Every person has a style, and every style deserves support. Enter your style strategy cheerleader and founder of BU Style, Natalie Tincher. Since 2010 Natalie has worked with hundreds of personal clients as well as large corporations and a major global news network—and she is here to guide you. In this podcast, you will gain clarity and insights on how to connect your style with your authentic self through Natalie's style expertise as well as interviews with other style-supporting guests lik ...
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Welcome to the podcast where we talk about how to raise our collective consciousness about what's possible and bring more ease and delight to the way we live, work and lead. I'm Sharon Lipovsky, host of Design Yourself and founder of Point Road Studios where I guide my clients to get clear on the direction they are headed, create the roadmap for how to get there and then take steps to realize their vision every day. In this podcast, I share the tools and resources that create breakthroughs i ...
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Style from the Inside Out: Throw Back Interview with Natalie Tincher | Summer Series 9
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Leadership is an embodied act. When we feel good, it shows. So it is perhaps not surprising that many executives are curious about personal style. Some people savor the act of dressing as an opportunity for individual expression. Others prioritize efficiency and ways to save time in the morning. No matter what the motivation, there is one person Sh…
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Industry Adjacent—Enclothed Cognition Is Your Sales Secret Weapon w/ Gina Trimarco
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Gina Trimarco is an expert communicator, here to talk with Natalie Tincher of the Wear Who You Are podcast all about Improvised Intelligence™ (improv-based emotional intelligence), how to show up authentically as yourself, and why enclothed cognition is your secret weapon in a sales context. If you're not familiar with the term, it refers to the sy…
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Routines Reimagined | Summer Series 10
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How we spend our days is how we spend our lives. Routine matters. It is a foundational building block that shapes what we do and how we do it. It seems simple enough: Make a choice each and every day to align with what matters. But it is not always that easy. How do you balance the short—and long-term priorities? How do you shift long-held routines…
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Building A Home | Summer Series 8
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Whether you have dreams of building your own home, are in the process of moving through a life transition or are just curious about Sharon’s new life in the woods, this week’s episode is for you. Sharon begins by sharing a glimpse into the reality of life in her new two room cottage in the Catskill Mountains of New York and then shares the connecti…
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Industry Insider—Kindness, Slow Fashion, and American Made w/ Doug Phillips of Conscious Clothing
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The Wear Who You Are team is back with an Industry Insider episode, featuring Doug Phillips of Conscious Clothing. Host Natalie Tincher is tapping into her Midwest upbringing for this conversation with the co-founder and owner of this sustainably and ethically made company, based out of Michigan. Conscious Clothing is notable for its commitment to …
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Marriage and Partnership | Summer Series 7
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Sharon reflects this week on work-life balance – or imbalance. She shares the marriage advice that stuck with her as she nears her wedding anniversary: “Marriage takes 100% effort to be successful, but rarely is it split 50-50. Sometimes it’s 60-40. Sometimes it’s 90-10. But it always takes 100% effort to work.” She shares how this framework applie…
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Nat Chat—How do I find affordable, ethical clothing? Plus, settling the denim-rise debate.
