AMPstigator

When was the last time you did something that took REAL courage? Something that made you nervous or forced you to trust yourself in a new way?

Sometimes courage can mean standing up for what's right. Other times it's more like accepting where you are in the present moment and saying to yourself: I belong here.

In this episode, speaker/author/entrepreneur Brittany Cole shares the times she's felt she might not belong and how she found courage to keep going. 

💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- You need encouragement about stepping into what's meant for you
- You love diverse viewpoints on DE&I and leadership
- You respect the personal journey of someone who left a major corp. to become an entrepreneur

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺
This episode begins with Brittany Cole talking about what "thriving" means to her. Her company "Career Thrivers" helps train and equip leaders, so it's a word she uses often.

Plus, during the interview [44:48] I was able to make the always-in-control Brittany Cole squirm by asking her one very specific question. SHE ANSWERED IT and shared something her FUTURE PLANS for Career Thrivers. 

 
🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:36 - Lauren's opening monologue
3:47 - What is 'thriving' to Brittany Cole?
5:58 - When Brittany WASN'T aligned
10:20 - How Brittany finds balance
14:50 - Pour from your OVERFLOW
20:30 - Lesson: "You belong where your feet are"
36:04 - Brittany battling personal identity and labels
44:48 - Brittany's vision for Career Thrivers
  

Show notes:
Lauren & Brittany's mutual friends who've been on AMPstigator: DeLisa Guerrier (Ep. 10) and Kirbee Miller (Ep. 25)
Ep. 23 Clara Belden "The Untitled," including an authenticity exercise in Ep. 23

 ✔️ Connect with Brittany Cole✔️
On her company website
Through her personal website
On Instagram

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website
AMPstigator on Youtube
The AMPstigator Instagram
Lauren's Instagram

How do you handle it when you've been hijacked by your emotions?

When we consistently try to not to feel the suckiest of emotions, it sets us up to be completely derailed when one of them takes over.

In this episode, AMPstigator Host & Founder Lauren Lowrey talks you through a recent time where she was hijacked by fear, how she regained control and the questions she asked herself to find the true source of the emotion.

💥 This episode is for you if 💥
-You're living in emotional limbo while you regularly try to diminish what you feel
-You realize it isn't healthy to keep avoiding the sucky emotions
-You're ready to heal a past hurt and let go

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺
This episode begins with Lauren explaining a recent event where she was triggered at the sight of a friend's hospital wristband. Seeing the band immediately resulted in tears, which led Lauren into deep inquisition around the pain she stored and what needed healing.

🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:38 - When Lauren was triggered by fear
2:25 - Make sure to listen to Ep. 31 "At What Cost" first
3:29 - Disconnection from our bodies
4:50 - The Sucky Six emotions (anger, sadness, grief, guilt, shame, fear)
7:48 - Missing the message from the emotions
9:19 - Asking yourself questions that matter
11:56 - Lauren identifies the source of her fear
13:04 - How to handle the emotion (example w/ Recycling center)
15:03 - Finding your formula (Lauren's 4 go-to's)
18:47 - Let's review! What happens when we feel hijacking emotions?
21:01 - Next week's episode
 

Show notes:
Ep. 31: At What Cost? When doing it all nearly kills you
Ep. 17: 3 Questions to Deepen Self Awareness

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website
AMPstigator on Youtube
The AMPstigator Instagram
Lauren's Instagram

If you're burning yourself out from constant & punishing work, this episode is for you. Bestselling author Rea Frey is here to teach you a lesson about your value. Girlfriend, you have nothing to prove.

Rea's written 9 books and co-authored/ghost-written another 50 books. Her company Writeway has also shepherded another 100 books to publishing in the last 2 years. She's been SOOO busy. But she's standing on her soap box teaching the lesson she's had to recently learn: she doesn't have to do anything to prove anything to anybody. No one determines her value. Just her. 

In this episode, Rea hammers the importance of getting out of your head and into your body, and how to down-regulate your system with one simple decision. 

Plus(!!!), she introduces us to primal screaming: the way she handles her sacred feminine rage. Did you know this was a thing?!?

💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- You struggle with constantly over-working to the point of burn-out
- You want to know how Rea balances creativity with entrepreneurship
- You're interested to learn how Rea uses her gut-instinct in client work
- You have an interest in the practical and "the woo-woo."

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺
This episode begins with Rea and Lauren talking in-depth about their shared Human Design. Both women are "Manifesters" which gives them an immediate gut instinct in most every situation.

🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:36 - Lauren's opening monologue
2:53 - Meet Rea Frey!
4:21 - Rea's gut instinct
8:32 - Using our traits as assets, not flaws
10:07 - Teaching others to use their gut instinct
11:00 - Rea's career as a bestselling author
21:53 - Writing a book as a pathway to purpose
24:41 - REA'S LESSON: NOTHING TO PROVE
28:08 - Rea's healing journey
30:40 - Primal screaming and sacred feminine rage
35:10 - Avoiding pain & protecting your energy
39:31 - Lesson #2 - Listening to YOUR NEEDS
40:11 - Put the phone down
46:48 - Being real with or without an audience
54:18 - Giving YOURSELF permission
1:04:44 - Lauren's closing monologue and look ahead
 

Show notes:
How to know your Human Design type
Rea and Lauren were introduced by Kirbee Miller, featured in #AMPstigator Ep. 25 "The Nourisher"
Rea's Primal screaming teacher, Elizabeth DeVaughn

✔️ Connect with Rea Frey ✔️
On her website
Through her company, Writeway
On Instagram

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website
AMPstigator on Youtube
The AMPstigator Instagram
Lauren's Instagram

Have something you want to do but you're too scared to jump? JUST GO FOR IT!

That's the lesson in today's episode with (soon-to-be) Captain Emily Kinzer Crews. Emily was a former TV News Anchor in Sarasota, FL who fell in love with boat life when she moved to Florida in 2019. By 2021 she had quit her job with a plan to sail the world with her soon-to-be husband. The story that follows is equal parts freaking-unbelievable and awe-inspiring.

 
💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- You totally resonate with quitting your job to live your dream
- You want to hear how Emily plans to do life on a boat still make money
- You've followed Emily's TV career and you want to learn about her new life
- You're shocked someone could have this much guts and you want to be inspired

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺
This episode begins with Emily explaining how she's one test away from obtaining her sea captain's license and how they just moved onto the boat as their full-time home two weeks ago. She explains how hard it is to learn minimalism in such limited space!

🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:38 - Lauren's opening monologue
3:32 - Emily is becoming a CAPTAIN
5:13 - Where the dream to sail the world originated
11:29 - Loving your life, hating your work & choosing to quit
16:04 - Lauren & Emily look UNCANNILY similar
18:05 - What's it like living on a boat, plus how they'll make money
19:28 - What's the lesson here: JUST GO FOR IT!
28:58 - What you'll see on The Adventure Crews Youtube
35:48 - Emily started a business after quitting TV!
38:19 - The company Emily created after quitting her job
43:40 - How do you know when it's the right time to GO FOR IT?
50:34 - When people close to you get weird about your dreams
53:56 - "I can do this. I'm GOING to do this."
1:00:25 - What's coming up next week

✔️ Connect with Emily Kinzer Crews ✔️
On the Adventure Crews website
Adventure Crews on Youtube
The Adventure Crews Instagram
Emily's personal Instagram

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website
AMPstigator on Youtube
The AMPstigator Instagram
Lauren's Instagram

Female friendships aren't a luxury. They're a necessity.

In this AMPstigator episode, Host Lauren Lowrey enlists the help of two of her closest friends in Nashville to talk candidly about cultivating deep female friendships. The women sip some bubbly while getting real about the struggles of cultivating deep, life-giving friendships, and how they support each other through life's hardest times.

If your friendships just aren't doing it for you, these three women discuss what should be present in every supportive friendship in a light-hearted, LOL-type-way. Together they explore WHAT'S THE LESSON?

 💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- You love Happy Hour with girlfriends more than anything
- You want to meet Host Lauren Lowrey's gal-pals
- You've struggled to find close female friendships in adulthood

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺
This episode begins with the trio joking about getting tattoos and how they want to blow-off mom responsibilities to get inked. It's the perfect way to introduce you to hilarious moms who keep-it-real.

🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:33 - Backstory; Lauren's opening monologue
5:44 - Girl time! What our friendship is really like
8:10 - Introductions - meet LL's friends Joyce and Keli
16:35 - Keli's an MLB wife
19:28 - How the 3 of us girlfriends MET
22:58 - How LL's friends supported her in the hospital
27:51 - How we met in 2018
37:45 - First lesson: What deep friendships require
39:20 - How Keli encouraged LL to start AMPstigator
42:57 - The tenets of a LIFE-GIVING friendship
50:42 - We're a therapy-friends group
57:35 - The effortlessness of healthy friendship

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website
AMPstigator on Youtube
The AMPstigator Instagram
Lauren's Instagram

In this Season 3 Premier, Founder/Host Lauren Lowrey explores the life-altering events of August 2022 and how three hospitalizations caused her to deeply understand the focus of Season 3: What's the lesson here?

