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It was so much fun being on @jakethompsonspeaks po

It was so much fun being on @jakethompsonspeaks podcast @competeeveryday!

I met Jake in Vegas at a conference after being introduced by our mutual friend @mikekim and we hit it off!

Since then, we’ve worked together, had fun, clinked glasses and found many more mutual friends we have in common!

This is one of the first podcasts I’ve done since my big life shifts of last year and it was a pleasure!

Thanks Jake! When you listen, let Jake and I know what you think!

If you have something wonderful, helpful, valuable

If you have something wonderful, helpful, valuable and encouraging to share, and you want to share it from stage, then muster up whatever courage you can to do it.

Get on stage if that’s what you want. Work on delivering your message.

Represent the other “yous” out there.

Be afraid but lean in anyway and trust yourself that you do deserve to take up space in the places where you want to be.

It is not easy for me to overlook body image issues, imposter syndrome, recent life experiences and do it anyway and yet every time I’m so glad I did. And working with speakers I learn every day that everyone comes with their own individual set of fears.

You’re not alone. If you want to use your voice, Please use it.

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After speaking myself and hanging with a bunch of

After speaking myself and hanging with a bunch of talented and amazing speakers this week, here’s a great little reminder. Do these 3 things before you speak or be aware of them. You’ll feel more connected to your audience later. ❤️ I’ll be sharing more content for speakers coming up. Follow and stay tuned. 🙂
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I realized last night in the last 15 minutes of @a

I realized last night in the last 15 minutes of @andy_storch’s @tdthinktankus event that because I had been behind the camera the whole time, I didn’t get any pictures with anyone who I had met or spent time getting to know this week!

Luckily I said it outloud and it became clear no one was going to let me leave without photos. I’m so proud of Andy and the amazing people he brings together.

I think this is the friendliest and most driven group I’ve had the pleasure of speaking to and talking to in a conference setting and I’m so grateful for new friends.

Thanks again Andy! None of us would be here without you.

@claudesilver taught us today to truly believe the

@claudesilver taught us today to truly believe the good in people first. I love this idea — I try to live my life this way. I look for the heart in all things and it’s a practice that is meaningful in my life.

I am so grateful that I spoke on the same stage with this heart-centered icon this week. 🙂

Thanks @andy_storch for bringing all of these amazing people together!

P.s. it was nice to take a pic with someone my height for once. Ok ok I’m wearing heels but… still.

#tdthinktankus @tdthinktankus

Why are we measuring the same way when the definit

Why are we measuring the same way when the definitions, algorithms, and apps have changed so dramatically?

The second reason you’re not getting likes is because your content needs some help. That’s ok too. Knowing some of these basics can be the first step to improving what you’re sharing to the world.

If you are a speaker and want to work on communicating your story and your message onstage and off, I’d love to chat sometime. 🙂

But for now, if this stops one more entrepreneur from thinking that their content isn’t impacting someone, I’m happy.

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Thank you for bringing me out to San Francisco to

Feeling really excited about life right now. The l

Feeling really excited about life right now. The last year hasn’t been easy.

With therapy and coaching I learned a lot about digging myself out of the unworthiness and identity loss I felt after divorce.

I changed around my business and started only putting my energy toward the things I love. And I love every single one of my clients right now.

I’m traveling more than ever for clients, and sometimes for fun, getting to experience different foodie, nature and cultural vibes of the US.

I feel so intensely loved by the people in my life.

Just feeling happy and wanted to share. Thanks for being part of my year.

📸❤️ 1) @katrinakibben + 4) @msanchezwashere

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The last four weeks have been a beautiful whirlwin

The last four weeks have been a beautiful whirlwind!

↝ picked up my car in a blizzard in rockford and stopped to see @erinbrien’s perfect bby.

↝ drove to STL and met up with my friend @marymvalloni and her sweet pups and finally confirmed @genovalloni is real.

↝ co-hosted a women’s retreat with @molly.grisham and met so many beautiful people like @khermberg @gabbie220 @coachcarlson16 @fearless_capable @mk_paddles_north @alice_1derland @tbennett95 @shannon__sitch @leadquine and @dededooleystlrealtor

↝ spent 12 hours delayed at ohare and finally got to @katrinakibben in NC - met the infamous puppies

↝ helped produce an upcoming project for @katrinakibben and film a load of speaker content for upcoming sessions and projects.

