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Overdoing it is ingrained in our culture. So how do you go against the grain?

In this latest episode, host Lauren Lowrey takes you on a journey through our American obsessions with doing too much. Get the deets on how our nation compares to other countries when it comes to work-life (im)balance. Plus, what questions to ask yourself so you can DO LESS. 

💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• You're chronically doing too much.
• Your self-worth was based on how much you can produce.
• You bought into the equation that HARD WORK makes you A GOOD PERSON

📺 What you'll hear in this episode📺 

The episode begins with Lauren detailing why Americans are so obsessed with overdoing it. Lauren takes you way back to the Mayflower to show how pilgrims laid a lasting foundation for American society. Even to this day, we see the impacts 

• [4:26] But something changed in the digital age. Our obsession with work was accelerated and Lauren explains how.
• [11:26] Lauren walks you through the quantifiable disengagement happening in workplaces all over America and how it compares to other countries.
• [13:38] Tiny sneak-peak into what's coming up next for AMPstigator as Lauren details how she's taking her own medicine.

🔖 Chapters 🔖

0:27 - Lauren details how this episode is structured

1:34 - Our American history (Hard work = Heaven)

3:09 - Individualists vs Collectivists 

4:26 - How the digital age accelerated our need to DO

7:03 - How the digital age has changed broadcast TV

8:12 - How "Just Do It" fueled the fire

9:30 - How this negatively impacts us

11:22 - We're seeing quantifiable disengagement in the workplace 

12:33 - World Happiness Report

13:38 - Lauren's taking her own medicine on doing less

🗈 Show Notes 🗈

Ep. 31 At what cost? (When doing it all nearly kills you) [Spotify | Apple] 

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
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Wait, you want me to face my pain!?! Woof!

In the latest AMPstigator episode FACE IT, host Lauren Lowrey teaches you that once you've experienced trauma, the pain doesn’t go away. It just blends with you over time. The difficulty in processing the trauma comes from your inability to move forward. 

After we experience pain, we spend our lives trying to return to status quo. We try to get back to who we were before that pain. But we have to realize: We were literally changed by the pain and the person we were is gone.

In this episode, she shares 6 steps to FACE your pain and accept yourself for who you've become. 

 
💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• You've experienced any bit of pain that you can't seem to face
• You're ready to try something new to process your problems
• When you think about a particular thing that happened in your life, you can't help but cry

📺 What you'll hear in this episode📺 

The episode begins with Lauren sharing a recent experience getting her annual blood work. Everything was perfect until the rubber tourniquet around her arm triggered a major MAMMA JAMMA trauma response. Whoa, Nelly! Didn't see that coming! She shows how tears indicate unhealed pain and why you need to FACE IT!

• [3:13] Lauren shares the PARADOX in trying to heal. Once you've experienced something, it's literally part of you. You are different so you need a different approach. 
• [4:59] Why does talking-it-out work so well? It's literally a well-studied psychological foundation of Cognitive Based Therapy (CBT).
• [8:57] Lauren shares the steps you can take to begin to FACE IT in your own life. Her 6 suggestions include kicking judgment to-the-curb, stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system and implementing a gradual exposure.  

 Plus, how you'll know when the healing is all done!

🔖 Chapters 🔖

0:27 - Lauren experiences her first MAMMA JAMMA trauma trigger

2:44 - Working to heal and facing your fear

3:13 - How pain becomes part of you

4:59 - Research around healing trauma, Cognitive Based Therapy (CBT)

6:52 - The root of the phrase "face it" 

8:57 - How you can FACE IT in your own life 

10:34 - Getting a re-do on a trauma trigger

🗈 Show Notes 🗈

Ep. 31 At what cost? (When doing it all nearly kills you) [Spotify | Apple]

Understanding PTSD, National Institutes of Health

Ep. 56 The 7 surprising things that started happening when I meditated 2hrs/day [Spotify | Apple] 

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
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I know what you're thinking: How the heck does she find 2 hours a day to meditate?

