Welcome To A New Way To Grow: The Confidence Shift Newsletter

❗️🐘The elephant in the room: AI Color Analysis. I get it. You want your colors done. And now, there’s an ever-so-easy artificial intelligence tool that you could use to get them. It seems foolproof: cheap, fast, and you have a bunch of colors to buy clothes.    But there’s something wrong with this over-simplified approach.    AI can’t give you the "humanness" in wearing color.    AI can’t tel...

Pantone, the color authority, has released its Color Of The Year 2025, Mocha Mousse, which has the calming earthiness of Mocha. Laurie Pressman, Vice President of the Pantone Color Institute, shares, "For Pantone Color of the Year 2025, we look to a mellow brown hue whose inherent richness and sensorial and comforting warmth extend further into our desire for comfort and the indulgence of sim...

If you've been around me long enough, you know I love to speak about "seasons." They are the perfect metaphor for how life shifts and changes for each of us, causing us to need to find new meaning and purpose for our next steps. I'm in my own new season. Many of you followed along as I put my bid in and ran for a seat on my community's City Council.   It was a full-on lesson for me about every...