Leandra Medine

The holidays are only overwhelming because it's crunch time. It's like everyone trying to get last-minute things in before the New Year starts. ”

Next time you look in the mirror, close your eyes and ask yourself when you feel like the best version of you. When you open them, act on that. ”

I think that when I started Man Repeller, the Internet was still hungry for authentic content from girls that weren't actresses or supermodels and were just relatable girls who had opinions and outfit ideas, and they weren't always good, but at least they were original. ”

I didn't launch the website with any goals in mind, to be honest. I didn't know that it would have been anything other than a digital portfolio once I graduated college. ”

People always ask me how I muster the strength to be so open about things, and I explain to them that I took the Myers-Briggs test, like, four times, and every single time, I ranked an 87 percent extrovert, so it would probably take more strength for me to shut up. ”

By the time I graduated college, I was sick of what was out there. I wanted to bring something new to the Internet. ”

Running a business is incredibly hard, especially as a creative person, because you're extricated from the creative very quickly, and that is really hard. Obviously, I have experienced that first hand. ”

I got a C in art when I was in 11th grade. That it is even possible to come out of a high school art class with a C is wondrous, especially considering the creative license we were encouraged to use to, for lack of a better axiom, color outside the lines. ”

I have such a simple process - it takes me, like, ten minutes to get ready. ”

I started my blog when I was a senior in college, and I knew that all the people in my program were probably going to be applying for very similar jobs, so I needed something to separate my resume. ”