Latest / The Dr. Randi Show / The Shift Redefining Aesthetics Right Now — Carrie Strom
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- 0:30Now let's get into the episode. Hello everyone, and welcome to
- 0:34the Doctor Randy Show, where we explore the ideas, innovations
- 0:39and people shaping the future of aesthetics, beauty, Wellness and
- 0:43longevity. I'm your host Doctor, Randy
- 0:46Boyett. She's at the center of this
- 0:49industry at the highest level. She's built and scaled brands
- 0:53that set the standard for the entire category.
- 0:56And today, she leads Hugh Gel as CEO at a pivotal moment for the
- 1:02industry. Please welcome Carrie Strom.
- 1:06Thank you Doctor Randy for having me.
- 1:08I have so much respect for you and your influence over
- 1:11aesthetics and I have been looking forward to this
- 1:13discussion with you. Well, we're very excited to have
- 1:16you here today and as usual, I will just jump right in if
- 1:20that's OK with you. Let's do it.
- 1:23So Carrie, it's no secret that you have led one of the most
- 1:26dominant portfolios in aesthetics.
- 1:30You've helped build brands that define entire categories.
- 1:34You've had a front row seat to how this industry has evolved.
- 1:38What has all of that been like for you?
- 1:41Well, first, how lucky are we to be a part of the aesthetics
- 1:44industry? I have a lot of gratitude for
- 1:48the people, the customers, the consumers that make this
- 1:51industry possible. I did not start my career in
- 1:54aesthetics. I started in more traditional
- 1:57pharma, which I see as more of like a revolving door.
- 2:01You learn about cardiology, you learn about urology.
- 2:04But then I started aesthetics in 2014 and that's not a revolving
- 2:09door. That's like a one way door.
- 2:11Once you get into aesthetics, you never want to look back.
- 2:15And I did have such a great opportunity to work at Allergan
- 2:20with people and customers who literally created the aesthetics
- 2:24industry and what a privilege that was.
- 2:28But now in my next chapter, I'm really excited to do things
- 2:31differently and I will tell you, Huge L is definitely doing
- 2:35things differently. We'd love to hear more about
- 2:38that and everything you're going to be doing over there.
- 2:41But before we really dive in, I want to start by asking a
- 2:45question that is kind of on the top of everybody's mind lately.
- 2:49Does the industry feel to you like it's in a strong place
- 2:54right now, or does it feel like there's a big shift taking
- 2:57place? I think that the industry has
- 3:00very strong fundamentals. So this is an industry that is a
- 3:05winning proposition for everybody involved, most of all
- 3:08for consumers who get treatments that make them feel like the
- 3:12best version of themselves. But also with all of the
- 3:15providers or what I sometimes call customers for us are Med
- 3:19spas, doctors, CEOs who are buying our products and taking
- 3:24care of the patients. It's a winning proposition for
- 3:27them. And then of course, if our
- 3:29providers and our patients are happy, then it's a winning
- 3:32proposition for us as industry. I do think fundamentally this is
- 3:37a great industry to be in. But like all industries, there's
- 3:40highs and there's lows. I mean, we all lived through
- 3:43COVID, which was very scary in the moment.
- 3:46There was no playbook for that. Nobody knew what was going on.
- 3:50And hardest of all for the providers, right?
- 3:54These are people who are feeding their family, taking care of
- 3:58their staff. Very difficult decisions to make
- 4:01about having to keep their office open or closed when
- 4:05nobody knew what was going to happen.
- 4:06But I think that was a real testament to the resilience of
- 4:10this industry and of these customers and providers because
- 4:15wow, look what happened after that.
- 4:17The post COVID phenomenon really showed not only the resilience
- 4:21of our customers, but also the kind of unbridled interest of
- 4:27consumers. So when they had money in their
- 4:29pockets and they had time to spend because they weren't going
- 4:33into the office, where is the 1st place they went to their
- 4:36aesthetics provider. So although there's always macro
- 4:40challenges, I think that's COVID and post COVID is a great
- 4:43example of the resilience of this market and that fundamental
- 4:47interest in aesthetics. And I think we all experienced
- 4:50that panic, and then we were so excited that the whole industry
- 4:54just lit back on fire again, right, Right.
