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Ignite your style with the Everyday Icon

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Style Podcast . I'm Tiffany , your style

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navigator and confidant here to lead women

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in corporate America on the quest to

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discover their timeless style . Let's

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your confidence and embrace your inner

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icon . Are you ready to redefine

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today . Now let's get into

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today's episode . Hi

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everyone , and welcome back to the Everyday Icon

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podcast . I'm your host , as always , tiffany

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, and today I want to discuss why

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it's crucial and critical for us

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to prioritize our style

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in 2024 . Now

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, if you're in a job now

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or looking for a job , such as I am

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, you know that the

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bar has been raised with what

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we need to do nowadays , besides our

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resumes , our LinkedIn

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profiles and everything in between

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. We forget that our personal

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style and our corporate style

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is the key to our success

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. I want you to think of it as your

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visual business card

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, because guess what ? First impressions

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are everything and before you say hello

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, your style and how you

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look will dictate and

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probably help tailor what

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someone thinks or feels about

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you in less than seven

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seconds , and nowadays it might

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even be less than that . So , whether

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you are going to an in-person

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interview or a still doing virtual

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interviews , I want you to take

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hold of this with just even

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not just going on interviews , but

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just trying to get to the next

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level and positioning yourself for success

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in your all-around career . So

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the first one is empowerment and

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self-expression . Now

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, corporate style just isn't about dressing

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the part . It's actually a form of self-expression

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and in these few

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years the past COVID we

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have been able to bring that a little

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bit more to the workplace . Many

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moons ago , when I started my career , I

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was very . It was very traditional , very

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stuffy , very business suits

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, blouses , heels

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, minimal makeup , hair

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in a bun , straight hair

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. Now we can begin

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to bring ourselves a little bit to

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the workplace , and what great and better

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way to do that is through your

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style and with this

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it gives us the opportunity to

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assert our unique identity and personal

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brand through our style choices . So

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, whether it's bold , it's a bold suit

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or it could be a subtle accessory as

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a brooch or a necklace , or even

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a watch , or even glasses

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, being able to embrace

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a distinct corporate style allows us

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to showcase our personality

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and insert our presence in the workplace

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. If you're walking around sort of

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like and I can actually say because

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I am her like a plain Jane , you

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kind of blend in with everyone else

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. But a great way to stand out

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is through how you dress

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, in your style , especially if you're

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looking to transition from one

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level role to , say , a manager

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level or an executive or

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c-suite level . Having a

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style and curating a style will be able

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to help you with doing that as

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well . Next

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is our career advancement and visibility

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. In order to get to where we want to go

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in our careers , guess what ? We have to

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be seen , and this is a

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perfect way to be seen because

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it can significantly impact how

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you're perceived and evaluated in

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your professional space If

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you show up every day , say if you're

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someone that may roll out of bed . You're

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going to see that person completely different

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, as someone that's coming into the office

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dressed as business casual or

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smart casual , and you'll

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say you know what ? I want to listen to this person

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more than I want to listen to this person that

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looks like they still have on their pajamas . And

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all of this goes for whether you're in person

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or if you're virtual as well . All

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of this is key because they're

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taking notes and trying to figure

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out can this person go

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and be in the role that they

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want to be in and what separates

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them from that ? And with a professional

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image and not even I think

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I'm starting to hate the word professional image

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. So

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when you start to begin and create your visual business card , it can open doors to your career

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, advancement and opportunities , because you never know who's watching and never who's

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paying attention . Remember , it is always

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in the details , and

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these even includes everything

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, not just our attire , but how we groom

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and our overall presentation . And

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Eve , here's another thing too as

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women , we can even command respect

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and authority by enhancing

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our visibility and influence

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within our organizations , because

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when you come correct

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and they see you in a certain light and you

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dress a certain elevated way

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, people

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will take notice and begin to pay attention a little more . Next

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, we have networking and building relationships

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, and

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this , I think , has kind of fell to the wayside over the past few years . But now

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, with the ever and changing environment and I work

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again , I work in recruiting as a

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coordinator , so now

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it's kind of different . Remember

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the old saying it's not what you know , it's

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who you know . Why sync , I think

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and believe that is going back

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to that same additive

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to where we it's not what we , but

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it's who we know . So you

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have to either , whether it's networking outside

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of your company , whether

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it's networking inside of your company , networking

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and relationship building are

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literally essential for success

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and

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our style . It plays a crucial role in making a memorable impression and forging meaningful connections

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with either your clients , your colleagues and

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even potential mentors , because we're always

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looking for that next mentor . So

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it could be a networking event or

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a client meeting . When we

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dress and when you dress with confidence and

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authenticity I can't speak . It

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can help us build rapport and establish

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trust . How

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you dress can establish trust

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. Think about your role

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and what industry you're in

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, and people have to trust

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you , especially if you're selling them something

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you have to trust me , right , and

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I'm sitting here talking about how to build

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confidence through style and building and

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discovering your style . You

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have to trust me . And guess what ? How I

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dress also reflects

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whether or not you can trust me into

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helping you build and elevate

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your style . And all of this , of course

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, is a work in progress , but

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it's something that we have to always keep

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in front of mind . So

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, to recap today's one , it

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is empowerment and self-expression

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, career advancement

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and visibility and

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networking and relationship

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building . So

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when we put all of this together , what

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does this kind of do ? It's also

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the building blocks of our personal brand

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, which brings everything

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together . It's a cross between our personal

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brand and our executive presence

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, which kind of brings all of this

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together . And your style

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is like your sort of like

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the nucleus or the icing on the cake

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, however which way you want to see it . It's sort of like the nucleus or the

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icing on the cake , however which way you want to see it , but it is very important

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and in 2024 and moving forward

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, it needs to be as part

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of your goals to help

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you achieve your goals , because

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sometimes in one of my past episodes

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I talked about how we

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always tend to wait until

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we get to where we're going to reward

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ourselves with wardrobe , but in reality

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, we need to begin to

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make it a part of , and helping

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us achieve and obtaining

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our goals . So

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I hope you enjoyed today's episode

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today as much as I did , and

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welcome if you are new today

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as much as I did and welcome if you are new . So , with all of that , I wish you

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guys have an amazing rest of your day , stay healthy , stay safe and

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, as always , be the everyday icon

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that you were meant to be .