Hindsight – Details, episodes & analysis

In this incredible and informative episode, Lauren sits down with Vicki Alexia, founder of Partner With Her Cycle, to explore why understanding the female hormonal cycle might be the most underrated relationship tool. Vicki makes a compelling case that cycle syncing it's an essential framework for deeper empathy, better communication, and relationships that actually work for both partners.

Lauren opens up about her experience with PMDD and how life changing it’s been to track her cycle. Patrick (the boyfriend) has been along for the ride, becoming an expert in Lauren’s hormones alongside her. Understanding her cycle has transformed their relationship from chaotic, unexplained arguments to a strong partnership built on genuine understanding. 

Lauren and Vicki explore the science behind the 28-day cycle, the cost of ignoring it, and the surprising power of teaching men to understand it too. Whether you're brand new to cycle awareness or already living cyclically, you will learn something in this episode!

• What it actually means to build your work, movement, and social life around your cycle
• Lauren's personal journey from hormonal chaos to PMDD diagnosis — and what finally helped
• Why presenting cycle syncing as a biohacking tool helps men empathize with their partners
• How men who learn this framework report less friction, more confidence, and better relationships
• Why your luteal phase is your best bullshit detector
• The ROI of effort and how living with your 28-day cycle can transform date night
• How truly life changing it is to track your cycle and finally understand your brain!

New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share it with a friend who would love these insights too.

Vicki Alexia is the founder of Partner With Her Cycle, a coaching practice dedicated to helping men understand the female hormonal cycle so they can show up as better partners, friends, and collaborators. After burning out three times and losing her period entirely, Vicki turned her own health crisis into a deep dive on her cycle. She works with couples and individuals to bridge the gap between understanding the female body and male emotional intelligence. Vicki’s coaching sessions are designed to build frameworks for communication, empathy, and connection that are rooted in biology. Listen to this episode to discover what Vicki has learned in Hindsight.

Connect with Vicki Alexia

📱 Instagram - @vickialexia_

🖥️ Website - partnerwithhercycle.com 📖 Book Recommendations

• Woman Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• The Nature of Psyche: Its Human Expression by Jane Roberts
• (Lauren’s Life-Changing Book!) Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You by Maisie Hill

Connect with Lauren Dudley

📱 Instagram - ⁠@bylaurendudley

🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at ⁠theauxo.com⁠

📖 Poetry Collection - ⁠Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley

In this episode, I sit down with Jade Lee Robertson to talk about the root of generational harm that goes unaddressed in families, schools, workplaces, and institutions. As a storyteller, law student, mom and soon-to-be host of Unspoken podcast, Jade Lee Robertson reframes the typical question (“Why didn’t someone speak up?”) to address the underlying causes: “Why didn’t they feel safe to say anything?”

Jade draws on her own lived experience of childhood sexual abuse, racial discrimination, and domestic violence to explore what she calls "the architecture of silence.” Jade describes the layered and often invisible systems that teach people, from a very young age, that their voice is unwelcome.

We chat about motherhood, nervous system regulation, inner child work, and the structural forces that continue to silence the most vulnerable. This episode is raw, honest, and empowering so we can be forces of change in our relationships and spaces.

• Why shame thrives in silence, and storytelling can be its own form of justice
• How the "architecture of silence" manifests in families, schools, workplaces, and governments
• What happens to the innocence and instincts that children are born with and how can we do a better job of protecting them?
• How to be a genuinely safe adult, for people of all ages
• The Guard Dog, Medusa, and the Inner Child: three personifications of ourselves that help with compassionate and nervous system regulation
• Why "hurt people hurt people" is NOT an excuse 
• How the small, daily moments of parenting are where generational cycles are actually broken

New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share it with a friend who would love these insights too.

Jade Lee Robertson is an Aboriginal Australian advocate, writer, law student and mom who works at the intersection of trauma, justice and cultural safety. Drawing on her lived experience and background in public service, Jade has become a compelling voice for survivor storytelling and systemic change. Listen to this episode to discover what Jade has learned in Hindsight.

