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8. The Law Of Attraction and Laughing Your Way to Abundance with Lauren Pomerantz · The Woo Report: Everyday Spirituality

• 0:02
  What have you attracted into your life?
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  a partner, a career you love, best friends that fill your cup.
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  The Universal Law of Attraction states that your thoughts create a vibrational frequency that attracts similar experiences and circumstances into your life.
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  Meaning, wherever you are right now, For better or worse, you attracted it.
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  Today's guest, Lauren Pomerantz, has attracted an elite Hollywood resume.
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  She started her career at a little show you may have heard of called Saturday Night Live.
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  She wrote there for six years.
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  Then she went to The Ellen DeGeneres show, where she quickly became Ellen's head writer and the most beloved person on the staff.
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  This is a woman who moves through the world with grace, humility, and so much humor.
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  It's impossible not to smile when you're in Lauren's presence.
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  She is such a gift, and she's created so much content that has made the world laugh.
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  She has a wonderful partner, beautiful children, and turns out she attracted all of these things with intention.
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  She also dabbled in moon papers, and as I slowly come out of the witch closet.
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  Lauren's coming out story is wildly more entertaining.
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  It's literally a movie she wrote starring Dakota Johnson.
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  Now on Max called am I okay?
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  So how did she attract it all?
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  She's here to tell us.
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  Hi, I'm Laura Scarrpati, filmmaker, and woo woo enthusiast here today.
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  To cut through the noise, pull back the veil, and cozy up in this space between reality and spirituality.
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  Thanks for listening to the woo report.
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  And as always, you can watch the conversation on YouTube and links to all the content we discuss are linked in the show notes.
• 2:01
  Lauren Pomerantz, thank you so much for being here.
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  The airport.
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  Oh, my gosh, I'm so thrilled to see your face to delight all around.
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  So happy.
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  so for context on how we met, we worked together at the Ellen Show where you were Ellen's head writer and arguably the arguably her favorite and everyone's favorite person that worked there.
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  when I first got assigned to work with you on a project, it was, the highlight of my career.
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  I will tell you right now, because we hadn't worked. We didn't.
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  You know, there's a lot of staff there.
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  You don't always work with every single person.
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  And so it was so fun to finally to work together.
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  And I realized that we actually only produced one episode of one digital show.
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  We did.
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  We were.
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  Yeah, I can't describe it either, but it's probably like a past life thing, which, you know, we can get into, maybe later. Hey, I know, very possible, but, the show that we did do together, it was called Not Great with Lauren.
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  Oh. It's okay.
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  Take your time, Lauren.
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  But, Mike and not a mike stand.
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  Yes. It's okay.
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  You're good, you're good. Take your time.
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  It sounds good.
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  I know.
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  Well, now then, it means either you'll have to come back on the podcast, or it's time to start your own.
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  Okay.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Okay, so the show we did together was not great with Lauren.
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  Well, I have you.
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  I rewatched it yesterday. It's on YouTube.
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  It has 2.7 million views.
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  Oh my gosh, it's so freaking funny.
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  Lauren.
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  It's so funny.
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  Tell me more like it's more so.
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  Okay. So this. Okay.
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  The episode was about extreme beauty treatments that you had to endure.
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  One of them was leeches.
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  As you know, a beauty treatment.
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  Leeches suck your blood again, like I was.
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  And I was going to ask you if you felt like that helped you.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  And in your belly button.
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  Yeah.
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  So brave.
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  So it worked.
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  Here's the leech lady.
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  Who was.
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  Who was Kyra in the as leech lady. Like.
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  So funny.
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  what a natural thing.
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  You know, if we're talking about, like, you know, spirituality, like being connected to one with the earth, like using worms to from the earth.
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  Well, the whole episode, you're like, I'm being told.
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  Yes. Like my life is not my own.
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  Yes. The yoni steaming.
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  Which. Yes.
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  Which yoni is a Sanskrit word which again, like this is like a spiritual, like, let's balance your weight.
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  And that was also so hilarious.
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  You're doing an intake form and it's like, do you have.
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  It's like, do you have vaginal discharge?
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  You're like, no.
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  It's so good.
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  It's so good.
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  And then you sat there with a crew full of people as you like on this stool.
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  The stool has a hole in the middle.
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  With a ten person crew and cameras.
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  Just. Yeah.
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  And steam on the bottom coming out.
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  You were, like, sweating.
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  No. Like.
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  Yeah.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah, I mean, I allegedly it's supposed to, you know, balance your p-h or, like, from the inside, from the bottom up.
