In this episode of To The Moon, Campbell sits down with interior designer and TV host Lauren Makk in the middle of what she calls the most challenging year of her life. Lauren is going through a divorce, preparing to sell her home, and rebuilding life for herself and her two young sons, all while rediscovering who she is at 44.
Lauren goes back to her childhood in Oklahoma: building dollhouses with her mom, the Eddie Bauer bag she lived out of after her parents’ divorce, and learning as a little girl that being useful might earn her dad’s attention. She opens up about how that need to be seen followed her into adulthood, and the clarity she’s found since her marriage ended.
She also shares the unbelievable story of how two dollhouses found their way to her in a single day, and how she’s turning her “midlife mess” into a purposeful pivot, helping others feel less alone through heartbreak.
About Lauren Makk:
I’m Lauren Makk Interior Designer turned Interior Refiner. For more than 20 years, I’ve helped transform homes and lives through design. You may recognize my work from some of your favorite networks HGTV, TLC, ABC, and OWN but what matters most isn’t what you’ve seen on screen. It’s what’s happened behind the scenes. After a painful and unexpected divorce, I found myself standing in a place no blueprint could fix the quiet unraveling of my own inner world. What I was being asked to rebuild wasn’t a house anymore. It was my life, my identity, my purpose, my foundation. In that moment, I had two choices: crumble and crash… or rebuild and refine.
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