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Today I am absolutely delighted to have my first guest here on the Femme Financial Freedom podcast, Lauren Lappin! Lauren Lappin started her lash business in the spare room of her home in 2013, because she had a passion for lashes and noticed there were no specialty lash and brow salons in her local area. She opened her commercial salon - Allure Lash and Beauty Bar in 2014, and hired her first employee three months after opening because she was booked out over a month in advance. Three months later, her employee was also booked out over a month in advance. She knew she needed to keep growing, so she moved to a larger location and started hiring more people... By 2018, her lash salon was doing 7 figures in revenue, and employed a team of 8…. and she was only working in the business on clients for two days a week herself! Lauren realised she had a passion for growing businesses as well as doing lashes, and is now helping other lash artists to both gain clients using Instagram (her speciality!), and to grow their teams and take their businesses more seriously. Lauren is the author of “Seven Figure Lash Salon", is a 2020/21 NALA Award Winner, and has featured in various media outlets such as Professional Beauty, and Beauty Biz Magazine. Today Lauren is kindly and generously sharing her amazing business journey and lessons with us! Tune in and enjoy! Be sure to connect with Lauren (and her amazing reels!) through Instagram below. @laurenlappin_ @allure_lashbeautybar @runwaylashco Lauren's website can also be found here: www.laurenlappin.com.au

A recent trip to Maine sparked insight for different types of trips and the beauty in less “glamorized” vacation spots. Today Lauren discusses her recent trip and why she thinks it's a great place to visit. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren reads old diary entries that she hasn't looked at in years which is probably a mistake. Listen to hear her reactions to old thoughts --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome back! Today Lauren and I are chatting all things discipline, growth and challenges- in honour of our upcoming challenge, the Mind Marathon!  Find out more about the Marathon, here! Follow me on IG: @tarabrunetmindset Follow Lauren on IG: @laurencsaunders

BURNOUT. We all get it. Today Lauren shares her thoughts and some methods that she has used to deal with it. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren comes on the show to break down NASA's black magic origins by Jack Parson, who has quite the past, to say the least. SOURCES/CREDIT Bibliotecapleyades►https://bit.ly/3gZnQe7 Carol Rosin clip►https://bit.ly/3xWV3MF UFOs are Fallen Angels►https://bit.ly/35V1jZt Babalon Working Revealed►https://bit.ly/3y0QEZs UFO Sightings Trigger the Buildup of Space Defenses►https://bit.ly/3xYIO2l Book►Strange Angel by George Pendle (bio on Parsons) Book►Final Events by Nick Redfern (Collins Elite and Jack Parson's role in modern UFO movement) Book►Passport to Magonia by Jacques Valle (Historic abduction phenomena) Book►Secrets and Lies by Gordon Thomas (MKOFTEN) ————————————————————————- SUPPORT THE NETWORK WITH THE LINKS BELOW! ————————————————————————- SHOP OUR MERCH: http://bit.ly/2NsASPg —————————- ALTERNATIVE SITES —————————- FOR MORE VISIT US AT►http://k2d4network.com Library.TV►https://lbry.tv/@K2D4network:c BitChute►http://bit.ly/2peX99T Rumble►https://rumble.com/c/c-358475 FACEBOOK►http://www.facebook.com/K2D4network/ Voice Mail►+1 (256) 510-5234 Twitter►https://twitter.com/K2D4network LIVE STREAMS: Twitch►https://www.twitch.tv/k2d4network Dlive►https://dlive.tv/K2D4network

Today on the podcast I have Dr. Lauren Borden who is a holistic leadership and women's empowerment coach. Lauren uses a mix of science-based and spirituality methods to support women stepping into their power, figuring out what they truly want, and having the impact that they were born to have in the world. Today Lauren and I discuss: Unlocking leadership with your body Patriarchal systems leading to distrust and disconnection Movement for spirituality Tools for connection and embodiment Plus much more! If you enjoyed this episode with Lauren please be sure to rate and review! For more on Lauren! Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drlaurenborden/ Website: https://www.laurenbordencoaching.com/ Victoria Evans Science-Based Intuitive Eating Coach The Intuitive Eaters Morning Routine Guide: https://www.victoriaevansofficial.com/offers/zdzGVsmz?coupon_code=PODCAST5 To work with me: https://www.victoriaevansofficial.com/programs To follow me on Instagram: @victoriaevansofficial https://www.instagram.com/victoriaevansofficial/ To join my free private Facebook Support Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/intuitiveeatingforbadasswomen --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/victoriaevans/support

Thank You for listening to The Simple Low Carb Lifestyle. Today Lauren and I talk about her journey to low carb, and her mission to help families have a proper understand of health and eating healthy living the Simple Low Carb Lifestyle. Lauren Weiss Online: La Jolla Nutritional Health Website Low Carb For Teens Program Instagram Sponsors: Select Savory Snacks & Seasonings: www.selectsavory.com Use Coupon Code: Podcast to save 15% Off your first order

Today Lauren shared her experience with perfectionism related to OCD and hoe she had found the positives in something that is difficult to deal with. (trigger warning) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren is joined once again by Mia. In this episode they share and react to letters that they wrote to each other during COVID-19. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren is joined by her friend Abbi, who she met on a humanitarian trip to Peru. They share their experiences on the trip, as well as an influencer that was supposed to go but canceled last minute. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren shares some of her travel experiences, including crazy stories, favorites trips and places she hopes to visit. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren shared her best advice and tips from her first year in college, such as productivity, marketing and classes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren sits down with her friend Mia to talk about some of their interesting volunteering experiences along with their craziest moments together in High School. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Lauren got a promotion and as she climbed the corporate ladder she realized she kept getting more and more in her head.   She punished her body and her personal relationships were suffering.   Lauren was done controlling, done worrying, done with guilt... and she was ready to learn how to change so she could love and trust herself.   Lauren came into Purpose because she was done stressing.   She was done filling her plate and getting nowhere.   Lauren was done feeling like "I have to do this" and she was ready to wake up feeling happy again.   Today Lauren's energy and body are thriving!   She feels so confident and excited and she's not fear driven anymore YEW!   Lauren does shit from love now.   Of course this has positively affected everything!   Her marriage is thriving and they keep upleving together.   Through Covid they've flipped a house, they're paying 2 mortgages, creating their dream home and creating a family together... and at the end of the day they have each other's backs.   They love each other so much.   We taught her how to trade perfectionism for the joy of the present moment and she feels sexier, stronger, more in love, and this Queen is powerfully leading her team.

Today Lauren touches on dating, and specifically her take on being single in different stages of life, and getting over the stereotypes. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren shares some insight to improving happiness from what she’s experienced herself and seen from other people, such as spending time alone and taking breaks. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren is joined by her friend Abbey. Two important aspects of High School and College involve striving to become better and managing time well. As Business majors and students, Lauren and Abbey share their past experiences as well as advice and what they’ve learned in the process. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren talks with her friend Sara about staying healthy as a student and some of the ways to maintain your health with limitations, such as money and time. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren is joined by her friend Addie, a photographer and college student at BYU who has 3 jobs on social media. Addie and Lauren share their experiences with creating content online along with the hardships and great opportunities it brings. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren shares her opinion about the effects of social media, along with the pros and cons of it in our everyday lives. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren discusses how depression and anxiety have affected her college experience and how the pressure to have a clear future and goals is unrealistic. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Today Lauren and Megan are together for once, listen in to what they have been up to in Lubbock, TX! Plus, an interesting and funny road trip story you won't want to miss! Send listener questions to sleptinmymakeuppodcast@gmail.com If you've enjoyed today's episode remember to rate, review and subscribe in iTunes!