- 4:57So you have run this influential book of business and aesthetics
- 5:03at a global level. And now, as CEO of UGEL, what
- 5:08does this next chapter represent for you?
- 5:11I thought really hard about my next chapter and I knew I wanted
- 5:16to stay in aesthetics because I love the industry, I love all
- 5:19the people, I love the impact we can have on patients.
- 5:24Maybe I'll just tell you a little story, kind of summarizes
- 5:27why I joined HUGE L and why I'm so optimistic about the future
- 5:31for HUGE L. So, you know, we all have our
- 5:34friends and family who have a million questions about
- 5:36aesthetics, you know, no matter where we go.
- 5:39And I was chatting with my best friend last summer, and she is
- 5:43an aesthetics consumer in terms of facials, laser hair removal,
- 5:49skin care, but she had never made the leap into injectables.
- 5:52And I asked her, I said, well, what if I told you that the
- 5:57number one best selling neurotoxin in South Korea for
- 6:01the last 10 years was recently approved by the FDA in the US?
- 6:07And she said I had no idea. And if it's number one in South
- 6:12Korea, it's got to be good. Where can I go and get this
- 6:15done? And I thought that that story
- 6:18was really indicative of the opportunity for Huge L Huge L is
- 6:23a South Korean aesthetics company and it's a very well
- 6:26known in South Korea. But the real opportunity is to
- 6:29globalize Huge L and to transform Huge L from a leading
- 6:33Korean aesthetics company to a leading global aesthetics
- 6:37company. And that's our mission.
- 6:39And the hard work has been done because the FDA approval is
- 6:43here. And so that's what we're doing
- 6:45right now, building the US operation while also investing
- 6:49in the rest of the world. South Korea continues to be very
- 6:52important for us, but that's really our vision and our
- 6:56mission is to take this company that's been so successful in
- 7:00Korea and expand it globally. So that's why this was the right
- 7:04moment for you. Well, yeah, and it's much
- 7:06different for me. So I think the aesthetics
- 7:09ecosystem is full of all different players and they all
- 7:13really do play a very important role.
- 7:16What I was excited about was building and scaling and growing
- 7:21and creating. And that comes with pros and
- 7:24cons, right? You got to be real scrappy.
- 7:27You don't maybe have the resources of a big company, but
- 7:30you do have the ability to build it the way you want and learn
- 7:35from customers and learn from, you know, past experiences to
- 7:41build it the way you want. That's what's really exciting
- 7:44about Hugell right now. I had mentioned the hard work is
- 7:46done with the FDA approval, but really there's so much that the
- 7:50company has already built in terms of a broad portfolio.
- 7:54There's toxins, HA fillers, skin care, topical skin boosters.
- 8:00It's just a matter of investing and building the team and making
- 8:05the decisions of where to invest.
- 8:07So you know, Huge L did a lot of good work before I got here and
- 8:10now I just want to help take them to the next level.
- 8:13Sounds very exciting. And it also sounds like if you
- 8:16really understand this industry from the inside that at a level
- 8:22that very few people do, right? And on that topic, what stands
- 8:26out to you right now in the industry that not everyone might
- 8:30be focused on right now? I do think that K Aesthetics and
- 8:35K Beauty is a huge tailwind right now and I saw this, we all
- 8:40see it. You know, I saw this far before
- 8:42I joined Hugh Gel. I have a 16 year old daughter
- 8:45who I try to give her these expensive physician dispense
- 8:49skin care that I am lucky enough to have access to and all she
- 8:52wants are the K Beauty brands from Sephora and Ulta.
- 8:56So we know that this is no longer a trend, that K Beauty is
- 9:01entrenched, but the opportunity is bringing it into the
- 9:04aesthetics business. So K beauty, which might be more
- 9:08retail, K aesthetics, which we define as in office procedures
- 9:12and more elevated treatments. K aesthetics is also a
- 9:15philosophy. It's not just about brands.
- 9:19It's about how Korean skin care is prioritized, how it's
- 9:26entrenched in the culture. It's skin first.
- 9:30It's about prevention, being youthful and natural.
