In Episode 62 of the HerStory Podcast, Kylie King sits down again with Antoinette Stonham from All About Style – a three-time ALIBI Award winner and 2024’s ALIBI Business Lady of the Year to talk about something every business owner needs: confidence.

This episode explores how confidence isn’t just a mindset, it’s something you build, and often it starts with how you see yourself. Antoinette shares how personal style can become a practical confidence tool, especially when you’re showing up to networking events, promoting your business, or stepping into a new season of life.

The conversation also dives into the reality that confidence can rise and fall through major life transitions – from becoming a mum, to returning to work, to menopause, to simply reaching a new milestone and no longer feeling like “your old self.” Antoinette explains why rediscovering your identity (and your style) matters, and how external noise can quietly shape the stories we tell ourselves.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re “too old” to start, reinvent, or put yourself out there – this episode is your reminder that confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It’s something you practice, rebuild, and reclaim.

What You’ll Learn in Episode 62

• Why confidence is essential for selling your services and showing up in business

• How style can be a practical first step to rebuilding confidence

• Why confidence often drops during life transitions (motherhood, career shifts, menopause)

• How external comments (even from years ago) can shape self-image and self-doubt

• Simple ways to start rebuilding confidence at home before stepping into shops or events

• Tips for shopping online when sizing and fit can be inconsistent

• Why entering awards like the ALIBI Awards can build confidence and elevate your business

All About Style, a dedicated Personal Stylist Business by Antoinette Stonham launched in 2013 after Antoinette decided to combine her expertise, her passion for fashion and a belief that fashion and dressing for your shape and confidence was possible at any budget.

Just one session with Antoinette can change your life. Antoinette has a way of removing the self-doubt and teaches you Love, Look and be Beautiful. Antoinette, can and has worked with all body shapes and sizes. Men and women with all confidence or self-conscious concerns.

All About Style one to one services of wardrobe edits and personal shopping trips are fun, informative, confidence building and totally empowering.

Antoinette is experienced in conducting workshops and training sessions. As a public speaker, she not only educates but motivates you to feel confident.

Antoinette believes: Style is a package. It’s how you speak, how you walk into a room and the way you stand.

Find Antoinette:

Facebook – www.facebook.com/allaboutstylesydney
Instagram – www.instagram.com/allaboutstylesydney
Website – www.allaboutsyle.com.au

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