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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 Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
How do you find yourself in the noise of life?
Most of the thoughts, feelings, emotions & body sensations we experience aren’t ours.
They are simply our awareness of the environment and the people in it.
Now’s the perfect time to take a deep dive into this freeing concept with the most effective tool I’ve ever discovered called Who does this belong to? (from Access Consciousness)
It will help find your sense of space – and choice! – in the midst of chaos and intensity (not to mention everyday life!)
Tunes into this week’s episode to discover:
- My favorite tool to find myself when the world gets loud and invasive
- #1 way we stick ourselves with acute intensities and chronic problems – and how to un-do it!
- A-ha’s on how energy works in a practical way – and how we can use it to change our behavior and though patterns
- Awareness exercise to give you a immediate sense relief as you listen…
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Have you put your creativity on the back burner?
As we grow most of us are taught that creativity isn’t an important aspect of a successful life.
We prioritize our creative whims in favor of getting through our to-do lists, achieving a goal or caring for those around us.
Very few of us place creative outlets, exploration and expression in the “must-do” category which creates all sorts of havoc on our emotional well-being.
Get ready for some out-of-the box ways to look at life as a creative project and a big ole boost to the fun-factor in your life!
Tune into this week’s episode to discover:
- Common pain points that come from not engaging your creativity
- Simple ways to unlock you un-tapped creative potential
- How to find windows of time to follow and foster your creative whims
- How to use creativity as self-care
- Perspective shifts on living a creative life in modern times
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Where are you shutting yourself down in a attempt to relate to others?
When you are searching for a bridge into someone else’s world do you cross too far and lose the connection to your own?
If you didn’t have to adopt other’s perspectives or adapt yourself to the way people wanted you to be then what would be possible in all of your interactions?
Say good-bye to the relational dynamics that make you…
… feel like the odd man out,
… have you getting lost in the crowd or that
… stop your personal growth and expression in favor of making other’s more comfortable.
Tune in to this wee’s episode to explore:
- What to do – and not to do! - when you’re the odd man out in social situations
- #1 perspective shift to help you navigate the growing pains of longer relationships
- A fun energy to use in interactions that lets you have more ease
- Tools to not make yourself or your relationship partner wrong as you both continue to grow and change throughout the course of life
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
What other aspects of your self can you share with the world?
The face we show to the world – professionally and personally – is usually only one or a few dimensions of who we truly are.
We learn to favor those images over time based on the positive or negative judgments we receive.
What if you could explore, express and be received for all that you are?
Tune into this episode to explore:
- #1 mistake we think “being seen” is and how it makes us hide
- Daily tips on uncovering more of yourself in a safe and supportive way
- Ideas on bridging into more self-expression in the world
- How to increase the intimacy in your relationships by being more authentic
- Exploration of the diversity of your being and how that leads to richness in life experiences
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Does life have to be hard before it gets easy?
If you’re a lover of problem solving, being the underdog or taking the long hard way in life then this one is for you!
What else is possible if hard work wasn’t the end-all-be-all in your life creation? More ease please!
Tune into this week’s podcast to discover:
- Points of pride & other hidden perspectives that make life harder than it needs to be
- How to give up the need to understand others (and to create the same circumstances!) as a way to be empathetic
- 2 ways other people’s perspectives of us can lead to harder work (& how not to let it!)
- Powerful awareness exercises to make this process faster and easier
- #1 way to create change in your life (it’s the opposite of what we’ve been doing!)
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
What in your life is no longer serving you?
It’s the pruning season here in California. Where gardeners cut off the growth of trees, appearing to strip them bare, with the goal of having them grow greater next season.
Confronting and unattractive as it may be, it adds to the health and vitality of the tree.
Creating space by releasing of the old – without judgment! – and inviting in the new is an amazing lesson from nature that we can apply to our businesses, relationships and creations.
What in your life is asking for a pruning? And what future can you create by letting go?
