What happens when you're on The Cutting Room Floor?
The Cutting Room Floor's Recho Omondi was on Wear Many Hats
When The Cutting Room Floor came out, I admired how Recho Omondi was moving through the fashion industry while broadcasting journalism. I was interested in her brand, Omondi, and almost bought a t-shirt while TCRF was rolling. I loved the way she brought her community together along with her events through partnerships and show collaborations.
I love the podcast cover. Bottega green. Matcha green. Wellness green. Simple.
Recho is knowledgeable, cutting edge, and well-spoken obviously.
Her podcast, The Cutting Room Floor made and is still making waves. A viral hit happened when she interviewed Yasiin Bey fka Mos Def. Has anyone heard from Drake since?
It only went up from there. Patreon subscriptions went through the roof. It felt like success happened over night although she was always successful in our eyes.
What happened?
The fashion industry is such a wild place. When designers hit a wall, they want out. When designers find success, they throw controversial opinions to the wall and upset everyone. Why is that?
When you breakthrough these cool careers, do you start losing sight of the vision by getting caught up with the fame?
Some friends and I had a conversation at How Long Gone’s partnership with New Balance at the 1 Hotel Brooklyn Bridge in Dumbo, Brooklyn about once you’re on a high, it’s hard to come back down. My friends work with influencers and tell me it all comes crashing down once the fame wears off.
Recho, doesn’t take ads for TCRF and isn’t promoting anything. I’m sure she gets sent brand items all the time but going the influencer route is far from what she is doing. She’s staying authentic and true to self.
Earlier this month, Recho posted a job for The Cutting Room Floor and took it down because of backlash.
Job Overview:
This role combines the responsibilities of a Bookings Administrator and Studio Coordinator, serving as the organizational hub for the team’s daily operations. Reporting to both the Head of Operations and Partnerships, you’ll manage calendars, handle guest bookings, and oversee essential office logistics. While this is not a creative role (you won’t be pitching guest ideas or shaping editorial content) you’ll be essential to keeping the office running seamlessly, ensuring schedules, communications, and preparations are always a step ahead.
Key Responsibilities:
Office Coordination & Team Operations
• Manage the office’s public-facing inbox and calendar, ensuring all inquiries are promptly reviewed, forwarded to the appropriate team member, and responded to in a timely and professional manner
• Track incoming and outgoing correspondence to ensure timely follow-ups and prevent any missed communications
• Maintain office tidiness, office supplies, and coordinate incoming visitors
• Support daily administrative functions such as file management, receipts, scheduling, and communication across team leads
• Record and distribute meeting notes and key action items
Bookings & Logistics
• Coordinate podcast guest pitches, scheduling, pre-interview bookings, and follow-up communication
• Liaise with publicists, agents, managers, and team assistants to lock in production details
• Send reminders, manage holds, and ensure time-sensitive information is clearly relayed both internally and externally
Executive & Administrative Support
• Provide direct support to the Founder & Chief Creative, including managing schedules, and meetings
• Coordinate travel (booking hotels & flights and building itineraries, etc.), prepare briefing materials (printing decks, creative briefs, etc.), and manage occasional errands (lunch pickup, store returns, etc.)
Qualifications:
• 2–3 years experience in administrative, production, or coordination roles
• Absolutely excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and responsive
• Comfortable handling confidential information with discretion
• Proactive, reliable, and unafraid to take initiative
• Familiar with Google Suite, Dropbox, and basic project management tools
• Enthusiastic about the cultural landscape of fashion, media, and storytelling
This role is in-person at our NYC office - No remote work.
Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S.
Start Date: Immediately
Location: New York, NY (In-Person) Full-Time - FTC
Salary: $55,000/annually
Ira Madison chimed in:
Then came the slander. The Cut would cover it. TikTok was all over it. Reddit had a ball.
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If you want to learn what The Cutting Room Floor is, we had the pleasure of having Recho Omondi on Wear Many Hats:
When I had her on the show, I’m not going to lie, I was nervous. It felt like I was on the cutting room floor down to the wire. I made it work and it was a great episode.
Being a journalist or a fashion designer is hard. The combination of talking about the two careers salaries? A recipe for breaking the Internet.
When Recho debut the position online, she has taken everything she has mentioned about it down.
Addressing the elephant in the room of why the Internet gears towards hating instead of critical thinking? I’ve brought this up before with liking ads.
The Internet burned Recho at the stake. The Internet thinks we’re all on the same page.
You’ll need roommates, maybe live at home, apply for independent health insurance, and pick up a side hustle although there was no room for that.
When I started Wear Many Hats, the tagline was:
Wear Many Hats is where we talk about your main gig but mostly your side hustle.
I hated that tagline because I hated hustle culture. I was doing it to keep sane and avoided going to therapy. The idea was fueled by my Asian-ness and inspired by how my parents survived immigrating to this country. I had to take on many different gigs but the caveat was I didn’t mind the gigs I took on.
Hustle culture glorified having several different streams of income instead of a single well paying job but then transitioned into a new term for picking up several part time jobs, gig economy.
If everyone complained about making 55k a year, here are a few fast jobs I’ve done for $55 dollars to make ends meet:
Washed dishes for a busy restaurant
Put out pastries and throw them out
Take tickets at the door and check IDs
Tape event posters on telephone poles
I’ve never had a corporate job that paid salary but luckily one of the part time jobs I did have a health insurance plan available. I worked in freelance since college, people started calling it freelance (back then I probably would have been called contractor lol) and after college, I’ve always worked in the service industry, advertising, and photography.
The only way I calculate how much I make a year is by my accountant telling me how much I made.
We’re currently in this interesting era of no ones turning into someones and then comes the fame, likes, and followers. It seems to me that these creatives are showing behavioral changes. Creatives have turned into influencers telling themselves they’re not influencers and then believe they’re bigger than corporations for not taking outsider money. Bootstrapping, friend and family rounds, are what I hear in my circle when starting a new project or business but can’t we just go back to the old days of having fun with your new special idea?
Recho is crushing it and moving on. The same week of controversy, she dropped her episode with Gwyneth Paltrow. Say what you want but that’s what legends do.
If you get your foot in the door, I hope you make it in some sort of fashion (no pun intended) I’ll see myself out.