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The Wear Who You Are team is thrilled to be back with a Town-Hall style episode in which Natalie answers your important style questions. First up: are you on the hunt for stylish yet ethical clothing options that won't break the bank? Look no further! In this informative Nat Chat episode, Natalie delves into the world of ethical fashion and explore…
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Choose Your Own Adventure | Summer Series 6
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Every moment offers us a new choice. Will we be guided by the momentum of what has been or carve a new path forward? In this episode of Design Yourself Sharon discusses five tips for how to choose your own adventure and highlights what this guidance looks like in practice as she shares an adventure unfolding in her life right now. Stay Connected Fo…
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Bottling Up Summer | Summer Series 5
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Summer is a season of rapid growth – in our gardens, our home lives, and at work. What is your relationship to this season? What transformation might you like to spark in the weeks ahead? Join Sharon as she shares five prompts and personal reflections inspired by this season. Summer Series 2024 | Curated guidance and resources to guide and support …
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For the Sake of What | Summer Series 4
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Hitting goals is not enough. Don't get me wrong: I love to run after a bold and audacious goal. But goal achievement can't be the end aim. Goals naturally come and go. They are a way to focus our energy and attention on something. This episode of Design Yourself explores the guiding question: "For the sake of what?" For the sake of what are you wor…
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Living in the Question | Summer Series 3
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Have you ever found yourself in a place where your head keeps spinning on the same question (or set of questions)? But no matter how much energy you expend thinking about it, you can’t seem to come to a confident conclusion? You are not alone. We often get stuck on “unanswerable questions” because they are rooted in a way of seeing the problem limi…
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A Vision Meditation | Summer Series 2
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To lead a life of intention asks us to connect to what we desire. Simple in concept, but often hard in execution. Many things will grab our attention: Competing priorities; jampacked schedules; and people-pleasing habits - to name just a few. Many of us will falter on this path because we have been trained to act. When something is missing, we feel…
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Where Am I Now? | Summer Series 1
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We are halfway through the calendar year and officially into the summer season. It’s a natural time to take stock of how your year is going. What’s working? What’s getting in your way? What do you wish for? Do your answers inspire you to make any shifts as you head into the second half of this year? Let’s explore these questions in “Where Am I Now?…
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Consensus is not an evergreen goal. It is neither realistic nor a worthy goal to chase everyone agreeing all of the time. How can we promote productive dissent? How can we move forward as a team when we don’t all have the same opinion on what the path forward ought to be? Tune in to this Design Yourself show to discuss how to disagree and commit. S…
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Industry Adjacent—Much Ado About Styling: Actors on Headshots, Auditions, and Costuming w/ Kelly McCready
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How do you stand out in a sea of headshots? Kelly McCready (actor, writer/director, photographer, and creator of good things) explores the importance of bringing your individuality and authenticity into headshots and auditions. In this enlightening and educational conversation, she explores how headshots have changed over the years, sharing tips fo…
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I love a big-picture strategy, but sometimes the most important place to focus is right where you are. What supports us in being able to keep our heads down - with purpose? What gifts are received when we commit to immediate tasks? Explore together in this week’s Design Yourself Focus on This Effort. Stay Connected For show notes visit: https://poi…
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Weeds happen. In life and the garden, we confront valueless things that encroach on the priorities we want to cultivate. What lessons can we learn from digging in the dirt and listening to the birdsong? How can we move with intention as we remove what is undesired and create space for our visions to flourish? Join me in this Design Yourself episode…
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Style School—Shoe Care & Repair for Long-Lasting Wear
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Shoes are often one of our biggest wardrobe investments. They also do the most work for us—literally supporting our bodies throughout the day. So let's show them love by treating them with care to give you a long, prosperous, healthy relationship with them. In today’s “Style School” episode, I discuss the various practical ways you can care for you…
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Boredom: Friend or foe? For many of us, boredom is a luxury in our fast-paced lives. While some avoid it at all costs, boredom sparks enormous creativity and productivity. If we surrender to doing nothing, there are many opportunities to be bored in the mundane moments of life. What is your relationship with boredom? What distracts you from being p…
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Getting Out of the Whirlwind
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Demands on our time, attention, and other resources are real. For many of us, our default way of processing stress is to dig in and take action. This action orientation leads to a swirl of activity, which exacerbates the situation. How do we center ourselves in the middle of the storm? In this episode of Design Yourself, we discuss how to get out o…
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Transforming Complaints
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Frustrations are a normal part of life, but living in a state of frustration is exhausting. What is at the core of our dissatisfaction? How can we start to shift from this space into something new? That is what we discuss in this Design Yourself episode on transforming complaints. In this episode, we discuss: Why honoring our complaints is a necess…
