Special thank you to our podcast partner for this episode Sir and Madam.

They are a husband and wife owned Brandon Boutique

dedicated to filing the Urban Sophisticate

through its offering of clothing, accessories, and apothecary goods.

Honestly, we just love their clothing and we love the people behind it.

So we wanted to talk a little bit about Sarah and Madam

before we get into the show today.

So one thing I really loved, Sakia and Dion,

was I asked Autumn for some of her thoughts

in relation to our topic today so about creating from an

authentic place which you wrote about in your blog Dion and about defining creativity

she couldn't be with us today super sad about that but she did share I minimize noise of others and completely

tap into my instincts and personal observations that's how she creates from

an authentic place I really really appreciated hearing. Absolutely.

To tap into like your own power and like your own instincts instead of like relying on the validation or affirmation from other people.

Exactly.

And I think when you think about what they're doing

through their store, which we've all been to, it's in Hyde Park.

Exactly, it's super, super beautiful space.

It's a challenging thing, think to be an entrepreneur in general, but to be able to successfully

have a clothing boutique in an area that has a lot of boutiques and they've been doing it for about 10 years now and

Autumn share with me about how when they first started some people had some things to say,

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