The best jobs are never listed: How to network your way up

Bea Arthur, LMHC is a Columbia University-trained psychotherapist, startup founder, and speaker who works with high-performance individuals in high-pressure work environments. Her career took off at the intersection of psychology and technology and her third company, The Difference, provides on-demand access to therapy as Amazon's first mental health Alexa Skill.

Additionally, Bea was the first African-American female founder in Y Combinator and was named an Entrepreneur to Bet On by Newsweek Magazine as well as one of Bumble’s Most Inspiring New Yorkers. She is an editorial contributor for Forbes Women, and also hosts the Sonos-sponsored therapy podcast, Bea The Change.  

Website: https://thedifference.co
Instagram: @bbarthur

Maxie McCoy is a facilitator of women’s stories. She’s the author of You're Not Lost: An Inspired Action Plan for Finding Your Own Way, which Refinery29 has called one of the top career books.  Committed to the global rise of women, Maxie is the host and Executive Producer of WOMAN ON, a new digital experience that feels like ‘talk show meets sunday School’(except not religious)

(if you want/extended) Maxie has worked with top brands, conferences and companies to create original events that engage audiences both online and off – like Express, Pinterest, Square, Alaska Airlines, Uber, Create & Cultivate, Brit+CO, T-Mobile, Intuit, Microsoft, and Capital One. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, TheSkimm, Forbes, Fortune, INC, Bustle, Business Insider, MyDomaine, Women’s Health, Marie Claire, Billboard, CNN and many more as an expert in women’s leadership.

Instagram: @maxiemccoy

Lauren Chan is a Canadian fashion personality who began her career as a plus-size model alongside women like Ashley Graham and Precious Lee at Ford Models. During that time, Chan also worked as a fashion writer, having work published at institutions like Vogue and Interview as well as Cosmopolitan and Refinery29. She later landed at Glamour as the fashion features editor where she oversaw the fashion team and personally owned the plus-size fashion beat. Chan's feats during that time include appearances on Good Morning America and the Today Show, designing the Glamour x Lane Bryant clothing collection, helping brands like Tanya Taylor launch plus-sizes. She is the recipient of awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors, Business of Fashion, Condé Nast and more. Chan also serves as an ambassador for the National Eating Disorders Association, an Advisory Board Member for the Model Alliance, and a guest lecturer at New York's fashion universities. Most recently, Chan launched Henning, a brand of ethical luxury womenswear for women size 12 and up. Follow her @lcchan and stay tuned to the brand @henning.

Website: @henning
Instagram: @lcchan

Carina Hsieh (pronounced ‘Shay’) is a Sex & Relationships Editor at Cosmopolitan. She most enjoys writing that’s focused on health and sexuality. Candace Bushnell once called her the Samantha Jones of Tinder. Carina is mostly obsessed with her French Bulldog Bao Bao and has zero other hobbies.

Instagram: @carinahsieh

Tosh Ernest is Head of Wealth for Advancing Black Pathways, a JPMorgan Chase initiative designed to have a sustainable impact on the economic success and empowerment of black communities. Responsible for deploying and sustaining the portfolio of inclusion programs and content in the community and across the banks various business units in close coordination with senior
leadership across the consumer bank, business bank an d wealth management. Before assuming this role, Ernest served as an Executive Director in the Asset & Wealth Management line of business of the firm, in 2018 launching the Private Bank’s first proprietary mutual fund company and four funds, forming the Six Circle Funds Trust. She has led large change and transformation initiatives for the Private Bank and Investment Bank since joinin g in 2011. Prior to JPMorgan, Ernest worked in post mergers and acquisitions management consulting at Accenture, Capco and Navigant Financial Services Consulting firms. Outside of work Tosh co-founded ‘IMPACT NYC’, a non-profit volunteering service that matches members’ professional resumes to charities looking to hire the same skills pro-bono. Tosh also volunteers her time with ‘City Hope’ and ‘The Father’s Heart’; both NYC charities that provide food and shelter to low income households and the h omeless population. Tosh graduated from the University of Reading, England with a first class honors degree, Bachelor of Arts, in Accounting and Management; is a certified AGILE Scrum Master, Six Sigma Black Belt

Mika Brzezinski is co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” founder of “Know Your Value” and author of four best-selling books. In 2015, Mika launched “Know Your Value,” a nationwide movement in partnership with NBCUniversal to support an empowered and inclusive community that helps all women recognize, and be recognized for, their worth in business and in life.

