Hey, I’m Elsa Isaac - personal wardrobe stylist for ambitious women professionals.
I started this podcast because I want to have deep and meaningful conversations about the clothes we wear, and the impact personal style has on our lives. You’ll hear stories from beautifully daring women as they share their journeys of embracing themselves fully and showing up as their best selves.
This show is about endless possibilities for you, for me, and for anyone who is ready to be seen.
I’m so glad you’re here. This is the Get Styled Podcast.
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In today’s episode of the Get Styled Podcast, Elsa breaks down what a Capsule Wardrobe is and isn’t, and how to effectively create one, if you are considering that journey for yourself!
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0:42 - Elsa introduces the idea of capsule wardrobes - and why they might seem like THE DREAM
1:51 - The Capsule Wardrobe requires an ABUNDANCE of data (and what that means)
4:10 - Why you don’t want to *just guess* with this HIGHLY curated type of wardrobe
5:25 - On the generic formula of the Capsule Wardrobe, and why just reading articles about it does not a Capsule Wardrobe make
6:10 - Wardrobes require experimentation, which REQUIRES play (and why it’s necessary to the styling process)
9:55 - Capsule Wardrobes are 100% possible, but they do take time
11:10 - Elsa’s advice to you, if you are looking to build your ultimate Capsule Wardrobe (and most wardrobes)
13:12 - Episode wrap up - and Elsa wants to hear from you!
Episode 9: The Power of a Signature Makeup Look with Delina Medhin
Thursday, July 25, 2024 • Duration 28:32
In today’s episode of the Get Styled Podcast, Elsa welcomes friend, and makeup artist to the stars, Delina Medhin! Delina recalls her journey into makeup artistry, discusses what a signature makeup look entails, and shares tips to erase the overwhelm around makeup, and show up as your full self, standing in your power with a full Signature Look!
A message from host Elsa Isaac: “Today, I went into my archives. A few years ago, I sat down with my friend, and we had a really good conversation about makeup and the role it plays in our confidence. After listening back to that conversation recently, I just knew it would be a conversation you would want to hear.”
Delina Medhin is a Celebrity Makeup Artist. Her client list includes Kamala Harris, Issa Rae, Alfre Woodard, Ilana Glazer, Phoebe Robinson, & more. Her work is published in Vogue, InStyle, NYTimes, Allure, ELLE, and Essence. She is a beauty brand ambassador for Chanel Beauty and Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. She is an On-Camera Beauty Expert on the Today Show. With her written beauty expert advice featured in Allure, Glamour, The CUT, TZR, Well + Good and Mind Body Green.
She is also the Host of her own series 'It Takes A Village', a video podcast, highlighting TOP Artists, Creators and Inventors sharing industry business strategy, and the Host of her own 6-episode series ‘Exploring Harlem’ focused on sharing and uplifting the beauty of black business in her neighborhood of 10 years, Harlem, New York City.
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TRAILER: Get Styled with Elsa Isaac
Wednesday, April 24, 2024 • Duration 00:39
Hey, I’m Elsa Isaac - personal wardrobe stylist for ambitious women professionals.
I started this podcast because I want to have deep and meaningful conversations about the clothes we wear, and the impact personal style has on our lives. You’ll hear stories from beautifully daring women as they share their journeys of embracing themselves fully and showing up as their best selves.
This show is about endless possibilities for you, for me, and for anyone who is ready to be seen.
I’m so glad you’re here. This is the Get Styled Podcast.
Episode 8: Building Trust through Personal Style with Carey Peters
Thursday, July 18, 2024 • Duration 45:12
In today’s episode, Elsa welcomes client, friend, and all-around awesome human - Carey Peters - to the show! We discuss Carey’s relationship with style throughout her life and different pursuits, how style has impacted her business, and Carey finally reveals what she means when she refers to “The Elsa Effect”. Plus? Elsa and Carey go deep in conversation about how the fashion industry needs to change - and how we can help foster that change as consumers. Don’t miss this week’s episode of Get Styled!
Carey Peters has founded or co-founded 6 businesses, including Health Coach Institute, taking them from startup to revenues totaling over $200M. Health Coach Institute is the top rated dual health and life coach certificate training in the market, having trained over 36,000 coaches in over 100 countries around the world. Carey uses her 18 years of entrepreneurial experience to help other founders in 2 ways: she teaches them how to add certification trainings to their businesses that exponentially increase revenue and impact, and secondly she helps high-achieving female founders end the struggle with emotional eating and body image.
Currently based in Chicago, Carey holds a BFA in Acting from DePaul University and was a professional actress for 15 years in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. She lives with her husband and her beautiful 8 year old daughter, and outside of work, loves seeing theater, live music, and stand-up comedy.
