Réidín Rees, Style Coach, Toronto, ON (2026)

09/03/2026

Many women don’t bother getting dressed intentionally when they’re working from home because nobody really sees them. But here’s something to consider: getting dressed isn’t just about being seen. It’s also about practice.

The more often you default to leggings, sweats and whatever’s comfortable, the easier it becomes to lose the habit of getting dressed with intention.

In the words of one client who works from home a lot: “I went to the event and I realized I’ve lost my sense of how to get dressed.”

If you only exercise your style when you leave the house, you’re not giving yourself much opportunity to develop it and it can become so much harder to recognize, express and trust you own sense of style.

The truth is, getting dressed with intention is a muscle and I believe we should use it often.

Putting outfits together, trying a new lip colour, getting used to seeing yourself in pattern or a different silhouette - all of that allows you to exercise that muscle, even when your day consists of Zoom calls, answering emails and eating lunch in your own kitchen.

Take if from me: Style develops over time through repetition, experimentation, trying things, changing your mind and gradually building a clearer sense of what feels like you - and what might feel like you with a little more confidence.

So don’t think of getting dressed at home as making an effort for the sake of it. Think of it as building continuity and staying connected to your style, even on the days when no one else sees it.

If you feel like you’ve lost touch with your own sense of style, that’s exactly where my work begins.

Book a call if you’d like to explore working with me.

09/01/2026

Style isn’t a problem you solve once. It’s something you continue to evolve as you do.

In the last 48 hours three women have reached out to work with me. While they are all at different stages in their style journey, each one of them understands the value of doing this work.

The first is just beginning. She’s about to embark on my Signature Style Coaching program, and I’m so excited to work with her. She’s decided to stop trying to figure it all out on her own and to give herself the time, attention and support to understand who she is now, how she wants to show up and what she wants her style to say about her.

The second worked with me earlier this year. We did some identity work and personal shopping and now she’s back because she’s ready to go deeper and tackle her wardrobe for Fall.

The third completed my Signature Style Coaching program last year and is coming back for a style update. “Your help really was life changing. People have been saying I carry myself very differently and I genuinely love how I feel in what I wear.”

I’m equally excited about each one of these women. One is just getting started. One has experienced enough to know there’s more to explore. And one has experienced first-hand the impact this work can have, and wants to keep building on it.

All at different stages of their style journey, and each one understands this work is about so much more than clothes. The way she dresses is connected to something bigger: how she sees herself, how she feels and the version of herself she wants to put forward.

One of the things I love most about this work is that there isn’t one ‘right’ time to do it. Sometimes you’re ready to begin. Sometimes you’re ready to go deeper. And sometimes you know the work is worth coming back to.

Regardless of what stage you’re at, style is a part of your evolution. When you’re ready to evolve further, I’d love to help you!

08/10/2026

You heard it here. “Chic” isn’t just a way of dressing. It’s a way of showing up. 💃💃

08/06/2026

You can be incredibly capable and still get overlooked if you don’t make your ambition visible.

Four words that changed the trajectory of my career?

“I’m ready for more.”

I remember the exact moment I said those words to my boss. He’d stopped by my office for a casual drop-in, and as he turned to leave, those 4 words blurted out of my mouth.

He smiled knowingly.

As I look back now, I realize that moment wasn’t just about asking for an opportunity, it was about making my ambition visible. You can spend years delivering results and developing your skills and earning trust, but still lose out on the opportunity to the person who positioned themselves for it.

Something I have observed in many of the women I connect with today.....they wait for the role before they allow themselves to show up like the person who is ready for it. But I don’t believe leadership begins when the title arrives. It begins with how you see yourself, and how you choose to show up.

This is where style becomes strategic. Your wardrobe is a tool to reinforce the identity you’ve chosen to step into, making your capability, confidence and ambition clear to see.

We’re not talking about faking it.
We’re talking about making your chosen identity visible.

And showing up on your terms.

➡️ If you’re ready to be seen differently, reach out and let’s chat about what that could look like.

08/04/2026

Most people think confidence comes from finally fixing the thing they’ve always hated.

My experience has been the opposite.

For years, I saw myself through the lens of the one thing I wished I could change. The scars on my face, left by teenage acne. That single perceived flaw became the filter through which I judged everything about myself.

I was representing brands I was incredibly proud to work for - leading presentations, standing in front of clients, giving media interviews, getting promotions, winning awards – internally wondering if all they were seeing was my skin, because that filtered how I saw myself.

I spent way too much time wondering if my message took a backseat to what people saw when they looked at me. Were they listening to what I was saying, or were they too preoccupied with my face?

And it didn’t stop at work. I kept love at arm’s length and didn’t date seriously until I was well into my thirties. Partly because I couldn’t imagine someone looking past what I couldn’t stop seeing in myself.

