#225 Leandra Medine Cohen: Love, Life & Turning 30

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emma gannon

Authors, Wellbeing, Arts, Books, Social Media, Creativity

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🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Leandra Medine Cohen is my guest today! The author and founder of Man Repeller, a fashion website with a unique voice and concept. Manrepeller's whole thing is about trends that women love and men hate, but it's also the way Leandra combines fashion with humour.

I have been following Leandra and her work since 2013 (when she released her first book, Man Repeller: Seeking Love, Finding Overalls) so I am thrilled to have sat down with her all these years later. I went to the Man Repeller HQ in New York, and I also did an event with her the following day and got to meet some amazing Man Repeller readers. Thank you Leandra, for being so welcoming! Leandra attended College at The New School for Liberal Arts in New York, and then had a fact-checking job at New York Magazine. She then started Man Repeller in 2010. Today, Man Repeller clocks millions of page views a month and she has collaborated with a long list of fashion brands and retailers, including Mango (new collection out now) Saks Fifth Avenue, Amazon and others. She really is fascinating, and I hope you enjoy this episode!!!

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0:00.0	This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind
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0:46.0	So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles.
0:53.7	Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.
0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to Control-Alt Delete. I know I always say this but today's
1:06.8	guest is very very exciting. I've wanted to interview her for years and I
1:11.5	practically flew to New York to make this one happen, which kind of isn't an exaggeration. I would have done that.
1:17.8	I was in New York, I managed to meet up with Leandro Medina and she is obviously, you probably already know, the author and the founder of Man
1:26.6	Repeller which started off as a fashion blog and has now turned into an empire basically.
1:32.3	I've been following Leandrora for years I first read her book in
1:35.5	2013 when that came out it's called man-repeller seeking love and finding overalls and
1:41.0	then in 2016 man-repeller launched a footwear line called
1:45.0	MR by man-repeller and I obviously opened up for my wallet and bought a pair of
1:49.5	those I've just been following the brand and the website for so long and it's also one of the
1:54.2	happiest and funniest and informative places I think on the internet and it makes me very
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