Today Lauren chats with Jonan Scheffler, who had over 40 jobs before entering the tech industry. He loved tech growing up but wasn't wildly intrigued or inspired by his CS classes and thus wasn’t interested in pursuing it as a career. He dabbled in various roles such as factory work, car sales, but eventually became a poker dealer on the Oregon coast. When he began searching for roles in tech, he googled who was being paid the most and decided he wanted to become a Ruby developer. He then took the massive leap of faith, moved his family across the country, and attended a coding program called Hungry Academy. He fell in love with Ruby as a language then and has stayed passionate about the community to this day. Jonan had faced some burn out in the realm of DevRel but has since returned and today is the Director of Developer Relations at New Relic. Lauren and Jonan chat about the world of Developer Relations and the disingenuine sales-pitches that can sometimes occur when someone doesn’t prioritize their developer communities. Throughout the conversation, it is evident how passionate Jonan is about creating authentic relationships and how excited he is to launch a new Dev Rel team at New Relic. They discuss how the other roles Jonan has had helps him today in his role in tech. Being a career changer informs his perspective. He shares advice, wisdom, and calls out to those looking to transition into tech directly, and encourages them to do it and take the leap into the unknown and pursue tech as a career. This episode is packed with resources, recommendations, and tips; it is not one to miss! --------------------------------------------------------------"Humans are different in complementary and beautiful ways. And to the extent that we are able to get more people with more interesting backgrounds in technology, we make technology better for everyone.We need you here.We want to support you.It's hard to remember that when you're out there sending resume after resume into the void.But hang in there; the world needs you.We need you in Tech.I'm really glad you're here.Please, keep it up."-- Jonan Scheffler --------------------------------------------------------------Resources:Follow Jonan on Twitter @thejonanshowJonan’s GitHubLearn to Program by Chris Pine Free Code Camp Bit ProjectSandi Metz’s Practical Object-Oriented Design We Belong Here Podcast: Follow Lauren on Twitter @LoLoCoding WeBelongPodcast.com websiteSubscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Spotify LoLoCoding.com

Today Lauren chats with Reyhaneh Blackman, who emigrated from Iran to the US when she was 12 years old. She didn’t know English and had to teach herself the language and culture at an incredibly formative time in her life. She studied English in college and her first career was in journalism. After that, she went on to get a Master's in international finance and economics and became an investment banker. And today, she’s gone on to found a tech company, Media Scout, a video analytics platform, and has since taught herself to code! She attributes the ability to be flexible, code switch, and wear many hats to learning to adapt to new situations and environments as a kid. We talk about her journey and Reyhaneh shares how all of the lessons she learned along the way have helped to get her where she is today. Resources:Find Reyhaneh online @rey_blackman ProductPair.co We Belong Here Podcast: Follow Lauren on Twitter @LoLoCoding WeBelongPodcast.com websiteSubscribe on Apple Podcasts Subscribe on Spotify LoLoCoding.com

TODAY I am sitting down with the absolutely phenomenal Lauren Kanski. Lauren is a personal trainer, Women’s Health Mag Advisory Board Member, and co-founder of the online training platform Body&Bell. Today Lauren is telling us all about her humble beginnings, climbing the ladder in the concrete jungle, and what’s next for this kick-ass coach.

Today Lauren chats with Tim Benniks, who is the Director of Web Development at a global digital agency, Valtech. Growing up, Tim’s passion was music. And he pursued it until deciding to train to become a nurse. Tim is personable and empathetic and felt that nursing was the right fit but eventually dropped out of his nursing program when the healthcare system in The Netherlands dramatically changed. He discovered then that he wanted to be able to do creative things and began tinkering and building websites on the side. Eventually, he decided to join an ad agency, which led him to Paris, where he worked with L’Oreal and helped guide their e-commerce and online brand presence. In today’s episode, Tim shares his philosophy on the importance of having patience in the workplace and encourages listeners to know what motivates them before seeking their next promotion. Resources: Join us LIVE on Twitch for the next #WeBelongHere interview twitch.tv/LoLoCoding Valtech’s Tech Girl Event Tim’s Website Tim’s YouTube Channel The Culture Map by Erin Myer

Today Lauren and I talk with longtime bartender Stacey Ross about the biggest pet peeves for a bartender --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Join us as we call Artist Lauren Dunn and check in with how her week has been going. Lauren chats about how her students have adapted to learn online, having major shows postponed and how she has found herself with more time to experiment and be proactive within her practice. Lauren speaks about how doubt can be constructive in re-evaluating our intentions and motivations as artists. . . . How Are You Today? is generously supported by the City Of Melbourne Quick Response Grants.

S4 Ep15 SUSTAINABLE STYLE PODCAST: Lauren Engelke and Kaitlynn Gee - on working as stylists in the mainstream fashion industry, how they got into sustainable fashion and styling, and why they decided to start their podcast. Listen and subscribe on: iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | or wherever you get your podcasts! Please rate & review the show so more vintage lovers find this community. Pre-Loved Podcast is a weekly interview show about rad vintage style with guests you’ll want to go thrifting with. Find the show on Twitter at @PreLovedPod and follow @brumeanddaisy and  #PreLovedPod for updates on future episodes. This episode of Pre-Loved Podcast is sponsored by Depop. Depop Depop is a fashion marketplace with over 18 million users (including me, and many of you) in 147 countries who are all about rare, reworked, vintage, thrifted, secondhand, and sustainable fashion.  If you’re looking for a way to update your wardrobe that’s better for your wallet and the planet, download Depop, or head over to Depop.com to shop and discover unique fashion from all over the world.  Pre-Loved Podcast: Sustainable Style Podcast  Sustainable Style Podcast is hosted by Lauren Engelke and Kaitlynn Gee who met working together as stylists. Today Lauren is a stylist and podcaster focused on sustainable fashion. She lives in Madison, WI with her husband, two dogs, and 4,000 compost worms! Kaitlynn Gee is the other half of The Sustainable Style Podcast. As a personal stylist, she helps clients reach their wardrobe goals using their current wardrobe before buying a whole new aesthetic. She lives with her husband in San Jose, CA with a few cacti that she's been able to keep alive by not touching them. We talk about working as stylists within the industry, how they got into sustainable fashion and styling, why they decided to start their show, and of course -- the love of thrifting that we all share!  Thanks for listening, and let’s dive right in! All the Episode Links: The Sustainable Style Podcast Lauren Engelke’s blog @lauren.engelke @kaitlynn.gee Sustainability 101 podcast episode Sustainability 101 blog  GOTS certification Sustainable Forestry certification Cotton Farming in India episode of the podcast Ethical gem mining episode of the podcast ThredUP stats about the growth of resale Green Funerals and Burials episode of the podcast Black and Brown vintage in San Jose Lauren’s ski suit Hannah Rupp @sunsetsaraid Katrina - @inspoandco @heyallie.xo * For more good stuff every week be sure you get our newsletter! It’s called The French Press and you can sign up here.  **Pre-Loved Podcast stickers are on sale now! PayPal me $4.00 USD at this link, and provide your address, and I will ship you a sticker anywhere in the world! You can use the link paypal.me/preloved to purchase Pre-Loved Podcast stickers, or to send a donation in support of the show. Please know that I am always grateful for your support monetary or otherwise, but especially thankful if you are able and want to help float along the show in this way during uncertain times.  ***Our Depop shop is @prelovedpod if you want to find some vintage gems and support the show.  Pre-Loved Podcast is created by Emily Stochl of Brume & Daisy. Follow me on Instagram, Twitter, and Brume & Daisy blog.   

#006 - Lauren Dykovitz was sitting vigil by her mom's bedside while she was on hospice with end stage Alzheimer's Disease during COVID. Lauren would imagine people lining up out the door at her mom's funeral and her biggest fear was that her mom would die during COVID and wouldn't get the funeral she and her family had dreamed of - she was right.I've created this two-part series on grief to give public affirmation and acknowledgement that there are many of you out there who are grieving. Today's podcast is my way of honoring you and your loved ones. And to make sure that nobody is alone with grief and bereavement during COVID. In today's podcast to help us understand grief during COVID, I have the privilege of interviewing Lauren Dykovitz. If you've been following me for a while, you'll remember that I interviewed Lauren for my Caring for Aging Parents Show on January 15, 2020. Lauren's mom sadly passed away at the beginning of April due to complications of Alzheimer's disease, during the Coronavirus pandemic.Today Lauren has been gracious enough to share with us her experience of grieving her mom in the midst of COVID.Here’s a look inside my interview with Lauren Dykovitz[02:27] Every culture has a way of publicly and socially mourning their loved ones who have died. COVID is depriving us of the opportunity to grieve socially, thereby increasing the risk for disenfranchised grief.[08:03] Lauren shares a little about her caregiving journey[11:11] The final moments with her mom were not what Lauren had envisioned. Little did she know that her mom had other plans.[15:52] Lauren shares what it was like when she got the call.[22:24] Lauren's mom, Jerie, was always a loving and generous mom. Even in her death and dying process, she gave a gift to Lauren.[26:35] During COVID, viewings and funerals are limited to 10 people. Lauren describes the challenges and touching moments of her mom's non-traditional service. [36:09] Lauren shares about her relationship with her dad in the context of grief. [41:01] Grieving the loss of a loved one with dementia is different from grieving the loss of them after death, Lauren opens up about her experience with each of these losses.By the end of this episode, you'll feel less alone in your grief during COVID, you'll have more courage to face the losses in your life, and a little bit of support along the way.Check out the show notes here! Looking for more resources on grief? Click here!Rate and Review Psychology of Aging Podcast with Dr. Regina KoeppIf you're on Apple Podcasts, help me help others by rating and reviewing my show. Reviews let others- just like you- care for the older adults in their lives.It's simple: 1. Just click here2. Scroll down to "Ratings and Reviews" 3. Tap or click "Write a Review"I read them all. Thank you so much!