In this solo-episode with the AMPstigator founder and host, Lauren shares her touch-and-go history as a non-meditator and what made her recently commit. She shares the striking words from multiple sources urging her to commit to stillness and who served as 'the final straw.'

Lauren also walks you through the phenomenal benefits of meditation before finally sharing her list of 7 surprising things that happened when she began meditating 2hrs/day, just one month ago. Plus, during the recording, Lauren shares two more BONUS anomalies that popped into her mind, for a total of 9 things that have happened since she committed to consistent, daily meditation.

In the end, she encourages you: when you meditate consistently, just wait for the shocking benefits to emerge. 

💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• You can't IMAGINE that it would be possible to cultivate this much stillness into a day.
• You want to know what amazing benefits Lauren has seen from her own stilling practices
• You need encouragement to get started meditating

🔖 Chapters 🔖

0:29 - What to expect in this episode

1:26 - Lauren's touch-and-go history as a meditator

4:59 - Why Lauren decided to commit to 1-to-2 hours a day of meditation

5:59 - How Lauren started implementing daily stillness

7:19 - Lauren's recent solo retreat to up-the-ante

9:25 - Research backs me up on my commitment to meditation

10:53 - The 7 surprising things that started happening (#1, Not caring)

12:08 - #2, Detaching my nervous system from work

12:58 - #3, Yelling less

13:49 - #4,Getting everything done 

15:04 - #5, More discernment

15:57 - #6, Actually RESTING

16:43 - #7, Seeing signs of confirmation 

18:25 - TWO BONUSES (The sudden need for less & Simultaneous social growth)

19:58 - How you can start meditating

✔️ Show Notes ✔️

Ep. 31 At What Cost? (Lauren details her hospitalizations) (Apple | Spotify)

Insight Timer (the app Lauren uses for guided meditations) 

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️

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In this AMPstigator exclusive, intuitive business coach Amanda Marit leads an 8-minute BONUS visualization to help you hire your higher self.

Come back to this visualization often (first thing in the morning, before a meeting, after a setback, etc) to remind you that you're choosing abundance, passion, depth and meaning in your life.

Listen to the full AMPstigator episode featuring Amanda Marit, Ep. 54: We're NOT settling.

 ✔️ Connect with Amanda Marit ✔️

Connect on her website

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✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
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Are you ready for your greatest lesson (the one that totally pops paradigms around your rug-pulls, hardships and worst days)?

In this episode, intuitive business coach Amanda Marit shows you how your disappointments are really just preparing you for what's next. If you know you're here to make a big impact on the world, Amanda will help awaken your best self then step into your future.

Amanda walks you through how to identify the dream in your heart and play with the possibility that what you want is actually MEANT FOR YOU. Amanda teaches you how to listen to your intuition and even shares how to look for signs (because they'll start coming).

Plus, this episode ends with an AMPstigator-exclusive visualization to help you welcome in your higher self. For repeated quick access, the visualization has also been separated as it's own episode, Ep. 55: Bonus Visualization for your highest path

💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• You need more instruction about manifestation
• You know you're here to make an impact on the world but don't know where to start
• You love people who give you permission to dream your big dreams

📺 What you'll hear in this episode📺 

The episode begins with host Lauren Lowrey and intuitive business coach Amanda Marit talking through what's currently happening in the world, what it means to change timelines and why we need to listen to what we feel.

•  [11:00] What exactly does an intuitive business coach do and how is that different from a regular coach?
• [22:38] Not everyone feels like they're supposed to be doing something MORE with their life. But you do! So what do you do in that situation?
• [31:00] Yes, there's destiny. But HOW we get there is up to us. In this section, Amanda & Lauren go deep into co-creation and explain how powerful you really are!
• [47:31] In order to become this bad-a$$ babe you see in your dreams, you need to align yourself with that reality. Amanda explains how to do that Amanda guides you through what to do next: how to align with that new version of you and how to ask to be shown clear next steps (b/c spoiler alert: SIGNS ARE GOING TO COME IN). 