- 9:34And like one of my friends I work with says, it's about being
- 9:37subtle, not snatched. And I have the opportunity to
- 9:41spend a lot of time in Korea now.
- 9:43I go about once a month, and it is absolutely a core part of the
- 9:48culture. I think the consumer penetration
- 9:51is five times that of the US And so I see this as it's like a
- 9:57crystal ball. You look at the Korean
- 9:59aesthetics industry and it tells you what to expect in the
- 10:04future. And as a company that's based in
- 10:07Korea, that's growing globally, I feel like this is a
- 10:09competitive advantage for a huge L.
- 10:12And this is something I think that we can see that not
- 10:16everybody can. And on that topic of
- 10:19competition, you know, I think that there's more competition in
- 10:23the space than we've ever seen, more products than ever.
- 10:27Do you feel that that strengthens the market or
- 10:30dilutes it? I think it absolutely
- 10:33strengthens the market on the consumer standpoint, more
- 10:37options as more awareness, more education on the provider
- 10:42standpoint. Of course, they need more
- 10:44choices to be able to have a customized approach to taking
- 10:48care of their patients. And I think that, you know, high
- 10:52tides float all boats. The more that we all can invest
- 10:56in driving new innovation, truly novel innovation that takes good
- 11:00care of patients, Invest in educating providers and
- 11:05empowering providers to be able to run successful profitable
- 11:09practices. I think this is all very healthy
- 11:11for the aesthetics industry. What would be scary is an
- 11:14industry where new players didn't want to join because they
- 11:19think it was interesting, so I think it's a great dynamic.
- 11:22I agree, and you have been part of scaling brands that define an
- 11:28entire category. What does it?
- 11:30Take Kerry to. Build something that indoors in
- 11:35this space where things are coming and going so quickly.
- 11:38I really believe the secret sauce are the people, and this
- 11:43is absolutely a people industry. You can't get injected online.
- 11:49You go in, you see your provider, you have a
- 11:52relationship with your provider, and then also the colleagues you
- 11:56work with. From an industry standpoint,
- 11:59that culture that you're building is really going to come
- 12:02through to the providers. I I'm a passionate believer in
- 12:07customers first, customer orientation and external view of
- 12:12the world in industry. We can't just drive into our
- 12:15office, park our car and just do our work all day, right?
- 12:17You have to be out and hearing what's important to our
- 12:21customers, the Med spas, plastic surgeons, the dermatologist.
- 12:25And if we do this right, I think that a provider first
- 12:30orientation of course will help with market share because you'll
- 12:34position your product in a way that is attractive to the
- 12:38provider. But even more importantly, it
- 12:41can help grow the whole market for everyone because at the end
- 12:44of the day, you know, we don't inject the patients, the
- 12:48providers do. And as long as we can make them
- 12:51successful and they're able to make money and grow their
- 12:55practice and train their injectors to drive beautiful
- 12:58outcomes. Then the.
- 12:59Whole market will grow and consumers will have more
- 13:03options. And the most common question I
- 13:06get which is who's the best injector in Orange County, New
- 13:10York City, Austin, TX. That answer gets broader and
- 13:13broader as the providers get more and more successful.
- 13:17Carrie, you have operated a level where you're not just
- 13:19participating in the market, you're really influencing where
- 13:23it goes. How do you think that that
- 13:25changes the way you make decisions today and what you'll
- 13:28be doing at Hugo? Well, we're only as good as our
- 13:32word and our reputation and our legacy, right.
- 13:36So I have a very long term view to this market.
- 13:39I have been a part of the aesthetics ecosystem for more
- 13:43than 10 years and I'm hoping to be a part of it for a lot
- 13:47longer. And so the decisions that we
- 13:50make now, we have to think carefully about the implications
- 13:53they have in the future. So whether it's products that we
- 13:57launch, whether it's you know, campaigns and data that we
- 14:01generate, we really have to think is this the right thing
- 14:06for the market? Not is this the right thing for
- 14:09the company today, but is this the right thing for the market
- 14:13in the next 1-5 and ten years. And that long term orientation
- 14:17gets easier the longer you're in the industry because you learn
- 14:21from your mistakes, you see what works and doesn't work, and you
- 14:24truly invest. And like I said, the provider,
- 14:27because the provider is really the nucleus of this entire
- 14:31ecosystem. So on that topic, because you've
- 14:34been, you know, it's such a high level and making so many
- 14:37important decisions, was there a moment in your career where you
- 14:42had to make a decision that really changed their trajectory
- 14:46of things and the right path forward wasn't exactly the
- 14:48obvious? So there is a lot of times that
- 14:53these inflection points happen in your career and sometimes you
- 14:56don't even know what's happened until it's over, right?
