• Stressed But Well Dressed hosted by Dahlia Stroud

  • By: Dahlia Stroud
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Stressed But Well Dressed hosted by Dahlia Stroud

By: Dahlia Stroud
  • Summary

  • 'Stressed But Well Dressed': How clothes can boost your confidence and improve your mindset to set you up for success. Each episode tells a new story of how what you wear influences how you feel, and how finding the right clothes for you can contribute to your success. Dahlia is joined by a weekly guest to discuss how they use their style as a way to shape their identity and personal brand. Guests include psychologists, authors, actors, television presenters, fashion designers, engineers, founders and even Barbie herself. Listen to hear the link between clothes, confidence and mindset.
    Dahlia Stroud
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Episodes
  • Season 5, Episode 2: Stressed But Well Dressed: The Acne Edition (with guest Hannah Holden)
    Aug 16 2024

    Dahlia and Hannah tackle the challenging subject of adult acne and share their personal experiences of living with skin issues for a period of time.

    They discuss the fact that well dressed is a mindset and that it doesn't matter what you wear if your confidence is challenged because of how you feel.

    The conversation includes a very raw experience of how it feels to live with acne - with a particular focus on how it felt to have to face others while managing the condition.

    Adult acne impacts 40% of people and Dahlia and Hannah are hopeful that sharing their stories will help to break the acne taboo.

    Hannah is an expert in stress and burnout prevention working primarily with people in the tech world. She works with tech pros and consultants to mindfully navigate stress and prevent burnout to enable them to be more impactful at work, more present with their families and to live a happier, healthier and more purposeful life. If you are suffering from adult acne here are the resources that Hannah recommended in the podcast:

    1. Acne is just one symptom of chronic stress. Get a better understanding if you're experiencing chronic stress by downloading the My Stress Symptoms checklist here:

    https://hannahholden.co.uk/stress_symptoms\


    2. The LinkedIn article by by Rakesh Anand, Consultant Dermatologist at Guys & St Thomas’s hospital:

    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rakesh-anand-46081838_ad-drrakesh-dermatology-activity-7169285258926870528-9AW7/

    3. Recommended reading:

    The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out. By Dr Robynne Chutkan (Author)


    Find out more information at: https://hannahholden.co.uk

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    34 mins
  • Season 5, Episode 1: Greenwashing, Greendressing and Greenhushing. How to create positive change (with guest Gihan Hyde)
    Aug 9 2024

    Dahlia is joined by Gihan Hyde to discussed how to be truly 'well dressed' when it comes to approaching ESG.

    Gihan's work as CEO of CommUnique is to work with organisations to help them define and communicate their ESG strategy as part of their journey to make positive change.

    Gihan uncovers the meaning of Greendressing, Greenwashing and Greenhushing in the conversation.

    Her advice: understand where you want to make impact and look to work with, engage with and buy from the organisations who share that purpose.

    She advises that we can't fix everything today but we can identify where we want to make change, connect through purpose and go on the journey together.

    If you are trying to understand where ESG fits in your organisation or you want to get more clued up on what it all means, tune in and join the conversation.

    Gihan is the award-winning CEO & Founder of CommUnique, one of the UK’s fastest-growing ESG Strategy and Communications Advisory Firms. CommUnique is B.Corp certified making it the first Arab, female-founded organization to be certified in Europe. She is the recipient of the UK’s “CEO of the Year” award, recipient of “The top black leaders in the UK to watch” award, and one of the most influential “40 over 40” communications professionals in the world according to Campaign Magazine and is LinkedIn Top ESG Voice 2023. She is an Equitable Growth Board advisor to B.Corp UK and Money 20/20, mentor on Accenture’s Fintech Lab Innovation and is the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Director of ESG Communications Training. Prior to founding “Communique” Gihan led some of the largest ESG diversity and employee change communications departments including BP Workplace Sustainability, Barclays Internal audit, HSBC Asset Management, M&S HR, and the Riyadh Metro Project. Her work impacted more than 150,000 employees, and 200,000 customers and closed $300m worth of sales deals.


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    29 mins
  • Season 4, Episode 10: What to wear today (with guest Jess Atkins)
    Aug 2 2024
    Dahlia is joined by Jess Atkins Co-Founder of Style Book App. Style Book is an app which enables its +1m users to document, analyse and curate their wardrobes, creating their own personal style algorithm. Celebrated by Vogue, The Outnet, NY Times and described by Cosmopolitan Magazine as 'The Clueless Wardrobe (that) Exists in Real Life' the story of Style Book is fascinating. Jess reflects on where her relationship with the fashion industry started in her Conde Naste days and how a desire to look effortless translated into the development of the app. Dahlia and Jess discuss the opportunity for tech to help us dress more sustainably, more economically and more confidently. Jess shares personal stories she has received from users about how the app has helped them define their style and how it has helped to create more inclusive dressing. Miss out on this episode? In the words of Cher Horowitz 'As if!'
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    30 mins

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