Lay Low Pod

Episode 24: The Best Worst Option — with Colt Madsen Erin sits down with her youngest son, Colt Madsen, less than 24 hours after he returns home from five and a half months away in Texas. What starts as a catch-up about summer sales, rejection, consistency, and growing up quickly turns into one of the most honest and vulnerable conversations they’ve ever had. For the first time, Erin gets to hear...

What happens when the life you thought you were building suddenly falls apart—and you weren't the one who chose it? In Episode 23 of Lay Low Pod, Erin sits down with Julie Jeppson, formally Julie Boyé, a single mom of eight who spent years sharing her family publicly before finding herself navigating a painful and very public divorce. Julie gets real about: • Raising eight kids while rebuilding he...

What if you’re not failing—you’re just in the messy middle? This week, Erin is talking about the space between where you started and where you’re going. The part where things don’t always look like you thought they would, the wins aren’t obvious, and you have to keep showing up without knowing exactly how the story ends. Inspired by Benny Blanco’s book F ck Failure*, Erin shares some of her favori...

What if there’s more happening around us than we can see? In this episode of Lay Low , Erin sits down with her personal psychic and medium, Meg, (megtaylorreadings@gmail.com) for an open-minded conversation about intuition, energy, signs, the people we’ve lost, and the things in life we may never be able to fully explain. Meg shares how she discovered her abilities, what it actually feels like to...

Sometimes being selfish is exactly what saves you. In this episode of Lay Low , Erin sits down with her friend Ryan Gregerson—a divorce attorney, business owner, and host of the Yes And Land podcast—for an honest conversation about divorce, relationships, business, and what happens when choosing yourself means changing the life everyone else expected you to live. Erin shares how Ryan became part o...

Sometimes life changes slowly. And sometimes something happens that shakes everything you thought you knew about yourself, your relationships and the life you thought you were going to have. Hayden Panettiere calls these moments “life quakes” in her memoir, This Is Me: A Reckoning —and after listening to her tell her own story, Erin couldn't stop thinking about the life quakes that shape all of us...

This week, Erin sits down with her friend of over 20 years, Janene, someone she met as a young mom, and reconnected with after both of their divorces. They've built a friendship on disagreeing without breaking, and this episode is exactly that in action. Janene grew up Mormon in Utah County, and what she remembers most isn't church on Sundays — it was survival, image, and learning early that her v...

This week on Lay Low, it's just Erin — sitting down to say some things she's needed to get off her chest for a long time. She's spent almost two decades in survival mode — financially, personally, in her work — and she's finally ready to leave that version of herself in the past. Before diving in, Erin catches listeners up on the week it's been: eclipse season energy, football season, and a docume...

This week on Lay Low , Erin sits down with one of her best friends, Tiffany Alder-Bown, for the kind of conversation that happens when two women have known each other through marriages, divorces, raising boys, career changes, unforgettable trips, and a whole lot of life. Tiffany is a successful real estate broker, mom of three boys, self-proclaimed introvert—and someone Erin wishes could see herse...

What started as a weekend full of unexpected frustrations—turned into one of the most important moments in Lay Low's journey. In this solo episode, Erin reflects on how losing an entire 45-minute recording forced her to pause and ask a bigger question: What is this podcast really meant to be? The answer surprised her. Inspired by the overwhelming response to last week's guest, Ed, and witnessing t...

This week on Lay Low , Erin is joined by her friend Ed Terris for one of the podcast's most honest and vulnerable conversations yet. Ed shares his journey through addiction, rehab, jail, divorce, and ultimately finding his way back to himself. Together, they explore the lies addiction tells, the impact it has on families, why recovery is about so much more than getting sober, and how trust can slo...

Sometimes the questions you're asking are the same ones everyone else is asking. In this listener Q&A episode of Lay Low, Erin answers questions about trusting yourself, navigating career growth, finding the right therapist, and embracing a brand-new chapter of life. It's an honest conversation about learning as you go, giving yourself grace, and realizing that nobody has it all figured out. I...