- 14:58You look back and you say, wow, that was a big decision point in
- 15:02my career. I've had them personally in
- 15:04terms of career choices. So for example, I started my
- 15:08career at Pfizer in New York City.
- 15:11I was there for 11 years right out of college and it was a
- 15:15great place to be. But when Allergan called in
- 15:182011, it was an offer I couldn't refuse.
- 15:21It required moving my family from New York City.
- 15:25It was a bit of a lateral move, so it wasn't like it was this
- 15:28big, you know, career acceleration.
- 15:30And in hindsight, that was the best career move I could have
- 15:33made. There's also decisions that you
- 15:36don't make that are very important and you know, we are
- 15:41always looking at new innovations and new companies
- 15:45and products to either acquire or in license or invest in.
- 15:50And sometimes deciding not to do those things ends up being the
- 15:55right decision to make. So I think taking big risks and
- 15:59also passing on things have been critical inflection points in my
- 16:04career. So, Carrie, when you look at the
- 16:06industry as a whole right now, where do you see the real
- 16:10strength and the real vulnerabilities as well?
- 16:14The vulnerabilities in the industry are if we're too
- 16:16inwardly focused. So if we're focused on our own
- 16:21complex portfolio or our own PNL internal stakeholders, which is
- 16:27an important part about running a business.
- 16:29But if that becomes the major focus, that can be a risk.
- 16:34The real opportunity is thinking ahead to what consumers need.
- 16:38If we can bring truly innovative products to consumers, that will
- 16:43drive consumer interest and demand, which will then benefit
- 16:46providers. And I know I'm a broken record
- 16:49with the provider focus, but that makes their job easier.
- 16:53And then if they're successful, the entire industry can thrive.
- 16:56On the flip side of that, what do you think is the biggest risk
- 17:01that we see in the industry as it's evolving right now?
- 17:06There are a lot of risks and opportunities and aesthetics.
- 17:10I think more opportunities than risks.
- 17:12But if we are not thinking about consumer needs at all time,
- 17:18which does also include macroeconomics and consumers
- 17:23interest in things like GLP ones and other ways they spend their
- 17:27money, then we could get left behind.
- 17:32So if we are being reasonable and practical about serving the
- 17:37needs of consumers, making sure that we are positioning our
- 17:42products and meeting them where they are from an economic
- 17:45standpoint. And also to help them think
- 17:47through as a Wellness and lifestyle product versus
- 17:52something that's just niched into aesthetics.
- 17:55That it's just a different way of thinking versus you know, 10
- 17:58years ago everything was just medical aesthetics.
- 18:02Now we're moving more towards really feeling like the best
- 18:05version of yourself with holistic treatments that include
- 18:09Wellness, skin, weight, hair, everything.
- 18:14I couldn't agree more. The whole approach of, you know,
- 18:18vitality, longevity, it's full circle now.
- 18:22People don't just want one treatment.
- 18:24They want to come in and feel like they're getting an entire
- 18:27experience and that we're addressing all of that.
- 18:30And I believe that the companies and the clinics that are
- 18:33recognizing that are moving full speed ahead and those that are
- 18:38trying to stay in their little niche are getting left behind.
- 18:41So I think that we have to be open to what's really happening
- 18:45in the market and there is a big change.
- 18:47We want to not only look good, we want to feel good at the same
- 18:50time and have that full experience.
