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.
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 ON 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
RESOURCES
- LaurenMessiah.com
- Instagram: @laurenmessiah
- Personal Style University
- The Book of Style by Lauren Messiah
- Read Lauren’s blog
- MarieForleo.com
- Making Oprah podcast
- How I Built This podcast
- School of Style
- Onsite Workshops
Personal Style University With Lauren Messiah
Build a Wardrobe that Opens Doors!
Personal Style University is the step-by-step virtual styling program that shows you how to take style into your own hands – with the help and support of an experienced personal stylist.
Start showing the world who you really are without having to spend a ton of money, lose weight, or get rid of everything in your closet.
How Personal Style University Works:
- As soon as you join the course, you’ll get a series of bite-sized video lessons, downloadable worksheets, and other resources to help you develop your signature style.
- You get lifetime access to all the materials, so you’ll never fall behind or get overwhelmed. You can go through the program at a pace that works for you.
- You’ll get the exact strategies I’ve used to help hundreds of women transform their lives by finding their own personal style.
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