STORYTIME with Lori

Real people. Real stories. Real laughs. Real lessons. 🎙️ Welcome to Storytime with Lori, where we get past the titles, résumés, highlight reels and perfectly polished profiles to meet the human being underneath. Hosted by Lori Mayer, tech and sales leader, storyteller, community builder, entrepreneur, single mom and LGBTQ advocate, STORYTIME with Lori brings together CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs, athletes, creators, advocates, rising leaders and beautifully complicated humans for conversations that go where most interviews don't. We talk about leadership, career growth, women in leadership, entrepreneurship, women in tech, resilience, reinvention, personal growth, mental health, relationships, motherhood, identity, LGBTQ experiences, belonging, confidence, vulnerability, grief, recovery, second chances and starting over. Because success isn't always a straight line. Sometimes it's getting the promotion. Sometimes it's walking away. It's building a company, losing everything, coming out, raising a kid, surviving grief, changing careers, finding your voice, rebuilding after failure or finally deciding you're done shrinking yourself to make everyone else comfortable. And sometimes it's laughing at the absolute shitshow along the way. This isn't another interview podcast filled with polished answers. Lori wants the story underneath the story. What happened before the success? What did failure teach you? What happens when the person everyone calls "strong" is barely holding it together? How do women claim space in rooms that weren't built for them? What does authentic leadership actually look like when nobody's watching? How do we support the next generation coming behind us? And what could we learn from each other if we stopped pretending we had everything figured out? Some episodes explore leadership, business, entrepreneurship, sales, technology and career development with executives and industry leaders. Others dive into resilience, mental health, relationships, identity, grief, recovery, personal transformation and reinvention. You'll hear stories from women breaking barriers, LGBTQ+ voices, founders building something from nothing, athletes chasing impossible goals, parents figuring it out in real time, young people defining success differently and people who turned their hardest chapters into something meaningful. Different generations. Different backgrounds. Different journeys. One microphone. And one rule: Tell the real story. Because Storytime with Lori isn't about telling people how to live. It's about creating enough room for people to tell us how they've lived and what they learned along the way. We celebrate ambition without pretending success is effortless. We talk about resilience without romanticizing struggle. We talk about leadership without forgetting the humans being led. We believe vulnerability is powerful, representation matters and sometimes the conversation we're most afraid to have is exactly the one somebody else needs to hear. So whether you're navigating a career change, building a business, leading a team, raising humans, reinventing yourself, healing from something, chasing an outrageous dream or simply wondering what the hell comes next, pull up a chair. You belong in this conversation. We're not fighting for a seat at somebody else's table. We're making the room bigger. 🎙️ STORYTIME with Lori Real life. Real laughs. Real lessons.