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Season 6, Episode 6: Never be boring (with guests Simon Berwin and Tina Boden)
In a doubly special episode Dahlia is joined by guests Simon Berwin and Tina Boden to get their perspectives on Clothes, Confidence and a Positive Mindset.
Tina is Mrs North Yorkshire and advisor to businesses across the North. Simon has worked in the textiles industry for his entire career having first sold fabric for suits and now working as an advisor.
The conversation covers everything from how it felt working with Paul Smith and Philip Green to the celebration of independent shops, and the micro businesses that are vital to the high street and local communities.
Tina and Simon discuss their unique experience working with a variety of businesses but have a shared piece of advice for listeners: Never Be Boring!
This episode is full of stories and laughter. Enjoy!
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To celebrate International Men's Day 2024 Stressed But Well Dressed has collected the perspective on Clothes, Confidence and a Well Dressed Mindset from some of the male guests featured on the podcast.
The episode looks at two very different views of the traditional suit, the need for a festive jumper, the link between clothes and confidence and some advice on how to find your own way to show up in a world where we are at risk of conforming to the algorithm of life.
Included in the episode is an insight into how the US Ski and Snowboard Association used clothing to improve mindset and actually get faster at their sport through what they were wearing!
Featured in the episode:
Jonathan Straight: Season 6, Episode 3 'Talking a load of rubbish'
John Byrne: Season 2, Episode 5 'Getting into character'
Paul Abbott: Episode 10: 'Event Dressing'
Simon Berwin: Season 6, Episode 6 'Never be boring' *
Simon Bourne: Season 3, Episode 2 'This Charming Man'
Ryan Berman: Season 3, Episode 8 'Encouraging Courage'
Alistair Vince: Season 2, Episode 8 'The power of perspective'
*featuring Simon Berwin and Tina Boden and to be released Friday 22nd November
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Dahlia is joined by Christine Armstrong to discuss the link between Clothes, Confidence and Mindset in a number of situations. Christine gives her view on the future of work and the frenzied world we live in. She shares how her style helps her show up and shapes who she is in her role as an researcher, advisor and on stage as a key note speaker.
Dahlia and Christine discuss the perception that clothes can create - and also the misconception that are sometimes attached to who we are based on what we wear.
Christine Armstrong studies the world of work. She writes, researches, speaks and vlogs on what the trends and data tell us is and isn’t working.
She previously co-founded Jericho Chambers, an early example of flexible and hybrid work and writes regularly for the Times and Telegraph. She was recently named6th out of the top 50 Future of Work influencers in the world and named a top 50 workplace leader 2023 for driving cultural change.
Christine is also the author of ‘The Mother of All Jobs: how to have children and a career and stay sane(ish)’, published by Bloomsbury. The book is based on six years of interviews with working parents, employers, leadership experts and carers.
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Dahlia is joined by Tamara Hinckley to discuss the space where parenting, ambition and identity meet.
Dahlia and Tamara discuss the journey into parenting and how it feels to become a parent, maintain your career and also maintain a sense of self. Tamara uses various clothing examples to explain how her personal style has evolved over time.
Her story takes the listeners on a journey from working in Finance in New York to a career in Tech on the West Coast, explaining how she has navigated personal growth, pregnancy and parenthood all at once. Expect everything from Louboutins to iconic blazers and a pair of power pants.
Included in the episode are her tips on managing the multitude of demands that come from juggling a leadership role, the need to be present for your children and the ability to retain a sense of personal identity all at the same time.
Tamara works as a Tech Exec in San Francisco and authors newsletter 'Half Moon Hustle' discussing the intersection of ambition, wellness, mental health and motherhood. Her newsletter can be found here.
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Dahlia is joined by Jonathan Straight, entrepreneur and NED to discuss how he built a business out of rubbish and waste management.
Jonathan explains how he has used eyewear to create an iconic personal brand and how his clothes have been intertwined with his selling strategy over time.
