What Did I Get Myself Into? (Musings on Fear)
Prefer to listen? Click below. Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart. A client joked recently, “Tonya, I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I signed up to work with you.”Yes, I challenge my clients to do incredible, scary things, […]
Does Style Really Matter? (These images may change your mind!)
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. I remember looking in the mirror over ten years ago and not even recognizing myself. The word chic was not a part of my vocabulary. In fact, I was quite frumpy. When women look at me now, they often assume I came out […]
Frenchie Friday: How to Become Rich Overnight
There are people who have money and people who are rich. Some dear friends of mine live in Antibes, France. While they may not be “rich” by social standards, I’m betting that 90 percent of the population would trade lives with them in a skinny minute.Their lives are filled with the things that money cannot […]
Frenchie Friday: Living an Elegant Lifestyle in the Middle of Nowhere
Prefer to listen? Click below. I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. We often hear, “Home is where the heart is” and more than ever in my life, this so resonates with me. I thought I’d end up in New York City or Paris, but two years […]
Frenchie Friday: Even Elegant Women Get Pissed Off (A Rant about Self-Help)
Prefer to listen? Click below. The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for new and richer experience. Yesterday, someone asked me: “What’s pissing you off these days?” Out of my mouth flew these words: “the whole self-help industry.” And, […]
Frenchie Friday: The (Not So) Hopeless Romantic
Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are all noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for. I love love.I am a romantic.I am an idealist and a dreamer.I am a lover of classics: chateaux, castles, and churches. I am a lover of art, poetry, music and […]
Frenchie Friday: Dress for Romance
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. Since injuring my back a few weeks ago during my epic wake boarding attempt, I found myself living in yoga pants. Now, don’t get me wrong. I love my yoga pants (when I’m doing yoga) but day after day? Ugh […]
Frenchie Friday: Simple Ways to Create Everyday Luxury
Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in. My business manager informed me a few weeks ago that a search for “luxurious living” came up with “Tonya Leigh and the School of Self-image.”Who? Moi? What a way to be known, especially when […]
Frenchie Friday: 50 Ways to Be Elegant
Elegance is not a word we often hear. Worse yet, it’s not one we often aspire to embody. We’re just trying to get the kids to school, run businesses, get to the office on time, clean the house, pay the bills, and put dinner on the table. Living elegantly? Refinement? Luxuriously? Who has time for that? Darling, I […]
Frenchie Friday: The Art of Savoring Life
The journey is the reward. I sat at a table filled with my entrepreneurial friends. The conversation was all about getting ahead.Don’t get me wrong: I love reaching my goals, watching my desires come to fruition and being productive.But, in that moment, I couldn’t help but wonder, “Have we lost the true meaning of life?” […]