In episode ninety of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the co-founder and Creative Director of Resoré, Evah Jackson. With a background in fashion, Evah Jackson has always had a fascination with aesthetics. In 2014, she co-founded Harpers Project, one of the country’s largest online homewares stores and one of the very first to really capitalise on the power of social media. A few years post-launch, Evah and the Harper’s Project team decided to extend their furniture offering in...
Jun 07, 2022•29 min
In episode eighty nine of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the CEO and co-founder of Nécessaire, Randi Christiansen. Randi Christiansen has always been interested in the intersection of business and beauty. Having studied business at university and taking a particular interest in entrepreneurship and small business growth, Randi found herself in a role at Estée Lauder Companies, where she would remain for next 15 years. Despite being a major multinational, Randi was able to br...
May 24, 2022•1 hr
In episode eighty eight of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder of Kissed Earth, Rachael Finch. Rachael Finch grew up in Townsville as an athlete, with little to no interest in beauty until she was about 15. It was at this age that she was encouraged to enter a modelling competition, which she won, and subsequently spent the next four years travelling for her new career- first to Brisbane, and then internationally, an experience she describes as changing her perception...
May 10, 2022•51 min
In episode eighty seven of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder of tbh Skincare, Rachael Tyers. In 2019, Rachel Tyers was working in marketing for a B2B company that sold medical devices. It was during this time that Rachael was made aware of a patented topical skincare lab sample and, having struggled with acne for the better part of a decade, decided it was worth trying. Rachael read studies, learned the science behind the formula, and saw real results in her own ski...
Apr 26, 2022•39 min
Do all skin types need the same sun protection? How often should we actually be getting a skin check? Do we really all need sun protection in winter? In this bonus episode of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts is joined by by pharmacist and Medical Communications Manager at L’Oreal Australia, Rachel McAdam. Rachel’s role sees her provide L’Oreal brands with insight into consumer skin health needs from a formulations perspective, so I thought she would be the perfect person to answer the ...
Apr 12, 2022•13 min
In episode eighty six of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder of Larry King Haircare, Larry King. Larry King’s earliest ambition was to work in the film industry, a dream that saw him spend much of his early life watching many, many movies. It’s a task he encourages his staff to partake in today, often setting them projects so they can understand the references to films and movie stars of eras passed that he weaves into his hairstyling work across runways, red carpets ...
Apr 05, 2022•49 min
In this bonus episode of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts is joined by dermatologist Dr Cara McDonald who is here to answer all of your questions on skin checks and sun protection. This summer saw La Roche-Posay and Skin Check Champion’s ‘House of Healthy Skin’ tour the east coast of Australia, providing 1342 individuals with a free skin check. Over 80% of those people had never had their skin checked before, so we took to Instagram to find out why before I passed your skin check quest...
Mar 29, 2022•26 min
In episode eighty five of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founders of Youth To The People, Greg Gonzalez and Joe Cloyes. Cousins Greg Gonzalez and Joe Cloyes quite literally grew up in the beauty industry. What began as a hair salon, owned by their grandparents, grew to a line of professional aesthetics products that the family manufactured for and distributed to spas and salons right across the US. Greg and Joe grew up in the brand’s factory, playing amongst the packagin...
Mar 22, 2022•34 min
In this week’s bonus episode of the Glow Journal podcast, we welcome back Grown Alchemist co-founder and CEO, Jeremy Muijs. This episode, sponsored by Grown Alchemist, sees us celebrate the Clean Start Program- a program designed to help consumers refresh and reset their skin. Committed to helping you on your journey to truly healthy skin, Grown Alchemist want to support your Clean Start. For a limited time, select any Grown Alchemist to give your skin its Clean Start- you’ll receive 10% off 1 p...
Mar 15, 2022•44 min
In episode eighty four of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder of Habitual Beauty and Krumbled Foods, Keira Rumble. Trigger Warning: Pregnancy loss. Keira Rumble is as resilient as it gets. At age 20, at roughly the same time she realised she had very little interest in her job, she was diagnosed as pre-diabetic. Out of necessity she began making changes to her diet and lifestyle, but wasn’t seeing nor feeling a marked change to her health. Upon discovering that the su...
