The Show Lounge

Laura Doughty
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Welcome to The Show Lounge — where life, love, and lessons get honest. Every life leaves an imprint. Every imprint has a story. Every story deserves a show. Hosted by Laura Doughty, The Show Lounge is a place for real conversations about the stories we live, the roles we play, the truths we uncover, and the lives we choose to create next. From identity, relationships, self-trust, creativity, culture, ambition, storytelling, and reinvention to the occasional look behind the curtain of Raised by Fire, Flight Path, and the work still unfolding — nothing here is about having all the answers. It’s about telling the truth, asking better questions, and making room for the parts of life that don’t fit neatly into a highlight reel. Because sometimes the most important part of the show is what happens behind the curtain. This is The Show Lounge. ✨ New episodes monthly 🎙️ Conversations about life, love, identity, storytelling, creativity, culture, self-trust, reinvention, and the story beneath the surface. Learn more at www.raisedbyfire.com #TheShowLounge #RaisedByFire #LauraDoughty #Storytelling #SelfReclamation

  1. 2d ago

    Episode 32: A Love Letter to the Miles

    Episode 32: A Love Letter to the Miles One week after completing her eighth marathon — and her third New York City Marathon — Laura is still feeling everything the clock could never measure. The 2026 race marked 50 years of New York City's iconic five-borough course and became the largest marathon ever held. Laura crossed the finish line five days before turning 60 and nineteen days before the release of Raised by Fire. But this episode isn't about pace. It's about what happens when something you've carried as a dream finally becomes a memory. A sentence Laura read after the race brought her to tears: “When a dream comes true, part of it dies.” In this episode of The Show Lounge, she reflects on 24 years of running, eight marathons, the invisible miles behind every finish line, and why this race felt connected to a much larger season of endings, risks, release and remembrance. She talks about the final three miles through Central Park, listening to the music from the Raised by Fire musical, stopping just before the finish line to whisper “It's done. Thank you,” and the stranger who reminded her that it was finally time to cross. This isn't a goodbye to marathons. It's a love letter to what the miles have already given her — and to the freedom of realizing she no longer needs them to prove who she is. Because the clock can measure the miles. But it can never measure what they gave you. In this episode: Why “What was your time?” may be the least interesting marathon question The strange grief that can follow achieving a long-held dream What 24 years and eight marathons have taught Laura about endurance Why gratitude and sadness can coexist at a finish line Running the world's largest marathon days before turning 60 The connection between the final miles, Raised by Fire, and the previous three years of Laura's life The difference between loving the miles and needing them to prove something Why completion doesn't automatically mean goodbye Raised by Fire releases November 20, 2026. Every life leaves an imprint.Every imprint has a story.Every story deserves a show.

    Episode 32: A Love Letter to the Miles

  2. Oct 15

    Episode 31: When Grief Happens Before Death

    When Grief Happens Before Death Four years after her sister’s death, Laura recently sat down to record the audiobook chapter “Twin Flames, Different Fires” from her memoir Raised by Fire — and realized something had fundamentally changed. The facts were the same. The memories were the same. But the charge was gone. In this episode of The Show Lounge, Laura reflects on what it means to grieve a relationship long before someone physically dies, the difference between love and reciprocity, and the surprising clarity that can come when you no longer need a different ending. She also explores what funerals can reveal about the life behind the highlight reel — who was centered, who was excluded, what family structures were actually holding things together, and how quickly those structures can collapse once the person at the center is gone. This is not an episode about blame. It is about truth. About honoring the love without surrendering the reality. About allowing your experience to belong to you, even if others remember it differently. And about the freedom that comes when you can finally carry the truth without carrying the weight. Every life leaves an imprint.Every imprint has a story.Every story deserves a show. 🎙️ The Show Lounge — Episode 31When Grief Happens Before Death You can see the video I originally created to honor Pam — now completed with Tyra Lokey-Robinson signing I Will Be Free — at [Watch Here]. #TheShowLounge #RaisedByFire  #Grief #FamilyDynamics #Healing #Storytelling