Tune into this week’s podcast to discover:
- 2 perspective shifts to make the pruning process more comfortable and effective
- How to stop judging your choices and where they lead
- How to harness the power of the vacuum effect
- The art of letting go…
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
How can you harness the power of your voice to change your life - and the world - for better?
So many of us are aware of a different way of life. A world that is kinder, more possible and lighter to be a part of.
There are ways to use your voices (internal, personal and creative) to realize the possibilities you have been seeking... For your enjoyment and the enrichment of others.
Tune into this week's episode to discover:
- Easy to use tips to find the power of your voice
- How changing your inner dialogue is the best way to create the world you'd like to live in
- #1 way we fight against creating something new and how to change it
- A-ha's and inspiration on being part of something bigger (hint - you already are!)
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Tuesday Jan 21, 2020
Do you have the courage to allow the experience of life to change you?
We are all pulled to explore, grow and change along our life path.
Yet so many of us stop ourselves short of the action and experiences that would allow that to occur.
Whether it’s our fear factor, lack of clarity or past failures we all find ourselves on the outer limits of exploration from time to time.
What if there was a way to harness your courage to go forth and experience more?
Enjoy these lessons from the Cowardly Lion for a much-needed boost when times get tough and uncomfortable…
In this episode we’ll explore:
- How to stop looking for the right time and circumstances before you take action
- Ways to work yourself through failure, fear of change and lack of clarity
- Tools to end the self-sabotage and perfection traps
- How to come out of “maybe someday” mindset to live in the moment more
- #1 energy to cultivate to allow change to be easier and way more fun
BLAZE monthly membership (mentioned on the show) opens for winter registration on 1/29/20 – join the wait list to be notified when they doors open (and for more tips and tools while you wait!) Go here to sign up: http://bit.ly/BlazeWait
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Tuesday Jan 14, 2020
Are your plethora of ideas causing overwhelm, confusion or inaction?
So many of us have ideas for what we could create.
These ideas can come calling at inopportune times causing a sense of overwhelm, in a disorganized download that confuses you or with so many expectations that it stops you dead in your creative tracks.
So how do you organize these ideas so that you have clarity, ease and confidence in what to chose first to get these projects – business, creative or personal – off the ground?
Tune in to this week’s podcast to discover:
- 4 easy to follow steps to energetically and practically organize all of your ideas
- Powerful questions to catalyzes your creative actions
- A-has on how we unconsciously shut down our creative ideas – and paths to a different future! – due to a lack of organization
- Daily energy and practical to-dos to bring forth your ideas in the world
BLAZE monthly membership (mentioned on the show) opens for winter registration on 1/29/20 – join the wait list to be notified when they doors open (and for more tips and tools while you wait!) Go here to sign up: http://bit.ly/BlazeWait
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
Tuesday Jan 07, 2020
How expansive would your life be if you were willing to profit from your actions?
Profit can be a nasty word to a lot of us.
If you are a service-based professional, care-giver or just generally like to use your resources to help people it can seem counter-intuitive – almost a no-no! – to profit from what you gift.
We treat our actions as a one-way avenue – OUT – and tamp down or cut off the return flow we could be receiving.
If you’ve been asking for a more expansive life - including your bank account! – then this is a must listen episode!
Tune in to discover:
- How to see the value in what you gift others
- Investor mindset and how it can assist you in choosing more expansive places to put your resources
- Ways to “re-fill” your own tank as you gift to others
- 2-way flow of the universe and how to open up the incoming increase your receiving
BLAZE monthly membership (mentioned on the show) opens for winter registration on 1/29/20 – join the wait list to be notified when they doors open (and for more tips and tools while you wait!) Go here to sign up: http://bit.ly/BlazeWait
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Tuesday Dec 17, 2019
Where does your bond with people turn into being bound to them?
Our relationships make up the fabric of our lives. How we experience the world and the possibilities we can choose get filtered frequently through how we relate to others in our orbit.
