🎙️ Episode 5: The Cost of Corporate F*ckery

Welcome to Corporate F*ckery stories of survival, psychological warfare, and choosing what’s best for you. I’m Lauren DeGolia; certified success coach, subconscious strategist, astrologer, and former corporate insider turned truth-teller.

This episode is for the high-achieving woman who’s starting to wonder if the life she built… is actually costing her the one she wants.

We’re talking about the hidden cost of corporate life, not just your time, but your presence, your peace, your power.

In this episode:

A powerful listener story that exposes the guilt of slowing down

Survival mode vs. burnout and how we confuse the two

What your 6-figure salary is really worth (and what it’s stealing)

The soul cost of pinky promises and self-abandonment

Why mindset isn’t enough when your nervous system is in survival

10+ tools to untangle your calendar from your conditioning

This isn’t about quitting your job.
It’s about waking up to what’s no longer sustainable and choosing something better.

Because when you choose what’s best for you,
you don’t just change your life, you change the whole damn system.

1. Track your hours
Start auditing your reality. Where is your time actually going? Awareness is step one.

2. Micro-sabotage the machine
End meetings 10 minutes early. Don’t answer that Slack immediately. Disrupt the default patterns you’ve been trained into.

3. Rebellious rest
Put “nervous system reset” in your calendar and treat it like it’s your boss’s birthday. Rest on purpose.

4. Flip your calendar
Schedule your life first. Then fit work around it. Even if it’s just one personal thing per week, start there.

5. Reverse ROI
Ask: “Is this giving me peace or points? Presence or panic?” Let that guide your yeses and nos.

6. The Jane Protocol
Before saying yes, ask: If I just received a life-altering diagnosis, would this still matter?

7. 5-minute ritual break
Music. Movement. Breath. Clear your energy like you clear your inbox. Try EFT tapping, a walk, or a guided meditation.

8. Don’t let this harden you
Let it show you where your choices need to change. Self-preservation is leadership.

9. Fantasize on repeat
Imagine how you’d love your day to feel, from start to finish. Then gamify it. Practice living it, not just surviving it.

10. Talk to your future self
She already figured this out. Ask her what she knows. Need help connecting? That’s my specialty.

Explore my universe: 

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Book a free 20-minute consult: Let’s talk about what’s keeping you stuck in high-functioning survival and how to get your nervous system on board with a new reality: [Book here]

Welcome to Corporate F*ckery: stories of survival, psychological warfare, and choosing what’s best for you. I’m Lauren DeGolia, certified success coach, subconscious strategist, astrologer, and former corporate insider turned truth-teller.

This episode is for the leader who thought they could out-strategize her way to freedom and got handed a plot twist instead.

We’re talking about what happens when your exit strategy explodes, autopilot becomes a prison, and the universe invites you to reinvent, ready or not.

In this episode, I share:

💥 The difference between conscious logic and subconscious safety (and why hustle alone will never get you free)
💥 What “corporate autopilot” actually is and how it hijacks your calendar, emotions, and identity
💥 Why familiar patterns feel safe (even when they suck), and what your nervous system really needs to update your reality
💥 The story behind my slow-burn reinvention while working full-time and building a business
💥 What changed the week I graduated from a Harvard-level subconscious change certification and lost my dad
💥 Why getting laid off from Microsoft cracked me open and called me forward
💥 What it actually means to rewrite your relationship with work, identity, and emotional peace

This episode isn’t about quitting your job on a whim or burning your life down.

It’s about remembering who you are under the performance patterns.
It’s about practicing a new way of being that’s rooted in emotional safety, not optics.
It’s about building a version of success that doesn’t require you to sacrifice your soul.

Ready to take the next step?

Discover your Moon Sign: your emotional GPS system: moon.beyondyourhoroscope.com

Book a free 20-minute consult: let’s talk about where you are, where you’re headed, and what’s keeping you on autopilot.

Grab The Cosmic Cheat Code: a 7-day audio experience to help you decode your Moon Sign and reconnect with clarity, calm, and inner truth. Get the guide

Welcome to Corporate F*ckery: stories of survival, psychological warfare, and choosing what’s best for you. I’m Lauren DeGolia: certified success coach, subconscious strategist, astrologer, and former corporate insider turned truth-teller.

This episode? It’s personal. (Aren’t they all?)

We’re talking burnout, adrenal crisis, and the unexpected lifelines that helped me reconstruct my identity after corporate collapse. Spoiler: the answers weren’t in a self-help book or a strategy deck… they were in the stars and in my nervous system.