    Episode 31: When Grief Happens Before Death

  3. Oct 4

    Episode 30: Every Story Deserves a Show

    The Love Lounge has become The Show Lounge — but this episode is about much more than a name change. Laura looks back at the four-year-old girl in glasses and a glittery dance costume who loved tap, the influence of growing up around her father's drama programs and plays, and the confidence she gained from being onstage long before she knew where that confidence would lead. She also revisits an idea she explored only months ago: becoming. What happens when language that once served us no longer feels true? For Laura, becoming has given way to remembering — the understanding that perhaps we aren't endlessly racing toward a better, healed, accomplished version of ourselves. Perhaps we're learning to remember what was already encoded within us. Drawing from the Raised by Fire chapter “Encoded for Greatness,” Laura explores evolution, self-trust, homecoming, and the freedom to change our words, our identities, and even our minds as our understanding deepens. Because unlike a marathon, life has no final finish line. Every life leaves an imprint. Every life has a story. Every story deserves a show. 🎙️ The Show Lounge — where life, love, and lessons get honest.Raised by Fire arrives November 2026.https://www.raisedbyfire.com/ #TheShowLounge #EveryStoryDeservesAShow #RaisedByFire #Remembering #Storytelling #LauraDoughty

    Episode 30: Every Story Deserves a Show

  4. Sep 16

    Episode 29: When Truth Makes Other People Uncomfortable

    Everyone says they value honesty — until honesty disrupts a story they've become comfortable believing. As the November release of Raised by Fire approaches, Laura sits with one of the more complicated questions surrounding telling a true story: How do you honor your truth without weaponizing it, and how much of someone else's comfort are you responsible for protecting? This episode explores the difference between cruelty and clarity, why compassion does not require silence, the pressure hidden inside the phrase “be careful who you hurt,” and what changes when we speak about painful experiences after we've had enough distance to understand them. Laura also reflects on the responsibility of the memoirist — to be honest, resist distortion, allow complexity, and remember the humanity of everyone in the story — while refusing to sanitize lived experience simply because the truth may make someone uncomfortable. At the heart of the conversation is a distinction that defines Raised by Fire: “I did not write Raised by Fire in order to heal. I healed enough to write it honestly.” Because grace is not erasure. Compassion is not silence. And healing does not require the scar to disappear. Raised by Fire arrives November 2026.https://www.raisedbyfire.com/

    Episode 29: When Truth Makes Other People Uncomfortable

  5. Aug 28

    Episode 28: Becoming

    Love Lounge — Becoming What if becoming isn't always about changing who you are? What if, eventually, becoming is simply allowing more of who you've always been to come forward? In this episode of Love Lounge, Laura reflects on the quieter side of becoming — the years, choices, private decisions, closed doors, beginnings, endings and unseen work that happen long before anyone else sees the finished thing. As the final four months of 2026 unfold, Laura is standing at a unique threshold: preparing to run her eighth marathon, turning 60, and releasing her memoir, Raised by Fire, this November. There's plenty happening around her. But something at the center isn't moving anymore. She knows where she stands. This conversation explores the difference between evolving and constantly reinventing yourself, honoring the rooms that brought you here without needing to return to them, protecting the things that aren't ready to be announced, and trusting that not everything needs witnesses while it's becoming. And somewhere in the middle, Laura speaks a few intentions over the months ahead — part reflection, part declaration, and maybe just a tiny bit of a spell. Her angels know the footnotes. Raised by Fire arrives November 2026.Preorder: www.raisedbyfire.com/preorder

