138 Focus on Your Fabulocity with Yolanda Drewell
My guest today is Yolanda Drewell, author of "Look, Feel & Age Fabulous" and creator of Fabulocity Yolanda Drewell is a Transformational Stylist, Midlife Anti-Propagandist and calls herself the Queen of Fabulocity, a habit and life philosophy that evolved out of her love for word ‘fabulous’. Influenced by her colourful South African roots, Yolanda uses her own unique, flamboyant outfits, language and modalities to model and inspire women to discover and craft expanded and compelling vers...
My guest today is Yolanda Drewell, author of "Look, Feel & Age Fabulous" and creator of Fabulocity
Yolanda Drewell is a Transformational Stylist, Midlife Anti-Propagandist and calls herself the Queen of Fabulocity, a habit and life philosophy that evolved out of her love for word ‘fabulous’.
Influenced by her colourful South African roots, Yolanda uses her own unique, flamboyant outfits, language and modalities to model and inspire women to discover and craft expanded and compelling versions of themselves, starting in their wardrobe.
Fabulocity is a pattern-interrupt, a genial and expansive take on self-actualising, confidence and goal-setting, offering tantalising shifts in all aspects of your life, starting with your outfits and self-identity, and moving into charisma, language, marketing, spaces, relationships, goals, behaviour, mindset and more.
Fabulocity is rooted on three luscious tenets for living your best life:
CELEBRATION
REINVENTION
FABIFICATION
Yolanda is an ex-PR professional, and she is also a laughter yoga coach, pantomime actress and a student of Quantum Touch. She has four teenage children, a British husband and lives in the UK with all of the above and two poodles. She is an advocate for Steiner education (her four children went through the Steiner School system on three continents) and Extinction Rebellion (XR).
Let’s jump right in and tell us more about exploration over a number of years trying to work out how to create a successful, happy middle age. You mentioned that your motivation for this was primarily watching your mother suffer from ‘empty nest syndrome from which she never recovered.
Enter Fabulocity …why do people need this?
Fabulocity is a pattern-interrupt, a genial and expansive take on self-actualising, confidence and goal-setting, offering tantalising shifts in all aspects of your life, starting with your outfits and self-identity, and moving into charisma, language, spaces, relationships, goals, behaviour, mindset and more.
I'd like to invite anyone interested in learning more about living life in a state of Fabulosity to visit my website. https://www.yolandadrewell.com
Find Yolanda's book "Look, Feel & Age Fabulous" right HERE
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Summary from the show:
30 years ago whenever I left home it was a very difficult time for me. Normally, it's the most difficult thing for the parents, but for me at that time when I left was really difficult because my mom was going through a very difficult time. And I was 24 years old really well past my readiness to leave home and I wanted to move in with my boyfriend and my father had left her just a few weeks before and when I was ready to go and I thought to myself, do I need to stay for my mom's sake? And you know, I thought No, I actually I can't really do that much of our money moving 45 minutes away. So I said I actually am still going to move out and as I left the house, my mom slept me. And you know at the time what you know, as a clueless teenager, you sort of self centered and I was outraged. I would rage that my mother would slap me when I left home. I mean, taking my first steps into adulthood and I should be supported. And absolutely outraged. Only now looking back and I understand the pain that she was going through and how hard it must have been for her in a very difficult personal circumstances of her relationship and our eldest daughters leaving her so I really understand that now. But going through it at the time I made a decision at that stage. And I said to myself that when I have kids one day, when they leave home, I want them to leave home knowing that their mother is well that she is able to reinvent herself that she is able to stand on herself and be independent and love life and that I don't need them. That's what I wanted for my children. That's what I wanted for myself when I left home because it's not nice when you know that your mother is suffering. And so so many years ago, I decided that that when my kids left home, they would be well supported and I had to make sure for myself that I was creating a life that was forward looking and not just two, I didn't want to be the one left behind when they left. And so this this journey that I'm on now with this whole sort of fabulosity that we'll talk about in a bit that came out of that decision so many years ago because you know, I could see emptiness coming a few years ago and I thought I don't want to be at the door watching my kids. You know, leave and I've got nothing I really have to prepare my next chapter and create who I want to be next because my chapter is a mother of four children is ending. I now need to be the new mother of adults children and what what does that mean? And so I've worked very hard to create a new chapter for myself. And that's where this whole sort of fabulosity story has come in.
I know for myself that when I feel when I have fabulous clothes on my body, and when I say fabulous clothes in my body, it's clothes that have the energy that's aligned to me. So my version of fabulous clothing is not the same as yours. So I particularly like flamboyant clothes and the energy of flamboyant bright old clothing really resonates with my personality. Somebody else might not fancy that and they might like like, you know, they might be dramatic, introverted, sort of introspective people that actually black you know, or you might be a softer kind of a person and you'd like soft blues and that sort of thing. And but understand that, that clothes do have energy and they have the ability to make you feel great, or they have the ability to make you feel not so great. And you know, I always say that we've offered a uniform, and make sure that that uniform is fabulous. Now what I mean by uniform is anything that you default to. So it's the kind of things that you don't think about when you're feeling low or whatever. It's the kind of things that you just read and you're put on everyday. For a lot of people it might be jeans and a T shirt for me it's a jumper and Trixie that's you know, since COVID. I also really one point when you have your uniform, understand what your uniform is, a uniform is absolutely fine but happiness so if you wear jeans every day, make sure it's a great t shirt. Make sure your jeans fit you so beautifully that you feel amazing in them and they look great and all those things because the clothes honestly can make your day or they can break your day.