Plus, Amanda walks us through an impromptu visualization exercise [1:12:05] that you can come back to over and over again by streaming within this episode or separately in Ep. 55.

🔖 Chapters 🔖

0:30 - Lauren's opening monologue

2:37 - Stop hustling and take a breath

5:05 - Moving on a whim and changing our timelines

8:23 - Stop diminishing what you feel, start allowing and transmuting it

11:00 - What does Amanda do as an INTUITIVE coach?

12:30 - How Amanda came into this work (navigating personal rug-pulls & starting a healing journey)

19:42 - What is a "Light Worker?"

22:38 - What do do when you know you're meant to contribute in a bigger way

25:10 - When things fall apart, it's preparing you for what's next

31:00 - How we co-create (the relationship between destiny and co-creation)

38:05 - How Amanda helps people BECOME who they're meant to be

40:40 - Step 1: Breaking out of your own habits, patterns & routines

47:31 - Aligning yourself NOW to your future self (Morning Practice; how would it feel to live that life now?)

55:10 - Advice for how to NEVER doubt yourself and embody REAL CHANGE

58:00 - The lesson: WE'RE NOT SETTLING

1:08:00 - Understanding the Divine Feminine

1:12:05 - BONUS: Highest Path Visualization

1:19:30 - Lauren's closing monologue

 ✔️ Connect with Amanda Marit ✔️

Connect on her website

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What do you do when your life looks totally different than you think it should?
Judge yourself? Go to therapy? Start traveling around the world? Do deep inner work? Write a book about it? Dr. Melanie Hicks did all of those things.

In this episode of AMPstigator, Dr. Hicks shares more on her two failed marriages in her 20s, domestic abuse, a traumatic sexual assault in her 30s, and losing the ability to have children. She shares the deep inner work required to shrug off the weight of expectation and live her life, free of judgement, even though it looks totally different than the norm.

She shares her life lessons (many of which were learned while staring out airplane windows), exposing her deepest secrets while exploring countries both near and far. This is the conversation every 30-something woman wished they heard at age 19. But then again, would we have listened?

**Trigger Warning: if you've been a victim of assault or abuse, this conversation may be difficult to hear.**

💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• You love candid and authentic conversations between women who choose to share their past traumas to help others heal.
  
• You thought you were alone in your experience with abuse or assault.
• You want to hear a story of hope and healing from a woman who's found love from a place of wholeness
   

📺 What you'll hear in this episode📺 

The episode begins with host Lauren Lowrey asking Dr. Melanie Hicks why she chose to share such difficult experiences so publicly. Together, they weave through the most difficult story Melanie ever had to write: the one where she shared her sexual assault.

• [5:18] Mel shares why it took her 6 years to tell ANYONE, even one of her closest friends, that she had been sexually assaulted.
• [11:57] Mel and host Lauren Lowrey both share their traumas around domestic abuse (*Trigger warning*)
• [21:20] There's a fallacy around searching for your 'other half.' Dr. Melanie shares the moment she decided she was a WHOLE PERSON all by herself and she would never seek out a relationship to make her whole.
• [37:29] How travel ignited personal growth for Dr. Mel as she hopped from continent to continent.

Plus, Dr. Mel shares how she developed a healthy romantic relationship with another healthy, whole person [51:50] and lays out her two rules in her own marriage.

🔖 Chapters 🔖

0:30 - Lauren's opening monologue

3:20 - Why share the hardest parts of your life in a book?

5:18 - Sexual assault and the trauma it caused Dr. Mel

11:57 - Host Lauren Lowrey & Dr. Mel both share their personal experiences with domestic abuse

17:15 - When Dr. Mel made the choice to share the traumas through the book

21:20 - The fallacy of searching for your 'other half'

24:12 - Arriving at 'surrender' (#openpalms)

27:16 - "No one can give you directions to places they've never been."