- 18:53And just to add to that, I really do think that is the core
- 18:56philosophy of K Aesthetics. The last time I was in Korea, I
- 19:01had the opportunity to visit a clinic and get the whole
- 19:04treatment experience. Definitely a job perk of going
- 19:08to Korea every month. And I'll just tell you a little
- 19:11bit about it 'cause I do feel like it exemplifies this idea of
- 19:15holistic treatment and Wellness. I checked in and they prepared
- 19:18me for a 30 minute facial massage focusing on trigger
- 19:24points and it was meant to relax me for my treatments.
- 19:28So what a treat that was for 30 minutes, then I was numbed and
- 19:33then we all know the numbing procedure.
- 19:34I was numbed in the beautiful realm using aromatherapy and
- 19:38then I had the treatments and the treatment.
- 19:41In Korea, you never come for just one thing.
- 19:44It truly is holistic. Some call it stacking multimodal
- 19:49because K aesthetics philosophy understands that these treatment
- 19:54goals are not served by 1 modality alone.
- 19:57And gosh, I got a huge gel toxin, huge gel HA skin booster,
- 20:04PDRNPLLA, all of the injectables all at once.
- 20:10That was the experience. And so it really is about.
- 20:13Taking care of the whole patient, taking care of the
- 20:16holistic aesthetics needs, and the K aesthetics philosophy is
- 20:20teaching us how to do that. Wow, that sounds amazing.
- 20:24Now I want that treatment. So.
- 20:26That. Sounds well next time you're
- 20:28there and I will show you around.
- 20:30I love it. It sounds phenomenal.
- 20:32So when we look ahead in aesthetics, what do you feel
- 20:37will still matter a few years from now?
- 20:40Well, I think toxins have always been and will always be the
- 20:44mainstay of aesthetics. We have seen other sort of #2
- 20:49products come and go. I do believe HA fillers are a
- 20:53bit of the peanut butter and Jelly to cosmetic neurotoxins.
- 20:56Although there is a bit of a secular shift away right now, I
- 21:01do think there are continue to be core to a physician's
- 21:05practice. I think skin health never goes
- 21:08out of style. It's just the modality of how we
- 21:11take care of skin health. So we've made such great
- 21:14progress from topicals alone. Tropicals in themselves have
- 21:18made great progress. And then the lasers, EBD,
- 21:22injectable treatments that never existed before, I think will
- 21:27really help to entrench skin quality and skin health as kind
- 21:33of neck and neck with toxins as the two mainstays of this
- 21:36business. I think that skin health has
- 21:38become such an amazing topic, right?
- 21:41Because we used to just go in for any old treatment and not
- 21:44worry. We were like, well, my skin
- 21:46could be a hot mess, but this treatment should fix me.
- 21:48And now we're realizing that if you don't have that foundation
- 21:51of skin health, you don't get those same results.
- 21:54And I think there's a huge focus on that, and I love to see it.
- 21:58I agree. And it addresses this
- 22:00fundamental concern of a fear of an unnatural look.
- 22:03There's two reasons why consumers don't get injected,
- 22:07and one is the fear of an unnatural look.
- 22:09And two is cost. And so I think skin quality
- 22:14treatments address #1 and then I guess #2 cost.
- 22:19It depends on where you're going and what you're doing.
- 22:21Absolutely. So, Carrie, as we start to wrap
- 22:25up, as you think about everything in front of you, you
- 22:28know, at huge L and in the industry in general, what feels
- 22:33the most important to you to get right right now?
- 22:37I'm most excited about building a team at Huge L, And like I
- 22:42said, this is a people business and the people that we work with
- 22:46day in and day out are the most important decision and
- 22:50investment that we will ever make.
- 22:52So as we build upon the global team that we have for Huge L and
- 23:00really create this US operation that we're scaling right now,
- 23:04it's about building this culture And the culture of the US Huge L
- 23:09aesthetics business is really a startup mode.
- 23:13And although we're a big giant company in Korea, it very much
- 23:17feels like a startup experience for the US operation.
- 23:21And that's attracting a very unique type of person, people
- 23:26who want to build and create. Our culture is really defined by
- 23:30three things. 1 is, like I said, this high customer focus
- 23:34orientation that we're looking externally, constantly talking
- 23:39to customers about what they need and defining our results
- 23:42based on their success #2 is the acronym GSD Get stuff done.
- 23:50This hiring people that roll up their sleeves and low
- 23:55bureaucracy to get the work done and then #3 is humility.
