You can be exceptional at a life… and still feel completely disconnected from it.

In this episode, I sit down with Cassidy Gard, journalist, storyteller, and author of Cosmic Goodness, to unpack what actually happens when high performance, identity, and reality stop aligning.

After more than a decade inside national news, producing under extreme pressure and shaping stories in real time,

Cassidy made a decision most people avoid:

She stopped building a life that required her to abandon herself to sustain it.

This conversation is a real-time look at what it means to:

• walk away from environments that reward over-performance but drain your humanity
• redefine success outside of external validation
• and start building something that is actually yours

We get into the nuance most people skip:

- burnout as an identity issue, not a time management problem…

- motherhood as a complete psychological and emotional reorganization…

and the uncomfortable truth that many women are building careers on patterns that were never meant to sustain them.

This is not a polished transformation story.

It’s a conversation about what it takes to tell the truth about your life and have the courage to choose differently.

Resources & Links:

• Follow Cassidy on Socials: Instagram | TikTok
• Cosmic Goodness by Cassidy Gard, launching May 12 (preorder here)
• Join The Expansion Suite (formerly Pivot Club): a free space to upgrade your energy, shift your thinking, and expand your identity
• Explore 1:1 work with Lauren (limited openings available)

This week on Corporate F*ckery, Lauren goes solo and breaks down one of the most misunderstood ideas in personal and professional growth: intuition.

After years of operating in survival mode, chasing logic, and trying everything from corporate hustle to backyard full-moon manifestation rituals (yes, really), Lauren shares what she’s learned about the difference between waiting for magic and actually creating momentum.

The episode also includes the story behind a bold new idea she recently followed—an unexpected attempt to explore a female-led ownership bid for the Seattle Seahawks—and what it taught her about intuition, courage, and taking aligned action even when the outcome is uncertain.

This conversation isn’t about blind faith or spiritual bypassing. It’s about something far more practical: learning to recognize the signals inside you that point toward your next move.

In this episode, Lauren explores:

1. Why high-performing people often ignore their intuition
2. The trap of waiting for manifestation instead of taking action
3. What it actually looks like to follow a “crazy” idea
4. How intuitive hits can lead to unexpected opportunities
5. Why detaching from outcomes can unlock real momentum

If you’ve ever felt a pull toward something bigger, but talked yourself out of it, this episode is your reminder that inspiration is rarely convenient, but it’s often worth following.

Sometimes the boldest move isn’t having the perfect plan.

It’s trusting the nudge and taking the first step to let go of what isn’t working.

And today’s rule is simple: don’t confuse a corporate decision with your worth and don’t sign away your power because you’re in shock.

In this episode of Corporate F*ckery, Lauren sits down with Tara Bodine, global HR and talent leader and CEO of True North People Consulting.

After seeing the writing on the wall at her company, Tara was laid off and offered a two-week severance package. So we talk about what most people don’t realize in that moment: You have leverage. Even if they act like you don’t.

Together, Lauren and Tara unpack:

1. Why layoffs hit your nervous system like a threat
2. What HR is actually optimizing for and how to navigate it
3. Why severance is an exchange, not a favor
4. What can be negotiable (and how to advocate for more runway)
5. Why you shouldn’t do this alone: resources, counsel, and community

This conversation isn’t about “being difficult.”

It’s about being self-led, when the system shifts and your body, ego, and identity take the hit.

Connect with Tara Bodine

🌿 Website: https://www.truenorthpeople.com/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarabodine/

This season, we’re rewriting the rules.

And today’s rule is simple: trust yourself before it costs you.

In this episode of Corporate F*ckery: Stories of Survival, Psychological Warfare, and Choosing What’s Best for You*, Lauren sits down with Carole Murko, founder of Love. Eat. Heal. and certified consultant with NeuroChangeSolutions.

Carole shares how decades in finance and corporate leadership, combined with suppressed anger, people-pleasing, and chronic stress, culminated in a rare eye disease that threatened her vision.

The wake-up call? What she calls the “sledgehammer of the universe.”

Together, Lauren and Carole unpack:

1. How corporate conditioning teaches women to override their intuition
2. Why unprocessed emotion doesn’t disappear — it stores
3. The difference between external achievement and self-mastery
4. How to observe the signals your body is giving you before they escalate
5. Why you don’t have to burn your life down to start telling the truth

This conversation isn’t about quitting your job.

It’s about reclaiming your authority, internally first. Because sometimes stress isn’t random. It’s redirection.

Connect with Carole Murko

🌿 Website: https://www.loveeatheal.com/

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loveeatheal/

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carole-murko-2b310b/

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode includes discussion of suicidal ideation, catastrophic thinking, burnout, shame-based self-talk, and nervous system dysregulation.

