Beauty news with the business model showing.
The Glossy Beauty Podcast treats beauty as a market, not just a trend cycle. Episodes move from brand headlines and interviews into the mechanics of retail, distribution, product strategy, AI wellness tools, and long-term growth.
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The Glossy Beauty Podcast covers beauty and wellness as industries built from distribution, product timing, consumer behavior, and the occasional viral spark. It has a quick conversational surface, but the questions usually land on business fundamentals. A brand can be everywhere online and still need the right shelf. A product can define a look and still face the problem of repurchase. Recent episodes make that tension visible through Glossier, Wonderskin, Pvolve, Oura, Thorne, Bloom Effects, and Borghese. The show moves comfortably between gossip-adjacent market chatter and concrete operating detail. Coachella activations become a way to think about brand presence. Glossier’s history becomes a lens on millennial loyalty, clean-girl aesthetics, retail contraction, and which products still matter. Wonderskin’s Michael Malinsky explains the work of staying available wherever customers prefer to buy, from a brand site to Amazon, Sephora, Boots, and Selfridges. Wellness episodes add another layer. Oura’s Dr. Tanvi Jayaraman and Thorne’s Dr. Nathan Price speak to the rise of AI advisors, personalization, testing, and the legal boundaries around health claims. Pvolve’s Julie Cartwright brings the same business lens to fitness partnerships, small teams, and the gap between promising talks and deals that actually move. Retail access comes up repeatedly, especially in the Bloom Effects conversation about turning years of no into an Ulta yes. Heritage strategy gets its turn with Borghese COO Dawn Hilarczyk, whose reinvention work includes team changes, digital strategy, distribution, packaging, formulation, SKU reduction, and marketing. The show is strongest when it slows down on what looks obvious from the outside. Growth is not treated as a single headline. It is a chain of choices about channels, partnerships, safety, investment, timing, and endurance. That makes the podcast useful for beauty operators, retail watchers, founders, marketers, and anyone following why certain brands keep showing up while others fade from the feed.
Made for: For beauty, wellness, retail, and brand-building watchers who want more than trend recaps. It especially suits founders, marketers, editors, investors, and operators tracking how category heat becomes durable growth.
What sets it apart: The show keeps returning to the practical levers behind beauty momentum: retail access, channel mix, partnerships, AI guardrails, SKU discipline, and repeat purchasing. It sounds conversational, but its real strength is turning buzzy brand moments into market analysis.
The Glossy Beauty Podcast is the newest podcast from Glossy. Each episode features candid conversations about how today’s trends, such as CBD and self-care, are shaping the future of the beauty and wellness industries. With a unique assortment of guests, The Glossy Beauty Podcast provides its listeners with a variety of insights and approaches to these categories, which are experiencing explosive growth. From new retail strategies on beauty floors to the importance of filtering skincare products through crystals, this show sets out to help listeners understand everything that is going on today, and prepare for what will show up in their feeds tomorrow.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Beauty becomes a working business case here, with close attention to distribution, partnerships, product strategy and the practical constraints behind growth.
The Glossy Beauty Podcast treats beauty as an operating business, following products beyond launch into retail distribution, partnerships, customer retention and brand reinvention.
Beauty's boardroom gets a mirror here, so you can inspect the strategy beneath the serum.
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A viral beauty product becomes a practical look at channel strategy, repeat purchase behavior, and lean financial discipline.
Michael Malinsky frames a viral beauty product as a test of what comes after attention. The episode stays close to the business problem: how a brand remains available and financially disciplined once customers can buy through its own site, Amazon, Sephora, Boots, Selfridges, or…
Glossier's contraction leads to a clear-eyed discussion of hero products, imitators, and the struggle to stay relevant.
Glossier's contraction raises a practical question: can a once-distinctive beauty brand recover its focus? The hosts tie a new CEO, layoffs affecting a third of the workforce, plans to close most stores, and possible product discontinuations to Colin Walsh's push toward hero…
A practical look at why wellness chatbots must be useful without drifting into diagnosis.
The Glossy Beauty Podcast uses Thorne's Taya to frame a practical question for supplement brands: what should AI wellness chatbots be allowed to do, and where should they stop? Dr. Nathan Price is strongest when he stays with that tension.
Pvolve's growth story makes partnerships a question of focus, staffing, and follow-through.
Pvolve's partnership strategy gets a clear business-side reading as Glossy Beauty Podcast hosts Lexi Lebsack and Sarah Spirk-Feiner speak with company president Julie Cartwright.
A clear look at how Aura is building and continuously testing an AI advisor around member questions.
Aura's work on an LLM-like advisor lands as a practical story about turning member questions into a sustained product challenge. Tanvi Jayaraman frames the effort as roughly a year of cross-functional work across AI science, software engineering, and product, with months of…
A broad beauty business conversation on AI-assisted discovery, ingredient scanning, compliance pressure, and prestige's possible return.
The Glossy Beauty Podcast looks at beauty's near-term business questions through shifting consumer behavior, product research, and the possible return of prestige and glam.
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Kimber Maderazzo says influencer culture is shifting to community and clean beauty is out as a marketing term.
Glossy Podcast host Lexi Lebsack interviews Borghese COO Dawn Hilarczyk about the heritage brand's total reinvention, including team changes, digital strategy, distribution, packaging, formulation, SKU reduction, and marketing shift.
Amanda Kloots discusses her new supplement brand Proper, launched in partnership with The Center, on the Glossy Beauty Podcast.
Jamie Holmes says Goop’s share of genuinely innovative submissions fell from 60–70% to about 30% during her time there.
Coachella sets the table.
Saris Brook-Feiner and Emily Jensen use Glossier's reset under Colin Walsh to frame the episode, citing Puck's report of 50 layoffs and Walsh's plan to keep only the London, New York, and LA stores.
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The Glossy Beauty Podcast episode with Julie Cartwright centers on P-Volv's partnership strategy for a fitness brand that launched in 2017.
Kim Van Haster shares her seven-year journey to get her beauty brand Bloom Effects into Ulta, highlighting persistence and the challenges of retail partnerships.
The Glossy Beauty Podcast focuses on Aura Advisor, the company’s new women's-health LLM for Aura ring users and Aura Labs testers.
Industry vet Kimber Maderazzo discusses beauty M&A predictions for 2026 on the Glossy Beauty Podcast.
Glossy Podcast interviews Borghese COO Dawn Hilarczyk about the brand's reinvention, including team changes, digital strategy, distribution, packaging, and SKU reduction.
This episode discusses nearshoring and multishoring strategies for supply chains amid tariff changes, featuring an interview with Modern Retail's Melissa Daniels.