↝ van traveled and camped our way through 4 states. Ate and cooked yummy foods and saw interesting things in both cities and nature.

↝ got to a very short stay in Orlando and did a strategy sesh with @andy_storch for his upcoming conference next week in CA! (I’ll also be there)

↝ I’ve been working hard and moving and resting and living and celebrating the whole time.

Just thought I’d share a few scrapbook moments. ❤️
Happy Valentines Day. It feels nice to see ALLLLLLL of the love that life has been putting in front of me in so many different ways.

And special shout out to @katrinakibben for being my fav person to travel and experience all the things with. ❤️

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Another unedited thought coming your way this morn

I’m working on allowing myself to feel anger. Th

I’m working on allowing myself to feel anger. That sounds weird right? Something I’ve been working on in self-work is letting myself stay angry for longer than 2 seconds before telling myself I need to move forward.

Letting it have space to breathe inside me. Acknowledging it, then moving forward.

I’ve always associated anger as a bad thing and tried to ignore it or break it up quickly because I associated it with how it was used against me to hurt or blame me.

I thought it was 1-dimensional. I thought anger was only used to hurt people and that’s truly not the case. I’m not talking about that kind of anger. We don’t like that kind.

I’m learning anger through history isn’t all bad. Healthy anger has started life-sized movements. It can motivate huge solutions to problems. It has given people bravery.

Anger has personally given me moments of courage I needed to change parts of my life. I didn’t know it was anger until I looked back.

There are a few things I could be angry about in my life. I could have stayed angry. I didn’t.

But now I can acknowledge it’s existence and what it allowed me to do when no other emotion would have.

And I’m just now arriving here. I didn’t always feel this way, which is why I feel compelled to share.

Be nice to your anger and to all of your emotions. You don’t have to stay there.

Coming from this emo lady — let yourself know it’s safe to feel and that maybe the anger that was used against you isn’t the only way it exists.

Carry on with your day angry people. 😂

When I think about if I should be “farther along

When I think about if I should be “farther along” I think about how I once read that David Sedaris said “I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later,” and that he didn’t consider himself an actual writer until he started writing for the New Yorker.

Why do we assume the finish lines we are supposed to have? I hear it from so many people I know that they “should” be somewhere they’re not.

Maybe it’s time to loosen the control of this upcoming chapter and see what shows up.

Coming straight from my brain to you with no editi

Coming straight from my brain to you with no editing but I need you to hear me!

I’ll post about how psychology and behavior of interactions are changing and why you need to pay attention to likes less and pay attention to some other metrics more but please hear me. Feed your people. Know your people. Know why you’re here. It’s more important than the elusive Alg0. ❤️

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I never published the first interview I recorded f

I never published the first interview I recorded for the Real Personal Branding podcast. IT. WAS. AWFUL. Can you relate to the first time you tried something new?

That first episode no one will ever hear was with @brandonbirkmeyer who was one of the friends who encouraged me to start the podcast in the first place.

Brandon is an expert on repurposing content, so I brought him back onto the Real Personal Branding podcast a while back to talk about how to turn one hour of content into an entire month worth of content. It’s an oldie but a goodie!

If you want to learn more, you can listen here: https://laurendaviscreative.com/how-to-turn-one-hour-into-a-month-of-content-with-brandon-birkmeyer/

I don’t talk about it. I fell into my businesses

I don’t talk about it. I fell into my businesses. Every role I’ve ever played, was created accidentally by investing in something that I was passionate or brought me joy.

I built a brick and mortar biz before I knew how, when I was too green to quit. When I helped start that retail business, other local businesses needed help and I loved (and felt called) to help them so I tried that too.

When I discovered my love for branding and marketing through those things and people asked for my help, I said “I’m in!” and trusted my way down that educational path.

When that led me to events and speaking and personal branding, I couldn’t close my eyes. I was so excited to help people in that way!

When I tell those stories in podcast interviews or articles I don’t talk about the tears, the questioning, the second jobs, the backup plans, the icky parts, the “what if I don’t know enough? what if I’m not enough? or too much?” feelings.

I don’t say “No one noticed me in this crucial moment when I needed someone to notice me.” or what I sometimes gave up in pursuit of my dreams. Some things I shouldn’t have given up along the way, that I did.

