The Low & Slow Podcast

Embracing Change: A New Chapter for The Low and Slow Podcast Laken and Crystal share their journey of transformation and growth. Change can often feel daunting, but it can also be a powerful catalyst for growth. In this episode of the Low and Slow podcast, Laken and Crystal open up about their decision to dissolve their business partnership.  Laken kicks off the conversation by explaining that thi...

Unpacking the struggle of evolving past who we once were. In today's episode of the Low and Slow podcast, Crystal and Laken delve into a powerful theme that resonates with many: the struggle of outgrowing identities that no longer serve us. They explore the journey of self-discovery and the courage it takes to embrace our authentic selves. The Weight of Outgrown Identities Crystal shares insi...

 She got the thing she’d been working toward for nine months. She mentioned it forty minutes into the session, almost as an aside. “I didn’t go dancing around the house or anything. I just said, okay. Now what’s next.” If that’s your reaction to every win — this episode is about why, and what actually works instead.  Follow along, tune in, and let’s get into your next mindset shift! It means the w...

You said yes. And then you spent the entire drive negotiating with yourself — building a compromise, alone in the car, for someone who never asked you to compromise on anything. And you got home tired in a way that wasn’t about sleep. That’s not exhaustion. That’s the bill. You already know you overgive. Today we’re talking about why knowing hasn’t changed it. Follow along, tune in, and let’s get...

In this episode, Ashley shares her journey from healthcare to mindset coaching, emphasizing the importance of vulnerability, understanding limiting beliefs, and embracing play for personal growth. Discover how her personal experiences and certifications have shaped her approach to empowering women through mindset work. Follow along, tune in, and let’s get into your next mindset shift! It means the...

A client found a list she’d written four years earlier — everything she’d be once things settled. At the bottom: ‘then I’ll finally relax.’ She had all of it by then. And she didn’t feel one ounce of the relaxing. Because at some point she’d just written a new list. Same handwriting, new finish line. Today’s episode is about that.  Follow along, tune in, and let’s get into your next mindset shift!...

A client found a list she’d written four years earlier — everything she’d be once things settled. At the bottom: ‘then I’ll finally relax.’ She had all of it by then. And she didn’t feel one ounce of the relaxing. Because at some point she’d just written a new list. Same handwriting, new finish line. Today’s episode is about that.  Follow along, tune in, and let’s get into your next mindset shift!...

You already know comparison is the thief of joy. You’ve said it out loud. You’ve probably said it to someone else while it was actively happening to you. So why hasn’t knowing stopped it? Because it was never an insight problem. Today’s episode peels the pattern apart. Follow along, tune in, and let’s get into your next mindset shift! It means the world to us if you would rate, like, save, share,...

New job. New city. New guy. New friend group. And somehow the exact same fight, the exact same feeling of not being chosen. It’s not a new person — it’s the same lesson wearing a different pair of pants. Today’s episode is about the crack that was already there. Follow along, tune in, and let’s get into your next mindset shift! It means the world to us if you would rate, like, save, share, and mos...

You did the work. You built the life. You stopped over-giving, stopped losing yourself, stopped tolerating the wrong things. And somehow… you're still alone. Not because you're broken. Because the independence that was supposed to be the goal became the cage. In this episode, Crystal and Laken sit down to unpack what happens when self-protection outlives its purpose — when the walls you...

The Peace. Play. Love Retreat Recap Fresh off their travels and still buzzing from it, Crystal and Laken sit down to reflect on Peace. Play. Love. — their women's retreat in Costa Rica — and what happens when you take a group of women out of their routines and into nature, unscripted. This episode is about what a retreat actually gives you that a podcast or a post never can: an experiential r...

What happens when the life you built no longer feels like the life you're meant to live? In this episode of The Low & Slow Podcast , Crystal and Laken sit down with their mindset coach and former CrossFit Coach Drea Tapia for an honest conversation about identity shifts, self-trust, and the courage it takes to choose yourself. Together, they explore the transformative power of mindset wor...

