Dawn Davis on Using Jobs as Stepping Stones

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re thinking about careers like recipes. And it’s not just because we’re talking to Dawn Davis, the editor-in-chief of “Bon Appétit.” For Dawn, every experience she had – from working in finance to founding her own publishing imprint – was an essential ingredient that prepared her to run the famous food mag. And this week, we’re talking to Dawn about how to experiment with your own career recipe. In this episode, Dawn shares: How she made the decision to leave finance Why she left an imprint she started to work for a legacy brand How she gives feedback to her authors and writers How she is building a safe and inclusive work culture at “Bon Appétit”

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0:00.0	There are two kinds of people, it seems, those who know exactly what they want to do.
0:04.7	Other people have to have two, three, four jobs until they figure out what they want
0:09.0	to do.
0:10.0	It's not necessarily a clean line, but that doesn't mean that everything you're acquiring
0:14.5	won't ultimately serve you.
0:16.4	I'm Carly Zaken and I'm Danielle Weissberg.
0:19.4	Welcome to 9-5-ish with The Skin.
0:22.1	We've run into so many questions over the years and had so many moments where we needed advice
0:28.3	and we got it from women who'd been there.
0:31.9	And that's what we're bringing you with this show.
0:34.0	Each week we're helping you get what you want out of your career by talking to the smartest
0:38.2	leaders we know.
0:39.8	Because we know your work life is a lot more than 9-5.
0:43.7	Alright, let's get into it.
0:48.3	Today our guest is Dawn Davis.
0:50.4	She is the editor-in-chief of Bon Appetit, a condo-nast publication and oversees Condé's
0:55.8	food brands, including Epicureus and, basically, before joining Bon Appetit, Dawn worked in
1:02.5	publishing for 25 years.
1:04.8	Most recently she had founded and been the publisher of 37 Inc.
1:09.8	An imprint of Simon and Schuster that focused on elevating underrepresented voices.
1:15.5	She's also an avid at-home cook and an author.
1:19.1	Her book, If You Can Stand the Heat, Tales from Chefs and Restaurant Tours, Profiled some
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