The Lauren Widrick Podcast

I forgot my lines on stage, my arms went cold, and I freaked out. But instead of editing out the mess, I'm handing you the raw playback because the blackout might be the best thing that ever happened to me.

🔥 I built a million-dollar coaching business from a $17,000 bet on myself, then lost $40K on my dream conference and burned the whole thing to the ground

😭 Walked away from my business, crawled back to the same corporate job I once called a prison, and honestly? It felt like freedom

🎙️ Got sick of my own shit, hit record on a terrible first podcast episode with zero production, and that one messy action unlocked everything

⚡ Happiness first, goals second. Not the other way around. The carrot you're chasing will never make you happy if you're miserable chasing it

🎯 I'm hosting the Activate conference because the thing that took me out is the exact dragon I need to slay. 38 tickets left as of this recording

💥 You don't need discipline or perfection. You need to be willing to suck in public, fail forward, and keep going

Your dreams aren't just for you. If you don't activate, you rob yourself, the people you're meant to serve, and every bystander who needed to see you go first. So launch messy and watch what happens.

Follow me on IG @laurenwidrick and grab your Activate ticket at laurenwidrick.com

I got a new mic, a new iPhone, and a new identity: business hoe. Buckle up.

🎤 I finally admit why my dream conference flopped, and it wasn't the marketing

🐿️ I diagnose myself as squirrel-brained, novelty-chasing, and done apologizing for it

💍 Why being monogamous with my job, my husband, and my kids' sports means my business gets to be the wild card

😈 The vibe is a certain Sex and the City icon and, spoiler...it's not Carrie

🏋️ The real reason my fitness goals are the one thing I haven't hit this year

🔥 A one day conference where nobody leaves with just a notebook full of feelings

GRAB YOUR ACTIVATE TIX for October 24: laurenwidrick.com

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I'm calling out some bullshit today: the same "I'm not good at sales" lie I hear from every entrepreneur I meet is one I've been telling myself too. Turns out the receipts say otherwise.

🤑 I found an old spreadsheet that proved I sold six figures worth of stuff with nothing but my mouth

🔥 Then I explain exactly why I torched that whole business anyway

😳 I admit the same fear is creeping back in now that I'm about to drop cash on my next big event

💅 A facial gave me more than good skin, it gave me a personality transplant

📱 An app is quietly brainwashing me into a delusional main character era and it's working

🎟️ Early bird pricing on my conference disappears in three days and I tell you exactly why the price is about to jump

**Stop talking shit about yourself. Your words are spells. Choose better ones.**

Contact:

IG: @laurenwidrick

Website: laurenwidrick.com

I dropped a very special necklace down a drain in 2024. Today it showed up on my husband's counter like nothing happened. So now we're talking manifestation apps, trademarked cheeky phrases, and why reinventing yourself might be the dumbest advice ever.

• 👻 A "dead" necklace resurfaces and I spiral into full Mandela Effect conspiracy mode
• 🔮 I confess my situationship with a 25 year old manifestation influencer who can't read tarot cards
• 💸 The unhinged affirmation that convinced me to stop trying so hard
• 🪦 Everyone in my life (including my boyfriend ChatGPT) told me to kill my favorite phrase
• 🏕️ How one text with zero emojis accidentally booked me a venue
• 🎤 The stage confession that made me cry mid recording and rethink reinvention completely

Turns out you don't need a new you. You're already perfect.

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I stood in a room of six people I trust completely and still nearly fell apart reading my own speech out loud. Here's what happened, and why it means you need to be at ACTIVATE on October 24th.

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🧠 I had the best day at my 9 to 5 building something genuinely life changing, then walked into Speakeasy and got humbled within minutes

😬 Reading my "hilarious" speech out loud to six people I trust made me feel like an exposed nipple (my friend's words, not mine, allegedly)

🗣️ I talk a mile a minute, my jokes were a stalling tactic, and the room called it immediately

🥊 I wanted to clap back and defend every joke. I didn't. I listened instead

💡 I can fix anyone's business model in 45 minutes flat, but somehow thought I could edit my own speech alone. Spoiler: you can't do your own brain surgery

🎤 This is exactly what Activate is built for: get in a room, get torn apart, get better, together

Stop trying to do your own brain surgery.

Contact and follow along on IG @laurenwidrick or head to laurenwidrick.com to sign up for Activate.

Three people DMed me asking how I do it all. Two were men.

Recorded from my commute (per usual, audio is buns)...I have a proud epiphany about all the balls I'm juggling (heh) and how I'm "DOING IT ALL" LOL.

Tips include:

🏆 Be proud of your chaos instead of apologizing for it. When I rattled off my full life inventory on this episode, even I was like "okay damn, she's doing things."

