Bozoma Saint John’s illustrious resume is full of important and diversified titles. The businesswoman and entrepreneur has served as the chief branding officer at Uber and the chief marketing officer for Netflix, where she was the streamer’s first Black C-level executive. In 2023, she published a memoir in 2023 titled The Urgent Life. And perhaps most importantly (to us), she’s served on Glamour’s Women of the Year advisory board.
When it came to her newest role—as a rookie housewife for season 14 of the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills—Saint John expected a different sort of vibe. But she found herself right back in, essentially, the C-Suite.
“The thing that has surprised me most is how similar the dynamics are in this group of women as it is in the boardroom,” she tells me. “[It’s] the same political dynamics. It’s like, this one likes this one, this one doesn’t really like that one. There’s …