- 24:00And I think this is very important in the aesthetics
- 24:03industry is being able to work well together, collaborate, take
- 24:10your work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously and
- 24:15treat every idea like a good one, no matter where it comes
- 24:20from. So really excited about building
- 24:23the US huge L Aesthetics team, a group of people who are low
- 24:28bureaucracy, high hustle and all about the customer.
- 24:32Well, it sounds like an exciting few years ahead of you and as
- 24:36you think about what comes immediately next and the
- 24:40products and you know it looks like you have a great line up
- 24:43planned, where is your main focus going to be first?
- 24:47So we are laser focused on launching Letebo with our huge L
- 24:53sales force and that will happen in the second-half of this year.
- 24:57So right now we are in hiring and building mode and we have a
- 25:02great partnership with Benev. Benev is distributing Latibo to
- 25:07one set of customers and huge L reps will be distributing Altibo
- 25:13to another set of customers. We're really working on
- 25:16positioning Lettivo clearly for our customers.
- 25:19Lettivo known as the number one best selling cosmetic neurotoxin
- 25:24in South Korea for the past 10 years.
- 25:26It's new to the US, but not new to the rest of the world.
- 25:31It's available in 70 different markets, 44 million vials sold.
- 25:36So it's really all about just leveraging that global
- 25:38experience and bringing it to the US And that's what we're
- 25:42really focused on is making sure that we do it in a way that
- 25:46we're meeting the needs of our providers.
- 25:48And because we are in the startup mode, it does give us
- 25:51the opportunity to work closely with our providers to make sure
- 25:55every decision we make is meeting their needs.
- 25:57From how we build our customer ordering platform to how we
- 26:01deploy our sales reps, everything is including the
- 26:04voice of our customer and our provider.
- 26:07Anything else that you'd like to share with our viewers and
- 26:10listeners about what's coming next for Carrie Strom?
- 26:14Well, we love Letibo and toxins, but we are actively looking for
- 26:18portfolio expansion and innovation.
- 26:21Aesthetics is a market that is hallmarked by novelty and
- 26:26newness and trying new things. And so we are excited to bring
- 26:31our huge L Korean skin care to the US and we'll be doing that
- 26:36within the next year. Also our Korean topical skin
- 26:40booster that can be used post procedures.
- 26:44Again, these are products that Futile has in other parts of the
- 26:47world. It's just a matter of bringing
- 26:49them to the US On top of that we have an active R&D and business
- 26:55development strategy where we're looking high and low for the
- 27:00right products or procedure to bring to our portfolio.
- 27:05Recently in Korea, we announced a Co promote for human ECM
- 27:11extracellular matrix injectable. And so that's just one example
- 27:17of a fit for purpose deal in Korea.
- 27:19That will stay in Korea, but we'll be looking to do other fit
- 27:23for purpose deals in other parts of the world, specifically the
- 27:26US. I can't wait to try all these
- 27:29new initiatives and products, so I'd love for you to come back
- 27:33again before the end of the year and tell us how everything is
- 27:37doing. And by then I will have tried it
- 27:38all. We can talk about it.
- 27:41I would love it. Well, I'd love to take you into
- 27:43our speed round, Carrie, if you have the appetite for it and get
- 27:47your opinion on some industry hot topics and ingredients,
- 27:51things that are happening as an expert in the industry that you
- 27:54are, and then a little bit of getting to know Carrie, OK?
- 27:58OK, that sounds fun. All right, so here we go.
- 28:02At home, red light masks. My husband uses it every day.
- 28:07Me too, so I'm right there with him.
- 28:09Wellness Ivs offered at Med spas I.
- 28:13Think it's an interesting option to have exosome.
- 28:17Facials in or out? In.
- 28:20At home micro needling rollers. Out.
- 28:24Collagen drinks and powders. Then.
- 28:27Combining exosomes and RF micro needling in or out?
- 28:31Then. Skin tightening threads in or
- 28:34out. Then.
- 28:37PRF under eye treatments. In.
- 28:41AI beauty diagnostics. Out.
- 28:44Oral beauty supplements trying to replace topicals in or out.
