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No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

#23: Gregg Renfrew, Beautycounter Founder and CEO

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7703 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Gregg Renfrew is the founder and CEO of Beautycounter, a cosmetics company with a mission: making safer products accessible to everyone. Gregg has been an entrepreneur since college when she started a cleaning business on Nantucket to earn money to study abroad. In 1997, she launched The Wedding List - a company she sold to Martha Stewart Living. She continued to establish herself in the fashion and retail world, but it was the realization of the toxins and cancer-causing ingredients in makeup that propelled this mother of three to create Beautycounter. Renfrew explains how she is changing the beauty and skin care industry, shares her best advice for entrepreneurs She also dishes on her biggest mistakes along the way and why cold-calling can really pay off. Like what we're doing? Leave a review! ----> http://bit.ly/2ks4f90 Beautycounter: http://www.beautycounter.com Follow Gregg on Twitter: @GreggRenfrew Follow Gregg on Instagram: @Greggrenfew * ABOUT REBECCA JARVIS:  Rebecca Jarvis is the Chief Business, Technology and Economics correspondent for ABC News. She is also the Host, Creator, and Managing Editor of Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis and this podcast No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis. Like Rebecca on Facebook: Facebook.com/RebeccaJarvis Follow Rebecca on Instagram: @RebeccaJarvis Follow Rebecca on Twitter:  @RebeccaJarvis Follow Rebecca on Snapchat: RebeccaJarvis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0

You should be able to build businesses that are highly profitable, create tons of jobs for people, but are simultaneously moving markets and doing things that are good for the world.

0:08.3

And I think that if we did a little bit more of that, we'd be in a much better place as a country and as a world than we are today.

0:13.5

Welcome to No Limits.

0:16.3

I'm Rebecca Jarvis.

0:18.3

Each week, we're talking to women playing at the top of their game. So,

0:23.9

how are they doing it? Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story,

0:30.1

you're in the right place. Joining us today is a woman who started her first company,

0:37.1

a cleaning business, in college.

0:39.3

She goes out a few years later to launch a bridal registry, sells it to none other than Martha Stewart Living, where she continues to work,

0:47.3

and by that time she's established herself in the fashion and retail world.

0:52.3

Now, this mother of three is working on her biggest endeavor yet reimagining the beauty industry.

0:59.0

Greg Renfrew is the founder and CEO of Beauty Counter, and we welcome her to No Limits.

1:05.1

Thank you for having me.

1:06.2

When you were a kid, did you see yourself doing things like this?

1:09.3

What did you envision?

1:10.6

Well, I wanted to be on

1:11.7

I wanted to be Annie when I was little. I think that he wanted to be on stage. I did. I was like,

1:18.1

I love to sing. I sing. I sing my daughters are really into singing my son not so much. But

1:22.7

really, is there a beauty cutter song that goes on behind the scenes? Well, oh, I don't know. I listen to Eminem when I'm going on stage. Really? If there a beauty counter song that goes on behind the scenes?

1:30.4

Well, oh, I don't know. I listen to Eminem when I'm going on stage.

1:34.9

Really? If you have one chance, a lot of opportunity, lose yourself because I know some people love to meet it. There's no macfifier. This is my life. But it's always about you have one chance,

1:38.7

one opportunity. Are you going to blow it? Are you going to make it happen, really? And I think for me, when I'm going on stage and I'm nervous, I think about that.

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