Episode 15: Style as Creative Communication and Confidence with Natalie Nixon

Get Styled

In today’s episode, Elsa welcomes friend and client, Natalie Nixon. They discuss Natalie’s upbringing in a family of textile artists, her take on the fashion industry as a business, and how her self-described “lazy default” to a nearly all-black wardrobe catapulted her into a journey of personal style, with Elsa as her guide. If you’ve ever opened your closet and thought, “Whose clothing is this? I don’t feel connected to it AT ALL!”, then this episode might be for you!

Creativity strategist Natalie Nixon is “the creativity whisperer for the C-Suite”. She is a highly sought after keynote speaker, valued for her accessible expertise on creativity, the future of work and innovation. She’s the author of the award-winning The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation and Intuition at Work and her firm Figure 8 Thinking, was named among the top women-led innovation firms by Core 77.

Natalie is a trustee of the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt Design Museum; Vassar College; and Leadership+Design. Natalie received her BA (honors) from Vassar College, and her PhD from the University of Westminster in London. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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RESOURCES + REFERENCES

• https://www.figure8thinking.com/
• instagram.com/natwnixon
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalienixonphd/
  

SHOW NOTES

0:36 - Elsa introduces today’s guest: Natalie Nixon!

1:36 - Natalie recalls what her relationship to clothing was like as a child

5:07 - Natalie expands on her early exposure to the idea of how clothing makes you feel an instant connection or disconnect from community

6:23 - Natalie shares her venture into entrepreneurship - and her struggles with what she calls her “lazy default”

10:12 - Natalie explains how the fashion industry is the only industry that understands what consumer behavior is driven by

11:46 - Elsa and Natalie discuss the importance of another point-of-view when your style is feeling stagnant

13:18 - Elsa and Natalie discuss why designers make some of the business decisions that they do

16:08 - Elsa chronicles how to take our power back as consumers who want to develop our personal style - and Natalie shares how working with Elsa made that process easy on her

20:37 - Natalie talks about how her personal style impacts her and the audiences she speaks to

24:35 - Natalie shares the connection between her love of learning and the creative process

31:12 - Elsa reflects the importance of the creative process and play when it comes to style

33:13 - Natalie shares who she looks to for style inspiration

35:37 - Elsa wraps up the episode