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  Bottom up. It's like.
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  and maybe.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  and then.
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  And then you did a it was like a Platts, Russian beating.
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  Yes. Yeah.
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  But then you also got doused with ice water, which I had forgotten about until I rewatched it.
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  And I mean, again, like, the hot cold's like, that's it's all the rage now.
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  So you were really ahead of our time.
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  We were.
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  Yeah, I hear you.
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  I'm like.
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  People do that.
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  Somebody told me they were doing that a lot.
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  I can't remember who it was, but I was like, why?
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  I believe it, I believe it's good for you.
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  Yeah. Yes.
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  Which makes sense that I probably.
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  Those people are cold. So, Yeah.
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  We don't care about that part.
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  okay.
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  So we were supposed to before we did.
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  Not great.
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  We were supposed to shoot another show, which didn't end up happening.
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  And it's so funny because I have a vivid memory of seeing you in the upstairs hallway at Ellen, and you had just come out of the bathroom and you were like, oh my God, I just had this when I was peeing.
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  I just figured out the name for the show.
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  It's to be called.
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  It should be called well, well, well with Leah, Michelle.
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  Yes. It's it's is that when you are in flow the most it's like.
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  Yeah.
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  Because it's like meditative.
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  I drink a lot of water.
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  Stay hydrated.
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  So you're constantly getting some inspiration while peeing? Yes.
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  Oh my gosh, I love it.
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  That is so funny.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Well well well well with Leah Michelle never happened.
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  It didn't happen.
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  It led to not great which was actually really great.
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  But in when we were planning for a well well, well with Leah Michelle, we we were going to book or we were booking a clairvoyant and I remember this too.
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  So it was a it was a wellness show that she was going to try a bunch of things, and you were going to pop in and out with her and the Clairvoyant.
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  It's so funny because I remember trying to find a clairvoyant, and I remember googling like clairvoyant Los Angeles trying to find and I realizing now that I was using the wrong word, I had no idea what I was doing when I was, like, looking in spiritual because nobody uses clairvoyant anymore.
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  When you are into spirituality, it's like intuitive or energy healer or a life coach.
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  Like that's what people use now.
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  But I didn't know that.
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  But like.
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  Yeah, I think people when they are doing life coach I mean, you know, I think life coach is people who are really connected to spirituality because like, they're like connecting to you and your high self.
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  I mean, I think I feel like maybe the good ones are, you know.
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  but but I know we wanted for the show sake.
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  We wanted someone kind of like a little out there, but that also was going to give us some real stuff for you to react to.
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  But I remember you being, like, a little nervous about it.
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  Have you experienced anything like that sense?
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  Have you done anything like that?
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  Yeah.
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  It's okay.
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  So is she.
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  She was a psychic or a medium or.
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  Well, we love Shirley.
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  Yeah.
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  So it's like.
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  So I had the same questions.
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  Like, I was, like, so confused when I first started getting into all of this, I was like, so wait, is, you know, like astrology and numerology and, like, it's like, it's all it's all connected.
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  It's all connected. And so, yeah, psychic.
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  I mean, I feel like we don't really use the word psychic anymore, but there's a stereotype around psychic, sort of like, and I went to a psychic on Lincoln Boulevard like, a long time ago, and it was cuckoo.
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  Cuckoo. It did not land for me.
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  She was like, there.
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  No, she's like, there is a dark woman and you have to keep your guard up.
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  And I was like, okay.
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  so it just like, you know, further perpetuated my roles and spirituality, which, I mean, I feel like I have been doing until I got run over by a car and then like, everything changed as it was.
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  Right. But, intuitive.
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  I think intuitive is like the modern word for people who can read energy and read.
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  and then there's mediums, obviously mediums like can read the energy of our past loved ones and get messages from them and that, you know, the intuitive you get into this whole thing where you're like, you're talking to guides or spirit guides because we're all born with spirit guides.
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  I know I'm about to lose you.
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  Oh, yes.
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  The law of attraction.
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  That's a universal law.
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  Yes, I love it.
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  I love the secret to.
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  Yeah.
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  Oh my gosh! I think you look great.
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  Oh my gosh! I love it.
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  I love it I mean, that's like.
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  That's a testament to it.
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  And then many years later You wrote a movie and it was it's called am I okay?
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  It's so brilliant and funny and intimate and raw and like, so good.
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  And it's your coming out story.
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  And Dakota Johnson plays you honestly congratulation.