The discussion includes Jonathan's reflections of how his personal style influenced the way he ran his bin business and how even a bin can be 'well dressed'!
As the owner of almost 400 (!) pairs of glasses, Jonathan has a look for every day of the year and he talks about how experimenting with frames has been a key part of his style journey.
Jonathan Straight is a pioneer of recycling in the UK and Founder and former Chief Executive of Straight plc. Jonathan grew the company from a one man operation into the UK’s leading supplier of kerbside recycling containers with an annual turnover of £30M. Whilst volunteering at a Leeds recycling non-profit, Jonathan spotted an opportunity in the recycling container business. He initially worked as a consultant to the McKechie Group plc, before establishing his own company in 1993 supplying container solutions for separated waste. Following 10 years of sustained growth Straight joined the London Stock Exchange Alternative Investment Market with a view to fuelling further growth. Straight plc supplied more than 25 million kerbside boxes, baskets and cadies to local authorities across the UK and had rapidly growing international operations. The company made several acquisitions and transitioned to manufacturing most of its products in house.
Having sold the business in 2014, he currently has a plural career with interests in the arts, creativity, tech-for-good, waste management and surplus food. He is also a published and exhibited photographer.
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Dahlia is joined by award winning journalist Sophie Merrick to discuss the link between clothes, confidence and storytelling. Sophie is News Editor for Bauer Media’s radio stations in the North West of England.
Sophie shares her experience of working in news media and her responsibility to communities across the North West to share their stories respectfully and accurately.
Dahlia and Sophie discuss the use of clothes to build trust and gain the confidence of others, as well as how we use clothes for our confidence and self esteem.
Expect a conversation that discusses local storytelling, the need for empathetic journalism and what happened when Eurovision came to Liverpool!
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Why we are stressed and undressed - and why it doesn't have to be this way!
Cindy joins Dahlia for the first episode of Series Six to share her unique perspective on living a happier, healthier life.
She shares her views on creating your own personal style and her tips to manage her stress which centre around how she chooses to live her life and her message of 'persistence, resilience and managing your own mind'.
Cindy also shares how her work as CEO and Founder of 'Make Love Not Porn' centres around social impact, helping to to raise awareness for more informed, more mindful and more value led sex education.
Her guidance is that we shouldn't be stressed when we are undressed and the discussion includes a very clear message on body positivity.
Cindy joins the podcast from her famous 'Black Apartment' in NYC.
Cindy Gallop is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, whose background is over 30 years in brand-building, marketing and advertising — she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year.
She is the founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld, co-action software launched in beta at TED 2010 and subsequently written up and taught as a Harvard Business School case study, which enables brands to implement the business model of the future — Shared Values + Shared Action = Shared Profit (financial and social).
She is also the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’ — a social sextech platform designed to promote good sexual behaviour and good sexual values, which she launched at TED 2009, and for which she has just raised $2million to build out MLNP.tv as ‘the Social Sex Revolution’.
As a result of the funding challenges she has encountered, she is raising the world’s first and only sextech fund, AllTheSky Holdings. She acts as board advisor to a number of tech ventures and works as a personal brand/life/executive coach and a consultant on brand and business innovation for companies around the world.
Business Insider named her one of 15 Most Important Marketing Strategy Thinkers Today, alongside Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin, and cited her as number 33 on their list of 100 Most Influential Tech Women On Twitter, and number one on their list of Top 30 People In Advertising To Follow On Twitter.
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A collection of stores from a variety of Stressed But Well Dressed' guests looking at how clothes influence how we feel and how we act.
Tune in for a reflection on the link between Clothes, Confidence and a Positive Mindset and ask yourself:
Are you stressed or well dressed?
