What You Wear Impacts Who You Date with Gab Saper
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Ilana chats with Gab Saper, a personal stylist who focuses on building confidence and body acceptance through fashion. They discuss the challenges millennials face due to past diet cultures and explore dressing for body types without aiming to look skinnier or taller. Gab shares her unique love story, beginning with a childhood camp romance that rekindled years later in New York, despite challenges like ghosting. She explains how eventually forgiving her now husband led to a deep relationship. Gab also talks about her journey into fashion styling, giving tips on dressing authentically, and how clothes are tied to self-expression and dating. They conclude with a discussion on the importance of wearing comfortable, authentic clothing and recognizing the significance of quality undergarments.
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01:07 Dressing for Your Body
03:30 Parallels Between Fashion and Dating
04:06 A Love Story: Meeting Her Husband
11:03 The Ghosting Incident
22:06 The Proposal
25:01 Wardrobe Styling Career
25:08 Early Fashion Memories
26:09 Turning Passion into a Business
27:53 Fashion and Dating
28:49 Breaking Fashion Myths
30:46 Finding Your Style
32:04 Dressing for Confidence
35:48 Comfort Over Trends
38:38 The Importance of Proper Fit
47:03 Advice for Men
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People. |
| 0:10.1 | Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing |
| 0:14.9 | their stories. Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even |
| 0:20.3 | cry along with us as we navigate the |
| 0:22.1 | dating scene together. Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of seeing other people. I'm Alana. |
| 0:26.9 | I am here with Gab safer. Hello, hello. Welcome to seeing other people, Gab. Thank you. |
| 0:32.6 | So, okay, we have a lot to discuss. First and foremost, you are a personal stylist. Yes. So cool. I need help. |
| 0:40.2 | Let's talk about it. We will talk about that. Second of all, a lot of your work has to do with |
| 0:45.8 | like building confidence for people, right? Through fashion. Exactly. And like body acceptance, |
| 0:50.5 | not just confidence generally, but like specifically around their bodies, |
| 0:55.3 | how they feel about their bodies. |
| 0:57.1 | You know, I mostly work with millennials. |
| 0:59.0 | We grew up in 90s and 2000s toxic diet culture. |
| 1:01.9 | So all that stuff is really, I mean, you couldn't have been a person in the world and not |
| 1:08.4 | had exposure to it. |
| 1:10.1 | And it's still even in, you know, people's 30s and 40s, it's still person in the world and not had exposure to it. And it's still even in, you know, |
| 1:12.8 | people's 30s and 40s, it's still really in there. And when I first started styling, I just |
| 1:18.9 | like was hearing people say stuff that broke my heart all the time. And I was like, no, I need to |
| 1:23.0 | actually, that needs to be part of the work. And I need to focus on that in addition to the style |
| 1:28.5 | and also how can you find clothes that make you feel good in your body and not feel like |
| 1:33.2 | you need to always be losing like those last 10 pounds or whatever it is for each person. |
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