I was working for the Times of London, and they called me and said, we would like you to come back now.

We've got a job for you. We want you to do in London.

And I had a strong sense of throwing the ball onto the roulette wheel and thinking I'm going to stay in America and let's see what happens.

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On today's show, she's no fortune teller, but it's her job to see the future.

Joanna Coles, the first ever chief content officer of Hearst, is the woman behind your

favorite magazines and the only woman on Snap's board of directors. In this

episode, she's giving us a glimpse beyond those glossy pages. Joanna Coles, welcome to No

Limits. My pleasure to be here. I'm thrilled to have you. You have such an incredible background

in so many different areas, especially in the magazine and content business.

You're the chief content officer at Hearst, former editor-in-chief of Mary Claire, Cosmopolitan.

I started out in The Guardian in the UK, actually, and then they posted me to New York,

which was, of course, a British correspondent's dream to be here. It's the best foreign posting

you can get.

Right, because a lot of the other foreign postings are in places that you might not actually want to live your life.

Well, you would get shot at and unlikely to be shot at in New York. Not impossible, but unlikely.

I hope, yeah, I hope you're right about that. You grew up in England. I did. It seems to me that you were a

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