Many of us spend hours every day indulging in Instagram’s infinite scroll. Influencers didn’t exist fifteen years ago, but today these tastemakers impact how we cook, consume, parent, decorate, think, and live. Despite influencers’ prevalence in our lives, what goes on behind the perfectly curated Instagram grids we obsess over most largely remains a mystery—until now.  Stephanie McNeal, a senior editor at Glamour (formerly at BuzzFeed News) takes us behind the curtain, into the secretive real world of influencers in SWIPE UP FOR MORE!: Inside the Unfiltered Lives of Influencers. Given unprecedented access to three major influencers—fashion and lifestyle juggernaut Caitlin Covington of Southern Curls & Pearls, runner and advocate Mirna Valerio, and OG “mommy blogger” Shannon Bird—SWIPE UP FOR MORE! is based on three years of fly-on-thewall reporting as they build their empires, struggle with the haters and snarkers, fight for creative control from the tech platforms that enable their businesses, parent in public, and try to look good while doing it. In this interview, I speak to Stephanie McNeal, Senior Editor at Glamour. We discuss the scale, impact and role of influencers in our lives and economy.