From PR Girl to Her Own Story | Aisha Beau Frisbey

At the Brink with Erica Brinker · Nov 4, 2026 · 1h 1m

Every wall was covered in crystals and a crystal chandelier hung overhead. On the floor in the corner of her boss's bathroom, Aisha Beau Frisbey was having the first panic attack of her life.

Aisha spent 12 years in fashion PR. She went from unpaid internships hauling Gucci garment bags in four-inch heels to a $28,000 starting salary to the in-house director job she had worked toward the whole time. She tells Erica Brinker what it cost to get there: code switching to seem palatable as one of the few Black women in the office, a designer who dismissed Black celebrities as D-list and a…