Connect with Jade Lee Robertson

📱 Instagram and TikTok - @jadeleerobertson

🖥️ Substack - Un/spoken @jadeleerobertson

🎙️Podcast (coming soon!) - Un/spoken on Spotify and Apple Podcasts

📖 Book Recommendations

• Black Witness: The Power of Indigenous Media by Amy Maguire
• Woman Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
• Feel the Fear and Do It Anyways: Dynamic Techniques for Turning Fear, Indecision, and Anger Into Power, Action, and Love by Susan Jeffers, PhD
• Black Thoughts Matter by Dr. Chelsea Watergo

Connect with Lauren Dudley

📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley

🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at theauxo.com⁠

📖 Poetry Collection - Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley

Lauren sits down with Elyssa Darling for an honest conversation about reinvention, resilience, and learning to build a life on your own terms. Elyssa shares her journey from growing up in the United States to moving abroad with young children—first to Bangkok, then to the UK—and how living across cultures reshaped her worldview.

Elyssa talks about what it’s really like to raise children as cultural hybrids, the quiet grief and courage of rebuilding life after divorce in a foreign country, and the nonlinear process of asking: Who am I now and what do I actually want? She also talks about her shift outside of traditional marketing to AI consultancy and training teams to work more efficiently. Listen to this episode for answers to your AI questions and to learn how an automated assistant can remove friction from work and personal life. This is a conversation about choice and self-trust in any country, career, or seasons of life.

• Moving from the US to Thailand with two small children in just six weeks
• Raising children across multiple cultures and building “world citizens”
• Culture shock, curiosity, and what living abroad teaches you about yourself
• Divorce, single motherhood abroad, and rebuilding without a roadmap
• Feeling professionally stuck—and what it’s like to be “experienced but invisible” in a new country
• Discovering AI as a tool for empowerment, not replacement
• Building a business by following curiosity instead of credentials
• Practical AI use cases for work, home, and mental load reduction
• Custom GPTs, automation, and how to save time without losing your voice
• Ethical AI use, data safety, and why discernment matters
• Emotional responsibility, boundaries, and becoming your own hero

New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share it with a friend who would love these insights too.

Connect with Elyssa Darling

📱 LinkedIn - Elyssa Darling | AI Marketing Strategist 

🖥️ Website - darlingaisolutions.com

📖 Book Recommendation - The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Connect with Lauren Dudley

📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley⁠

🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at theauxo.com⁠

📖 Poetry Collection - Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley

This episode is an unfiltered, deeply human conversation about survival, pain, and the journey to reclaiming your body and your life. Lauren sits down with Sylvia Brune, who was born into a fundamentalist Christian doomsday cult and escaped at 15. She navigated the international world without formal schooling and with a nervous system shaped by constant threat. 

Sylvia shares what growing up in a cult actually looked like: end-of-days fear, isolation, punishment, forced labor, and learning very early that love had to be earned. Her upbringing manifested as urgency, relationships built around managing other people’s emotions, burnout and complete disconnection from herself. Sylvia explains how body-based healing, psychedelics, breathwork, dance, and learning to feel rather than fix allowed her to release decades of stored pain and what life looks like on the other side.

• How growing up in a doomsday cult rewires your sense of time
• Why hyper-productivity can be trauma in disguise
• Living with repressed emotions and how you can’t think your way out of feeling
• How joy explodes when you are no longer living in fight or flight mode
• Psychedelics as a pathway to reconnect with your body
• The power of dance, breathwork and the process learning to live in your body by releasing decades of stored pain
• What spirituality can look like and mean after religious trauma
• Sylvia’s mornings now that she is grounded in her body and mindfulness

New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share it with a friend who would love these insights too.

Connect with Sylvia Brune

📱 Instagram - ⁠@sylviabrune | @sylvia.writes.a.book

✍🏻Upcoming Book - The Great Unsettling (Follow along with her writing journey on Instagram @sylvia.writes.a.book!)