What happens when the very skills that made you successful begin to work against you?

In this deeply honest and necessary conversation, Lauren sits down with Dr. Ashley Cerda, behavioral scientist, clinical leader, and founder of a multi-location mental health organization, to unpack a pattern many high-achieving women experience but rarely name: the dark side of success.

Together, they explore how intelligent, capable, adaptive women can unknowingly slip into survival-based achievement, where productivity becomes identity, safety becomes conditional, and the nervous system never truly stands down. The result? Panic, shame loops, emotional shutdown, and in some cases, passive suicidal ideation that feels frightening, confusing, and deeply isolating.

This episode dismantles stigma and replaces it with clarity. You’ll learn why these thoughts don’t mean you’re broken, how the brain behaves under prolonged pressure, and why awareness, not willpower, is the first step to creating safety for yourself.

This is not a conversation about failure, it’s about what happens when achievement starts to feel unsafe.

Learn more about Dr. Ashley Cerda's work here. or follow her work on Instagram.

Explore Lauren's world: www.laurendegolia.com

In this episode, Lauren sits down with Lynda Harvey (aka @Lynda.Leads) to dismantle one of the most persistent, and profitable, patterns in corporate life: imposter syndrome. Not as a personal flaw, but as a systemic conditioning tool designed to keep high-performing women compliant, underpaid, and constantly self-questioning.

This conversation sets the tone for the season: clear eyes, clean boundaries, and new rules.

In this episode, we cover:

1. Why imposter syndrome isn’t a diagnosis, it’s a learned response
2. How women are conditioned to equate humility with worth and likability with safety
3. The hidden cost of “being grateful” instead of being compensated
4. Why lightning does strike twice and what makes us pretend it doesn’t
5. The difference between what you deserve and what you’ve earned
6. How corporate systems quietly reward self-abandonment
7. Why settling “temporarily” often becomes a long-term identity tax
8. Naming the voice at the boardroom table of your mind—and asking it to leave
9. How to turn imposter syndrome into usable data instead of self-sabotage

Who this episode is for:

1. Powerhouse women navigating leadership, promotion, or reinvention
2. Corporate leaders questioning whether the system still fits
3. Women who know they’re capable but still find themselves negotiating against themselves
4. Anyone ready to stop performing gratitude and start claiming leverage

About the Guest:

Lynda Harvey, known online as Lynda Leads, has built and scaled high-performing teams, led cross-functional decision-making at the executive level, and built a platform rooted in corporate truth, not corporate fantasy.

Her work centers on self-advocacy, compensation, boundaries, and the reminder that your company is not your family, it’s a business.

In this Season 2 finale of Corporate F*ckery, Lauren DeGolia weaves together the biggest revelations from nine powerhouse conversations into one transformational episode. This season explored the emotional, strategic, and psychological realities of women redefining power, leadership, and success on their own terms.

Across episodes featuring:

Olivia Howell, Episode 2, How to Be a Powerhouse Without a Blazer

Corporate Christie, Episode 3, Owning Your Value & Choosing Your Freedom

Beverly Dines, Episode 4, Rebuilding Power with Purpose

Heather Boneparth, Episode 5, Redefining Wealth Without Losing Yourself

Mollie Tregillis, Episode 6, Finding Fulfillment in the Chaos)

Raena Boston, Episode 7, Corporate Scams & Micro-Pushback Leadership

Roxy Couse, Episode 8, How Powerhouse Women Rise in a Broken Workplace

Dr. Corinne Low, Episode 9, The Economics of Power: Time, Money & the Lies Women Were Sold)

A shared truth emerged: Powerhouse isn’t something you perform, it’s something you return to.

This finale stitches together:

• Raena’s reminder not to let your company become your identity
• Roxy’s PIE Method, revealing why performance alone won’t move you forward
• Christie’s truth about nervous system survival and reinvention
• Beverly’s call to lead with humanism
• Heather’s distinction between systemic failure and personal failure
• Mollie’s strategy for working less while having more impact
• Corinne’s insight that your job is a technology for converting time into money, not the measure of your worth

Lauren closes with The Powerhouse Manifesto, a guide for navigating career, ambition, identity, and agency as we close out 2025 and enter 2026 with intention, clarity, and self-trust.

