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How I Get It Done

Successful women talk about managing their careers, and their lives.

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  1. How NASA’s Chief Scientist Manages Climate Anxiety“We understand our planet better than we have before and continue to learn about it every day. So I focus on the hope that science brings.”
    By Sarah Sloat
  2. How an Urban Farmer Gets It Done“It just feels like everyone is an armchair expert in urban farming. A lot of the advice I get completely misses the point.”
    By Olivia Craighead
  3. Susan Butts Is Living Your Childhood Dream JobThe paleontologist at the Yale Peabody Museum manages millions of fossils, some of which are a billion years old.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  4. Kris Brown Is Working to Curb the U.S. Gun-Violence Epidemic“I don’t want my girls to inherit a country that has gun violence as the No. 1 killer of our kids.”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  5. What You Missed at the Cut’s SXSW Film Festival PanelChloe Kim, Dina Asher-Smith, and Haley Rosen discuss the joys and hardships that come with being a female athlete.
    By Brooke LaMantia
  6. How Top Chef’s New Host Kristen Kish Gets It Done“I never wanted to be on television, and living in a house with 17 other chefs is not how I relax.”
    By Danielle Cohen
  7. How the 19th’s Editor-at-Large Gets It DoneErrin Haines doesn’t believe in inbox zero, always hits snooze, and gets by with a little help from her group chat.
    By Brittney Oliver
  8. The Coach Who Made a Women’s Gymnastics Dynasty in OklahomaThe university has won six national championships under KJ Kindler.
    By Dvora Meyers
  9. The Woman Who Brought Luxury Fashion to South BeachHow Laure Heriard Dubreuil, the founder and CEO of The Webster boutique, gets it done.
    By Hanna Flanagan
  10. The Emergency Physician Tackling Racism in Health CareDr. Uché Blackstock felt stifled when she spoke up about bias from within the medical system, so she struck out on her own.
    By Charlotte Cowles
  11. How the President of BAM Gets It DoneGina Duncan has overseen the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s killer programming over the past two years.
    By Katja Vujić
  12. How the President of the Las Vegas Raiders Gets It DoneSandra Douglass Morgan hosted thousands of football fans (and Taylor Swift!) for the 2024 Super Bowl.
    By Brooke LaMantia
  13. How Naomi Osaka Keeps All Her Balls in the AirA new baby, several business ventures, and a much-anticipated return to tennis — how the star athlete gets it done.
    By Tariro Mzezewa
  14. The Woman Behind Kosas’s Cult-Favorite ConcealerHow the clean-beauty brand’s founder, Sheena Zadeh-Daly, gets it done.
    By Chinea Rodriguez
  15. All the Highlights From the Cut’s Sundance Film Festival PanelAndra Day, Laura Chinn, and Bella Heathcote discussed the importance of celebrating even the smallest wins.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  16. How Cup of Jo Founder Joanna Goddard Gets It DoneThe popular lifestyle blogger built a community off sharing her family. Now she’s launched a newsletter to chronicle her life post-divorce.
    By Danielle Campoamor
  17. The Restaurateur Making Meatless Burgers FunHow Slutty Vegan founder and CEO Pinky Cole Hayes gets it done.
    By Margaret Dunn
  18. How Astrologer Claire Comstock-Gay Gets It DoneThe writer behind Madame Clairevoyant’s weekly horoscopes walks us through her philosophy and methods for reading the stars.
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  19. There’s Only One Tracy AndersonThe trainer has been drawing celebrities and fitness enthusiasts to her dance-inspired workouts for 20 years. Here’s how she gets it done.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  20. How to Run a Multimillion-Dollar Business and Still Nap Every DayTiffany Aliche, a.k.a. “the Budgetnista,” never works past 3 p.m.
    By Charlotte Cowles
  21. How the Country’s Top Union Leader Gets It DoneLiz Shuler, the first woman to lead the AFL-CIO, has been organizing since she was 11. It all started with babysitting wages.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  22. How Alvin Ailey Dancer Constance Stamatiou Gets It Done“When I was younger, it was rare to see a dancer who was past their 20s, especially one who has kids.”
    By Brittney Oliver
  23. Podcaster Kelsey McKinney Gets Paid to Gossip“It’s my entire life and my entire job.”
    By Danielle Cohen
  24. How a Globe-trotting Gallerist Gets It DoneRachel Lehmann of Lehmann Maupin fights jet lag with lots of English breakfast tea.
    By Nadine Zylberberg
  25. Lauren Good Day Is Making Wearable Native Art“I’m always updating our traditional dress, but the root of my aesthetic is who we are as a people and a culture.”
