Finding Beautiful Strangers

The wild, fascinating, and tumultuous journey of Abby Wallach, an award-winning serial entrepreneur who lives for the win and for the dream, reveals a world of stylish souls encountered on her journey of discovery, innovation, creativity and big business. From the Hollywood A-List, to the insiders of the beauty, fragrance, and fashion circles, to the everyday Beautiful Strangers she meets along the way, being a serial entrepreneur is not just a job. It’s a lifestyle.

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Episodes

12 - Lessons Learned – An Astrology Revelation, and Relationship Power

An astrology reading that predicted a relationship tsunami, how I was encouraged to share my journey by a beautiful stranger who personified what I hoped to achieve in beauty and fashion, the most important lessons I’ve learned along the way being in business, and why relationships are everything.

Oct 12, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 12

11 - Launching a Brand - Innovating Fragrance, an On-Air Sell Out, and Accepting the Spotlight

How a podcast helped get me through the pandemic, the TV team that re-energizes me, and how the first ever brand, LINGER (a fragrance primer that makes scent last longer) crushed it on Home Shopping Network.

Oct 12, 2022•13 min•Season 1Ep. 11

10 - Disappearing Deal - Launching a Fashion Channel, and a Close Call with Disney

From backstage at fashion shows to the front row of city streets, a vision and dream is actualized, launching to millions. Plus, a deal that could have changed the future, and the phone call that shattered everything.

Oct 12, 2022•19 min•Season 1Ep. 10

9 - Style Stalking - Creating the Future of Content Commerce

An elevator encounter leads to a 17-year partnership, and style stalking inspires an idea ahead of its time, setting the stage for the OG of influence, from the street to the screen to the store.

Oct 12, 2022•15 min•Season 1Ep. 9

8 - Hello Hollywood - Producing TV and Learning From a Legend

A chance tv pitch leads to an executive producer title in La La Land, and why the only door that I didn’t walk through might have been a huge misfire. Plus, the fortuitous rise and unfortunate fall of a mentorship with a legend.

Oct 12, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 8

7 - The Promotion - From Ninja Turtles and The Moscow Circus to Hollywood

A single basketball shot catapults my career from a 3 ring circus, and pizza-eating turtles, to a big time Hollywood TV job.

Oct 12, 2022•11 min•Season 1Ep. 7

6 - Facing Challenges - Taking on Cybercrime and a Front Row Seat

How a challenging job ultimately led me to land a seat amongst beauty and fragrance industry luminaries. And the horrifying moment that cybercriminals invaded my entire world.

Oct 12, 2022•14 min•Season 1Ep. 6

5 - Ultimate Pivot - Going Walmart Big with Fragrance

A surprise takes me on an unexpected path, solving big problems with big solutions as a business operator, facing a middle-of-the-night printing shutdown, and taking on the mission to get product into nearly 1,800 big-box stores against all odds.

Oct 12, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 5

4 - Sparti Party - The Oscars, Trademark Nightmare, and a Dance Craze

An eleventh-hour legal nightmare turns everything upside down, and a Hollywood awards show moment gets the Sparti Party started.

Oct 12, 2022•16 min•Season 1Ep. 4

3 - Big Box Beauty - The Miraculous Stranger in California

Traveling to sunny California for a 24 hour visit to the beauty aisles of one of the biggest box retailers in the world, where a perilous journey to bring a game-changing fragrance brand into the market leads me to a total stranger – who prays for a miracle. Plus, a quick save averts a middle of the night printing disaster.

Oct 12, 2022•18 min•Season 1Ep. 3

2 - Business Lessons - My First and Last Job in Retail

It’s the 1970’s. The foundation of big business starts to develop in me, and I learn somethingimportant from my dad, why he was so admired, and how he actually might have played baseball for the Dodgers. Plus, why I was quickly fired from my first job in fashion and how it destroyed my interest in retail and never wanting to be a shop girl every again.

Oct 12, 2022•12 min•Season 1Ep. 2

1 - Family Business – Inspiring an Entrepreneurial Spirit

How my love of beauty and fragrance was inspired, my first cutthroat deal (as a child), and the remarkable family business that awakened my entrepreneurial spirit, as an entrepreneur by nurture (not nature).

Oct 12, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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