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Our new roles call for a wardrobe shift. Real Life Style is offering a coronavirus lock-down special.

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On-Demand E-Course

In respect to our current social distancing guidelines, I’ve adapted my popular Wear Your Power e-course to a flexible online format.

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Our Wear Your Power Style Seminar gives employees the tools and resources to help them dress for professional success.

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Stylist Studio by Real Life Style is DC’s only in-person personal stylist training program to teach you to become a personal stylist.

Catch Up On Recent Blog Posts

Home Learning and Living Strategies: a Homeschool Update (Part 1)September 27, 2020
The Most Stylish RBG and Vote TeesSeptember 20, 2020
Books to Get You Through 2020September 13, 2020

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I am excited to serve as a Look Good Feel Better v

I am excited to serve as a Look Good Feel Better volunteer facilitator
for the new Body Image, Wardrobe and Styling Virtual Workshop . Look
Good Feel Better helps cancer patients cope with appearance concerns
of treatment. If you know someone in treatment who can benefit from a
confidence boosting workshop like this, please ask them to register
for this workshop! Register at
www.lookgoodfeelbetter.org/virtual-workshops.

I started developing this style workshop as an in-person program with
@lookgoodfeelbetter under the direction of @stacylondonreal almost 10
years ago! The opportunity to teach and work with women undergoing
cancer treatment was profound for me and valuable for them. Alas, the
program was deemed unfeasible to roll out nationally with LGFB's other
amazing programs on Makeup & Skin Care, and Wigs & Headcoverings.
Instead, the amazing Stacy London recorded a video that could be shown
in workshops and on the website.

Fast forward 9 years (through a pandemic and the whole world going
online), and the very same fantastic women I had worked with
originally called me back to create the Body Image, Wardrobe and
Styling Virtual Workshop. I can not tell you how much joy the creation
process and now presentation of this workshop brings me.

Led by professionally trained stylist volunteers, this new,
interactive experience builds on the content shown in the style guide
video shown during LGFB in-person workshops. The workshops offer
suggestions on how to use color in your wardrobe and accessories to
enhance your appearance, provide details about the five major body
types and tips for styling these body types, and provide details on
how to camouflage weight changes, surgical and/or infusion port
concerns.

LGFB is excited to add Body Image, Wardrobe and Styling to their
virtual workshop offerings, and is dedicated to improving the quality
of life and self-esteem of people undergoing cancer treatment with
their confidence-boosting workshops.

If you or someone you know can benefit from this workshop, please
visit www.lookgoodfeelbetter.org/

What can you do to channel your grief over Justice

What can you do to channel your grief over Justice Ginsburg's death?

#1. You can vote 🗳. Registering can take less than 2 minutes online if online registration is available in your state. Take advantage of early voting in your area, send in for an absentee ballot now, or show up on election day with water and snacks. Prepare for long lines. Washington, DC is sending every voter a mail-in ballot the first week of October. If your state offers drop boxes (usually at City Hall and other spots) for mail-in ballots, use those to avoid the post office if possible. Check your registration and get voting facts at @iamavoter and @whenweallvote.

#2. You can donate money to help elect politicians that represent your views and values. I donated to 11 different races on Saturday. Don’t have money to give? Consider working a phone bank! ☎️ Go to @votesaveamerica for more info.

#3. You can WEAR YOUR POWER. 👗Those of you who have been around here awhile will recognize this phrase as the title of both the RLS presentation on dress in the workplace and our on-demand e-course. I'm repurposing the phrase. This week's blog (link in bio), The Most Stylish RBG and Vote Tees, offers a myriad of options to Wear Your Power.

#4. Use Your Platform. ✔️

I was so angry around the midterms in 2018 (ok and for the previous two years) that I went to The Outrage in Washington, DC and purchased a lot of tee-shirts. There was a huge march in DC that we could not attend because we were traveling. The least we could do was express our feelings with our attire. The best part was going to the airport and seeing that a lot of other people had the same thought.

My uniform for months became a blazer with a political tee. Struggling with your work from home uniform? Struggle no more.

PS You can also visit our RLS Shop Vote boutique at https://real-life-style.com/shop-vote/ (affiliate links)

May her memory be a revolution!

A constitutional law expert, a glass ceiling destr

A constitutional law expert, a glass ceiling destroyer, and a fashion icon. #RIPRBG

How many books have you read in 2020? 📖 I did t

How many books have you read in 2020? 📖 I did the math when writing my most recent blog, Books to Get You Through 2020 (link in bio) and was shocked to discover that I've read 19 books so far this year. I'm currently in the middle of three more! My secret? Audible. My 2018 list of books was pathetic. 2019 was impressive. The difference was that I decided not to let perfect be the enemy of good. Yes, reading books on paper is the most soul-nourishing. But refusing to listen to books meant that I just didn't read. Now that I've gotten back into the swing of reading, I can choose which books I listen to and which I want to read on paper. Hint: I enjoy good fiction best on paper! Another recent self-discovery? I HATE reading on screens. Reading on my phone or iPad is not relaxing. I also don't like that it looks to my kids like I'm using my free time to play on my phone, as opposed to reading a book. Read my 2020 book reviews (books I've read in 2020, not books written in 2020) on the blog! Children's books included!
PS This picture is of the books that are next on my "read in paper" list! Can I finish them by the end of 2020?

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Where did this week go?I just realized I haven't p

Where did this week go?I just realized I haven't posted since Monday. You can follow along in the pictures above to see a few of the things that have been keeping me so busy.
Monday was Labor Day. We went on a hike with the kids in the morning (no pictures because I was good and left my phone in the car!) at Bull Run in VA, then I ran into @TraderJoes and these hysterical Skeleton Yogis ☠️. Every time I shop there the checkout person makes a comment about how much I am buying. I'm starting to get a complex! Hello? #momofboys
That night I went on a bike ride with a friend and could not help taking a picture of this tribute to @ChadwickBoseman. Don't think I'm noble, with a hike and a bike ride in one day. That was pretty much the end of my exercise for the week!
Tuesday I gave a virtual 💻#WearYourPower #corporatestyle presentation to a graduate school MBA class. I also had back-to-school night for each kid on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Thursday I had a socially distanced outfit appointment with a client. I had so much fun putting together outfits with her new pieces from @betsy_fisher and @upstairson7th.
Friday I was back to attempting to work while monitoring home school. I'm not sure what my kids are learning but I was thrilled to receive this sweet picture from #MaxWilliam!
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