Today Lauren was honored to have Michael Coughlin join her on the program to discuss the Abolitionist Movement. He shared his testimony, as well as giving advice for those hoping to join the fight against the murder of unborn children. Below is a timestamped outline of the episode, we hope this will be edifying and encouraging.The Abolition MovementIntroduction to Michael Coughlin, a writer for Things Above Us, and a podcaster on BTWN. His show is called Be A Berean, link to the blog and the podcast below:More info for Michael Coughlin: https://thingsabove.us  https://biblethumpingwingnut.com/be-a...00:01:50 - Michaels Testimony00:08:50 - Does Catholicism lend itself to mysticism beliefs?00:14:00 - Why are the Abortion mills still open, even during a pandemic?00:16:30 - What is the difference between Abolitionists and Pro-Life?00:21:45 - Why are Pro-Life folks opposing the Abolition bills?00:30:00 - Going to the abortion mill during the pandemic.00:36:10 - What advice do you have for folks going out to preach in public or at the abortion mill?                 1. Using signs                 2. Do not appeal to the flesh00:47:30 - Can you please share the Gospel?00:57:00 - What’s coming up on your podcast?01:05:20 - What is the craziest thing that has happened to you while preaching at the mill?01:07:20 - How can we be praying for you?If you'd like more information about Tulips & Honey check out their website: 5Solas.Online Their Blog over at: https://www.wordpress.com/biblicalbeg... Their store: https://shop.spreadshirt.com/tulips-h...or their Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/Tulipshoneyhub 

Hellloooo everyone, I hope everyone's staying safe and well during these uncertain times. Today Lauren and I are spilling the tea on dating during quarantine, f*ck boys coming out of the woodwork, and how to maintain connection. I hope you all receive entertainment out of this

Alexandra Leisse and Lauren today discuss her journey from pursuing music professionally to becoming VP of Product at VIBBIO. Alexandra has her master’s degree in opera and stage performance from the University for Dance and Music in Cologne, Germany. After finishing school, she worked as a soprano at theatres and concert halls all over Germany while also starting up her own little web development agency.Since then, she’s moved to Norway and has gone on to find roles in user experience design and has spent over a decade in product related roles. Today, she’s the VP of Product at VIBBIO where she rebuilt the engineering team from the ground up, redesigned the application UI, and took full ownership of VIBBIO’s product strategy, in addition to her contributions to building the company itself. She’s the founder of Rails Girls Oslo and self-identifies as a ‘web rebel’. Today Lauren and Alexandra discuss the highlights of Alexandra’s musical career. She goes back in time to tell us about building her first website in 1995. Alexandra shares about the opportunity she saw in combining community building in the Linux world with social media. And soon landed a role as a community manager and has been in product ever since!She wears many hats at VIBBIO today, a startup, where the leadership is made up of all women!Alexandra shares incredible advice for folks curious to enter tech and how to discover your passion and find your strengths within the industry. “Don't listen too much to what others think you can do and what others think that you're capable of. Because you don't really know that you're not capable of doing it until you've tried doing it...”Resources:Rails Girls Summer of CodeConnect with Alexandra on Twitter: @troubalex

Today Lauren goes through some of your questions from Instagram! The topics are all over the place...enjoy! If you have a question, send it in to Lauren on Instagram @laurenolaya.

By the time Lauren Alaina was 15, she was competing on “American Idol”— and subject to harsh comments on social media about what she wore to how much she weighed. The pressure eroded Lauren’s confidence, which was already crumbling under an eating disorder. Today Lauren shares how she learned to love herself, and how her family, faith, and therapy carried her to a better place, with hopes to help other young women avoid this trauma in their own lives.  _________ ➤ Read “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young: https://jesuscalling.com/books ➤ Jesus Calling Products, just for you! http://bit.ly/JCproduct-guide    ➤ Lauren’s “Getting Good” EP: https://www.laurenalainaofficial.com/ _________   ➤ VISIT: https://www.jesuscalling.com/   ➤ SUBSCRIBE NOW to our FREE magazine! https://www.jesuscalling.com/magazine _________ WATCH more videos from Jesus Calling: ➤ Podcast: https://bit.ly/2uCnNM0  ➤ “Stories of Faith” original series:  https://bit.ly/2WzFY0O    ➤ “What’s Good?” original series:  http://bit.ly/JCWhatsgood    ➤ Jesus Calling Men’s Minutes:  http://bit.ly/JCmensminutes  _________  ➤ LIKE us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JesusCalling/ ➤ FOLLOW us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jesuscalling/ ➤ FOLLOW us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jesus_calling   ➤ SUBSCRIBE NOW on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/c/Jesuscallingbook?sub_confirmation=1  ___ ➤ SUBSCRIBE on iTunes: https://apple.co/2Pxa7eS ➤ LISTEN on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2E2C1vA   ➤ LISTEN on iHeartRadio:  https://ihr.fm/2CAakc4 

To close out this year on The Stacks we're sharing our favorite books of 2019. We brought back friend of the podcast, past guest, and avid reader Lauren Fanella. Today Lauren and Traci each share their top five books of 2019, see how their 2018 predictions held up, and look ahead at the books they are most excited for in 2020. You can find links to everything we discuss on today's show on The Stacks' Website: https://thestackspodcast.com/2019/12/30/ss-29 SUPPORT THE STACKSBook of the Month- Sign up for your book subscription for only $9.99 a month.Audible - Get your free 30-day trial and free audiobook download at audibletrial.com/thestacksAmazon - Shop through this link to find all the books discussed on today's show to help keep The Stacks free. Connect with Lauren: Instagram

How does a week on a beautiful island, totally alone with only your art supplies sound? Pretty magical right? But what if you wanted to turn the party up to 10 by bringing 9 other creative friends with you?! Which is better? Solo or group art retreats? Today Lauren and, our guest, Audree, are discussing the differences in these creative adventures, what you gain from each and how to create one for yourself - including getting your family on board. Plus! Lauren and Audree are putting their creative skills together to create the amazing next Radiant Art Retreat in their home country of the United Arab Emirates! If you'd like to spend a week on the beach riding camels, visiting museums, eating like a local and painting - then join us! Registration is open right now! Snag your spot here: http://lauren-likes.com/dubai and treat yourself to the creative adventure of a lifetime! For full shownotes visit: http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates:-solo-vs-group-art-retreats-ep-330/

Why tell your story? So you can marinate in the joy soup of your life - that's why! Today Lauren is sharing why we need YOU to tell your story, how you can tell it well, and different ways to share your experiences based on your favorite hobbies. Listen in if you're ready for idea overload on ways to bring your story to life. Ps. Get the free photography + storytelling webinar and free gratitude prompts here: www.lauren-likes.com/gratitude For full show notes visit: http://www.lauren-likes.com/how-she-creates:-tips-for-telling-your-story-ep-327/

Today Lauren shares her thoughts on renovating or redesigning your bathroom.

