Earn Your Happy

Why Everything Is Happening FOR You (Not To You)

Nov 20, 2025
Explore the transformative power of reframing trauma as something that serves you, not against you. Discover how past experiences of rejection, isolation, and public judgment can become your greatest assets. Learn the importance of breaking away from limiting circles to find your true identity and pursue big dreams. Lori emphasizes viewing problems as feedback and encourages bold action as a remedy for overthinking. She illustrates resilience with gym metaphors, urging listeners to embrace resistance as essential for growth.
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INSIGHT

Reframe Trauma As Growth

  • Trauma can be reframed as a belief that something happened to you rather than for you.
  • Asking "How could this be guiding me?" turns pain into power and growth.
ANECDOTE

Growing Up Isolated Shaped Resilience

  • Lori describes growing up Jehovah's Witness and being isolated at school for holidays and birthdays.
  • That childhood exclusion taught her resilience and empathy she uses today.
ADVICE

Upgrade Your Circle To Scale

  • Change rooms when you outgrow your circle and seek peers who push your scale.
  • Avoid spaces where you're the most successful person; proximity to bigger thinkers accelerates growth.
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