Marjon Carlos is a talker, but it’s a personality trait that has worked in her favor tenfold.
She’s a journalist yes, and has profiled pop stars and fashion industry titans alike, including Doja Cat, Cardi B, Precious Lee, and Gigi Hadid. In recent years, however, since stepping away from a “dream” magazine job and reconfiguring her career path, she has found her stride as a formative industry voice making intricate connections between fashion and pop culture at large. You can often find her on a social platform—Twitter/X, Instagram, or TikTok—detailing what works (or what doesn’t) from a celebrity street-style look or passionately recapping the latest episode of The Real Housewives of New York. She has range.
When we sat down on a busy Friday afternoon at Bótani Cafe in Bed-Stuy (a who’s who haunt for the neighborhood’s creative types), Carlos is here to talk about her latest endeavor: the leveled-up, CashApp-backed production of her Instagram Live series turned official podcast, Your Favorite Auntie. When she first launched it at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the series allowed Carlos to connect with industry friends to talk pop culture and fashion, but just served as a chance for friendly check-ins, too. At its core, Your Favorite Auntie is part advice show, part digital kiki, a way for Carlos to help steer the cultural conversation—something she believes has been missing in the podcasting space.
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“Black women are in so many different spaces, but I definitely feel like the podcasting world hasn’t necessarily been fully approached,” she tells Harper’s Bazaar. “I’m excited to go into that lane. We should be showing up more in that space.”
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