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  There's there's your Jennifer Aniston body.
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  and it was a Sundance sweetheart.
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  And then it's on Max now where it lives today.
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  If you haven't seen it go watch it.
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  But it's on planes too.
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  Amazing. Yes, we love that.
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  We love a plane movie.
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  It's a great plane movie.
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  So when you were when it was going to Sundance, you posted on Instagram, and this was like a year ago now, right? Or.
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  Two years ago.
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  Wow. Okay.
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  So I saw it and I swiped over on it, and you you had a, picture of what you wrote on a piece of paper that said something like, right, movie.
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  Yeah.
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  Get movie made, get into festivals.
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  And you said you took a picture of this paper, which I love, that you did that.
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  And then you said that you put it under a full moon and you wished for it, or put it out there, manifested it.
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  So tell me everything, because this is like what I what?
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  When I was thinking about, I was thinking about that.
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  And then I thought about our wellness show and I was like, oh my God, I need Lauren Pomerantz on this podcast immediately.
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  And it made me so excited because I was like, what?
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  But I love what you wrote about it too, because you wrote like, because I'm not your cool friend or something.
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  Because you're like putting things under the moon.
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  But I'm like, this is exactly because everyone in LA is like, rolls their eyes so hard and spirituality.
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  And so it's like, it's hard to be, you know, come out of the witch closet, which is like exactly what I'm trying to do, but I love it.
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  Okay, so tell me everything.
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  So why did you do it?
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  Wow. Top of the list.
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  Top of the list. Yep.
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  Such a big one.
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  So that's a good one.
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  Obsessed.
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  Yes. How?
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  You moon papered her to.
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  It works.
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  Where did you find Elizabeth?
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  How did you guys meet?
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  Obsessed.
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  Right.
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  Did you go for coffee?
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  I know well.
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  Yeah.
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  I love it.
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  I'm so happy for you. And she's the best.
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  She came to the Leech Lady to to watch.
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  She popped in. So.
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  I mean we all were.
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  We were just recording it.
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  We were all like absolutely horrified.
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  And I actually when I was watching it, I was like, I felt bad for you because you were like, oh, no, no.
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  Like, it's going to go to my belly button where. No.
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  So but it.
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  This is, I love that.
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  Well, the whole thing is, you know, the it's the secret.
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  It's all the law of attraction.
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  If you're thinking about it, you know, you're putting it out there.
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  You're saying that you want something.
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  And the law of attraction.
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  The idea is that everything that we think it's like part of our consciousness, every single thing that we think is energy.
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  It's not just staying in our head.
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  It's like it's like something going out into the universe and then coming back.
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  So we are going to receive whatever it is we're thinking.
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  So if we're thinking in a place of lack or if we're thinking we can't find love, we're not going to find love.
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  But when we're like, we're going to find love, finally, we're going to find love.
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  We're going to put out a piece of paper, we're going to put it outside, we're going to find it. I love it.
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  It works.
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  It it's crazy.
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  It is can we can't see it.
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  It's like it's an unseen thing that we you know, I feel like you're just.
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  And nobody talks about it like this isn't something that is you're going wide with, like you're going, well, I did that on Instagram and you're being like, are people going to think I'm not cool anymore?
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  Like.
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  I know, right then that's how I feel.
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  Like I've been prefacing it here to some, like this podcast is meant to be also a bridge.
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  It's not for people that are like fully dipped into spirituality.
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  It's like, I feel like it's like how I started to.
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  I was like, what's happening here? What is this?
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  It's it's, you know, and I love that The secret came out when it did because it that was the beginning. I remember it too.
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  I remember it well the DVD.
• 31:43
  Well and like the whole the crest or whatever that like red circle.
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  Oh my God.
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  So have you done anything like that sense?
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  Like since the moon papers.
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  Have you like, are you moon papering still?
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  Yeah.
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  For sure.
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  That's like that is it.
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  Yeah.
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  Hell yes.
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  Yeah.
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  It's exactly.
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  I think that yeah I like I've always wanted to do something like that too.
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  I have now I have this relationship with my oak tree in the backyard.
• 33:49
  That is.
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  That's a new.
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  But this is like where I do a gratitude practice now.
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  So we're, you know, we're in Rochester.
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  We have, my bathroom is kind of it's high up and it looks out, I get this big.
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  It's like the oldest oak tree in Pittsburgh.
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  Allegedly, according to the realtor we bought the house from.
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  I don't know how they knew that, but, And I sit in my bathtub, because there's not a bench or anything.
