I was 25 at the time when we were talking about this originally, Danielle was 24.

And I remember just like literally being like, okay, I'm now a cliche, I'm having a quarter-life crisis, but I felt like time was running out.

And I had this really like gut instinct, like this is not the career I'm supposed to be in. It was an out-of-body experience. But I had this really, like, gut instinct, like, this is not the career I'm supposed to be in.

It's an out-of-body experience. But I really just, like, felt it. And so I think there was no

talking to us, truly. Like, we were going to sink or swim, but, like, there was no talking to us.

It felt like we have no money, which we really didn't. And we just quit our jobs and we're going to start something.

And I think that fear is actually what made us put in the 20-plus hour days.

Is that we didn't have a plan B.

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Hey, listeners, welcome to the latest edition of No Limits.

This is Rebecca, and this is a special episode.

It's a crossover with the skimmed from the couch team, Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg.

The two women quit their jobs as news producers and launched a newsletter in 2012.

It was called The Daily Skim, and it became the fastest growing newsletter on the market.

Since then, they've built a media empire, which now includes their subscription app and video production skim studios.

Every day, they reach more than 7 million people.

Danielle and Carly had us over to the skim headquarters in New York for the interview,

and they take us back to the beginning, when they were two girls in their mid-20s trying

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