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Name: More Than Enough
Rating: 3.7 (47 reviews)
Author: Elaine Welteroth

Elaine Welteroth

Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

3.7 (47 Bewertungen)

30 Min.

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'More Than Enough' by Elaine Welteroth is a memoir and self-help hybrid, detailing the author's journey as a black woman in media and fashion. It offers insight into the power of self-discovery and taking risks to live life on your own terms.

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What’s in it for me? Join Elaine Welteroth on her journey to success.

Elaine Welteroth’s mother, Debra, likes to tell the story of how Elaine learned to walk.

Two months before baby Lainey’s first birthday, Debra gave her a pair of Reeboks. They were flamingo pink and sparkly as diamond dust, and, as Debra tells it, the instant they were on little Elaine’s feet, she was up and running. No hesitation. No falls. Just – zoom. Even at that tender age, it was clear she’d been born to run.

But by no means was little Elaine’s walking life an uninterrupted series of successful steps. Before donning those dream shoes, she’d relied on the support of a plastic baby walker. Blissful hours flitted by as she pushed it around the house. But sometimes she’d get stuck in a corner, and when that happened, she’d get capital-M Mad.

Today, Elaine recognizes herself in each of those past selves. She knows what it’s like to get stuck in life’s corners. Still, she never stopped running, and never dropped out of the race toward professional and personal fulfillment.

These blinks tell the story of that dreamward dash.

They also reveal

that Elaine Welteroth owned a “business” in fifth grade;
how Elaine first learned about race; and
that acting like a stalker isn’t always a bad thing.

With the support of her parents, Elaine learned to embrace and be proud of her race at an early age.

Elaine remembers the day she realized she was different.

She was three years old, and her preschool teacher had just given her and her classmates an assignment: using images from magazines, make a collage representing your family.

Even at that young age, Elaine had inklings of her otherness. Newark, California, the tiny town where she was raised, was overwhelmingly white. Sure, there were a few first-generation Asian, Mexican and Indian families, but a cultural melting pot it was not. Elaine’s family simply didn’t look like anyone else’s.

Her father, Jack, was white. Her mother, Debra, was black. And Elaine’s older brother, Eric Charles, was – like little Elaine herself – caramel-taffy brown.

In the classroom, surrounded by busy white toddlers, little Elaine tried to find images that looked like her family. Finding a dad was easy enough – sort of. She found a white, suitcase-carrying businessman (Jack actually worked as a carpenter). Finding a black mom and a brown brother proved much harder.

So she did what any little girl might do: she copied her classmates and used images of white people.

When her mother saw Elaine’s handiwork, she delivered one of her classic lines –“Houston, we have a problem” – and sat Lainey down at the kitchen table. It was time to have the Race Conversation.

With the help of her mom, Elaine redid her collage, this time using more accurate cutouts from Ebony and Essence magazines. When they were done, they taped the collage up by Elaine’s bed as a reminder. Elaine wasn’t, and never would be, white; she was black – and that was something to be proud of.

Elaine was lucky. Her parents provided unconditional love and support. She may have felt out of place in the classroom. But back home, she was taught that she was perfect, that she was enough, just the way she was.

Elaine’s early interest in beauty and design lay the groundwork for her future career as a magazine editor.

The entrepreneurial bug bit early.

Elaine wasn’t yet in fifth grade, and she and her best friend Claudia Ortega had already set up a makeshift beauty salon in Claudia’s backyard. Claudia and Elaine shared the same go-get-‘em boss-girl initiative and gumption. But their tireless efforts to establish a backyard business weren’t purely the consequence of this enterprising spirit. The truth of the matter is that neither of them was very popular.

In elementary and junior high school, Elaine underwent some minor identity crises.

If you ever find yourself trying to figure out how a young girl is doing in life, then Elaine Welteroth has a tip for you: look at her hair. In her early teens, Elaine’s hairdos changed in reaction to her social environment, often telling a clear story about who she wanted to be.

Up until fifth grade, Elaine’s mother braided her hair every week. She didn’t even know her hair was naturally curly until she was ten years old. In eighth grade, she began experimenting with letting her hair take its natural shape. This decision, however, coincided with some disheartening feedback.