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Nat Chat—From Mothers to Children: Style Wisdom Passed Down through Generations
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Who was the first person you learned about style from? It was likely your mother, grandmother, or another mother figure in your life. In today’s special Nat Chat episode, we talk about what we learned and carry with us about fashion and style from the mother figures in our lives, including my amazing mom, Jan. It may surprise you that she wasn’t in…
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What To Do When Everything Goes Wrong
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Things don’t always go according to plan. And sometimes it’s almost comical just how far off the rail our plans go. What can we learn from these experiences? How can we get back to our goals in a productive way that honors the realities of what we are experiencing? That’s what we discuss in today’s episode on What To Do When Everything Goes Wrong. …
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Industry Insider—Building a Shoe Brand Focused on Aesthetics and Ethics w/ Marine Braquet
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About a year ago, my friend Faith and I walked into Nomasei's Paris showroom and met its founders, Marine and Paule. What was supposed to be an hour-long appointment between strangers turned into two hours-plus that felt like old friends catching up—and that’s what my Nomasei experience holistically has been since that day. Marine and Paule left th…
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Be Your Own Inner Compass
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We are all on a path, and obstacles showing up is inevitable. How we respond is not. How do you determine how to move around barriers? Where do you look for guidance? What if you had the confidence to trust your inner wisdom? In today's Design Yourself episode, we explore together how to be your inner compass. In this episode, we discuss: The compo…
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Someone asks you if you'd like to join a particular gathering or experience. Quick - how do you respond? Do you think it through? Do you respond in the moment? We all have patterns around how we process decisions and that’s what we get into in today’s episode on Yes Habits. In this episode, we explore: Two types of yeses Methodical Yes Spontaneous …
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Nat Chat—Finding Your “Sole”mate
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Do you find yourself putting together a great outfit and don’t have the right shoes? Did you ditch your heels post-Pandemic but don’t have an appropriate replacement? Today’s Nat Chat episode is the first of multiple episodes dedicated to footwear. In it, I walk you through my process of identifying your shoe needs and how to thoughtfully fill in y…
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Who you are today is the guide to who you will be tomorrow. What wishes do you have for your future self? What wisdom do you want to be sure to carry with you? In the episode of Design Yourself, we explore questions to inspire Future You. Stay Connected To book your 1:1 Vision Reading: https://pointroadstudios.com/product/vision-reading/ For show n…
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Humans can adapt, but so can systems. What happens when we spend the majority of our time caught focusing on what we have to do…and we don’t focus on what is problematic about the way we do things? In this week’s episode, we challenge the notion you always hold the answer and instead remind listeners that it’s not your fault. Stay Connected To book…
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Vision Alignment: Tapped For A New Opportunity
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Human beings are interconnected, and we really can accomplish more together. But when it comes to visioning, how do we know what’s ours versus someone else? How can we connect what someone else sees as possible to what we really want? That’s what we get into in today’s Design Yourself episode on Vision Alignment: Tapped for a New Opportunity. Stay …
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Industry Insider — Sustainability, Self-attunement, and the Power of Pima Cotton w/ Eleanor Turner
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Today’s guest, Eleanor Turner, knows fashion and production very well. After many years working with the likes of J. Crew, Tory Burch, and Argent (co-founder), she founded her company, The Big Favorite, with a drive to be part of the solution to overconsumption and pollutants. Her designs offer long-lasting foundational pieces, created with simplic…
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Productivity is a dead-end pursuit. Our to-dos will always fill whatever space we give it. How can we let go of the habits driving us to do more, better, faster? How can we make time for what matters most? In this episode of Design Yourself we explore: Our relationship with time; Examples of how time influenced the daily routines of artists Sylvia …
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Our stories shape us. They form the fabric of not just where we are coming from, but also what we believe is possible. Stories forecast our future. How do we find the pulse of our narrative? How do we decide what’s working and what is getting in the way? How do we understand what’s my story versus what’s our collective story? Let’s explore in this …
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Nat Chat—Facing Our Fashion Fears Together
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Cue the confetti! We’re celebrating one year of Wear Who You Are! In today’s episode, I’ll share what I’ve learned in the last year of creating a podcast and how this community has connected with it. In the spirit of learning and growing, I’ll share one part of my style I’ve avoided figuring out what wearing who I am could look like for years. Now,…
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What do you want to be when you grow up? Are you already living that life? Are you curious about the road not taken? In this episode of Design Yourself, we cast aside the artificial constraints of what is true right now and play with what we might create with imaginary lives. Links and Resources To book your 1:1 Vision Reading: https://pointroadstu…
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Industry Insider—Behind the Scenes at NY Fashion Week w/ Sadia Seymour