⭐ THE POWERHOUSE MANIFESTO

1. You’re being shown things for a reason.Your misalignment, frustration, or clarity isn’t random, it’s direction.
2. What you want in your deepest, truest self is possible. Your soul-level desires are invitations, not fantasies. Follow them with curiosity and courage.
3. Your powerhouse-ness is an asset. It fuels your legacy. Stop shrinking it to fit environments that can’t hold it.
4. Know your energy. Protect it fiercely. Your patterns, nervous system, and astrology reveal where you leak power and where you gain it.
5. Step off autopilot.Your thoughts, emotions, and reactions were built to protect you and they’re completely changeable.
6. Lead with strategy and self-trust, not over-functioning. You don’t have to hold everyone else up. Let your humanity be seen.
7. Build a longer table. Surround yourself with people who expand your timeline, challenge your thinking, and support your evolution.
8. You are radically responsible for your results. Shift your perspective, adjust your decisions and if you need support, ask for it.
9. Choosing what’s best for you is what’s best for everyone. Try your value on until it feels like home.
10. Your ambition is not a liability. It’s a compass. Use it to design a life that feels intentional, honest, and aligned with who you’re becoming.

Season 3 returns in January with a new theme: New Year. New Rules.

We break down two game-changing concepts:

• Utility Function

Your utility function is the economist’s version of your life scorecard, the sum total of joy, meaning, fulfillment, and alignment across your lifetime.

Not your boss’s profit.

Not comparison culture.

Not the invisible rules handed to women.

You’re maximizing your utility, not the company’s.

• Your Job as Technology

Your job is simply a tool that converts time → money.

Once you see it as technology, not identity, you unlock the power to redesign your career around better ROI, more time freedom, and the life Future You actually wants to live.

We also hit the hard truths: unpaid labor, sexual harassment as an economic crime, why even top-performing women earn less, and why “leaning in” was never the solution.

If you’re ready to reclaim your levers, time, money, agency, this conversation is a reset.

Share this episode with a powerhouse woman who needs the reminder: she’s not broken. The system is.

Links:

• Follow Dr. Low on LinkedIn
• Follow Dr. Low on Instagram
• Get Dr. Corinne Low's book: Having it All, What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours.
• Unlock Your Moon Sign (Aka, Emotional Advantage)
• Follow Lauren on LinkedIn
• Follow Lauren on Instagram
• Book a Complimentary Consult with Lauren

Today on Corporate F*ckery, Lauren sits down with Roxy Couse, Webby-nominated creator, senior corporate leader, and the internet’s trusted “Millennial Manager,” to unpack what it really takes for powerhouse women to rise inside a workplace that’s more unstable, emotionally taxing, and psychologically confusing than ever.

With more than half a million professionals tuning into her boundary-setting guidance and corporate hard truths, Roxy breaks down the new rules of modern work: the PIE Method no one teaches you, why performance is only 10% of promotability, and how personal branding has quietly become the most strategic lever women have to separate their identity from their job.

Together, we dive into:

- How the workplace broke and why millennial managers are rewriting it in real time

- The unseen emotional toll of layoffs, unstable leadership, and nervous-system overload

- The PIE Method (performance, image, exposure) and why powerhouse women must play differently

- Why building a personal brand is the individuator that helps women rise without self-abandonment

- How generational trauma and early conditioning show up in executive behavior

- What it actually looks like to position yourself for the next level without doing more

Lauren ties it all together through subconscious reprogramming, emotional clarity, and identity work, giving powerhouse women the tools to stop checking boxes and start positioning themselves as the leaders they already are.

Power Takeaways

• The workplace is changing and millennial managers are leading the rewrite.
• Personal branding isn’t optional; it’s leverage, clarity, and protection.
• You can have your PIE and eat it too when you understand how power actually works.
• Your next level requires identity expansion, not more output.

Links:

• Follow Roxy on LinkedIn
• Follow Roxy on Instagram
• Follow Roxy on TikTok
• Unlock Your Moon Sign (Aka, Emotional Advantage)
• Book a Complimentary Consult with Lauren

Raena brings her trademark clarity, humor, and no-nonsense wisdom to a conversation that cuts through the noise with surgical precision. From the corporate gaslighting around AI layoffs to the quiet reemergence of girlboss culture, to the emotional whiplash of choosing yourself inside systems built on overwork, nothing is off the table in this conversation.

Together, we dig into:

• The scam of “having it all” and why the pursuit keeps women exhausted and under-resourced
• Why AI is the convenient scapegoat for leadership failures
• How fear-based overwork is resurging inside corporate environments
• The subtle ways women recreate the very systems that harm them, even inside advocacy spaces
• Identity grief: what happens when the title, the mission, or the movement becomes you
• The rise (again) of the girlboss and the class privilege hiding beneath it
• Why micro-pushbacks are the new rebellion
• How HR should be operating in 2025, and how Raena models people-first leadership
• What real support between women at work actually looks like
• Deprogramming over-functioning and reclaiming your agency without blowing up your life

Raena also shares the deeply personal story of walking away from an organization she co-founded, the grief, the clarity, and the line she refused to cross in the name of her own integrity.

