All the Cool Girls Get Fired with Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill
Girls Gotta Eat
Ashley Hesseltine
4.6 • 29.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
For anyone who's been fired as f*ck, this episode is for you! We are joined by Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill, media legends and authors of All the Cool Girls Get Fired, to talk about the painful experience so many of us have experienced. They share their stories of becoming friends, working in media/fashion in NYC in the 2000s, ascending to editors in chief of InStyle and WSJ Magazine, and then being fired from their dream jobs. We discuss how to cope in the immediate aftermath, the importance of telling people and asking for help, and why employers are more empathetic than ever to terminations and resumé gaps. We also talk about networking and leveraging your contacts (even when you're employed), how to figure out your next steps, and why getting fired could end up being the best thing that ever happened to you. Before Laura and Kristina join us, we share our own stories of being fired and how it impacted our lives then and now. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | But it gives you power. |
| 0:02.4 | And the important thing to remember is if you lose your job, you don't lose your power. |
| 0:05.2 | It's only in your head if you do. |
| 0:23.9 | This podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:25.3 | Hi guys. |
| 0:25.9 | Hi guys. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome back to another episode of Girls Got to eat. |
| 0:29.4 | Welcome back. |
| 0:31.0 | What are we to live for now? |
| 0:36.2 | The wedding's been over at this point for nine days. |
| 0:36.8 | Okay. |
| 0:38.3 | You know what makes me really sad is thinking that like stuff is going to end. Like I'm going to plan something for so long and then like it will happen |
| 0:42.9 | and be done. Well, it makes me sad. We're recording this before because we wanted to get ahead |
| 0:47.8 | so I could take a little time off. So next week we're going to recap it in full on the 17th. |
| 0:53.9 | Everything. |
| 0:55.1 | With a special guest. With a special guest. Do we already tell people that was going to be? |
| 0:59.5 | I think we did. You guys know who the guest is. It's Jacqueline, my wedding planner. |
| 1:02.4 | The most important person at the wedding. No, it will be with my husband. Crazy. But yeah, I think |
| 1:08.8 | this is what a lot of people feel, what I will feel, is that, like, |
| 1:14.4 | there's been so much leading up to it. |
| 1:16.0 | I think it goes back to what we talked about, Liz Moody, is enjoying the journey |
| 1:19.4 | so you don't have that crash. |
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