Somewhere along the way, I realized the loudest voice judging my skin wasn’t anyone else’s but mine. I was tired of letting one part of me dictate how I felt about all of me. So I deliberately began to practise a different way of seeing myself. Instead of agonizing about what I wished I could change, I focused more on what I genuinely like about myself – physically and personally. Bit by bit, the scars stopped being the headline of my story.

I look in the mirror today and I still see my scars. But they’re not the only thing I see anymore. And that lens has changed far more than how I see my reflection, it has changed how I show up in the world. Choosing to see my character and my strengths before my perceived imperfections has honestly been one of the greatest acts of self-leadership in my life.

Deep down, I know this is why I am so passionate about helping women show up on their terms. Everyone has their own version of acne scars. People assume I help women improve their style. But what I’m really doing is helping them see themselves through a kinder, truer lens.

When you change the way you see yourself, everything changes for you.

07/31/2026

I help them realize they never needed it.

This week I had one of those moments where you realize something, that in hindsight, feels painfully obvious.

➡️ I had the agency to make the decision all along.

The only thing stopping me? I was waiting to trust in my own thinking.

It took my mentor holding up a mirror and saying: “You already know.”

She didn’t give me permission. She simply reflected back what had been there all along - my own ability to make the call.

That’s the thing I keep coming back to in my work with women.

The goal is never to give them another set of rules to follow.

It’s to help them understand themselves, understand the principles, and trust themselves enough to decide what works for them.

When you have that clarity, the questions start to change.

Instead of:

“Should I wear this?”
“Am I too old?”
“Is this appropriate?”
“Will people judge me?”

You start asking:

“Do I like it?”
“Does it represent who I am?”
“Does this feel like me?”

That’s the shift.

Like I learned this week, we often have more agency than we realize. The answer isn’t always finding someone else to validate the decision. It’s trusting ourselves enough to make it, because the most powerful permission you’ll ever receive isn’t something someone else gives you.

It’s the permission you give yourself.

This is the work I love most - helping women reconnect with their own judgement so they can make decisions with clarity and confidence - in their wardrobe and beyond.

❤️

07/27/2026

I’m in the business of giving them permission to take up space.

The more I work with exceptional women in leadership, the more one contradiction has become impossible for me to ignore.

In every aspect of our professional lives, we are encouraged to lean in, own the room, voice our opinion, take the promotion, speak with conviction, get visible, be seen.

Yet when it comes to getting dressed, we often get the opposite message. Hide this. Minimise that. Don’t draw attention here. Create balance. Camouflage. Offset.

As a Style Coach™ and accredited member of the International Association Of Style Coaches™ I understand why these principles exist. There is value in understanding proportion, fit and silhouette.

However, I’m less interested in teaching my clients the rules, than helping them decide which ones deserve to be broken.

Style isn’t meant to be a tool for disappearing. It’s meant to be a tool for communicating. So my work isn’t about helping women become a more acceptable version of themselves. It’s about helping them get clear on who they are now—and giving them the confidence to take up space on their terms.

Sometimes that means following a styling principle.
Sometimes it means breaking one.

Either way, the intention is deliberate.

What’s one style “rule” you’re ready to rethink?

07/23/2026

➡️ You can have a beautiful wardrobe and still be misunderstood.

What you wear is one part of the story. The more important part is whether what you wear reinforces who you are, the role you hold, and how you want to be perceived.

I was reminded of this recently when a new client came to me after repeatedly being mistaken for the junior assistant.

Many people would assume this was a wardrobe problem. I didn’t.

When someone consistently sends the wrong signal, I don’t immediately look at what’s missing from their wardrobe. I look at the gap between who they are and what people are seeing.

Those are two very different things.

Before we changed a single thing, I wanted to understand:
• What level of authority did she actually hold?
• How did she want people to experience her before she spoke?
• Where was the disconnect between her current wardrobe and what she stands for?

If we’d skipped those questions and gone shopping, we probably would have ended up with nicer clothes...
..that still told the wrong story.

The truth was, her wardrobe wasn’t unprofessional. It simply wasn’t reflecting the level of authority she held. My job wasn’t to make her look more fashionable. It was to make sure her wardrobe reflected the level she was operating at.

So every decision we made had a purpose:
To close the gap between who she was and what people were seeing.

That’s why I rarely start with clothes.

I start with the woman, the role, the outcome so that we create alignment between who you are and how you show up.

If you know you’ve outgrown your current style but aren’t sure what comes next, I’d love to help you figure that out. DM me STYLE to learn more about working with me.

07/17/2026

“Does this help to create the impression I want to leave?”

That’s a question that expands your focus beyond merely whether an outfit looks good, to what your clothes are communicating about you - encouraging greater self-awareness and more intentional choices.

Your personal style is strategy. Even when you’re off-duty!!

➡️ Give it a try this weekend and notice how it shifts your thinking.

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