Why do so many capable, responsible adults still feel like they’re doing something wrong?

Why does rest feel uncomfortable?

In this episode, Lauren explores the quiet but powerful impact of conditional love — the kind that doesn’t look abusive or dramatic, but subtly teaches a child that belonging must be earned.

She unpacks:

• How conditional love wires the nervous system

This conversation is not about shaming parents.

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Most business risk doesn’t come from bad intentions, poor execution, or obvious mistakes.

In this episode, Lauren explores the quiet, often invisible forces that put businesses and institutions at risk long before a problem ever shows up on paper. This is not a tactical or how-to conversation. It’s an invitation to slow down and look at how decisions land, not just how they’re made.

You’ll hear about:

Why operational risk is rarely what breaks trust

The concept of narrative drift and how it quietly erodes confidence

How decision-making under pressure can flatten context

Why silence is never neutral — especially in leadership

The role perspective plays in protecting long-term integrity

This episode is for leaders, founders, and decision-makers who understand that clarity, discernment, and awareness are just as critical as action.

Before you move faster, optimize more, or say nothing at all...this episode offers a different lens.

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Marketing has changed... not because people forgot how to do it, but because the world receiving it has shifted.

After fifteen years working across marketing and business strategy, Lauren reflects on why so much well-executed marketing no longer resonates the way it once did. In a landscape shaped by AI-generated content, endless visibility, and constant noise, attention is no longer the goal, trust is.

This episode explores how marketing has quietly become a translation problem, not an amplification one, and why brands that rely on speed, polish, or volume often miss the deeper work required to be understood.

In this conversation, Lauren touches on:

This episode is for founders, leaders, and brands who sense that “doing more” isn’t the answer — and who are ready to think more carefully about how their message actually lands.

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In this final conversation of the 2026 Energy Forecast Series, Lauren is joined by Kay from K Moon for a grounded, reflective discussion on embodiment, discernment, and the evolving path of lightworkers and twin flames.

Throughout this series, we’ve explored 2026 through many lenses—astrology, Akashic records, angelic guidance, mediumship, and numerology. This conversation brings those threads together by focusing less on prediction and more on what it actually means to live the energy of the year we’re already in.

Kay Moon is a clairvoyant and clairaudient astrologer known for her grounded, strategic approach to working with the stars. Reading professionally since 2017 for a global audience, her work centers on helping people move from passive prediction into conscious participation with planetary cycles.

Rather than treating astrology as something that happens to you, Kay teaches clients how to engage their natal blueprint with clarity, discernment, and choice. Her work emphasizes emotional sovereignty, timing, and personal responsibility, using astrology as a tool for integration, direction, and long-term transformation.

Kay is widely recognized for her nuanced readings around divine connections, twin flame dynamics, and soul mates, and spiritually significant relationships, with a focus on empowerment over fixation. While she has read for public figures including celebrities and political leaders, her deepest commitment is to supporting individuals who are ready to meet life’s transits with maturity, self-trust, and decisive movement forward.

In this episode, we explore:

This episode is an invitation to trust what you already feel, release outdated stories, and move forward with clarity and peace.

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In this reflective episode of Master Your Mind, Business, and Life, Lauren explores what happens when the practices, strategies, and tools that once brought clarity no longer work the same way.

Set between energy forecast conversations, this episode honors the pause as a meaningful space rather than a problem to solve. Lauren shares practical guidance on discernment versus urgency, how to recognize completion instead of resistance, and why clarity often arrives through recognition rather than action.

The episode closes with a personal moment of awareness that reframes success, presence, and what it means to be “doing well” in life — even when other areas feel uncertain.

This conversation is for anyone who feels in-between, reflective, or quietly recalibrating.

In this episode:

How to recognize when a tool, habit, or strategy has completed its season

Discernment versus urgency and why the body often knows first

What to do when clarity doesn’t arrive on demand

How the pause can reveal what’s already working in your life

Redefining success through presence, trust, and quiet impact

In this episode of Master Your Mind, Business, and Life, Lauren Smith continues the 2026 Energy Forecast series with a deeply meaningful conversation alongside her dear friend and mentor, Sherile Turner.

Sherile is a psychic medium, astrologer, and soul therapist whose work bridges angelic insight with grounded wisdom. Together, Lauren and Sherile explore the energetic themes shaping 2026 and share intuitive guidance to help listeners move into the year with greater clarity, alignment, and trust.

Meeting Sherile was a true cosmic turning point in Lauren’s life, and the guidance shared in this episode reflects insights that are meant to be lived, not just heard. If you’ve been feeling called to listen more closely to your intuition or make more aligned choices as we enter 2026, this episode offers gentle yet powerful support.

If this episode resonates, follow or subscribe to the podcast and share it with someone who might need this message.

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In this episode, Lauren sits down with Ahna Hendrix, Divine Luminary, Akashic Soul Channel, and host of the Soul Driven Podcast, for a powerful conversation on the energetic themes unfolding as we move toward 2026. Drawing from the Akashic Records, Ahna shares insights on collective readiness, timeline shifts, divine counterparts, and how conscious choice shapes what manifests next.

This conversation invites listeners to slow down, listen deeply, and align with what is being rewritten beneath the surface.

Ahna Hendrix is a Spiritual Guide, Akashic Teacher, and Podcaster devoted to helping individuals reconnect with their soul’s truth through the Akashic Records. Her work focuses on healing, empowerment, and conscious transformation.

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Astrologer Natha Perkins returns to break down the energetic landscape of 2026 and what the year is asking of you. We explore the major themes, tension points, invitations, and opportunities that will shape your personal and collective growth.

If you are craving clarity for the year ahead or want to understand the deeper currents moving beneath your life, this episode gives you a grounded and soulful roadmap for moving through 2026 with intention.

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We’re kicking off the 2026 Energy Forecast Series by exploring the numerology behind a Universal 1 Year — a fresh cycle, new beginnings, and bold forward movement.

Lauren breaks down what a 1 Year means, how it differs from last year’s energy, and how to calculate your Personal Year Number so you know what your unique focus is for 2026.

In this episode:

What a Universal 1 Year represents

Why 2025 set the stage for this new cycle

How to calculate your Personal Year

Quick themes for Personal Years 1–9

What’s ahead in the forecast series

In this episode, Lauren sits down with Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist and founder of Sacred Mystery, Craig Meriweather, for a deep dive into the unseen realms of consciousness, past lives, and the “life-between-lives” space where profound soul-level healing occurs.

Craig blends science and spirituality through hypnotherapy, past life regression, and spirit world exploration to help clients uncover clarity, release old patterns, and reconnect with their deeper soul identity.

Together, they explore:

If you’ve ever been curious about past lives, spiritual healing, or what happens beyond the physical experience — this conversation will open your mind and soften your heart.

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