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The Lauren Widrick Podcast
by Lauren Widrick
A podcast for millennial women balancing work, kids, ambition, reinvention, hormone plot twists, big travel plans, and the sneaking suspicion you’re capable of way more. Equal parts reality check and bestie in your pocket, here to help you stop talking about the dream and actually activate it.
Episodes
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I Bombed My First Keynote in 2.5 Years (And I'm Sharing Every Second)
I forgot my lines on stage, my arms went cold, and I freaked out. But instead of editing out the mess, I'm handing you the raw playback because the blackout might be the best thing that ever happened to me. 🔥 I built a million-dollar coaching business from a $17,000 bet on myself, then lost $40K...
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Monogamy is Not My Business Model
I got a new mic, a new iPhone, and a new identity: business hoe. Buckle up. 🎤 I finally admit why my dream conference flopped, and it wasn't the marketing 🐿️ I diagnose myself as squirrel-brained, novelty-chasing, and done apologizing for it 💍 Why being monogamous with my job, my husband, and…
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Brainwash Yourself into an Avalanche of Manifestations
I'm calling out some bullshit today: the same "I'm not good at sales" lie I hear from every entrepreneur I meet is one I've been telling myself too. Turns out the receipts say otherwise. 🤑 I found an old spreadsheet that proved I sold six figures worth of stuff with nothing but my mouth 🔥 Then…
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I Found a Glitch in the Matrix! Dead Serious. I'm Spooked.
I dropped a very special necklace down a drain in 2024. Today it showed up on my husband's counter like nothing happened. So now we're talking manifestation apps, trademarked cheeky phrases, and why reinventing yourself might be the dumbest advice ever. 👻 A "dead" necklace resurfaces and I…
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You Can't Do Your Own Brain Surgery
ACTIVATE Conference Tickets live on laurenwidrick.com. I stood in a room of six people I trust completely and still nearly fell apart reading my own speech out loud. Here's what happened, and why it means you need to be at ACTIVATE on October 24th. Sign up now at laurenwidrick.com, hit the...
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How to Juggle All the Balls
Three people DMed me asking how I do it all. Two were men. Recorded from my commute (per usual, audio is buns)...I have a proud epiphany about all the balls I'm juggling (heh) and how I'm "DOING IT ALL" LOL. Tips include: 🏆 Be proud of your chaos instead of apologizing for it. When I rattled off...
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What to do in the goo. Three strategies to survive the messy middle
I learned a word years ago that finally explains the mess I'm in: liminal. No longer this, not yet that. Here's what happens when you sit in it out loud. 🦋 Why a caterpillar turning into a butterfly is actually the grossest metaphor for reinvention (and the most accurate) 🎙️ The "lazy girl...
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Yaps, Squats, Summer Stories, Stripped Down Strategies, and (Somehow) Hitting All My Goals. An Episode about Everything. 🎙️
I'm back, bouncing between mom life, side hustle chaos, and a full personal awakening, all in one unhinged episode. 👋 I disappear for weeks then show up mid commute yapping about my whole summer 🏕️ Sending my kids to camp for three weeks did more for my marriage than any date night ever has…
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From Whiny to Warrior: My Chaotic YAP Challenge Meltdown 🎤
I ugly cried in a parking lot, prayed to God about Instagram likes, and somehow still got dinner on the table. Welcome to the glamorous life of a delulu millennial doing too much. 😭 I had a full on breakdown crying from my office to my car... over a 45 second video 🕳️ Went down a philosophical...
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40 Reels in 40 Days...WTF to Yap About? Let's talk content pillars.
40 Posts in 40 Days: WTF Am I Gonna Yap About? I said yes to a viral 40-day content challenge before I had a single content idea. Here are the five pillars I'm throwing at the wall. 🎤 Pillar one: my messy corporate-to-entrepreneur-and-back-again journey, told out loud👠 Pillar two: "Bitch…
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Fix your whole damn life in 30 minutes a week - My Sunday Sprint Planning ritual that's embarrassingly effective
Most of us end the week feeling vaguely guilty about what didn't get done. What if you could flip that and feel like a total boss bitch winner before Monday comes? Goodies in this ep: 🗓️ I reread my life vision out loud to myself like a slightly unhinged optimist, and I'm convinced it's…
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No venue, no speakers, no plan....no problem.
The homies told me to stop dicking around with an interest form and just sell the damn tickets. So that's exactly what I'm doing. Welcome to the chaos. 🔥 I set the date before I booked anything because backing yourself into a corner is actually a business strategy 💸 Early bird tickets start at...
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Activation Mode: The five B's that will get you off your A
You have a big thing. You're not doing it. Here's exactly why, and what to do instead. 🔥 I figured out why your dream is still sitting on a shelf, and it comes down to five things that all start with B 😤 Your breaking point is closer than you think, and I'll tell you what my best friend said…
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When God stops whispering and just starts yelling
I realized that a series of seemingly unrelated stories are really just God flashing one big neon sign in front of my face: IT'S TIME TO GO. ✈️ I ran into a woman I hadn't seen in years at the Cancun airport and she has my literal dream business. First class seats, luxury retreats, and a sales...
