Amy Peterson is a celebrity aesthetician known as "the Skincare Savant," founder of Lennox & 16th — a line of luxury, clinical-grade skincare — and owner of two namesake aesthetic practices in Miami and North Miami. In this episode, Natasha talks with Amy about how a life-altering accident at 18 (hit by an impaired driver as a pedestrian, followed by a long physical and emotional recovery) became the foundation for her career in regenerative skincare and her empathy for clients. They dig into 20 years inside plastics, derm, and laser training — what actually works among the noise of injectables and devices — how Amy built Lennox & 16th around a tight, results-first product philosophy, and what makes a good brand. It closes with a quickfire round: desert-island products, best and worst career advice, and who Amy is professionally jealous of.

Joey Wölffer on turning a struggling Hamptons winery into a 300,000-case lifestyle brand, and the hungover decision that started it all.

In this episode of Professional Jealousy, host Natasha Jakubowski talks with Joey Wölffer, Chief Brand Officer and co-owner of Wölffer Estate Vineyard, about the hungover, middle-of-the-night decision at 27 that led her to buy into her father's struggling business instead of selling it, how she and her brother rebuilt the brand around the "soul" of the Hamptons rather than the wine itself, and why she recently turned down an acquisition offer from a much bigger company to protect what she'd built.

April Gargiulo, founder and CEO of Vintner's Daughter, joins Professional Jealousy to share how growing up in a Napa Valley winemaking family shaped her approach to skincare — and why she's released just three products in twelve years, each one taking three to six weeks to formulate from whole plants.

April walks host Natasha Jakubowski through the early days of building Vintner's Daughter: convincing skeptical labs to break from decades of standard practice, hand-packing the brand's first 500-bottle run herself, and growing an entirely word-of-mouth following — "girlfriend to girlfriend" — with no paid advertising, ever. She also explains why Vintner's Daughter's nutritional skincare formulas reject the beauty industry's "anti-aging" and "fix and correct" messaging, what it takes to scale a luxury brand without compromising quality, and her vision to build a heritage skincare company meant to last for generations, not one built to sell.

In this episode of Professional Jealousy, I sit down with someone I've admired since long before she became a CEO: MC Gasco-Bouisson. I first met MC years ago when she was at P&G Ventures — sharp, ambitious, and exactly the kind of client who kept your whole team on its toes. Since then, her path has taken her from CPG to prestige beauty and luxury, from P&G to Pandora to her current role as CEO of Unilever Prestige, the house of brands behind names like Hourglass, K18, Dermalogica, Tatcha, and Paula's Choice.

Vanessa Phillips, co-founder and CEO of Feel Good Foods, joins Professional Jealousy to share how a celiac disease diagnosis in college — and a doctor's advice to give up on food entirely — became the origin story for one of the fastest-growing gluten-free frozen food brands in the country. Vanessa walks through her path from growing up in her family's New York bagel and Chinese restaurant business, to opening the gluten-free café Friedman's in Chelsea Market, to mailing homemade gluten-free pot stickers to Whole Foods in a Ziploc bag and landing a regional launch just months later.

In this conversation, Vanessa gets candid about the early bootstrapped years demoing product in Whole Foods aisles for months on end, the manufacturing mistake that nearly derailed the brand's first production run, and how she built a company culture around grit, generalist skill-building, and staying close to the consumer. She also opens up about the mentor who shaped her mindset, the tools she uses to stay grounded as a founder, and who she's most professionally jealous of today.

Whether you're building a CPG brand, working in food and beverage, or just love a founder story rooted in personal struggle turned purpose, this episode is packed with real, tactical lessons on category creation, scaling from founder to CEO, and building a brand that can grow with you instead of boxing you in.