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Welcome to Depth and Drive: Finding Success Without Losing Yourself, a podcast and blog dedicated to entrepreneurs, creators, and founders who are navigating the delicate balance between their ambitions and their personal well-being. In today’s fast-paced world, the drive to succeed can often overshadow the need to stay true to oneself. This space is designed to help you explore how to achieve your goals without compromising your emotional depth, creative integrity, or personal identity. As entrepreneurs, creators, and founders, you’re likely familiar with the relentless pursuit of success and the sacrifices it demands. But what happens when the very things that make you unique—your creativity, emotional intelligence, and personal values—get lost in the hustle? Depth and Drive delves into these crucial questions, offering insights, stories, and strategies to help you maintain your sense of self while pursuing your dreams. Whether you’re building a brand, launching a new venture, or pushing the boundaries of innovation, this podcast and blog will guide you on how to find fulfillment without losing yourself in the process. Join us as we discuss the intersection of ambition and authenticity, where success is not just measured by external achievements but by how well you can stay connected to who you are. Through engaging conversations and practical advice, Depth and Drive offers a roadmap for entrepreneurs, creators, and founders who seek to thrive both personally and professionally. Here, you’ll learn how to harness your emotional depth as a strength, fueling your creative and entrepreneurial endeavors with purpose and balance.
Episodes
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Tuesday Aug 18, 2020
Our inner dialogue can be so judgmental. It takes constant stock of how good or bad we are.
What if instead you could learn to handle yourself with care? You are precious, special and deserve to be treated with reverence.
The negative self-talk in your head is anything but that.
Soothing out this harsh self-treatment can have amazing benefits on your life and relationships – as you honor you, others will follow suit.
It’s an invitation to enjoy a kinder, gentler world of your own making… and it starts with you.
Tune in to discover:
- Awareness exercise on your inner dialogue and what it creates in your life
- Tips on silencing your inner critic / enemy
- Myths on what motivates you to be better and make changes
- How to be your own best friend
Apply for a 1:1 complimentary sit down with me to discover what we can create together in a coaching session. Click here to apply: https://laurenpolly.com/apply/
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Knowing how to use your gifts is as important in recognizing that you have them.
We all have unique gifts in life. A lot of us spend time and energy in discovering what those gifts are but stop there. Leaving the discovery of all the ways in which we can apply them unexplored.
If you’ve been feeling less expansive then you’d like, I wonder how this exploration can assist?
After all, it’s the day to day experimentation of what makes you special that lets your unique light shine. And noticing the impact your choice has on it’s use that leads to greater overall fulfillment.
If you’ve been “looking” at your gifts but have been unsure on how they can help you create a life and business this one’s for you!
(Also, if you’re still in the “what am I uniquely good at?” stage of the game there are gems in her too to help you too!)
Tune in to discover:
- Awareness exercise on what your innate gifts are
- Practical tips on how to apply those gifts for life creation
- #1 perspective shift that can change your sense of fulfillment
- Hidden elixir that will help you live more fully and richly no matter what you chose
Apply for a 1:1 complimentary sit down with me to discover what we can create together in a coaching session. Click here to apply: https://laurenpolly.com/apply/
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
Tuesday Aug 04, 2020
What if now was the perfect time to reinvent your life?
We are living in a great time of change. Between the pandemic, civil unrest and polarized everything it’s easy to just sit on the sidelines to see how things will play out.
And many are doing just that. But they are wasting a huge opportunity. Now more then ever there is an opening to keep the things of the past or to lose them.
It’s a perfect time to take stock of your life, re-prioritize and begin to create a new path forward for yourself – if you so chose…
Tune in to discover:
- A-ha’s on what to keep and what to lose moving into a better tomorrow
- #1 creative power to harness and nurture
- Awareness exercise on what you’d like your future to be
- Practical steps on how to bring your dream to reality
Apply for a 1:1 complimentary sit down with me to discover what we can create together in a coaching session. Click here to apply: https://laurenpolly.com/apply/
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
Tuesday Jul 28, 2020
What if taking the easy route was different then you thought?
We’ve been taught that we have to work hard and earn what we get. That if things come easy then they must not be worth it. Or we don’t deserve it.
How much of your life have you navigated away from ease and pleasure because of this?
