The Fashion Buddha Podcast

Welcome to Love Money Magic. I'm Christy Teloh and I'm thrilled to have you join me on this journey. So, picture this: bustling streets of New York City, surrounded by the vibrant energy of the fashion industry. For me, it's been more than just a career—it's been a haven of incredible women. Building bonds with these strong, beautiful, and ambitious souls has been an absolute joy. And you know what the best part is? Sharing our stories.

Through countless conversations, I've realized something profound: at the core of it all, we all crave two fundamental things in life. Yep, just two. First up, we've got love, purpose, belonging, you name it—basically everything that makes our hearts sing. And then there's money, abundance, financial freedom—the stuff that keeps our wallets happy. Funny thing is, we're often taught to keep these topics hush-hush, which only breeds shame and avoidance.

But here's the deal: it's time to break those barriers. That's why I'm here, ready to dive deep into discussions with incredible women like you. We're talking about love, money, healing, growth—you name it. Because together, we're not just here to survive, we're here to thrive. So buckle up, because we're about to soar and prosper together. Let's do this!

What does your emotional home look like?  What are the thoughts you think regularly and the emotions that you create as a result?  Is it clean and pristine?  Is it messy and chaotic? 

In this episode I am talking a bit about my journey.  My story, what has been in and on my heart. You can hear in the episode, my struggle in real time as well as my outlook on how to move forward in the best way that I know how.   It's pretty raw and vulnerable which is all a part of my healing journey. My hope is that anyone listening can connect to thier own truth from my story.

In the past I could've called myself the queen of beating myself up.  Negativity and self doubt were definitely a big issue for me.  I'm in the process, obviously not perfect, but I am catching myself as my thoughts pass through and I'm correcting them. Treating those thoughts lightly and gently pushing them past and replacing those thoughts w/ a funny inside joke or simply telling myself 'Remember who the F you are'....haha.

Do you experience fear and self doubt?  What do you do to combat it?

Have a listen to my process of un-doing the past and redesigning my future.

About 4 years ago I decided I wanted to be happy.  I decided to figure out the root of why I wasn't happy & I decided to start making some major changes in myself. Now that I have some perspective I can see that it stemmed from the fact that I didn't like myself, I didn't love myself and I didn't even know how to start this process.  In this episode I'm talking about the process that I went through and continue going through to free myself from myself in terms of self loathing, judgement, self doubt and liberate myself on a whole new level.  Life is a process and I'm not waiting to find happieness I'm learning to be the happiness.

I'm not gonna lie, this past month has been one of the more challenging times in my life.  I've had to revisit a lot of my childhood trauma and it's been really really painful for me.  What I'm realizing is that you can heal from the pain by doing the work of having deep empathy for your past self and your current self, through journaling and through forgiveness.  It takes a lot of courage to do what you need to do to heal but with time and practice I'm seeing that it can be a very freeing experience.   Growth is painful but it is worth it. 

It was my birthday this week and I'm reflecting.  I'm thinking about my life and just life in general.  I truly believe that everything in your life stems from a place of how you see yourself.  I've been on an emersive journey of doing only the things that align with my mission of being the best version of myself.  I've opened up my perspective on myself, my beliefs, my intentions.  How do you view life and yourself?

I am completely obsessed with getting to the next best version of myself in all ways.  As a result, I like to reflect to asses how I've improved every now and again and I smile when I do. 

Things that once put me over the edge no longer does, my relationship w/ myself is easier.  I look at myself in the mirror differently, less judgemental. It's all a process but I'm glad im on this journey.  What do you do to make improvements on yourself?  How do you look at yourself in the mirror?  

As I learn and I evolve as a human being, I'm discovering subtle nuances of how to strengthen myself, my faith, my confidence and how to dissolve my fears. A level of awareness of myself and my purpose are becoming a bigger and bigger force from within.  It's all seemed abstract up until the past few months but as I know myself, when I get something and it resonates, it becomes me.  This is the stage that I am in currently. As I have previously mentioned, it's uphill, it's hard to get there..I'm not there yet but when you get to resting points along the way the journey starts to make more and more sense. 

I'm getting into the idea of how much control you feel you have over your life.  I've gone through a good majority of my life feeling like didn't have the majority of control over my life.  That way brought me to a place of feeling lost, helpless and victimized.  I was really not happy and feeling pretty defeated. 