Those relationships that are creative, fun, spacious and caring lead to a sense of open exploration and support along the way.
Those that are based in irritation, drama, false pretense or old patterns act like a tether to the past and prevent us from changing and growing with ease.
Regardless of how things are now with the people in your lives change is possible!
Tune into this week’s podcast to discover:
- 3 steps to creating change in even the most structured relationships you have
- How to grow personally without having to leave those you love in the dust
- Tricks for inviting people along the ride – without forcing them to change (they just fight this if you do!)
- The #1 thing you can change in yourself to improve all your relationships (and your life enjoyment by extension)
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
Tuesday Dec 10, 2019
What choices can you make to enjoy the holidays your way?
Not all of us enjoy the same things…
Yet we tend to chase widely accepted pictures of perfection and circumstances thinking it will create happiness within us.
This is particularly true around the holidays with all the expected joy of traditions, parties and family time.
But what if the cheer and merriment of this (and every!) season came from a different source for you?
Tune in to this week’s podcast to discover:
- 4 simple tools to reclaim your ease, joy and FUN this holiday season
- Our backward way of trying to create fulfillment – and how to reverse it for quicker results
- Tips on navigating family dynamics, never-ending to-do lists and obligatory events
- Surprising way we create stress for ourselves during this time of year – and how to undo it
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
Tuesday Dec 03, 2019
What are you aware of in people’s worlds when they are irritating you?
People are the wild cards in life.
We can be happy, hum drumming along in our life path then a person enters the picture and the whole situation changes.
It can be a havoc-wreaking or a subtle irritation that grows and starts to diminish our own experience.
So… how do you have ease with people? Especially when they are bugging you?!
There are many layers that take place in any given interaction which are rarely talked about…
Each layer - when not attended to - can cause upset, misunderstandings and the desire to pull away.
By developing our working knowledge on them EVERYTHING gets easier!
Tune into this week’s podcast to discover:
- Easy ways to gain clarity on the different layers in relationship dynamics
- How to develop the ever-important skill of calling a spade a spade
- #1 way we pull away from people based on mis-understandings and a lack of clarity – and how this holds us back from growing our life
- Practical examples of how to work your way through interactions so you have more choice, ease & FUN
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
Tuesday Nov 26, 2019
Are you misusing gratitude and inadvertently making your life harder than it needs to be?
Gratitude, in its true form, is a must have for a life well lived.
However, a lot of us mis-use it. We use it as an excuse settle, fight the past to change our future or allow others to control us with gratitude shaming.
Clarity on this topic will allow you to be present with what is and move on to what’s next with more ease.
Tune in to this week’s podcast to explore:
- What is gratitude shaming and how it may be impacting you
- How to give up the internal shame of not being grateful for what is
- A-ha’s on how others may be controlling you with gratitude
- Tips to harness your past and use it as a catalyst for creating your future
- Practical tools to help you shift into true gratitude and how to use it as a creative element in your life
Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
What if there was a balance between leading and receiving that would make control obsolete?
So many of us are fighting a sense of dis-empowerment by controlling everything and everyone in our lives.
In doing so, we un-wittingly make our life path harder, worry-filled and tense our mind/body space.
After all, receiving, relaxing and co-creating with others is hard to do when you are micro managing it all!
Whether you are a born control freak or you have taken up that role as a way to get your power back this episode is a must-listen!
Tune into this week’s podcast to discover:
- 2 extreme power-positions we take for control that don’t lead to greater
- Discovery a-ha on where you function from and why so you can set yourself free
- How to let go of stress, worry, micro-managing and the resulting body tension that comes with it
- Powerful tool and exercise to let you lead your life AND include others at the same time
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
Tuesday Nov 05, 2019
What if happiness was just a choice?
And no external situation, reason or justification was needed for you to choose it every day?