📖 Book Recommendation - The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

Connect with Lauren Dudley

📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley⁠

🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at theauxo.com⁠

📖 Poetry Collection - Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley

Lauren sits down with Lyndsay Anderson for a conversation that moves between grief, ambition, gut health, and what it actually takes to build a meaningful career without losing yourself in the process. Lindsay shares how losing her dad at 15 and then watching her mum “reattach to the world” through travel after cancer shaped her resilience, her relationship with risk, and her lifelong love of getting out into the world.

They also dig into what it means to be a true connector, how to hold your own in boardrooms without performing, and what she’s learned about stress, chronic gut pain, and the limits of social-media health advice. The episode wraps with a quick-fire round and the most practical advice she’d give her younger self: start your pension early.

• Memory + love in the small things

• Travel as reset and Lyndsay’s experiences exploring the world as a young woman

• The moment Lyndsay realized relationships would shape her future and why she always asks, “Who can I introduce you to?”

• How to build a career grounded in the things you love 

• Social media vs. nuance: why “top 5 gut tips” can be misleading, how personalization matters, and where the commercialization line gets tricky

• Child-free by choice: what changed at 40, how timing shaped the decision, and what she does (and doesn’t) wonder about looking ahead

New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share it with a friend who would love these insights too.

Connect with Lyndsay Anderson

📱 Instagram - ⁠@elcella_ | @lyndsay.anderson

🖥️ Website - elcella.com

📖 Book Recommendation - The Fountain Head by Anne Rand

Lyndsay is the CMO of Elcella, a science-led wellness brand, a move that builds on a career spent shaping hospitality and travel brands across multiple countries. Her work has consistently sat at the intersection of brand, culture and growth in fast-moving environments. Alongside her executive roles, she has been a mentor for many years, supporting emerging leaders as they navigate the next steps in their careers.

Connect with Lauren Dudley

📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley

🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at theauxo.com⁠

📖 Poetry Collection - Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley

Lauren sits down with Mallika Basu to talk about building a multi-passionate career without burning out, using social media as a tool (not a self-worth meter), and parenting teenagers in a digital world that moves faster than any of us can keep up with. Mallika shares what she’s learned about capacity, boundaries, friendships, co-parenting, and divorce—and why “food as a force for good” has become the red thread connecting everything she does. Listen to the end for quick-fire questions on a belief that aged badly, a boundary Mallika lives by, her go-to energy reset and advice to her younger self.

Mallika also shares what it’s been like writing her first non-cookbook: In Good Taste: What Shapes What We Eat and Drink and Why It Matters — releasing January 22. The book explores how culture, sustainability and impact are shaping food and what this means for consumers who care.

• How skill stacking helped Mallika build a cohesive professional identity

• A burnout prevention plan that’s surprisingly simple

• Parenting teens and online safety: parental controls, hard conversations, and why parent communication matters more than surveillance from community-building to “digital entertainment,” and what that means for experts and thought leaders

• Divorce, therapy, and the “deep dark tunnel” metaphor—plus why two happy homes can be better than one unhappy one

• Friendships, boundaries, and the “radiators vs. drains” framework

New episodes every Thursday on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share with a friend who would love these insights too.

Connect with Mallika Basu

🖥️ Blog - In Good Taste

📃Substack - In Good Taste by Mallika Basu

📹 YouTube - @MallikaBasu

📱 Instagram - ⁠@mallikabasu_

📖 Her Cookbook - Masala: Indian Cooking for Modern Living

Connect with Lauren Dudley

📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley

🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at ⁠theauxo.com⁠

📖 Poetry Collection - Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley

Hindsight is a home for a later-in-life perspective. Each week invite a guest with decades of context to unpack their story, their turning points, and the language that helped them through it all.

I’m your host, Lauren Dudley, a storyteller, social media mentor and published author with a passion for putting seasoned life advice back into the heart of society.