What if there was a difference between easy and ease? And what could exploring that difference bring to your life path?
Tune in to discover:
- Ideals and beliefs you may have that keep you stuck in hard work or self-sabotage
- Energy shopping exercise to discover what’s easy for you and how to use it
- How to break patterns of giving up, over-working and under-dogging your way through life
Apply for a 1:1 complimentary sit down with me to discover what we can create together in a coaching session. Click here to apply: https://laurenpolly.com/apply/
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Tuesday Jul 21, 2020
Are the difficult people in your life dragging you down?
Whether it’s a co-worker, child or relationship partner – we all have ups and downs in our interactions.
Phases where the people in our life are more difficult then usual. Or random people who are just difficult in general cross our path.
How do you have ease in interactions in these situations? And not be overtaken by their negativity or follow them into a fight?
Tune in to discover:
- The difference between ease and easy
- #1 perspective shift you can take to stop the fight dynamic
- A-ha’s on how to stop trying to change others or drag them into more possibilities
- Tools to navigate difficult phases of long-term relationships
- How to have your peace in the face of fight, drama or negativity
Apply for a 1:1 complimentary sit down with me to discover what we can create together in a coaching session. Click here to apply: https://laurenpolly.com/apply/
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
Tuesday Jul 14, 2020
What if you could be happy even if others aren’t?
Ever have your positive outlook hijacked by a negative person? Ever wonder how or why that occurs? Or, more importantly, how stop?
Unfortunately, most of us are programmed to go into heaviness of life in order to bring lightness to it.
(Aka we are drawn to heavy people and situations thinking that the path to a better world is by lightening their load!)
But what if you could just choose what was light from the get-go? With no need to lift up – or drag! – others along with you?
Tune in to this week’s podcast to discover:
- A little-known secret that will help having you staying positive in hard times
- Awareness exercise in where you tune into the “heavy” aspects of life instead of the light
- How to stop spending your resources on trying to fix others
- 3-step technique to use in the moment to re-direct your choice to one of peace and possibilities
Want some coaching on this topic? Apply to meet with me here: https://laurenpolly.com/apply/
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Are you looking for more freedom in your life?
To hear your inner desires and be able to navigate towards them? Without getting distracted or pulled off-course by others?
We all desire freedom. But so often our ideas of what freedom is or what creates it limits us.
We try to "win" it by fighting for our independence.
Taking a stand, drawing boundaries and justifying why we are doing what we're doing...
These seem to offer a sense of freedom at first. But it isn't long until we create tension and waste energy by trying to hold that line.
What if ultimate freedom - the knowing that you are inherently free! - was a key in changing this?
To live strong in your desires, confident in yourself and relaxed at the same time?
It's a very different possibility then most choose... but you can!
Tune in to this week's podcast to discover how to:
- Stop getting distracted by external stimuli
- Move beyond co-dependent relationships, self-doubt and lack of clarity
- Cultivate strength and softness to live a life full of joy and creativity
- Navigate life on your own terms
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Tuesday Jun 30, 2020
Are you looking for more freedom in your life?
To hear your inner desires and be able to navigate towards them? Without getting distracted or pulled off-course by others?
We all desire freedom. But so often our ideas of what freedom is or what creates it limits us.
We try to "win" it by fighting for our independence.
Taking a stand, drawing boundaries and justifying why we are doing what we're doing...
These seem to offer a sense of freedom at first. But it isn't long until we create tension and waste energy by trying to hold that line.
What if ultimate freedom - the knowing that you are inherently free! - was a key in changing this?
To live strong in your desires, confident in yourself and relaxed at the same time?
It's a very different possibility then most choose... but you can!
Tune in to this week's podcast to discover how to:
- Stop getting distracted by external stimuli
- Move beyond co-dependent relationships, self-doubt and lack of clarity
- Cultivate strength and softness to live a life full of joy and creativity
- Navigate life on your own terms
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
Tuesday Jun 16, 2020
- Have allowance for other opinions that don’t align with your own
- Tune your internal "navigational system" (intuition hacks)
- Create healthier relationship dynamics
- Stop living the reality you are handed and create your own
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
Tuesday Jun 09, 2020
What if your presence was the missing element for change in your life (& the world!)?
