660 Transform Today with Stacy London

"IMAGINE WHAT PEOPLE DON'T DO BECAUSE THEY'RE AFRAID OF THEIR ASHAMED.” A lot of people I know have a greatness inside of them, but there’s something holding them back. That thing is their self esteem. Without self esteem, you can be the best in the world, but no one will ever know because you’ll be too afraid to put yourself out there. This can be one of the hardest things to overcome, but honestly there’s an easy solution to start building your confidence - style. Changing the way you look will give you an instant feeling of change, and to go more into it I wanted to bring you a good friend of mine who knows this subject more than anyone else: Stacy London. You may know Stacy from the shows What Not to Wear, Access Hollywood, and even the Today Show. Her knowledge of style has helped change people’s lives. Learn what style can do for you, on Episode 660. In This Episode You Will Learn: How the world is changing (00:36) What Stacy would cure if she had unlimited money (1:26) How style affects self esteem (2:17) Why Stacy loves style (2:46) How style has changed people’s lives (3:36) Plus much, much more! Get more from Lewis! Get my New York Times Bestselling book, Make Money Easy! Get The Greatness Mindset audiobook on SpotifyText Lewis AIYouTubeInstagramWebsiteTiktokFacebookX

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• 0:00Lewis Howes?

  This is Five Minute Friday!

• 0:10Lewis Howes?

  Stacy London has become a good friend of mine over the last year. And she started her career as a fashion editor at Vogue and transitioned into being a stylist for celebrities and designers. She moved into television by co-hosting What Not to Wear on TLC with Clinton Kelly and doing fashion reporting for Access Hollywood, The Early Show, and The Today Show.

• 0:36Speaker 01

  But I do think that in so many ways, the world is so screwed up right now, right? And then in so many ways, I think there's all this kind of beauty coming to the fore because you have an entire generation of people who are starting to think differently about the world and about themselves. And it's starting with an individual actually does have a ripple effect into a community, and communities have a ripple effect into organizations. And organizations have a ripple effect into places all over the world. And it's the first time that we're sort of connecting those dots. So as far as we've come technologically, I think in a lot of ways, we're finally spiritually kind of connecting. And I don't mean that in a religious sense.

• 1:21Speaker 01

  I mean that in a humanist sense.

• 1:25Lewis Howes?

  Interesting. If I was able to give you enough money to solve one challenge or one problem in the world, that was like, here's a lump sum. However much it takes, it's going to solve and cure something. What would you put that money towards?

• 1:38Speaker 01

  Low self-esteem. I mean, I could say I'd love to cure cancer, but I think that...

• 1:44Lewis Howes?

  Low self-esteem maybe causes a lot of cancer for people too.

• 1:46Speaker 01

  Exactly. It also causes depression and suicide and all sorts of things. But I just forget about the extremes of all of that, right? Low self-esteem. If somebody felt just that little bit better about themselves every day, like imagine what they could do. Imagine the things that people don't do because they're afraid or they're ashamed. And if you could get rid of fear and shame in someone and make them value themselves more, I feel like they would be unstoppable. Do you think style helps with increasing self-esteem? Or are there other elements to this? Yes, I do. And I think, I would like to say that I am one of the pioneers of at least talking about it in that way.

• 2:31Speaker 02

  It's the mechanism for helping the process.

• 2:34Speaker 01

  Right. I'm not a psychologist. I can only lend my experience, my life experience to what I know to be true and the conversations that I've had with people about how they feel. What I love about style is that it is the quickest, fastest, easiest way for somebody to see themselves differently because it's based on what you see, right? And that triggers the brain in a really funny way.

• 2:59Speaker 02

  It doesn't take months to transform like health or something else. You could do it in 10 minutes.

• 3:04Speaker 01

  Exactly. Whereas like changing your diet and starting an exercise regime, a lot of the time feels punishing. Right? Style, right. Style doesn't have to feel that way. That's a, it's a quick fix. I like to think of it not as a quick fix like, I'm just gonna have the shot of heroin and then, you know, I'm going down the wrong path and not doing anything. I like to think of it as a shortcut to believing that you can do other things. I mean, I can't tell you, there are so many stories from What Not to Wear that it was never about what happened on the show. It's what happened to these people after. You know, they would leave bad marriages. They would have better relationships with their kids. They would get promoted. They would leave bad jobs.

• 3:46Speaker 01

  They thought so differently about what they were able to accomplish based on the fact that they just didn't think they could even rock a short haircut.