The Simple Sophisticate | Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
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The simple sophisticate is someone who prefers quality over quantity, sensible living over mindless consumption, personal style instead of trendy fashions has an insatiable curiosity for life's endless questions, and a desire to live a truly fulfilling life rather than being led around by the nose. Shannon Ables shares with listeners tips on how to live a refined life on an everyday income...
The Simple Sophisticate | Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
1w ago
A tidy sanctuary creates mental space to find calm more readily. Upon walking into my home, Le Papillon, knowing and then witnessing that it has been cleaned, tidied and unnecessary items have been removed, whether that be emptying the recycling basket in the boot & basket room (aka mudroom), countertops are cleared of extraneous items, […]
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The Simple Sophisticate | Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
3w ago
“It’s not a matter of luck or magic. This is simply how your brain works. So take a break every now and then, and let your brain do what it does best.”—Michael Hyatt & Megan Hyatt Miller, authors of Mind Your Mindset: The science that shows success starts with your thinking One of the Beatles […]
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The Simple Sophisticate | Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
1M ago
“Presence is power.” What if I told you that the solution to your quandaries about life, love, work, finding calm, anything of value and importance already resided within you? While initially this may seem impossible, in actuality, when we dig down deep to the core of our motivations, our hopes and even our fears, the […]
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The Simple Sophisticate | Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
1M ago
“On ne comprend jamais tout à fait une langue avant d’en comprendre au moins deux.” ~Note to Listeners: If you listened during the first few days of this episode’s release, there were gaps in the audio. This error has now been fixed. I do hope you enjoy the episode and I apologize technical mistake. It […]
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The Simple Sophisticate | Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
1M ago
“The greatest gift that manifesting can offer us is not to help us attract things for us to possess but to help us unleash the most empowered, authentic, self-loving, and truly magnificent version of ourselves that there is.” —Roxie Nafousi How we live, how we think, what we think determines the destiny of our lives, […]
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The Simple Sophisticate | Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
1M ago
The Simple Sophisticate podcast has continued to be a favorite part of TSLL online destination for listeners and readers. This year 28 new episodes were shared with listeners and more than 800,000 episodes were downloaded: the most in the show’s history. And it is all because of listeners and readers of the show like you […]
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The Simple Sophisticate | Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
1M ago
The holiday of Christmas is a festive time that arrives a mere one week before the new year begins. The arrival of Christmas stirs up nostalgia for some, angst for others, seasonal stress for most of us and a stream of quiet hope for perhaps nearly all of us that a Christmas miracle will occur. […]
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1M ago
Those who know David Jimenez and his life journey often take a sigh of adoration followed by a smile and comment, “He is living the dream”. And indeed to us Francophiles, he is indeed. Having called Paris home for the past six years, American interior designer living in Paris David Jimenez partnered with Diane Dorrans […]
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The Simple Sophisticate | Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
1M ago
The concept of luxury at its core is what brings you comfort. A space, piece or item that brings ease, calm and perhaps a sigh of letting go and being able to fully relax and savor the present moment. In 2013 I shared a list full of ideas exemplifying what true luxury is; the items […]
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The Simple Sophisticate | Intelligent Living Paired with Signature Style
1M ago
“I am sure there are [trends], but I don’t really like them because I think trends come and go very rapidly.” —Nina Campbell Creating a sanctuary takes time. But it need not take the same amount of time each time you set up a new home. Similar to getting to know ourselves, unconsciously from day […]
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