brave we can be too.
Episodes
15 episodes
ISAMAYA FFRENCH: FROM BURNOUT TO BURNER PHONE, HOW TO TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE
Isamaya Ffrench’s eponymous beauty brand ISAMAYA is very new - two years! But what an impact it’s made. Shocking us with her lipsticks in penis-inspired packaging (a sentence I never thought I would write!) and her Steven Klein campaigns, her b...
AMAZING AMY: THE PERFUMER WHO WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER
AMAZING AMY: THE PERFUMER WHO WANTS TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTERPassionate about fragrance, Amy Christiansen, founder of Sana Jardin, created her luxury perfume house of intoxicating scents with a Master Perfumer. A social j...
How Nyakio Grieco Learnt to Be Her No1 Advocate
How Nyakio Grieco Learnt to Be Her No1 AdvocateNyakio Grieco is what they call a beauty industry veteran, having lived and breathed it for years before starting her own brand, Nyakio, which was acquired by Unilever in 2017. She’s ...
Vivek Sahni believes in kindness, empathy, and being authentic
Visit the Westbourne Grove branch of Kama Ayurveda and it's like stepping into India. Jungles with elephants and banana leaf murals, smart red striped ceilings and marigold garlands invite us to discover the ancient wisdoms of Ayurveda. Started...
Kate Somerville Doesn’t Care About The Money - It’s All About Changing Peoples Lives By Changing Their Skin
I first met Kate when I was beauty director at Tatler magazine many years ago. I happened to be in LA, and asked some friends which facialist might be worth visiting, and hers was the name that came up time and time again. But her's is not an o...
John Demsey Doesn’t Know Anyone Who Thinks They Look Too Good
John Demsey Doesn’t Know Anyone Who Thinks They Look Too Good The author of Behind the Blue Door, a book about his home in New York, is also the former senior executive at Estee Lauder Companies. At the forefront of the key a...
Keeping Face - Season 2 Trailer
We're back with another incredible line up of beauty brand founders and c-suite executives. Tune in every Wednesday where ever you get your podcasts!
John Legend: Just Don’t Ask Him “If Loved01 was a song, what would it be?”
We’ve saved the most mellifluous of our interviewees til last. Well-known as an award-winning singer-songwriter, what’s it like being the new kid on the block in the beauty industry? By all accounts pretty good. Don’t expect much from John when...
Rose-Marie Swift: From Bands and Burlesque to Billboards
Rose-Marie Swift is full of surprises. Plot-spoiler alert, she once played in a punk band (wait til you hear which band she supported!) and her business strategy has as much to do with astrology as it does with Excel. With a 38 year plus career...
Charlotte Mensah: The Little Baby In a Basket Who Could
From a tough start in life aged three months old, to achieving global recognition for her work in the hair industry, how did Charlotte Mensah overcome the huge loss of her mother an...
Frederic Fekkai : The Boy From Provence Who Made it Big in New York
He was a young hairdresser from the south of France, who learnt the business by listening to the likes of Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and other role models. But when others stopped listening to him,
Bobbi Brown: Let’s Face It, She Was Never Going to Just Play Golf
Bobbi Brown, founder of the eponymous make-up brand now wholly owned by Estee Lauder, has since gone on to start several other brands, including the hugely successful cosmetics company
Alexia Inge: The Man With the Hands Like Dinner Plates
Recorded in Kenya (her) and Shropshire (me), Alexia Inge is living the dream. But it’s a well earnt dream, following 15 years of 100-hour work weeks, and the kind of ups and downs that ...
