Jennifer Romolini
Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend
Alison Rosen
4.5 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Badass media boss Jennifer Romolini (Chief Content Officer of Shondaland.com, former HelloGiggles editor-in-chief/VP of Content, former Yahoo EIC/Editorial Director) stops by the show to talk about Weird in a World That's Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups & Failures, rising up the ranks at Yahoo, working with Alison at Time Out New York as the Chill Out editor (but being "the least chill person you could meet,") effective and ineffective strategies to get more money, why jealously is a good thing, her greatest career regret, whether millennials are better suited than Gen X to dealing with harassment, her teenage hippie parents, motherhood, ambition, licking envelopes, bullet journals, taking time off to write the book and so much more. We also did a round of Just Me Or Everyone.
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| 0:00.0 | I was saying rose and I was saying rose and you knew that's friend. |
| 0:06.0 | I was saying I was saying with a good time's never end. |
| 0:12.0 | I was saying rose and we be friends again. |
| 0:17.0 | I was saying rose and I was saying you knew that's friend. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey everyone, hi, hello, it is me, Allison Rosen. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome to another episode of Allison Rosen, is your new best friend. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm sitting here with Jennifer Romalini, author of Weird in a World |
| 0:34.0 | that's not a career guide for misfits, fuck ups and failures. |
| 0:38.0 | And she's the chief content officer, officer of Shondaland, |
| 0:43.0 | a new website which will be a must visit destination for you |
| 0:48.0 | and formerly of Yahoo Shine, of Hello Giggles, of Lucky, of Time out in New York, |
| 0:54.0 | which is where I know you from many years ago. |
| 0:57.0 | Hello and welcome. Hello and thank you for having me. |
| 1:00.0 | Sure, congratulations on the book. Thank you. |
| 1:03.0 | It was interesting, so many interesting things in the book, |
| 1:06.0 | but I liked that you divulged that you had tried to publish a book numerous times before. |
| 1:11.0 | Yes. I think for everyone who's trying to publish a book that is heartening to hear. |
| 1:16.0 | Yes, and failed catastrophically. |
| 1:19.0 | I went out to 20 editors every single one rejected it. |
| 1:22.0 | Why? Well, I mean, look, it was 2008. |
| 1:26.0 | October 2008, right around the crash. |
| 1:31.0 | I think nobody was buying any books, so it was bad timing. |
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