This episode is a must-listen for any powerhouse woman navigating toxic workplaces, identity shifts, leadership pressure, or the weight of doing it all.

If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re the problem (you’re not), whether you’re allowed to slow down (you are), or whether using your agency actually matters (it does, more than you think)… Raena will give you the words, the perspective, and the permission to take your power back.

ALLLL of the links to connect with Raena and Lauren are included below 👇

This week on Corporate F*ckery, Lauren sits down with Mollie Tregillis, ex-lawyer, leadership expert, and founder of The Fulfillment Lab to unpack what it really takes to create meaning in the middle of corporate chaos.

After more than a decade climbing the ranks of big law, Mollie walked away from the grind to build something better. Now she helps high-achieving women and progressive organizations do big work in a way that actually works for humans.

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This episode is equal parts permission slip and power play — a reminder that your worth isn’t measured in output, but in the quality of your presence, perspective, and peace.

✨ Connect with Mollie

Websites: www.mollietregillis.com & www.thefulfillmentlab.com.au 

Instagram & TikTok: @mollietregillis 

💫 Connect with Lauren

LinkedIn, Instagram & TikTok: @laurendegolia 

Website: laurendegolia.com

What happens when the woman who has it all realizes the cost was her own sense of self?

This week on Corporate F*ckery, we sit down with Heather Boneparth, corporate lawyer turned Director of Business and Legal Affairs at Bonafide Wealth, co-author of Money Together, and the powerhouse redefining what equity really looks like inside modern partnership.

After a decade climbing the corporate ladder, Heather found herself at a crossroads between ambition, motherhood, and marriage. What began as a story about money became a reckoning with identity, worth, and the invisible economics shaping every decision we make.

Together, we unpack how to:

✨ Untangle money stories that start long before your paycheck

✨ Build partnerships rooted in fairness instead of financial imbalance

✨ Redefine success beyond income, titles, and handbags

✨ Detach self-worth from salary and reconnect to what truly matters

Heather reminds us that money isn’t math, it’s meaning. And the real currency of success is time, alignment, and self-trust.

If you’ve ever wondered how to build wealth without losing yourself, this conversation is your permission slip to start rewriting the rules.

Connect with Heather Boneparth:

📘 Money Together, available now wherever books are sold

💌 @averagejoelle on Instagram or Bonefide Wealth Management

💼 thejointaccount.substack.com 

Connect with Lauren DeGolia:

💼 LinkedIn | Instagram | TikTok

Book a complimentary consult with Lauren

Love the show? Leave a review or follow along with the show on LinkedIn

What happens when being human at work becomes a corporate crime? In this week’s episode, I sit down with Beverly Dines, known online as the internet’s Chief Empowerment Officer, to talk about the evolution of leadership, the cost of emotional suppression, and the courage it takes to bring empathy back into the boardroom.

Beverly has scaled mission-driven companies across healthcare, FinTech, and higher education — and in the process, built a digital empire redefining what it means to lead with truth, strategy, and soul. Together, we unpack her rise from breakdown to breakthrough, the power of belonging, and why your “resting face” should never be a performance review metric.

This conversation is equal parts redemption arc and revolution — a masterclass in what it looks like to rebuild power with purpose in a system that rewards performance over humanity.

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🧠 Connect with Beverly Dines

Follow Beverly on Instagram & TikTok: @beverlydines 

Learn more about her work: www.beverlydines.com 

💬 Connect with Lauren

LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok : @laurendegolia 

Ready for an upgrade, book a free consult or visit. www.laurendegolia.com

✨ If you loved this episode:

Leave a 5-star review, share it with your powerhouse friends, and tag us with your biggest takeaways. Because redefining power starts with telling the truth, one conversation at a time.

What does it really take to walk away from a life that looks perfect on paper and build one that actually feels good?

In this episode of Corporate F*ckery, Lauren sits down with Christie Hoffman, the powerhouse behind Corporate Christie, a former marketing executive turned speaker, author, and corporate comedian who’s helping women trade burnout for boundaries and chaos for clarity.

After surviving a corporate collapse, a divorce, and what she calls a “spiritual ego death,” Christie turned her pain into punchlines and her healing into frameworks that help others do the same. Together, Lauren and Christie dive deep into the parallels between corporate trauma and family patterns, how to protect your peace in high-pressure spaces, and why letting go of what’s no longer aligned is the most powerful move you can make.

This conversation is equal parts therapy session, stand-up set, and soul activation. It’s for the women who’ve done everything “right,” only to realize that freedom, not perfection, is the real measure of success.

