In this episode I got sick and you can hear it..as someone who gets a cold once a year I couldn’t help but try and backtrack my last few months and unfortunately I came to the conclusion that I had severely overloaded my schedule, did not honour the basic human need of having lunch at a reasonable time that was earlier that 4pm and I stopped asking myself a fundamental question to what I think makes life fulfilling, “what do you want to do for yourself today?” From the moment we are put on this planet we are faced with an overwhelming amount of stimulation that guilt trips us into feeling like we must always be on the hamster wheel or else we “fail”. But we learn time and time again that this is no way to live and we can experience breaks in areas of our emotional, physical and mental space from it. I am not a doctor but I do love to talk about ideas. Come with me down the rabbit hole of why we feel there is no real great time to take a break.. even when you’re sick.

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I had a moment of realization where the average human spends most of their (day-time) life in the classroom from ages 0 to lets say.. 28 (my age). There always seems to be another 'level' of education we can explore and under any field of work for that matter. We can do the work anywhere at any time whether that be in the classroom, online or at home. This thought made me think really deeply on why school is so highly encouraged and following that thought is 'what do we get out of it?' Is the education system fool proof where once you graduate you're deemed to be the most well-rounded worker around? After reflecting on my own experience of graduating with a degree and then deciding to go back to school for design right after, I realized I have my own thoughts. From what I've lived through I believe there's an element to work and life that school does a great job teaching us while falling short on other areas. What are they you ask? Come hang out and see.

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Taylor has just finished unwinding after a non stop 72 hours. Let's just say that if a single day could feel like a week... this day would have easily been the Friday of the Vancouver Fall Home Show event. Taylor dives in to unpack the weekend step by step with you, from mental breakdowns and realizations, to unfortunate events hours before she steps on stage, to the design tips she shared during her presentation to help you design the furnished living space of your dreams. She's here to spill the tea on her experience because she had a lot of fun this weekend, and needless to say she's holding nothing back. 

Taylor's Layering List:
- throw pillows
- throw blankets
- candles
- diffusers
- coasters
- book ends
- vases/trays
- botanicals/flowers
- sculptures
- trinkets
- books
- pictures

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I feel like I've been holding back on design talk lately and over the past week, I've realized that I've been doing so because I'm terrified of having to describe a space to you using nothing but a microphone I got from Best Buy and my ability to translate..she's a visual girly for a reason.

But today is the day. I've decided to face my fear and give it a whirl. 

Over the course of my creative lifespan I have grown to have some pretty strong opinions of what I think is helpful in a design and what I thought were were sort of overrated. I am here to say that I have changed my mind on a few design details and so please join me as I do my best to share with you why.

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I had one question I use to despise when being interviewed, it stressed me out to the point where I would be stress sweating in whatever chair of the office I aspired to work at had. But now that time has passed, I'm better able to see the experience for what it is. I thought I could share my story with you and ways I've overcome the crippling discomfort. Over the years I realized that ultimately I felt threatened by the lack of my own self confidence but I like to think that I've grown since then and if there's anything I try to take out of a bad situation is a good old growth moment. This question tends to put a lot of people on edge and even tends to make the most confident people feel inadequate but let's experience this together shall we?.. so let me just ask you, do you have experience?

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For the first episode of It's All Perspective, Taylor decides to talk about the lovely language of communication from the lens of giving and receiving feedback.  Hopefully if you're going though a season filled with feedback or having to give it to someone, you'll find parts of this applicable in your life. Because needless to say with the nature of critique comes a level of discomfort and some may argue a potentially bruised ego that we all might struggle with from time to time.

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Welcome to It's All Perspective with Taylor Reiko. Taylor's here to shed light on everything recent from new design trends to new experiences and design tips. New episode out every Monday starting September 11th. 

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