Hi there I'm Naha Gandhi, CEO of Girl Boss. I've been working in media for about 15 years

and I have to tell you today the industry looks nothing like it did when I graduated from

college in 2004.

It's a little less shiny, it's harder to stay relevant,

and it's much harder to hold people's attention

and really make an impact through all the noise. So if you've managed to do all that

consistently for many years across many different publications, well that really

says something.

And today's guest, Tina Brown, has done exactly that.

She led Vanity Fair magazine as its first female editor-in-chief,

bringing the magazine back from near extinction and turning it into something glossy that

mixed celebrities and glamour with news and politics in a way that nobody had really done

before.

She's also the only woman to have ever edited the New Yorker.

As you can imagine, doing all of that

in an industry where the business leaders and decision makers

were very often old school and mostly male,

meant that Brown got a lot of attention and not always the good kind.

It really was in sensing. It was always, and they always referred to me as sort of the Queen of Buzz as if somehow

I'm out there like shilly shilling around in my you know in a pair of high heels which I certainly did wear because I like wearing high heels, but that's, so what?

You know, I was the most successful editor at Conny and asked.

It was completely appropriate.

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