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You may not think that Fashion Week applies to you, but it does. Remember how Miranda Priestley (played by Meryl Streep) curtly schools us on the subject of “cerulean” in The Devil Wears Prada? In today’s episode, my guest, Sadia Seymour, and I more warmly and gently invite you to come with us for a peek behind the fashion world curtain. Sadia is a…
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Turns out, there are a lot of things we can’t control. That’s part of what makes life so precious: It’s unexpected. Sometimes miraculously joy-filled. Othertimes cripplingly painful. How do we recognize when we are swept up in the swirl of life? How do we find our footing in the middle of a tsunami? That’s what we discuss in this Design Yourself ep…
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Style School—How to Calculate Cost per Wear to Shop Smarter
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My high school pre-Calculus teacher used to say, “How do you spell ‘math’? F-U-N!” I always vehemently disagreed until I learned about the ‘cost-per-wear formula’! Cost per wear is a calculation I use before I buy anything and another tool I use with my clients as we consider what investing in their wardrobe should look like. In today’s Style Schoo…
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Do you dream of a change in your life? Maybe it’s about getting to the next level of your career. Or maybe there is a long held creative desire, like being a part of an award-winning show or publishing a best selling book? Today we talk about how to move toward your big dreams in a sustainable and powerful way in this episode of Design Yourself on …
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There are so many questions to process in our lives - and even more answers to sift through. Our intuition is our quick-thinking guide. But many of us don’t listen. What gets in the way of tapping into our instinctive internal whispers? How can we tune into our ability to understand something right away? That is what we cover in this Design Yoursel…
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Style Story—Self-love and Self-acceptance Lead to Style Expansion w/ Mystral Echavarria
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It’s a special Valentine’s Day episode with a client I love dearly, Mystral Echavarria. I will never forget the day that Mystral called me inquiring about working together. Her energy, curiosity, kindness, and strength radiated through the phone — and then when I got into a room with her . . . woah! She shines bright! I often feel like I leave our …
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Words matter, but the emotions behind the words matter more. That energetic exchange that sits beneath the surface makes a huge impact in our ability to connect and collaborate with others. So how do we do this? And what’s one emotion that makes all the difference? That’s what we discuss in this Design Yourself episode on leading with love. Join in…
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You have been told, how important it is to listen and care for others. And it is. But it requires us to do the same for ourselves. How can we give, when our own buckets aren’t full? What does it look like for us to practice this tender concern for ourselves? That’s what we discuss in this Design Yourself episode on Self Empathy. Join in to discuss:…
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Baby Steps to Giant Leaps
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The wildest, dreamiest things start from the smallest of steps. How can we be more mindful of how what we do today connects to where we dream of going? What practices support us on that path? That’s what we get into in today’s episode on Baby Steps to Giant Leaps. Links and Resources To book your 1:1 Vision Reading: https://pointroadstudios.com/pro…
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Industry Adjacent—Makeup as Another Medium to Wear Who You Are w/ Rebecca Robles
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Rebecca Robles has been part of my company, BU Style, for a few months now as our beauty specialist. The energy and expertise she has brought to our team has been incredibly invigorating. Our conversation for this episode covered a lot of ground. My favorite aspects were learning about her makeup and beauty ideology, and then how Rebecca’s two prof…
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We live and work in a complex world. The markets, environments, and circumstances in which we operate are changing rapidly. How can we evolve our leadership to find new, compelling, and sustainable solutions? How can we spark transformation from the inside out? That’s what we discuss in this episode of Design Yourself on adaptive leadership. Links …
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Nat Chat—Styling Your Wardrobe: Tips and Strategies for Maximum Impact
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In this Nat Chat, we delve into the world of styling and self-expression through your wardrobe choices. I believe strongly in buying better and buying less. Each piece in your closet should have multiple ways to wear it—and each way can be a tool in showcasing all the dimensions of your unique style brand. Knowing how to maximize the use of your cl…
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The Art of Incompetence
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I'm going to let you in on a little secret today. Those spaces where you feel most clumsy and lacking in ability offer incredible growth opportunities. But not if you sit around judging yourself or worrying about what other people think. In this episode of Design Yourself learn how to cultivate the mindsets that will accelerate your learning as we …
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Discerning What's Right For Me
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Happy New Year! Tis the season full of calendar-driven inspiration about how to make this year the best one ever. Words of the year, themes of the season, goals, resolutions and intentions abound. How can you avoid getting caught up in trends and move to the beat that works best for you? That’s what we get into today's Design Yourself episode on Di…
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Celebrating 200 Episodes of Design Yourself
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Celebrating milestones is a foundational leadership practice that supports us as we build positive momentum toward our goals, strategies, and - ultimately - our vision, mission, and purpose. In today's episode, Point Road founder Sharon models this practice as she pauses to celebrate and reflect on 200 episodes of Design Yourself. Learn about what …
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