The Power of Style: How What You Wear Impacts What You Believe About Yourself with Risa Kostas
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Your closet is an extension of who you are! Today, I sit down with Risa Kostas, fashion stylist and co-founder of the Rescue Kit Company, to pull back the curtain on the true power of style. We talk about how what we wear can directly impact our energy, our level of self-confidence, and the way we show up in the world. Risa also shares simple, cost-effective tips to work your self-expression muscle and upgrade your wardrobe–without breaking the bank. If you're wondering how to level-up your current style or still figuring out what to wear to the Powerhouse Women Event (hint, hint), we've got you covered!
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Welcome back to the podcast, Risa Kostas, my style fairy godmother!
03:35 How has style helped you access your own confidence on a deeper level?
08:25 How did surviving a traumatic brain injury shift the trajectory of your life?
18:10 What would you say to your 17-year-old self?
20:30 How to cultivate authentic relationships that build your business.
27:55 How the power of style impacts the way we show up in the world.
34:35 Three ways to tap into your inner self-expression, style, and creativity.
40:40 How do you overcome the fear of being seen?
44:05 Simple tips to upgrade your style with minimum effort and money.
48:05 What inspired you to create a product to solve fashion emergencies?
58:10 How to embrace your personal style with the Powerhouse Women Event.
1:04:00 Celebrating Risa's Powerhouse moment of honoring her aunt's passing.
RESOURCES + LINKS
Check out the Rescue Kit Company HERE!
Click HERE for tickets to the 2025 Powerhouse Women Event August 15-17th in Scottsdale, Arizona!
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| 0:00.0 | The 2025 Powerhouse Women event, which is our annual conference, is only a few weeks away, August 15th through 17th, 2025 in Scottsdale. |
| 0:11.8 | And this is your last chance to save $200 on tickets. |
| 0:16.0 | I wanted to remind you before prices go up and before we sell out, especially of the ultimate powerhouse |
| 0:21.9 | experience ticket, which is where you get to join us for the entire weekend of encouragement and |
| 0:27.4 | inspiration and tactical business advice. If you love the Powerhouse Women podcast and the |
| 0:33.5 | conversations we have here, if you've loved the series we've been in all about what an identity upgrade actually entails |
| 0:41.7 | and how to support yourself through it, this is the event for you. |
| 0:45.8 | You can save $200 on tickets right now by going to powerhousewomen event.com. |
| 0:52.6 | You can get all of the details, see the incredible speaker lineup, |
| 0:57.2 | and save your seat because this is an event you're not going to want to miss. I can't wait to be |
| 1:02.4 | in person with so many of you in just a few weeks. Head to powerhousewomen event.com |
| 1:09.3 | right now, grab your ticket ticket and then come back and dive |
| 1:12.9 | into today's episode. |
| 1:15.0 | I don't think enough women are exercising their style gut muscle because you have it and you |
| 1:21.8 | need to own it. |
| 1:23.1 | What I'm putting on externally is only the catalyst, the mirror to the energy I want to portray, and |
| 1:29.2 | the energy is what people feel from us. |
| 1:31.3 | A hundred percent. |
| 1:33.6 | When I was 17, I went through a car window and was in a terrible car accident. |
| 1:38.1 | I had four consecutive surgeries on my face. |
| 1:41.6 | I didn't believe that people would like me or think I was attractive. |
| 1:45.8 | It was a journey. It takes courage to step into it and allow yourself to be seen, allow yourself |
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