Speaker 1: Hi everyone, I'm Rachel Zoe and you're listening to Climbing
Speaker 1: in Heels for your weekly dose of glamour, inspiration and fun. Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm starting to think the podcast should really just be
Speaker 1: me answering listener and follower questions because every time I
Speaker 1: put them up on Instagram, I get so many incredible
Speaker 1: questions and I can't answer them all. So today I've
Speaker 1: pulled some of my favorite questions that I didn't get
Speaker 1: to answer, and I'm going to answer many for you today. Okay,
Speaker 1: one more thing before we jump into it. We're gearing
Speaker 1: up for season four of the podcasts, and I want
Speaker 1: to know what guests and topics are important to all
Speaker 1: of you. I love connecting with my podcast community every week,
Speaker 1: and I want to.
Speaker 2: Know what you're most interested in.
Speaker 1: So feel free to DM at Climbing in Heels pod
Speaker 1: with any and all ideas. Okay, dream celebrity to style
Speaker 1: dead or alive. Someone really fun who loves fashion and
Speaker 1: can play dress up. Sianna Miller, Ultimate cole Girl Kate Moss.
Speaker 1: That would be iconic. I would die to style of
Speaker 1: Sukie Waterhouse like Dakota Johnson. Just girls that want to
Speaker 1: have fun and dress up and love fashion and don't
Speaker 1: take it too seriously. But like, we'll go there and
Speaker 1: just have some fun. Dead celebrity that i'd want to
Speaker 1: dress god, Audrey Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, I would definitely say
Speaker 1: that that would be an honor. Okay, So my retirement
Speaker 1: plan now that my life has changed, is it still
Speaker 1: making jewelry on the beach in the south of France.
Speaker 1: I love this listener question because it means you are
Speaker 1: definitely paying attention to what I say, because even my
Speaker 1: kids know that's my retirement plan. No, it hasn't changed,
Speaker 1: I think now more than ever.
Speaker 2: I think the dream is to.
Speaker 1: Buy a chateau in the south of France and have
Speaker 1: my kids and my grandchildren and you know, everyone just
Speaker 1: together while I sit in front of the house on
Speaker 1: the beach making beautiful jewelry in a caftan. That would
Speaker 1: be the plan, with a tan of course, and big sunglasses.
Speaker 2: I have the visual.
Speaker 1: Okay, what is my advice to someone who wants to
Speaker 1: open a clothing betique?
Speaker 2: I don't know. Sorry, Okay, let's see. I would say
Speaker 2: that's a.
Speaker 1: Very hard business to get into. And I only say
Speaker 1: that because Truthfully, the clothing industry is one of the
Speaker 1: absolute hardest to survive in now more than ever, and
Speaker 1: I think especially now that there's new tariffs that are
Speaker 1: happening outside of this country coming into the country. It's
Speaker 1: I think there are challenges now and over the last
Speaker 1: several years that have made it harder and harder for
Speaker 1: clothing stores to exist. It's even hard for big department
Speaker 1: stores that are heavily funded and multi branded to survive.
Speaker 1: So I don't mean to sound negative. I don't want
Speaker 1: to discourage, but I would say my advice would be
Speaker 1: to start very small and do not overbuy, and maybe
Speaker 1: take brands on consignment rather than purchase, because otherwise you
Speaker 1: can be losing a lot of money if no one
Speaker 1: comes into shop. So I'm just being very honest. But
Speaker 1: I also think that e comm is really important. E
Speaker 1: commerce and you know, direct to consumer shopping, so that
Speaker 1: even if you open a store, you can also shop online,
Speaker 1: so that you have two sources of sales at least. Okay,
Speaker 1: who's the best role model for dressing up male and female? Honestly,
Speaker 1: let's see. Okay, I'm loving Timothy Sallamy right now. My
Speaker 1: male icon for style is tom Ford has always been,
Speaker 1: will always be.
Speaker 2: I know him personally, I know him professionally.
