Episode 4: Audree Kate on Getting Your Dream Internship, Transitioning Into Freelance + The Importance of Finding Your Career “Why”

Episode 4 was tons of fun because I got to catch-up with my friend, Audree, of Simply Audree Kate. Audree is a NYC-based fashion stylist, editor, fashion consultant and founder of the Simply Audree Kate blog where she talks about all things style + her life in the fashion industry.

In this conversation we dive into so many nuggets — from getting your dream internship (she interned for Redbook Magazine while she was a student at Arizona State), how she transitioned into freelance from her work in the corporate world, how to know if entrepreneurship is right for you, when to know it’s okay to be a “yes man” + how to bounce back from the inevitable rejections we all will face.

Grab your notebook + a pen because you’ll want to take notes for this one, babe.

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Audree López is a NYC-based fashion stylist, freelance fashion editor at StyleCaster.com, industry consultant and manages a fashion and lifestyle blog called Simply Audree Kate.

She launched her career in the editorial industry and worked in the fashion departments of Glamour, Editorialist, Redbook and O, the Oprah Magazine. After leaving print, she managed social media for a media start-up and worked freelance contracts with the creative, merchandise and PR departments at Marc Jacobs, J.Crew, Alice + Olivia, Club Monaco and Swarovski.

Today, she is the freelance fashion editor at StyleCaster.com, freelance assistant stylist at Alice + Olivia and styles for various other clients through her personal styling brand AudreeKate Studios. Some of her previous clients include: Tommy Hilfiger, DL1961, Seventeen.com, Good Morning America, Urban Outfitters, StyleMePretty.com, FORD Models and L’Oreal.

Audree graduated from Arizona State University in 2015 with double majors in Marketing and Journalism, and for her senior honors thesis, she worked with the business and design colleges to create ASU’s first fashion merchandising course and fashion student organization. The merchandising course launched in Fall 2017 and the fashion organization is still one of the largest student organizations in the business college.