Upgraded with Deirdre Lorenz

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Join me on my podcast as I uncover my captivating and inspiring guests’ secret sauce methods in life. From vacations and celebrations, to career passions and love lives, the unscripted conversations are going to flow like fabulous champagne, or chocolate lava cake, whatever lights your fire. New episodes drop on Fridays. 

  1. 12/06/2025

    Ep18 CAROLINA VENGOECHEA | UPGRADED WITH DEIRDRE LORENZ | USA Dragon Boat Athlete & New Biz

    Join me in the studio as I hang out with a longtime friend of mine who is making her own dreams come true! Carolina Vengoechea is a Miami-based entrepreneur, award-winning fashion designer, master colorist, and Team USA dragon boat athlete. After two decades in the beauty industry, she combined her love for innovation, design, and technology to build solutions that empower both beauty professionals and consumers. She bootstrapped her own startup doing hair from her Beaubar van, a mobile salon solution that started during covid and sparked the creation of the Beaubar app, a beauty marketplace where users earn rewards and Haircolor Drop, an AI based next-generation at-home hair-color kit crafted by professional colorists and delivered ready to apply. Her mission is to push the beauty industry forward by blending technology, artistry, and real-world experience while inspiring women to pursue their fullest potential through creativity, self-growth, and discipline. You'll love this feel good energy! Links for Carolina: Beaubar: https://www.beaubar.com Beaubar Us: https://www.beaubar.app Haircolor Drop: https://www.haircolordrop.com Links for your host, Deirdre:  Imdb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1255825/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/deirdrelorenz  Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@deirdrelorenz Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deirdre.lorenz.the.original Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/deirdrelorenz

    38 min

  2. 11/18/2025

    Ep17 SHAWN LEVY | UPGRADED WITH DEIRDRE LORENZ | New York Times Best Selling Author Shares His Newest Book: CLINT - The Man & the Movies, & More Hollywood Stories

    If you love Hollywood legends, this is for you! What a deep dive that this tremendously insightful and, at times, wildly surprising conversation turned out to be. Multiple New York Times Best Selling author and former film critic for The Oregonian and KGW (the NBC affiliate in Portland) Shawn Levy joins me to discuss his newest masterpiece, an extensive book titled CLINT, The Man and the Movies.  This conversation covers many notable points on Academy Award winning actor and director Clint Eastwood, and many of the revelations that surprised both of us from his life and career. The conversation moves to another of Shawn's books that I feverishly read and soaked up, The Castle on Sunset, which is an astounding biography on the hidden, yet famous (and some would say, infamous), Hollywood gem, The Chateau Marmont. We then discuss Shawn's storytelling podcast Glitter & Might, The Lou Wasserman Story.  This man is one of the reasons Hollywood is Hollywood, but nobody knows his name! Oh, and I'm not sorry to say that we have a total Oregon love fest at the end. Yes, we both have Oregon family pioneer stories. We laughed, we cried and so much more.  This episode is an adventure movie in itself!

    1h 18m

  3. 10/24/2025

    Ep16 DAVID LEE | UPGRADED WITH DEIRDRE LORENZ | Movie Set Still Photographer David Lee Shares How the Camera is His Storytelling Paintbrush

    We are back in the virtual Upgraded Podcast studio with my friend, the talented and renowned still photographer and visual storyteller David Charles Lee. We share our fun memories meeting on a couple of his brother, filmmaker Spike Lee’s, sets. Then, we discuss David’s travel dreams, current projects, his more than 100 film and show credits (and missing his credits on projects including The Wire!!), and the challenges of organizing a vast and growing collection of photo archives. David shares about his family, the value and love of creativity in his family, and how he loves storytelling from all angles. We packed in too many gems to count in this reunion conversation. This is a must listen. Thank you, David!

    41 min

  4. 09/10/2025

    Ep15 VIET "RIKEE" NGUYEN | UPGRADED WITH DEIRDRE LORENZ | Viet "Rikee" Nguyễn joins us from Vietnam!