Speaker 1: I know him from afar for as long as I've
Speaker 1: been in this industry, and he has never missed. He's
Speaker 1: never not looked flawless. And every guy meet they're like,
Speaker 1: I need style, I need this, I need that. I'm like,
Speaker 1: look to tom Ford, looked to tom Ford. He's polished,
Speaker 1: he's perfect, he's cool, he's luxury. And you don't have
Speaker 1: to buy tom Ford clothing. It's just for the overall. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, even if you like don't know what to
Speaker 1: wear to a dinner party or whatever, it's like a
Speaker 1: really good pair of crisp Dunim jeans, a great pair
Speaker 1: of Chelsea boots, and the perfectly fit tailored black blazer
Speaker 1: with a white shirt underneath, no tie, you're great. Like
Speaker 1: It's like, if that can be your uniform and versions
Speaker 1: of that, that's great too. I could go on for
Speaker 1: days about tom Ford, but okay, female role model for
Speaker 1: dressing up, I think it depends on your personal style.
Speaker 2: With women, there's so many.
Speaker 1: Options, but I think if you're sort of polished and uptown,
Speaker 1: I mean Kate Middleton flawless, I think Victoria Beckham is
Speaker 1: always perfect.
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Who else do I just love love? I think Gwyneth
Speaker 1: is always really nice. I think it depends on your age,
Speaker 1: it depends on your style. Like if you're an effortless
Speaker 1: cool girl that does want to try too hard, look
Speaker 1: to Sianna Miller, look to Kate Moss, look to Daisy
Speaker 1: Edgar Jones, look to Dakota Johnson, like there's so many
Speaker 1: style icons out there. I also love, obviously Nicole Kibman perfection,
Speaker 1: Martha Story. She looks so good, she looks I can't,
Speaker 1: she looks amazing. Okay, Okay, Now you support Baby to Baby?
Speaker 1: What other philanthropic causes to support?
Speaker 2: Many?
Speaker 1: So Baby to Baby is my number one. I've been
Speaker 1: on the board since it's started. I think we're on
Speaker 1: fourteen years now of Baby to Baby and now it's
Speaker 1: Baby to Baby start as a local organization helping babies
Speaker 1: and children and families under the poverty line, and now
Speaker 1: we are pretty much first on the ground in disaster relief,
Speaker 1: whether it's tornadoes, fires, hurricanes all over the country and
Speaker 1: even abroad in certain cases. I am involved in something
Speaker 1: called the Cost Foundation, which works with pediatric cancer hospital
Speaker 1: Saint Jude's Children's Hospital in Los Angeles, also the Mattel
Speaker 1: Children's Hospital UCLA, and a Sense of Home and that
Speaker 1: is helping to build homes for people who have aged out,
Speaker 1: kids that have aged out of the foster care system
Speaker 1: and helping them get back onto their feet and start
Speaker 1: their lives as they get jobs and things like that
Speaker 1: because no one really looks after them. And then also
Speaker 1: Core Core is Champin's foundation that he started in the
Speaker 1: hurricane that pretty much destroyed Haiti and it has now
Speaker 1: spun out into also the most incredible organization that's also
Speaker 1: literally boots on the ground in any disaster.
Speaker 2: COVID.