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Follow @corporatechristie on TikTok and LinkedIn

Grab her book The Family Cycle Breaker 

Listen to The Corporate Christie Podcast wherever you tune in

Join the Movement:

If this episode resonated, join The Pivot Club, a gathering for powerhouse women navigating change, career transitions, and big life pivots with clarity and calm. Learn more. 

You're ready to make shift happen in your career, aren't you? Book a complimentary consult with Lauren here.

Guest: Olivia Howell, Co-Founder & CEO of Fresh Starts Registry

In this episode, Lauren sits down with Olivia Howell, CEO, single mom, and Co-Founder of Fresh Starts Registry, for a real and refreshing conversation about leading, rebuilding, and redefining what power looks like when you stop performing and start being.

They unpack the unspoken dynamics of womanhood in business: the “middle-school energy” that lingers in boardrooms, why kindness is a radical business strategy, and how to build community without losing yourself in the process.

From divorce to digital empire-building, Olivia shares how she turned one of life’s hardest resets into a global platform helping others navigate their own. This episode is proof that you don’t need the blazer, the title, or the approval to be a powerhouse, you just need the courage to start again.

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Listen to this episode if you’ve ever felt:

Like you’re too soft for the system, but too smart to play small. Because power isn’t in the blazer, it’s in how you lead when no one’s watching.

What does it really mean to be a powerhouse woman?

We love the word. We wear it like armor. It sounds sexy, unstoppable, unshakable. But behind the label is a deeper truth: powerhouse women are often carrying more than they were ever designed to hold.

In this season opener, Lauren DeGolia breaks down the anatomy of a powerhouse woman, her grit, her resilience, her softness, and the invisible power she’s still learning to claim on her own terms.

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This episode lays the foundation for Season 2: a journey into the lives of women rewriting power, legacy, and success beyond the limits of corporate systems and societal expectations.

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Episode Summary

The Season One finale digs into the ripple effect of corporate culture, how it rewires identity, drains energy, and shapes our subconscious code. Lauren blends science, energy, and listener stories to show why protecting your peace is radical leadership.

From missed bonuses and toxic bosses to AI replacements and nervous system burnout, this episode proves corporate f*ckery isn’t theory, it’s lived reality. The call to action? Upgrade your operating system, reclaim your energy, and lead your life, career, and business on your own terms.

What You’ll Hear

• The hidden contracts: achievement = belonging, doing more = better results
• Why energy never stays at work, it ripples into health, family, and identity
• Joe Dispenza + Tony Robbins on energy, focus, and subconscious patterns
• Listener stories of betrayal, burnout, and bravery
• Why women aren’t here to fix broken systems, but can model a new kind of leadership by learning to choose peace for themselves

Resources + Links

• Microsoft story: Palo Alto Daily Post 
• Emotional Advantage Calculator
• The Cosmic Cheat Code (the 7-day private podcast experience)
• Book a free consult with Lauren 

Episode Summary

What happens when the success you worked so hard for becomes your safety net and then your cage? In this episode of Corporate F*ckery, I pull back the curtain on the invisible contracts we sign with our careers, the grief of realizing corporate life won’t love you back, and the identity unraveling that comes when you’re no longer sure who you are without the title, the bonuses, or the praise.

This is for the woman who’s done it all right; built the resume, earned the accolades, climbed the ladder, and still feels like she’s quietly drowning inside a life that was supposed to prove she made it.

Together, we’ll explore:

• The invisible contract most high-achievers sign with their careers without realizing it.
• Why what you’re experiencing might not be burnout, it’s grief and identity loss.
• My personal story of being seduced by success, and how it became both my protection and my prison.
• The truth about golden handcuffs, perks as psychological levers, not generosity.
• The tipping point: when your nervous system screams louder than your résumé.
• The reframe: safety is an inside job, and how resilience (not grit) creates real freedom.
• Three ways to start building nervous system safety now:

1. Track your emotional patterns.
2. Audit your energy like currency.
3. Ask your future self how she defines success.

Newsflash: success that costs you your safety isn’t success. It’s survival. And you don’t have to stay here.

✨ When you learn how to regulate your nervous system and reprogram your subconscious stories, you stop living life as a performance review and start living from a place of permission. That’s where the options multiply, whether you keep the corner office or build something entirely your own.

Resources & Links Mentioned in This Episode

• Forbes Article: A Psychologist Reveals The Hidden Cost of Jobs with Golden Handcuffs, by Mark Travers
• 🔮 Emotional Advantage Calculator  
• 🌙 Cosmic Cheat Code — 7-Day Private Podcast
• 📅 Book a complimentary consult with Lauren: 

Quiet quitting isn’t rebellion. It’s resentment in disguise.

And for high achievers, it’s not even quitting, it’s quiet cracking.