Prior to joining MSNBC in 2007, Mika was an anchor of the CBS Evening News Weekend Edition and a CBS News correspondent who frequently contributed to CBS Sunday Morning and 60 Minutes.

In 2018, Mika was awarded with the New York Women in Communications’ Matrix Award. Mika, along with “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough, was inducted into the Cable News Hall of Fame in 2016. Mika also served as a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School in the fall of 2017.              

Daniela Pierre Bravo is a New York City-based TV producer for MSNBC’s “Morning Joe". She is also a contributing writer and the millennial ambassador for Mika Brzezinski’s NBC’s “Know Your Value” movement, and columnist for Cosmopolitan Magazine.

Daniela is the co-author of “Earn It! Know Your Value and Grow Your Career, in Your 20s and Beyond” with Mika Brzezinski, a book that focuses on young women navigating the workforce. She has been featured in a number of press, including NBC News, Refinery29, Forbes, New York Magazine’s The Cut, and more. You can follow her on social: @dpierrebravo

Lauren McGoodwin is Career Contessa’s CEO, #1 power move advocate, and has a life mission to help women build successful and fulfilling careers on their terms. Lauren launched Career Contessa in 2013 out of her master’s thesis project to close the gap in career development resources for women. Career Contessa now helps over 2 million women each year with their careers through content, online learning courses, and job listings.

Formerly, Lauren was a  Recruiter for Hulu focused on hiring, employer branding, and talent development. She has a Bachelor's in Education from University of Oregon and a Master’s in Communication Management from USC where she wrote her thesis on millennial women and career resources.

Lauren has spoken at TED Women, Watermark Conference for Women, and South by Southwest, appeared on Cheddar TV, Good Day LA, and regularly contributes on career advice to outlets like Good Morning America, Goop, and more. Lauren is also the host of Career Contessa’s podcast, The Femails, covering all things work, women, and traits of success,  and just released her first book, Power Moves: How Women Can Pivot, Reboot, and Build a Career of Purpose, from Harper Business, and loves to stay in touch on Instagram:

Website: @careercontessa
Instagram: @laurenmcgoodwin

Jasmine Crowe is an award-winning social entrepreneur, TED Speaker and leader who is working to make the world a better place one cause at a time. Jasmine’s goal is to foster change and create awareness about the leading socioeconomic issues and challenges of today, including poverty, food waste, and hunger.  In 2017, after years of feeding people experiencing homelessness from her own kitchen, she launched Goodr, a sustainable waste management company that leverages technology to combat hunger and reduce food waste. She has been featured on CNBC, in Oprah Magazine, Inc., Forbes, Fast Co., NY Times, TED Speaker, and was named by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top 100 influential female founders. Under her direction, Goodr has redirected nearly five million pounds of surplus food from restaurants, event centers, airports, and businesses to the millions of people who are food insecure. Goodr clients include SAP, Netflix, Hartsfield Jackson Airport, Georgia World Congress Center, and many more.  During the pandemic Goodr pivoted to food distribution by organizing pop-up grocery stores for the community as well as launching a grocery delivery program that provides weekly delivery to seniors to over 2,000 seniors and families each week. Since March of 2020, Goodr is responsible for providing over two million meals to people in need.

Website: @goodrco
Instagram: @jasminecrowe

Kathryn Minshew is the CEO & Founder of The Muse, a career platform used by over 75 million people to find their best-fit jobs, companies and careers. The Muse was recently named one of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies in the World.

Kathryn is the host of The Muse’s podcast, The New Rules of Work. She has spoken at MIT and Harvard, contributed to The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review, and appeared on TODAY and CNN. In addition, Kathryn & The Muse have been named to Deloitte's Technology Fast 500, Marie Claire’s The New Guard, SmartCEO's Future50 Visionary CEOs, New York on Tech’s Disruptors and Innovators, Inc.’s 30 Under 35 and Female Founders 100, One Young World’s Entrepreneur of the Year and many more.

