Laura Brown And Kristina O’Neill Want You To Know You’ll Be Okay After Getting Fired
If you’ve ever been fired, Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill want you to know you’re not alone. The former top…
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Laura Brown and Kristina O'Neill would like you to know that you are not alone if you have ever been dismissed. The book All The Cool Girls Get Fired, written by the former top editors of InStyle and WSJ Magazine, respectively, is full with tips that the authors wish they had known while they were dealing with losing their jobs. The book also features the termination stories of powerful women like Jamie Lee Curtis, Katie Couric, Oprah Winfrey, and others, demonstrating that failures are temporary and can even pave the way for future success. We spoke with Brown and O'Neill about their friendship, their firing, and other topics during their book launch party.
Tell us how you decided to write this book together.
Laura: We got fired 14 months after each other. Kris was after me, and when she when she got fired she texted me from HR, like, “I’m getting canned. I’m getting the boot. Call me when you’re up.” I was in South Africa, actually, and I just called her. When you’re fired, you’re in shock and need some guidance. I was like, “Do you have a lawyer? Do you have this, do you have that?,” as friends do. I got back to town, I met her for a drink. I remember I was so jet-lagged, but I was like, “I must see my friend!” On the way to the drink, I was like, “Here’s what we’re doing.” She was like, “What?” I said, “We’re taking a picture for Instagram. We’re going to look so cute, and we’re captioning it ‘All the cool girls get fired.'” We did that, order, posted it that night, and were greeted by an absolute deluge of comments on the post of women going, “Oh my god, legends. Well, that happened to me.” We just knew we’d uncorked something, or opened some psychological door with the shame and issues that women have—and men sometimes have—about losing their job. The next morning, Christina called me and said, “This is a book.” And I was like, “I know.”
Kristina Immediately following my termination, Laura and I shared a post on Instagram with the subject, "All the coolest girls get fired." It was met with an incredible reception. We came to the realization that we had truly touched a chord with a large number of women who either had not admitted that something similar had happened to them previously or had identified with the lexicon, such as the word "fired." We had made it possible for individuals to discuss a topic that has traditionally been somewhat of a taboo and shameful one.
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