Advice Line with Marcia Kilgore of Beauty Pie (June 2025)

Hey everyone, it's Guy here. So this week we're giving our team a short break and bringing you an episode from the archives. Last June, serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore joined me right here on the Advice Line, and she offered some pretty great insights to three early stage founders about managing uncertainty and risk in their businesses. And stick around because at the end we'll have an update. about all three of our collars. So enjoy this episode and we'll be back next week with a brand new episode of the How I Built This Advice Line. Hello and welcome to the advice line on how I built this lab. I'm Guy Raz. This is the place where we help try to solve your business challenges. Each week, I'm joined by a legendary founder, a former guest on the show who will help me try to help you. And if you're building something and you need advice, give us a call and you just might be the next guest on the show. Our number is 1-800-433-1298. Send us a one-minute message that tells us about your business and the issues or questions that you'd like help with. You can also send us a voice memo at hibt at id.wondery.com, and make sure to tell us how to reach you. And also don't forget to sign up for my newsletter. It's full of insights and ideas from the world's greatest entrepreneurs. You can sign up for free at gyros.com.

and we'll put all this info in the podcast description. Alright. Let's get to it. Joining me this week is serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore, founder of BeautyPie. Marcia, welcome back to the show. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited. We're excited to have you. So you were first on the show back in in 2018. Um you told us about the origin story of Bliss, which was the the spa brand that really kinda changed. the beauty landscape and then of course

You went on to build all of these different brands afterwards, like Soap and Glory and Fitflop, and then Beauty Pie. Um, it's just so awesome to have you back. And we will put a link to your original interview in the episode description. And also you anybody listening can easily find that by searching how I built this in Marcia Kilgore. Lots of great stories and insights. Um Marcy, I know that today you are continuing to grow beauty pie you're and and pushing to to kind of you know give consumers access to you know, a more transparent pricing.

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