Since learning how to command control of my focus, my thoughts and my emotions, I've become more empowered.  I'm shedding the 'victimized' part of my personality and emerging with so much faith, love and hope for my beautiful future.  It's a journey and a process and I'm just feeling grateful that I get to live from this different perspective moving forward in my life.

My mission in life is to evolve into the best version of myself possible.  I'm talking about the process of how I'm inching my way into the unfolding of that woman.  Rehersal is a part of what I'm doing to walk into the energy of who and what she is.  The empathy, the creativity, the love, the abundance, the health and the energy that I want to be.  Life is not static.  We need to be intentional on what we want and move in that direction daily. 

I'm getting into all of the things I'm realizing do not serve me anymore.  I'm catching all of the repeated things I have on a loop in my train of thought, things that I find myself making excuses on repeatedly and just stop to think for a moment to see if these are things that are helping make my way toward my goals or hurting my process.  It's also a matter of stopping patterns to re create new more empowering patterns.  Things that allow me to move my life forwad to more joy, more peace, more abundance and being a bigger version of myself. 

I've been on a journey of doing a lot of undoing to get to the core of who I am and what I want for my life.  Part of that is defining new beliefs.  Beliefs in myself, my capabilities, what I can learn, what I can do and who I can become.  Do you put focused energy on bettering yourself?  It's become my mission in my life to be the best person I can be and I see improvements which spill over into all aspects of my life.  I'm so grateful.

I've met so many awesome entreprenurial women during my year of discovery (2022 is the year of new connections for me) and I was so excited to disucss all things with Jessica AKA Honest Cravings.  She's a mom, she's a marketing expert and she is an influencer....She's also in the midst of a move with 2 little kids and a husband.  The juggle is totally REAL and we are having real girl talk on how she handles it all.  

After studying and learning about the happiest and most successful people in the world, I've noticed there is a common thread between them all.  They practice gratitude.  Gratitude is something that I practice every single day. I ackowledge that I am blessed for so many small and big reasons and I literally stop to say 'Thank you' for them regularly. It helps me to create what I call little spontaneous bursts of happiness throughout my day.  It makes me a happier and better person and it enhances my life.  Learn to be happy through gratitude and it will change your life. 

This week I'm interviewing Emily Samuel of Emilyy_fitness on IG, and owner of Travel Well.  I've known Emily for several years now and I've seen her grow and evolve on her entreprenuerial journey.  We talk about her struggles, her lessons and her over all resilience as she continues to make her way to becoming her best and strongest self. She's such an inspiration.  Have a listen!

In moments of life....being triggered, feeling annoyed, being impatient, feeling disappointed I've realized that my default mode is to freeze. I know that about myself now and I've been observing it as it happens.  It's really become an amazing tool I can use to move through situations in a way that makes me feel in control.  Feeling like a victim of my circumstances is no longer an option for me in my life.  I feel empowered and it feels awesome. 

I don't think I'm alone when I say, I am a recovering people pleaser.  I was a good girl, a rule follower and I survived well as a child, teen and young adult as such.  As I started to mature, have bigger goals, have my children, navigate a life w/ my huband and so on, things have changed.  Walking on eggshells just doesn't work anymore.  Not sure that I was ever happy doing it, just did it because it felt right....for everyone else I suppose. 

I am a work in progress.  I regress sometimes and sometimes I'm strong.  I'm learning to have compassion and patience w/ myself as I type this and I'm determined to be the very best version of myself :)

I'm taking responsibility for my life and for my feelings.  I'm owning the fact that I can choose how I decide to react to my feelings, how long I let myself sit in the feelings, and pivot into feeling a better type of feeling that can serve me. OMG what an uphill battle this can be...but...with time, with practice and with belief you can become the master of your fate an the captain of your soul. 

As I make my way through this journey called life, I realize that everything that I have been through and experienced has been FOR me and not happened TO me.  This is a big shift in thinking for me.  It's made me feel empowered to make the changes in my life that I have needed to make.  It's uncomfortable to take responsibility for the aftermath of what has happened in life, espeically when things are painful.  It is necessary to move on and this is the key to freedom.   

In this epsode I'm chatting with Lisa on the question that many moms ask after their kids start to grow up...'Now what?'

After devoting many years to pregnancies, breast feeding and raising babies, what do we do after they start to grow up?  Lisa gets into her journey of making the decision to start her own business, the growing pains, learning new things in a new industry and how it has grown in just a few short years and opened new doors of opportunity within her small community.