Speaker 1: They were heroic the fires Ukraine Russia situation. I mean,
Speaker 1: they're amazing, truly amazing, and that's been an honor to
Speaker 1: be a part of as well. Oh and also BCRF
Speaker 1: Breast Cancer Research Foundation o cr F Ovarian and also
Speaker 1: F which is Women's Cancer Research Foundation. So many I
Speaker 1: actually co designed and collaborated with a very dear friend
Speaker 1: Briany Raymond. She's been on climbing and heels. She's a
Speaker 1: brilliant jewelry designer. She also deals vintage in a state
Speaker 1: designer jewelry as well, and we designed and collaborated on
Speaker 1: this incredible pendant that I wear every single day. It
Speaker 1: is a gold and also the option of gold with
Speaker 1: diamonds in different sizes. They are the most beautiful angel
Speaker 1: wings and they're called the Golden Wings of Strength. And
Speaker 1: one hundred percent of the proceeds of every single piece,
Speaker 1: and you can get your custom you can engrave it,
Speaker 1: and one hundred percent of the proceeds goes to Baby
Speaker 1: to Baby and also California Fires Benevolent. So whichever cause
Speaker 1: you choose to support, it's up to you. But I
Speaker 1: cannot tell you how much I love mine. I wear
Speaker 1: them every single day. It's these gorgeous wings, angel wings,
Speaker 1: and they kind of form the shape of this very cool,
Speaker 1: imperfect heart. Okay, biggest advice for a new mom, I mean, honestly,
Speaker 1: my best advice I could give you is don't take
Speaker 1: people's advice, because so many people feel this need and
Speaker 1: write to tell you everything about what to do and
Speaker 1: what you shouldn't do, and oh my god, don't put
Speaker 1: your baby in the bed with you, don't keep the
Speaker 1: kids in the room with you, don't do this, make
Speaker 1: sure you let them cry it out like da da dah,
Speaker 1: don't give them peanut butter, don't you know. And the
Speaker 1: truth is the funniest thing. I did not listen to
Speaker 1: one person. I actually did the polar opposite of what
Speaker 1: my mom friends at the time, most of them, not
Speaker 1: all of them. I kind of just went the other
Speaker 1: way because it felt unnatural to me. And I still
Speaker 1: put my kids to sleep every night. I still I
Speaker 1: wake up with kids in my bed half the time.
Speaker 1: I think you have a very small window of when
Speaker 1: you have those kids next to you at all times.
Speaker 1: And my only advice that I would leave you with is,
Speaker 1: don't miss that window. Hold onto that window, because when
Speaker 1: it's gone, it's gone, and you don't.
Speaker 2: Get it back.
Speaker 1: Okay, Goals for twenty twenty five, Well, I had a
Speaker 1: lot of goals going into twenty twenty five, and then
Speaker 1: the day after I came home with like guns of
Speaker 1: blazing so excited, danced on tables into the new year,
Speaker 1: the wildfires broke out across Los Angeles and that was
Speaker 1: really a curve ball I think none of us were
Speaker 1: prepared for. So it definitely started the year off differently,
Speaker 1: and I think weirdly focused all of us in a
Speaker 1: different way and I think it just sort of forced
Speaker 1: all of us here in LA to sort of just
Speaker 1: be like, Okay, just go just be happy. Whatever you're doing,
Speaker 1: just do it, and like live your life as it's
Speaker 1: coming to you right now.
Speaker 2: My goals.
Speaker 1: Once that's sort of cleared and I was able to
Speaker 1: go away I'm out of LA and spend some time
Speaker 1: honestly in nature in the mountains, it was pretty game
Speaker 1: changing for me. I woke up every day filled with gratitude,
Speaker 1: like endless gratitude just for my life and what was
Speaker 1: given to me, because I think we get very lost
Speaker 1: in the things that don't work out, or the things
Speaker 1: that we didn't get, or the things that like you,
Speaker 1: why me? Why is this coming at me right now?
Speaker 2: Why this? Why that?
Speaker 1: And instead I just went at it like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: happy for this, I'm grateful for this, and I'm really blessed.