Lauren Carter, an American actress, model, and award-winning singer, found herself in two toxic relationships while pursuing her career. She had a tumultuous relationship with her ex-boyfriend while he was directing, producing and starring in his film, which later went on to win an Oscar. Despite having to face these challenges, Lauren Carter peaked at #6 in the Swiss dance charts in 2017, and she released her debut EP, American Dream with Turn Up the Pop! Records in April, 2017. Lauren's career has taken her all over the globe, and she has worked with an impressive roster of artists including Robert Altman, DJ Fresh, Goldie, Ellen von Unwerth, and more. Lauren's modeling work has been published in editions of Maxim, GQ, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and more. Today Lauren is free from this toxicity, and she's stronger and happier than ever. She's here to share her story of hope, and to encourage those struggling in abusive relationships by letting them know that they are not alone. There is truly light at the end of the tunnel. You can find Lauren, here: https://www.instagram.com/laurenelizabethcarter/ https://www.facebook.com/laurencartermusic/ https://www.laurencarteronline.com/ You can find us, The Bulletproof Club, here: https://www.thebulletproofclub.com/ https://www.facebook.com/myabuseprogram (our FB page name will change soon) https://www.instagram.com/thebulletproofclub_/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXXTm_aH_teaPcruqR0j66Q/videos You can find Danielle Esplin, here: https://www.danielleesplin.com/ https://www.instagram.com/danielleesplin https://www.facebook.com/officialdanielleesplin In this episode, we discuss the following: [00:00] Intro: The Bulletproof Club and Lauren Carter Introduction [01:57] How the Relationship Started [04:50] Danielle asking if Lauren had enough time with him to get a sense of his character [05:05] Danielle explaining that people with high Narcissism target attractive partners [05:21] How the sexual abuse and gaslighting started [06:06] How Lauren felt about the relationships and her exes disrespecting her boundaries [04:50] Danielle asking Lauren about what was about her exes that attracted her [08:22] Danielle and Lauren explaining the importance of childhood (how we were raised) in future adult relationships [09:32] Lauren talking about “Love Bombing” [10:13] The Phase after Love Bombing — Devaluation [11:55] Danielle further discusses Idealization and Devaluation [13:03] Lauren sharing how it can be an addictive cycle [13:24] Danielle asking Lauren about the pattern of “Affectation” [14:29] Mirroring vs. Imitating [15:00] Defining the Deflectable Meter and the pattern of abuse in Lauren’s past relationships [21:07] How Lauren realized she was in an abusive relationship [23:13] Lauren getting cheated on [25:14] Danielle talking about forgiveness [25:50] Lauren sharing about how she blamed herself [26:19] Lauren continues talking about getting cheated on [29:49] Danielle talking about how personality precedes behavior and clarifying that not everyone in a powerful position is a Narcissist [30:57] Strangulation and its pattern in abusive relationships [31:39] How Lauren made the mental shift to move on [33:21] Danielle thanking Lauren for being on the Podcast [33:24] Lauren's Instagram Username

Hello Beautiful People! Welcome or welcome back to, My Life Is A Mess Podcast. Today Lauren has her second guest on the show, Mark Stark. They discuss Mark's struggles as a kid with dyslexia early and how he overcame them. Also, Mark shares how he lost his passion for his business, sold it, and challenged a new beginning; changing his career later on in life. Stay tuned and ENJOY! SOCIALS: INSTAGRAM: @mylifeisamesspodcast TWITTER: @mylifeisamessp1 EMAIL: mylifeisamesspodcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mylifeisamesspodcast/support

Hello Beautiful People! Welcome or welcome back to, My Life Is A Mess Podcast. Today Lauren interviews one of her best friends, Tori Wilson, about the mental and physical affects of having Crohns disease. Stay tuned and ENJOY! SOCIALS: INSTAGRAM: @mylifeisamesspodcast TWITTER: @mylifeisamessp1 EMAIL: mylifeisamesspodcast@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mylifeisamesspodcast/support

There are two big mistakes we make in onboarding: too much or too little. Too little is having your reps come in for a two day's worth of onboarding. But that's not new hire training. That's orientation. Too much is trying to teach them everything. So, where's the sweet spot? That's what we're talking on today's episode of The Sales Engagement podcast. In this episode, we're welcoming back Lauren Bailey. You might remember Lauren, from Episode 35, where we talked about the right way to leave a sales voicemail. Lauren is the Founder of Factor 8, a company dedicated to building confidence with frontline sales reps and managers. She's also Founder of Sales Bar. And Girls Club. No big deal. Today Lauren shared her thoughts on what training for reps should look like. Here's what she had to say.

Jesse’s been at home with two sick kids for almost week straight. Lauren’s just back from an epic trip to New York for the indoor championships. And the two talk about their experiences during the 2019 snowpacalypse. Now, they’re cozied up in their little studio ready to field your questions. Today Lauren and Jesse tackle your hard hitting questions about building your own training plan, dealing with the urge to poop while racing, the challenges of sleep training your baby, and jealousy in relationships.   

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Jesse and Lauren are fresh off of a weekend full of play. Both recount their experiences of racing the Great Nordeen Nordic race. Jesse talks about his unfortunate crash during the race, and how his triathlon training came in handy. Lauren shares why her inner monologue during the race was “I hate this” on repeat. But now that they’re back in the proverbial saddle, they’re set to answer your questions about sport, family and business. Today Lauren and Jesse discuss weight loss, how to train for distance when you’re a fast-twich athlete, what the Flomases do to play as a family and as a couple, and whether or not to go pro as a triathlete.  

