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Living a Fall 🍁🍂 life in NY this week. Getti

Living a Fall 🍁🍂 life in NY this week. Getting from last Fall to this Fall felt like 100 years, but now that I’m here, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

I have experienced so much. I know I did everything, and I mean everything, I could to love the people in my 34 years hard.

There is love, consideration, and kindness over here on the other side of the year. I’m so tired but so happy and filled with excitement about how life is unfolding.

So thankful for a body that breathes and moves, friendships, family and people I love, my “little” business, and for myself. For my brain and for my heart.

I had a moment this week when I realized I simply made it through the year and I cried some tears of gratitude.

We did it.

Big thank you to @sacred.alchemist for their post

Big thank you to @sacred.alchemist for their post this morning that helped me find abundance in time to take care of myself

Will the steps I took today exactly work for everyone? Does it always work for me? Absolutely not.

Many times this year, going through a divorce, changing my life, painfully exiting a beautiful business I helped nurture and build, while trying to nourish my own, feeling stretched, experiencing medical trauma, I’ve found myself with my covers up to my eyeballs unable to move.

Maybe you’re feeling the weight of the world right now too.

But I do want to focus on here is the trust part. If I can, without forcing anything else, trust that the things I know as self-care are important and worth doing, without judgement of myself, even when I feel like doing nothing and don’t believe anything else.

Even when it’s *just* 3 minutes to feel my feelings in meditation or journaling.
Even when it would be easiest to scroll.
Even when it’s *just* 5 minutes outside.
Even when I feel like I have no energy, time, and my heart is heavy.

Trusting myself to simply just do those things for myself is actually the key that unlocks it all…. In my comfy clothes.

I hope this might help you, if not now, someday. Write your own list of what makes your life good. What feels like a hug from the universe.

I’m always here for you. Xoxo

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#workfromanywhere🌎 #findingmyselfagain #marketingcoach #enneagram2w3 #enneagram2w1 #productivitytips #productivityhabits #onedayatatime #onefootinfrontoftheother #infjpersonalitytype #infjlife #socialmediacoach #travelingisfun #ilovemyjob❤️ #divorcerecovery #travelingandworking #travelingforwork

a couple recent moments to romanticize my life wit

a couple recent moments to romanticize my life with. ✨

#travelvlog #travelingpost #washingtondc #dcvibes #roadtrip #vanlife #athomeintheworld #findingmyself #divorcehealing #travelingforwork #travelingsolo #travelingtogether #travelingfriends #vlogsquad #romanticizeyourlife

Thank you to so many of you who are always cheerin

Life has been sweet. I get to feel everything now

Life has been sweet. I get to feel everything now as I begin to crawl back out of my shell.

I told someone recently I feel things deeper/bigger now. He asked me if I feel joy more too and I said I actually think what I feel deeper than ever is love.

I used to have kind of a shell around me for protection, I could dish love out but no matter what anyone said or did I couldn’t allow myself to believe their kindness directed towards me was real. I believed too many of the “bad” things about me.

This year has become a perpetual process of breaking that open…

I have deeply felt more love from people than I ever have. Thanks for being there when I didn’t know how to ask and I didn’t know what was happening. Thanks for being there when I did ask for it.

Life has been crazy, unexpected, and is full of sweet surprises and it has a lot to do with the people in it.

#innerwork #innerwisdom #innerchild #entrepreneurlife #enneagram2 #enneagram2w1 #enneagram2w3 #infjproblems #divorcehealing

DC photo dump in no particular order. There’s de

DC photo dump in no particular order. There’s definitely an energy in DC I love, thanks for hosting us all around your city, @sashleyvee. We ate our way through all of the spots!

It was so nice to spend time with you and dad @themartinkarl ♥️ I already miss you, sissy!

#travelvlog #travelvlogs #traveltok #travelsologirl #travelreel #bookhaul #innerwork #innerwisdom #innerchild #healingquotes #entrepreneurlife #enneagram2 #enneagram2w1 #enneagram2w3 #infjproblems #divorcerecovery

We visited my favorite little iconic book store in

We visited my favorite little iconic book store in DC today on my last day here. Friendly staff, coffee food and cocktails in the back, books in the front. Here’s what @sashleyvee @themartinkarl and I collectively picked up at @kramerbooks…

#books #bookworm #bookhaul #bookstagram #bookstoread #booksta #bookrecs #bookish #booktok #bookaesthetic #currentlyreading📖

Happy Dog Day my sweet baby Beanie Boo. You always

Happy Dog Day my sweet baby Beanie Boo. You always know.