Our relaxed presence - the willingness to bear witness and hold space for others - is so powerful.
Most of us are shy to embrace this. After all, it’s uncomfortable. And so much easier to turn a blind-eye or only deal with the surface layers.
The tools shared in this episode will allow you to melt drama and discomfort. All the while giving the things in your life you wish would change the space to do so.
The result? Calm, peaceful and sustainable change.
Tune in to discover:
- Key element in easing discomfort in times of change
- A-ha’s on “energy leakers” in your life
- How to stop hiding, keeping secrets, fighting others (& yourself!) and feeding the beast
- 4 elements of creation (from Access Consciousness)
- Exercise to release deeper emotional pains for more freedom
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
Do you feel like you are missing something if you don't have a strong stance on what you believe?
The world is saturated in personal biases, hidden agendas and polarized viewpoints. We often feel that if we don’t have the same then we are wrong in some way.
So, we learn to mimic this way of life. We start picking sides and taking stands.
With this we waste time and energy trying to justify our choices to the nay say-ers. And building up enough gusto to have the stick-to-it-ness that others do.
Unfortunately, we lose our true success makers this way; adaptability, flexibility and mobility.
There is freedom beyond right and wrong. Not to mention more creative power and relaxation of life!
Tune in to discover:
- How our points of view cloud our perception of the world
- Little know power-boost when you find yourself in an argument
- Ways to give up the fight to prove yourself worthy and just be
- How not taking a stand creates more creative power in your life
- Tips on navigating life with an open flow vs a “right path”
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Tuesday May 19, 2020
Are the relationships in your life supporting your best self?
We don’t pay enough attention to the impact our relationships have on our sense of worth, self-confidence and ability to create a life we love.
When we downplay the erosive role an un-healthy dynamic can have in our world we inevitably set ourselves up for silent stressors, energy suckers and those reactive buttons that the toxic people in our lives continually love to push.
If you are looking for a greater quality of life, feeling good in your own skin and some very practical how-tos to re-write the story of your relationships this is a must listen to episode!
Tune in to discover:
- Discovery exercise to gain clarity on the current health of your primary relationships
- Simple way to change unhealthy dynamics with those in your life
- Clarity on your “non-negotiables” and how to stand up for how you wish to be treated
- Awareness on your baser self-viewpoints and how that may be pulling not-so-great relationships partners
- #1 a-ha that will set you free to feel supported and nurtured in all your interactions
Join Lauren’s online workshop on this topic May 28th here: https://bit.ly/crazytobrilliant
Tuesday May 12, 2020
Tuesday May 12, 2020
What if every wrongness about you is actually a strongness in disguise?
We all have brilliances that can be used to create a life we love.
But a lot of the time these brilliances are hidden, twisted and mis-understood. Sometimes, in more extreme cases, they win us life-long labels, roles to play out and boxes that are hard to break free from.
Whether you have been exploring what’s right about you for a while and are curious what other raw material you have to play with or are just starting to release your inner enemy and blocks of the past –
This conversation will offer you tools to come out of self-judgment and embrace the path of self-exploration.
Tune in to discover:
- 3 keys to kick start & deepen this journey of self-allowance and expression
- How we get locked into labels, roles and “boxes” (& how to break free!)
- Simple joys in the journey you can take even as you move through “heavy patches”
- Examples of “wrongnesses” and how to work through them to discover their strength
- Hope and inspiration in what else is possible for your future
Join Lauren’s online workshop on this topic May 28th here: https://bit.ly/crazytobrilliant
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Tuesday May 05, 2020
Tuesday May 05, 2020
Where has other’s lack of stillness or your discomfort with stillness taken you out of a sense of yourself?
What if no matter what came at you from the outside – or up for you from in the inside - you were able to have a sense of peace, calm and possibilities in every moment?
And what the stillness you have been seeking was simply a sense of home in yourself?
Tune into this week’s podcast to discover:
- A-ha’s on the constant play of the busy-ness of our minds and of our environments
- Awareness on how we let the outside world impact out inner world
- Tips on maintaining calm in the middle of a noisy world
- Myths on what stillness is that has you always seeking something that doesn’t exist (and judging yourself in the process!)
- Tools to hear your inner desires and stay “still” in that as you create your life
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
Tuesday Apr 28, 2020
What lightness can you add to your living?