30:10 - How Mel helps people amplify the messages of other people

33:02 - The duality: professional life on fire, personal life in tatters

37:29 - How travel ignited growth for Dr. Mel

42:00 - Why Nepal is so magical for Mel

44:20 - Dr. Mel's stilling practices to help her clear her mind

46:33 - The significance of the book title "Incongruent"

51:50 - Healthy, whole romantic relationships in adulthood

57:30 - How Dr. Mel does pro bono work for international service organizations

1:00:17 - Her recent work in Sierra Leone

✔️ Show Notes✔️

Incongruent: Travel, trauma, transformation, by Dr. Melanie Hicks

 ✔️ Connect with Dr. Melanie Hicks ✔️

Connect on her website

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✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
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What happens when you shed the skin of expectation and boldly define your feelings in the most raw and honest way possible? Well, that's when you'd become a Nashville songwriter!

Katelyn Drye is one-half of The Dryes. She and her husband Derek are a singing/songwriting duo in Nashville. On this second AMPstigator appearance, Katelyn talks through what's changed in her life and the impact her own personal development has had on the depth of the music she's helping to write.

This conversation does a deep-dive behind the scenes of their recent stint on NBC's The Voice, the Nashville music industry and what it's like preparing for their upcoming concert tour with Jo Dee Messina.

At their core, The Dryes write music that cuts through to connect with people and gives words to the deepest emotions. Katelyn shows her faith and feelings in this follow-up conversation, one year later.

💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• You love getting an inside look into the music industry
  
• You followed The Dryes on The Voice in 2022 and you want to know Katelyn better
  
• You're looking for an uplifting conversation about hope and following dreams
   

📺 What you'll hear in this episode📺 

The episode begins with a deep-dive, peek-behind-the-curtain from NBC's The Voice. Katelyn & Derek Drye received national prominence during their multiple appearances and inclusion on Team Blake.

• [3:50] Katelyn shares how The Voice producers asked them to be on the show for two prior seasons and both times The Dryes turned them down! Katelyn describes the events leading up to the show's third request and why The Dryes said YES!
• [19:08] A long-time dream is about to come true for The Dryes: they'll open multiple tour stops for a recording artist. They currently have 12 dates with Jo Dee Messina. Katelyn shares how Jo Dee invited them on the road.
• [34:20] The music industry can be really confusing. Katelyn and Lauren break down what people outside of Nashville often don't know.
   Plus,

 Plus, Lauren shares a recent dream she had about Katelyn & Derek and why she's counting the days until it comes true.

 🔖 Chapters 🔖

0:30 - Lauren's opening monologue

2:50 - Katelyn's baaaack!

3:50 - The Dryes' turned down The Voice TWICE

6:30 - How people choose songs for The Voice

8:05 - Katelyn's worn one of Dolly Parton's ACTUAL wigs

10:10 - Walking on stage and being with Blake Shelton

13:25 - What's come from being on the show (concert impacts)

15:05 - Hard things make you STRONG

19:08 - How they found out they were going on tour

22:25 - The plan for performances while they're on tour

23:54 - Lauren's prophetic dream about The Dryes

27:40 - Knowing your purpose in your heart of hearts

28:38 - What emotion is coming out in The Dryes' songwriting lately

32:15 - Other upcoming things in 2023 for The Dryes

34:20 - What's the deal with publishing deals and songwriting cuts?

40:18 - "We grow every year"

 44:35 - Who The Dryes write music for

✔️ Show Notes✔️

Ep. 15 with Katelyn and Derek Drye

The Dryes "Dolly Would"

Hailey Whitters, "Ten Year Town"

 ✔️ Connect with Katelyn Drye ✔️

Connect on their website The Dryes

Connect on Instagram

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
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We're overwhelmed, stressed and heading toward burnout. Who wants to live that way?!? NOBODY! In this episode, stress expert Rosa Castano shares how you can identify, address and overcome your chronic stress and create a stronger foundation of wellness for yourself.