Mar 08, 2022•40 min
In this special bonus Ask An Expert episode I’m joined by Dr Davin Lim. A board certified laser, procedural and aesthetic dermatologist, Dr Lim has over 20 credits to his name. Widely considered one of the world’s leading experts for laser-treated skin disorders and rejuvenation therapies including tattoo removal, acne scar revision and laser resurfacing, Dr Lim was our first port of call when it came to answering YOUR questions on skin resurfacing. Away from our regular brand founder conversati...
Feb 22, 2022•19 min
In episode eighty three of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the co-founder and Creative Director of SWIISH, Sally Obermeder. Sally Obermeder always wanted a job that allowed her to have a chat, which is why she abandoned her early ambitions of a career in dentistry in favour of a role in finance. After a decade in investment banking Sally realised that her heart wasn’t in it, and decided to take a leap of faith in the direction of an industry she’d long dreamt of working in- t...
Feb 15, 2022•51 min
In episode eighty two of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder of Eye of Horus Cosmetics, Holly Schleich. Holly has always had a realistic understanding of what it takes to build a beauty business. Holly’s parents owned small businesses themselves, and Holly’s mum actually created her own simple skincare products so that she could set her daughter up with a skincare routine as a pre-teen. They passed their learnings onto Holly, who entered the beauty industry after comp...
Feb 01, 2022•57 min
In episode eighty one of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder and CEO of Sunday Riley, Sunday Riley. Sunday Riley is honest about failure- so much so that she credits several missteps with the success of her namesake brand. Sunday Riley was launched in 2009, in the middle of the Global Financial Crisis, with Sunday herself explaining to me that often perfect timing doesn’t come wrapped up neatly with a bow. The “right time” may well be disguised as chaos. The brand’s p...
Jan 18, 2022•44 min
A moment of gratitude from me, Gemma Watts, for our Glow Journal community. Season 4 begins January 19. See you in 2022! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Dec 14, 2021•56 sec
In this bonus Ask An Expert episode, host Gemma Watts is joined by dermatologist Dr Desmond Gan. An Australasian College of Dermatologists fellowship trained consultant dermatologist, Dr Gan completed his undergraduate medical degree (MBBS) at the University of Melbourne with Honours, achieving Dean’s Honour List and was awarded Evelyn Coy Prize in Surgical Exam. With a long-standing special interest in laser use in Dermatology, Dr Gan was our first port of call when it came to answering YOUR qu...
Dec 07, 2021•32 min
In episode eighty of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder of Macabalm, Pia Whitesell. Pia’s first memories of beauty centre around strength, rather than aesthetics. Raised by her mother, grandmother and, as she tells me, really her entire community, Pia grew up identifying beauty with strength and getting it done- an ethos she’s taken into her own adult life. Another ethos that has taken Pia from her teens right through to now is this idea of natural beauty, and an und...
Nov 30, 2021•47 min
In this special bonus Ask An Expert episode, host Gemma Watts is joined by pharmacist and Medical Communications Manager at L’Oréal Australia, Rachel McAdam. Rachel’s role sees her provide L’Oréal brands with insight into consumer skin health needs from a pharmacy perspective, so I thought she would be the perfect person to answer the questions YOU submitted on the skincare and ingredient trends you’re seeing more of. I’m so often asked really specific questions about the skin (and, in this case...
Nov 23, 2021•27 min
In episode seventy nine of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder of HoliFrog, Emily Parr. Emily Parr’s career in beauty began when her career in the wellness space saw her headhunted by Salma Hayek. Having worked in fashion and health PR respectively, Salma Hayek’s brand was Emily’s first beauty client. This led Emily to found Poke PR in late 2012, an agency that would go on to both represent and grow the likes of Drunk Elephant and Glow Journal’s friends The Beauty Che...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 14 min
Are laser and IPL different, and which is better? Can I still get laser hair removal in the summer? What does laser actually do to pigmentation? Are laser spider vein treatments permanent? In this Ask An Expert episode, host Gemma Watts is joined by National Clinical Operations Manager for Candela Medical ANZ, Kirsten Cachia. Professional skin clinics are finally back open and the festive season is almost upon us, so we’ve received an influx of questions recently regarding skin treatments for ev...
Nov 09, 2021•28 min
In episode seventy eight of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder and CEO of Billion Dollar Brows, Natalie Plain. In the year 2003, standalone brow brands were few and far between. It was in that year, however, that Natalie Plain watched as lash products dominated the beauty market and noticed a gap for dedicated brow products. Natalie had long held an understanding of the role brows play in the overall beauty picture. Having naturally bushy brows as a child, a teenage ...
