Style for Life

Today we’re bringing you one of our most popular episodes of 2025, a listener favourite we’re re-releasing for Boxing Day while we take a short break. I was so privileged to interview my beautiful friend Shannon-Leigh Litt who is in the middle of attempting to break the Guiness world record for the most number of consecutive ultra marathons run - this is over 51kms per day.  Today she completed ultra 382 - the current record is 200.   Listen for some super heated inspiration from this incredible athlete and human.   Thank you Shannon and best of luck with your amazing journey.  

Today we’re bringing you one of our most popular episodes of 2025, a listener favourite we’re re-releasing while we take a short break. In this episode, Stephanie shares her journey of packing light for an extended holiday. She discusses her strategies for choosing the right bags, selecting essential clothing, and organising her items using packing cells. Stephanie talks about the importance of comfort in footwear and shares her go-to travel snacks. She also covers toiletries and personal care items, and concludes with a checklist for her carry-on essentials, all while aiming to travel efficiently and avoid overpacking. For resources and information around accountability coaching and personal styling, check out: https://www.brightred.co.nz/ For info on the cotopaxi bag, check out: https://www.cotopaxi.co.nz/

Right on Christmas time, we spend weeks celebrating the end of our year.  This involves many celebrations, parties and get-togethers that almost always revolve around food and alcohol.  It’s a great thing to connect with others in this way, with food and often alcohol being a social lubricant and a common enjoyment.  Sometimes these celebrations and events do not provide options that support your health outcome, which can lead to feeling bloated,  unwell and sometimes regretful.     The top 10 tips that Stephanie discusses are below:      Ask yourself is this s 10/10 for me?  Have I pre planned how I am going to show up to this event?   How am I treating alcohol?  Am I bringing a plate or checking the menu first?  Can we make the function an ‘active’ on so the focus is on the event not drinking and eating  Are we practising mindful eating rather than mindless snacking while talking to someone.   If things get out of hand can we get back on track the next day and nourish our bodies?  Are we practising gratitude?  What’s happening with water?   Are we connecting with people not just food.    Feels free to reach out if you hold celebrations have got a little off track and you need some help to get back into focus.   https://www.brightred.co.nz/accountability-coaching   A huge thank you to Clare Maxfield at Image Innovators for her continued and generous support of the podcast.      https://imageinnovators.com/

In this episode, Stephanie explores the causes and management strategies for dealing with Christmas burnout.     Christmas burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by the stress of the holiday season, which can be triggered by financial pressures, family expectations, and packed schedules. Signs include fatigue, irritability, sleep problems, a loss of joy, and feeling overwhelmed. This often occurs in the lead-up to Christmas.     She identifies that Christmas burnout can be caused by any of the following:      Financial pressure Family expectations  A packed schedule  Comparison  Perfectionism   She also discusses some suggestions to manage it, including managing self-care, amongst others.  Tune in to learn more.     Thank you to Image Innovators for their sponsorship of Style for Life.     https://imageinnovators.com/   Thank you so much for listening.     https://www.brightred.co.nz/

Many aspects of fashion styling have seen a resurgence over the past few years  - colour analysis being the big one! Such a great service!  The other service that has risen in popularity is exploring your clothing style personality.   This is a service I have offered my clients for 20 years and I thought it may be useful to unpack it on the podcast this week so you understand the relevance and intention of discovering this fun fact about yourself.     I offer an online quiz that helps you work out where you sit.  This is super useful when you are shopping or even working out how you want to show up in the world.  The 7 clothing style personalities covered are:   Classic Creative Dramatic Elegant Feminine  Natural  Sexy    Have a listen and learn how it all works and maybe you can work out which one sounds like you?   IF you want to know for sure check out the link today to discover who you are…    https://brightred.myprivatestylist.com/your-style-expression/   If you want to know even more then check out my website for all styling options.     https://www.brightred.co.nz/   A massive thank you to our great premium who sponsor Image Innovators who offer all things style.     https://imageinnovators.com/   Until next week…