Speaker 1: And now my goals have shifted in twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: and they've really just landed in this place of peace,
Speaker 1: of this place of I'm going to start the rowing
Speaker 1: my hands in the air and letting the universe do
Speaker 1: what it's doing. I can obviously nudge it one way
Speaker 1: or another. I can put my efforts in one direction
Speaker 1: or another. But I think for the first time in
Speaker 1: my life, I'm sort of surrendering a little bit to
Speaker 1: what will be will be, and it's very freeing. I'm
Speaker 1: happier than I've been in a really long time, and
Speaker 1: you know, just going day by day and feeling all
Speaker 1: the feels and moving through it. Okay, what's my first
Speaker 1: What is my first memory? My first memory? God, it's funny,
Speaker 1: it's weird. It's hard to know when pictures of things
Speaker 1: from when you're very young trigger a certain memory. But
Speaker 1: there's this one picture I have of me in this
Speaker 1: dress that was literally my favorite dress, and I remember
Speaker 1: it like it was yesterday, and I wore it, I think,
Speaker 1: until it became like a mini dress. It was like
Speaker 1: a mac dress, kind of looks a little bit like
Speaker 1: an Aussie Clark's seventies dress.
Speaker 2: And I wore it so much.
Speaker 1: And I remember wearing it one day and asking my
Speaker 1: dad to take a picture of me in it because
Speaker 1: I loved it. And I also remember things that when
Speaker 1: I went to the first concert I went to with
Speaker 1: my parents, and the music was so loud that my
Speaker 1: dad had to take me outside and carry me the
Speaker 1: whole time because I just couldn't go inside because it
Speaker 1: was too loud, and I had to have these things
Speaker 1: over my ears that would like protect them. And I
Speaker 1: guess now that's why you see kids with like headsets
Speaker 1: at concerts.
Speaker 2: But I remember that very well.
Speaker 1: And I also remember being at this place in Florida
Speaker 1: on this beach and collecting shells and SeaGlass with my
Speaker 1: parents on the beach and my sister, and I just
Speaker 1: remember that so so clearly, and I must have been
Speaker 1: maybe three or four years old. So best foundation for
Speaker 1: long wear, you know, I I have been using. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of foundations. Listen, a lot of people that
Speaker 1: do my makeup. They all use different things, and the
Speaker 1: foundations vary, but there are definitely constants, and I would
Speaker 1: say that clod Depo is one of the best.
Speaker 2: I would say for me.
Speaker 1: I have fallen in love with using a stick foundation
Speaker 1: because it's easier because I'm always on the go and
Speaker 1: it takes two seconds and it doesn't get all over
Speaker 1: me and it doesn't spill in my bag. And I'm
Speaker 1: obsessed with this hour glass stick foundation that is just
Speaker 1: so easy. It stays on, it's dewey. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love Charlotte Tulberry Foundation. It's great. I also love
Speaker 1: cl Nikki Deuro's line, and a lot of makeup artists
Speaker 1: have been coming to do my makeup using that, which
Speaker 1: I love because she's a dear friend, and so I
Speaker 1: love when you know, I see them supporting friends.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: And Merit Merit foundation stick is so good. If you
Speaker 1: have not used it, do not let the clean factor
Speaker 1: scare you. It stays on and it's so good and
Speaker 1: it's nice.
Speaker 2: In volvity.
Speaker 1: Okay, One place I haven't traveled that I want to see,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's so many. Definitely certain parts of
Speaker 1: Spain for sure. I have not spent enough time there.
Speaker 1: I've gone there for work, but I haven't really spent
Speaker 1: time there. I've not been to Majorca, and I'm dying
Speaker 1: to go. Also, places in Italy I have not gone to,
Speaker 1: like Capri I have not been to, which is wild,
Speaker 1: I know, makes absolutely no sense. I mean, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just going to go to Italy and stay there possibly,
Speaker 1: and certain places in France for sure. I mean just Europe.
Speaker 1: I'm very europe obsessed. I'm very I could spend years there.
Speaker 1: My boys are dying to go to Japan. They are
Speaker 1: dying to go to Japan. I actually went with Cameron Diaz,
Speaker 1: but like for maybe twenty four hours. So again, when
Speaker 1: you're traveling as a stylist, you're in a place you
Speaker 1: basically see the airport to the hotel, and the hotel
Speaker 1: to the airport, So it's like, you know, sight seeing
Speaker 1: from a car.
Speaker 2: It makes a good summer hot.