Before founding The Muse, Kathryn worked on HPV vaccine introduction in Rwanda with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, and was previously at McKinsey & Company. Her first book, “The New Rules of Work: The Muse Playbook for Navigating Your Career” (Crown Business, April 2017), was a Wall Street Journal national bestseller.

Instagram: @kminshew

Samantha Feher is Team Cosmo’s Editorial Assistant and the assistant to our editor-in-chief, Jessica Pels. Outside her work at Cosmo, Sam is a content creator and social media expert—her personal Instagram account has amassed nearly 50K followers, and the average amount of views on one of her TikToks is over 250K (her most popular is nearing 2.5M). Sam is also the founder and CEO of a small retail business called Brunch Club, and a career coach for young women in high school, college, and beyond. She lives and works in New York City.

Instagram: @samanthafeher

Emma Roberts is an undeniable talent who has amassed an impressive film and television career over the course of over a decade. Upcoming, Roberts will star in director John Whitesell’s romantic-comedy, HOLIDATE. The film follows two strangers who make a deal to act as each other’s “holidates” over the course of a year, after being fed up with the insurmountable holiday dating pressures. Netflix will release the film on October 28th.

It has been announced that Roberts is attached to star in the sci-fi comedy film ROBOTS, opposite Jack Whitehall and directed by Anthony Hines. Previous feature films Roberts has starred in include PARADISE HILLS, NERVE, WE’RE THE MILLERS, PALO ALTO, EMPIRE STATE, SCREAM 4, and VALENTINES DAY, among others.

Recently, Roberts signed a first-look partnership with Hulu to develop and create compelling television series under her production banner, Belletrist TV. This collaboration will focus on literary adaptations, with her Belletrist book club co-founder, Karah Preiss, serving as executive producer and the club’s director of development, Matt Matruski, producing. The first project to be developed will be TELL ME LIES, based on Carola Lovering’s novel of the same name. Further, Roberts, alongside Priess, will executive produce the Netflix vampire drama series, FIRST KILL, under the Belletrist TV banner. The series is based on the short story by New York Times best-selling author Victoria "V.E." Schwab.

On the small screen, Roberts is best known for her starring roles in multiple seasons of Ryan Murphy’s anthology television series, AMERICAN HORROR STORY, and her portrayal of ‘Chanel Oberlin’ in the FOX comedy-horror series SCREAM QUEENS.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Karah Preiss is an experienced content producer & writer based in New York City. Along with actress Emma Roberts, she founded Belletrist, a social media-first community for book lovers which they have recently turned into a film/tv producing vehicle called Belletrist Productions. They are currently in a first-look deal for TV at Hulu. Through Belletrist, Karah and Emma are on a mission to promote reading as an accessible and unique form of self-care.

Prior to founding Belletrist, Karah was an independent producer and a science & tech reporter at The Huffington Post where she hosted the short-form series TALK NERDY TO ME. In her spare time, Karah hosts the award-winning iHeart Radio podcast Sleepwalkers, which focuses on the ways artificial intelligence is affecting humanity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Follow on Instagram: @emmaroberts @kpreiss @belletrist                                            

Alencia Johnson leads at the intersection of social justice and culture change, cultivating over a decade of experience marrying cultural cornerstones -- activism, politics, corporate and entertainment -- together to achieve justice. As Founder and Chief Impact Officer of 1063 West Broad — a social impact agency specializing in the intersection of culture, impact and purpose — Alencia connects brands, organizations and people to mission driven solutions.

She has worked for the presidential campaigns of President Barack Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren and in national roles at Planned Parenthood and GEICO -- leading efforts in each organization to address systemic issues facing marginalized communities through brand, engagement and narrative strategies.

Alencia has been recognized by Harvard University with a "Woman of the Year" award, EBONY Magazine’s “Power 100” list of influential African Americans and PRWeek’s “40 Under 40” list and more. She serves on the Warner Music Group and the Blavatnik Family Foundation’s Social Justice Fund board of directors and was appointed to the Virginia Council on Women by Governor Ralph Northam.

Alencia is a sought-after thought leader and cultural critic featured on MSNBC, BET, NPR, Washington Post, ESSENCE, Glamour and more.

Instagram: @alenicajohnson