Perfcked Podcast

Welcome back to another episode of the Perfcked podcast! We are so excited to introduce you to today's guest, Miami-based comedian, Mario Ramil. Mario shares about how he got started with comedy and what it's like keeping up with it as a career. He shares so many insights into what it's like creating online content right now and building a career from it. Being funny on the internet isn't as easy as it looks, and we're so grateful Mario gave us the real talk on today's episode. Remember to subscribe to the show and share with anyone who may want to hear from our guests. See you next Friday! 

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Tik Tok

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On today's episode of the Perfcked podcast, we are joined for a second time by one of our favorite people, Courtney Dlugos. 

Courtney is an actor and Tiktoker who is as smart as she is funny. In today's conversation, she shares about how her experience as a working actress and social media personality and what it's like to balance all of that while maintaining a healthy mental state. 

Also, during today's intro, our host Lauren shares a story about seeking help for her depression in the hopes of encouraging listeners to advocate for themselves. 

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TALKING POINTS:

+ Rewiring our brains around rejection

+ Learning to enjoy the process

+ Managing our mental health and career pursuits

+ Staying true to ourselves

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CONNECT WITH COURTNEY:

TIK TOK

INSTAGRAM

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CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

@laurenellman_

laurenellman.com

Welcome back to season 6 of the Perfcked podcast! Thank you for your patience during our almost year-long hiatus. We are so happy to be back and kicking off this new season with one of our favorite creators, Austin Archer. 

You may know him as @yourpal_austin on Tik Tok, where he writes and performs songs and skits for his over 1 million followers. He is a freelance artist for hire in Los Angeles, CA. With more than 20 years professional experience as an actor, singer-songwriter, director/choreographer, and script writer, Archer boasts a breadth of expertise in a wide variety of forms.

In today's episode we cover all of our favorite topics: the omnipresence of social media, the current state of society's mental health and how to f*ck with trolls on the internet. 

PS: We have a brand new theme song for the podcast! Guess who made it 👆🏼

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TALKING POINTS:

+ Foreboding joy- what it means and how to avoid it

+ How to deal with trolls on the internet

+ Safeguarding our mental health against social media's pitfalls

+ Remembering there can be just as much good as there is bad online

+ The digitization of the human psyche

+ Dissecting the creative process of content creation

+ What "being in the biz" is really like

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CONNECT WITH AUSTIN:

@yourpal_austin

austin-archer.com

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CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

***Leave a review for BRB on Amazon***

@laurenellman_

laurenellman.com

When did you first realize you were in a toxic relationship with your own appearance? Have the images on social media made it worse? On today's episode we are unpacking all of that and more with content creator and podcast host, Helly Angel. 

Helly has taken to Tik Tok to reveal the truth behind filter influencer photos, plastic surgery, stripping and more. She keeps it all the way real, which is just our style here at the Perfcked podcast. 

TALKING POINTS:

+ Unpacking unrealistic beauty standards pushed by influencers

+ Revealing the truth behind plastic surgery

+ Fixing our toxic relationship with our bodies through self-love

+ What stripping is really like

+ Exploring the benefits of affirmations and manifestation

+ The power of social media to break these cycles 

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CONNECT WITH HELLY:

@hellysangel

https://linktr.ee/hellysangel/

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CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

***Leave a review for BRB on Amazon***

@laurenellman_

laurenellman.com

Do you ever feel shame or guilt around resting? Today's guest breaks down why that is and how we can unsubscribe from the cult of toxic productivity. Mental health is more important that productivity, we've just been conditioned to believe the reverse. Our guest, Melina Charis, unpacks this and so much more in today's episode. 

Melina is an energetic coach who helps soul-centered creatives, dreamers, and entrepreneurs come home to their true selves and trust the magic within them. She uses a combination of energy work + coaching to help clients liberate themselves from limiting beliefs, connect to their higher selves and their infinite wisdom, and learn to consciously create a life and business that feels fully aligned and authentic to them. She believes that only YOU know how to live your life authentically - she just helps you peel back the conditioning so you can remember how.

TALKING POINTS:

+ Prioritizing mental health

+ Examining toxic productivity

+ Healing through creativity and physicality

+ Embracing masculine and feminine energies

+ Owning our magic 

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CONNECT WITH MELINA:

MelinaCharis.com

@MelinaCharis

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CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

***Leave a review for BRB on Amazon***

@laurenellman_

laurenellman.com

Are you or someone you know currently planning a wedding? This is the conversation you need to hear! On today's episode we are speaking to Samie Roberts, co-founder of Bustld. Bustld is a wedding planning platform that helps connect vendors with brides + grooms. We are lifting the veil social media places over the wedding industry. Samie helps couples plan the wedding they want, not the one social media tells them they should have. 

Samie provides the creative and industry insight alongside the operational expertise at Bustld. Her background at a top PR agency in New York City provided her the knowledge and know-how on how to properly design and execute large events. She used that knowledge to launch one of the top wedding planning companies in Charlotte seven years ago. She combines all this knowledge in her passion for bringing wedding inspiration and knowledge to couples at Bustld.

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CONNECT WITH SAMIE:

https://app.bustld.com/

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CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

***Leave a review for BRB on Amazon***

@laurenellman_

laurenellman.com

Have you ever taken a break from social media? Or participated in a social media detox? On today's episode we are speaking to Terra Joy about the benefits of taking breaks from social media and how to use those breaks to reevaluate our relationships with technology. There is so much power in becoming more aware of our own behavior and examining what needs to change. Terra has so many impactful insights about this topic and more and she generously shares them with us today.