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When is it time to quit your business and go back to Corporate America?
Entrepreneurship is HARD AF. So...how do you know if you should keep riding the roller coaster or get off? Should you push through or walk away? The best way I can answer this for you is through my own story. This is super-freaking-vulnerable and I spare no detail about what happened. I truly…
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Best Summer Ever + Event Updates + Hilary Duff + Yesteryear Review + Spencer Pratt
We're catching up. Just a mishmash of things I've been sitting on and finally hit record about. 🎉 Over 30 people slid into my DMs saying they'd show up to my event sight unseen, and now I might actually have to plan a real thing ✨ JJ invented an entire conference concept in one conversation and...
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Hey...do you want to hang out IRL? I'm serious.
I had an incredible night that also broke my brain a little. Sometimes the best nights are the ones that leave you questioning everything. 🎤 Went to a Charlotte Entrepreneurs event on a whim and almost talked myself out of going. 🎭 My friend Brian LaFontaine (yes, you've seen him on Ozark)…
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My TEDx Talk Idea: Goals are stupid and don't work. Here's the Anti-Goals system that does.
I've been sitting on a big idea, and instead of keeping it to myself, I workshopped the whole thing on the podcast. Out loud. Unfiltered. Half-baked and all. 🎯 92% of goals are dead within two weeks. A Harvard study said it. I'm just here to stop pretending otherwise. 🏃 I'm pitching a totally...
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Why I disappeared from the internet for two years...except the two times I went viral
I disappeared. No explanation, no farewell post, no "I'm taking a break" announcement. Just... gone. Here's what actually happened. 🔥 I was drowning in content I was creating for an audience that wasn't growing, posting five days a week on LinkedIn like it was my religion, and getting exactly…
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My 2026 Goals are FAILING. I feel fat, broke, and defeated...and here's what I'm doing about it.
I started the year like a woman possessed with greatness. Right now? The only things I possess are extra pounds and credit card debt. Here's WTF happened and what I'm doing about it: 🔥 I crushed an 8-week fitness challenge, lost body fat, gained muscle, and then got on a cruise ship and…
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W2 vs. Entrepreneurship: The Unfiltered Pros, Cons, and Plot Twists Nobody Warns You About
I left a six-figure corporate job chasing freedom, built a business from scratch for six years, and came crawling back. So which is better? W2 or Entrepreneurship? Let's break it down... 🏆 Pro of entrepreneurship nobody talks about: the meaning is unmatched. Building something that's yours, with...
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You should start a podcast. Yes, you. It's stupid easy.
I've been getting bombarded with "how do you DO this?" messages, so here's the whole embarrassing truth about how I make a podcast from my car and my bed in my pajamas. 🎙️ The whole setup is a voice memo app and a $0 budget, and somehow that's working better than my old fancy produced show 🚗 My...
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How to manifest so hard you can change the weather
I had a total clusterf**k of a weekend because I forgot to manifest. Oops. Lemme remind you (and me!) the 4 critical steps to manifest *LITERALLY ANYTHING* you want. Tune in to hear goodies like: ☀️ I looked a rainstorm in the face and told my friends it was leaving. Forty-five minutes later we...
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I Got Spontaneously Baptized!
I Did NOT Plan to Get Baptized (And Yet Here We Are) We went to church draggin ass from a cruise. We left a completely different family. No, really. 💦 Shawn and I almost skipped church entirely after a week of partying on a cruise ship. Almost. 🙌 The pastor basically dismantled every excuse we...
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Biz Owners: Should you put your prices on your website?
I got a DM from a friend that sparked a rant I didn't know I needed to go on ...and honestly, this advice could save you hundreds of hours of dead-end sales calls. 🏷️ Listing your prices is a "grown ass adult move" and I will die on this hill 🎯 Your dream clients aren't scared of your prices.…
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Viral Sleepy Girl Mocktail with Longevity Expert (and Millenial Baddie) Dre Ross
I brought my friend Dre Ross on to talk about the drink blowing up everyone's FYP, and and why it might actually work, according to someone who geeks out on living to 110. 🍒 Tart cherry juice, magnesium, sparkling water: three ingredients standing between you and the best sleep of your forties…
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April 2026 Tarot and Astrology Reading with Lindsay Nelson
Guest Post by Lindsay Nelson 🌟 Lindsay Nelson — tarot reader, astrology enthusiast, brand strategist, Colorado mama, and the kind of soulmate friend you get magnetically pulled toward at a sorority house and never let go of — drops in to give us the cosmic download for April. The Card: 10 of...
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From Smug Atheist to Christian...and how I literally have Jesus GPT in my head.
I spent years debunking religion for sport...then my 11-year-old dragged me to church and I ugly-cried during the first song. Yep, I'm a card-carrying Christian now. Here's how it went down: ⚡ Mid-identity crisis, secretly job hunting, and my kid's sleepover friend accidentally evangelized me 🍷...