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The holiday season can be tough, with so many opportunities for unwelcome commentary on our bodies, diets and exercise routines from well-meaning relatives. What’s worse, our kids are exposed to it too. Jen, Annie and Lauren get together and discuss how to set boundaries this holiday season so you can enjoy your family time together, free from the discomfort of unwanted opinions and negativity. Learn how to be the change you want to see in the world and find peace among the chaos of diet culture. What you’ll hear in this episode: The damage of body shaming discussion on children The normalization of negative weight related discussions and body judgments in popular culture Reasons to set boundaries around negative body talk around your kids A comparison of the diet industry and tobacco industry’s tactics to normalize something that is damaging Statistics around the prevalence of disordered eating What is your grocery checkout stocked with? Preparing your kids for the road How to set boundaries in a clear, kind-hearted, non-confrontational way How negative body talk is like second hand smoke The role of media literacy in filtering negative messaging Prevalence of weight loss advertising and negative media messages What to do when you don’t feel comfortable setting a boundary Getting curious about where people are coming from with body commentary The discomfort of change Talking to our kids about the diet industry, body image and media messages Raising critical thinkers Free To Be Talks Workshops Effecting change at the individual and community level   Resources: The Habit That’s as Toxic to Children as Smoking Five Stages of Behavior Change Episode 13: How Your Body Image Impacts Your Children with Hillary McBride Free To Be Talks Learn more about Balance365 Life here Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play, or Android so you never miss a new episode! Visit us on Facebook| Follow us on Instagram| Check us out on Pinterest Join our free Facebook group with over 40k women just like you! Did you enjoy the podcast? Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Google Play! It helps us get in front of new listeners so we can keep making great content. Transcript Annie: Thanks for joining us here on Balance365 Life Radio, I am really excited about this episode and we actually jumped this topic to the head of the line because we felt it was just that important, especially this time of year. Today Lauren, Jen and I discuss the importance of setting boundaries with your friends and your family as it pertains to discussions about bodies and behaviors. Women’s appearance, exercise routines and eating habits seem to be free game and constantly open for discussion and debate. Conversations about who’s gained weight, who’s lost weight, how Aunt Jan has given up carbs or the latest supermodel that got her body back so quickly after baby number 3 can unfortunately be heard across the globe. After working with thousands of women, we know that with the holiday season many of us might find ourselves on the receiving end or at the very least, within earshot of comments of this nature. This unwelcome commentary can be shocking, infuriating but most importantly, it can be really harmful, especially to the little eyes and ears that are watching and listening. On this episode, we dive into the importance of women and mothers setting boundaries around diet talk and body shaming, share ideas on how to respond and address these comments if and when they happen and finally, how to help you and your children process those same situations. As always our free private Facebook group can be a great space to continue the discussion if you so wish, you can find us on Facebook at Healthy Habits Happy moms. We’ll see you on the inside. Lauren and Jen, we are all three together, it’s been a while. Lauren: Hi! Annie: You’re just here for the party, we know, Lauren and Jen, how are you? Jen: Good, I really missed recording with you guys. I was away and you did like 3 episodes without me. Annie: I know, you you were on a little family vacation. Jen: Yeah. Annie: Looked fun, we missed you though. Jen: Yeah, I missed you guys too but it was like my first holiday in, with my kids, in years so it was a lot of fun and I have to say, for the parents listening that it is a whole different world to go on holidays with children who are 5-6 and 9 than babies and toddlers. Lauren: That’s really good to hear. Annie: So there’s hope. Jen: Oh yeah, well it just got, for us, it got to a point where I was like “We aren’t traveling anymore. I can’t do this. I can’t take 3 car seats and a double stroller and a diaper bag on every holiday. It’s too… I might as well just stay home because it’s more stressful on holiday.” So now it was just surreal to just be sitting back and watching my kids handle themselves, like carry backpacks and yeah and just like not have myself loaded down, you know, like, I just had a backpack too. It was amazing. Annie: I heard a comparison made that there’s a difference between vacation and trips and you take a trip with your family. It’s not, it doesn’t always feel like a vacation, it’s sometimes a lot of work. Jen: The other thing when you have little babies and toddlers is we would always do like AirBNB apartments because we just felt like we needed the space and with kids getting up in the night we, you know, we just needed like different rooms etc and but that meant that we were also cooking and cleaning up after ourselves on “holidays” too and I would sometimes be like “Why did we leave home? Like, I just feel like I’m in the kitchen all the time.” So on this trip we only stayed in hotels and we ate out for every meal and I can’t even tell you how great that was too to not cook for 10 days. It was amazing. Annie: Yeah that sounds really nice and the weather looked so nice. Jen: Yeah, it was beautiful. Annie: Yeah, but we’re happy to have you back- Jen: Thank you. Annie: Because we have a really good topic and I think it’s going to be best addressed and best covered with all three of us on board and this is actually kind of a combination of two topics that we’ve discussed either in a podcast or a blog post that we kind of married together and we actually are doing kind of a last-minute recording because we wanted to squeeze this topic in before the holidays because what comes up so frequently in our community, which if you’re not a part of it,it’s Healthy Habits Happy Moms on Facebook, over 40,000 women, it’s a great place to continue the discussion, ask questions get support if you need it but something that comes up in our community often is how to respond to comments about your body or behaviors and how then to set boundaries with family members and with it being the holiday season, it seems like we’re exposed to so many more opportunities to have those comments thrown at us, right? And it’s a really common experience with women in our communities that are our bodies and our behaviors, what’s on our plate, how we are exercising, how we’re talking, how we look, always seem to be free game for discussion and debate and it’s really regardless of your body shape and size because prior to this, when we covered it in a podcast the first time, I did a poll in our community and women of all shapes and sizes has experienced comments and remarks like this and it can not only be shocking but infuriating and they can also be harmful to everyone within earshot, right? Jen: Right. Annie: and Jen, you made, it was, we’re approaching the two year anniversary of the blog post that you wrote that was amazing and it’s still on our blog today, but you made an amazing analogy of the harmful effects of body shaming, disordered eating behaviors, negative body talk as it relates to smoking, can you share a little bit about that? Jen: Yeah, first of all, it’s wild, two years ago. Annie: I know. Jen: And so we are talking about the same things, which is great, we hope it’s sinking in, two years later, so I am the analogy queen in our community and I find that sometimes drawing parallels in other areas of life is what really gets the stuff to stick with women and the other thing, when we talk about disordered eating, I just want everybody to know that in, like, eating disorder, I guess, literature and circles, dieting is considered under the realm of disordered eating, so dieting is disordered eating, so when you are talking about dieting around the Christmas dinner table or Thanksgiving dinner table, you’re actually talking about disordered eating, your disordered eating behaviors and 100 years ago it might have been shocking that somebody would would speak up at dinner to say that they’re purposely starving themselves or cutting out carbs but over the years, it’s become normalized, so it’s part of our normal conversation to discuss these things. So what I compared it to in this blog post was that at one point, smoking indoors used to be completely normal. My step mom talks about how she had my older sister in hospital and they whisked the baby away after and the first thing she did was light up a cigarette in the hospital. And everybody had an ashtray right beside their hospital bed and so this was about 40 years ago. Today, that would never fly. So the damaging health effects of smoking and secondhand smoking is well researched, we know the effects, smoking is banned in public spaces, we keep it away from children. I don’t know what the rules are down there but in Canada, it’s illegal to smoke cigarettes inside of a vehicle if you have anyone in the car that’s under 16. And we have family members who smoke and I don’t think they would dream of smoking inside my house, however if they came over and tried, I would immediately, I would have, you know, no issue with saying “Oh, can you please take that outside, this is a smoke free home.” So the parallel I drew is that we also know the effects of discussing bodies and disordered eating. We know that they have serious long term effects to your own personal health but also to the little ears or the children in the room listening to all of this and setting a boundary with friends and family around smoking is probably not a problem for anyone listening, however it still feels extremely uncomfortable to set this boundary around talking about weight, bodies, disordered eating, dieting but if you really put that into context, “Hey, we know this is extremely harmful.” And if you’re having trouble setting the boundary for yourself, just really think, like, now is the time that you need to step up for your kids and say “Hey, no this is not OK to discuss around our kids. If you want to talk to me about this later, that’s fine but you know, there’s little ears in the room.” Annie: And oftentimes, you know, the difference here is that unlike smoking, many people aren’t aware just yet of the harmful consequences of this type of talk and how contagious it is and how detrimental it can be to the eyes and ears that are watching and listening and I think if people knew, which is part of our mission, right, to draw attention to the negative consequences of dieting and body shaming and weight talk, if people knew like they know the harmful effects of smoking, you know, maybe they would be changing the conversation. Lauren: Yeah. Jen: Absolutely, so it’s sort of like, in the “olden days” they talk about how the big tobacco companies went to great lengths to hide the negative, they knew what the negative effects of smoking were and they went to great lengths to try and sort of cover that up and they were lobbying government et cetera, et cetera, they would have doctors as their spokespeople saying smoking was safe and that, basically, is happening today with diet