Today’s episode is such an incredible honor to put out into the world - fam, meet Lauren LoGrasso 💜 Lauren is a highly accomplished and award-winning podcaster, singer/songwriter and public speaker. And today, she’s here to share BEAUTIFUL thoughts about the connection between our bodies and our creative lives.

MEET LAUREN LOGRASSO ~

Named by Podcast Magazine as one of the twenty two unsung heroes of podcasting and by CEO Weekly as one of the top 10 inspiring women to follow, Lauren LoGrasso has carved out a major name for herself in media and entertainment.

Lauren LoGrasso is a multi-passionate creative best known for her extensive work as a podcast host, executive producer, singer/songwriter, SAG-AFTRA actor and public speaker.

As a podcast host and EP she has helped create and produce hit shows such as We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle (premiered at #1 & named top new podcast of 2021 by Apple and Amazon,) Brené Brown's Unlocking Us (Premiered at #1 and named top new podcast of 2020 by Apple,) Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain, Lauren Conrad: Asking for a Friend (Premiered at #1,) The goop Podcast, Girlboss Radio, Meaningful Conversations with Maria Shriver, From the Heart with Rachel Brathen (aka Yoga Girl), Queerified with Gigi Gorgeous and Mimi, Goopfellas, She Rates Dogs: The Podcast, No F*cks Given Podcast, Pod is a Woman, Crazy Stupid Fangirls, Self-Service Podcast and her own show, Unleash Your Inner Creative with Lauren LoGrasso. All of these shows premiered on the Apple top charts and continue to chart regularly in multiple countries.

Unleash Your Inner Creative, which she executive produces and hosts (under her company Lauren LoGrasso Productions LLC,) recently won a Signal Award, was named a Webby Award Honoree, has won four communicator awards (best host and best show,) a Hermes Platinum Award (best podcast,) a W3 Award (best host,) and has been nominated for multiple People's Choice Podcast awards. It is frequently on the top 200 charts in multiple countries, was on Apple's New and Noteworthy 37 times and has a solid 5 star review. Lauren and the show have been featured in publications such as Podcast Magazine, Business Insider, Maria Shriver's Sunday Paper, In Touch Weekly, VoyageLA and on NBC LX, The JAM Chicago and Cheddar TV, as well as dozens of additional podcasts and radio shows.

As an interviewer she's talked with the Likes of Guy Raz (NPR,) Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way,) DJ Khaled, Melody Beattie (Codependent No More,) Sharon Stone, Kathy Griffin, Jim Kwik (Kwik Brain,) Ledisi, Mira Sorvino, Amanda Peet and many more.

Previous work includes her time hosting and producing at AfterBuzz TV for AfterShows such as Ozark, Big Brother, and Grace and Frankie and Executive Producing and co-hosting Maria Menounos' radio show at SiriusXM and guest co-hosting on The Mitch Albom Show.

As a singer/songwriter, she's known for working with Grammy-Award Winning producer, Jeff Bova, having her music placed in the award-winning short film, Cats Outta The Bag and the award-winning feature film, Love Market (Which she also starred in,) playing iconic venues such as House of Blues Sunset, The Viper Room, Hardrock Cafe (Hollywood and Detroit,) and getting featured in People Magazine, Yahoo, as well as on top shows on both SiriusXM and Terrestrial radio.

As a public speaker she has been featured at the Girlboss Rally, as well as being a keynote speaker at The Pretty Thing Tour, Michigan State University, The Publisher’s Publicity Association and more.

She graduated from Michigan State University with a BFA in Acting and a BA in Communication with an emphasis in media.

CONNECT WITH LAUREN

On the gram: https://www.instagram.com/laurenlograsso/
On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@laurenlograsso
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/laurenlograsso
On the Twitters: https://twitter.com/laurenlograsso
Listen to her music and see all the cool things People Magazine has said about her work here: https://linktr.ee/laurenlograsso

CHECK OUT LAUREN’S AMAZING PODCAST, UNLEASH YOUR INNER CREATIVE!

Unleash Your Inner Creative: https://tr.ee/w7TmyxmMf7

FAVORITE MOMENTS FROM THIS EPISODE ~

The connection between our bodies and our creative lives
Choosing to experience the full spectrum of life
The key that seems to unlock a flourishing creative life for many folks
Self forgiveness as a path to self trust 🥹
What if we could be ourselves everywhere?

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS SHOW ~

PODCAST EPISODE: HOW TO MAKE THE GYM A HAPPY PLACE [USING BIOLOGY INSTEAD OF WILLPOWER]

LEARN MORE ABOUT THE HAPPY PLACE CHALLENGE!

DETAILED EPISODE BREAKDOWN ~

0:00 - 10:00 ish:

Meet Lauren!
Episode overview + how to connect with Lauren
How Lauren came to fall in love with her own creative expression

10 - 20:00 ish:

The life long journey of making ourselves available for creative urges
The connection between our bodies and our creative lives
Things Lauren is currently learning about bodies, sexuality + creative blocks
Clearly hearing our own voices rise above the noise of social conditioning

20 - 30:00 ish:

Committing to being fully human 💜
Rewriting the narratives around sexuality that we grew up with
Choosing to experience the full spectrum of life
Recounting our first times having sex 😂
Innocent moments in youth that got labeled ‘un-ladylike’ and how that sticks with us

30 - 40:00 ish:

All the old stories about repressing and shrinking have the same energetic signature to them
The key that seems to unlock a flourishing creative life for many folks
Failing at things we love is better than succeeding at something we don’t deeply care about [27:15]
Self forgiveness as a path to self trust 🥹
Letting the messy, suffering moments be messy and then moving forward
Objectively witnessing our own suffering

40 - 50:00 ish:

Letting our feels have their experience while also keeping an eye out for the lesson
Repressing our feels and imagining the downstream consequences of reactive decisions
Maintaining open, healthy relationships as we grow and change
Bringing our family into our creative lives

50-60:00 ish:

What if we could be ourselves everywhere?
Being our own advocate wherever we go
Reflecting on the many parts that make up who we each are
Go listen to Unleash Your Inner Creative and say hey to Lauren on the interwebs!

THANKS FOR LISTENING!

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Lots of love,

Caroline

The Connection Between Our Bodies + Our Creativity ft. Lauren LoGrasso