Episode 53: Featured Event with Bobbi Brown

Описание: In this episode of the Watchung Booksellers Podcast, we feature the launch event for Bobbi Brown's memoir Still Bobbi (https://watchungbooksellers.com/item/...) . In this lively and heartwarming conversation, Bobbi discussed her book, her businesses, and her life in Montclair with business leader Carolyn Everson.


Bobbi Brown is a renowned makeup artist and entrepreneur, best-selling author, sought after speaker, beauty industry icon, and a hotelier. She founded two successful cosmetic brands: Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and more recently created the clean beauty brand Jones Road. She also envisioned and now operates The George Hotel in Montclair, NJ. Bobbi made the TIME100 “Most Influential People in the World” list and was also named one of Fortune's Most Powerful Women and Forbes' "50 Over 50" Most Influential Women. She has received the Glamour Woman of the Year Award, The Fashion Group International Night of Stars Beauty Award, and The Jackie Robinson Foundation’s ROBIE Humanitarian Award. She was appointed to serve on the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and has been inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. She received a BFA from Emerson College and holds honorary doctorates from Montclair State University, Fashion Institute of Technology, Monmouth University, and Emerson College.


Carolyn Everson is a Senior Advisor at Permira, one of the world's largest investment firms and Boston Consulting Group.  Carolyn has decades of experience in senior operating roles in consumer facing technology and media companies.  She most recently was President of Instacart. Prior to Instacart, she was the Vice President, Global Business Group at Facebook (Meta) where she led a team of over 4,000 people in over 55 countries and was responsible for over $60B in revenue. She has been named to AdWeek’s 'AdWeek 50' every year since 2013, and in 2015, she topped Business Insider’s list of the Most Powerful Women in Advertising. She has also been included twice on Fortune’s '40 Under 40' list.


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The Watchung Booksellers Podcast is produced by Kathryn Counsell and Marni Jessup and is recorded at Watchung Booksellers (https://www.watchungbooksellers.com/) in Montclair, NJ.


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Original music is composed and performed by Violet Mujica.


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