It’s way too easy to get mired in the heaviness of the world around us, even when on a self-discovery / conscious path...
We are taught that hard work is what produces results, solving problems is the way to freedom and that forward movement in life comes only after you remove all obstacles in your way.
This is the OPPOSITE of what is true!
It’s the lightness that sets us free and allows us to not only become who we desire to be but gives us the ability to live as that as we move through our day to day lives.
It’s by bringing clarity, honesty and non-judgment to what is really going on and what we would like to be different that allows us to start to move and change.
What if your life path could be lit by lightness and you could experience YOU in every moment along the way?
Tune into the 100th episode of The Lighten Up Podcast to discover:
- A simple and powerful tool to realign your inner compass to lightness
- Perspective shifts to take you away from heavy situations and into more possibilities
- Clarity on what is really heavy – because for you it may be different then it is for others!
- Tips on creating the possibilities you desire in your day to day life
- Energies of relaxation, space and ease…
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
Tuesday Apr 21, 2020
What can the earth teach you about maneuvering past problems into possibilities?
What if you didn’t get lost in the forest of your thoughts, fears and anxiety but were able to gain the perspective of being on the vista instead?
What possibilities and how many paths forward could you see from that expanded view?
Tune into this week’s podcast episode to discover:
- Expansion energetic exercise with the earth to reclaim your sense of space, peace and possibilities
- Visual technique to use in high intensity or anxious moments when you can’t see your way to the other side of upset
- How to apply lessons from nature to your life for greater creation and a sense of the future
- Tips on how to re-write your story moving forward – and how your choice in this moment steers it
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Does navigating the changing nature of life come easy for you?
How often do you cling to your favorite moments not knowing what will come next?
So often we have moments that are snap shots of perfection; a happy family moment, a beautiful day, a new adventure, a pinnacle of success.
We are so blown away by the beauty and joy but at the same time are fearful of losing it in the next moment that will come to pass.
Body tension, control tactics, wistful longing and disappointment can follow.
How do you enjoy these amazing life moments while still being open to what’s coming next?
Tune into this week’s episode to discover:
- Snap shots of perfection, finish lines, the good old days & how they stick us
- #1 perspective shift to make change easier
- How to be present in the moment while not clinging to it
- Tools to let go of tension, control and the fear of loss
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
In times of financial hardship... how creative can you be?
Say good-bye to under-valuing what you have to give, blind spots that have you leaving money on the table and getting stuck in old patterns of making money that aren’t working in current times.
Tune in to discover:
- How to see the value in what you have to give (and receive from it in turn!)
- How not to hit the pause button on your revenue streams even as the economy slows
- Some great examples of those who have created wealth after bankruptcy and what we can learn from them
- Creative possibilities with money in this trying time
- Powerful questions & an exercise you can use to open your creativity with making money
- Practical exercise to brainstorm different revenue streams that you can move on right now
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
When the world's anxiety invades your space how do you regain a sense of calm and choice?
We’ve all had times of anxiety – especially given the current circumstances of the world.
That feeling when the worlds upset crosses the threshold of being “out there” and comes into our body.
Our heart-rate picks up, our breath shortens and our mind becomes a flurry of what-if scenarios.
Before you know it you’ve lost presence with your body, the current moment and the choices you have available to see your way through.
This episode has my go-to trick to reversing this “take-over” to find a sense of calm, presence and helps you regain your choice in the face of intensity (it’s much needed right now!)
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
In times of stress do you chose for the me or the we?
Humans are interesting creatures…
When times of lack, uncontrollable circumstances or fear come they tend towards the me world.
The helping hands, generosity of spirit and simple changes to behavior to create more the whole go away in favor of looking out for #1.
It’s a tough way to live; causing more stress, less support and at times shameful choices that go against our better nature.
What if there was a different possibility? Even in times like these?
Tunes into this week’s episode to discover:
- Tips on how to NOT shut down your caring, generosity or magnanimous spirit in times of uncertainty
- A-ha’s on the havoc loss of control, fear of the unknown and lack mentality have on us (and how to not let it!)
- Lesson’s from nature on how to modulate behaviors to contribute to all in tough times
- Awareness exercise on hoarding behaviors that dampen your life creation and experience