Expect names you recognise mixed alongside the kind of everyday mentors you wish you already had - all offer us invaluable conversations. These are the kind of deep conversations you wish you had at the dinner table, but rarely find. 

You will hear origin stories that explain a lot, turning points where someone changed their mind, and the little scripts and habits that quietly stuck around for decades. Guests share what they would repeat, what they would skip, and what surprised them on the long road. 

Our guests are chosen for depth. A couple married fifty years who rebuilt trust after a hard season. A founder who led teams through recessions and recoveries. A teacher who shaped two generations in the same community. A practitioner of faith who holds devotion and doubt with humility. I prioritise guests who bring decades of context, opening the door to anyone with hard-won insight.

If you’re tired of background noise pulling you in every which direction, without seemingly any experience to offer you advice in the first place, it’s my honour to bring you something with a little more substance. 

New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe, send a question for a future guest, and if a conversation lands, share it with a friend who would love it too.

Connect with Lauren

📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley (social media strategy and life thoughts) 

📱 Instagram - ⁠@lauren9dudley⁠ (my personal account and poetry)

🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at ⁠theauxo.com⁠

📖 Poetry Collection - ⁠Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley

Hi my loves! Today’s episode is a brief reflection and quick update that we will be returning with more beautiful interviews on April 16th. 

I have adored these transformational conversations so far, and I’m looking forward to many more. Please keep sending messages about the mindset shifts and new perspectives you’ve learned because I absolutely love hearing them.

I started Hindsight so we can learn from one another, look back at our own lives and find those lessons worth passing forward. Each conversation has been a wonderful exploration into what it means to be human and live our complicated lives.

I’ve been consuming every single book our guests have recommended (see their show notes for your new reading list!) and creating content around what lessons I’m learning:

What I’ve Been Thinking About

• Feminine Rage & Cycle Tracking
• Consistency in Content Creation
• Building My Dream Life
• Personal Brand > Industry Niche
• Learning Claude
• Sober-Curious Living

About My Instagram

So my boyfriend made the fatal mistake of betting me that I couldn't grow my Instagram from 120 followers on Jan. 1st to 50k in under a year. When I inevitably succeed, he's paying for my DREAM trip to Japan!! (Here's how it's going so far. 👀)

I'm documenting every single thing as I go so you can literally replicate it for whatever account you're trying to grow. And, as you can see from the list above, I’m not just posting a thousand reels on how to get followers. This is my life as I’m living it so there’s everything from my (insanely valuable) insights as a social media strategist to being a woman with a luteal phase.

No bullshit and no advice from someone who figured it out after they already went viral. Come follow along on Instagram @bylaurendudley and let's kick his ass together!

Connect with Lauren Dudley

📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley

🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at ⁠theauxo.com⁠

📖 Poetry Collection - ⁠Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley

There’s a moment in life where everything looks right on paper—but something deeper is calling you elsewhere. Maya’s journey is the perfect example of what it looks like to follow that pull even when it makes absolutely no sense.

In this episode, I sit down with one of my closest friends for a chaotic and fun conversation about how she has transformed. From building a successful career in pharmaceutical advertising in New York to walking away from it all to travel the world, Maya shares what it means to choose expansion over comfort.

We talk about the tension between stability and freedom, what happens when you outgrow a life you once loved, and the courage it takes to start over because you are curious about what else life has to offer.

Her story takes us across continents, through the isolation and unexpected beauty of COVID in Cape Town, and into a deeply transformative period of self-discovery.

From navigating burnout and identity shifts to exploring meditation, yoga, and somatic practices, Maya opens up about the inner work that changed how she sees herself and what she wants from life. This episode is a powerful reminder that sometimes, the most aligned path is the least predictable. 

• Why travel and new environments expand your perspective like nothing else can
• How personal growth requires sitting with past experiences you’ve avoided
• What meditation actually means and why it’s not just emptying your brain
• How all your different experiences come together to create your life path
• Why staying curious and willing to be uncomfortable is essential for long-term growth
• Building a career as a multi-passionate person

New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share it with a friend who would love these insights too.

