Hellooooo!

Welcome to Episode #3 of my “Great Little Podcast”! 🎙️

My Guest This Month

Lauren Powell 🥰

My guest on this month’s episode is the gorgeous, kind and thoughtful Lauren Powell. Who I am delighted to say I have had the pleasure of meeting - IN REAL LIFE, people!! 🤣 On more than one occasion! 🎉😉

Lauren has a wonderful publication here on Substack - The Navigation - where she shares valuable insights into “Who we are & How we want to live” through her brilliant Musings, Meanderings and Methods for Lifestyle, Politics, Work-Life & Travel. You can also find Lauren on Instagram HERE

“my attempt at carving out a space to explore the stresses, strains, surprises and sweetness of modern life as a millennial woman, through the written word” Lauren - Describing her Writing

Lauren’s Podcast

Lauren has her own Podcast, which she often creates with Tanya Lynch - Who (incidentally) will be my guest on the next episode of my podcast, in June - You can find their latest episodes here: Navigating Life with Ease🎙️

Our Chat

I really enjoyed my chat with Lauren and loved how she was happy to go with the flow and off on all sorts of tangents… Sorry Lauren! 🙈😆

As with the other episodes of the Podcast so far, it really feels just like listening into two mates on a phone call - Who else remembers the days when you would pick up the phone (landline!) and “accidentally” listen into your mum / sister / brother talking to a friend?! 😉

What We Talked About

Lauren’s experience of Burnout and the ways in which she has found herself trying to over-compensate.

The difficulties we encounter (as women in particular) with people-pleasing and feelings of never quite doing enough.

The added pressure of being an only child and how that impacted Lauren’s need to succeed and make her family proud.

Needing time alone and the struggles we both feel with making that known and/or asking for help.

We touch on the importance of not carrying everyone else’s feelings and the complications of being able to let go of some of them.

Mentions

Books

* “Daring Greatly” by Brené Brown – Guilt vs Shame

* Book Shop: Bookshop.org - Link to the lists of books featured in ‘The Navigation’ - Helping to generate revenue for local book shops! 🥰

People/Podcasts

* Writing on train journeys - Emma Gannon writes HERE about the pleasures of writing in motion.

* With Ease – Tanya Lynch - As well as sharing a podcast, Lauren also assists with Tanya’s AWESOME retreats - I’m booked in for the ‘Detox’ one in October and I cannot wait! ✨😌

* Podcast - Lazy Women - Lauren’s episode - almost two years old now… But still so relevant! Navigating The Balance of Work and Positive Impact 🎧

Happy Listening! 🎉

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