Terra is an intuitive healer who is fascinated by the human experience and how to make the most of it. her Tik Tok, @thesagesoul, is rapidly growing. She is deeply passionate about all things relating to healing, soul wisdom, personal development, ego transcendence into higher consciousness, rewiring the subconscious, meditation/awareness, emotional intelligence, escaping the matrix, and self-love. We touch on all of this and more in today's episode and I know everyone listening will walk away from this conversation with a lot to think about.

TALKING POINTS:

+ Throwing out "the plan"

+ A practical explanation of consciousness

+ The intersection of mental health and social media use

+ How to take intentional breaks for social media

+ Following our curiosities

+ Exploring human psychology 

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CONNECT WITH TERRA JOY:

Support Terra on Patreon

@TerraJoyful on IG

@TheSageSoul on Tik Tok

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CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

***Leave a review for BRB on Amazon***

@laurenellman_

laurenellman.com

So you have trauma. now what? Let's talk about post traumatic growth. Joelle Rabow Maletis, MAEd, MA, LMFT, is the CEO and Clinical Director of JRM&A. She is a psychotherapist, military psychology and PTSD expert. Joelle incorporates therapeutic models such as CPT, CBT, DBT, somatic work, EMDR and solution-focused therapy to allow clients to make changes in their own lives.

TALKING POINTS:

+ Answering the follow up questions, "and so what"?

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CONNECT WITH JOELLE:

joellerabowmaletis.com

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@laurenellman_

laurenellman.com

*FYI* Preorder BRB and get access to the audiobook narrated by Lauren. Forward confirmation to [email protected] to get the audiobook link! And if you'd like a signed and personalized copy, preorder from Books + Books (Lauren's local, Miami independent bookstore) and include the personalization in the order comments! All details at laurenellman.com 

Get in, loser, we're taking a trip! Today on the Perfcked Podcast we are speaking to Olivia Alexander, CEO + founder of Kush Queen, about how psychedelics (and cannabis) are revolutionizing the mental health space. She serves so much valuable information and insight in this episode, you're going to want to take notes!

Olivia is the CEO and founder of a Kush Queen. In less than three years, she has grown Kush Queen into a multi-million dollar, multifaceted brand carrying only the finest in both CBD-only, and THC-infused products. She was one of the largest digital influencers in cannabis with over 2.5 million followers and an average of 100 million monthly impressions. Olivia’s belief in, and passion for cannabis shapes her determination to normalize the lifestyle and medical usage for everyone. As a voice for progressive change and female industry inclusion, Olivia was recognized as Dope Magazine’s “2017 Social Media Influencer of the Year” and was called “The Mariah Carey of Weed” by Elle.

Today's episode is a bit longer than others because Olivia had so much to share with us and I made sure to record every single bit of it! We get into her childhood, her mental health journey, the many sides of the cannabis industry, legalization, activism, psychedelics. Enjoy!

TALKING POINTS:

+ Healing isn't linear

+ Success is subjective

+ Normalizing mental health

+ The war on drugs

+ Activism in the cannabis industry

+ Female industry inclusion

+ The modern psychedelic revolution

+ Alternative therapies 

+ Accessibility, activism and product quality

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CONNECT WITH OLIVIA

@TheLivAlexander

Kush Queen Shop

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CONNECT WITH LAUREN

@laurenellman_

laurenellman.com

*FYI* Preorder BRB and get access to the audiobook narrated by Lauren. Forward confirmation to [email protected] to get the audiobook link! And if you'd like a signed and personalized copy, preorder from Books + Books (Lauren's local, Miami independent bookstore) and include the personalization in the order comments! All details at laurenellman.com 

We are back with season 5 of the Perfcked Podcast! And for the first episode back, your host Lauren is reading you chapter 1 from her new book, BRB: A Memoir About Coming of Age in the Digital Age. This book is the story of Lauren growing up as a millennial with the advent of social media and how these technologies have fundamentally impacted our generation's mental health and adult lives. Here's what people are saying about the book:

“Some of us have, what I like to call, Anxiety with a capital A, where we have an actual diagnosis and clinical disorder. But I think that most people are dealing with anxiety with a lower case a. The daily anxiety of life. Lauren offers such an apt description of that anxiety. We’re all comparing ourselves to the highlight reel on social media, and I really appreciate how Lauren reminds us to recognize the difference between real life and online life.” -Kristen Howerton, author of Rage Against the Minivan and co-host of the Selfie Podcast

“Adored this book and found it to really be so relatable. It was a great read during a week when my relationship with social media felt rocky. Ellman is a fantastic writer who fills the book with advice and stories that make you feel like you’ve known her for a lifetime. Highly recommend!” – Jen Glantz, author of All Of My Friends Are Engaged, Always A Bridesmaid (For Hire), and Finally The Bride

“BRB is a nostalgic and hard hitting truth punch to the gut. It will open your eyes to the way growing up holding hands with the internet and social media has influenced who you are, and what’s even more beautiful, it will inspire you to break that all down and start anew. A fresh and important memoir every millennial must read.” – International Bestselling Author Kandi Steiner

The book is available NOW to preorder, releasing May 25. If you preorder before the 25th you get access to the entire audiobook for FREE. Just forward confirmation to [email protected] and receive access to the audiobook, narrated by Lauren herself. You can listen to the entire book while you wait for your physical copy to arrive! And if you'd like a personalized and signed copy, you can order from Lauren's local, Miami independent bookstore Books and Books and include the personalization in the order comments! 

All the details and links to purchase can be found at laurenellman.com.

Enjoy chapter 1 or BRB: A Memoir About Coming of Age in the Digital Age by Lauren Ellman.