The Lauren Widrick Podcast

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...

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...

Most of us end the week feeling vaguely guilty about what didn't get done. What if you could flip that and feel like a total boss bitch winner before Monday comes? Goodies in this ep: 🗓️ I reread my life vision out loud to myself like a slightly unhinged optimist, and I'm convinced it's basically a cheat code for making dreams happen on accident. 🔁 My "Five Ls" retro framewo...

The homies told me to stop dicking around with an interest form and just sell the damn tickets. So that's exactly what I'm doing. Welcome to the chaos. 🔥 I set the date before I booked anything because backing yourself into a corner is actually a business strategy 💸 Early bird tickets start at $269 in July and climb every single month, so the longer you wait, the more it costs to procras...

You have a big thing. You're not doing it. Here's exactly why, and what to do instead. 🔥 I figured out why your dream is still sitting on a shelf, and it comes down to five things that all start with B 😤 Your breaking point is closer than you think, and I'll tell you what my best friend said that stopped me cold 🧠 The "butt simple" method that turned 200 side hustlers from...

I realized that a series of seemingly unrelated stories are really just God flashing one big neon sign in front of my face: IT'S TIME TO GO. ✈️ I ran into a woman I hadn't seen in years at the Cancun airport and she has my literal dream business. First class seats, luxury retreats, and a sales pipeline that basically runs itself. 💥 A woman named Jessi started an Instagram account six mont...

Entrepreneurship is HARD AF. So...how do you know if you should keep riding the roller coaster or get off? Should you push through or walk away? The best way I can answer this for you is through my own story. This is super-freaking-vulnerable and I spare no detail about what happened. I truly hope this helps you. Episode Highlights: 🚨 I turned a Hail Mary conference into a sign from the universe,...

We're catching up. Just a mishmash of things I've been sitting on and finally hit record about. 🎉 Over 30 people slid into my DMs saying they'd show up to my event sight unseen, and now I might actually have to plan a real thing ✨ JJ invented an entire conference concept in one conversation and I'm absolutely taking credit for executing it (love you JJ) 📖 I read a book about a t...

I had an incredible night that also broke my brain a little. Sometimes the best nights are the ones that leave you questioning everything. 🎤 Went to a Charlotte Entrepreneurs event on a whim and almost talked myself out of going. 🎭 My friend Brian LaFontaine (yes, you've seen him on Ozark) taught us improv skills to actually listen to people instead of just waiting for our turn to talk. 😬 W...

I've been sitting on a big idea, and instead of keeping it to myself, I workshopped the whole thing on the podcast. Out loud. Unfiltered. Half-baked and all. 🎯 92% of goals are dead within two weeks. A Harvard study said it. I'm just here to stop pretending otherwise. 🏃 I'm pitching a totally anti-goal system built on sprints, and the methodology I stole from software developers might be the thi...

I disappeared. No explanation, no farewell post, no "I'm taking a break" announcement. Just... gone. Here's what actually happened. 🔥 I was drowning in content I was creating for an audience that wasn't growing, posting five days a week on LinkedIn like it was my religion, and getting exactly zero return on that investment. 💀 I shut down my business, went back to corporate...

I started the year like a woman possessed with greatness. Right now? The only things I possess are extra pounds and credit card debt. Here's WTF happened and what I'm doing about it: 🔥 I crushed an 8-week fitness challenge, lost body fat, gained muscle, and then got on a cruise ship and completely self-destructed like I was being paid to do it 💸 My husband and I had a legendary three-day...

I left a six-figure corporate job chasing freedom, built a business from scratch for six years, and came crawling back. So which is better? W2 or Entrepreneurship? Let's break it down... 🏆 Pro of entrepreneurship nobody talks about: the meaning is unmatched. Building something that's yours, with your gifts, hits different than optimizing bank software for someone else's bottom line....

I've been getting bombarded with "how do you DO this?" messages, so here's the whole embarrassing truth about how I make a podcast from my car and my bed in my pajamas. 🎙️ The whole setup is a voice memo app and a $0 budget, and somehow that's working better than my old fancy produced show 🚗 My audio quality is, by my own admission, genuinely mid, and 600 downloads in under...