Or how I had to untangle my heart and head from a mess of productivity and purpose anxiety for over 16 years. I don’t say that. But I should.

You see flights and friends and clinking glasses. But where do all those moments flee to, the ones I didn’t talk through with anyone? They’re still there for me. I know you have them to.

I’m learning that while we all feel grateful and supported at times… there are also moments where we feel incredibly isolated, like we are all alone in this crazy world.

We do the things we love and we still have days where everything is hard. Then we have the days where everything is freeing and filled with energy too.

I don’t want you to ever come here and think that you should give up because things haven’t happened *in order.*

Sometimes following what you love has it’s ups and downs and that trusting yourself is usually the first step. I’m still learning too. ❤️

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I remember that DM I got when I was at a conferenc

I remember that DM I got when I was at a conference in Vegas winter 2021. I was leaving the spa, needing self care badly, when I saw a DM from my friend Molly. She talked about an event she attended and I told her about the bro-tastic conference I was at. We talked about our passion to see more women thrive in important spaces. One of us said it first, “With our combined knowledge and different communities, maybe we should host a retreat together.”

“No really…we should.” Pause.
“Do you really want to?” “YES.” “Do you?” “YES.” “Ok um… let’s start organizing this!”

When I plan an event I set my expectations high & I’ve learned that partnerships can go right or horribly wrong with imbalances OR sometimes it can be a beautiful beginning.

Over a year later, this wknd, we hosted “The Work Retreat” for womxn entrepreneurs doing the inner and outer work of building something.

Molly and I formed a GOLDEN partnership. We complemented each others strengths/supplemented where we needed it and the retreat exceeded both of our expectations.

It began as a DM, then a plan; phone calls; zoom calls; exciting texts about supporting women being creative and powerful until IT HAPPENED.

I noticed in so many of our guests the first morning: many believed that they either hadn’t done enough/were too much/had done too little/were too new/too far along.

Yet the power and resiliency of the women in the room, and had already created and achieved was something that left me WIRED at night.

Safety to share vulnerably was required which is why I won’t share the stories that I heard in the room.

But after the first day, it felt like a burning ball of light radiating out of midtown STL.

Negative self-perceptions were broken down every min. As a group we up-shifted technical knowledge and mindset perspectives, cheered, shared meals and conversations to take the next steps. I can’t wait to see what comes for each of them.

I’m SO grateful to my cohost Molly— her knowledge of facilitating, leading, systems, planning, STL (plus airport rides and all of our introvert convos before and after each day) 😉

The big question we keep getting:
Are we going to do another retreat?
HELL YES.

I just spent the last 72 hours with some of the mo

I just spent the last 72 hours with some of the most powerful women I’ve ever met. I was lucky enough to be the co-host of this event but I had no idea how much of an impact it would make on me. I knew it would be intentional and wonderful, I didn’t know how much.

Raw. Firey. Intelligent. Creative. Emotional. Impressive. Interesting. Powerful. Productive. Momentous. Impactful. Energizing.

I’m going to be thinking about it for a long time, and I’m so grateful Molly and I didn’t let this retreat settle as an idea. We carried to reality.

So much more to say tomorrow… but for now, this introvert is sleepy. ❤️

I blame @hilarykrueger and her talk about pink hai

I blame @hilarykrueger and her talk about pink hair today. 🙂 I regret almost nothing. 💀 I only regret not loving that little creative girl more.

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I truly can’t believe it. I’m honored to be sp

I truly can’t believe it. I’m honored to be speaking at the same conference as some of these fine folks. Thanks Andy Storch for the opportunity and I’m looking forward to creating tons of social media FOMO from the conference as well.

It will take place in beautiful Sonoma County California. I can’t wait to connect with you and meet you there.

@claudesilver_ / VaynerMedia ❤️
@kevmyates
@susanjschmittwinchester / Applied Materials
Jessica Skon / BTS
Dr. Mechelle Roberthon, EdD, CPTD, MCCT, MOS
@leannehughes (we can finally meet!)
Sarah Cannistra
Tim "Mr. Meaningful Work" Olaore
Charlotte Evans / Coursera
Larry McAlister (can’t wait to connect again!)
And Don Jones!

🎟️⭐️
Tickets are available here: TDTT.us/conference
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