Ep. 49-A Chat on Career and Motherhood with Stephanie Mehta, Editor in Chief at Fast Company

In this episode, I get to chat with Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company, Stephanie Mehta. Stephanie shares her journey as being a business woman and balancing being a mom. She also talks about her magazine and some of the topics they’ve covered. She also talks about how their company is trying to be creative with the new online space and how their yearly summit is still happening!   Stephanie Mehta is editor-in-chief of Fast Company, overseeing its print, digital and live journalism. She previously served as a deputy editor at Vanity Fair, where she edited feature stories and co-edited the annual “New Establishment” ranking. She also curated the invitation-only New Establishment Summit and Founders Fair conference for women entrepreneurs, which she launched in 2017; the women’s conference was profitable in its first year. In 2016 she was editor of Bloomberg LIVE, Bloomberg Media’s global conference division. In that role she also served as part of the company’s editorial steering committee, consisting of Bloomberg’s top 12 editors. She spent 14 years as a writer and editor at Fortune, rising to the no. 2 position on the title’s masthead. At Fortune she directed the magazine’s technology, management, Washington and international coverage and helped set its overall editorial direction. She spent six years as an editor and writer at the Wall Street Journal. Mehta began her career as a business reporter at The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Va. She received a B.A. in English and an M.S. in journalism from Northwestern University. A Chicago-area native, she now lives with her husband and two daughters in Scarsdale, New York.   Links:   Learn more about Stephanie and Fast Company: www.fastcompany.com   Learn more about Allobee- Need to outsource tasks in your business? More info at: www.allobee.com Instagram-www.instagram.com/hireallobee Twitter-www.twitter.com/hireallobee