What if feeling rich has very little to do with money? In this episode of Lay Low , Erin is joined by her cousin Jade for an honest conversation about the mindset, habits, and everyday choices that create a life that feels abundant long before financial success arrives. Together, they explore how gratitude, authenticity, and finding joy in ordinary moments can transform the way we experience life....

Some friendships stay with us forever. In this deeply personal episode of Lay Low , Erin shares the story of her best friend, Amberly, who passed away from pancreatic cancer at just 34 years old. As young mothers raising their families, building businesses, and navigating life together, their friendship became one of the most influential relationships Erin has ever experienced. Through Amberly's c...

This week on Lay Low, Erin welcomes her very first guest, longtime friend Monica Ross. Over the course of just two years, Monica experienced the loss of her father, ended her marriage, became a single mom, and was diagnosed with breast cancer. Through every chapter, she learned what it means to advocate for herself, choose happiness, and keep moving forward—even when life looked nothing like she i...

One of the best parts about getting older is realizing how many things simply don't deserve your energy. In this solo episode, Erin reflects on the expectations, pressure, perfectionism, and people-pleasing that shaped so much of her early adult life—and the freedom she's found in letting those things go. From trying to be the perfect mom and wife, to worrying about what everyone else was doing, t...

In Episode 8 of the Lay Low Pod, Erin shares her honest journey through dating in three completely different chapters of life: a young college student searching for certainty, a newly divorced woman looking for security, and a 44-year-old who has learned to seek alignment instead. From awkward first dates and dating apps to heartbreak, healing, and learning to trust herself, Erin reflects on the l...

In Episode 7 of Lay Low , Erin takes listeners through the career journey that shaped who she is today. From bagging groceries as a teenager in Texas to building and leading Simple Modern Energy, this episode is a reflection on hard work, entrepreneurship, reinvention, and trusting opportunities as they appear. Along the way, Erin shares stories of the mentors who believed in her, the grandparents...

What happens when the beliefs you've trusted your entire life no longer fit the person you're becoming? In this episode of Lay Low, Erin shares the story of the quiet voice that first appeared during a trip to Italy and slowly changed the course of her life. Raised in the Mormon church, she opens up about questioning long-held beliefs, redefining her relationship with God, and learning to trust he...

In this deeply personal episode of Lay Low, Erin opens up about forgiveness, messy growth seasons, heartbreak, self-awareness, and learning how to let go — not just of other people, but of old versions of herself too. Inspired by the memoir Strangers by Belle Burden, this conversation explores what happens when people evolve in different directions, relationships unravel, and life forces us to con...

In this episode of Lay Low, Erin shares the story behind what she calls her “Gypsy Life” years — the season after divorce where life became a constant back-and-forth between motherhood, reinvention, city weekends, Airbnbs, healing, friendships, and learning how to trust herself again. From Mormon mom life and Bunko nights to discovering a skincare company that completely changed her world, Erin ta...

Holidays have a way of reminding us how much life can change. In this episode of Lay Low, Erin talks about navigating holidays after divorce, missing traditions that once felt permanent, and learning how to create new memories instead of trying to recreate old ones. From solo trips on a tight budget to Christmas adventures with her boys, this episode explores how environments, travel, small ritual...

What if the quiet seasons of your life are actually preparing you for transformation? In this episode of Lay Low, Erin shares the story behind what she now calls her “cocoon season” — the months following a major breakup, becoming an empty nester, and unexpectedly finding herself alone in a way she never had before. What started as redecorating a room slowly became something much deeper: creating...

Why am I here? Why a podcast? And what does “laying low” actually mean? In the very first episode of Lay Low, Erin opens up about the season of life she’s currently navigating — life after divorce, a recent breakup, becoming an empty nester, living alone for the first time, and the quiet but powerful transformation that can happen when life slows down. She shares the story behind the name Lay Low,...