In this episode of Corporate F*ckery I break down the myths around “quiet quitting” and explore why so many powerhouse women find themselves stuck in the silent struggle of “quiet cracking.” From the toll on your mental load and nervous system, to the ripple effect on your reputation, team, and culture, we’re unpacking what’s really going on beneath the buzzwords.

You’ll hear real stories (including my own), hard truths from a recent Business Insider article, and the five powerful questions you can ask yourself to navigate whether it’s time to shift perspective, change roles, or upgrade your nervous system for lasting peace.

Because the truth is: quiet quitting and quiet cracking aren’t failures. They’re signals. And they may just mean you’re ready for more alignment than ever before.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

• Why quiet quitting isn’t a boundary, it’s camouflage.
• The rise of “quiet cracking” and what 95% of surveyed workers admitted to experiencing.
• The hidden cost of survival mode: guilt, resentment, and nervous system collapse.
• How quiet quitting shows up at every level, from ICs to CEOs
• The ripple effect: what your disengagement does to reputation, trust, and culture.
• Five powerful questions to help you evaluate where you are and what you really need.
• A simple micro-tool to shift your nervous system out of survival mode today.

5 Power Questions to Ask Yourself:

1. Identity check: Has my job become such a core part of my identity that it feels like losing myself to even imagine shifting it?
2. Alignment check: Does this role still serve me or am I clinging to it because change feels too scary?
3. Capacity check: Have I felt this way before? What would upgrading my nervous system make possible?
4. Mental load check: How much energy am I spending managing guilt, resentment, or “whack-a-mole” emotions compared to the actual work?
5. Future vision check: If nothing changes in the next 6-12 months, how will that impact my peace, relationships, and goals?

Links and Resources:

• 📊 Business Insider article on quiet cracking: “Fatigue, flashbacks, and crying on commutes: 5 workers describe what 'quiet cracking' looks like” 
• 🌙 Find your Moon Sign (free calculator)
• 🎧 Explore The Cosmic Cheat Code
• 💬 Book a complimentary consult with me

How high-achievers keep feeding the burnout beast and why it’s time to choose peace instead of proximity.

They’re calling it a “return to normal.”

But for many high-achievers, women, men, caregivers, and anyone who built a life around flexibility it feels more like “Rigged to Overwork.”

In this episode, I’m breaking down the truth behind RTO mandates the data, the corporate gaslighting, and the real emotional cost that the headlines aren’t talking about.

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• The Time article stats proving this isn’t about productivity, it’s about control.
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• A real-life look at the toll of commuting, mom guilt, and identity erosion.
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• The three biggest corporate f*ckery tactics at play in RTO mandates.
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• Why your nervous system reacts the way it does and how to use regulation, identity work, and subconscious reprogramming to find your third option.
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• 💭 Five power questions to help you choose peace over proximity and create a future that actually fits you.
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• What feels heaviest in my day and if nothing changes, what will this cost me in 3 months? In a year?
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• What’s one thing I can stop doing this week that frees energy without sacrificing the quality of my work or life?
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• If I believed I had nothing to prove and nothing to lose, what’s the first change I’d make today, not “someday”?
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• Which version of me has outlived her purpose and who am I ready to become instead?
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• What would I need to believe, deep in my bones, to consistently choose what’s best for me, even when it’s inconvenient or uncomfortable?
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Whether you’re a leader deciding how to advocate for your team, or you’re in the trenches trying to decide what’s next for you, this conversation will remind you: you have more than two choices.

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Welcome to the intersection of power and freedom.

Title: The False AI Promise

The productivity lie. The AI illusion. And the real intelligence worth protecting.

In this episode of Corporate F*ckery, we get real about what AI is actually doing to the workplace and what it isn’t. From being marketed as the future of innovation to replacing humans in the name of efficiency, AI is being positioned as the ultimate solution. But what if it’s just a polished past disguised as progress?

Lauren shares why AI isn’t intelligent (yet), how it’s being misused at the expense of real people, and why your subconscious mind, your original intelligence, is the true competitive advantage in this new frontier.

We unpack:

• What AI really is (and what it’s not)
• How “plug-and-play” solutions are breaking billion-dollar systems
• Why layoffs in the name of efficiency are killing creativity, connection, and the economy
• The difference between pattern recognition and original thought
• How to stop outsourcing your judgment to a glorified autocomplete engine
• A human-first framework for navigating the AI revolution with discernment and power

Whether you’re nervous about being replaced or frustrated by the performative AI hype, this one’s for you.

Let’s talk about what it means to lead with originality, protect your wisdom, and shape a future that actually works for humans.

🔗 Resources & Links:

• Business Insider Article: Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings By Ashley Stewart
• Book a free 20-minute consult

Welcome to Corporate F*ckery stories of survival, psychological warfare, and choosing what’s best for you. I’m Lauren DeGolia; certified success coach, subconscious strategist, astrologer, and former corporate insider turned truth-teller.

