Hello everyone and welcome back to an all new episode of the Financial Confessions.

It's me, your host, Chelsea Fagan, founder and CEO of the Financial Diet and woman who

loves to talk about money.

And when we talk about money on this channel, oftentimes we're talking about it through

the prism of our lifestyle choices, our consumer choices, the things we buy, the things we put on our bodies,

our faces, in our homes, in our stomachs.

Money at the end of the day is not just a bunch of numbers

on a screen or a piece of paper, although in some ways

it can be easier and maybe even more healthy to think of it that way.

It's also in many ways a living breathing thing

that both informs and controls the choices we make.

And a lot of the messaging around us, aside from just sort of generally being built to separate us from our money, is also often teaching us extremely bad and untrue narratives about the way we live and the things we buy.

And one of those most corrupted narratives is a subject that we've talked about

several times on the channel, but I think is always worth revisiting,

especially in a consumer landscape that is getting increasingly unethical and

unsustainable.

And that is fashion and in many ways specifically fast fashion.

The way that we shop for clothes, how many clothes we

own, how long we own our clothes for, all of these things have radically changed over the past

decades and the past hundred or so years. But especially in the past decade or so, we have

seen a kind of hyper- normalization of this fast fashion landscape

that has expanded well beyond anything that someone living even probably 50 years ago could

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