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Episode 7: Do You Know Your Body Shape?
Episode 7
Thursday, July 11, 2024 • Duration 12:35
In today’s episode of the Get Styled Podcast, Elsa addresses BODY SHAPE! Referencing her very own Body Shape Calculator tool, she will walk you through how to get your correct measurements, explain how knowing your shape will eliminate overwhelm in the dressing room, and help you evolve in your personal style hassle-free, forevermore!
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Episode 6: The Art of Style Confidence with Grace Mahary
Episode 6
Thursday, June 20, 2024 • Duration 38:35
In today’s episode of the Get Styled Podcast, Elsa talks with her cousin - and model (and mother and activist and athlete and sommelier…) - Grace Mahary! We get her insight as someone who has worked in the fashion industry for years on the constant messaging thrown at us from the industry, and hear about her career and values, as well as how she’s been able to pivot into her many interests over the years.
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Episode 5: Intentionally Creating Your Future Self Through Style with Becca Piastrelli
Thursday, June 13, 2024 • Duration 32:04
In today’s episode, Elsa welcomes client Becca Piastrelli to the show! Elsa and Becca talk about everything from the striking clarity that Becca has in her personal style (and how it happened), and the ever-looming temptation to copy others’ style (and lose yourself in the process), to how elevating Becca’s style to meet where she was going in life has brought her joy and success in dividends.
Becca Piastrelli is the author of Root & Ritual: Timeless Ways to Connect with Land, Lineage, Community & the Self, and is the host of the Belonging podcast. She teaches and speaks on the nature of belonging and what it means to be alive in the Age of Loneliness and holds retreats to help women reconnect with their rooted sense of self. She currently lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with her family where she gardens, cooks, mothers, and gathers with the ebb and flow of the seasons.
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In today’s episode, Elsa talks with us all about tailoring. Tailoring is a conversation that Elsa has with every one of her clients, and she is always surprised at how few women utilize tailors! Elsa really hopes this episode empowers more women to understand that, when you are in the fitting room, and you feel like nothing fits, it’s not about your body. YOUR BODY IS NOT WRONG. It’s time to take your power back and learn when to tailor, how to gauge pricing for tailoring services, and more - right now on the Get Styled Podcast!
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Episode 3: How Elsa Accidentally Became a Stylist with Wil Van Zyl
Episode 3
Thursday, May 23, 2024 • Duration 37:43
In today’s episode of the Get Styled Podcast, Elsa Isaac welcomes her dear friend: Wil Van Zyl! Wil, with his business partner and wife Joanna, owns and operates Nova Music Group, a full-service music and entertainment management company. AND, Wil played an integral role in Elsa’s journey to becoming THE personal stylist to a powerful businesswomen.
Elsa and Wil discuss his journey into the music industry, how they’ve influenced one another (including her Stylist origin story!!), and how they look forward to growing in their respective industries AND in their friendship.
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Episode 2: How to Use Style to Amplify Your Purpose with Dr. Uché Blackstock
Episode 2
Thursday, May 16, 2024 • Duration 39:07
Today, Elsa welcomes Dr. Uché Blackstock - longtime friend and client, speaker, physician, and New York Times bestselling author - to the show! They discuss Uché’s upbringing and inspiration behind everything from her career to her style, and Uché shares how the pandemic pushed her to show UP - leading her down the path of personal style with Elsa!
Dr. Uché Blackstock received both undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University, making her and her twin sister, Oni, the first Black mother-daughter legacies from Harvard Medical School. Today, she is one of the country’s leading health equity advocates and a powerful voice on racial justice. A bestselling author and Harvard-trained emergency physician with over 17 years of experience, Dr. Blackstock is the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity. She is a regular medical contributor for MSNBC and legislators across the country have used her research and knowledge as a basis for policy changes. A powerful speaker, Dr. Blackstock talks to organizations across the country about the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system and the leap of faith she took to start a business. Her debut book ‘Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in America’ made the New York Times best seller in its first week and is available here and everywhere books are sold.
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0:43 - Elsa takes a moment to introduce her special guest and what they will be discussing today!
2:42 - Grace talks about how she grew up a tomboy - and what led her to modeling
4:30 - Grace explains how becoming a professional model at a young age really fast tracked her into the person she wanted - and was meant - to be, and Elsa marvels at witnessing Grace’s evolution
8:51 - A message to the fashion industry: we need more breast-feeding friendly dresses and fashionable clothing items
10:33 - How does Grace define her style? And how has her definition evolved since becoming a mother?
12:30 - How Grace wants to handle her growing children as they begin to express themselves through clothing
15:24 - Grace and Elsa discuss fashion as a mentally challenging industry to be a part of (even as a model!)
