Style and Substance

Style and Substance

By Elizabeth Cairns & Fiona HumberstoneBusinessEntrepreneurshipMarketing
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Style and Substance episodes

  • Our Hopes for You this Year
    Welcome back and happy new year lovely listeners. We are making a gentle return to the podcast and welcoming 2026 in by sharing some of our hopes for you this year. We hope you find something in our conversation that brings a little warmth this mid winter and inspires you for what it to come this year. Enjoy!

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    35 min
  • A Warm Invitation
    Happy New Year lovely listeners! Before we launch back in with season 19 next week we are so excited to bring you this bonus episode and share a very warm invitation to our first Style and Substance Retreat. Its taking place at Fi's beautiful home in the Surrey hills on Thursday 22nd and Friday 23rd January and we would love you to join us. For all the information you need and to book your place, you can find the details at https://www.thebrand-stylist.com/the-winter-retreat. Do come, we'd love to welcome you.

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    16 min
  • The Highs, The Lows, The Learnings and The Hopes - Review of 2025
    Our traditional review of the year is here., this episode Fi and I get personal about the challenges of 2025, the highs and the hopes for next year. Thank you for being part of this incredible community, we are so looking forward to 2026 and all that it will bring,

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    59 min
  • How to Get a Brand that Works and that Lasts - Part Two

    In part two of how to get a brand that works and that lasts, we are digging deep into the steps of the process. Fi is sharing the fundamental principles, the key steps and the most important thing to be paying attention to when you're building a powerful brand. We hope this will be a really sharable episode so do pass this on with our love to anyone you know who is brilliant and deserves the very best brand they can get.


    You can find The free Where to Start course on Fi's website here: https://www.thebrand-stylist.com/creating-your-brand-where-to-start


    The Podcast episode that walks through the Roadmap fi mentions can be found here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/your-roadmap-to-a-show-stopping-brand/id1653753664?i=1000648193262

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    47 min
  • How to Get a Brand that Works and that Lasts - Part 1

    Having a brand that works and that lasts really is something every brilliant business owner has the right to claim, but what does it take to get one?


    In this first of a two part series, we are digging in to what it really means to get a brand that will give you the credibility, momentum and ease in your business that you deserve. Fi shares her inimitable passion for branding and her 25 years of hard won insights in this conversation and we hope you will want to share it. If you know a business owner who deserves a knock out brand, then do pass this on with our love.

    Fi's Free Where to Start Course that she mentions can be found in the Brand Stylist Academy: https://www.thebrand-stylist.com/creating-your-brand-where-to-start. Enjoy folks and, as ever, thanks for listening.

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    56 min
  • Gratitude...An Essential Practice for Business - No Really
    In this episode, airing just before Thanksgiving in the US, we explore gratitude. More than a list of nice things or another self help task 'to-do, we see it as a powerful, science backed practice that reshapes the brain, strengthens resilience and reconnects us to the joy in our work. We touch on how gratitude widens perspective, helps us find meaning in the messy middle and becomes a quiet fuel for purpose led business. We close with the unexpected things we've both been grateful this year. We hope you find it useful and, as ever, thank you for listening.

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    25 min
  • The Existential Crisis Facing Creatives

    In this episode, we crack open the existential crisis so many creatives are quietly drowning in: when your hard-won brilliance suddenly feels… irrelevant. The rules of business have shapeshifted, the loudest are winning, and AI is nipping at everyone’s heels. Fi and I get brutally honest about what it means to stay true to your craft when the world keeps shouting “pivot!” and you’d rather set your laptop on fire.


    What do you do when your expertise took 10 years to build… but someone with a ring light and a knack for marketing is now the “industry leader”? Join us as we unpack the creative identity crisis of our era, the rise of AI, and the pressure to monetise your soul via prompts, courses, and whatever the algorithm wants this week.


    We are really digging in this week and hope you enjoy coming along with us.


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    1 hr 7 min
  • Letting Go ...Of Limitations

    This week, we dive into the subtle and not-so-subtle ways, we hold ourselves back in business and life. From shrinking our brilliance without even realising it, to clinging to what’s “kind of working” instead of what’s calling us next, this episode is our usual fairly frank exploration of fear, growth and self-belief.

    Expect a few gentle rants and the reminder that your brand and your life can only ever be as expansive as your thinking. Enjoy lovely listeners.

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    43 min
  • Your Questions Answered and a Look Ahead to 2026
    Welcome back lovely listeners to a new season. As we hurtle towards the end of 2025, we’re kicking things off with a relaxed catch-up and your questions answered. Honest reflections, practical insights, and a few laughs, just how we like it. Thank you to everyone who sent in questions and we're always open to more so please do drop us a line.

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    45 min
  • I Just Don't Want to be That Person ...

    Have you ever swallowed what you really want to say because you didn’t want to come across as that person? You know that feeling when perhaps you’ve been short changed and, at some level you know you deserve more, but this tiny voice in your head says ‘ugh, I just don’t want to be that person…’?” We’ve all felt it but when that emotion overrides everything, it can cost us more than just a little embarrassment.


    In this episode, we unpack the quiet tension so many women in business live with: wanting to honour our instincts and trust our boundaries, but fearing we’ll be misread or misunderstood or even not liked. We’ll explore why this conditioning runs so deep, how it erodes self-trust, and what it takes to reclaim your inner authority, without hardening or over apologising.

    We're posing the question; "How much of our energy goes into curating how we are perceived, rather than inhabiting who we actually are and getting what we really deserve?" and what is that actually costing us?

    Expect gentle truth-telling, a few nervous system insights, and some deeply practical ways to start trusting your “no,” and your instincts again.

    Because maybe being that person, the clear, kind, self-respecting one, is exactly who you came here to be.

    This is the last of this season before we head into half term and if you want something to look forward to you can book your place on our Style and Substance Christmas Lunch on 27th November, at the fabulous Jamie O's in London. Just head over to http://www.thebrand-stylist.com/events to book your place. We'd love to see you there!

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    43 min

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Style and Substance is a branding and business podcast brought to you by The Brand Stylist, Fiona Humberstone and The Empowered Entrepreneur, Elizabeth Cairns. Resourcing you with inspiration,…

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