Marina Gerner: Season 5, Episode 6: Fashion, FemTech and the bra that could save your life
Daiva Bryne: Season 4, Episode 3: What to wear to win at poker
Sarah Edmonson: Season 3, Episode 10: Cult Fashion
Adrienne Cole: Season 3, Episode 7: The skin you are in
Dr Jo Gooding: Season 2, Episode 7: Getting Dressed
Adele Silva: Episode 4: Typecast
Paula Zucotti: Season 4, Episode 4: What to wear to predict the future
Dahlia Stroud in conversation with Jenny Williams in Season 5, Episode 3: The confidence to have a little bit of doubt
Katie Hart: Season 5, Episode 5: Neuromarketing and the decisions that make us who we are
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Dahlia is joined by guest Loulou Storey to discuss the words we use to talk to ourselves, how we grow into our style and how to tell our the story of who we are through our clothes.
The podcast includes a walk down memory lane for Loulou, reflecting back on the defining moments that have shaped her own identity both during her teenage years in North Yorkshire and through her journey to London and then Brighton to develop her career in fashion.
Expect a raw, emotional and moving conversation about how we see ourselves, how we create our style, how becoming a mother impacts our style and how to create impact through what we wear.
Loulou's fashion career started on the shop floor, where she worked from the age of 14. By age 30 she was managing large teams for some of the biggest retailers in London’s West End - Anthropologie and Hobbs. She received a first in Fashion Marketing from The London College of Fashion where she discovered her passion for sustainable fashion.
Loulou became a style coach in 2016, and works both in Brighton where she is based and all over the world - helping clients to uncover their unique style and to unleash their power through their clothes. She has witnessed first-hand how overwhelmed and confused so many people feel when it comes to dressing themselves, so Loulou developed a process that gave people the confidence to express themselves and to build a wardrobe tailored to their lifestyle. Loulou called it the Storey Style Method.
Using the Storey Style Method, Loulou encourages people to discover their own style by understanding their style taste, ambition and natural style instinct. She uses a style words method which helps clients to create a style that truly embraces who they are and ensures they are making the impression they desire.
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A collection of stories from a variety of Stressed But Well Dressed guests looking at how clothes influence how we feel and how we act.
Tune in for a reflection on the link between Clothes, Confidence and a Positive Mindset and ask yourself:
Are you stressed or well dressed?
Guests included in this episode:
Paula Grizzard: Season 1, Episode 3 'Stand out for success'
Carolyn Mair: Season 1, Episode 5 'The psychology of fashion'
Alistair Vince: Season 2, Episode 8 'The power of perspective'
Lynsey Donoughue: Season 3, Episode 3 'Trailblazer'
Julia Hotz: Season 3, Episode 5 'Hotz Thoughts on Stress, Dress and Social Prescribing for Wellness'
Sarah Edmondson: Season 3, 'Episode 10 Cult Fashion'
Visha Kudhail: Season 4, Episode 2 'What to wear to spark joy'
Paula Zucotti: Season 4, Episode 4 'What to wear to predict the future'
Kate Ball: Season 4, Episode 5 'What to wear to be a life saver'
Nikki Alderson: Season 4, Episode 9 'What to wear to predict the future'
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Dahlia is joined by Helen Oldham, Co-Founder of Lifted Ventures and NED to discuss all things founder related.
Helen shares her perspective on when to start when founding a business covering everything from understanding your market to developing your brand to gaining investment to having the confidence to turn ideas into action.
Included in the conversation are Helen's views on the rise of personal branding, the challenges that stop women from investing in organisations and some top tips on building your network.
Helen's top tips on where to start as a founder are:
- Know your market
- Know your brand
- Know your worth
- Know your network
- Turn your knowledge into confidence and take action.
Helen is Co Founder of Lifted Ventures. Lifted exists to increase the flow of early stage capital to female founders and promote the significant business benefits of backing women.
The Lifted Ventures flywheel has an angel network at its core, alongside investment literacy and preparation, a lively female founder community and consultancy.
She is a Board member of the UKBAA, and a member of the Women Angel Investment taskforce.Helen is also interim CEO of Conduit Connect, an EIS impact investment fund, impact investment educator and angel network.
