Dan Peres was editor in chief of Details for fifteen years, starting in 2000, when the title relaunched under his leadership. During his tenure, the magazine won many awards, including two National Magazine Awards. Before taking the editorship of Details, Dan spent nine years at W magazine, overseeing bureaus in Paris, London, and Milan. While in college, he worked as a copy boy at the New York Times and later as a research assistant at Esquire.
He is the author of Details Men’s Style Manual. He lives in New York and has three sons.
In this episode we talk about:
- how and why he got into journalism in high school and how that served that need to belong
- what both magic and being a journalist gave him
- growing up as the younger brother of the town star and how we all are trying to find our place in high school
- moving to New York for college and trying to create himself as a new version of himself
- how sometimes being somewhere where no one knows us allows us to figure out who we really want to be
- getting his first journalist job in a fashion magazine that had him going to elite parties and interviewing important people and how that gave him a false sense of belonging that wasn’t really fulfilling
- how we often are chasing external validation, once I have this job, relationship income when the validation we need to seek is our own
- the shoulds and how strongly they weigh on us and keep us from actually knowing ourselves
- compare and despair
- having an amazing job interviewing high profile creators and feeling like he was just pretending his whole life to be who he was
- the silly thing he did to try to get attention that became a life defining moment and led to his addiction to opiates
- becoming the editor in chief of Details magazine in his 20s and how getting that job also escalated his addiction to painkillers
- how being in a high power position allowed him to keep his job, but all of his team had to pick up all of his slack
- getting sober and feeling like he was figuring out who he was for the first time
- why gratitude is so big for him
- Which keychain she chose from my line and why!
Get Dan’s book As Needed For Pain you can find him at @dan_peres
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