Finding Beautiful Strangers

Finding Beautiful Strangers

The wild, fascinating, and tumultuous journey of Abby Wallach, an award-winning serial entrepreneur who lives for the win and for the dream, reveals a world of stylish souls encountered on her journey of discovery, innovation, creativity and big business. From the Hollywood A-List, to the insiders of the beauty, fragrance, and fashion circles, to the everyday Beautiful Strangers she meets along the way, being a serial entrepreneur is not just a job. It’s a lifestyle.

Episodes

October 12, 2022 17 mins

An astrology reading that predicted a relationship tsunami, how I was encouraged to share my journey by a beautiful stranger who personified what I hoped to achieve in beauty and fashion, the most important lessons I’ve learned along the way being in business, and why relationships are everything.

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How a podcast helped get me through the pandemic, the TV team that re-energizes me, and how the first ever brand, LINGER (a fragrance primer that makes scent last longer) crushed it on Home Shopping Network.

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From backstage at fashion shows to the front row of city streets, a vision and dream is actualized, launching to millions. Plus, a deal that could have changed the future, and the phone call that shattered everything.

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An elevator encounter leads to a 17-year partnership, and style stalking inspires an idea ahead of its time, setting the stage for the OG of influence, from the street to the screen to the store.

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A chance tv pitch leads to an executive producer title in La La Land, and why the only door that I didn’t walk through might have been a huge misfire. Plus, the fortuitous rise and unfortunate fall of a mentorship with a legend.

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A single basketball shot catapults my career from a 3 ring circus, and pizza-eating turtles, to a big time Hollywood TV job.

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How a challenging job ultimately led me to land a seat amongst beauty and fragrance industry luminaries. And the horrifying moment that cybercriminals invaded my entire world.

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A surprise takes me on an unexpected path, solving big problems with big solutions as a business operator, facing a middle-of-the-night printing shutdown, and taking on the mission to get product into nearly 1,800 big-box stores against all odds.

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An eleventh-hour legal nightmare turns everything upside down, and a Hollywood awards show moment gets the Sparti Party started.

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Traveling to sunny California for a 24 hour visit to the beauty aisles of one of the biggest box retailers in the world, where a perilous journey to bring a game-changing fragrance brand into the market leads me to a total stranger – who prays for a miracle. Plus, a quick save averts a middle of the night printing disaster.

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It’s the 1970’s. The foundation of big business starts to develop in me, and I learn somethingimportant from my dad, why he was so admired, and how he actually might have played baseball for the Dodgers. Plus, why I was quickly fired from my first job in fashion and how it destroyed my interest in retail and never wanting to be a shop girl every again.

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How my love of beauty and fragrance was inspired, my first cutthroat deal (as a child), and the remarkable family business that awakened my entrepreneurial spirit, as an entrepreneur by nurture (not nature).

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