If I'm being honest, showing up online is something I still have to talk myself into sometimes, and I do this for a living!

This month on Thinking About is all about confidence, and this week we’re talking about the confidence to be online. So many of the people I talk to are carrying around the same fears about being online, and most of the time, they're holding themselves to a standard they'd never hold anyone else to.

So we're busting some myths, walking through what helps me (and the clients I've worked with), and hopefully leaving you feeling like maybe — just maybe — you do have what it takes to show up online. (I believe you do!)

In this episode, I'm talking about:

• Why showing up online feels unnatural for pretty much everyone
• Three myths that are keeping you from showing up
• Why editing, practice, and time are the actual secret
• Lowering the bar, finding an accountability buddy, recording on your best days, and treating content like a creative experiment
• The "one person" trick

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You know that feeling when you open your closet and nothing feels quite like you anymore? Maybe, ever since the pandemic, it's been a few years of sweats and working from home. Maybe your body has changed, your life has changed, and the clothes hanging in there feel like they belong to someone you used to be.

That's exactly where I was, and then Suzanne Colmer walked into my closet with her closet cleanse method and literally changed my life!

As one of Canada's premiere style and image consultants, Suzanne Colmer works with her clients to ensure they love their clothes and that their clothes love them back. She specializes in closet cleanses, size-inclusive personalized shopping, and Canadian curated capsule wardrobes that allow you to buy less and wear more. Often sought out by the media as a Canadian style expert, Suzanne has been featured locally on Global TV, and CBC and in the Globe and Mail and globally as Toronto's style consultant with Tourism Toronto.

Suzanne has a gift for making you feel seen, understood, and genuinely excited to get dressed again. I can’t wait for you to listen!

In this episode, we're talking about:

• The first step to reconnecting with your style when you have no idea where to start
• Closet cleanses are like cleaning out your fridge before you go grocery shopping
• “It's not you, it's your clothes"
• How to handle clothes you're saving for "someday"
• Suzanne's philosophy for her own closet – and why she shops on a one-in, one-out rule
• What "style words" are and why figuring out yours is a game-changer
• How to actually finish an outfit
• Suzanne’s take on trends
• The one piece Suzanne thinks almost everyone should own (can you guess what it is?)

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Connect with Suzanne Colmer

Follow Suzanne on Instagram!

Check out her website

Links from the episode:

The Diary of a CEO podcast

Good Hang with Amy Poehler podcast

My Friends by Fredrik Backman

New York Times Cooking

Jenn Eats Goood on Substack

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Somewhere between the girlboss era and a world that's constantly telling us to optimize, monetize, and move faster, I quietly forgot how to just... do something for fun. Not because it would make good content or even make me a better person.

Just because it felt good! Like, why can’t that be enough?

If your days have been blurring together too, or if you feel like you’re so restless you can’t even pay attention to a TV episode anymore, I feel you. Let’s do something about it! I cover a ton of ideas in this episode.

In this episode, I'm talking about:

• My complicated relationship with my phone
• Digital anhedonia: the reduced ability to enjoy real-world experiences after too much screen time
• Why hobbies are actually identity work – and what they have to do with your inner child
• The two big reasons hobbies matter: mental health and joy
• Embracing the beginner's mindset and doing things badly on purpose
• What I'm trying: diamond painting, coloring, craft afternoons, Duolingo, the library, cooking, Pilates, and my hobby wish list
• Three questions to sit with this week

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