ICYMI | The Great Girlboss Comeback
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
While the What Next team celebrates Labor Day, please enjoy this episode from our colleagues at ICYMI, Slate’s internet culture podcast. Mary will be back with a new episode of What Next tomorrow.
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?
This podcast is produced by Daisy Rosario, Vic Whitley-Berry, and Kate Lindsay, with help from Kevin Bendis.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what next listeners? To celebrate the holiday, we are taking a little break from the news. |
| 0:06.6 | Hopefully you are too. And we're going to bring you an episode of I-C-Y-M-I, Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:13.4 | Since it's Labor Day, the episode you're about to hear is about the return of the girl boss. |
| 0:18.5 | I'm sure you remember the girl boss era of the 2010s, complete with plenty of |
| 0:22.6 | merch and motivational slogans. You might also remember that the meteoric rises of some of these |
| 0:28.1 | girl bosses were followed by very public downfalls. But now, Girl Boss culture seems to be returning. |
| 0:35.6 | In the past few months, some of the main figures of the |
| 0:39.1 | Girl Boss era, founders of companies like Outdoor Voices and the Wing, have reappeared. |
| 0:44.6 | Slate Sachi Cole and Kate Lindsay discuss in this episode why Girl Boss Culture is making a comeback |
| 0:48.8 | now and why it just doesn't seem to be hitting in the same way it did a decade ago. |
| 0:53.5 | We're going to be back in the feed with more what next, starting tomorrow. |
| 0:57.3 | Meanwhile, here's I-Cy-Y-M-I. |
| 1:15.4 | Hey, I'm Kate Lindsay. |
| 1:18.8 | And I'm Sachi Cole, and you're listening to I see why am I. |
| 1:20.4 | In case you missed it. |
| 1:22.5 | Slate's podcast about internet culture. |
| 1:24.3 | Sachi, number one, welcome. |
| 1:27.4 | It's so good to have you here as a co-host. |
| 1:44.3 | 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 brought mine. I'm ready to go. I brought my water in my rise and shine mug because that felt appropriate for today. but I won't jump the gun because I do want to talk about one other thing before we talk about today's larger subject. |
| 1:48.7 | And it actually is because you are a host of scan influencers that you are the first person |
| 1:54.1 | I wanted to talk to about the Anna Delvey abandoned bunnies controversy. |
| 2:02.8 | Have you seen this? Are you familiar? I think so. Anna Delvey did a photo shoot in |
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