ICYMI - The Great Girlboss Comeback
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4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, host Kate Lindsay is joined by Slate senior writer Scaachi Koul to talk about the return of the girlboss. Over five years after various exposes exposed their poor management and, in some cases, racism, former it-girls like The Wing’s Audrey Gelman and Outdoor Voice’s Ty Haney are back in the spotlight. Their new projects, however, are falling flat. Is there any room for redemption in 2025, or is time to leave girlbosses behind for good?
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| 1:05.6 | And I'm Sachi Cole, and you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 1:08.8 | In case you missed it. |
| 1:10.3 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. Sachi, number one, welcome. It's so good to have you here as a co-host. I feel like I'm kind of scam fluencing right now. A little. A little. We're all ripping someone off. I should have. I'm watching you immediately. You brought a Diet Coke in. I should have |
| 1:27.5 | brought mine. I'm ready to go. I brought my water in my rise and shine mug because that felt |
| 1:31.5 | appropriate for today, but I won't jump the gun because I do want to talk about one other thing |
| 1:35.7 | before we talk about today's larger subject. And it actually is because you are a host of |
| 1:41.3 | scan fluencers that you are the first person I wanted to talk to about the |
| 1:45.9 | Anna Delvey abandoned bunnies controversy. |
| 1:52.5 | Have you seen this? Are you familiar? I think so. Anna Delvey did a photo shoot in Prospect |
| 1:57.6 | Park in Brooklyn, I believe, and with a bunch of rabbits. Yeah. And the rabbits have been |
| 2:02.3 | left. So what's interesting, for those who weren't tuned in sort of the first era of Anna Delvey, |
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