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  So I put a stool in my bathtub and, like, sit in the store, and I look at this oak tree, and I swear to you, Lauren, when I have gratitude for this oak tree, and I just, like, sit.
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  And I'm like, thank you for the abundance.
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  Like, thank you for this home in this life and this beautiful family.
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  I feel every molecule in my body go from sitting to standing.
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  And it is like.
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  And when I talk to my sister in law who isn't intuitive now, you know, still in LA, like real like she's, you know, like be all big and in the scene and now she's like fully reading energy.
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  She was like, yeah, that's your vibration rising.
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  I was like, oh, just like I know it's it's like.
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  And it's it's weird because she was like, well, your mama Oak, which I call her Mama Oak.
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  She was like, Mama Oak might not have the time of day for Matt, my husband, because like, trees are also, like, finicky.
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  Like trees aren't going to, like, share their energy with everyone.
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  I know.
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  It's like, oh.
• 35:14
  Yeah, well, I don't know. So.
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  But then she was like, well, but Matt has birds like Matt's like super into birds.
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  All of a sudden since we've been here, like bird watching and whatever, she was like, it's the same mechanism, the same mechanism for like, just to feel like a connection with the Earth or feel the connection with something bigger than yourself.
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  You know?
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  Yeah, I know it's a little it's very woo woo, but.
• 35:42
  Yes. Read it.
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  You read it.
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  It's a synchronicity.
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  Yeah.
• 36:55
  So a lot of this parents are just ghosting you.
• 37:01
  Yeah, right.
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  Grandparents.
• 37:02
  Grandparents.
• 37:03
  Yeah.
• 37:06
  Still waiting.
• 37:11
  I don't know, I think you could try again.
• 37:13
  I think you could try again.
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  And I think you could not give it a timeline and just.
• 37:18
  I think you could just, like, try again and just, like, let it go, do your thing.
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  And, you know, how do you know how to write something to let it go?
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  Like you're good at this.
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  Like I feel like you can see.
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  I feel like you could try again.
• 37:26
  It might be worth another try.
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  I feel like it's worked when I have done it.
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  I just did it recently.
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  We were just in, came in Grand, came in with some friends and our whole families.
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  And I took a walk on the beach alone.
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  which, by the way, I had trouble not connecting.
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  I was like missing my boat while I was on the beach.
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  So that's a whole nother thing I know I missed.
• 37:50
  Hi, Mr..
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  Yes, actually, that's a really great idea.
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  When I leave, I'm going to just turn the next cab to, Mama Oak.
• 38:04
  wow, this is great.
• 38:05
  What a brilliant brainstorm sesh. Lauren.
• 38:08
  No, but I asked when I was walking on the beach, which, by the way, clear skies like we're in Cayman.
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  There's not not a cloud in the sky.
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  And I said, and just for the universe, I just said, I asked for lightning.
• 38:19
  I asked for, like, lightning or a lightning bolt.
• 38:21
  And it was interesting.
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  I got the sign twice in the next couple days, both when I was talking to my seven year old who and this is so meaningful to me because I feel like my seven year old and I have, like you know, we have a tough relationship.
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  Like he's he's my biggest challenge and he's my biggest lesson and all those things.
• 38:43
  And, we were I was just letting him go off.
• 38:46
  He goes off on like, Pokemon and like this, these like, games he plays on his iPad that like, literally make stickman, like on Roblox.
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  I don't know what he's talking about, but he goes off and off and he just talks for so long.
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  And he talked about lightning.
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  He starts talking about lightning.
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  And I was just like, okay, so random.
• 39:05
  And then like two days later, I took him to breakfast, just the two of us.
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  And he did the same thing.
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  On talking about a different game or a different Pokemon.
• 39:14
  I don't even know what he's talking about, but he's had lightning again, different conduct. And I was like, it just like felt right, you know, felt good.
• 39:23
  No, no, no, I like I love a synchronicity like that.
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  It just makes me feel like there's more out there, you know?
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  These are all meditative, though.
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  I think it's like they're all, yeah.
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  And I love that.
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  Because that's your sign to yourself that you're like you're where you're meant to be.
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  And that, like, does not feel good.
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  It's reassuring.
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  It's like validation.
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  You're just like, oh, I'm just living my life and I'm doing it right.
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  Like, I feel so good.
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  So. Well.
• 40:47
  What would you say is your spiritual belief system?
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  Yes. Totally, I love that.
• 41:39
  Yeah, I feel like.
