Life can be really fucking hard without every moment of your life having to feel hard.

Somewhere along the way, we learned that struggling is supposed to look like sweatpants, tissues, ice cream, canceled plans, and shutting ourselves away until we magically “get through it.”

But what if resilience looks different?

In this bonus episode, Lauren talks about finding joy in the middle of the mess, breaking generational patterns around how we experience hard seasons, and refusing to let one painful chapter take the rest of your life hostage.

Because sometimes healing looks like doing the deep work.

And sometimes it looks like calling your best friend, turning the music up, laughing your ass off, and remembering that you are still in there.

You don't have to wait until everything is okay to start living again.

And you definitely don't have to feel guilty when happiness finds you in the darkness.

Go find your Colleen. 💗

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What happens when the life you worked so hard to build doesn’t fit anymore?

The career. The relationship. The friendships. The version of you everyone expects you to keep being.

Lauren is in the messy fucking middle of some big questions herself, and this isn’t an episode from the other side. There’s no perfect ending, five-step plan, or bullshit promise that making the scary decision will suddenly make everything easy.

This is a conversation about what courage actually looks like when you don’t know what happens next. About the cost of staying. The fear of disappointing people. The identities we learned to hide inside. And why the hardest part of changing your life might be believing you’re allowed to want something different in the first place.

If you’ve been quietly wondering, “Can I really do this?”

This episode is for you.

Yes. You are.

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What if she didn't lose her sex drive?

What if it was worn down one disappointment at a time?

Today we're talking about sex, emotional safety, resentment, the slow death of desire, and something I call “yes-fucking”: when someone keeps saying I hear you, I understand, I'll change... and then absolutely nothing changes.

This one is personal. It's uncomfortable. And men, you need to hear it too.

Not for little ears. 🎧

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Lauren gets vulnerable this episode, opening up about something she's kept close to the chest — what it really feels like to feel lonely in marriage, even when nothing "bad" is happening.

No cheating. No yelling. Just the quiet, exhausting weight of feeling unseen, unheard, and invisible in your own home.

Lauren talks emotional neglect in marriage, the grief of a life that doesn't look how you pictured it, and the impossible in-between of not wanting to stay but not knowing how to leave.

If you've ever felt alone next to the person who's supposed to know you best — this one's for you.

You are not alone.

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In this episode, Lauren tackles a phenomenon she thought she'd left behind in 8th grade: mean moms.

From being frozen out of team moms' nights out to getting the silent treatment on the sidelines, Lauren shares her own run-ins with grown women acting like they're back in the middle school cafeteria — and why she's done shrinking herself to fit in with people who were never her people.

Spoiler: it's not about you. It never was.

Find your tribe. Skip the mean girls. Mind your mama.

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In this episode, Lauren finally tells the story she softened nine weeks ago — because she was too raw, too angry, and honestly too scared of what people would think.

They smiled in her face. Called her family. Told her, "Don't worry, Mrs. Trout, we've got him" — right when her son was at the lowest, most fragile moment of his life. She believed them. She trusted them with the one thing that matters more than anything else to her.

Then they threw him away the second he screwed up.

This episode, Lauren names names, calls out the double standard nobody wants to admit exists, and shares exactly what it feels like when the "community" you poured years into shows you it was never really there for you at all.

Spoiler: it was never about what he did. It was about who they really are.

Lauren's not protecting anyone but her own kid anymore.

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She's back. She's unfiltered. And her water cup is at the center of it all.

After 7 weeks off, Lauren returns raw, unscripted, and ready to spill on the summer that did NOT go as planned. Screen-free mornings? Gone. Perfect mom energy? Torched. What's left is one brutally honest story about hitting a wall — and the weird, tiny boundary that changed everything.

Spoiler: it involves a water bottle, a wedding, and a realization that hit way too close to home.

New mini-episodes dropping all next week. This one's just the warm-up. 🎙️

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Nobody prepares you for this part of motherhood. The moment something hard happens with your child and you realize there's no chapter for it in any book. No group chat that's seen this exact thing. No one who really gets it.

And the people, the institutions, the places that are supposed to show up for your kid? Sometimes they don't.

In May 2023 the U.S. Surgeon General declared loneliness a public health epidemic — as dangerous to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. And nobody talks about how motherhood is one of the loneliest versions of that epidemic there is.

Because when something hard happens to your kid, you don't get to fall apart. You hold it together long enough to advocate, to fight, to stay composed in front of people who hold power over your child's future. And then you go home and still make dinner.

This episode is about that specific ache. What to do when you have no one to call. And why connection isn't a nice-to-have — it's the thing that actually gets you through.

You are not alone in feeling alone.

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Summer break starts Friday. 3 kids. Home. All day. No camps. No vacations.

Just us.

And I am lowkey freaking out.

Not because I don't love them. I do. But because my kids are energy vampires and I am trying to build a business and those two things? They do not always coexist peacefully.

This week I'm getting honest about what summer actually looks like when you're a mom who's building something. The fear. The guilt. The plan that probably won't survive day one.

15 minutes. No fluff. Just real talk.

Oh and I recorded this on the day it was due. Because that's life. That's motherhood. And perfection? Perfection is actually the lowest bar you can set for yourself. Because there's no such thing.

Because you can build through the chaos. Even in the summer. Even imperfectly.

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Protect your peace." You've seen it. You've said it. I've said it.

And on the surface it sounds healthy. It sounds like boundaries. It sounds like self-care.

But what if it's actually making us weaker, lonelier, and more divided than we've ever been?

What if we've taken a real, valid concept — protecting yourself from people who genuinely harm you — and twisted it into an excuse to avoid anything hard?

Something happened recently that stopped me cold. A friendship. 26 years. ghosted. Over a political opinion. No conversation. No grace. Just silence — and the words "I'm protecting my peace."

And I have my own version of this story too.

In this episode I'm calling out the difference between real boundaries and hiding in a bubble. The echo chambers we're building. The people we're losing. And why we've been so busy protecting our peace that we've lost our people.

This one is going to make you uncomfortable. Good.

Because we need to get uncomfortable.

We are so much better than this.

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