Stressed But Well Dressed

Why we are stressed and undressed - and why it doesn't have to be this way!

Cindy joins Dahlia for the first episode of Series Six to share her unique perspective on living a happier, healthier life.

She shares her views on creating your own personal style and her tips to manage her stress which centre around how she chooses to live her life and her message of 'persistence, resilience and managing your own mind'.

Cindy also shares how her work as CEO and Founder of 'Make Love Not Porn' centres around social impact, helping to to raise awareness for more informed, more mindful and more value led sex education.

Her guidance is that we shouldn't be stressed when we are undressed and the discussion includes a very clear message on body positivity.

Cindy joins the podcast from her famous 'Black Apartment' in NYC.

Cindy Gallop is a graduate of Somerville College, Oxford, whose background is over 30 years in brand-building, marketing and advertising — she started up the US office of ad agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty in New York in 1998 and in 2003 was named Advertising Woman of the Year.

She is the founder and CEO of IfWeRanTheWorld, co-action software launched in beta at TED 2010 and subsequently written up and taught as a Harvard Business School case study, which enables brands to implement the business model of the future — Shared Values + Shared Action = Shared Profit (financial and social).

She is also the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn – ‘Pro-sex. Pro-porn. Pro-knowing the difference’ — a social sextech platform designed to promote good sexual behaviour and good sexual values, which she launched at TED 2009, and for which she has just raised $2million to build out MLNP.tv as ‘the Social Sex Revolution’.

As a result of the funding challenges she has encountered, she is raising the world’s first and only sextech fund, AllTheSky Holdings. She acts as board advisor to a number of tech ventures and works as a personal brand/life/executive coach and a consultant on brand and business innovation for companies around the world.

Business Insider named her one of 15 Most Important Marketing Strategy Thinkers Today, alongside Malcolm Gladwell and Seth Godin, and cited her as number 33 on their list of 100 Most Influential Tech Women On Twitter, and number one on their list of Top 30 People In Advertising To Follow On Twitter.

A collection of stores from a variety of Stressed But Well Dressed' guests looking at how clothes influence how we feel and how we act.

Tune in for a reflection on the link between Clothes, Confidence and a Positive Mindset and ask yourself:

Are you stressed or well dressed?

Marina Gerner: Season 5, Episode 6: Fashion, FemTech and the bra that could save your life

Daiva Bryne: Season 4, Episode 3: What to wear to win at poker

Sarah Edmonson: Season 3, Episode 10: Cult Fashion

Adrienne Cole: Season 3, Episode 7: The skin you are in

Dr Jo Gooding: Season 2, Episode 7: Getting Dressed

Adele Silva: Episode 4: Typecast

Paula Zucotti: Season 4, Episode 4: What to wear to predict the future

Dahlia Stroud in conversation with Jenny Williams in Season 5, Episode 3: The confidence to have a little bit of doubt

Katie Hart: Season 5, Episode 5: Neuromarketing and the decisions that make us who we are

Dahlia is joined by guest Loulou Storey to discuss the words we use to talk to ourselves, how we grow into our style and how to tell our the story of who we are through our clothes.

The podcast includes a walk down memory lane for Loulou, reflecting back on the defining moments that have shaped her own identity both during her teenage years in North Yorkshire and through her journey to London and then Brighton to develop her career in fashion.

Expect a raw, emotional and moving conversation about how we see ourselves, how we create our style, how becoming a mother impacts our style and how to create impact through what we wear.

Loulou's fashion career started on the shop floor, where she worked from the age of 14. By age 30 she was managing large teams for some of the biggest retailers in London’s West End - Anthropologie and Hobbs. She received a first in Fashion Marketing from The London College of Fashion where she discovered her passion for sustainable fashion.

Loulou became a style coach in 2016,  and works both in Brighton where she is based and all over the world - helping clients to uncover their unique style and to unleash their power through their clothes. She has witnessed first-hand how overwhelmed and confused so many people feel when it comes to dressing themselves, so Loulou developed a process that gave people the confidence to express themselves and to build a wardrobe tailored to their lifestyle. Loulou called it the Storey Style Method.

Using the Storey Style Method, Loulou encourages people to discover their own style by understanding their style taste, ambition and natural style instinct. She uses a style words method which helps clients to create a style that truly embraces who they are and ensures they are making the impression they desire.

A collection of stories from a variety of Stressed But Well Dressed guests looking at how clothes influence how we feel and how we act.

Tune in for a reflection on the link between Clothes, Confidence and a Positive Mindset and ask yourself:

Are you stressed or well dressed?

Guests included in this episode:

Paula Grizzard: Season 1, Episode 3 'Stand out for success'

Carolyn Mair: Season 1, Episode 5 'The psychology of fashion'

Alistair Vince: Season 2, Episode 8 'The power of perspective'

Lynsey Donoughue: Season 3, Episode 3 'Trailblazer'

Julia Hotz: Season 3, Episode 5 'Hotz Thoughts on Stress, Dress and Social Prescribing for Wellness'

Sarah Edmondson: Season 3, 'Episode 10 Cult Fashion'

Visha Kudhail: Season 4, Episode 2 'What to wear to spark joy'

Paula Zucotti: Season 4, Episode 4 'What to wear to predict the future'

Kate Ball: Season 4, Episode 5 'What to wear to be a life saver'

Nikki Alderson: Season 4, Episode 9 'What to wear to predict the future'

Dahlia is joined by Helen Oldham, Co-Founder of Lifted Ventures and NED to discuss all things founder related.