Previously Helen was a Founding Board Director of multi award winning NorthInvest, and in 2020 she founded Fund Her North, a collective of women in VCs who support female founders to get equal access to finance.Prior to this Helen was Managing Director of the Yorkshire Post and The Scotsman.
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A collection of stories from a variety of Stressed But Well Dressed guests looking at how clothes influence how we feel and how we act.
Tune in for a reflection on the link between Clothes, Confidence and a Positive Mindset and ask yourself:
Are you stressed or well dressed?
Includes highlights from:
Episode 1: Model Behaviour with Charlotte Clemie
Episode 2: Where do I belong? with Lizzie Martin
Episode 4: Typecast with Adele Silva
Episode 5: The Psychology of Fashion with Carolyn Mair
Episode 6: It's a shoo in with Gabby Rosenberg
Episode 7: In the bold print with Dally Kaur
Episode 8: Designer Kicks with Ed Cowburn
Season 2, Episode 3: Online Shopping with Gillian Geraghty
Season 2, Episode 10: Fashion Forecast with Joanna Blythe
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Dahlia is joined by Caroline Keylock, Strategic Consultant and co founder of 'LookUp' an organisation that helps individuals have a fresh look at their career.
Caroline and Dahlia get really honest about how redundancy feels and how to take control. The discussion includes the motions that you need to go through post redundancy and how to use it to create a position of strength.
Caroline's top tips to manage your redundancy response include:
1. Find your people - know where your support will come from and utilise your network.
2. Take control of your situation as quickly as possible.
3. Stay curious and say yes to the weird assignments - you never know where it might take you!
Caroline's strategy work has included assignments with brands including CHANEL, GUCCI, Soho House, VICE and Victoria Secret. She is co founder of LookUp and also founded of BoardWomen a community driven business encouraging women into board sports.
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A collection of stories from a variety of Stressed But Well Dressed guests looking at how clothes influence how we feel and how we act.
Tune in for a reflection on the link between Clothes, Confidence and a Positive Mindset and ask yourself:
Are you stressed or well dressed?
Includes highlights from:
Episode 1: Model Behaviour with Charlotte Clemie
Episode 4: Typecast with Adele Silva
Episode 5: The Psychology of Fashion with Carolyn Mair
Episode 8: Designer Kicks with Ed Cowburn
Season 2, Episode 8: The Power of Perspective with Alistair Vince
Season 2, Episode 9: Jobshare Revolution with Chloe Fletcher and Laura Walker
Season 2, Episode 10: Fashion Forecast with Joanna Blythe
Season 3, Episode 1: All dressed up and nowhere to go with Amy Rollings
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Dahlia is joined by Kelly Swingler to discuss stress, dress and burnout. Kelly shares her personal journey of suffering from burnout twice, recovering and now working to help others avoid the dangers of getting burnt out.
Kelly explains how her burnout wasn't visible and how she used 'dress' to mask her underlying stress, appearing 'just fine' to the outside world. She was literally stressed but well dressed.
The conversation includes the red flags to watch out for that can be clear symptoms of burnout, practical tips to manage your stress and how to come back from burnout.
Kelly is the Burnoutologist, empowering Leaders to Banish Burnout in the changing world of work for themselves and their people.
Known for being a rebel and a rulebreaker, Kelly has been ripping up the rulebook since 2002 after realising that the way we are working isn't working, and how we are taught to define success is outdated.
Today, Kelly helps leaders all over the word to succeed without giving up their career or jeopardising their wellbeing by recognising that they are people too, which in turn creates better places to work for everyone.
This episode covers:
Stress
Dress
Burnout
Productivity
Work
Career
Lifestyle
Health and Wellbeing
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Dahlia is joined by Marina Gerner to discuss the inspiration behind her new book 'The Vagina Business'.
Dahlia and Marina talk about the link between fashion, feelings and confidence and Marina explains her dress helps her get into role as an NYU professor.
Marina's shares her research on why we are so slow to develop innovation within women's healthcare and why she chose such a bold title for her book. She discusses the need to step on innovation to support childbirth and the reasons we are so unwillingly to address women's health challenges.