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Should you let your Freak Flag out in Corporate America? I mean, duh, yes. But how?
How does a former freak-flaggy entrepreneur fit into Corporate America? I mean...what about HR? My thoughts on if/when/how to bring your Freak Flag (aka your TRUE self) out in a corporate setting. Sneaky peeks: 🦓Why I wear an orange zebra dress and hot pink party pants weekly to work. 😬 I hit a...
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I burned down a multi-six figure business so you don't have to. You're welcome.
It's been two years since I walked away...and now, I have hindsight to see the patterns I couldn't see while I was in the sauce. 🪩 Built products nobody asked for and acted surprised when nobody bought them 🎪 Made my best offer "for everyone" — which is marketing for "for no one" 🧠 65 Canva...
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Prove me wrong: All goals are stretch goals.
Show Notes: 🚗 Recording live from the Monday commute — audio quality is a vibe, just go with it 🍽️ Weekend highlight reel: surprise steakhouse dinner, toasting a friend's new job, and a body scan that actually didn't destroy me 💪 Lost 0 lbs, gained 2 lbs of muscle — calling that a win and…
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Mom Guilt is Stupid. Here's how to fix it in 7 minutes.
A real-time meltdown about missing my daughter's first middle school soccer game…because apparently they start at 5 PM like we don't have jobs?? Da fuq? What We Cover: • Why millennial moms are up our kids' butts 6+ hours a day(our moms gave us 1-2 hours and a bike, bye) • The batting average...
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Who's gonna win? You or your head trash?
I heard something on a podcast that literally blew my pants off — and now I can't stop applying it to everything. In this episode: 🧠 The Alex Hormozi mic-drop moment that rewired my entire brain 💪 Why I've been hiding behind perimenopause like it's a security blanket — and the gym wake-up call…
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I Got Hair Extensions and Now it's my Whole Personality
I went from Joe Dirt rat tail to cascading blonde goddess. Everyone is *super intrigued* when I reveal that it's fake, so this is an unhinged FAQ in case you are extension-curious. Highlights: 💸 I looked my husband in the eye and said "mommy needs this" — $1,500 later, here we are 🚿 Every…
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FAFO to Figure Out Your Life. Like, right now.
I don't have "one thing." No singular calling, no Taylor Swift-level obsession. What I do have is a brain full of ideas, a corporate job, and a wild itch to f*ck around and find out. In this episode, I'm tackling the "millennial life crisis" — that spiral where you're either drawn to nothing or...
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I can't stand International Women's Day
Fair warning: You might cancel me after this episode. I'm saying the quiet part out loud: I can't stand International Women's Day. While some people are shouting out incredible women (love that), others are drowning in victim stories about the patriarchy, the wage gap, and how impossible it all…
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Sunday Scaries? Monday Misery? Listen to this on your way to work.
Live from I-77 on a Monday morning. Watch me go from Saddie to Baddie in 6 minutes flat. The uber-embarrassing thing I did this morning that instantly changed my mindset Why your to-do list is scarier in your head than in real life My cold brew brain dump hack: 50 tasks → 2 The phrase that…
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What if Gaslighting Yourself was Good? Hear me out...
I got struck with this "Gaslighting for Good" concept and why talking sh*t to myself is really the only way I get things done. Hmmm.... My 4:20 AM mantra that gets me out of bed (and it's not positive affirmations) The meal prep boxes that say "be a baddy, not a fatty" — and why I stand by them I...
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Ok ladies, WTF are we doing about AI?!
While LinkedIn melts down, I'm thrilled AI is about to handle all the soul-crushing spreadsheets and task tedium. I have a multi-pronged approach to thrive in this crazy new world, and I'm spilling the beans so you can too. 🪣 Bucket 1: AI Queen of Corporate — Build a sweet-ass command center…
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My Smug AF Morning Routine: Gym, Starbz, Groceries, 2 Showers, Packing Lunches, Full Glam, Dunkin, Carline, One Hour Commute and Recording a Pod...all sub-9:00 AM.
Forget the 12-step skincare routines and hand-crafted matcha moments. This is what a real working mom morning looks like—recorded live from the rage-inducing parking lot that is 77 North (so forgive the audio quality please). In This Episode: Why 4:20 AM wake-ups aren't brutal (brainwash…
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You are not Old, Fat and Fugly. My husband thinks you're hot.
Spiraling over forties aging? Me too. Jowls, wrinkles, and a stubborn perimenopause FUPA later, my husband dropped this bomb: "You're 43. You're allowed to look 43." What's inside: Why looking 22 forever is not a thing (but yes, I'm still getting that facelift) How Hillary Duff's hot body healed...
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A podcast for millennial women balancing work, kids, ambition, reinvention, hormone plot twists, big travel plans, and the sneaking suspicion you’re capable of way more. Equal parts reality check and bestie in your pocket, here to help you stop talking about the dream and actually activate it.
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