I had a total clusterf**k of a weekend because I forgot to manifest. Oops. Lemme remind you (and me!) the 4 critical steps to manifest *LITERALLY ANYTHING* you want. Tune in to hear goodies like: ☀️ I looked a rainstorm in the face and told my friends it was leaving. Forty-five minutes later we were toasting ourselves for fixing the weather at Coco Cay. 💳 Sean's wallet disappeared on day one....

I Did NOT Plan to Get Baptized (And Yet Here We Are) We went to church draggin ass from a cruise. We left a completely different family. No, really. 💦 Shawn and I almost skipped church entirely after a week of partying on a cruise ship. Almost. 🙌 The pastor basically dismantled every excuse we had in real time, including the hair dryer one (yes, that was a real concern). 👀 A four-way eye contac...

I got a DM from a friend that sparked a rant I didn't know I needed to go on ...and honestly, this advice could save you hundreds of hours of dead-end sales calls. 🏷️ Listing your prices is a "grown ass adult move" and I will die on this hill 🎯 Your dream clients aren't scared of your prices. The looky-loos are, and that's the point 📋 The secret weapon? A slightly annoying...

I brought my friend Dre Ross on to talk about the drink blowing up everyone's FYP, and and why it might actually work, according to someone who geeks out on living to 110. 🍒 Tart cherry juice, magnesium, sparkling water: three ingredients standing between you and the best sleep of your forties 🧬 Dre is a certified nutrition coach, corporate leader, and co-runs Super C Vitality with her husba...

Guest Post by Lindsay Nelson 🌟 Lindsay Nelson — tarot reader, astrology enthusiast, brand strategist, Colorado mama, and the kind of soulmate friend you get magnetically pulled toward at a sorority house and never let go of — drops in to give us the cosmic download for April. The Card: 10 of Pentacles: Your basket won't break. Whatever you're building, betting on, and pouring yourself int...

I spent years debunking religion for sport...then my 11-year-old dragged me to church and I ugly-cried during the first song. Yep, I'm a card-carrying Christian now. Here's how it went down: ⚡ Mid-identity crisis, secretly job hunting, and my kid's sleepover friend accidentally evangelized me 🍷 One glass of wine at Hobo's later, I told my husband I was done white-knuckling life s...

How does a former freak-flaggy entrepreneur fit into Corporate America? I mean...what about HR? My thoughts on if/when/how to bring your Freak Flag (aka your TRUE self) out in a corporate setting. Sneaky peeks: 🦓Why I wear an orange zebra dress and hot pink party pants weekly to work. 😬 I hit a colleague with "no notes" and he genuinely asked if he needed to add notes. Gen Z has failed...

It's been two years since I walked away...and now, I have hindsight to see the patterns I couldn't see while I was in the sauce. 🪩 Built products nobody asked for and acted surprised when nobody bought them 🎪 Made my best offer "for everyone" — which is marketing for "for no one" 🧠 65 Canva slide decks. Sixty. Five. (Business ADHD is undefeated) 📣 Sold so hard in ev...

Show Notes: 🚗 Recording live from the Monday commute — audio quality is a vibe, just go with it 🍽️ Weekend highlight reel: surprise steakhouse dinner, toasting a friend's new job, and a body scan that actually didn't destroy me 💪 Lost 0 lbs, gained 2 lbs of muscle — calling that a win and nobody can stop me 🎯 The big debate: if your goal doesn't stretch you, is it even a goal or jus...

A real-time meltdown about missing my daughter's first middle school soccer game…because apparently they start at 5 PM like we don't have jobs?? Da fuq? What We Cover: • Why millennial moms are up our kids' butts 6+ hours a day(our moms gave us 1-2 hours and a bike, bye) • The batting average theory of parenting (spoiler: you'reat .990) • How to not to trauma dump your Mom Guilt onto your husband...

I heard something on a podcast that literally blew my pants off — and now I can't stop applying it to everything. In this episode: 🧠 The Alex Hormozi mic-drop moment that rewired my entire brain 💪 Why I've been hiding behind perimenopause like it's a security blanket — and the gym wake-up call I didn't see coming 🎙️ Every unhinged fear I had about relaunching this podcast (yes, i...