Jenn Koch
Appearances
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
98% of the time, people are celebrated when they do something different and they wear something that helps them stand out. And so I would first start as an experiment of go and try it and see how much you're going to have people coming up to you. I mean, I'm an introvert and people stop me all day. It's amazing.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I, I think, you know, when you dress up and express yourself, it's the best business card you'll ever have. And you know, yeah, yeah. And so just getting people to move through that and experience it themselves, it's completely transformational.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Yeah.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Yeah. So my business is called Stylegasm and I help people, what I call unleash their it factor and be kind, the kind of woman or man that walks in the room and people turn their heads and they're like, who is that? And they have a style that expresses who they truly are and the energy about them.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
And yeah, just helping them to be the creative genius and the trailblazer that they are and have the visual identity to match that.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Well, I would say, I mean, it's a green light if you feel a little bit of that trepidation, right? Like it's same with business, right? Like there's something deeper there. So I would encourage someone to try it. And, you know, I find for the most part, like 98% of the time people are celebrated when they do something different and they wear something that helps them stand out.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
And so I would just, I would first start as an experiment of go and try it and see how much you're going to have people coming up to you. I mean, I'm an introvert and people stop me all day. It's amazing. And, and you're going to feel different as you, as you walk in, you carry yourself. So it's actually not something to be so afraid of.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
And, and maybe also just looking at like, where are the stories? Like where, what were your beliefs growing up? What's like that mindset and how can you transform that?
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Oh, like with style in my business?
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
So I grew up in Virginia. And when I was a little girl, my mom used to sew me dresses when I was in preschool. And from as early as I can remember, I had really strong opinions at the fabric store about what it is I wanted and how I wanted it to look. And my mom wasn't...
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
really a trained seamstress but she tried really hard and sometimes i was pretty demanding and by the time i was in elementary school she would make me a dress every year for picture day and you know throughout most the year my clothes were neither here nor there
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
and i looked up to the you know the girls that were always going out shopping with their mom and got to wear limited too and all the great designer stuff but this one day of the year i wore this like truly special piece that i helped create there was a vision that no one else could buy and from the moment that i got into the school bus like i was a different girl i was i was very shy i had a speech impediment but i was different that day and the way that i felt and the way that people responded to me and the way that i showed up in front of the camera
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
So I want every day to feel like picture day. And I think by the time I was a teenager, it was just so innate that that was fashion and style was a part of me and part of my expression.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Well, I would say...
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Yeah. So I work with people one on one. I work with people also around the world. I've had clients I haven't met before. And we go through each client's a bit different. But I really love work. I work with people like holistically. It's not just like picking out an outfit. It's like what is happening in their closets? What are their belief systems that they have around showing up?
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
what is their brand and how we really go to craft their brand through their style and like who is this next evolution of who they're going to become like how do you we're like literally shed the skin of who they're not and and to be able to wear these up level this elevated version of themselves yeah it's fascinating because it it does link back to confidence so much right like i i remember i had a friend that was super nice guy but kind of
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Yeah, I think there's so much focus in our world about doing the inner work, which I'm, of course, a big believer in.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
but there is something if you work on the outer like it actually pushes you like you have to carry the energy of like and i think you know there's so much in our physical environment that really affects us and just everything from the clothes and how the remain and the intention and just the vibe it's like it's an elevated frequency that you're carrying
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Oh, absolutely. I mean, my clients, it's like they've just become a different person. They start, they're single, they start dating, they start new businesses, like everybody notices. And, you know, it seems at first before they work with me, it seems like the most superficial thing. It's so hard for them to invest.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
And once they do it, they're like, this has changed my life more than anything else.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Yeah, well, you'll see soon with Kira. I mean, we went out on a shopping trip, you know, in New York City at Saks Fifth Avenue. And, you know, she fell in love with all these clothes. And, you know, it was this moment of like, you know, to go and invest this amount of money. And she's like, well, I'm going to go attract some more speaking opportunities, you know, to wear these clothes.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
And now we're here and now we have a whole series. So it's just like so much more visibility, I would say, like start new businesses, just like get on stages. Actually, like I worked with a client who was a creative, but more behind the scenes. And it gave her the confidence to actually like, create her own creative business and be like, like own the spotlight. I would say that's the thing.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Yeah.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
create change and then that leads to a business and then we start making money and helping people but you know what what's next for you with the book and helping people yeah so i'm writing this book i'm actually rewriting this book so i used to live in bali i had a major order fashion brand and someone had pointed out to me most of my clients were single
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
yes well my alter ego is the style dominatrix and it's a creative metaphor that i use and it's all around transforming your shame into your power and it's a persona i put on myself so i'm not an actual dominatrix in the traditional way but i like to bring elements of it and add a bit of style to it too
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
And at the time I did a lot of events around the island. And so I decided to do this event called Why You're Still Single. And it was this huge hit. And so I decided to write a book and then 2020 happened and it just made, it took a life on its own. After I did book clubs and it was a really amazing experience, but I decided that style was my lane and I just had put it to rest.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
But recently I felt that the book was like tapping on my consciousness and it wanted to be rewritten and there was a message there. I'm in the process of writing the book. I just wanted a book writing adventure. What's fascinating about it, it's called Radiant and the subtitle is so why are you still single? It's actually the same exact process of what I help people with style.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
What is it that clearing out their love closets and becoming a match to what's really meant for them. and to express who they really are. And it's been a really interesting journey because style is an area that I've always felt really confident in. And so this has actually pushed me to be the student first because I've been single. So it's been an amazing journey.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Legacy means to me... creating something bigger than yourself and having an impact that touches, you know, just a mind blowing amount of people that it's almost like, you know, when, when you go camping and it's like, you're not like not leaving anything behind, but like actually like,
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
leaving something like greater like once you're gone like there are like things that people that you touched and an impact of your mission that's what it means i love it and how how do you see that unfolding in in your life with everything you're doing and the people you're helping
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
I think it's ever evolving, but I would I would hope that I help, you know, the people that I work with and continue to to really just help them to be more themselves.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
And and then and with the book to be connected to to love and to I mean, to have breakthroughs in their lives that they wouldn't have had otherwise.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
really get more confident and become uh you know work on those things what would you teach them or say to them i would say first is to look at you know whatever whatever sort of shame that you feel that is holding you back um you know there's so much i think deeper in our subconscious and you know i think so much of my journey has been like
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
I mean, you know, I've lived in Paris and Bali and I've done these amazing things, but actually the things were always the catalyst of like embrace, like really coming to terms with the darkest sides of myself and what I didn't want to look at. And that doing that will actually set you free.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
100 years from now um that i was a that i was a pioneer um that i i was part of you know shifting the the industry of style and that you know so many women got liberated through my work that's what i would hope i love it i love it and just tease us a little from the the episode what are some highlights what are they going to learn how what are they going to enjoy when they kind of tune in and watch
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Oh, the episode. Um, you're like, um, it has not been a straight and narrow road. Um, I did not go to fashion school and, um, I think just, uh, just a lot of, uh, a lot of failure along the way and, and, um, a lot of, a lot of fun and just figuring it out along the way.
The Living Your Legacy Podcast
Jenn Koch Reveals How Style Transforms Identity, Business & Self-Worth
Yeah, you can find me on Instagram. Have a stylegasm.