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Key Points Laura Brown reunites with Oprah Winfrey for a podcast, highlighting a 13-year full circle moment. 'All The Cool Girls Get Fired' candidly discusses job loss, offering advice and support for rebounding, especially women. Fans call the book "a movement." Laura Brown, co-author of Amazon’s #1 bestseller in women and business All The Cool Girls Get Fired, is having a full circle moment. The former fashion media executive recently sat down with the one and only Oprah Winfrey for an episode of the All The Cool Girls Get Fired podcast, 13 years after first meeting the famed talk show host and O Magazine founder. Brown documented both meetings, a testament to her and co-author Kristina O’Neill’s professional resilience. Brown, the former editor-in-chief of InStyle Magazine and former executive at Harper’s Bazaar, Details, and W Magazines, is sharing a social media post near and dear to her heart. Brown shares a photo of herself and Oprah holding a photo of herself and Oprah taken in 2012. She writes: “I think they call this playing the long game. 🤣 I took a picture with @oprah at a shoot in 2012 for Harper’s Bazaar. I took that framed picture to her cover shoot for InStyle in 2018. Then I took that framed picture to our podcast interview for @allthecoolgirlsgetfired last month. 13 years later, here we are…and are…and are. Thank you, @oprah for not only the years of inspiration, but some pretty solid lols. 🔥❤️” Oops! We’re unable to load this content right now. View directly on Instagram “When have the top cool girl as a friend,” noted one commenter on the post. Another added, “Me zooming in to see the tiny photo.” (Same girl, same.) All The Cool Girls Get Fired: Book Release and Impact Released in October 2025, All The Cool Girls Get Fired opens a candid conversation on the uncomfortable subject of getting fired. Co-authored by former fashion media executives (and no strangers to getting “fired, laid off or restructured”) Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill, the book draws on both women’s experiences with being laid off, while offering practical advice, emotional support, and real-life stories intended to help women relate and rebound after job loss. Praised for its sense of humor and for debunking a topic usually shrouded in stigma, All The Cool Girls Get Fired has famous fans in Winfrey, actress Naomi Watts, actress Rose Byrne, and designer Tory Burch. Featuring personal anecdotes from high-profile success stories like Winfrey and former The Today Show host Katie Couric, the book opens a broader conversation about job loss, especially for women in high-profile industries. An “instant bestseller,” fans of All The Cool Girls Get Fired aren’t calling this a book—they’re calling it “a movement.”