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  I feel like all.
• 41:41
  All religions are like.
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  Everything's all.
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  It's all tied together.
• 41:46
  Like religion is just like a construct.
• 41:48
  To believe in something bigger than yourself.
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  Which is like what spirituality is like.
• 41:52
  Believing in something that's like, let's not just us here.
• 41:54
  And it there's a comfort in that, knowing that there's like bigger things at play.
• 42:00
  I mean, I feel like there is, but.
• 42:09
  Oh. The universe.
• 42:15
  So if you can't see it the like, there was just a thumbs up on our riverside platform that just came back.
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  The universe is like, yes, you're correct.
• 42:25
  That was so that's oh my gosh, I love it.
• 42:31
  Oh my gosh.
• 42:31
  Okay, so the thing that I'm asking everyone on this podcast, because, you know, it was motivated by a near-death experience where my consciousness flew out of my body and I separated from my body.
• 42:41
  And so I'm asking everyone, what do you think happens when we die?
• 42:52
  I'm happy to answer them any time.
• 42:54
  Yeah. Yes.
• 43:01
  Okay, so I was sitting on the grass and I was actually texting my friends in LA.
• 43:08
  It was like 10 a.m.
• 43:08
  here, and, a little old lady came up.
• 43:12
  Up. Yep.
• 43:15
  But I just know this is truth.
• 43:18
  a little a lady came and mistook the gas pedal for the brake, and so I was sitting crisscross applesauce so that car, like, hit a couple trees and then ran me over, but again, missed my head.
• 43:30
  It missed my belly with my baby.
• 43:32
  It just. It hit my head.
• 43:34
  But anyway, when the car ran me over, it also took forever.
• 43:37
  There's a video of it and it takes three because it's a yes.
• 43:41
  There's a there was a security camera from the high school that's across the street.
• 43:46
  So there's a video of it and it happens in like a blip, but it felt like it was happening for a long time.
• 43:53
  And I was under the car like the darkness and the pressure felt like it was a long time.
• 43:58
  But right afterwards, my consciousness came out of my body and I saw myself laying on the ground.
• 44:07
  So I was separate and I saw myself ask for help.
• 44:12
  So I'm in two places at once and I'm alive.
• 44:17
  But I was like hovering over and I could see the scene from above.
• 44:21
  I could see the car here.
• 44:22
  I could see the little old lady getting out of the car.
• 44:25
  I could see like people rushing over.
• 44:28
  And then I just flew back into my body.
• 44:30
  And at that moment I thought, I'm going to die.
• 44:35
  But it was complete surrender.
• 44:36
  I was completely fine with it.
• 44:38
  I was like, I didn't know if I was bleeding out.
• 44:41
  I couldn't.
• 44:42
  I just was like, I was like, this is fine, this is fine.
• 44:47
  There's a yeah, not in that moment.
• 44:51
  I didn't I think it was like, whatever, let's say adrenaline or shock or I didn't feel pain until they, like, scooped me up and put me into the ambulance, you know, a couple minutes later and I felt pain when the ambulance started bouncing around and they wouldn't give me any pain meds because I was pregnant.
• 45:09
  Yeah.
• 45:11
  And like, my hip socket was shattered and like, my, my pelvis was fractured in five places, and I had, like, a broken rib, broken wrist, but like, again, I didn't have a traumatic brain injury, which, like, would have been like Laurie Blackmon had one of those number.
• 45:27
  I remember texting, actually, I always think about her because she texted me when I was in the hospital, and it meant so much to me because she said to me, this is going to be a blip.
• 45:35
  And it is.
• 45:36
  I mean, it's also the best thing that ever happened to me because it sent me on this path that I was like, I need to discover why I separated from my body.
• 45:44
  I need to figure this out.
• 45:46
  And, you know, I thought it was like, oh, maybe this was written in the stars for me.
• 45:50
  I just felt like I felt like it was meant to happen.
• 45:53
  And, you know, it's wild that I can play racket sports now.
• 45:58
  I got some I got some hardware in there that.
• 46:03
  Yeah.
• 46:03
  I mean, I have a lot of scarring.
• 46:04
  I have, like a big scar on my leg and on my back, but I don't really see it.
• 46:11
  And it's kind of like.
• 46:12
  Feels good. Sorry. What did you say?
• 46:16
  2020 August 14th.
• 46:20
  Yeah.
• 46:25
  Yes. So I, Right away wasn't because I couldn't walk for three months that I had to, like, learn how to walk again.