companies. You have, you know, huge diet companies, they have crazy popular spokeswomen or spokespeople, I should say, fronting their brand but the research hasn’t caught up with the public yet. It’s not common knowledge yet so, but we know, it is well researched, we have decades and decades of research about how harmful dieting is, how harmful body shaming is especially for children. Like, body based teasing is one of the biggest contributors to future disordered eating/eating disorders. So the other thing is that I think I feel like awareness around mental health is just coming to the forefront, I guess, where in years gone past we haven’t talked about mental health as much. The focus really has been on physical health. And now we’re starting to see more talk of mental health and taking care of our mental health and what that means for people but I don’t think talking about mental health is as widely accepted yet either, so it’s quite a big conversation. This podcast, what we wanted to cover and talk about in just sort of bring to people’s consciousness is it’s OK to set boundaries in your home around what you expose your children to. Annie: Right, because it’s, you know, essentially in that blog post, which we can link in the show notes, along with all the research or just a handful of the research that we’ve looked at and essentially, you know, kind of compares it to being trapped in a smoky room, you know. Jen: Right. Annie: When, you know, when you are filling your home over the holidays or your environment with that sort of talk, I mean, it’s, the parallel is there, right? And it’s not it’s not one time that’s going to make or break but it’s that constant exposure, the fact that they don’t have a place to process this, that they can’t escape, that they don’t have an alternative, that there’s no discussion about, you know, the consequences and why you would do this or that, like that’s really what we want to begin to bring to light, right? Jen: Yeah and children are listening, like they want to listen, right? I catch my oldest son, he’s 9, I see him all the time, I can just see him, he’s paying attention to what the adults are talking about, he wants to know, he’s interested, he’s learning how to be an adult, right? And so this is something that we pretty much hand down to our children as acceptable and OK. So what we see today and we see this a lot in our Facebook group and just on social media in general, you hear a lot of women talking about, or sharing stories of somebody commenting about their body and how offended they are, whether somebody asks them if they’re expecting or if they’ve lost weight or what diet they’re on and women are saying, “Hey!” You know, they’re starting to notice, people comment on our bodies all the time but this is learned behavior, right, this isn’t some evil person, you know, or mean-spirited person popping out and just body shaming. It’s learned behavior. We make it acceptable at an early age so anybody who’s making those comments today probably grew up in an environment where it was absolutely OK and I think we’re still in that environment. If you are checking out at the grocery store and it’s full of trashy magazines around you, you’ll see that, we have, it’s open season on women’s bodies and men’s to a degree. You might have a National Enquirer there talking about whose, which celebrities have “let themselves go”, what weight this celebrity is, what weight that celebrity is, who has “gotten their body back after baby”, you know, the quickest. It is open season and that’s the kind of stuff that goes on around us that might not even be, you know, in our consciousness, right, so if you start paying attention, you’ll see it’s not just happening around the dinner table at Christmas, it’s happening everywhere and at some point you need to step up and say “Hey this is not OK” and you need to go to your children and say “This is not OK. This is not what our family values and just because, you know, Uncle Ted, you know, talks about women’s bodies that way, it is absolutely not OK” and you need to set that boundary with Uncle Ted or whoever your uncle is or Aunt, and let them know that’s not OK and if that has to happen in front of your kids, all the better. Annie: I just want to circle back, just in case people aren’t familiar with some of the statistics out there that I feel like we share frequently but you can never hear these enough, in my opinion but I think as you said the research is out there, it’s our kids are listening and some of the statistics about it are just shocking, I mean as it pertains to adult women, approximately half of women engage in disordered eating and risky dieting practices, including one 3rd of women report purging. Jen: Right. Annie: 75 percent of women report that their weight interferes with their happiness, which, I’ve been there, that’s been me at various points in my life. A study of 5 year old girls, a significant proportion of girls associate diet with food restriction and weight loss and thinness, like, how do they know this? Where are they learning this? Jen: Right. Absolutely. Annie: 37 percent of girls in grade 9 and 40 percent in grade 10 perceive themselves as too fat, again, where are they learning this? Why do they think that? More than half of the girls and a third of the boys engage in unhealthy weight control behaviors, for example, fasting, vomiting, laxatives skipping meals or smoking to control their appetite. Again, like, they’re listening, they’re watching, they’re observing. Jen: Absolutely. Lauren: Mhmm. Jen: And by the time a girl is 17 to 18 years old, that stat is up to 80 percent, so 80 percent of 17 and 18 year old girls believe they need to lose weight, like these aren’t like, you know, these aren’t like, outliers. This is the majority of our population and again, this is all learned behavior. Annie: Righ. And it’s, you know, we have a little bit of control over here and that’s why we’re in the business that we’re in because it’s not just enough for the three of us to parent our kids, like we need everyone on board to really make a really big impact. Jen: Absolutely. Annie: So that’s the part of our mission, to like, create this big wave, this ripple effect, like everyone’s on board and everyone’s promoting healthy balance lifestyles without all this other unnecessary, unhealthy behavior. Jen: Totally, I look at my local supermarket and the changes that they’ve made to have a healthier physical environment for my children so when I take them shopping there are, they’re called, like “junk food free aisles” so that you don’t have to deal with, like, your kid seeing the treats and wanting, you know, asking for treats so you can choose to go down those check outs instead of the ones that are lined with candy and also, in my local supermarket, they have a basket of fruits and vegetables for kids to just take for free to eat while you’re shopping and so I think “Wow, look at these changes they’ve made for our children’s physical health, right, taking away the less nutritious food and offering more nutritious food. So now let’s take it a step further and how can they support my child’s mental health?” So it’s one thing to have an aisle that’s free of junk food, but now I have to take my kids down this aisle that is instead stocked with magazines full of body shaming and my kids can read now and so I’m going, which is worse? You’ve taken away the junk food, you’ve replaced it with this basically, junk for your brain. Annie: Right. Jen: Essentially, yes. Annie: But, you know, as we said, I remember when you wrote this blog post and you and I had this conversation and I think we came across the saying “Prepare your kids for the road, not the road for your kids” because this is unfortunately part of our culture, you’re going to be outside of your bubble, especially in the holiday season or you know, even as summer approaches, you know and more skin is shown and you’re at barbecues or you know, year round, it happens, you’re going to be outside of your little bubble, inside of our community it’s like, this stuff doesn’t happen, right? Lauren: Right. Jen: Right. Annie: But when we leave our homes it’s like, or we go to the grocery store, it’s like “Oh my gosh, it really is everywhere.” It’s going to happen. So what do you do when it happens? You set a boundary. You can set a boundary and as you said, it can be so uncomfortable to think about setting a boundary for yourself and speaking up for yourself, but if you put it in terms of like, “I’m standing up for my kid” then it’s like- Jen: Totally. Annie: As a mother it’s like, “Oh”, it becomes so much easier, right? Jen: Yes, then it’s like “Roar!” Annie: Mama Bear, right? Mama lion. Jen: Exactly. Annie: Yeah, so, you know, setting boundaries, let’s talk about how to do that because it can be uncomfortable. It can be scary but I think you, in that blog post again, you gave a couple very concise, clear, non-confrontive, kind-hearted responses and I think you could just put these in your back pocket, you can put your own twist on them. The first one is “Hey, I understand that you’re struggling with your eating behaviors right now, can we save this conversation for when little ears aren’t around?” and I think that’s perfect, you know, so I picture myself at the buffet table, you know, and my Aunt Jan’s putting stuff on her plate saying “I shouldn’t have this many carbs and I’m just so excited to eat this and I’ll just have to work it off afterwards and it’s going to go straight to my butt” and you know, like that sort of talk. Jen: Yeah, total disordered talk. Annie: Right. Jen: Totally normalized in our culture. Annie: Oh yeah, like, I mean, 4 years ago I probably would have been like “Ahahaha!” Jen: Right. Annie: Now I’m like “Oh no, no, no, no, no, no!” Jen: Yes. Annie: “Could we save that conversation for when little ears aren’t around” and it’s, the three of us have had this conversation so many times, we feel very comfortable being like “Yeah, I’d be happy to talk with you about how to balance your meals, more sustainable practices for your health and wellness and how that talk isn’t really serving you, like we could talk that all day.” Some of our listeners might not be willing or interested in having that conversation, that’s totally cool too, but I think that just acknowledging little ears are listening and we’re just going to zip it, right now, right? Jen: Yeah, like if somebody, I mean, I know we all probably swear a little bit but if somebody like came roaring into the kitchen and was just like dropping F bombs every second word and your kids are sitting there you might be like, ” Hey, there’s little ears here, maybe we could cut that back” Except Annie’s giggling, because she’s like, “No.” Annie: Yeah, yeah. Jen: Don’t tell me how to talk. Lauren: Well, Jen, I think the second hand smoke analogy was so, so good because I’d like to coin the term now “secondhand dieting” because like, that’s basically what it is and if you’ve listened to the podcast you’ll know I started dieting when I was 12. Jen: Right. Lauren: And it’s because secondhand dieting was constant. It was a constant topic of conversation in my family, especially on one side compared to the other, but it was it was constant and I would never, you know, blame my family for any of that, everyone’s, as we know, we’re doing our best, no one’s doing it on purpose, but it’s how, it’s how, like, my grandma’s generation and my mom’s generation was raised. Jen: Absolutely. Lauren: And they didn’t know any better, just like before we don’t know any better about smoking. Jen: Right. Lauren: And so when I think back to that, like, I would sing the Jenny Craig song like- Jen: Oh my goodness. Lauren: Like I knew the Jenny Craig song, right? Jen: