Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill were both in their dream positions, Brown as the editor-in-chief of InStyle and O'Neill as editor-in-chief of WSJ Magazine, when they were fired in 2022 and 2023. The experience was difficult for both of them, they told CNBC.
"[Getting fired was like] here's an anvil that's smacked you on the head," Brown said "And then you take another weight of shame [and] weird verbiage and construct some narrative for yourself that isn't even true, when everything [feels like] you're already three feet tall."