You’ve been waiting to feel sure. Waiting to feel ready. Waiting for the fear to stop so you can finally trust yourself. But self-trust isn’t a mindset. It’s a nervous system skill. And the fear you’ve been waiting to disappear? It’s not the problem. It’s the signal. This episode dismantles the idea that self-trust is simply “thinking positively” or becoming fearless. Because most women don’t stru...

You’re not incapable. You never were. The question was never whether you could do it — you’ve already proven that. The question is whether your nervous system can safely hold it. Today’s episode is about the difference between capability and capacity — and why one of them has been quietly running the show.  This episode reframes one of the biggest lies high-capacity women believe: “I’m not capable...

Every time you leave the interaction you feel confused. Anxious. Emotionally underfed. And somehow you keep calling it patience. This episode is about the hunger you’ve been calling love — and what it actually costs you to stay. This episode explores the painful space where women stay emotionally attached to people, situations, relationships, dynamics, careers, or versions of themselves that consi...

You didn’t lose yourself all at once. It was the opinion you didn’t share. The feeling you swallowed. The limit you moved. The need you convinced yourself wasn’t that important. One trade at a time, until you looked up and couldn’t find yourself anymore. This episode names the pattern nobody wants to claim: not the dramatic loss of self, but the quiet, incremental erasure that happens in the name...

This episode explores the shift that happens when your healing is no longer something you silently survive… but something you can speak about without collapsing inside of it. Not because the story didn’t hurt. Not because it didn’t shape you. But because it no longer owns you. This is the moment many women misunderstand in healing: You don’t stop talking about the story because you’ve healed. Some...

This episode names one of the most misunderstood and most shamed experiences in the boundaries conversation: the freeze response. The moment you know exactly what you need to say, you’ve rehearsed it, you believe it — and when the moment arrives, your body goes somewhere else entirely.  You go quiet. You go flat. You agree when you meant to hold the line. And then you spend the next three days hat...

Your parents didn’t just raise you. They handed you a blueprint. For what love looks like. What safety feels like. What you have to be to belong. And most of us have been building from that blueprint for decades without ever looking at the architecture. Today we look. Specifically at the editing process — how a child learns which version of herself is safe — this episode names the specific parenti...

You didn’t lose yourself. You learned to hide yourself. And there’s a version of you that went underground so early, so quietly, that you’ve almost forgotten she was ever there. Today’s episode is about finding her. This episode does something most personal development conversations are afraid to do: it names the editing process.  The way a child learns, piece by piece, which version of herself is...

You don’t overfunction because you want to. You overfunction because it feels safe. Being the one who: Handles everything  Figures it out  Holds it together …became your normal. And now that you’re trying to slow down, soften, or receive support… your body resists it. Because safety, for you, has always been tied to control. In this episode of The Low & Slow Podcast , Crystal and Laken explore...

In this follow-up to Shake Off What Your Mama Gave You , Crystal and Laken explore the complex emotional terrain of becoming the nurturer while still healing maternal wounds. Because sometimes the mother wound doesn’t fully reveal itself until life asks you to become what you once needed. Whether you are raising children, building a business, leading clients, or mothering your own inner child — th...

Here’s a moment no one really prepares you for— When you stop doing what you’ve always done…and suddenly, nothing feels normal anymore. You don’t jump in. You don’t fix it. You don’t over-explain. You don’t take over. And instead of feeling free…you feel uncomfortable. Restless. Questioning everything. In this episode of The Low & Slow Podcast, Crystal and Laken explore the real experience of...

In this episode of Low and Slow , we explore a pattern so many of us fall into without even realizing it: trying to think our way out of what we actually need to feel our way through. When emotions rise, the mind rushes in with solutions, logic, and fixing—but what happens when the real issue isn’t a thinking problem at all, but a feeling one? This conversation introduces a new and deeply loved wo...

Why do so many women feel like they’re either all in… or completely out? One week you’re energized, committed, productive, consistent. The next? You’re exhausted, disconnected, avoiding the very things you said mattered most. And somewhere in that crash, shame creeps in: “Why can’t I just stay consistent?” “Why do I always do this?” “What’s wrong with me?” In this episode of The Low & Slow Pod...