• 46:35
  And even though I tried, you know, I had, Alex used to work at Elon and in the digital, space.
• 46:42
  You know, her, her friend Val.
• 46:44
  Valerie. Maya is an energy healer.
• 46:46
  And she was like, you should talk to Val.
• 46:48
  So I called Val, and I was still in a wheelchair, and she said, yeah, the universe is trying to tell you something.
• 46:54
  We can figure it out.
• 46:55
  And I was going to do a session with her, and then I just wasn't in the headspace to do it until one year after the accident, like on like the one year.
• 47:03
  Basically, I scheduled that with her and it felt like it was the right time for me to process.
• 47:08
  It was also there was like some PTSD.
• 47:10
  There was like a lot there's a lot of other things I was like in therapy for, but I felt like I felt like healthy and strong.
• 47:19
  And, you know, I had a baby in January, so, like, it was just I was out of kind of like that hibernation stage of it.
• 47:25
  And then, and then it felt like the right time.
• 47:28
  And she really helped collect a lot of a lot of things in place for me that she's on.
• 47:32
  She's gonna be on the podcast, too.
• 47:34
  Yes. Yes.
• 47:47
  For sure.
• 47:51
  Totally.
• 47:52
  And like before that, you know, I grew up Christian, and I always grew up believing in God and having and praying.
• 47:58
  But I felt like when I was in, in LA, I kind of, like, tapered off a little bit from it.
• 48:04
  I mean, I still kind of did, but it wasn't it wasn't anything like what I'm doing now, which is like really practicing and trusting and also my mind, my brain, like when I think about and I've said this before on this podcast, but when I think about what the pre accident me and the now me, my brain was turbulent before the accident like I was.
• 48:30
  We talk about how we just like the the law of attraction, how like everything's going.
• 48:34
  I thought my brain was like I had a sharp tongue with myself.
• 48:36
  I would like berate myself when I would mess something up on Allen or whatever.
• 48:41
  Like I'd be like, oh, like the voice in my head was like, not nice.
• 48:47
  And now.
• 48:48
  And that was one of the first things that Bell said to me.
• 48:50
  She was like, you have a sharp tongue with yourself.
• 48:52
  How does she know that she's talking to my guys?
• 48:55
  Lauren.
• 48:58
  She's talking to my guides.
• 49:00
  Yeah, yeah.
• 49:02
  She also told me when I asked if I should start a production company, she also said, oh, your guides are jumping up and down and clapping.
• 49:08
  And she was like, it looks like it's like between 4 and 5 years from now, which is like exactly the timeline.
• 49:14
  It's like, yes, she's very on point.
• 49:17
  She's so good.
• 49:18
  but yeah.
• 49:20
  So it's it feels it feels nicer to hang out in my head now because I feel like I have a lot more peace.
• 49:25
  And so much of that is because of, like, the spiritual work that I've been doing and like, just the different modalities that I think are so supportive for me.
• 49:33
  And that's what the point of this podcast is like.
• 49:35
  If Moon Paper works for you, like do the moon paper that you that brings you what you want, like do it.
• 49:42
  You know, if meditation brings you what you want, do it.
• 49:44
  If you know tarot cards bring you what you want, go for it.
• 49:47
  Like if, you know, sitting in stillness or, you know, having a relationship with a tree like, let's go.
• 49:55
  Like I support you.
• 49:56
  I want to make sure you hear that somebody else is doing like cuckoo things to to make sure it's like, okay with you because so much of it is not reflected in our society and especially in LA and, and entertainment.
• 50:06
  Like it's just like the hustle, hustle, hustle, hustle.
• 50:09
  Like I feel like it's make sense once you once we have a family and once you're kind of like settling down, it kind of shifts you anyway.
• 50:17
  And you're kind of like, what am I doing here?
• 50:19
  And then you're now I feel like, you know, you are now.
• 50:21
  You're no longer in LA, you're in Jersey.
• 50:24
  You're like doing the family thing.
• 50:25
  You don't need any of this material of things.
• 50:26
  You want your family to thrive.
• 50:26
  Like, that's so beautiful.
• 50:35
  Right.
• 51:20
  Thing.
• 51:40
  Moving your body.
• 51:41
  Yeah.
• 51:49
  It feels so good.
• 51:59
  Yes. Yeah.
• 52:07
  Cause a practice I know I was.
• 52:09
  I was like, why are we talking a yoga practice?
• 52:10
  Are you just going to the class? Like, why are we practicing?