Helen shares her perspective on when to start when founding a business covering everything from understanding your market to developing your brand to gaining investment to having the confidence to turn ideas into action.

Included in the conversation are Helen's views on the rise of personal branding, the challenges that stop women from investing in organisations and some top tips on building your network.

Helen's top tips on where to start as a founder are:

- Know your market

- Know your brand

- Know your worth

- Know your network

- Turn your knowledge into confidence and take action.

Helen is Co Founder of Lifted Ventures. Lifted exists to increase the flow of early stage capital to female founders and promote the significant business benefits of backing women.

The Lifted Ventures flywheel has an angel network at its core, alongside investment literacy and preparation, a lively female founder community and consultancy.

She is a Board member of the UKBAA, and a member of the Women Angel Investment taskforce.Helen is also interim CEO of Conduit Connect, an EIS impact investment fund, impact investment educator and angel network.

Previously Helen was a Founding Board Director of multi award winning NorthInvest, and in 2020 she founded Fund Her North, a collective of women in VCs who support female founders to get equal access to finance.Prior to this Helen was Managing Director of the Yorkshire Post and The Scotsman.

A collection of stories from a variety of Stressed But Well Dressed guests looking at how clothes influence how we feel and how we act.

Tune in for a reflection on the link between Clothes, Confidence and a Positive Mindset and ask yourself:

Are you stressed or well dressed?

Includes highlights from:

Episode 1: Model Behaviour with Charlotte Clemie

Episode 2: Where do I belong? with Lizzie Martin

Episode 4: Typecast with Adele Silva

Episode 5: The Psychology of Fashion with Carolyn Mair

Episode 6: It's a shoo in with Gabby Rosenberg

Episode 7: In the bold print with Dally Kaur

Episode 8: Designer Kicks with Ed Cowburn

Season 2, Episode 3: Online Shopping with Gillian Geraghty

Season 2, Episode 10: Fashion Forecast with Joanna Blythe

Dahlia is joined by Caroline Keylock, Strategic Consultant and co founder of 'LookUp' an organisation that helps individuals have a fresh look at their career.

Caroline and Dahlia get really honest about how redundancy feels and how to take control. The discussion includes the motions that you need to go through post redundancy and how to use it to create a position of strength.

Caroline's top tips to manage your redundancy response include:

1. Find your people - know where your support will come from and utilise your network.

2. Take control of your situation as quickly as possible.

3. Stay curious and say yes to the weird assignments - you never know where it might take you!

Caroline's strategy work has included assignments with brands including CHANEL, GUCCI, Soho House, VICE and Victoria Secret. She is co founder of LookUp and also founded of BoardWomen a community driven business encouraging women into board sports.

A collection of stories from a variety of Stressed But Well Dressed guests looking at how clothes influence how we feel and how we act.

Tune in for a reflection on the link between Clothes, Confidence and a Positive Mindset and ask yourself:

Are you stressed or well dressed?

Includes highlights from:

Episode 1: Model Behaviour with Charlotte Clemie

Episode 4: Typecast with Adele Silva

Episode 5: The Psychology of Fashion with Carolyn Mair

Episode 8: Designer Kicks with Ed Cowburn

Season 2, Episode 8: The Power of Perspective with Alistair Vince

Season 2, Episode 9: Jobshare Revolution with Chloe Fletcher and Laura Walker

Season 2, Episode 10: Fashion Forecast with Joanna Blythe

Season 3, Episode 1: All dressed up and nowhere to go with Amy Rollings

Dahlia is joined by Kelly Swingler to discuss stress, dress and burnout. Kelly shares her personal journey of suffering from burnout twice, recovering and now working to help others avoid the dangers of getting burnt out.

Kelly explains how her burnout wasn't visible and how she used 'dress' to mask her underlying stress, appearing 'just fine' to the outside world. She was literally stressed but well dressed.

The conversation includes the red flags to watch out for that can be clear symptoms of burnout, practical tips to manage your stress and how to come back from burnout.

Kelly is the Burnoutologist, empowering Leaders to Banish Burnout in the changing world of work for themselves and their people.

Known for being a rebel and a rulebreaker, Kelly has been ripping up the rulebook since 2002 after realising that the way we are working isn't working, and how we are taught to define success is outdated.

Today, Kelly helps leaders all over the word to succeed without giving up their career or jeopardising their wellbeing by recognising that they are people too, which in turn creates better places to work for everyone.

This episode covers:

Stress

Dress

Burnout

Productivity

Work

Career

Lifestyle

Health and Wellbeing

Dahlia is joined by Marina Gerner to discuss the inspiration behind her new book 'The Vagina Business'.

Dahlia and Marina talk about the link between fashion, feelings and confidence and Marina explains her dress helps her get into role as an NYU professor.

Marina's shares her research on why we are so slow to develop innovation within women's healthcare and why she chose such a bold title for her book. She discusses the need to step on innovation to support childbirth and the reasons we are so unwillingly to address women's health challenges.

Included in the conversation is a reading from 'The Vagina Business' reflecting on one woman's sale strategy all based on what she wears.

Marina Gerner is an award-winning financial journalist and columnist. Her work has been published in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, the Times, Financial Times, the Guardian, and Wired.

She is an adjunct professor at the NYU Stern School of Business and has a PhD from the London School of Economics.

Her ideas and research for this book have been awarded grants from the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Society of Authors.

She was born in Kyiv, has lived in Frankfurt and New York, and is based in London.

'The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women's Health' is out now.