Be Your Own Mr. Big: Sex and the City Creator Candace Bushnell on Love & Ambition
Superwomen with Rebecca Minkoff

Be Your Own Mr. Big: Sex and the City Creator Candace Bushnell on Love & Ambition

B1IntermediateAugust 13, 202633 min

Before Sex and the City became a cultural phenomenon, Candace Bushnell was writing about something she saw happening all around her: ambitious, successful single women taking over New York City. In this episode of Superwomen, Candace joins Rebecca to revisit the column that started it all, the real-life stories behind Sex and the City, and what it was like watching her work become part of the culture. But a lot has changed since the ’90s… and a lot hasn’t. Candace shares what she thinks about dating today, why succes...

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Where are these guys to marry all these great women because these women want to have that kind of partnership? I didn't imagine it, but I was just trying to do really the best work that I could do.

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I knew it was like my big break. Hey everyone, welcome back to Superwomen. I'm sitting down with the woman behind one of the most influential cultural phenomena of our time,

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Sex and the City creator, Candace Bushnell. But this conversation goes far beyond the show. We talk about the rejection that never goes away, what it really takes to keep reinventing yourself

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