• 52:13
  But yeah, for sure.
• 52:17
  Yeah.
• 52:34
  Yeah.
• 52:34
  Right. Of course.
• 52:38
  Yeah.
• 52:41
  Because when you sit down and you're trying to.
• 52:43
  I mean, I'm making assumptions here, but you're trying to.
• 52:45
  Right?
• 52:46
  Or like, for me, I'm trying to, like, make something when I sit down and I'm like, this one focus on right now.
• 52:51
  There's so much pressure.
• 52:53
  Yeah.
• 52:54
  You always have to be, like, inspired by something else.
• 52:56
  You know?
• 53:30
  So good.
• 53:34
  Yeah.
• 53:42
  I know, I know, I know, okay, feel like you didn't answer the question.
• 53:46
  What you think happens every day, I I'm trying to.
• 53:48
  I don't think you did. I like I want to make sure we get your answer and, like, are you uncomfortable answering this question?
• 54:36
  No, I love that I, I it's always better when it's simple, right?
• 54:51
  Of course we don't.
• 54:53
  None of us do. None of us know.
• 54:56
  None of us know.
• 55:13
  Well, you know, I, after this experience.
• 55:17
  That's why I went and did a documentary on on hospice.
• 55:20
  Because I was so curious what happens when people are dying.
• 55:24
  And you know, what I ended up finding was so comforting in that it just always feels like someone comes back for you, and it always at the end.
• 55:34
  It's always peaceful.
• 55:36
  It's like it's a peaceful transition.
• 55:39
  And there's been so many signs.
• 55:42
  And there was no signs in my documentary of of souls kind of coming back to check in that there's no way that we're just like a bag of bones.
• 55:54
  As Ronda says, if I documentary.
• 55:55
  But like, there's no there's no way that that's true because there has nothing else.
• 55:59
  And so for me, that's comforting.
• 56:01
  But that's okay. It's okay if you still believe that.
• 56:03
  And just it's it's just like, for me, the comfort is in the fact that this is not the end. There's something more.
• 56:26
  Charles.
• 56:36
  Yeah.
• 56:39
  Yeah.
• 57:04
  Patrick.
• 57:05
  Oh, my gosh, I love him so much.
• 57:07
  I know.
• 57:19
  Oh, my gosh.
• 57:19
  Patrick has become, like, part of my team of light is how I like to say it.
• 57:24
  I saw him when I did ayahuasca a couple of years ago.
• 57:26
  He was very present in my ceremony, and he just.
• 57:31
  He's just with me, like he's with you all the time.
• 57:33
  I just feel like he's become like almost a guide for me.
• 57:37
  And he was so impactful in my life.
• 57:40
  And I feel like in so many people's like people that watch that documentary, you know, it's about people who are, you know, the marginalized community, people who struggle with addiction or are homeless or mentally ill.
• 57:51
  And these, for the most people, especially the ones in the documentary, they have not felt love, they don't know love.
• 57:58
  And the idea house just brings them love, and the love transforms them.
• 58:03
  The love and the compassion transforms them.
• 58:05
  At the end of their life, they're not focusing on dying.
• 58:07
  They're going to the hospice, but they're focusing on living and loving and finding that connection.
• 58:12
  And he's getting a tattoo at the end of it.
• 58:15
  Yeah, just of the people that were of the angels that were taking care of him, they're like, it's just it's so sweet.
• 58:28
  I love it, I love our chat.
• 58:30
  I love this so much.
• 59:52
  It's everything.
• 59:57
  I loved, Oh, my gosh, I love that.
• 1:00:00
  Thank you for watching it. Lauren.
• 1:00:00
  That's so nice of you.
• 1:00:03
  So say.
• 1:00:16
  yes. Thank you.
• 1:00:18
  She is the best she is.
• 1:00:21
  She listens to this, too.
• 1:00:22
  So shout out Kristen. Kill Dash.
• 1:00:24
  Yeah.
• 1:00:25
  You're amazing.
• 1:00:27
  All right, well, I want to get into, because we're like, look at us.
• 1:00:31
  Like, Elizabeth had to go pick up the kids.
• 1:00:36
  okay, I want to talk about what you're working on now, which is we'll be in fatty.
• 1:00:40
  Fatty.
• 1:00:41
  We'll be in fatty.
• 1:00:44
  Oh, tell me.
• 1:00:49
  Of course.
• 1:01:03
  All of our collective.
• 1:02:05
  Yeah.
• 1:03:03
  Oh, my gosh, I love that so much. Yes.
