
Manifesting Joy : 52 Weeks of Hope
Are you burnt out? Do you feel like life’s passing you by? Is your inner critic going nonstop? If you’ve been wishing for some kind of shift, you’re in the right place! Listen and learn how to stop the negative voices. Conquer your limiting beliefs and learn how to breathe, laugh, and live in your joy. Find your way to an aligned, clear, and focused path doing what YOU want to do.
Get inspired as leaders, healers, and change agents discuss the challenges they’ve overcome as they give you their message of HOPE. Through humor, compassion, and grace, you’re reminded that anything is possible, and it’s never too late to live your purpose, do what lights you up, and create extraordinary things.
This podcast is for you if you find yourself asking questions like:
- How do I succeed on my self-improvement journey?
- What is the most effective meditation technique?
- How do I stop feeling so overwhelmed and tired?
- Is journaling effective?
- How does manifestation work?
- What are affirmations?
- Is breathwork for me?
Learn how to replace your inner critic with a kind, nurturing, and compassionate one. Find your way to personal growth and replace that lack mentality with a mindset of abundance. Listen and feel the magic right away!
Latest episodes

Mar 3, 2021 • 40min
Heal from the Inside Out with Acupuncturist Teresa Wlasiuk
Teresa Wlasiuk, an acupuncturist with a doctorate in Chinese herbal medicine, is passionate about holistic healing. She specializes in aiding women with fertility issues and veterans dealing with phantom limb pain. In the conversation, Teresa discusses how acupuncture can transform lives by alleviating pain and enhancing hormonal balance. She also shares her journey from radical activism to embracing wellness practices. With insights on energy protection and personal resilience, she inspires listeners to achieve optimal health through gratitude and community.

Feb 24, 2021 • 34min
Using Candor to Change Your Life with Laura Rittenhouse
Join "The Queen of Candor," Laura Rittenhouse, for a candid love-filled conversation about surviving and thriving IN life through positive thinking and hope. Laura has built a powerhouse company, Rittenhouse Rankings, advising top executives at major CORPORATIONS how the power of words can establish trust. Her motto, “Our words create our future”, is something we can all live by, and actually, USE TO manifest! Discover why Warren Buffet says Laura “is still on the side of angels."
Laura is currently finishing her 4th book, “The 5 Blessings of Cancer”, where she teaches us how to stay true to our intuitive sense, ask for help, let others in, and stay in gratitude. Discover in this episode how you can use your words to empower yourself and others.

Feb 17, 2021 • 33min
How to Create a Legacy Brand with Tiffany Neuman
Visionary Branding Strategist Tiffany Neuman was thriving in her corporate 9-5 world when she discovered she had a life-threatening illness. What kind of legacy did Tiffany want to leave? Re-examining what she really wanted to do, she decided to start her own company. After 15 years in the corporate world, she left to establish a revolutionary branding business that stays one step ahead of trends. Today Tiffany gets to help highly motivated entrepreneurs and influencers up-level their businesses. She specializes in legacy branding.
Tiffany now works with clients across the globe to help them ACHIEVE 10x their sales, and more importantly, to shine even brighter... which you’ll get to do too after hearing Lauren’s conversation with Tiffany!

Feb 10, 2021 • 44min
How to Find Love Right Now with Evan Marc Katz
JOIN US FOR THIS WEEKS EPISODE AS WE HELP YOU FIND HOPE...IN LOVE!
Lauren speaks with Evan Marc Katz, the well-known dating coach billed as a “personal trainer for smart, strong, successful women,”. Evan has been helping singles since 2003, having authored four books and been featured in hundreds of media outlets including Today, the New York Times, and CNN. Since 2015, Evan’s blog has over 30 million readers, his podcast has over 1 million downloads, and 12,000 women have graduated from his Love U course helping women understand men and find love.
Listen in as Evan shares inspiration and information that teach us how and why it is possible for you to get the love you desire right now!