Rosa is a certified meditation, mindfulness and movement teacher. She combined her extensive background in international sales and start-ups to create stress management how-to’s for companies and teaches them to overwhelmed employees.

She's bringing her best tips and how-to's to help you enhance your well-being and prevent burnout. It's an episode you'll be grateful for - where you remind yourself to STRESS LESS.

💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• Your crushing, chronic stress load is steering you toward burnout
• You're often overwhelmed and you don't know how to make it better 
• You need ideas on how to create mindful moments that reduce stress  
   

📺 What you'll hear in this episode📺 

The episode begins with Rosa answering the question 'what is the state of stress in the workforce?' She details where the word 'burnout' comes from and how long we've been battling chronic stress at work. Spoiler alert: Hustle culture is killing us [6:18].

• [8:18] We're familiar with fight-or-flight, but Rosa shares the 6 Stress Styles to help you understand how stress is showing up throughout your day - even in places you don't realize.
• [17:16] How do you manage and reduce chronic stress? In this section Rosa shares effective, yet simple practices you can start doing now to help!
• [25:45] What happens to your body when it's under chronic stress? Lauren and Rosa tag-team this part of the convo as they both share just how detrimental it can be

 Plus, [51:04] Lauren shares the real-time question she has to ask herself before putting ANYTHING in her calendar, all in an attempt to AVOID stress.

 🔖 Chapters 🔖

 0:30 - Lauren's opening monologue

3:34 - Rosa calibrates us to the state of stress in the workforce

6:18 - Hustle culture is killing us

8:18 - The 6 styles of stress

11:30 - Stress Audit: Recognizing stress triggers in your daily life

17:16 - Implementing practices that manage and mitigate stress

25:45 - The responses Rosa hears from people in the workplace

31:40 - Newsflash: your employees aren't engaged

35:18 - How kids play into present-moment awareness

39:06 - Rosa's background in the corporate world & startups

43:15 - COVID was a gift for Lauren

51:04 - Does this give me a healthier outcome?

54:07 - The actual definition of mindfulness

55:38 - Science of visualization

56:15 - Increase the space in the pause

✔️ Show Notes✔️

Atomic Habits, by James Clear

Michael Franti lyric "The more I see, the less I know" (Song: Say hey I love you)

Ep. 48: Mental Health Matters (w/ Lauren's therapist, Tonia Dixon)

Michael Singer's books, The Untethered Soul and Living Untethered

 ✔️ Connect with Rosa Castano ✔️

On her WellbeingWithRosa Instagram
On her website

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
On the AMPstigator website
AMPstigator on Youtube
The AMPstigator Instagram
Lauren's Instagram

Our food lacks nutrition. Our bodies can't detoxify. The Earth is sick. So what do we do about it?!? Dr. Christina Rahm has a plan. In this inspiring episode, Dr. Rahm shares how her work in the pharmaceutical industry ignited a passion for healing people naturally. Her work evolved to include an environmental mission, makeup and skincare, a fashion line and a new dream to launch a way to educate people how to ACTUALLY heal their bodies.

She's the most educated and accomplished woman you'll likely ever meet, with multiple doctorates and advanced degrees. She owns 14 companies and holds multiple patents - all with one goal in mind: how do we make our bodies and our Earth healthy?

Get ready for an enlightening, power-packed episode that sounds like girl-talk between two brainy gal-pals. 

💥 This episode is for you if 💥

• You absolutely geek-out on research about the body, it's cells and how to be healthy.
  
•  You're into whole body wellness and you're eager to hear from a pioneer in the field.
• You see the sickness of our planet and want to connect with someone who's doing something about it.  
  
  

📺 What you'll hear in this episode📺 

The episode begins with Dr. Christina Rahm explaining her devastating and life-threatening diagnoses in her twenties. She endured cancer and the loss of children. Both nearly killed her. She shares how she committed in that moment “to do as much as I can if I have the opportunity to LIVE."