17:26 - How Grace has balanced strength and health in her career messaging, while honoring herself and how she wants to show up
19:26 - Grace went kicking and screaming into modeling - and how taking the opportunity blossomed into so much more
21:37 - Grace shares other avenues that have opened up since she took the right opportunity for herself - including her non-profit, Project Tsehigh
22:35 - Grace shares how she followed her curiosity (and confusion) about wine to become a sommelier!
25:55 - On Grace’s mission to make things that are inaccessible to people, accessible
26:50 - What style is about for Elsa: and the option to take full control of your own style
30:10 - Grace discusses some of her goals for the wine world
31:48 - Grace shares a career high (so far)
33:01 - Grace shares a career low
36:40 - Grace describes a couple garments she owns, loves, and feels confident in every time she wears them
38:36 - Who is Grace’s style icon (or, rather, who ARE THEY?)?
39:12 - Episode wrap up
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0:41 - Introduction to today’s special guest: Becca Piastrelli
2:44 - Becca shares how her view on style has changed since beginning her work with Elsa
6:02 - Why working with Elsa was a clear decision for Becca, even with so much going on in her life (new baby, pandemic, book launch, etc), and how we need to show up to match our own hard work
9:26 - Becca shares her story of style and her body and how she got found clarity around her style direction
13:08 - Why Elsa calls herself the anti-fashion stylist - and some history around loss of expressing our belonging through fashion
14:31 - There are options out there, you just have to take control of the narrative and make it yours
15:36 - On the issue of taking fashion marketing personally
16:08 - Becca discusses her most recent life changes and meeting who she is becoming in style
20:35 - How Becca feels her approach to style will impact her daughter
22:56 - Who Becca looks to for style inspiration - and the important reason she chooses personal style over trends (and someone else’s style) every time
27:30 - Why you should note inspiration when it happens
28:17 - The ever-looming temptation to copy someone else’s style
29:58 - On embracing the practice of returning garments you don’t like for the sake of experimentation
31:20 - Becca shares the garment in her closet that makes her feel beautiful, confident, and the best version of herself!
32:44 - Episode wrap up!
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SHOW NOTES
0:43 - What are we talking about today? TAILORING!
1:31 - Why clothing doesn’t fit, and the #1 reason to consider a tailor
2:57 - Elsa shares how she helps clients determine, not only if they love a garment, but if they should get a garment tailored
7:24 - Tailoring can often make lower priced garments look more expensive - and Elsa walks us through a recent tailoring job she had done
9:35 - Why Elsa feels so much more confident in the clothes she’s had tailored (another perk of tailoring!)
10:32 - It’s time to think about why you aren’t wearing some of the pieces you aren’t wearing (an exercise for cleaning out your closet)
12:46 - Elsa tells us how to find a good local tailor!
16:30 - Why tailoring is so important - and why Elsa is so good at her job!
17:38 - Episode wrap up
SHOW NOTES
0:43 - Elsa introduces today’s special guest - and why he’s joining her!
2:18 - Elsa and Wil share how they know one another!
6:01 - Elsa shares how she got her start in styling - and how Wil made it happen!
8:02 - A question 20 years in the making: Elsa asks Wil why he thought she could be a stylist - something she had never done before!
13:52 - How Wil influenced Elsa (including helping her trust herself)
15:19 - Wil shares a bit about his childhood
19:45 - Wil discusses what sparked his desire to work in the music industry
22:35 - Why energy is so important in the building of community
23:48 - When Wil was developing artists, what does he recall his ultimate goal was with their image?
25:45 - Trying to force a style on someone never sticks - and why Elsa shifted from commercial styling to personal styling
30:32 - Elsa wonders out loud if she would be on a different path if not for Wil…
31:32 - Wil explains what his business has evolved from - and to (and what it’s like operating a business with your family)
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0:35 - A brief introduction to today’s special guest!
1:38 - Elsa and Uché recall how they met
4:22 - Uché shares a bit about her childhood growing up in Crown Heights (Brooklyn)
7:45 - Uché shares the inspiration behind her first book, Legacy
13:00 - Uché always talks about showing up as your full, authentic self, no matter the environment. How has she shown up as her authentic self through the years?
16:30 - Black folks have all kinds of barriers to break through - how does Uché have the capacity to be able to explore her own multitudes, creativity, be playful, etc?
20:04 - Uché shares her thought process behind deciding to invest in herself and work with Elsa
24:05 - Elsa shares one of the reasons she works almost exclusively with female professionals
25:10 - How the pandemic pushed Uché to show UP up
27:55 - Uché reflects on her style journey from the time she started working with Elsa - and the permission she feels she’s
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