Elaine fell in love in high school – but the trajectory of the relationship derailed her dreams.

When Elaine entered high school, heads started turning. Suddenly, she was surrounded by black boys her age – and just as suddenly, she was getting checked out in a major way.

At 14, she was ready for something that had never presented itself before: romantic love. After-school phone calls, hand-holding on campus, the oceanic feeling of love songs and movies – she was ready for it.

After breaking up with First Love, Elaine began questioning mainstream messages about race.

She received the call during Christmas break. It was First Love, calling collect from the county jail. He’d been arrested and, for the next six months, he’d remain locked up. Elaine was just completing her freshman year at Sac State.

She kept thinking the same thing, over and over: it has to get better than this. She visited First Love regularly in jail, but by the summer of her sophomore year, she’d had enough. They split up.

A difficult internship helped Elaine figure out exactly what she wanted to do in life.

In her junior year at Sac State, Elaine began to feel the pressure of her impending graduation. What was she going to do after college? She began hunting for internships.

When Elaine found the Multicultural Advertising Intern Program, she thought she’d hit the jackpot. Dedicated to locating paid internships for people of color, the program seemed perfect. Elaine applied, and was offered an internship at Ogilvy & Nash, a top-tier advertising agency in New York City.

After landing an internship at Essence, Elaine took a risk and decided to intern at Ebony.

Was Elaine acting like a stalker? Maybe a little. Day after day, she called Harriette Cole’s office. She was professional but relentless. All she wanted, she kept repeating to Harriette’s assistant, was 15 minutes.

Harriette Cole was the kind of woman Elaine wanted to be. After working her way through the ranks at Essence, she founded her own company and became a regular guest on The Today Show. Now, she was the editor-in-chief of Ebony.

While at Ebony, Elaine grew professionally and fell in love.

Elaine’s time at Ebony indeed offered opportunities that an Essence intern would have only dreamed of.

For years, Ebony had stagnated. But with Harriette at the helm, it began to take a fresh new direction. Elaine, having just landed in New York City, was in for a thrilling ride.

Elaine broke into the exclusive world of Condé Nast and broke up with Future Husband.

Though crucial to her development, Elaine’s time at Ebony wasn’t exactly glamorous. She spent her first day cleaning out and organizing the cramped beauty closet. Due to a shortage of staff, Elaine regularly took on an inordinate amount of work. She’d known, since day one, that she had to climb higher.

In the realm of journalism, atop a mountain called success, there sits a castle – Condé castle, as Elaine referred to Condé Nast, the prestigious publisher of magazines like Vogue and Glamour. On her quest for success, Elaine was determined to breach the castle walls.

Elaine rose to the position of editor-in-chief at Teen Vogue before deciding to leave Condé Nast.

Over the next six years, success followed success.

Eva Chen, the beauty and health director at Teen Vogue, elected Elaine as her successor. Four years later, Elaine was named Teen Vogue’s editor, and less than a year after that, she became editor-in-chief. She also reconnected with a childhood friend named Jonathan, one of the nice boys from her church. They got engaged the month she turned 30.

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More Than Enough (2019) is part memoir, part manifesto. It details the triumphs and travails of Elaine Welteroth’s journey to success, beginning with her small-town childhood and ending with her decision to leave her seat as editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue. But it’s more than an inspiring success story. It also offers wisdom, tips, warnings and encouragement to anyone who’s ever been told that they aren’t enough just the way they are.

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I think the better ending to this story is . . . Elaine leaves Condé Nast. – Ava DuVernay

—Elaine Welteroth

Wer More Than Enough lesen sollte

Aspiring journalists
People who’ve been told they aren’t enough
Dreamers struggling to realize their dreams

Über den Autor

Elaine Welteroth is a journalist, author and editor. In 2016, at age 29, she rose to the position of editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue, making her the youngest editor in publisher Condé Nast’s history and the second woman to hold such a position within that institution. Before her historic promotion at Teen Vogue, she held editorial positions at Ebony and Glamour. More Than Enough is her first book.

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