Nov 02, 2021•36 min
How far out from your wedding day should you start your skin prep? What should you be doing for your skin a year, six months, and a week before your wedding? What do you do if a pimple or irritation arises on your wedding day? What’s the biggest mistake brides-to-be make the night before their big day? In this Ask An Expert episode, host Gemma Watts is joined by Dermal Clinician and founder of Victorian Dermal Group, Derya Koch. Events are, at long last, on the horizon again, and skin clinics ha...
Oct 26, 2021•24 min
In episode seventy seven of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder of Cosmetics 27, Michèle Evrard. Michèle grew up with more of a love for the outdoors than a love for beauty- although, in a sense, it was the former that brought her to the latter. Michèle’s love of the outdoors led to a desire to be an adventurer- an archeologist, specifically, as she tells me one of her earliest wishes was “to discover something.” She found herself naturally drawn to science, completin...
Oct 19, 2021•1 hr 4 min
In episode seventy six of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the co-founders of Goldfaden MD, Lisa Goldfaden and Lauren Wolk-Goldfaden. Despite officially launching in 2013, Goldfaden MD technically begun in Dr Gary Goldfaden’s dermatology practice about 40 years ago. Lisa, his daughter, spent the early part of her working life in arts and education, while Lauren, his daughter-in-law, spent hers working on ad campaigns for the likes of Coca Cola, Voltswagen and Burger King. Whil...
Oct 05, 2021•51 min
How does the cosmetic tattooing process actually work? How much does tattoo removal really hurt? After how many tattoo removal treatments can we expect to see results? In this Ask An Expert episode, host Gemma Watts is joined by Dermal Therapist Ginny Bucchi. Ginny specialises in skin rejuvenation and tattoo removal, and has performed over 2500 PicoWay treatments, on all skin types, since 2017, so we took the opportunity to ask her YOUR questions on cosmetic tattooing and tattoo removal. This As...
Sep 28, 2021•25 min
In episode seventy five of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to industry icon and By Terry founder, Terry de Gunzburg. Terry de Gunzburg tells me that the rose is in her DNA. Terry’s earliest memorable connection to beauty is her grandmother’s homemade rosewater. Terry herself spent her childhood applying rose petals to her cheeks to mimic the effect of blush, and today, the rose sits at the heart of one of her most iconic beauty creations- Baume De Rose. In her very early 20s, du...
Sep 21, 2021•1 hr 6 min
In this special bonus Ask An Expert episode I’m joined by cosmetic chemist, author and founder of Synergie Skin, Terri Vinson. Terri Vinson has decades of experience in skin science and has sat at the helm of Synergie Skin since its launch in 2005. Terri completed her Bachelor of Science, specialising in Immunology and Microbiology, at Monash University, and has obtained additional post graduate qualifications in both Formulating Chemistry and Biology & Secondary School Science. In this conv...
Sep 14, 2021•46 min
In episode seventy four of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder and CEO of Three Warriors, Corbin Halliday. Three Warriors’ existence really stems from founder Corbin Halliday’s 2014 hospitalisation. Corbin had grown up in Tasmania with dreams of making it as an actor in Hollywood. Upon finishing school he moved to Sydney and began auditioning, and was subsequently signed to an agency in Los Angeles. Within months of landing in Hollywood, Corbin realised he didn’t actu...
Sep 07, 2021•36 min
In episode seventy three of the Glow Journal podcast, host Gemma Watts talks to the founder of LoveSeen, Jenna Lyons. Jenna Lyons has always been a creative- but a younger Jenna did not imagine she’d end up in beauty. Jenna was 6 feet tall by the time she was 13 and had a genetic disorder that affected her teeth and left her with bald spots, scars and no eyelashes. She shares that she was teased for the way that she looked, however after learning how to sew in a Home Economics class, she discove...
Aug 24, 2021•31 min
In this special bonus Ask An Expert episode I’m joined by Dr Alice Rudd. A General and Cosmetic Dermatologist affiliated with The Alfred Hospital and The Skin Health Institute, Dr Rudd completed her Medical Degree at Monash University and completed her postgraduate dermatology studies through the Australasian College of Dermatologists. Having founded Skindepth Dermatology six years ago, Dr Rudd was our first port of call when it came to answering YOUR questions on skincare during and after pregn...
Aug 17, 2021•22 min
