Laura Brown, Editor-in-Chief of InStyle Magazine

No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis

ABC News

Business, Careers

4.7 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Released April 20, 2017 InStyle Editor-In-Chief Laura Brown came to New York with $5000 only a few days before September 11, 2001. The Australian native began her career bouncing around the magazine world in London and Sydney before landing a job at Harper’s Bazaar where she rose the ranks to become the executive editor. After 11 years at Harper’s, she landed a dream job in 2016 becoming the Editor-In-Chief of InStyle where she oversees the entirety of the brand that reaches over 30 million people. Laura talks about following her passion, running InStyle, designing the perfect cover, and how to be a boss. InStyle website: www.instyle.com Follow Laura Brown on Instagram and Twitter: @LauraBrown99 Follow InStyle on Instagram: @instylemagazine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

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0:00.0	I just took myself to Paris one day to the shows, and I didn't know anyone.
0:04.9	I knew I talked to waiters.
0:06.4	That was all that I would talk to for four or five days, say in some dodgy hotel, go to the show, sit in like Roe J.
0:14.9	I always joke that for a while, I didn't think models had legs because I had my seat was so bad.
0:19.4	It would just be torsos.
0:21.4	I'm just floating around. I don't know. had legs because I had my seat was so bad. It would just be torsos. I'm just floating over.
0:22.3	I don't know.
0:22.9	Do they have shoes?
0:24.0	You know, and I'd better get in the show and people would be so mean and you wouldn't
0:27.5	know anyone, but you would just go.
0:29.1	But you're still there.
0:30.1	I was still there.
0:31.3	And it was great.
0:32.2	Welcome to No Limits.
0:34.9	I'm Rebecca Jarvis. Each week, we're talking to women playing at the top of their game.
0:42.1	So, how are they doing it?
0:44.4	Whether you're looking for answers or you just want to hear a good story, you're in the right place.
0:52.0	My guest today started life on a farm in Australia and grew up dreaming of a career as a fashion
0:57.8	journalist. After bouncing around the magazine world, hustling to get freelance gigs and into
1:03.2	fashion shows, she knew she needed to be in New York City and arrived here days before September
1:09.2	11, 2001, with just $5,000 to her name.
1:14.5	Since then, she spent 11 years at Harper's Bazaar, eventually becoming its executive editor.
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