We were handed a blueprint.

Go to school.

Get good grades.

Climb the ladder.

Get married.

Buy the house.

Be grateful.

Don’t complain.

And if you do it all… you win.

But what do you actually win?

In this raw, unfiltered episode, Lauren pulls back the curtain on the “dream” so many high-achieving women were taught to chase — and what it cost her to finally admit it wasn’t hers.

From becoming Director of Nursing to feeling like a fraud…

From checking every box to feeling like a ghost in her own life…

From being needed to realizing she just wanted to be loved.

This episode is about:

• Performance-based identity

• Tying worth to usefulness

• The exhaustion of being the “strong one”

• Motherhood and soul-level burnout

• Approval addiction

• And what happens when you wake up

If you’ve ever laid in bed thinking, “Is this really it?”

This one will hit.

You don’t have to burn your life down.

But you do have to stop worshipping a dream that was never custom-built for you.

If this episode cracked something open for you, that’s not a breakdown — that’s awareness.

Inside my 1:1 coaching, we untangle the identity you inherited and help you build one that’s actually yours.

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