This episode is for the high-achieving woman who’s starting to wonder if the life she built… is actually costing her the one she wants.

We’re talking about the hidden cost of corporate life, not just your time, but your presence, your peace, your power.

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• A powerful listener story that exposes the guilt of slowing down
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• Survival mode vs. burnout and how we confuse the two
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• What your 6-figure salary is really worth (and what it’s stealing)
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• The soul cost of pinky promises and self-abandonment
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• Why mindset isn’t enough when your nervous system is in survival
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• 10+ tools to untangle your calendar from your conditioning
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This isn’t about quitting your job.

It’s about waking up to what’s no longer sustainable and choosing something better.

Because when you choose what’s best for you,

you don’t just change your life, you change the whole damn system.

🔧 The Untangling Toolkit: 10 Tools to Reclaim Your Time, Energy & Peace

1. Track your hours

Start auditing your reality. Where is your time actually going? Awareness is step one.

2. Micro-sabotage the machine

End meetings 10 minutes early. Don’t answer that Slack immediately. Disrupt the default patterns you’ve been trained into.

3. Rebellious rest

Put “nervous system reset” in your calendar and treat it like it’s your boss’s birthday. Rest on purpose.

4. Flip your calendar

Schedule your life first. Then fit work around it. Even if it’s just one personal thing per week, start there.

5. Reverse ROI

Ask: “Is this giving me peace or points? Presence or panic?” Let that guide your yeses and nos.

6. The Jane Protocol

Before saying yes, ask: If I just received a life-altering diagnosis, would this still matter?

7. 5-minute ritual break

Music. Movement. Breath. Clear your energy like you clear your inbox. Try EFT tapping, a walk, or a guided meditation.

8. Don’t let this harden you

Let it show you where your choices need to change. Self-preservation is leadership.

9. Fantasize on repeat

Imagine how you’d love your day to feel, from start to finish. Then gamify it. Practice living it, not just surviving it.

10. Talk to your future self

She already figured this out. Ask her what she knows. Need help connecting? That’s my specialty.

Explore my universe: 

Discover your Moon Sign: your emotional GPS system: moon.beyondyourhoroscope.com

The Cosmic Cheat Code: the 7-day audio reset to decode your emotional landscape and reconnect with clarity, calm, and your inner truth: Get the guide

Book a free 20-minute consult: Let’s talk about what’s keeping you stuck in high-functioning survival and how to get your nervous system on board with a new reality: [Book here]

This episode is for the leader who thought they could out-strategize her way to freedom and got handed a plot twist instead.

We’re talking about what happens when your exit strategy explodes, autopilot becomes a prison, and the universe invites you to reinvent, ready or not.

In this episode, I share:

💥 The difference between conscious logic and subconscious safety (and why hustle alone will never get you free)

💥 What “corporate autopilot” actually is and how it hijacks your calendar, emotions, and identity

💥 Why familiar patterns feel safe (even when they suck), and what your nervous system really needs to update your reality

💥 The story behind my slow-burn reinvention while working full-time and building a business

💥 What changed the week I graduated from a Harvard-level subconscious change certification and lost my dad

💥 Why getting laid off from Microsoft cracked me open and called me forward

💥 What it actually means to rewrite your relationship with work, identity, and emotional peace

This episode isn’t about quitting your job on a whim or burning your life down.

It’s about remembering who you are under the performance patterns.

It’s about practicing a new way of being that’s rooted in emotional safety, not optics.

It’s about building a version of success that doesn’t require you to sacrifice your soul.

Ready to take the next step?

Discover your Moon Sign: your emotional GPS system: moon.beyondyourhoroscope.com

Book a free 20-minute consult: let’s talk about where you are, where you’re headed, and what’s keeping you on autopilot.

Grab The Cosmic Cheat Code: a 7-day audio experience to help you decode your Moon Sign and reconnect with clarity, calm, and inner truth. Get the guide

This episode? It’s personal. (Aren’t they all?)

We’re talking burnout, adrenal crisis, and the unexpected lifelines that helped me reconstruct my identity after corporate collapse. Spoiler: the answers weren’t in a self-help book or a strategy deck… they were in the stars and in my nervous system.

In this episode, I share:

✨ The difference between burnout and adrenal crisis and why it matters

✨ The Burnout Cascade Framework from the NIH that finally explained what was happening to my body and brain

✨ Why your moon sign might just be the map to emotional regulation no therapist ever gave you

✨ The four-hour sob session that changed everything

✨ How a random Akashic Records reading rerouted my entire purpose (woo alert: explained inside)

✨ What I wish I knew about identity, empathy, and how corporate systems eat humanity for breakfast

✨ Why you don’t need to blow up your life to come back home to yourself

This isn’t just about astrology or anti-capitalism. It’s about learning to decode your own patterns so you can stop surviving and start reclaiming your peace, power, and purpose.

