Eva Chen, director of fashion partnerships, Instagram: "I think it's really important if you have a door open [to you], keep it propped open."

9 to 5ish with theSkimm

theSkimm

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

While Eva Chen is known for her loyal following on IG (us included), she’s also known for carving out a career path that’s totally her own. She started off in editorial, and now she straddles the tech and high fashion worlds as the director of fashion partnerships at Instagram. And in case she wasn’t busy enough… she’s also a children’s book author. This week she told us that one of the biggest secrets to her success has been: her network. Because she’s stayed in touch with everyone she worked with. In this episode, Eva shares how she went from being pre-med to being a magazine intern (5:03), her advice for growing your network (11:41), and why failing is okay (25:25).

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0:00.0	I think it's really important if you have a door open keep it propped open.
0:11.8	Keeping that door open is really important and also not just like
0:15.7	saving outreach for when you need something. I do think the word networking is gross.
0:20.5	I feel I think it sounds kind of like sleazy, right? But if you think about it and kind of reframe it as like maintaining contacts and or kind of maintaining relationships, I guess, that's the way to think about it.
0:34.0	I'm Karly about it. I'm Carly Zaken. I'm Danielle Weisberg.
0:36.0	Welcome to Skim from the couch.
0:37.0	This podcast is where we go deep on career advice from women who have lived it.
0:41.0	From the good stuff like hiring and growing a team to the rough stuff like
0:45.1	negotiating your salary and giving or getting hard feedback. We started the skim from
0:50.1	a couch so what better place to talk it all out than where it began on a couch.
0:55.0	Hey everyone it's Carly.
1:02.0	This show might sound a bit different today because the
1:05.4	skim is still working from home for the time being because of COVID-19. Today
1:10.3	Eva Chen joins me on Skim From the Couch.
1:13.1	She is the director of fashion partnerships at Instagram.
1:16.5	And before that, she was the editor-in-chief of Lucky magazine.
1:20.4	She is also known for her best-selling children's books and for her loyal following on
1:25.2	Instagram.
1:26.2	I am one of those loyal followers.
1:28.2	Eva, I am so excited to get into this conversation.
1:30.9	Welcome to Skid from the couch.
1:32.8	Thank you. Thanks for having me. I'm very excited to be here in my PJs with you.
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