Join me for a fun conversation on how to make the conscious choice to be happy and how that ripple effect can change the way you see and experience the world…
Tune into this week’s podcast to discover:
- #1 lie in this reality that has you waiting for happiness, instead of choosing it
- Cool exercise to experience the ripple effect of your happiness on others
- A counter-intuitive mind-set that will create more ease with people
- How to improve the experience of your life – day in and day out
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
Tuesday Oct 29, 2019
What beauty of living do you know is possible? What if you chose that more?
Its funny how often we allow our sense of space, peace and possibility to be overshadowed by the upset of others, our never-ending to-do lists or our external quest for achievement.
We fall prey to believing that we have to handle problems or achieve a certain degree of success before our lives can be filled with a sense of wonder and gratitude.
What if the reverse were true?
That a life filled with beauty is possible to chose in this moment and it’s that choice that will create more of it in your life?
Tune into this week’s episode to discover:
- 3 simple tools to live a life of beauty now
- How to re-calibrate when you lose a sense of peace and possibilities
- Tricks to having all of you regardless of what others choose around you
- An invitation to actively choose what works for you in every moment
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
Tuesday Oct 22, 2019
How can exploring your desires allow you to create a lighter life?
So many of us are chasing someone else’s desire…
Either one they have for us – the best way forward in their perspective -
Or one they have of us – what we need to do and be for them.
These intense external desires make it hard to hear your inner voice and follow it.
We also get stuck by a lack of honesty with ourselves; being clear on what we truly want which then gives us the awareness of how to create it.
If your life hasn’t been working the way you know it can this may be a big key for you to explore!
Tune into this episode to discover:
- Exercises to uncover your inner desires – and how honest with yourself is a must!
- 2 ways people project desires onto you – and how to hear your true desire despite it all
- How to let go of the “shoulds” in your life
- Energy a-ha’s on what desire really is and how you can manifest it in your life
Join the Lighten Up Community for more information and inspiration on this topic and more! https://lightenupwithlauren.mn.co/
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
What comes up for you when you are making big choices in your life?
Do you trust your awareness to guide you easefully along the path?
Or do you get lost in self-doubt, “should I or shouldn’t I” mind traps or self-imposed pressures?
Big choices are afoot for all of us in our professional and personal lives. And how we navigate them has a direct correlation to our future possibilities and current mental / emotional state.
Tune into this episode to discover:
- A simple way to weigh your options without getting lost in mind traps or over-thinking
- Ways to release inner judgment of what you should and shouldn’t choose
- How to harness trust when there is no guarantee outcome (take the leap of faith!)
- Ways to question your options that open you up to more, not riddle yourself with self-doubt
- 2 practical exercises to give you clarity and ease in these high-pressured moments
Join the Lighten Up Community for more information and inspiration on this topic and more! https://lightenupwithlauren.mn.co/
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
Tuesday Oct 08, 2019
What moves you forward?
Is it by knowing exactly where you are going and what's required to get there?
If so, what occurs when you lack the clarity on where to start, where go next or when you don't even know where you are headed in the first place?
For most this leads to feelings of stuck-ness, restlessness and frustration as we search for answers never taking a step...
What if clarity didn’t come from a clearly laid path that you had to figure out before heading down it but from a different way to functioning day to day?
One that was more about trusting the process – and yourself! – to move forward, one step at a time, in unexpected ways?
Say good-bye to the confusion that creates stuck-ness, the waiting game that has you searching for answers and distracting yourself from your desires by maintaining the status quo.
Tune into this week’s podcast to discover:
- What clarity is and what it isn’t
- Simple tricks to free yourself from settling with what is and never going for what you want
- Powerful tools to un-stick yourself and re-direct your creative energy
- #1 perspective that allows change and creation to be easier and more effective
Join BLAZE, the online membership for $27 / mo lead by Lauren mentioned in the show. Doors close soon and won’t be open again until January 2020 – hop in now! Check out the details here! http://bit.ly/blazecommunity