456: Summer Series - 5 Investments That Have Changed My Self-Image
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Investing in Yourself: How Your Choices Shape Your Self-Image
Self-image is essentially how we perceive ourselves, shaped by our thoughts, beliefs, and experiences. Tonya Leigh explores the profound connection between the investments we make—whether in time, money, or energy—and the evolution of our self-image. This exploration is particularly relevant for women seeking to elevate their self-perception and overall life experience. Tonya emphasizes that our self-image acts as a lens through which we view our capabilities and potential. When we invest in ourselves, we are not merely acquiring things; we are affirming our worth and expanding our identity.
She emphasizes the importance of the energy behind our investments, highlighting that buying from a place of fear or scarcity often leads to disappointment. Instead, she encourages listeners to invest from a mindset of deserving and self-worth, exemplified by her own experience purchasing a designer handbag as a step towards embracing a new identity.
Tune in to discover how your choices can empower your personal growth and self-image.
Talking Points:
01:06 - The Five Key Investments
03:27 - Personal Growth and Changing Desires
07:08 - Early Financial Habits and Investments
10:20 - Seeing Yourself as an Appreciating Asset
15:19 - Investments as Rituals of Belief
21:08 - Thriving in Uncertain Times
28:04 - Choosing an Extraordinary Goal
35:08 - Discovering Personal Style
39:05 - Budget Shock and Self-Image
48:58 - Practicing CEO Presence
51:00 - Exposure to New Perspectives
Quotes:
"A deeper level of self-trust is the first thing that comes up. Also seeing myself as an adult."
"Making a scary but aligned investment, it pulls you out of your current identity and into a future one."
27:33 - "Without investments in yourself, you will slow your progress, and you will make it so much harder."
"I can tell you from my experience, it is the number one investment, hands down, that I have ever made in myself."
"Your surroundings are always mirroring back to you what you believe to be true about yourself."
"The way I think about it is I'm practicing it until I become it."
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| 0:00.0 | What if the way you invest your time, your money, your energy is shaping your self-image more than you realize? |
| 0:08.7 | Well, in this episode of our summer series, we're going to explore the powerful link between your investments and the woman that you're becoming. |
| 0:17.2 | And I'm also going to be sharing the latest investment that has really, |
| 0:22.1 | really expanded my self-image. So let's dive in. Welcome to the School of Self-image, |
| 0:29.2 | where personal development meets style. Here's your hostess, Master Life Coach, Tanya Lee. |
| 0:44.3 | Thank you. Life Coach, Tanya Lee. Hello, hello, friends, and welcome back to another episode of our summer series for |
| 0:49.3 | the School of Self Image Podcast, where we are revisiting some episodes from the past. And this one is one that I got |
| 0:58.4 | so many comments about. I had women in my DMs. I had women asking me questions. I had members |
| 1:07.4 | talking about this episode because it's all about the investments that we make |
| 1:12.0 | in ourselves and how it really does shape our self-image. |
| 1:15.9 | More specifically, with this particular episode, I shared the five investments that I had |
| 1:21.6 | made during that period of my life that really elevated my self-image. |
| 1:26.0 | So make sure you listen to it because if I've learned |
| 1:30.0 | anything, it's that it's not the thing itself. It is really the energy behind the thing. |
| 1:39.1 | Here's what I mean. If you are investing in something from a place of fear and scarcity and low self-esteem, |
| 1:49.1 | thinking that that thing is going to fix you, chances are it's not because it's just you |
| 1:57.0 | with the thing. I like to think about the first time I bought a designer handbag. I truly |
| 2:04.0 | bought it from a place of deserving it, feeling like I really deserved it. I bought it from a |
| 2:11.4 | place of really wanting to step into a woman who values quality, who really allows herself to have what she wants |
| 2:20.8 | unapologetically. Very different energy than purchasing a handbag because you think you're |
| 2:28.1 | not good enough and the handbag's going to make you better, buying it to impress other people |
| 2:33.3 | and so on and so forth. Now, the really interesting |
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