Work: A Magazine Editor | 142
Simple
Tsh Oxenreider
4.3 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Andrea Debbink is an editor at American Girl magazine, the beloved magazine you've probably seen in bookstores and is read by so many girls over the years. You might have read it when you were a young girl.
She creates a lot of the content their readers love, like recipes, crafts, stories, and beyond. In fact, she recently relaunched one of her favorite segments from the magazine from when she was a young reader herself: Featuring inspiring women from history, "Who's That Girl?" shows how ordinary girls became women who made their mark on the world.
Andrea also recently wrote her first book, Spark, specifically for American Girl readers!
Notes From This Episode:
- Andrea's new book, Spark: A Guide to Ignite the Creativity Inside You
- Andrea's website
- Andrea on Instagram
- American Girl magazine
- Tsh (me) on Instagram and Twitter
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- The Genius of Birds, by Jennifer Ackerman
- The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter Wohlleben
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| 0:00.0 | This is simple. I'm Tish Hawkson writer. |
| 0:04.0 | In this episode I am talking to Andrea Debink, a magazine editor. |
| 0:12.0 | She's an editor at American Girl magazine, |
| 0:14.8 | the beloved magazine you've probably seen in bookstores |
| 0:17.3 | and is read by so many girls over the years. |
| 0:20.2 | You might have read it when you were a young girl. |
| 0:27.2 | More on her in just a second, but friends, first, if you love this podcast, whether you're a new listener or have been around for years, I want to extend an invitation to you to join the |
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| 1:24.4 | get in on all this goodness. I've also got the link to Patreon in the show notes of this |
| 1:28.9 | episode. Okay, back to Andrea. She creates a lot of the content American Girl magazine |
| 1:46.3 | readers love like recipes, crafts, stories, and more. In fact, she recently |
| 1:51.1 | relaunched one of her favorite segments from the magazine from |
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