How I Built Resilience: Lindsay Peoples Wagner of The Cut

Hello everyone and welcome to How I Built This Resilience Edition from NPR. I'm Guy Raz. Each week on Thursdays, we invite entrepreneurs and other business leaders to come onto the show live to talk about how they've been building resilience into their businesses this year. And today my conversation with Lindsay Peoples Wagner, the editor-in-chief at The Cut. The Cut's a digital publication that covers fashion, beauty, politics, and much more. And before she went to The Cut, Lindsay was the editor-in-chief at Teen Vogue. Teen Vogue is actually where Lindsay started her professional career in fashion. As an intern cleaning out the fashion closet. Now If you've ever seen the Devil Wears Prada, it is a massive room filled with designer shoes,

Gowns, hats, scarves, bags and accessories. My points of reference for fashion were, you know, I worked at payless growing up. Like I it wasn't like I really knew anything about fashion. I Um I liked being creative, but it honestly wasn't until college that uh one of my professors actually took me aside and said, you know, I think maybe want to try it at magazine. You really like to read

Um, you really like to write, like you want to be creative, maybe this is the outlet for you. And so she had actually sent me a listing for a teen vogue internship that was literally just Slepping, cleaning the clos the fashion closet, something glamorous. Um and I remember telling her, I was like, they're not gonna accept me, like this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Um, this is when like the Hills was on TV and there was a lot of reality television around working in fashion. Um, but they said yes and I was really hooked and excited. And so I did a ton of different internships um to try to figure it out. I did, you know, I tried celebrity styling in LA, realized I don't want to work for a celebrity. Um I did a lot of um, you know, design classes and and realized I don't really want to work at a design house and I really want to work, you know, an editorial. And so I just hustled a ton and moved out here to New York after I graduated from college and

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