In this episode Lauren details how an emergency appendectomy sidelined her, but surgery complications deemed "exceedingly rare" by her care team forced her to deal with past traumas and the pain of new scars. She covers the life lesson that got her out of the hospital and back to normal life.

 💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- You knew something happened to Lauren but you want every unbelievable detail
- You know the trauma of extended hospitalization and want someone else's account
- You want to learn Lauren's methods for overcoming fear and anxiety

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺
This episode begins with Lauren explaining the goal for AMPstigator and why she decided to narrow the focus for Season 3, to go all-in on women and wisdom. She talks all about why lessons are so important and how we can learn from other women. Lauren also covers:

[13:09] Fear and anxiety crippled Lauren and prevented her from accepting what was going on.

[21:50] How this chapter required Lauren to come face-to-face with radical acceptance, meditation and stillness. Plus, she teaches you how to do it, too.

🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:38 - AMPstigator and purpose
3:38 - The re-vision for Season 3 and the focus on lessons
6:20 - How Aug 2022 changed my life
10:50 - Complication #1
13:09 - Gripped by fear and anxiety
14:50 - Coming home after Complication #1
16:38 - The lesson I couldn't seem to learn
17:44 - AT. WHAT. COST.
19:25 - Complication #2;
22:12 - Radical acceptance vs. resignation
23:20 - My Divine Do-Over (how I overcame the trauma to manifest healing)
26:41 - How are you feeding your soul for True Wellbeing?
28:04 - The doctors figured out what was wrong!
29:05 - WHAT'S THE LESSON HERE?
32:10 - How you can incorporate this lesson
34:09 - Coming up next week on AMPstigator!

📝 Show Notes & Mentions 📝
Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament by Michael Singer
Ep. 30, Sneak Peek to Season 3

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website
AMPstigator on Youtube
The AMPstigator Instagram
Lauren's Instagram

Get ready for Season 3! In this episode Lauren shares with you what you what's totally new in AMPstigator Season 3 (a new location, new focus, new conversations) as it shifts from "finding purpose" to a deeper connection of wisdom shared between women. 

💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- You wanna know what's coming up in Season 3
- You're interested in Lauren's inspiration for the upcoming season
- You like hearing the back story about creative decisions for AMPstigator 

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺
This episode begins with Lauren explaining when she was struck with the idea to shift the focus of AMPstigator Season 3. She covers inspiration, in detail, and how she's learned not to force creativity.

🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:24 - When do your great ideas strike?
1:09 - Waiting for inspiration on Season 3
2:09 - AMPstigator as a creative expression
2:56 - A sudden vision for Season 3
4:05 - Sneak Peek: Set colors
4:53 - Sneak Peek: New location
5:31 - Sneak Peek: Content & focus
7:27 - Sneak Peek: Who will Lauren interview?
8:00 - Sneak Peek: Modifying the Best time/worst time question series
9:01 - Sneak Peek: Why these conversations matter
10:32 - How to join the AMPfam

📝 Show Notes & Mentions 📝
Sign up now for Mom's Night Out: Parenting to Inspire Purpose
Ep. 22 Need Inspiration? Do these 4 things (Apple | Spotify)
Ep. 18 Shannon Schottler is "The Illuminator" (Apple | Spotify)

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website
AMPstigator on Youtube
The AMPstigator Instagram
Lauren's Instagram

When life is craaazy or a major setback is put in your path, you have a few options on how you react. You can freak the -eff- out (not advisable). You can decide you're the victim (also, not advisable). OR you can just flow.

In this shorty Lauren-only episode, the AMPstigator herself shares a life-lesson she's learning in real time: how to flow. Too often we get sidelined by struggle. We give up! In this episode, Lauren encourages you to see setbacks as opportunities to pause, reevaluate and move on.

She also details when to call in reinforcements in the form of therapists and friends.

BONUS: Lauren shares how to sign up for a special August event, Mom's Night Out: Parenting to Inspire Purpose with AMPstigator guest and Holistic Life Coach, Clara Belden.

 💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- There's zero chill in you
- You need Coach Lauren to give you a major pep-talk
- You want to hear the inspiration behind this life-lesson
- You like being reminded that you need to let go

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺
This episode begins with Lauren explaining the inspiration behind today's life-lesson and what role a mighty Nashville river played.

🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:20 - Lauren introduces FLOW
2:34 - What the Cumberland River taught me while taping Season 2
4:41 - Why we let setbacks diminish the force of our flow
6:07 - The importance of water for life
7:08 - What to do when you're COMPLETELY blocked
11:00 - Physical vs. spiritual limitations
12:43 - When to call in reinforcements
14:31 - LET'S MEET UP! Mom's Night Out: Parenting to Inspire Purpose

📝 Show Notes & Mentions 📝
Sign up now for Mom's Night Out: Parenting to Inspire Purpose
Ep. 26 Find the Gift
Youtube Video, "Feeling the FLOW"
Water and the Human Body
Water attracts water (USGS)
 

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website
AMPstigator on Youtube
The AMPstigator Instagram
Lauren's Instagram

What does it look like to blaze a new path? To be so confident in who you are and what you bring that you don’t mess with pretense or attempt to impress anyone. 

That’s Rhett Power, a world-renown business coach, speaker, best-selling author, podcast host, entrepreneur and CEO of Accountability Inc. He’s kind of a big deal. But he doesn’t let on. 

Even after all the awards, the major international stages and all the success, Rhett tells Lauren Lowrey, he only just recently discovered his purpose: to help leaders be accountable, and not just in business, but in life!

💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- You’re interested to hear life advice from well-known business leader
- You want to understand the power of accountability in your life
- You need guidance from one of the great business coaches in the world
- You want to know more of Rhett’s personal journey

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺

The episode begins with Lauren’s favorite game, Best Time/Worst Time where Rhett shares the difficulty of having a son born with tremendous special healthcare needs which should’ve killed him. Rhett shares what those years taught him as a father.

🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Lauren's intro to Rhett Power
4:38 - Best Time/Worst Time
6:42 - Rhett’s son nearly died multiple times
10:49 - How international Peace Corps work changed Rhett’s life
16:07 - How accountability brought clarity to Rhett’s life
19:29 - The business of accountability and why it’s so necessary
24:50 - Why accountability is so important
35:46 - We need to be kinder to each other
39:27 - Rhett works to overcome two big things
42:10 - Imperfections and accepting responsibility
46:00 - Rhett’s purpose to bring accountability
49:50 - How do we bring accountability into our lives?
53:51 - Lauren's wrap-up

✔️ Connect with Rhett Power ✔️
Rhett on LinkedIn
Rhett’s website
Rhett’s book

📝 Show Notes & Mentions 📝
Rhett writes "Did you know I used to sleep in my van?"
Ep. 19 Dr. Kelly Goldsmith is The Manipulator

What could you accomplish if someone believed in you? Maybe you could go faster or further? Or maybe a person's belief is the one thing you needed to begin the journey toward a new phase in life.

Amanda Banks is your person. She believes in people, opens the door for them and encourages them along the way. As CEO of Sports to Suits, a company using technology to develop a workforce development solution for collegiate and professional athletes, Amanda connects deeply with people. She's a mom, entrepreneur and student of life.

In this episode we dig into her past as a competitive child gymnast and how it served as the root of her perfectionism problem, but it also gave her the basis of understanding to launch her new company that serves the athletic community.

💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- You're interested in how Amanda came up with this idea for Sports to Suits
- You want to hear how a CEO also manages life at home with her kids
- You totally understand perfectionism and you're working on it, too!

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺

We start the conversation with the AMPstigator "Best Time/Worst Time" game, which reveals the best time in Amanda's life, [4:32] when a destructive and deadly tornado ripped through Nashville just two weeks before COVID lockdown.

- [8:56] The root of Amanda's problems with perfectionism and how she battles it, plus [29:21] how perfectionism holds people back.

- [18:20] Why she decided to leave corporate life to create her startup, Sports to Suits, which uses technology to mitigate problems within the athletic community

- [39:21] What kind of guts does it take to become an entrepreneur, especially when you have a family?

- [55:26] And why it's so critically important for you to share your story of IMPERFECTION

🔖 Chapters 🔖
0:00 - Intro
4:32 - Best Time/Worst Time
8:56 - A fear of cameras and perfectionism
11:35 - Where perfectionism began for Amanda
18:20 -Leaving corporate life to create Sports to Suits
29:21 - Why perfectionism holds you back
31:22 - Amanda is an incredible connector of people
39:21 - What it took to get into Entrepreneurship
45:02 - How Amanda supports others
51:44 - Step One toward happiness
55:26 - You need to share your IMPERFECT story

✔️ Connect with Amanda Banks✔️
Her business, Sports to Suits: https://sportstosuits.com/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg8fvYr9sCnsw1P-n_41xQg/featured
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-banks-9945502b/