- 28:49Out. Skin flooding hydration trend.
- 28:54Don't know. So I've watched the influencers
- 28:58do it if they just apply like 7 different toners and it's just
- 29:01like this skin flooding technique.
- 29:03Some of them swear by it. I have not tried it, but I've
- 29:06seen, you know, some of the influencers from other countries
- 29:09and whatnot are trying it. So they're bringing it here to
- 29:11the US now. Well, what I learned from your
- 29:14Key Beauty podcast is that more is not always better for these
- 29:19ingredients and these topicals, so.
- 29:23Yeah, I'm with you on that. OK, Injectable skin boosters.
- 29:27Yes, in. Peptide rich serums.
- 29:32In. Retinal the next Gen. is for two
- 29:35retinol. I love retinol, so in.
- 29:39Growth Factor. Skin care.
- 29:41In. Skin barrier protection and skin
- 29:44slugging that goes along with that.
- 29:47In. Overnight resurfacing masks.
- 29:50Don't know. Niacinamide in everything these
- 29:54days, in or out. Sure, in.
- 29:57Exfoliating toners. In.
- 30:00Fermented ingredients. In.
- 30:04Now we're going to get a little personal and just dive into
- 30:07getting to know Carrie for a few questions, OK?
- 30:10OK. Are you an early morning thinker
- 30:13or a late night problem solver? Both.
- 30:16I like to get up and start taking things off my mind and
- 30:20putting them to action, and then unfortunately at night I like to
- 30:24Stew over things until I fall asleep.
- 30:28I love that. What is 1 Luxury?
- 30:31You'll never apologize for the CEO.
- 30:34Flying business class. What is your superpower as a
- 30:37leader? Optimism.
- 30:39If you weren't in aesthetics, what industry would you be
- 30:43making moves on instead? When I was in college, I was a
- 30:48nanny for a family with special needs and it was one of the best
- 30:54things I ever did and I'd love to get back into that in the
- 30:57future. Are you a quick decision maker
- 31:00or a chronic overthinker? Quick.
- 31:03What's the most uncorporate thing about you?
- 31:06Karaoke. I'd love to see that one word
- 31:11your team would use to describe your leadership style.
- 31:15Authentic. When you hit a wall, what is
- 31:17your reset? Move Family.
- 31:20One product you can't live without that's not from your own
- 31:23brand. Oh, I love Joe Malone sense what
- 31:29motivates. You more fear of failure or
- 31:31vision of success. Vision of success.
- 31:35When you walk into a room, what's the first thing you want
- 31:38people to feel? Comfortable to speak up.
- 31:43If someone shadowed you for one day, what would surprise them
- 31:46most about you? Multitasking heels or sneakers
- 31:51heels? What's 1 beauty product you
- 31:54always have in your bag? Lip gloss.
- 31:57Do you hit the snooze or get up right away?
- 32:00Get up right away. What's the last show that you
- 32:03binge watched? Oh, love story.
- 32:06JFK Junior and Carolyn Bessette. So good, so good.
- 32:10Do you answer emails at midnight or wait until the next day?
- 32:14I answer emails at midnight for my Korea team, but I try to wait
- 32:19till the morning for my. U.S. team, what instantly makes
- 32:22you lose your patience? I instantly lose my patience
- 32:26when people cannot find a way to yes.
- 32:30No mentality, no patience. And that's a wrap on our Speed
- 32:35round. Thank you for being so gracious
- 32:37and joining us for that and for an exceptional show today.
- 32:41And we're very excited to see what Hugh Gel and Carrie Strong
- 32:45bring to the market. So thanks so much for joining us
- 32:48today. Carrie, thank you, Doctor Randy.
- 32:50It was very fun. Well, thanks for tuning in
- 32:53everyone, to the Doctor Randy show, where we are redefining
- 32:57what's next, one conversation at a time.
- 33:00We'll see everybody again next week.
- 33:02Doctor Randy Boyett holds a PhD and is a recognized leader in
- 33:06the aesthetics and medical industry.
- 33:08She is not a licensed medical doctor.
- 33:10All commentary and product recommendations are based on
- 33:13industry expertise and are provided for informational
- 33:16purposes only.