Let’s hear it, Lauren. Lauren: 1-800-Jenny-20. That’s all I remember but like I would sing it and I just cringe now thinking about all the stuff I listened to and that’s kind of what I draw from, if I ever have to set that boundary for my kids, like my daughter just turned 5 so I’m at the point now where it’s going to, I’m going to have to be more intentional and more careful about it moving forward and if you’ve listened to the podcast you’ll know last year we already had like our 1st incident with that at preschool, talking about, you know, good food versus bad food and I had to start that there earlier than I even thought I would, but at this point going forward, it just gets, you have to be more and more intentional about it. Jen: And it’s everywhere so as Annie had mentioned before, like you can’t, you can, media literacy is one of the most powerful tools in this sort of disordered eating/negative body image crisis we are in with our children and I can’t always be there to filter for my kids but I can teach them how to filter, right? Lauren: Right. Jen: And so one thing I noticed, we haven’t had cable for years and last Christmas we were up at the ski hill here where we live and we were staying there over the Christmas period, staying at a hotel and we would watch T.V. in the evenings and I was shocked at how many diet commercials came on what we’re watching T.V. and I probably wouldn’t even have noticed this 5 years ago because it was just part of my life, it’s part of everybody’s lives, where now I’m so conscious of it and suddenly I’m going like “We are muting the T.V. during commercials because this is ridiculous.” Every single commercial break there was a Weight Watchers ad and just horrible toxic messaging. I remember just. in particular. one woman saying “I can eat whatever I want and still lose weight” and I was like, “Oh! My kids are taking this BS in.” Like, so then we started muting it during commercials because I just, I just do not, and I’m like, you know how kids are, they just, like, stare at a T.V. and they’re just zoned out, whether it’s the TV show or the commercial and I was just like, this is not something I want them hearing over and over and over every commercial break, it’s like, they’re like hypnotized by it, being brainwashed. Annie: And I think that goes back to, you know, just that awareness that you said before, Jen. Sometimes you don’t know how well prevalent it is until you start listening and you just, like that might just be your first step, you don’t have to take any action, maybe you don’t set a boundary this holiday season, maybe- Jen: Right. Annie: where you’re at is you’re just starting to pay attention and you create awareness and you know, you know how, like, when you’re pregnant or maybe you’re trying to get pregnant and all you see is pregnant women? Jen: Right. Lauren: Yeah. Annie: Like, that’s what this is. Jen: Yeah it is. Annie: The power of suggestion. Once you see it, it’s everywhere. I mean, I swear, I tell people, like, “What do you do for a living?” “Oh, I’m a personal trainer” and it’s like, all of a sudden they go to confession. Jen: Right. Annie: It’s like, “Oh my gosh, I haven’t been to a gym in years, and I ate, oh my gosh, I need to get back and I need to do” and I’m like “It’s OK, I’m not, like, you don’t have to repent your sins to me.” Jen: Right, right. Annie: And it’s just, yeah, like it’s the magazine titles, it’s the conversations with your hairdresser when you’re getting your haircut, you know, the woman that’s evaluating your food at the grocery checkout line, like “Oh is this a good food? I heard this was healthy for you.” You know, it’s like, it’s just everywhere. Jen: You can’t, you have to be really, you have to be, and that’s why it’s so important to hand those tools off to your kids to be critical thinkers about it, right, so my son when we were on this holiday, we’re talking about at the start of the show, we were watching, again T.V. in the hotel room and this, we’re in San Diego, California and one thing I’ve noticed from previous trips to California is weight loss advertising is cranked up there compared to where I live in Canada, which might just be the culture of California, so it’s like, it’s on the radio, everywhere and I just found it, like, “Whoa! it’s definitely not as prevalent where I live” so the commercial that came on was like a freeze the fat thing, like, it’s like a, I don’t know if it’s like a liposuction procedure or whatever, it’s just a commercial and it came on and I was like “Here we go!” and my son was like, “This is ridiculous. It doesn’t even work.” I was like- Annie: Nice. Jen: Yeah! So you can, right, you can teach them and I try and just say to my kids like, you know, we obviously don’t shame people who are dieting or whatever, you have to be careful of that too, as well, but I just say, like, “You know that stuff doesn’t work and there’s a lot of companies out there who will take advantage of people who are struggling and with how they feel about themselves but you know this stuff does not work and there’s a lot of fake things that go on behind the scenes that trick you into believing it works but it doesn’t.” So, yeah. Annie: Well and to add to that, just as there are people in my life that I love dearly and I look up to in many ways, they also smoke. Jen: Right, absolutely. Annie: There’s a lot of great people that are also stuck in diet culture and body shame and weight talk and that doesn’t mean that they’re bad humans or they are terrible, you know, like I love them just as much and they don’t need shaming. Jen: No. Annie: You know, my mom smoked for years and I hated that element of her but I loved her, I hated that behavior, I should say, but I love her dearly. Jen: Well, you know, if you go back to our stages of change podcast where people are with smoking is OK, the awareness is there, it’s not good for you, the tough part with smoking is that it’s an addiction, right, so they are constantly and I mean, I think pretty much all smokers are in the cycle of change, most smokers are probably thinking of quitting all the freaking time, it’s just so difficult. Where, when it comes to dieting and disordered eating, there’s not an addiction there but if you’ve listened to previous podcasts about the diet cycle, it almost mimics one where you just can’t stop trying to diet, like, you just keep going back to it, you get stuck in that cycle but most dieters are not even, the awareness isn’t even there that this is something that is unhealthy for them and that they could even stop doing it. It’s just part of their everyday life, like, that’s what we do, we diet or we don’t diet, we’re on the wagon or we’re off the wagon and that’s what their whole life is, right? So when you are setting this boundary with people, just keep that in mind, like, this could be brand new information to them, it likely is, that this is, that your family doesn’t diet, your family doesn’t body shame, your family doesn’t sit around talking about your own weight or other people’s weight and it’s harmful. It’s harmful to you and it’s harmful to children to hear ,that will be brand new information. So if you decide to set that boundary, go gentle, as Annie said, you don’t have to set that boundary, that is an option, I would personally talk, if I was in a situation where I felt very uncomfortable setting that boundary, I would make sure to speak about, I would speak to my children about it later “Hey, you know, when Grandpa was saying this or that, like, just so you know ,that’s not what we believe in, that wasn’t accurate.” Annie: You’re jumping ahead a bit. Jen: Oh, I’m sorry. Annie: You just got so excited. No, I think that’s a great segue, just to circle back to setting boundaries, you know, like comments, if you need some actual statements, I always have a hard time putting words on my emotions and my feelings, so I like to have these one liners to put my back pocket that I can practice saying and it can be, you know, like I said before, “Can we save this conversation for when the kids aren’t around? My child can eat what he or she wants, eyes on your own plate, please. Can we change the subject? Simple as that and then as far as comments made to you about your own body or about someone else, whether they’re in the room or not, I mean, one of my personal training clients talks about how her father always comments about women in the media and their bodies. Jen: Right. Annie: Like it doesn’t matter because somehow they are immune because they can’t hear us and they’re celebrities and like they don’t count. Jen: Right. Annie: But it’s still worth addressing in my opinion but the first step is decide if you want to have that conversation or not. And sometimes you may not want to, it might be the wrong time, the wrong person, you don’t have the energy and in fact, Lauren and I remember you talking about a family member that you were just like, “This just isn’t a conversation I’m willing to have with her at this point in my life, in her life,” do you remember that? Lauren: Yeah, there’s a lot of my family members actually that I do not really speak about nutrition or whatever unless I’m asked and so as far as I go, it’s like a boundary unless I’m asked about it. Annie: Right. You know, and then the second option, I think, too is, if someone makes a comment to you, I think Jen, you gave this suggestion a couple times to be curious and just simply say, “Why do you ask that? Why do you say that? Can you tell me more? That’s interesting” and just see where they’re coming from and see where that goes because so often, you know, someone makes a comment to me and again, years ago, you know, 4 years ago Annie would have been like “Ugh!” and I would have been offended and embarrassed and ashamed and angry and infuriated but so often, like, that’s not usually how conversations, like, end well. Jen: Yeah, or “Why does, you know, why does that matter to you? Why is this relevant? How does that affect your life?” Annie: Yes, am I reacting this strongly because I’m worried that there’s some truth in what they’re saying, is this about my own body shame and my own negative weight talk and all that, you know, is this the baggage I’m carrying or is this theirs? And now I’m clearly, like, they make a comment about a body or my body and it’s like “What Susie says about Sally says more about Sally than Susie”, like they’re separate, like that’s on them and yeah, that has nothing to do with me. But decide if you want to have the conversation, then be curious, you know, I think that’s a great way to, if you’re not super confrontational, if you don’t want to be confrontational, like, “Why do you say that? Like, that’s interesting, why do you ask that?” and then find your voice. You know, Jen, I think we’ve talked about, like, you tend to be a little bit more like, “No, I don’t want to do that, like, we’re not going to talk about that, let’s change the subject” where I would be like, “Hey, look, squirrel! How about the Cubs?” like, you know, like something like just totally redirect or you could be super sincere and honest and say “I’m sure you’re coming from a place of love and you care but your comments are hurtful, your comments are alarming, they’re concerned, fill in the blank.” Jen: Or “I’m really uncomfortable discussing my body or other women’s bodies in a setting like this or period.” Annie: And you know what? It might get awkward. Jen: Yeah that’s the the thing but- Annie: It might get a little like- Jen: But change is uncomfortable, right? So, you know, we talk all the time on this podcast about needing a cultural shift or we hear it all the time on social media, society needs to change. Well, guess what? We are society and change is uncomfortable so