Unemployed at 52: Stacey Duguid’s Fight to Change the Way We Work

All the Cool Girls · Sep 10, 2026 · 1h 1m

Stacey Duguid had decades of experience at the highest levels of fashion and media. Then she found herself unemployed.

After 16 months and more than 150 job applications—many met with silence—Stacey began to wonder if she was the problem. Then a friend gave her some shocking advice: “Botox your CV.” Take off the years of experience. Lose the senior titles. Make yourself look younger. Instead, Stacey got angry—and went public.

Stacey joins Laura and Kristina to talk about the shame of unemployment, the brutal reality of ageism, how AI controls who gets seen by employers, and why so many…