# #523 Laura Brown | "All the Cool Girls Get Fired": The Editor Who Stopped Pretending

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Podcast: [TheBoldWay](https://stenobird.com/podcast/theboldway-329028)
Published: 2026-05-01T03:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.audiomeans.fr/file/nTLjBrCvPC/04f788c9-4fb6-4968-ba55-d692a7bb7a6d.mp3?_=1776883287
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🎙️ Sponsors du mois🌐 Squarespace — la plateforme no-code, boostée par l’IA, pour créer et développer votre site web tout-en-un.🛡️ MAIF — Épisode Assurance & indépendants : les erreurs qui peuvent vous coûter cher | En partenariat avec la MAIF. — Thanks to Laura for stopping by TheBoldWay. For thirty years, Laura Brown sat at the center of American fashion media. Editor-in-chief of InStyle. Before that, Harper's Bazaar, W, Details. She put Oprah, Jennifer Lawrence and a generation of Hollywood actresses on the cover. Then in February 2022, she was fired on Zoom alongside her entire team. The unwritten rule of her industry: stay silent, say you "decided to move on," save face. She did the opposite. She posted a photo on Instagram with a caption that became a book, then a movement: All the Cool Girls Get Fired, co-written with Kristina O'Neill. Three years on, she runs LB Media, chairs the Creative Council at (RED) — Bono's HIV foundation — and has become one of the sharpest voices on the collapse of legacy media. In this episode, she explains why traditional press is crumbling, how power has migrated from the magazine to the individual, and what she truly learned the day she lost everything. Timeline04:00: Laura Brown's journey | from Australia to New York in September 2001, 30 years in fashion media (W, Details, Harper's Bazaar, InStyle) 10:00: All the Cool Girls Get Fired | how publicly admitting she got fired landed like a punk move in an industry obsessed with spin 18:00: Mental health and work identity | why fusing your ego with your job title is the biggest mistake of a career 23:00: The recipe for bouncing back after a firing | listen to your gut, tell the truth, identify what actually made you happy in the old job 27:00: LB Media and the entrepreneurial minds…

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