Episodes
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
#190 Pruning: Letting Go of the Old to Create the New
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
#189 Discovering the Power of Your Voice
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
#188 Courage: Lessons from the Cowardly Lion
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
#187 When You Have Too Many Ideas
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
#186 Profiting in the New Year
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
#185 Releasing the Ties That Bind: Relationship Freedom!
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
#184 Holiday Cheer (or not!): 4 tools to help you enjoy the season
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
#183 When People Bug You...
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
#182 Gratitude: 3 down sides that may be sticking you…
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
#181 Control Freak? This one’s for you!
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
#180 I'm Happy Just Because (it’s a choice!)
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
#179 Reconnecting to the Beauty of Life
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
#178 Desire: A Key to Make Your Life Work Better
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
#177 Big Choices: Risks, Rewards & FREAK OUTS
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
#176 Getting Clarity: How to discover your next move
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
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
#175 What defines you?
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
Tuesday Oct 01, 2019
How do you know you? Is it by defining yourself or through your exploration of what you’re capable of?
Having a defined sense of self is what we are taught creates character. It’s how we know ourselves and what guides us during choice points in our lives.
But what if that defined self is holding you back from the creation of what’s next for you?
What if true strength didn’t come from the definition of you but instead came from
- resiliency to bounce back from life’s challenges,
- flexibility to adapt to your circumstances and evolve
- changeability to jump tracks to more expansive terrain when desired
- and the creativity to re-invent who you are as you move through life?
This perspective may challenge your comfort zone a bit but if you are looking to jump tracks to a more possible and richer life it may be worth exploring…
Tune into this week’s podcast to explore:
- Why you need to let go of the bad AND the good to have freedom to create what’s next
- How defining life moments can lock you out of creation
- 3 energies to evolve who you have been to who you desire to be
- How to stop using the past to dictate what your future will be
- How to handle new situations without freaking out with a sense of losing who we are
Join me for The Other Side of Limitation FREE call for more tools and live facilitation around this October 3rd at 1pm PST! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/othersidecall
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
#174 Beyond Limitations into Possibilities
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
Tuesday Sep 24, 2019
What if there was an easier way to change what wasn’t working in your life?
If you have decided something is wrong and needs to change you end up wasting precious resources that you could be using to create something more expansive.
We inadvertently and unconsciously feed the beast this way; after all what you focus on grows…
Whether you are desiring change in your financial, health, relationship or business reality the same principals apply.
Welcome to a spacious possibility of relaxing, allowing and creating incremental change to lead your life in a whole new direction!
Tune into this episode to discover:
- #1 way we unconsciously create more upset, fight and hard work in our lives
- How doing what seems counter-intuitive sometimes create the most ease and change
- Tricks to stop overspending your resources on things that aren’t working
- 10 degrees to the right way of change (my fav!)
- Bleeding effect where change in one area of living impacts all others
Join me for The Other Side of Limitation FREE call for more tools and live facilitation around this October 3rd at 1pm PST! Sign up here: http://bit.ly/othersidecall
Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
#173 Chasing Success or Creating Fulfillment?
Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
Tuesday Sep 17, 2019
What’s beneath the surface of what you’ve created? Is that where true fulfillment lies?
Success and fulfillment go hand and hand but they aren’t the same.
Successes are markers, pinnacles, of our lives and are easily measured.
Fulfillment is deeper, softer, personalized and holds the key to living a richer life.
So many of us chase success… it’s the rare few that chose to create fulfillment as a priority in their life…
Tune into this episode to discover:
- How to move past measuring yourself in other people’s eyes
- Helpful analogy to identify and foster fulfilling qualities in your life
- What fulfillment can add to your successes and unique life path
- 3 energy tricks and a powerful awareness exercise on growing fulfillment
To be the first to hear when Lauren's free online community launches (October 3rd!!!) sign up here: http://bit.ly/lpcommunities
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
#172 Sensitive AND Strong: Living Open in an Intense World
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
Tuesday Sep 10, 2019
What if you could be sensitive AND strong?
Most of us are taught that we are too sensitive and that we have to protect ourselves from the intense world we live in.
Your “sensitivity” may show up as an anxious mind, mood swings, overwhelm, depletion or being at the constant effect on other people’s choices (aka if you’re having a bad day then so am I).
You can be open and receive while also being strong in yourself. In fact, it’s the interplay and creative juice between the two that allows your unique gifts to shine.
Tune into this episode to discover:
- Surprising signs / symptoms of sensitivity
- The different between sensitivity and awareness and how to make that powerful shift
- The role of RECEIVING awareness in creating what you desire
- The importance of giving up protection to experience the joy of living
To be the first to know when Lauren’s new Lighten Up Community opens, as mentioned in the show, sign up here: http://bit.ly/lpcommunities
Tuesday Sep 03, 2019
#171 Win-Win: How to choose what works for all
Tuesday Sep 03, 2019
Tuesday Sep 03, 2019
If you chose what created greater for everyone how different would your life be?
Your life may be easier as there would be no need to defend your desires and sell others on why they should join you in them, they would simply be inspired to do so of their own accord!
Your day to day would be less stressful without the constant juggling to win people over to your side to accomplish a simple task (parents out there this one’s for you!)
And your future would be brighter since when you choose what works for everyone – including you! – there is a magical ripple effect that lifts everyone to new heights.
Tune into this week’s podcast to discover:
- How to come out of the competition mentality of winning
- A profound tool to be heard and win people over to create with you (it’s not what you think!)
- How recognizing and relishing in the bigger picture of creation can open new doors in all of your relationships
- How to lose your self-interested desires AND the pattern of putting yourself last at the same time