Still dreaming about the Tetons 🏔🏔 I’m in

Still dreaming about the Tetons 🏔🏔

I’m in Rockford for a minute before I get to go visit my sister and dad in DC! (I’ll be working from there too.)

Today I woke up and thought about how grateful I am to have my business. It has kept me safe this year and brought me so much joy and freedom when things felt heavy.

What is the activity that brings you joy? I really want to know!

For me it’s traveling to new places, letting my brain get quiet in nature, and the ability to work from anywhere. And subsequently it’s also spending time with people I love, in Rockford and all over the world.
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#montana #roadtrip #yellowstonepark #travelforwork #travelbuddyforlife #northyellowstone #travelingandworking #travelreels #vanlifekat #vanlife #workingandtraveling @katrinakibben

Let her speak. Turn her up. . . . . . . #innerwor

Let her speak. Turn her up.
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#innerwork #innerwisdom #innerchild #healingquotes #entrepreneurlife #traumaresponse #enneagram2 #enneagram2w1 #enneagram2w3 #infjproblems #divorcerecovery #divorcehealing #mindsetgoals #mindsetreset

I have been traveling a lot lately. And I am no lo

I have been traveling a lot lately. And I am no longer deep inside one of the local businesses that I helped lovingly build for 15 years, 🥲 but my passion for and dedication to helping small businesses hasn’t changed. Not even a smidge.

I feel actually pretty lucky that I get to work with so many local businesses through Lauren Davis Creative and Winnebago Buy Local because it continues to fine tune my taste for what real homegrown businesses think, feel, experience.

Even when I travel, the friends I’m with say “oh we are definitely going to choose a local business to go to tonight, because Lauren is with us.” ♥️🙃

Well hey, if I have that influence across the country, I love it. It’s not something that makes me special but it sure as hell makes a community special.

Did you know 65,000 US local businesses have had to close since 2019?

Did you also know that when you buy locally nearly half of that $ comes back to your local community which is much more than when you choose to spend at a big box store or on Amazon.

Think about the local staples where you live. Would you be saddened if they had to close?

When I meet with clients or friends I always choose a local place first regardless of where I’m at.

It’s important to me to support the small businesses that make each community say “oh when you’re in town you HAVE to check out this spot.”

You can vote for your community and what it looks like with your dollars too. Buy locally, dine locally, buy artist and handmade, buy Black and from POC. Invest in your community by supporting small. ♥️

Do you support local businesses where you’re at?

P.S. to my friends in Winnebago County, Illinois, happy Official Winnebago Buy Local Month!

#localbusiness #localbusinessowner #localbusinessowners #buylocalart #buywbl #gorockford #buyinglocal #buyhandmade #buysecondhand #rockfordil #rockfordillinois

I’ve been getting booked for more speaking throu

The Freaking Tetons. God. . . . . . . . . #montana

The Freaking Tetons.
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#montana #roadtrip #tetons #travelforwork #travelislife #tetonsnationalpark #wyominglife #travelingandworking #travelreels #vanlifekat #vanlife #workingandtraveling @katrinakibben

Just a little memory that a friend sent me this we

Just a little memory that a friend sent me this week! When I met Seth Godin, OG marketer, who wrote the first marketing book I ever read and …. Instead of posing naturally like a human being I made the Arthur fist. It’s all I see when I look at this photo. Hahah

#sethgodin #freeprizeinside #marketingstrategist #speakerstrategist

🏔 I didn’t know I’d be in love with Montana

🏔 I didn’t know I’d be in love with Montana like this.
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#montana #roadtrip #yellowstonepark #travelforwork #travelpartners #northyellowstone #travelingandworking #travelreels #vanlifekat #vanlife #workingandtraveling @katrinakibben

I don’t usually post things like this on my feed

I don’t usually post things like this on my feed but I have to say this testimonial I was given meant a lot to me, the past year has been a challenging year, and the thing that has kept me feeling energized is when I get to spend time with people who are passionate.

When I get to help them with the excitement and wonder they have and help them share it with the world—this speaker took the work we did together and ran with it! They inspired me to create the offer I’ll be talking more about in October that is one of the biggest things exciting me about my business in the last few years.

This one meant a lot and I wanted to celebrate it with you. Thanks for reading.

