How Life Led Me Here

There was a moment years ago during meditation when I heard a sentence that ignited something deep in my spirit: The world needs your medicine.

I didn’t fully understand it at the time, but it stuck with me…

Over the years, that message followed me through every season of growth, doubt, transition, and healing. It became the thread through my work, the energy behind my choices, and eventually the foundation for my new podcast.

This is where a new chapter begins…

Coming Home To My Medicine 

There were seasons in my life where everything I thought I could rely on came undone.

Leaving my job in television news.
Ending an abusive marriage and rebuilding my life from the ground up.
Moving through chronic illness that forced me to listen to my body in ways I never had before.
Stepping deeper into spiritual healing and meeting every layer of resistance that surfaced as I began choosing myself.

None of it was glamorous or linear. There was no perfectly timed breakthrough, no polished storyline. It was messy, disorienting, and at times unbelievably tender.

But each chapter held a lesson.

What I learned is that transformation rarely announces itself as “transformation.”

It often arrives disguised as loss, confusion, resistance, or the sudden realization that you can’t keep living the way you’ve been living. And when we’re in those moments, it’s incredibly easy to interpret them as evidence that we’re failing… that we’re not strong enough, not ready enough, not worthy enough to step into what’s calling us.

But more often than not, those moments are initiations.

They peel back the layers of who we learned to be so we can reconnect with who we actually are.

One truth kept revealing itself to me through every one of those transitions:
so many of us doubt our power at the exact moment we’re being asked to step into it.

And when we can recognize that pattern and name it instead of spiraling inside it, something shifts. We start to see our challenges as invitations to open, and doorways into a deeper, more honest relationship with ourselves.

That’s exactly why I created a space where these conversations can actually live.

The Heart of the Show

In this first episode of The World Needs Your Medicine, we’re grounding into the purpose and intention behind this space. If you’re new here, this is the orientation. The starting point. The place where I share why this podcast exists and what it’s here to support within you.

At its core, this show is about remembering the gifts we carry, being honest about the challenges that shape us, and creating a space where real stories and lived experiences become medicine for all of us.

Not the curated versions of healing either…
The real, human, honest parts.

This podcast is for the parts of us that feel pressure to have life neatly figured out, even when we’re still in the middle of growing.

It’s for the moments when we’re re-evaluating what we want, who we’re becoming, and what actually feels true for us.

And it’s a space to remember that every chapter of our journey carries wisdom we’re meant to learn from and share with the world, should we choose to.

What I Hope You Receive Here

My hope is that this episode helps you connect to the medicine of this show:

honest conversations, real stories, grounded insight, and the kind of guidance that comes from lived experience.

I want you to feel welcomed.
I want you to feel seen.
And I want you to feel the permission to bring your whole self into your own healing journey.

Because your lived experience is sacred, and the world needs the version of you who knows that.

The World Needs Your Medicine.

In This Episode, I Also Talk About:

• The internal challenges that show up when you step toward your purpose
• The process of healing through shared stories and honest conversations
• How other people’s experiences can activate your own growth
• How to enter our podcast launch giveaway!

The Show Releases In January…

I can’t wait for you to tune into the medicine of this podcast. The show airs on January 13th, get ready for a whole new level of magic.

Xoxo, Lauren