In this episode, I share:

✨ The difference between burnout and adrenal crisis and why it matters
✨ The Burnout Cascade Framework from the NIH that finally explained what was happening to my body and brain
✨ Why your moon sign might just be the map to emotional regulation no therapist ever gave you
✨ The four-hour sob session that changed everything
✨ How a random Akashic Records reading rerouted my entire purpose (woo alert: explained inside)
✨ What I wish I knew about identity, empathy, and how corporate systems eat humanity for breakfast
✨ Why you don’t need to blow up your life to come back home to yourself

This isn’t just about astrology or anti-capitalism. It’s about learning to decode your own patterns so you can stop surviving and start reclaiming your peace, power, and purpose.

References:
Read the NIH study on burnout and adrenal fatigue: Burnout Cascade Framework

🎧 Listen in and then come explore the tools that helped me reclaim my life:

Discover your moon sign (free, instant, custom report):
👉 moon.beyondyourhoroscope.com

Join my free private community, Pivot: our next live call is July 24:
👉 Register here

Book a free 20-minute consult:  let’s talk about where you are, where you’re headed, and what’s been keeping you from making the shift:
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Grab The Cosmic Cheat Code: the 7-day audio experience that helps you decodes your Moon Sign so clarity & calm become your new normal and your next step feels like home, instead of hustle.
👉 www.beyondyourhoroscope.com/cheatcode

Summary:
In this raw and revealing episode, Lauren shares the untold origin story that cracked her open and rebuilt her from the inside out. What began as a #MeToo moment in corporate turned into a full-blown systemic collapse of identity, leaving her questioning everything she thought she knew about success, safety, and self-worth.

This isn’t a burnout story.
This is an initiation.
Into truth. Into power. Into a version of you that doesn’t have to perform to be valuable.

What You’ll Hear:

The moment Lauren walked away from her corporate career… with no plan

The shame spiral of quitting and turning 40 in the same breath

A terrifying identity rupture that no one saw coming

What happens to your brain and body when you’ve lived in hyperfunction for too long

What neurotransmitter testing revealed and why it explained everything

The phrase Lauren coined to name what so many high-achieving women silently endure: Systemic Collapse of Self

The tools and trainings that helped her rebuild

A powerful email from a listener in New Zealand that proves: this podcast is already changing lives

This episode is for you if:

You’ve ever felt like you’re losing yourself in the pursuit of keeping it all together

You’re questioning everything success promised you

You’re unraveling and wondering if that might be the beginning, not the end

You’re craving permission to rest, reclaim, and remember who you are underneath the performance

✨ Mentioned in this episode:

Neurotransmitter testing (dopamine, serotonin, GABA)

Subconscious reprogramming tools like Neurolinguistic Programming, Rapid Resolution Therapy, and clinical hypnosis

A listener email from New Zealand that had a breakthrough after listening 

📣 Take Action:

Reflect on the Cosmic Reframe: Where are you mistaking survival for strength?

Share this episode with the woman who looks “fine” but is secretly unraveling

Subscribe, leave a review, or DM Lauren your story on Instagram: @lauren.degolia

Next Episode Teaser:
Lauren takes you into her dark night of the soul—a season she once described as walking naked across a raging river in the dark. No map. No logic. Just a deep, shaky knowing that she had to keep going.

You’re not just listening to a podcast.
You’re stepping into a reclamation.

Summary:
Three weeks after the unexpected death of her father, Lauren was laid off over Zoom. No warning. No compassion. Just a sterile script and a severance.

But instead of spiraling, she saw it for what it was: a cosmic promotion.

In this debut episode of Corporate Fckery*, Lauren shares the raw story of grief, corporate betrayal, and the sacred rage that sparked a new chapter. She breaks down what “corporate f*ckery” really means, the silent sacrifices high-achieving women make to survive, and why she’s using this moment as a launch point — not a breakdown.

If you've ever felt like you had to hold it all together while quietly unraveling… this episode is for you.

What You’ll Hear:

The behind-the-scenes moment of her layoff (and the email that said it all)

The emotional weight of sacrificing grief for deadlines

What “corporate f*ckery” actually is — and how to recognize it in your own life

Lauren’s 5-year journey from burnout to rebuilding her identity with energy, neuroscience, and soul

A powerful reflection prompt to help you reclaim your peace (before the system breaks you)

This episode is for you if:

You’ve outgrown the title everyone clapped for

You’re navigating grief, identity shifts, or invisible burnout

You’re tired of sacrificing your peace for a paycheck

You’re ready to redefine success on your own damn terms

✨ Mentioned in this episode:

CNN: Microsoft Lays Off 9,000 Employees

Lauren’s journey through Success coaching, Rapid Resolution Therapy, Neurolinguistic Programming, and creating her career and impact on her own terms.

📣 Let’s connect:

Submit your Story of Coprorate F*ckery: https://forms.gle/FNT1M6RF6zQudXiu9

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurendegolia/

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