540: The Lavendaire Lifestyle With Aileen Xu

Aileen Xu is a YouTuber and the podcast host of The Lavendaire Lifestyle. She also created the blog called Lavendaire which is a blog about personal growth and lifestyle design. In her blog, she shares weekly knowledge and inspiration on becoming your best self and creating your dream life. Aileen is also an artist of life which is someone who owns her power to envision and create her dream life. To her, life is an art, the ultimate form of self expression. With this freedom, she believes you can set out to create a life unique to you, one that you absolutely loves.

Aileen shares how she was able to come out of her shell to express her true self and create The Lavendaire Lifestyle as a way to help and inspire others create their life by design. Check out her episode to listen to her story.

Bio

Aileen Xu is a YouTuber and a podcast host.

Cultural Background

Aileen is of Chinese descent.

Favorite Self Confidence Quote

You must learn how to become a deeply disciplined half-ass.

Definition of Self Confidence

Self confidence is embracing who you are. Also accepting and loving yourself.

Her Life Before the Discovery of Self Confidence

Aileen was a shy and reserved girl. It was hard for her to make friends at school. She had all these passions but kept it as a secret

In high school, she discovered YouTube and posted her songs as a way to show her talents to the world.

The “AHA” Moment

For Aileen, it was a progression of creation. It took a while for her. She posted videos for years even if friends already knew about her YouTube channel.

She started getting into music and wrote 5 songs for an album, created it, planned an album release party and performed it live which was a big step for her and her confidence.