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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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revolutionize your wardrobe , empower

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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 . Hey everyone

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, and welcome back to the Everyday Icon podcast

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. I'm your host , tiffany , and today I'm

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going to be diving into a topic that might seem

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superficial at first , but it's

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actually very practical

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and maybe a little have some profound

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implications on our daily lives

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, and

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that's wardrobe optimization

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. Now , most people may think that clothing

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choices might seem trivial , but

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they influence how we're

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perceived by others and

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it also impacts our self-confidence and

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even affects our productivity . Shocker

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, I know , shocking to me as well , but today I want to talk about and give a few

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reasons why and how optimizing

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your wardrobe can help

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you in these areas . So

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let's start with number one personal

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branding and confidence boost . So

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your wardrobe is an extension of

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your personality and

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it serves as a tool for personal branding

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as well . Always remember , personal

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branding is part of discovering

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your style , because the personal branding

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is the total package and

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our style is a part of that . So

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how you dress communicates messages

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about your professionalism , your

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creativity and your attention to

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detail . So by curating

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a wardrobe that aligns with your personal

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brand and goals , you can

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strategically enhance how

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you're going to be perceived by others

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. And

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wearing clothes at the same time that

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make you feel confident can significantly

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boost your self-esteem and it

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can also empower you to tackle challenges

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with more assurance . So

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, say , if you have a presentation

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you have to do or you're meeting with this client that

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has been a hard to get client , by

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putting on an outfit that

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allows you to feel , gives you that extra

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confidence boost , will have

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you walking into that client meeting , closing

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the deal like nobody's business

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, and I think we forget how

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impactful our clothes can actually

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be one by how people perceive

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us and two , how we actually

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perceive ourselves . So

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number one is our personal branding

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and confident boost . Next

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up , it's time to simplify

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our decision with making

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and saving time . Time

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is important . Time is like

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currency , in a way , and once

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we lose it , we can't get it back . So

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have you ever stood in front of your closet or even

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thought or

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felt just overwhelmed by the

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plethora of choices that you have ? Well

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, here's the thing With wardrobe optimization

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it involves decluttering and organizing

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your clothes Hello , cleaning

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out your closet . Hello

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, cleaning out your closet so you can streamline and create a space that allows you to

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get dressed with ease . You're able to pick things out as you need

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to , and everything literally

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goes together and it should , because you

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want to create from this literally a

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mix and match wardrobe All the

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colors that you have , all the different styles that

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you have , no matter what you pull

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out , you

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can actually put them together . So by doing this , you eliminate decision fatigue and

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it saves you time every morning , afternoon or night , whenever , from going

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to work to going out , to hanging with

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friends , going on date night , and

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this is not adopting a minimalist

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approach . This is just making it

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easy for you by creating

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what I like to call your core wardrobe

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, to where you

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don't have to put so much thought

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into it . It might be something

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more of do I want to wear a skirt , or do I

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want to wear a dress , or do I want to wear

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pants ? Those are the type of decisions

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, but not sitting there and thinking about

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what am I going to wear ? Can

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I find what I'm supposed to wear

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? Can I fit what I'm supposed

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to wear ? Or throwing something on and saying

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, oh , this looks horrible on me and

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you have to start all over again . But

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by building and creating a wardrobe

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, your core wardrobe , it will

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help you streamline and simplify

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your decision making , which will actually

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save you a lot of time . And

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the last one is

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kind of something that most people don't

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talk about , which is your financial savings

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and long-term investments . But

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hear me out when we begin

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to build a well-curated core wardrobe

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, it just isn't about

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our style . It's about one

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simplifying our decisions , like I stated earlier . One simplifying our decisions

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, like I stated earlier , and

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it's also a savvy financial decision

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. High quality

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clothing may come with a higher upfront

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cost , but

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it will outlast the

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cheaper fast fashion cost . Now

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, I'm not saying you can't add fast fashion because you do want to have a part of your

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wardrobe . For me , I like to say it like this I'll

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say 70% of your wardrobe

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should be core , then

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another 15%

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should be a fast

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fashion I'm losing my train of thought

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here and the third part

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should be 15 capsule

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wardrobe and I'll do actually

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do a podcast about

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that as well . Just explaining to you

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why these , why you want

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this to kind of build out your wardrobe

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, because at the end of the

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day , and plus fast fashion can

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be kind of trendy . So it's here today , gone

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tomorrow . So we're trying to take away

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the trends , keeping your core

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, which is definitely your style , then

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also having the capsule

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, which are the classic , timeless pieces , of course

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, that everybody should have , and then a little razzle

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, dazzle and a little fun with

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your um , fast

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fashion wardrobe or trendy wardrobe

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. But by investing

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in durable pieces on the front end that stand

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to test the time , you're ultimately saving money

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. So you're not going to buying something every

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six months , every two to three years . These

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are going to last you a long

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time . So when you do this , you want

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to make sure that you love it and

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that you're going to wear it at

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all times , because these are going to be pieces

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that you're going to be able to wear

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and utilize over and over again

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, and so all

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this really means now is that now you

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have to adopt a more intentional approach to

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shopping , which will help curb

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the impulsive spending habits , which

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will also allow you to allocate your resources

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towards items that you truly , that you

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truly love and will add value

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to your life , and

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I think we sometimes get so

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caught up in oh I need this design

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or this , or oh , I gotta have a bunch of this

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. In reality , you don't . You just

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need to find good

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quality pieces , and even though

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you're going to pay it for the front ends , I

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promise you , over the

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years , you're going to get way

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more wear out of that than

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say , finding something that

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is here today , gone tomorrow . It

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might be trendy , today it might be a color

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or a dress that you're only going

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to wear maybe a season , and

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then that's going to go either to a thrift

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store or you're going to resell it online , but

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having things that you actually truly love

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. So , to recap what

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I went over today . Number one personal

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branding and confidence boost . Personal

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branding is key

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and your

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wardrobe helps , because it will help

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with communicating a message about

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your professionalism and how you

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want to be perceived , and I

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cannot stress this enough . That

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is the one thing that you can always

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control is how people

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and how you dress . Next

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, it is , of course , with building your boost

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of confidence . It will allow you and

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empower you to take on the day

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and tackle some presentation

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or client that you've been trying to get . It

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will make you feel like you can tackle

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and take on the world . Next

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, simplifying your decision

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making and saving you time . Time

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is also a form of currency and

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sometimes in the mornings we don't have time

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to do that to get dressed

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. Having this streamlined in your closet

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will allow you in cleaning it out , decluttering

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it and organizing it in

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such a way that you're able to go in and

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pull what you need to pull . Because everything

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in your closet will work and

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last the financial savings and long-term

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investment end

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because on the front . If you do it on the front end , you won't have to do it on the

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back end and you're not shopping and buying every six months , every year or

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every season , because that can be time consuming

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and we value our time

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and also we value our

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money . So I

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hope you enjoyed today's episode

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today . And one takeaway I want

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you to remember that your wardrobe isn't

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just a collection of clothes . It's

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a powerful tool for self-expression

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, productivity and

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sustainability , and it is

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an investment . So

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I hope you enjoyed today's

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episode today and , with all

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of that being said , I hope you guys

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have an amazing rest of your day , stay

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healthy , stay safe and

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, as always , remember

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to be the everyday icon that you are always

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meant to be .