Feb 3, 2021 • 40min
How to be 100% You with Krishna Desai
Want to learn a few tools to navigate those tough times in life when you've felt ignored, left out, or different? Lauren welcomes Bay-city based LGBTQ+ attorney and advocate for humanity, Krishna Desai. Krishna works tirelessly helping in conflict resolution, discrimination, and many other spheres through empathic practices. IIn this episode Krishna shares with us an arsenal of tools to get through conflicts that we sometimes don’t even realize we’re in. Krishna is so real, raw, and likable, that you can’t help but smile while listening to this episode.

Jan 27, 2021 • 45min
Taking Control of Your Dreams with April Pfender
Listen to celebrated reiki master, teacher and author April Pfender as she shares how to be true to your highest self in this empowering episode. April believes in following your visions and goals, and that through reiki and meditation we can listen to our inner knowing. Discover how to connect more profoundly to yourself and to one another so that you can direct the path of your life.
April helps people heal and awaken their true passions to actualize their bold voyage of self-realization. She’s written 3 books including the new, "The Complete Guide to Chakras." She recently moved to Maui, Hawaii to serve a larger international community. She does retreats and workshops, and designs healing programs focused on awakening, transformation, and empowerment. You will awaken your best self in just this one episode!

Jan 20, 2021 • 44min
Creating Community with Rabbi Ken Chasen
Enjoy this week's episode with Rabbi Chasen, an outspoken advocate for social justice whose writings appear in publications across the world. Rabbi Chasen shares a plethora of tools to deal with sadness or hard times and to help you create community in your life. He has a way with words that's comforting - you'll feel better about yourself right away. He’s here to share how you can stay balanced, spiritually connected, and connected to community so that you know you’re never alone. He is married to Allison Lee, the Chief Development Officer of TIME’S UP, and they are the parents of three children, who are all at home during Covid!
He’s the Senior Rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles and is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, serves as National Co-Chair for T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, is an appointee to Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Interfaith Leadership Collective, and is a prominent Jewish composer whose works are regularly heard in synagogues and schools around the world.

Jan 13, 2021 • 40min
How to Stay True To Yourself Through Illness with Lauren Ravitz
We all like inspirational friendly voices, and Lauren Ravitz is certainly one of them in this uplifting podcast. Lauren shares how her routine 2nd mammogram visit resulted in a surprise cancer diagnosis and she kept all of this private until treatments completed. She continued working her real estate business and doing the mom thing all the while treating cancer. She “came out” with her cancer in order to help others in any way possible, and as a reminder to all women of the importance of mammograms in cancer detection. Lauren is dynamic, outgoing, successful and fun. She even sprinkles in some sound business advice as well! She knows everyone and if she doesn't - she wants to meet you! Tune in for this uplifting episode of 52 Weeks of Hope.

Jan 6, 2021 • 29min
Feel Better Instantly with Actress Amanda Payton
Join actress Amanda Payton as she discusses how she overcame negative self-talk and shut down the noise in order to become her most authentic self and show up everyday doing what she loves. Amanda has overcome depression, anxiety and addiction issues, and has such great suggestions for when you are feeling down. They’re practical tools that you can use right now to feel better instantly (or at least get on the right track!)
Amanda chatted with Lauren live from London where she was working on the set of Code 404. Amanda can also be seen in Modern Family, Animal Kingdom, NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy and lots of other shows. Discover how to get through tough times and thrive in this easy to listen to episode.

Dec 30, 2020 • 41min
Finding Love with Arielle Ford
Arielle Ford is a trusted love and relationship expert and the co-creator and host of Evolving Wisdom’s Art of Love learning series. Her mission is to help women find love, keep love and be love. In this episode, she shares with our audience her secrets on how to shift your attitude to attract your soulmate, and why right now, during the Covid-19 pandemic, is the best time for dating. She also shares how she started a business during Covid and has adjusted to life without travel (at least temporarily) and explains how you can do all of this, too!
If you are ready to find love, stay in love or reignite love, this episode is for you. Discover how you are literally tripping over potential soulmate life partners every single day, and why you may not see them because you don't believe it. Need help learning the critical aspects that will pull in a romantic soulmate during Covid (or anytime!)? As an entertaining and wise speaker, and the author of 11 fabulous must-read books, including "The Soulmate Secret, Manifest the Love of Your Life with The Law of Attraction," Arielle is here for you.