Speaker 1: I first met Adore Beauty's co founder and CEO, Kate
Speaker 1: Morris several years ago at a Telstra Business Women's Awards event.
Speaker 1: We have since become good mates, and every time I
Speaker 1: see her, I am in awe of how polished she looks,
Speaker 1: but in a completely effortless kind of way. Now, as
Speaker 1: the leader of a publicly listed e commerce beauty empire,
Speaker 1: Kate definitely feels the pressure to look a certain way
Speaker 1: when she steps out of the house or presents herself
Speaker 1: in a zoom meeting. So when I had Kate on
Speaker 1: the show a few months ago, I was very keen
Speaker 1: to hear about how Kate does this, and it wasn't
Speaker 1: what I was expecting to hear. My name is doctor
Speaker 1: Amantha Imber. I'm an organizational psychologist and the founder of
Speaker 1: behavioral science consultancy Inventium, and this is how I work
Speaker 1: a show about how to help you do your best work.
Speaker 1: On today's It's My Favorite Tip episode, we go back
Speaker 1: to an interview from the past and I pick out
Speaker 1: my favorite tip from that interview. In today's show, I
Speaker 1: share part of my chat with Kate Morris about something
Speaker 1: she did a few years ago to create a shortcut
Speaker 1: for always feeling and looking like the best version of herself.
Speaker 2: There are realities, I think for women CEOs of women
Speaker 2: business leaders, in the sense that people look more at
Speaker 2: our clothes than they do it all the men who
Speaker 2: are just wearing boring suits and wear the same suits
Speaker 2: all the time. And I was very aware of that,
Speaker 2: but then also felt like I didn't really know what
Speaker 2: I was doing on that front, and so every single
Speaker 2: time I had to go to some kind of business event,
Speaker 2: I would just basically in the week building up before it,
Speaker 2: just have this massive wardrobe crisis and never feel like
Speaker 2: I had the right thing to wear, and I guess
Speaker 2: I would end up going to the event feeling not
Speaker 2: like the best version of myself or not. I wanted
Speaker 2: to look all the image that I wanted to be projecting,
Speaker 2: and I thought, you know, I'm just like, it's just
Speaker 2: really exhausting having to think about it all the time.
Speaker 2: Can I not delegate this is There must be someone
Speaker 2: who knows how to do this, And there was, and
Speaker 2: so yes, I enlisted a stylist who came to my
Speaker 2: house and went through my entire wardrobe and made me
Speaker 2: throw out all the things that were dorky and made
Speaker 2: a list of what I needed, and she took me
Speaker 2: shopping for three or four hours, which is probably it's
Speaker 2: more exhausting than it sounds, actually, and just basically helped
Speaker 2: me to put together a wardrobe where everything match with
Speaker 2: everything else, and there was formulas that I could use
Speaker 2: to understand, Okay, well, if you're wearing this kind of pant,
Speaker 2: you need this kind of shoe, and that I had
Speaker 2: all of that stuff ready to go, and it was,
Speaker 2: oh gosh, it was one of the best things I
Speaker 2: ever did, actually, because now I had the right things
Speaker 2: to where to whatever the occasion might be. And I
Speaker 2: think also to she acknowledged that it wasn't just a oh, well,
Speaker 2: if you're going to a business event that says business attire,
Speaker 2: Like what was business attire for me? Because if I
Speaker 2: was just wearing like a Hillary Clinton kind of pants,
Speaker 2: would I feel like myself? And in the end we
Speaker 2: decided not, And so I actually end up wearing jeans
Speaker 2: to most things. But also I feel confident doing it,
Speaker 2: so I think, yes, having And it's similar to the
Speaker 2: way I feel about beauty, right, It's like the whole
Speaker 2: point of it is not to look a certain way,
Speaker 2: but to feel a certain way. And for me, the
Speaker 2: stylist was just a path to making sure that I
Speaker 2: could feel like the most confident version of myself whenever
Speaker 2: I went to these things.
Speaker 1: And I'm imagining it must have had an impact on
Speaker 1: just the time that it took to get ready and
Speaker 1: just minimizing decisions.
Speaker 2: Is that fair to say? Absolutely? I felt like I delegated.
Speaker 2: The angst was great, someone else had already thought about this,
Speaker 2: and I'd had a third party umpire check that my
Speaker 2: outfits were acceptable.
Speaker 1: So that is it for today's show. If you are
Speaker 1: enjoying How I Work, you might want to connect with
Speaker 1: me on the socials. So you can find me on
Speaker 1: LinkedIn just search for Amantha Imba. I think I'm the
Speaker 1: only Amantha Imba on there, if not on the planet possibly.
Speaker 1: I'm also on Twitter at Amantha and on Instagram at
Speaker 1: Amantha I, so please connect with me. I love hearing
Speaker 1: from listeners of the show. It's really lovely to get
Speaker 1: all your notes. How I Work is produced by Inventing
Speaker 1: with production support from Dead Set Studios, and thank you
Speaker 1: to Matt Nimba, who does the audio mix for every
Speaker 1: episode and makes everything sound awesome. See you next time.