The Everyday Icon Style Podcast

Episode 155: From Closet to Corner Office

• Tiffany Howard

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Have you ever wondered how your wardrobe could be the key to unlocking your career potential? In this episode of the Everyday Icon Style Podcast,I'll guide you on a transformative journey to align your inner confidence with your corporate style. We explore the crucial connection between your personal values and professional image, diving deep into the practices of mindfulness, meditation, and seeking mentorship to nurture your self-worth. Discover how embracing your unique identity can naturally enhance your presence, from your posture to your attire, making you stand out in any corporate setting.

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Ignite your style with the Everyday Icon Style Podcast. I'm Tiffany, your style navigator and confidant here to lead women in corporate America on the quest to discover their timeless style. Let's revolutionize your wardrobe, empower your confidence and embrace your inner icon. Are you ready to redefine your corporate chic? Then let's get started. Are you tired of feeling overwhelmed by your wardrobe? I've got just the thing for you. Download my free guide Stylish Organized Wardrobe Made Easy and discover 10 simple steps to declutter, identify key pieces and create a style that's uniquely yours. Head to the description box of this episode to grab your copy to start your journey towards a more stylish, elevated and organized you. Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Everyday Icon Style Podcast. I am your host, tiffany, and today I want to talk to you about two important ways that transforming your look, about how you can transform your look from within.

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Here's the thing when it comes to developing your style. Your style is an extension of who you are on the inside, so we want to bring the inside to the outside. So I hope that kind of gives you an idea of a great place to kind of start from if you're not sure where to start. It doesn't start with clothes, or it starts with your closet per se. I would say your closet is the second, but the first is your inside and you want your outside to shine. So you want to bring your inside and extend it to your outside. So I want to go over two quick ways to help you with doing that and why it's important. So the first is cultivating inner confidence and your self-worth, which we all sometimes struggle with. So your outward appearance is a reflection of your inner confidence and self-worth. So in corporate America, cultivating a strong sense of self-worth and confidence is crucial, even with everything going on, because we're not paid necessarily what we should be paid, we aren't given the opportunities that we know that we should be given, overworked, all of those things. We still have to find our own sense of self-worth and not rely on our job position to do it for us, because unfortunately, we will be let down every time. Now this will involve self-acceptance, recognizing your value and celebrating your unique identity, because no one's going to celebrate us more than the way we do.

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So when you embrace who you are and feel confident in your abilities, it will naturally rad through your demeanor, your posture and even your choice of attire. Remember that part even your choice of attire, because when you don't feel good, what are you going to put on? You're going to put on comfortable clothes. You're going to put on clothes that make you feel good warm, fuzzy, comfortable, cozy clothes not saying that you can't do that for work, but it it's. Your whole vibe will be off and sometimes next time you get dressed and what you put on, take notice of how you feel when you're in sweats and when you're dressed and say you have on a dress. I want you to kind of take notes of how you feel when you try and dress in two different ways and then let me know what your findings were. With that, with confidence, it's an attractive and powerful quality that enhances your presence in any corporate setting. Here are some practical steps Mindfulness and meditation.

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This is key and critical to me. Regular mindfulness practices can help you with staying grounded and focused, reducing stress and increasing your self-awareness, especially the meditation, because we are tried at work all the time. So just being able to find a few minutes in the day whether it's before you go to work, in the car, on your way to work, after you park and you're in the parking lot just take a few minutes and just be mindful and do a quick meditation before you go in and tackle the day. Here's another one Professional coaching or mentoring. This is where I can definitely say I didn't take advantage of or didn't utilize as much. So I hope not that you take heed to what I'm saying and make sure you utilize this. You want to seek out mentors or coaches who can provide guidance and support in helping you build and maintain confidence in your professional journey, so kind of like getting your team together, your A-list team of people and mentors and coaches that can help hold you accountable and that can also help guide you through the pitfalls and the ups and downs of your career.

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Next, it's aligning your personal values with your professional image. Your look should be authentic and it should be a representation of your personal values and your professional aspirations. So for us, aligning your personal values with your professional image, it creates a cohesive and genuine presence. It also means dressing in a way that not only respects the corporate dress code, but also reflects your cultural heritage, your personal style and your professional goals. When your appearance aligns with your values, it will foster authenticity and integrity, making you feel more comfortable and empowered in your work environment. I said, it makes you feel comfortable. I really don't care what some other people feel. If they feel uncomfortable in the midst of your greatness, that is no longer our problem. That is theirs that they have to work on. Ours is to make sure that we and that you are comfortable in your greatness.

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That could probably be the end of the podcast episode today, but I'm going to have a few tips, because I also know that we are always working on this, and it is something that I think I don't do this enough, but I'm in the process of working and changing that, and if you are not, I want you to also begin to change this as well. How do we do this? Personal style exploration? I want you to take time to explore and define your personal style. Consider how it aligns with your values and your professional image.

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Goal-oriented dressing, dress in a way that reflects your professional aspirations, choosing outfits that make you feel empowered and ready to take on new challenges. This is where we want to start. I want us to become mindful and focus on how we can bring our full packages together, because during my journey over the past two months, I have realized that I am probably overqualified for a lot of the jobs that I am applying for and know that I can go and do the things at the next level. But now I kind of have to make it kind of shift a little bit to where me really taking heed to doing my personal style exploration and to making it a little more goal oriented and being intentional and mindful when I build out my wardrobe moving forward. So I just want you to keep these few tips in mind.

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I was trying not to go on large tangents here today, but if you want to know more or want me to go deeper and talk about this a little more, let me know over on LinkedIn or Instagram. Everything will be in the description box below and, as promised, this episode is going to be short, sweet and to the point. So I hope you guys have an amazing rest of your day. I hope this episode helps you reflect and really think about how it is that you want and see yourself moving forward and reaching your career goals and aspirations through your style development. So, again, with all of you guys, have an amazing rest of your day, stay healthy, stay safe, and I will talk to you guys next week in the next episode.