• 1:03:30
  It can work.
• 1:03:32
  Right? It on a moon paper.
• 1:03:34
  I mean, it's already working.
• 1:03:48
  And they love it.
• 1:04:05
  Well, you.
• 1:04:06
  I saw that you were, You sent a message about kids and kids who had lost their lives in the LA fires.
• 1:04:14
  I loved that so much.
• 1:04:20
  Okay.
• 1:04:30
  Oh, wow.
• 1:04:46
  Yeah.
• 1:05:00
  Yeah.
• 1:05:06
  I love that it's so great.
• 1:05:09
  Well, it's such a cute show. West loves it.
• 1:05:12
  Yes, he's watching it.
• 1:05:14
  I was wondering if you, tackled any big topics, like, I was thinking about how, you know, our kids.
• 1:05:22
  See, like, a dead end, and they're like, what?
• 1:05:25
  What happens when we die?
• 1:05:26
  I like, just out of the blue or like, you know, my son West, who came home from Montessori school, which is not a religious school, the other day, and he was like, God is all around us.
• 1:05:36
  And I was like, yes, where'd you hear that?
• 1:05:43
  Yeah, right.
• 1:05:43
  They have their own little, like, such lives or like, where are you learning this? That.
• 1:05:48
  Yeah.
• 1:05:56
  I'm sorry.
• 1:06:10
  Of course.
• 1:06:11
  Yeah, yeah.
• 1:06:21
  So good.
• 1:06:52
  yes. Oh.
• 1:07:09
  Yeah. Yes.
• 1:07:38
  Yeah.
• 1:07:41
  I think that's great.
• 1:07:42
  I love that, yeah, the directness is good.
• 1:07:45
  It is hard.
• 1:07:46
  I know, because we're used to sugarcoating things for, like, everyone else and maybe ourselves.
• 1:07:50
  And, yes.
• 1:07:55
  Yeah.
• 1:07:55
  Right.
• 1:07:58
  Right.
• 1:08:18
  Well, we'll be watching your Instagram so you could tell us all about all the things that are going on in your household because you make these such funny videos.
• 1:08:26
  about parenting.
• 1:08:27
  And they're so good and so relatable.
• 1:08:33
  your one about sharing food the other day, it was so funny.
• 1:08:38
  I love that at least they're eating.
• 1:08:40
  You know, that's like a problem that we have in our house.
• 1:08:51
  Yeah.
• 1:09:02
  So nice of you.
• 1:09:10
  Oh, my God.
• 1:09:14
  It's smoothie.
• 1:09:14
  Sounds really good.
• 1:09:15
  I want it not too.
• 1:09:20
  I love it.
• 1:09:21
  I love when you can find a good food and nourishing things in at a place that's not LA.
• 1:09:25
  It's like you.
• 1:09:31
  Yeah.
• 1:09:31
  They know. Right?
• 1:09:32
  Totally. Yep. Yes.
• 1:09:36
  Oh my gosh, Lauren, thank you so much for coming.
• 1:09:39
  I know this is so fun.
• 1:09:44
  You did everything.
• 1:09:46
  Like, You are perfect in every way.
• 1:09:48
  You're funny, you're charming, you're delight over, oh. So.
• 1:09:56
  Oh, my gosh. Thank you.
• 1:09:57
  This is so fun. I just like my face hurts.
• 1:09:59
  So this is, like, classic having a conversation with you.
• 1:10:02
  I just been smiling for so long.
• 1:10:05
  I love it.
• 1:10:08
  I know it, really.
• 1:10:09
  I was like, I kept forgetting that you were.
• 1:10:10
  That you were not here.
• 1:10:11
  I was like, what time is it there?
• 1:10:13
  But you're like, actually, at the same time.
• 1:10:17
  It's really working out.
• 1:10:21
  oh A few days after we recorded this, I got a package in the mail from Lauren.
• 1:10:27
  She sent a webcam to point at Mama so that I'm never without her.
• 1:10:34
  Brilliant. Thoughtful.
• 1:10:36
  Hilarious.
• 1:10:37
  I hope you enjoyed that chat as much as I did.
• 1:10:39
  I dropped links for all the things we discussed in the show notes.
• 1:10:42
  And let me know your thoughts on all the things you can join the community at the We Report podcast.com.
• 1:10:49
  Thank you for liking, writing, sharing and loving on this podcast.
• 1:10:53
  So grateful you're here.
• 1:10:56
  Bye. Work.