#contentmarketingtips #ceoofmylife #smallbusinesstips #businessownersofinstagram #speakersofinstagram #speakingcoach #publicspeaker #speakerlife #motivationalspeaker

✌️ #travelforwork #travelingagain #travelgram

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#travelforwork #travelingagain #travelgram #ilovetotravel✈️ #ilovetotravel #ohare #chicago

This is part 2 of the little video I recorded in t

This is part 2 of the little video I recorded in the Ozarks this week while I was there helping a speaker!

They sparked me to share the 3 Questions we walk through in our work together and that I’ve developed from working with dozens of sought-after highly qualified speakers.

This is part of the program I’m launching for speakers (sooooon!) but they reminded me that these questions help the most wise and practiced speaker to the speaker who has their core presentation and is just starting out… Live or virtual…(This is the clif notes version of course.

I walk my speaker clients through developing and optimizing these steps in their presentations so they can get their next big gigs and so they represent themselves as the most memorable speaker at the event. So whether or not they sell from stage their speaking career makes them money and makes them soooo happy. Whether it’s to a local chamber, a virtual meeting room, or a conference of 5000 people.

1. The first part is Communication: is the presentation saying what you want it to say? Or is it saying what you *think* it says… Are there communication breakdowns somewhere. Are there parts you should slow down for clarity or parts you get stuck on that should be removed because they complicate the important point?

2. The second question…How will you create opportunities at the event for the audience or event organizers to engage with you or your content

3. And the third, how will you create opportunities for engagement in real life or online post event. Will those people who saw you be in contact?

There are subtle ways to do all of these things in your own way, bring out your own personality and shine as the brightest speaker or leader at whatever event you choose to speak at.

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#entreprenurial #entrepreneurship #womensupportingwomen #womensretreat #businessretreat #businesscoachingforwoman #startingmyownbusiness #smallbusinessowner #infj #enneagram2 #enneagram9 #enneagram5w4

“Turns out I didn’t hate myself. I hated not b

“Turns out I didn’t hate myself. I hated not being myself.” I saw someone say that this week but I can’t remember where. It hit me. We are coming up on a year.

This time of year, last year, my life changed a lot when I asked for something that I deserved, and was responded to with an answer I didn’t expect.

In a way, me sticking up for what I needed, was what ultimately changed my life. The response I got set me free in a way, even though I didn’t feel that exactly at the time. It was confusing then, but I’m thankful now, for how things turned out…

I’ve spent this year in the most unimaginable sadness, happiness, reflection, fear, excitement, death, self-work, butterflies, chronic illness, tears, forgiveness, laughter and I’m surrounded by love.

I mean… I’ve felt the kind of love and grace and space I’ve never allowed myself to feel before from clients, friendships, strangers, and family.

This year I’ve clawed my way through what felt like the upside down in Stranger Things and found ways to create and live much more in honesty with my own feelings.

I found so many pieces of myself I tucked away out of convenience. I’ve seen the true colors of people around me.

Some people say they’re entering their villain era at this phase, but I’m not.

I’m entering the era of appreciation and gratitude for my life—of not being underestimated—of forgiveness and peace and of speaking the truth a little louder.

I’ll never let myself get so far away from myself again or be quiet at expense of myself. Every day is a new day to practice for me to love being myself. ♥️

#learningaboutmyself #divorcerecovery #selflove #infj #enneagram2w1 #enneagram2w3 #infjlove #villainera

Howdy from the Ozarks! I am here helping a client

Howdy from the Ozarks! I am here helping a client today as they speak at #moshrm #moshrm22 and they sparked me to share the 3 Questions we walk through in our work together and that I’ve developed from working with dozens of sought-after highly qualified speakers.

This is part of the program I’m launching for speakers (sooooon!) but they reminded me that these questions help the most wise and practiced speaker to the speaker who has their core presentation and is just starting out… Live or virtual…(This is the clif notes version of course.

I walk my speaker clients through developing and optimizing these steps in their presentations so they can get their next big gigs and so they represent themselves as the most memorable speaker at the event. So whether or not they sell from stage their speaking career makes them money and makes them soooo happy. Whether it’s to a local chamber, a virtual meeting room, or a conference of 5000 people.

The first part is Communication: is the presentation saying what you want it to say? Or is it saying what you *think* it says… Are there communication breakdowns somewhere. Are there parts you should slow down for clarity or parts you get stuck on that should be removed because they complicate the important point?

Follow for 2 more tips coming in my next reel. 🙂

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#entreprenurial #entrepreneurship #womensupportingwomen #womensretreat #businessretreat #businesscoachingforwoman #startingmyownbusiness #smallbusinessowner #infj #enneagram2 #enneagram9 #enneagram5

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