Included in the conversation is a reading from 'The Vagina Business' reflecting on one woman's sale strategy all based on what she wears.
Marina Gerner is an award-winning financial journalist and columnist. Her work has been published in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, the Times, Financial Times, the Guardian, and Wired.
She is an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and has a PhD from the London School of Economics.
Her ideas and research for this book have been awarded grants from the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Society of Authors.
She was born in Kyiv, has lived in Frankfurt and New York, and is based in London.
'The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women's Health' is out now.
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Dahlia is joined by Katie Hart to discuss the topic of Neuromarketing, what it is and how it impacts our stress levels, our decision making and our clothes.
Katie explains Neuromarketing is the place where neuroscience meets marketing helping us to make the decisions that shape who we are. She explains that 95% of our decisions are driven by our subconscious and gives some tips on how we become more self aware.
The conversation includes:
-An explanation of how stress can impact our decision making and attitude to risk
- Why we force ourselves to spend time in a 2D Digital world but our brains are not always designed for it
- Why our dopamine rush is linked to the anticipation of doing thng - and the reality can be an anti climax
- Top tips on understanding how neuromarketing can help you dress with authority
- A reflection on why our underwear can make us feel invincible!
Katie Hart has created a career out of bringing together psychology, neuroscience and marketing - disciplines which compliment each other, but are rarely used together to their full potential. Having studied and worked in this emerging field for over 15 years, she has a vast array of experience and knowledge which she confidently shares with her audiences.
Katie is passionate about ensuring marketers understand and appreciate the critical role humans play within the marketing process, and the challenges andopportunities these provide.
Her sessions are insightful and enlightening,making potentially complex neuroscience content accessible, digestible and fun.
In 2022, Katie completed a Masters in Applied Neuroscience, passing it with distinction. She utilises thisacademic knowledge to create innovative neuromarketing research, and identify unique opportunities on behalf of her customers (who include Unilever, Honda and Lloyds Banking Group).
As a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Katie is also a tutor for the world renowned CambridgeMarketing College, specialising in Customer Insights.
Katie has deliveredsessions for small and large groups, within a wide range of corporate settings, a number of schools and even as part of an ongoing programme within prisons.
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Dahlia is joined by Jodie Jackson, and she has a revolutionary suggestion: a digital diet. We all know that excessive news consumption can be a doom loop of stress and overwhelm.
But what if we could change that?
Jodie's approach is about moderation and seeking out solutions journalism. She believes that by consciously choosing what we consume, we can find hope, focus on the good, and move from feeling stressed to well-dressed.
Join Dahlia in this episode as she explores digital detox, mindful media consumption, and the power of solutions journalism to create a more positive and empowering online experience.
Listen to the end to hear a very personal reflection on the feelings that the news can brin when you fixate too much on specific stories, how our brain tries to keep us 'safe' and how to gain some perspective amidst the noise.
Jodie Jackson is a leading expert in the impact of news on mental health. As the founder of the News Literacy Lab, she uses the science of wellbeing and the principles of positive psychology to help people navigate the news to not only make better sense of the world, but to feel more empowered to act within it too.
Her popular book, "You Are What You Read: Why Changing Your Media Diet Can Change the World," and the kids' book, "Little Ruffle and The World Beyond," show how we can engage constructively with problems and chart a positive path forward. With a Master's in Positive Psychology, Jodie's a key player in the Constructive Journalism movement, spreading wisdom worldwide through workshops, talks, and innovative education programs.Topics include:digital diet
solutions journalism
mindful media
doomscrolling
wellbeing
stress management
digital detox
mental health
hope
optimism
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Can doubt be a good thing? We are living in our confidence era but this conversation is about why we should sometimes embrace our doubt.
Dahlia is joined by Jenny Williams, Executive and Systemic Team Coach to discuss the link between stress, dress, confidence and doubt.
