The Break-Up and Meghan Markle during the first official photo with baby Archie, Meyer got her professional start working right here at Glamour as the magazine’s beauty and fitness editor in the early 2000s under former editor in chief Bonnie Fuller.Still, Meyer says she always loved the idea of designing jewelry and knew by her late 20s that she needed to give her dream a shot.
But it was a conversation with then boyfriend actor Tobey Maguire that sealed the deal. After he asked her, “What do you really want to do?” Meyer vocalized her dream of designing jewelry.
His response? A little inspiration from Star Wars’s Yoda: “Do or do not. There is no try. Just go and do it.” “And somehow I figured it out,” Meyer says.
Keep reading for the latest edition of our Doing the Work series with Jennifer Meyer, who shares how she handles busy days, her go-to thank-you gift, and her typical daily routines.
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