    Episode 28: Becoming

  6. Jul 31

    Episode 27: Ease Isn’t a Strategy — It’s a Frequency

    In this episode of Love Lounge, Laura explores the quiet shift that happens when we stop forcing life and begin allowing ourselves to live from a place of coherence, trust, and inner safety.  Inspired by themes that deeply mirror her own journey in Raised by Fire, this conversation reflects on: • the addiction to struggle • why ease can feel unfamiliar to high-achieving people • the nervous system’s relationship to peace • the difference between strength and survival • the “in-between” space before major transformation • and why true alignment is often much quieter than we expect This isn’t a conversation about giving up. It’s a conversation about no longer abandoning yourself through force. If you’ve been in a season of transition, recalibration, or becoming… this episode is an invitation to soften into the possibility that ease may not be weakness at all. It may be wisdom.Raised by Fire releases November 2026.Preorders Open - www.RaisedbyFire.com/preorderwww.RaisedbyFire.comInstagram: @theLauraDoughty Instagram: @theRaisedbyFire YouTube: @theLauraDoughty

    Episode 27: Ease Isn’t a Strategy — It’s a Frequency

  7. Jul 1

    Episode 26: The Story Has a Name

    The Story Has a Name  When Laura revealed the cover of Raised by Fire on January 1st, it felt like a milestone. But as November approaches, she's realizing something important: A cover release is not the same as releasing the story. In this deeply personal episode of Love Lounge, Laura reflects on the difference between writing a memoir and living one, the quiet vulnerability of allowing a story to leave your hands, and why the journey toward Raised by Fire feels connected to this year's NYC Marathon, her Marathon Mission, and the threshold of turning sixty. This conversation explores: • Why stories exist long before they're written • The difference between being broken and being forged • Why releasing a story is an act of trust • The connection between Raised by Fire, the marathon, and personal transformation • What it means to stop carrying a story alone Raised by Fire releases November 2026.Preorders Open July 17thwww.RaisedbyFire.comInstagram: @theLauraDoughtyInstagram: @theRaisedbyFireYouTube: @theLauraDoughty

    Episode 26: The Story Has a Name

  8. Jun 15

    Episode 25: The First Finish Line: Coming Back to Myself

    The First Finish Line: Coming Back to Myself In this episode of Love Lounge, Laura shares the full story behind her very first marathon — Venice, Italy, 2001. What began as a spontaneous “yes” became a defining moment of resilience, self-trust, and identity. From leaving everything behind to move to Los Angeles, to traveling solo to a foreign country, to running 26.2 miles and navigating unexpected challenges — this story is about far more than a race. It’s about remembering who you are when everything feels uncertain. This episode is part of the larger journey behind Laura’s upcoming book Raised by Fire and her Instagram series Stoop Stories: The Miles That Forged Me. As she prepares for the TCS New York City Marathon, Laura is also dedicating each mile to her Marathon Mission, supporting meaningful causes along the way. To follow the journey or sponsor a mile: 👉 raisedbyfire.com/marathon-mission

    Episode 25: The First Finish Line: Coming Back to Myself
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Welcome to The Show Lounge — where life, love, and lessons get honest. Every life leaves an imprint. Every imprint has a story. Every story deserves a show. Hosted by Laura Doughty, The Show Lounge is a place for real conversations about the stories we live, the roles we play, the truths we uncover, and the lives we choose to create next. From identity, relationships, self-trust, creativity, culture, ambition, storytelling, and reinvention to the occasional look behind the curtain of Raised by Fire, Flight Path, and the work still unfolding — nothing here is about having all the answers. It’s about telling the truth, asking better questions, and making room for the parts of life that don’t fit neatly into a highlight reel. Because sometimes the most important part of the show is what happens behind the curtain. This is The Show Lounge. ✨ New episodes monthly 🎙️ Conversations about life, love, identity, storytelling, creativity, culture, self-trust, reinvention, and the story beneath the surface. Learn more at www.raisedbyfire.com #TheShowLounge #RaisedByFire #LauraDoughty #Storytelling #SelfReclamation

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  • Creator
    Laura Doughty
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    32
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Laura Doughty I The Show Lounge Podcast
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