    By Monica Corcoran Harel
  26. Author Mona Susan Power Comes in From the ColdNearly 30 years after her debut, the Standing Rock Sioux writer has an acclaimed new novel and opens up about her mental-health struggles.
    By Kate Nelson
  27. How Journalist Connie Walker Gets It DoneThe award-winning host of Spotify Studios’ Stolen always has multiple craft projects going at once.
    By Catherine Thompson
  28. Crystal Echo Hawk Strives to Be Like WaterThe IllumiNative founder on learning to work around the challenges that arise as she combats anti-Native racism.
    By Katja Vujić
  29. How Chef Erin French Gets It DoneThe woman behind one of the hardest-to-get reservations in the country fuels up with Annie’s and sleeps in as late as she can on Sundays.
    By Hope Reese
  30. How Curator Lauren Haynes Gets It DoneFall is the busy season for the director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at the Queens Museum, but there’s always time for Murder She Wrote.
    By Scarlett Newman
  31. How Entrepreneur and Disability-Rights Advocate Keely Cat-Wells Gets It Done“As disabled people, dealing with an inaccessible society while trying to build something is infuriating.”
    By Brittney Oliver
  32. How ‘La Chica de La Brega’ Gets It DoneAlana Casanova-Burgess was recently laid off from WNYC, but she’s not giving up on her acclaimed podcast. She’s bregando. Pa’lante!
    By Bianca Nieves
  33. How Vida Showrunner Tanya Saracho Gets It DoneThe dramatist and screenwriter always consults her brujas before making a big decision.
    By Katja Vujić
  34. How Isabel Allende Gets It DoneAt 81, the acclaimed author says she’ll continue to write until she can’t anymore. “Who retires from art?”
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  35. How Political Activist Julie Chávez Rodríguez Gets It DoneThe Biden-Harris 2024 campaign manager is also the granddaughter of Cesar Chávez. She takes her family’s legacy of public service very seriously.
    By Mekita Rivas
  36. How Podcaster Karina Longworth Gets It DoneThe creator, producer, and host of You Must Remember This has different ambitions than she did when the podcast first launched. Notably: working less.
    By Scarlett Harris
  37. The Magazine Publisher Taking Meetings on the Tennis CourtHow Racquet founder Caitlin Thompson gets it done.
    By Brooke Marine
  38. How Nicole Berry, Executive Director of the Armory Show, Gets It DoneIncluding her airplane meditation practice: “No one can get to me when I’m up at 30,000 feet.”
    By Angelina Chapin
  39. How CEO Karen Harvey Gets It DoneHer advice? “Everybody should experience getting fired.”
    By Danya Issawi
  40. Sad Girls Club Founder Elyse Fox Can’t Afford to Get Overwhelmed“If we’re stressed out as a mental-health organization helping other people, then it’s counterproductive.”
    By Brittney Oliver
  41. How Ellevest CEO Sallie Krawcheck Gets It DoneHer day starts with a deep tissue massage … but not for her.
    By Charlotte Cowles
  42. The Labor Nominee Making Sure Staffers Get Home for BedtimeJulie Su fights for workers as acting labor secretary and wants her own team to have a life outside the office.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  43. How Beauty Editor Linda Wells Gets It DoneStarting with a morning of word games and possible trampolining.
    By Maya Allen
  44. How the 26-Year-Old CEO of Aunt Flow Gets It Done“I like working, which I think is almost a controversial thing for a Gen-Z to say.”
    By Tariro Mzezewa
  45. How the Speaker of the New York City Council Gets It DoneAdrienne Adams’s family and faith keep her grounded as she navigates the pressures of being the second-most-powerful person in city government.
    By Andrea González-Ramírez
  46. How Author Gillian Flynn Gets It Done“I had two jobs forever. I was giving plasma at one point. Admittedly, I usually spent that money on beer.”
    By Scarlett Harris
  47. How Media Mogul Mo Abudu Gets It DoneShe’s been described as “Africa’s most successful woman,” “one of the most powerful women in global television,” and “the African Oprah.”
    By Victoria Goldiee
  48. Hayley Kiyoko Goes RogueThe singer-songwriter turned her viral “Girls Like Girls” music video into a bestselling YA novel through sheer force of will.
    By Bindu Bansinath
  49. How Silverlens Gallerists Isa Lorenzo and Rachel Rillo Get It DonePartners in life and in business, they share two homes, two gallery spaces, and one dog named Chika.
    By Ann Binlot
  50. How Samantha Irby Gets It DoneThe best-selling writer behind four hilarious essay collections and And Just Like That’s infamous kitchen scene waited 14 years to quit her day job.
    By Danielle Cohen
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