    After months of living abroad in Vietnam, Viet Nguyen returns to the podcast to share his thoughtful and thought provoking reflections, adventure stories with new and old friends, as well as his hopes and dreams for beautiful Vietnam and its residents as it navigates rapid growth and change. So many good insights on expat life and traveling the country - from Saigon to a breathtaking rooftop in Da Nang overlooking the South China Sea at sunrise. This episode if full of golden keepsakes.

    33 min

  5. 08/15/2025

    Ep14: 🎙️Nikki Carroll is a Radio City Rockette, 100 Year Anniversary Season & Vacationing in Greece

    Radio City Rockette Nikki Carroll joins me in the Upgraded studio for an upbeat conversation sharing her journey to fulfilling dreams of becoming a Rockette, details on getting tickets for the upcoming 100th Anniversary season, the value of support from her fellow precision dance community members, finding friends who are family, and gearing up for her first trip to Greece. This episode will have you humming Christmas tunes and toasting with the Greek word for cheers (hint: yamas!) before you know it! More on Nikki Carroll: @nikkicramproll Where to buy your Radio City Christmas Spectacular tickets:  rockettes.com

    17 min

  6. 08/08/2025

    Ep13 Expert NYC Hair Stylist & Cutler Salon Co Owner Jenny Balding Shares about Creating Her Dreams, Fashion Week Experiences and the Beauty Business

    Scottish New Yorker Jenny Balding joins me from the iconic Cutler Salon at The Arlo Hotel where she works her hair styling magic, and where she also works as a co owner of the fabulous salon with Rodney Cutler.  Jenny shares about why Rome is a dream location to travel. Then, we jump into how she manifested her dream career as not only a hair styling career with supermodels in New York, but also as a mother and role model for her daughter.  Jenny shares about the hard hustle and grass roots efforts to build the salon over the years, pounding the pavement and building it step by step and year after year with everyone at the salon.  She shares about her early and continued inspiration from her father, and how she's technically been doing hair since she was 7!  Since I've been a hair ambassador for the salon for so long, I can personally vouch for her immense talent and consistency. You have to hear the Betsy Johnson and Bryant Park fashion week stories, too.  So amazing! This conversation is full of feel good thoughts and nostalgic stories that fashion, beauty and New York lovers won't soon forget.  Join us for this podcast adventure!

    32 min

  7. 06/21/2025

    Ep 11: Sean Kelly of The Samples Sings and Shares About Life

    Join Sean and I in the studio as he shares all about his early days, discovering his voice and songwriting inspirations, and how fatherhood is his most precious and wonderful reward in life. Also, he sings one of my favorite originals, and we talk about how we met. Lots of creative magic in this awesome episode! Thank you so much, Seany Boy!!!  Book Sean and The Samples at thesamples@aol.com  Read more on The Samples at  thesamples.com #seankelly #thesamples #folksong #music #livemusic #singer #songwriter #actress #santoriniblue #score #originalsong #success #goodvibes #lifestory #deirdrelorenz #podcast #entertainment #acoustic #concert #goodlife #colorado #artist #thankyou

    42 min

  8. 05/24/2025

    Mercedez Gable is the Ultimate Hair Colorist

    Join me in the studio as my long time extraordinary hair colorist of Cutler Salon, Mercedez Mueller, shares some of her wild stories about different jobs and special requests she has navigated, as well as how she got me hooked on reality tv, Bravo, and all about her fabulous new hair studio upstate, M Studios. We spill some really good tea in this episode since we’ve shared so many crazy beauty adventures. Time to eavesdrop!  Find more at: Insta, YouTube, TikTok ​⁠  Insta @M.StudiosNY #actress #deirdrelorenz #movies #podcast #explore #story

    25 min
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Join me on my podcast as I uncover my captivating and inspiring guests’ secret sauce methods in life. From vacations and celebrations, to career passions and love lives, the unscripted conversations are going to flow like fabulous champagne, or chocolate lava cake, whatever lights your fire. New episodes drop on Fridays. 

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    Deirdre
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