Speaker 1: I love Eres I love Genesa Leon, I love Eugenia Kim.
Speaker 1: I love Philip Tracy. Those are just a few, but
Speaker 1: there's so many good ones. Best skincare tip for someone
Speaker 1: in their late thirties God hydrate, hydrate, hydrate. Get out
Speaker 1: of the sun. Get out of the sun, says the
Speaker 1: sun worshiper. But I can tell you my friends that
Speaker 1: didn't sit in the sun versus me, who did? I
Speaker 1: promise you You will thank me later. You will spend a
Speaker 1: lot less money and a lot less time repairing your skin.
Speaker 1: But late thirties, I would say, start to do all
Speaker 1: the things in your late thirties, start to do all
Speaker 1: the things that stimulate your collagen, all the things that
Speaker 1: are not invasive that stimulate your own collagen, and do
Speaker 1: all the good things without having to do anything drastic,
Speaker 1: because the more you do in your thirties, the less
Speaker 1: you do later because there's so many advances. Now, okay,
Speaker 1: best sunnis for spring summer. I mean, I'm gonna say,
Speaker 1: rachel Zo sonnis. I haven't stopped wearing them since I
Speaker 1: got the samples. Totally unbiased though, because I wouldn't say
Speaker 1: that unless I meant it other than that. Tom Ford
Speaker 1: all the way, am I spiritual person? I'm a very
Speaker 1: spiritual person. Actually, I would definitely confidently say I am
Speaker 1: not a religious person, but I am most definitely a
Speaker 1: spiritual person. I believe very much in believe very much
Speaker 1: in going to sleep at night feeling good and feeling
Speaker 1: like you have treated people the way you want to
Speaker 1: treat them, and feeling like you that you did good
Speaker 1: like I don't. It's like it's not about that. It's
Speaker 1: not for any kind of a war, you know.
Speaker 2: It's like.
Speaker 1: We are only as good as we are in this world.
Speaker 1: We are only as good.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: A friend was thanking me for showing up to something
Speaker 1: on Friday night. She started crying when I walked in,
Speaker 1: and I said to her, you don't have to say anything.
Speaker 1: I know exactly what you mean when people show up
Speaker 1: for you, and you know how annoying it can be
Speaker 1: sometimes on a rainy Friday night to go to something
Speaker 1: thirty minutes away to show up for a friend. It's
Speaker 1: not something I'm paid for. It's not something that like
Speaker 1: I need to do for anything for me for my purposes.
Speaker 1: But I do understand the power of showing up for people.
Speaker 1: And it's not because I want them to show up
Speaker 1: for me, because I actually anyone on my team will
Speaker 1: tell you I never expect anyone to show up for me.
Speaker 1: I very rarely ask people to do anything or show
Speaker 1: up for anything, because it makes me uncomfortable. However, I
Speaker 1: do feel that all we have in this life is
Speaker 1: who we are as people, and who we are at
Speaker 1: our foundation and our core, and how good we are
Speaker 1: and the decisions we make, and how honest we are
Speaker 1: and kind we are, and how much we can help
Speaker 1: because we are blessed, many of us more blessed than others,
Speaker 1: and I think it tends to bother me people that
Speaker 1: are so gifted with so much and have so much
Speaker 1: and don't give anything back to anyone, and that has
Speaker 1: always bothered me, even as a young child. It's not
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to be a saint. It's just there
Speaker 1: is this desire that I have in my soul to
Speaker 1: just help when I can and do what I can.
Speaker 2: I'd like to do more, but.
Speaker 1: All we have is who we are as people, what
Speaker 1: kind of people we are, and how we show up
Speaker 1: for our people we love and our friends, and I.
Speaker 2: Think that's invaluable. So that's just that's just me.
Speaker 1: I'm not judging if that's not how everyone else is,
Speaker 1: but but yeah, that's my that's my answer. Okay, thanks
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Speaker 2: I will talk to you soon.