Dahlia and Jenny discuss the concept of well-dressed as a state of mind, exploring how to use a balance of self confidence and doubt to create a positive mindset.
Jenny explains ''Doubt is the start of change. It's the start of getting curious and creative about things. If you don't have doubt you stay in the same box.'
Jenny shares her experience of working with leaders in multiple organisations, explaining why it is important to bring doubt into the conversation as a leader and how to use it to challenge the thinking within a team.
The conversation helps listeners:
1. Understand how to use doubt to your advantage
2. Recognise how to get confident with having doubts.
3. Know when to recognise you are stuck in indecision.
4. How to have the confidence to move to action.
After all, Dahlia and Jenny conclude that leaders need to lead with 'A well dressed mindset and a little bit of doubt'
Jenny is a highly skilled Executive and Systemic Team Coach. Running her own coaching business for the last 12 years working with CEO’s, VP’s, and other talented individuals and teams to make lasting change.Prior to coaching, she worked at a senior level in marketing and sales for 17 years in the UK and as the Global Creative Director for Nokia and worked for Mars Confectionery, News UKand as a consultant for L’Oréal; all with different cultures, structures and systems. This first hand experience allows her to deeply understand client’s organisational context.
Jenny has lectured at Cambridge University on Leadership and Entrepreneurship.
'Stressed But Well Dressed' addresses topics linked to stress, clothes and confidence helping listeners to understand how to set themselves up for success through unlocking what Dahlia defines as a 'well dressed mindset'.
Each episode tells a new story of how what you wear influences how you feel, and how finding the right clothes for you can contribute to your success.
Dahlia is joined by a weekly guest to discuss how they use their style as a way to shape their identity and personal brand.
Guests include psychologists, authors, actors, television presenters, fashion designers, engineers, founders and even Barbie herself.
Listen to hear the link between clothes, confidence and mindset.Topics covered include
confidence
leadership
stress
doubt
challenge
psychology
coaching
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Dahlia and Hannah tackle the challenging subject of adult acne and share their personal experiences of living with skin issues for a period of time.
They discuss the fact that well dressed is a mindset and that it doesn't matter what you wear if your confidence is challenged because of how you feel.
The conversation includes a very raw experience of how it feels to live with acne - with a particular focus on how it felt to have to face others while managing the condition.
Adult acne impacts 40% of people and Dahlia and Hannah are hopeful that sharing their stories will help to break the acne taboo.
Hannah is an expert in stress and burnout prevention working primarily with people in the tech world. She works with tech pros and consultants to mindfully navigate stress and prevent burnout to enable them to be more impactful at work, more present with their families and to live a happier, healthier and more purposeful life.If you are suffering from adult acne here are the resources that Hannah recommended in the podcast:
1. Acne is just one symptom of chronic stress. Get abetter understanding if you're experiencing chronic stress by downloading theMy Stress Symptoms checklist here:
https://hannahholden.co.uk/stress_symptoms\
2. The LinkedIn article by by Rakesh Anand, ConsultantDermatologist at Guys & St Thomas’s hospital:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rakesh-anand-46081838_ad-drrakesh-dermatology-activity-7169285258926870528-9AW7/
3. Recommended reading:
The Microbiome Solution: ARadical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out. By Dr Robynne Chutkan (Author)
Find out more information at: https://hannahholden.co.uk
'Stressed But Well Dressed' addresses topics linked to stress, clothes and confidence helping listeners to understand how to set themselves up for success through unlocking what Dahlia defines as a 'well dressed mindset'. Each episode tells a new story of how what you wear influences how you feel, and how finding the right clothes for you can contribute to your success.Dahlia is joined by a weekly guest to discuss how they use their style as a way to shape their identity and personal brand.Guests include psychologists, authors, actors, television presenters, fashion designers, engineers, founders and even Barbie herself.Listen to hear the link between clothes, confidence and mindset.
Topics covered include:
skincare
stress
confidence
health and wellness
health and wellbeing
psychology
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