Maya is a lover of the ocean, one of Lauren’s best friends, a certified yoga teacher, former pharmaceutical copywriter, and writer who has completely  transformed on her path of creativity, self-discovery, and personal growth. After leaving a successful career in advertising to travel the world, she has lived in multiple countries and built a life rooted in exploration and intentional living. Now based in Cape Town, Maya is deepening her work in meditation, yoga, and breathwork, while also exploring creative projects including writing and AI-driven storytelling. Listen to this episode to discover what Maya has learned in Hindsight.

Maya’s Recommendations

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• The Power of Now: A guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
• Favorite Podcast (other than Hindsight of course!): Hidden Brain

Also Mentioned

• Leen’s Podcast Episode and her program, Beyond
• Lauren’s Current Read (with Patrick) - The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida

Connect with Maya Faya Franco-Tayar

📱 Instagram - @mayafayaa

Connect with Lauren Dudley

📱 Instagram - @bylaurendudley⁠

🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at ⁠theauxo.com⁠

📖 Poetry Collection - Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley

In this episode, I sit down with Gabriela Flax to talk about why everyone should be proactively building flexibility, financial independence, and leverage well before they need to rely on it. We chat about career ownership, personal branding, and why more women should be thinking about what she calls “trimester zero.” 

In this episode, I sit down with Leen, a coach and yoga teacher whose powerful presence I first experienced at the Retreat Yourself wellness festival outside Cape Town. Before she even spoke a word, the entire room was captivated. During her pleasure manifestation ritual, a space filled with more than a hundred people transformed into a shared experience of joy, connection, and possibility.

Leen shares the deeply personal moments that led her to leave a conventional career, follow her intuition, and build a life centered around embodiment, pleasure, and spiritual practice. We learn more about tantric yoga and the daily rituals that keep Leen centered.

We also talk about a major struggle for high-achieving  women: the constant pressure to produce, achieve, and care for everyone else while our own pleasure and creativity fall to the bottom of the list. Leen encourages us to prioritize the time and space to connect with our own pleasure and learn to create safety in our bodies.

If you’ve ever felt the pull toward a more grounded life, but wondered what it actually takes to follow it, this conversation will leave you with plenty to think about.

• Why Gabriela encourages women to plan for “trimester zero” before having children
• “Micro-squiggles” and how these shifts can turn a boring career into a life you love
• The limitations of traditional career advice in today’s rapidly changing economy
• How building multiple forms of career equity can protect your long-term opportunities
• Why personal branding has become a critical skill
• The mindset shift from seeking security to creating leverage
• How the creator economy is opening new paths to independence and influence
• Practical ways to start building flexibility and optionality into your career today

New episodes every week on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Subscribe and if a conversation inspires you, share it with a friend who would love these insights too.

Gabriela Flax is a career coach and creator of Pivot School. She is a powerhouse of information and inspiration for people who want to change their career path, whether that’s with “micro-squiggles” or a full 180 degree revamp. Gabriela is active on Substack, LinkedIn and TikTok where she shares actionable tips on how to prepare in your “trimester zero” and what it means to build a life around your zones of genius. Listen to this episode to discover what Gabriela has learned in Hindsight.

Connect with Gabriela

📱 TikTok - @gabriela_flax

📱 Instagram - @gabrielaflax

📄 Substack - gabrielaflax.substack.com

🖥️ Website - stan.store/GabrielaFlax

🤯 Product Recommendation 

• Wisper Flow: Desktop Transcription App

📖 Book Recommendations

• Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
• 10X is Easier Than 2X: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less by Benjamin Hardy and Dan Sullivan
• The Surrender Experiment: My Journey Into Life’s Perfection  by Michael Singer

Connect with Lauren Dudley

📱 Instagram - ⁠

🖥️ Website - Purpose-First Social Media at theauxo.com⁠

📖 Poetry Collection - ⁠Phoenix: Rising from the Ashes by Lauren Marie Dudley