✨ Doing it imperfect = mad time savings. I am podcasting from my car with no studio, no notes, and no business doing this, and somehow you keep listening.

🪤 Squeeze it into the cracks like a feral multitasker. I parked near my daughter's soccer practice, made a Reel, took a walk, and still caught the last 30 minutes. This is called double duty and I will not stop saying it.

🎯 Release the things that are quietly killing your schedule. I quit the 4:20am gym era, accepted that my house is a mess, and started just eating one less thing.

🙏 Get a good human in your corner and also maybe a higher power. My husband handles more of the mental load than I do, and my other co-pilot (JesusGPT) has a pretty solid track record too.

Your life rattled off out loud would probably blow your own mind. Go try it, then come find me at @laurenwidrick on IG or at laurenwidrick.com and tell me everything.

I learned a word years ago that finally explains the mess I'm in: liminal. No longer this, not yet that. Here's what happens when you sit in it out loud.

🦋 Why a caterpillar turning into a butterfly is actually the grossest metaphor for reinvention (and the most accurate)

🎙️ The "lazy girl podcast" that gave me this whole framework, and why you need it in your queue

🤔 The identity crisis I've been having: motivational speaker? content creator? event host? I list every option I've talked myself into and out of

💸 My fully unserious dream to get 500K followers doing basically nothing (send vitamins, I'll model them)

🎤 What's actually happening tonight that scares me a little and excites me a lot

🍯 Three things I'm telling myself to survive the goo phase, including why it's supposed to feel sticky

Follow the transformation in real time: @laurenwidrick | laurenwidrick.com

Mentioned in this episode: Tarot for Humans on Spotify

I'm back, bouncing between mom life, side hustle chaos, and a full personal awakening, all in one unhinged episode.

👋 I disappear for weeks then show up mid commute yapping about my whole summer

🏕️ Sending my kids to camp for three weeks did more for my marriage than any date night ever has

🇲🇽 Shawndaddy and I booked a last minute trip to Mexico with two weeks notice and zero regrets

🏠 We didn't just date and drink, we tackled house projects and hired a financial advisor

🎯 I revisited my goals from December and shockingly most of them actually happened

🍑 I quit a fitness obsession I've praised on this show for years and my body is thanking me

🏋️ An app inspired by Hilary Duff has me lifting less and somehow seeing more results

🤳 I finally worked up the courage to almost post a mirror selfie

🐸 My Yap Challenge on Instagram has one post at 50,000 views and zero business plan

💬 I asked my followers what I should even talk about and got the most gloriously mixed answers

😢 A dinner with a friend turned into grief, gratitude, and the gold that God wastes nothing

🙅 She convinced me to stop niching down and just post whatever the hell I want

🚽 I have a squat habit tied to peeing and yes it's exactly as ridiculous as it sounds

✝️ I let you in on my weird little morning ritual that's part scripture and part AI chatbot

🎪 I'm done trying to market my conference and just inviting my people instead

I contain multitudes and so do you. Let's do this shit together.

Come hang with me on Instagram @laurenwidrick or check out laurenwidrick.com

I ugly cried in a parking lot, prayed to God about Instagram likes, and somehow still got dinner on the table. Welcome to the glamorous life of a delulu millennial doing too much.

• 😭 I had a full on breakdown crying from my office to my car... over a 45 second video
• 🕳️ Went down a philosophical rabbit hole questioning literally all of my life choices mid traffic jam
• 🔮 Begged my tarot reading best friend to tell me I'm not a victim
• 💪 Learned that 20 focused hours makes you better than 80% of people at anything, and clung to that stat for dear life
• 🍝 Cooked dinner, worked out, watched Love Is Blind with my kid, and edited a reel all before bed somehow
• 🙏 Realized time isn't real, God's riding shotgun, and I can make anything my bitch if I choose to

Delulu is the solulu. Go do the scary thing.

Find me being unhinged on the daily on IG at @laurenwidrick or check out laurenwidrick.com.

40 Posts in 40 Days: WTF Am I Gonna Yap About?

I said yes to a viral 40-day content challenge before I had a single content idea. Here are the five pillars I'm throwing at the wall.

🎤 Pillar one: my messy corporate-to-entrepreneur-and-back-again journey, told out loud👠 Pillar two: "Bitch Please," where I dare you activate your thing (and tell you how) in 60 seconds or less📅 Pillar three: Sunday Slay, my weekly confessional on chasing the big life💅 Pillar four: the "have it all" era, the job, the side hustle, the hot marriage, no apologies😂 Pillar five: pure millennial chaos, top five lists and jokes only our generation gets🙋 And I need your vote on which one deserves the most airtime

Nervous won't buy me a pickleball court, so let's go.