HeyJaredProfessional Jealousy Podcast
Welcome to Professional Jealousy, a podcast hosted by Natasha Jakubowski, Chief Innovation Officer at Anomaly. This is a conversation series with founders, innovators and creatives that I'm impressed by and yes, a little bit envious of.
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Amy Peterson: Surviving Trauma, Building Lennox & 16th, and the Truth About Skincare (opens the original)
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Amy Peterson survived a near-fatal accident at 18 — and turned that experience into a 20-year career as one of the most trusted names in aesthetics. Known as "the Skincare Savant," Amy is a celebrity aesthetician, owner of two Miami-based clinics, and founder of Lennox & 16th, a luxury clinical-grade skincare line built on the treatments she uses in her own practice. In this episode, Natasha and Amy talk about how that accident shaped her empathy and her drive, why most "new" beauty devices boil
20,000 to 300,000 Cases: How Joey Wölffer Built a Hamptons Wine Empire (opens the original)
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Wölffer Estate Vineyard started on Hamptons potato fields in the 1980s, when Christian Wölffer's dream of a Long Island vineyard was such a long shot that he had to lure his own winemaker across the Atlantic with a small exaggeration — Roman was told the estate was "20 minutes from New York City." (It's closer to four hours in traffic.) The winery's first rosé, released in 1992, was so pink and so sweet that Zinfandel drinkers called it disgusting. Today, that rosé's descendant — the now-iconic
Only 3 Products in 12 Years: How April Gargiulo Built a Cult Skincare Brand, Vintner's Daughter (opens the original)
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April Gargiulo, founder and CEO of Vintner's Daughter, joins Professional Jealousy to share how growing up in a Napa Valley winemaking family shaped her approach to skincare — and why she's released just three products in twelve years, each one taking three to six weeks to formulate from whole plants. April walks host Natasha Jakubowski through the early days of building Vintner's Daughter: convincing skeptical labs to break from decades of standard practice, hand-packing the brand's first 500-b
CEO of Unilever Prestige, on Building Brands That Last with MC Gasco-Buisson (opens the original)
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MC Gasco-Buisson spent 23 years at P&G before becoming CEO of Pandora's design business, and now leads Unilever Prestige — the house of beauty brands behind Hourglass, K18, Dermalogica, Tatcha, and Paula's Choice. Natasha talks with MC about what actually makes a brand worth scaling, why emotion and storytelling matter even more in luxury than in CPG, how founder-led brands like Dermalogica get built right, and where she's applying AI in the business (and where she's deliberately not). They also
From Celiac Diagnosis to 20,000 Grocery Stores: Feel Good Foods CEO Vanessa Phillips (opens the original)
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Vanessa Phillips, co-founder and CEO of Feel Good Foods, joins Professional Jealousy to share how a celiac disease diagnosis in college — and a doctor's advice to give up on food entirely — became the origin story for one of the fastest-growing gluten-free frozen food brands in the country. Vanessa walks through her path from growing up in her family's New York bagel and Chinese restaurant business, to opening the gluten-free café Friedman's in Chelsea Market, to mailing homemade gluten-free pot
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