Beauty Without a Standard: Lisa Keenan on Mecca's Universal Feeling

Lisa Keenan is Chief Purpose Officer at Mecca and the driving force behind M-POWER, one of Australia's most ambitious platforms for advancing women's empowerment. In this episode, she sits down with Dr Ariella to trace her path from accounting and corporate affairs into purpose leadership, and how Mecca's founding belief in helping people "look, feel and be their best" has evolved into a $25 million, five-year commitment to women and girls.

Lisa opens up about what it really means to build a "living lab of beauty" powered by 8,000 team members and nearly 5 million customers, why beauty is deeply personal yet somehow feels universal at Mecca, and how joy — not aesthetics — is the true product. She and Dr Ariella dig into the surprising overlap between beauty and women's health, why creativity is one of the most under-nurtured skills of the future, and what it takes to move purpose from the sidelines to the center of a business.

A conversation about beauty, confidence, and building a movement that lets every woman define it for herself.

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