• [16:47] Dr. Rahm shares her work in the pharmaceutical industry and explains why we never see any beneficial research about natural remedies. It's what spurred her to start Root Brands, a wellness supplement company that addresses the root causes of disease.
• [33:08] Dr. Rahm does a deep dive into why our food is lacking nutrition. She shares her plans to detoxify the land, air and water to begin [40:40] healing the Earth.
• [43:18] Dr. Rahm shares with Lauren how she manifests and the importance of her prayer-and-meditation practices. This is a life-giving section that will inspire and encourage.

Plus, like any good girl-talk, [55:33] Dr. Rahm circles back around to the importance of her spirituality.

 🔖 Chapters 🔖

 0:30 - Lauren's opening monologue

4:36 - What drives Dr. Rahm to do everything she's done

8:45 - Dr. Rahm explains the power in natural remedies

10:18 - She made a decision in what should've been an end-of-life experience

11:15 - Who helped her get to this level of creation and output?

16:47 - How her pharmaceutical research spawned her wellness company

21:18 - Dr. Rahm: 'We all could live longer than 120 years'

24:30 - Why do we think pharmaceuticals are the only things that work?

26:19 - The failure of our medical system

30:04 - When Dr. Rahm started getting attacked for her ideas

33:08 - The food we eat is sorely lacking in nutrition

38:50 - Dr. Rahm wants to educate people how and when to balance natural and medical approaches

40:40 - How do we heal the Earth?

43:18 - **Dr. Rahm's ability to envision and speak things into existence**

51:15 - The sheer amount of toxic things that are absorbed through the skin

55:33 - The benefits of prayer and meditation for Dr. Rahm

59:50 - What lesson is Dr. Rahm learning RIGHT NOW? Love without expectation.

✔️ Show Notes✔️

Root Wellness: Clean Slate (detoxify the body)

✔️ Connect with Dr. Christina Rahm ✔️

Connect through Instagram
On her website
Through her artistic pursuits: Under the Red Chandelier

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
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This episode will make you think twice before you say 'it's my truth.' Because... what if your truth is wrong?

In this episode, host Lauren Lowrey highlights her own incorrect, unconscious and unhealthy belief around a tiny-little-4-letter-word and how she's working to combat it. She teaches you the questions to ask to root-out belief systems that aren't serving you.

Plus, learn the science behind changing how you think as Lauren shares how she's applying it to herself.

💥 This episode is for you if 💥
- You find yourself hitting the same walls (repeatedly) in your personal growth journey

- You see unhealthy beliefs in other people, but you need help seeing them in yourself

- You want to learn how to rewire your brain to change old, unhealthy patterns

📺What you'll hear in this episode📺
This episode begins with Lauren fleshing out the situation around our personal blindness. We can see others so clearly, but we rarely see ourselves. That part takes REAL work. 

• [4:55] Lauren walks you through how we build unconscious belief systems and explains the one she's working through right now. 
• [10:48] What does the research say around creating and changing belief systems? First, we have to understand how beliefs are created, neurologically.
• [13:21] Lauren details exactly how she intends to rewire her unconscious beliefs. 
 

 🔖 Chapters 🔖

0:29 - Fleshing out the problem

2:00 - We all have blindness when it comes to self

4:55 - We build unconscious belief systems around lies

6:36 - Stop and smell the roses

9:13 - What belief system do you have that's just plain wrong?

10:48 - How do you change your beliefs? Change your pathways!

12:43 - How long does that actually take?

13:21 - How will Lauren spend rewiring this issue?

 ✔️ Show Notes✔️

I want the Mantra Maker and Mirror worksheets! Email Lauren@ampstigator.com or DM "MANTRA MAKER" on Instagram
The backstory of how Lauren got sick and what she learned (Spotify | Apple)

✔️ Connect with Lauren Lowrey ✔️
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