134. The Psychology of Style with Lauren Messiah

Lauren Messiah

April 10, 2018

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Lauren Messiah is a Los Angeles based personal stylist, speaker, educator, and style expert. Lauren has a unique ability to change the way people feel about themselves that enables them to become the versions they want to be. Lauren provides high-end 1-on-1 styling services for her private clients as well as through her online learning platform, “Personal Style University.” Lauren also partners with Luke Storey (that’s me!) to educate fashionistas about pursuing styling as a career at the renowned fashion school, “School of Style.”

With her compassionate approach, Lauren Messiah gives women the style and grace to discover their very best, most powerful selves. Lauren’s focus is on helping women feel good faster by successfully transforming themselves from the outside in. Lauren takes her vast knowledge of all things fashion and delivers it to her audience through her high-end styling services, courses, and video content.

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This episode is a long time coming – I’m sitting down with the catalyst of the Life Stylist podcast and my partner in crime at the School of Style, Lauren Messiah. (Oh... and we also dated for exactly five years.)

As a self-described “perpetual not-fitter-inner,” Lauren struggles to find a tribe of her own – but she’s always had style, her one constant.

If you dress the right way, you can fit in anywhere... but if you really own it, you can carve out your own space. That’s exactly what Lauren does, and that’s what makes her such an incredible entrepreneur.

As a personal stylist, Lauren is dedicated to helping women fundamentally change their relationship with clothing so that they can take out the BS and completely transform themselves, from the outside in. What does your wardrobe communicate to other people? Hell, what does it communicate to yourself? How does our style affect our identity? Our energy?

It’s not about being cute or sexy – it’s about getting what you want and living your best life!

–Luke

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • How Lauren kicked my ass and got me to start the podcast
  • Our five-year relationship and multiple attempts at couples therapy (including a stay at the Onsite Workshops)
  • How we’ve evolved since ending our relationship
  • Lauren’s first fashion memory
  • Being a perpetual not-fitter-inner
  • Growing up multiracial & feeling like you don’t have a tribe
  • Using style to carve out her own space
  • Being a voice for people who feel misunderstood
  • Going to fashion school and then not becoming a designer
  • Inadequacies in education
  • Moving from the east coast to the west coast
  • Becoming a stylist and finding the School of Style
  • Blogging about fashion in 2005
  • Why Lauren stopped celebrity styling & started personal styling
  • Being a servant VS serving
  • Style being a huge pain point for so many people
  • How a job with Nickelodeon changed Lauren’s life trajectory
  • Clothing as a way of communicating your values
  • Lauren’s evolving brand & relationship with style
  • Living your best life
  • Putting yourself in badass mode
  • Being the Oprah of fashion
  • The science of getting dressed
  • How men can represent their true self on the outside
  • Lauren’s current self-help journey

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