References:

Read the NIH study on burnout and adrenal fatigue: Burnout Cascade Framework

🎧 Listen in and then come explore the tools that helped me reclaim my life:

Discover your moon sign (free, instant, custom report):

👉 moon.beyondyourhoroscope.com

Join my free private community, Pivot: our next live call is July 24:

👉 Register here

Book a free 20-minute consult:  let’s talk about where you are, where you’re headed, and what’s been keeping you from making the shift:

👉 Calendly link

Grab The Cosmic Cheat Code: the 7-day audio experience that helps you decodes your Moon Sign so clarity & calm become your new normal and your next step feels like home, instead of hustle.

👉 www.beyondyourhoroscope.com/cheatcode

Summary:

In this raw and revealing episode, Lauren shares the untold origin story that cracked her open and rebuilt her from the inside out. What began as a #MeToo moment in corporate turned into a full-blown systemic collapse of identity, leaving her questioning everything she thought she knew about success, safety, and self-worth.

This isn’t a burnout story.

This is an initiation.

Into truth. Into power. Into a version of you that doesn’t have to perform to be valuable.

What You’ll Hear:

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• The moment Lauren walked away from her corporate career… with no plan
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• The shame spiral of quitting and turning 40 in the same breath
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• A terrifying identity rupture that no one saw coming
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• What happens to your brain and body when you’ve lived in hyperfunction for too long
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• What neurotransmitter testing revealed and why it explained everything
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• The phrase Lauren coined to name what so many high-achieving women silently endure: Systemic Collapse of Self
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• The tools and trainings that helped her rebuild
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• A powerful email from a listener in New Zealand that proves: this podcast is already changing lives
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This episode is for you if:

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• You’ve ever felt like you’re losing yourself in the pursuit of keeping it all together
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• You’re questioning everything success promised you
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• You’re unraveling and wondering if that might be the beginning, not the end
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• You’re craving permission to rest, reclaim, and remember who you are underneath the performance
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• Subconscious reprogramming tools like Neurolinguistic Programming, Rapid Resolution Therapy, and clinical hypnosis
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• A listener email from New Zealand that had a breakthrough after listening 
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📣 Take Action:

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• Reflect on the Cosmic Reframe: Where are you mistaking survival for strength?
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• Share this episode with the woman who looks “fine” but is secretly unraveling
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• Subscribe, leave a review, or DM Lauren your story on Instagram: @lauren.degolia
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Next Episode Teaser:

Lauren takes you into her dark night of the soul—a season she once described as walking naked across a raging river in the dark. No map. No logic. Just a deep, shaky knowing that she had to keep going.

You’re not just listening to a podcast.

You’re stepping into a reclamation.

Three weeks after the unexpected death of her father, Lauren was laid off over Zoom. No warning. No compassion. Just a sterile script and a severance.

But instead of spiraling, she saw it for what it was: a cosmic promotion.

In this debut episode of Corporate Fckery*, Lauren shares the raw story of grief, corporate betrayal, and the sacred rage that sparked a new chapter. She breaks down what “corporate f*ckery” really means, the silent sacrifices high-achieving women make to survive, and why she’s using this moment as a launch point — not a breakdown.

If you've ever felt like you had to hold it all together while quietly unraveling… this episode is for you.

What You’ll Hear:

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• The behind-the-scenes moment of her layoff (and the email that said it all)
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• The emotional weight of sacrificing grief for deadlines
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• What “corporate f*ckery” actually is — and how to recognize it in your own life
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• Lauren’s 5-year journey from burnout to rebuilding her identity with energy, neuroscience, and soul
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• A powerful reflection prompt to help you reclaim your peace (before the system breaks you)
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This episode is for you if:

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• You’ve outgrown the title everyone clapped for
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• You’re navigating grief, identity shifts, or invisible burnout
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• You’re tired of sacrificing your peace for a paycheck
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• You’re ready to redefine success on your own damn terms
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• CNN: Microsoft Lays Off 9,000 Employees
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• Lauren’s journey through Success coaching, Rapid Resolution Therapy, Neurolinguistic Programming, and creating her career and impact on her own terms.
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📣 Let’s connect:

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• Submit your Story of Coprorate F*ckery: https://forms.gle/FNT1M6RF6zQudXiu9
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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurendegolia/
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• Share this episode and tag a friend who’s done surviving and ready to upgrade their corporate identity.
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• Subscribe and leave a review if this cracked something open in you
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