this is going to be uncomfortable but it doesn’t have, discomfort doesn’t mean mean-spirited, discomfort doesn’t even necessarily mean confrontational, it just means uncomfortable and I think if women paid attention, they would actually see that there are many areas of our lives where women take on discomfort in order to not make the people around us uncomfortable and I’m at the point where I’m like, “Why? Why do I have to take on that discomfort all the time?” Annie: Yeah. And as we’ve said numerous times already on this episode, if you can’t find the courage to do that for yourself, maybe you can find the courage to do it for your kids. Jen: Absolutely. Lauren: Yeah. Annie: And if you’re not there yet, if you’re just like creating awareness and like, kind of getting your feet under you and kind of deciding what, like, where, how you feel about your body, where you stand, like, that’s really cool too, like this wasn’t an overnight process for the three of us. It’s not like we just jumped from 0 to 100 and now we’re, like, “Chop chop! Like, no, we’re not going to do that!” Like, this was like a, this is a process- Lauren: Definitely. Annie: Where we grew in our comfort to have these conversations. Jen: Is there time for me to share a quick personal story about just this as a reality? Annie: Yes. Jen: So this is based on my own history of very disordered eating and lots of weight talk with my sisters and the effects of that. So my kids are a bit younger and I’ve been able to be on the ball with them from a younger age which has been great. My sister’s children are older, my younger sister, my older sister’s children has children as well, but I’m speaking about my younger sister’s children and so her daughter at 9 years old, she came to me once I got to the house, she came to me and she had just sprouted up. And you know, different kids have different growth patterns but what with my nieces she kind of plumped out first and then she shot up. So what happened when she shot up is that her jean shorts became too big on her around the waist and it happened in just a matter of a couple of months so I get there one day and she comes up to me and she’s like “Auntie, look, Auntie, look!” and she was trying to show me the gap between her denim and her waist and I realized she’s trying to show me and basically bragging at validation and connect with me that she has lost weight and she’s 9 years old but I also was hit with this just feeling like I wanted to throw up, thinking of all the times I had shown up at their door to talk to my sister and the first thing out of my mouth was “I lost 5 pounds last week” or “I put on 5 pounds” or, and my sister’s oldest daughter had just grown up with her aunt, who she loves and admirers and looks up to so much, I’m pumping my own tires here but I’m pretty sure that’s how she feels about me. Annie: Naturally. Jen: She has grown up with that “cool auntie” speaking like that around her so of course she’s now coming to me at 9 years old and trying to connect with me over it the same way she sees her mother and me connecting and she’s just trying to be part of our crew and I was devastated and so not OK with it and so had to take a hard look at myself and go, “This is not OK .This is not OK that our family talks like this and I have been a big contributor to it and I will not do this anymore.” So that was about 5 years ago now, so very happy to see it going in the other direction and what my sister says now, because now we’re these empowered women fighting diet culture, she can’t believe that her daughters have gotten to the age they have and not talked about dieting with her yet, where my sister remembers dieting at a way younger age than even her girls have, so there’s hope, there’s hope here, right, we can make a huge impact. Annie: Absolutely and you know, I just had a little lunch talk a couple weeks ago and it was with a group of about 10 or 12 women, mostly moms and they cannot, they kept expressing concern about how to say the right thing, like, they’re so worried about saying the right thing when it comes to body talk and how we talk about how to take care of our bodies and how to respond when they’re talking about weight loss or how their body looks or they want to wear makeup or they want to wear certain types of clothes. They’re just so worried about saying the right thing that they sometimes don’t say anything at all. And I think, you know, when they were asking about what to do and how to approach this, the first thing that came to mind was what Hillary McBride and her Mothers Daughters and Body Image podcast which, if you haven’t, if this is a topic that concerns you, if you haven’t listened to that, please listen to that, but she pretty much hammers home that perfection, in this situation isn’t required, it’s intention and consistency that make the most difference and so you don’t have to say the right thing all the time. It’s really your intent to have the conversation behind it and just as I said, you can just be curious about when people make comments about your body you can just be curious about what your kids are saying, like, how does that feel when this happens? How do you feel about that? Did you enjoy that food? How’s your body feeling? How did you feel when Aunt Jan or Uncle Ted made that comment about me or about your body or when Gramma said that about your plate? Did you think about that at all? Like, it can just be as simple as that. Jen: The thing is if we talk about diet culture brainwashing children and us, we don’t want to be on the other end, brainwashing our kids, right? Like I want to raise critical thinkers and the way to do that, I think, is to ask them these questions and ask myself these questions and maybe and you can even process it together, right? Like that is totally OK. Annie: Yeah, but I think the key is, you know, is setting the boundaries when you’re ready and when you’re comfortable and then to keep having these conversations with your family members, with your community, with your kids, like, they’re hard conversations, they can be uncomfortable, it can be a lot of emotional ties and baggage that come along with some of these conversations but it’s worth it. It’s totally worth it and I just want to kind of wrap up by just acknowledging, again, that we’ve kind of touched on this but there’s work to be done kind of on sort of 2 levels here: at the individual level, you know, like our own selves deciding what our own biases, acknowledging those, creating awareness about our own behaviors, our own talk, you know, like, how many days, how many times a day do you talk about someone else’s body or are you reading about someone else’s body or are you listening to comments about someone else’s body? At one point in my life that consumed me. I talked about other people’s body all the time. Jen: Right or what articles are you clicking on where, you know, there’s those little like click baity ads at the bottom, “How this mom got her body back in 3 weeks” or “What this mom’s abs looked like at 4 weeks postpartum” and then the picture just like cleverly hides and you’re like, “I gotta click on this.” Lauren: That was me constantly reading about every single diet. Jen: Yeah, right, where now I just, you know, I know it’s all B.S. and I know the more we click on it, the more we are telling these marketers that we want to see more of it, right and they’ll just keep showing us more, so I’m like “Nope” and on Facebook when I see stuff like that I report it as inappropriate. Annie: So yeah, there’s definitely work to be done on an individual level, you know, our own behaviors, our shame, our conversations that we’re having and then at a community level, you know, and community can mean just in your own home, you know. That’s- Jen: Yeah, so speaking of that, I’ll just share what I’ve been up to since my holiday is that I just completed my Free To Be Talks facilitator training and I’m going to be teaching body image workshops in my children’s school and I am trained to be able to talk about this to kid boys and girls in grade 6, 7 and 8 and so that was me, that was on my vision board last year where, you know, we were doing all this work through Balance365 and I was like, “You know what? I really want to be out there in my community and I would love to start talking to children about this when they’re younger.” So I just did that training and that’s my way of contributing and being part of the conversation in my community and I would encourage anybody who is interested in that to to check out Free To Be Talks. It’s a nonprofit organization out of Vancouver, Canada but when I was on the training there was lots of women from the States on the training as well who will be doing this in their schools but you can and that’s a thing, like don’t, do not, you know, we read these stats to you guys and it’s shocking and you can sometimes feel powerless, like how can I even stop this? But you can and you can make a difference in your community and if all of us had that attitude, the change would come. Annie: I just get chills and for verklempt, like we could do this, guys,! Yes! Jen: Yes! Annie: I think that’s awesome, snaps for Jen. Jen: Thank you very much. Annie: Yeah, anything to add, Lauren? Anything you want to add before we wrap up? Lauren: No, I think you guys hit it all, I know I was just kind of a more quiet bystander, but you guys were just right in your groove and I think you guys hit it out of the park. I’ll just note that as someone who experienced secondhand dieting, and then the path that it led me down, that fuels me to be the change and not be afraid to stand up and say “Hey, this isn’t OK, we’re not going to talk about this.” Annie: Oh yeah, I think that’s, I mean, I don’t want to speak for you, Jen, but I think that’s why the three of us are in the business we’re in, we’re trying to be the change that we needed when we were younger. Jen: Yeah, totally. Lauren: Yes. Annie: Like, the voice, the message, the solution, the opportunity that we needed when we were younger and that’s, you know, how we are paying it forward, so to speak and I’m going to start crying so I’m going to stop talking. Yeah, so anyways, just to wrap up, when you’re out of your bubble this holiday season, moving into the new year, moving into summer, spring and summer, don’t be afraid to have a conversation. It doesn’t need to be confrontational, argumentative it could just be like “Hey, could we change the subject. I don’t want to talk about this when my kids are in earshot and you know, just start creating awareness and shifting the conversations that you’re having within your home and with your girlfriends and with your family can make a really, really big impact. To me, it’s, I picture waves of an ocean and you know, what one wave just kind of moves right into the other and it’s like, we just all connect to each other, eventually. Lauren: Yep. Annie: And if we’re all in the same page, if we’re all moving the same direction, we can make a really, really big impact on our own lives and more importantly, the lives of our kids so they don’t have to grow up in diet culture and negative body image and weight talk and all that junk. Jen: Yes, we do not have to normalize for them what was normalized for us. Annie: Alright, awkward ending. Lauren: As usual. Annie: You know what, that’s going to be on my topic, on my to do list today, so find a way to wrap up the podcast that’s not extremely awkward. Jen: That’s not like, “OK, bye!” Lauren: Okay, bye! Annie: No. But, alright, thanks guys. Lauren: Love you, bye! Annie: It was fun, kay, bye! Jen: Bye. Lauren: Bye. The post Setting Body Talk Boundaries Over The Holidays appeared first on Balance365.

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