491: The 30-Day Reset That Changes How You See Yourself
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Join me for The Spring Edit, a month-long experience inside the School of Self-Image that I'm doing right alongside you. One room, one honest look, and one woman deciding who she is now – and creating a space that says so. https://www.schoolofselfimage.com/go
There's a room in my house that I've called my studio for nearly two years. I've never once recorded a podcast in it.
Two walls painted black, two white. Not a decision. A series of half-starts that never became anything. Every time I walk past it, it whispers: "You're a woman with beautiful ideas who doesn't follow through."
But I know who does follow through. I've been her. The one who sailed through St. Barts in silk, spent a summer in the South of France, walked into rooms and felt like herself. Alive. Creative. Unapologetic.
I set her down somewhere along the way. And maybe you did, too. You don't lose that version of yourself all at once. Life fills in around her, and one day you realize the door has been closed for a long time.
In this episode, I'm making it public: I'm building that studio. And I want you to do this with me – because your environment is your identity made visible, and the woman you're becoming doesn't live in someday.
She lives right now.
Here's what we cover:
- The room in my house I've been avoiding, and the self-image conversation it's been having with me for years
- Why an empty room is still a mirror, and what yours might be saying about you
- The woman I've been outgrowing and the one I'm returning to
- What space you've been walking past every day (and what it's costing you)
- Why a weekend blitz can clean a room but cannot shift your self-image
- How 30 days of intentional choices build unmistakable evidence for who you're becoming
- My public commitment – and the invitation to join me
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| 0:00.0 | There's a room in my house that I don't use. It has a name. I call it my studio. I've called it that |
| 0:06.9 | ever since we moved in almost two years ago. And in all of that time, I have never once recorded a |
| 0:13.6 | podcast in it. I've never sat down in it and done a full day of work. I take my Zoom calls in my other office, and I record this podcast |
| 0:23.7 | in front of my bookshelf. In the studio, the room I was so sure about, the room I had a whole vision |
| 0:30.8 | for, just sits there, door closed, waiting. Two of the walls are painted black, two are painted white. That was supposed to be |
| 0:40.3 | intentional. I was going to have different scenes and different sets and I wanted it to be, I wanted |
| 0:45.1 | it to be moody and dramatic and editorial. I wanted it to feel like me. But the truth is, I never |
| 0:52.9 | truly decided. I started with one idea, shifted to another, |
| 0:58.0 | and then I just stopped. So now it's just a room that looks confused because I've been confused. |
| 1:04.6 | There's almost nothing in it. There's a few things that I moved in when I thought I was about to |
| 1:10.0 | make it happen. There's a piece of furniture I bought in when I thought I was about to make it happen. |
| 1:15.6 | There's a piece of furniture I bought in a hurry that was supposed to be temporary. |
| 1:17.1 | It's still there. |
| 1:18.2 | Still temporary. |
| 1:21.9 | Still the only thing in the room besides my indecision. |
| 1:27.1 | Welcome to the School of Self Image, where our motto is simple. |
| 1:29.9 | Elevate your self-image, elevate your life. |
| 1:34.9 | I'm Tanya Lee, your hostess, and I'll guide you to become the woman who doesn't just dream bigger. |
| 1:36.3 | She lives bigger. |
| 1:37.5 | Let's dive in. |
| 1:41.8 | Now, here's what I want you to know. |
| 1:45.9 | I had this whole vision for this room, like a real one. |
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