Style Blogger + Designer, Elisa Yip, has been designing for over 20 years and she's all about the WHAT SHE SAID Style Summit because, for a long time, she didn’t even know fashion even existed outside of work. The summit helped her realize there are so many amazing, fashion-oriented people right in her own backyard. Her interview gets real when she talks about the truths of blogging and how isolating it can be. Needless to say, she's happy to discover that there's a huge blogging community here in Seattle, you just have to reach out to the right people! Connecting with people in the same industry has helped her to become a better blogger and ultimately a better designer because both online and offline conversations impact her designs.

So, what’s for the Seattle designer/blogger? Elisa wants to create a space for bloggers to connect with each other, judgment free! Follow her on Instagram @EforElisa to keep in touch and learn more. We also invite you to watch her full Facebook LIVE interview with Darcy Camden of Styled Seattle. (Panel discussion photo credit: Vivian Hsu)