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Hey, I’m Elsa Isaac - personal wardrobe stylist for ambitious women professionals.
I started this podcast because I want to have deep and meaningful conversations about the clothes we wear, and the impact personal style has on our lives. You’ll hear stories from beautifully daring women as they share their journeys of embracing themselves fully and showing up as their best selves.
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Episode 15: Style as Creative Communication and Confidence with Natalie Nixon
In today’s episode, Elsa welcomes friend and client, Natalie Nixon. They discuss Natalie’s upbringing in a family of textile artists, her take on the fashion industry as a business, and how her self-described “lazy default” to a nearly all-black wardrobe catapulted her into a journey of personal style, with Elsa as her guide. If you’ve ever opened your closet and thought, “Whose clothing is this? I don’t feel connected to it AT ALL!”, then this episode might be for you!
Creativity strategist Natalie Nixon is “the creativity whisperer for the C-Suite”. She is a highly sought after keynote speaker, valued for her accessible expertise on creativity, the future of work and innovation. She’s the author of the award-winning The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work and her firm Figure 8 Thinking, was named among the top women-led innovation firms by Core 77.
Natalie is a trustee of the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum; Vassar College; and Leadership+Design. Natalie received her BA (honors) from Vassar College, and her PhD from the University of Westminster in London. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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SHOW NOTES
0:36 - Elsa introduces today’s guest: Natalie Nixon!
1:36 - Natalie recalls what her relationship to clothing was like as a child
5:07 - Natalie expands on her early exposure to the idea of how clothing makes you feel an instant connection or disconnect from community
6:23 - Natalie shares her venture into entrepreneurship - and her struggles with what she calls her “lazy default”
10:12 - Natalie explains how the fashion industry is the only industry that understands what consumer behavior is driven by
11:46 - Elsa and Natalie discuss the importance of another point-of-view when your style is feeling stagnant
13:18 - Elsa and Natalie discuss why designers make some of the business decisions that they do
16:08 - Elsa chronicles how to take our power back as consumers who want to develop our personal style - and Natalie shares how working with Elsa made that process easy on her
20:37 - Natalie talks about how her personal style impacts her and the audiences she speaks to
24:35 - Natalie shares the connection between her love of learning and the creative process
31:12 - Elsa reflects the importance of the creative process and play when it comes to style
33:13 - Natalie shares who she looks to for style inspiration
35:37 - Elsa wraps up the episode