Unleash Your Inner Creative with Lauren LoGrasso Lauren LoGrasso Productions LLC

Hi Creative Cutie! Today’s guest is Olivia Christian. She’s an entrepreneur, coach, sports expert/host and author, best known for her work on NPR, ESPN radio, and her acclaimed workshop  “Own Your Story”,  which helps participants find their personal brand story…Through her workshop she’s partnered companies such as LinkedIN, Facebook, indeed, Microsoft and MANY more!I actually met Olivia when I was producing Girlboss Radio--We met literally RIGHT before the lockdown in march 2020! Wild. Back then I was struck by her warmth, authenticity, bubbly personality and kindness. I also love that her life mission has everything to do with figuring out who you are and how to communicate that to the world.



From today’s chat you’ll learn: 


How to create a personal brand story
Why repetition is KEY 
How to share a new passion with your audience
How to stop yourself from falling into a comparison trap
How to deal with the distance between where you are with your dreams and where you want to go  
And why if you love it, you should always keep going!



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Get Olivia’s Book: https://www.oliviachristian.co/product/ask-olivia

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Hi Creative Cutie! Do you ever ever wake up and find your thoughts are already spinning in a VERY unpleasant way? Then, you go straight from your intrusive thoughts to social media, making you further feel like shit…Then you check your email, things are already going wrong at work…And the whole rest of the day you find yourself trapped in an anxiety spiral? Well the past couple days that’s how life has been for me…

So today my Boyfriend Timmy and I are here to talk about:


Anxiety and tips to get through and out of that spiral (tactics that actually WORK for us)
How to tell if you’re being too cautious with your creativity/career + the remedy 
AND How to realize when you need a perspective shift on your career and how to approach it! 



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On The Guest: Today I’m honored to say that for the third year in a row Unleash is having on the ironic author of the Artists’ way and prolific creative, Julia Cameron. Julia is  an artist,  teacher, poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and music composer. She’s best known for writing The Artist’s Way which has sold millions of copies, has been translated into 40 different languages and gave her the title “The Queen of Change” for starting a movement that brought creativity into mainstream conversation. Without the Artist’s way, there would be no Unleash. Her brand new book is called: Write for Life and it’s a love letter and guidebook for writers and aspiring writers.

From our Conversation, you’ll learn:


How to have gratitude for the gift of your creativity
Who she pictures when she writes
What a longterm creative partnership takes
How she would personify writing
How to maintain flexibility and consistency
Why setting a daily quota works
The Power of the morning pages and why she’s STILL religious to them
Why the Morning Pages ARE real writing
Why all good writers are authentic and what that means in practice
How to not shame yourself
Why it’s important to not shy away from your first thoughts
How to talk to the inner critic
Why you can’t get rid of the inner critic
How to Blast Through Creative Blocks
The three most important questions to ask yourself when you’re creating
The difference between honesty and authenticity
Why simplicity is a good thing
Why repetition is necessary
Why having fun can actually be difficult for people
Why creativity Can come from joy
Why it’s important to share and spotlight other creatives
Why bribing yourself is important
The desire to be original vs. authentic
How to know when something is “finished”

Get Julia’s Book: https://juliacameronlive.com/books-by-julia/write-for-life/

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Today’s guest is Tori Dunlap- she went from graduating as a theatre major to becoming a top financial expert- creative AF. Today she’s a financial educator, entrepreneur, podcaster, author and social media personality best known for founding her company, ‘Her First $100K,’ her podcast ‘Financial Feminist.’ And her many appearances on TV such as Good morning America, The Today Show and for her first book, Financial Feminist.  At the age of 22, Tori started her financial education blog and began saving money towards a goal of saving $100,000 by the age of 25. She did just that and now she helps other women do the same.



From this conversation you’ll learn:


How she went from being a Theatre Major to becoming a finance Expert
How to see other women’s financial success as an  inspiration and as expansive vs. having a scarcity mindset
What the gender pay gap really is and how it works
How to become a budget Queen (if you’re currently living on vibes alone)
How to figure out your first money memory and how it might be affecting you today
How to reframe budget as a permission slip 
Hot and fast investing tips
How to approach debt + what debt to pay off right away vs. what you can take more time with
How to dispel the conditioning that you aren’t worthy of money
How she found her voice as a writer and her writing process
How to get comfortable talking about finances
How to remove the shame around finances
How to see money as a source of joy, abundance, ease, and a tool to build life the way you want



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Get Tori’s Book: https://herfirst100k.com/financial-feminist-tori-dunlap-book

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My parents, Jo Ann and Mike LoGrasso are back for the third annual Unleash Christmas Spectacular and it's as glorious as ever! 



On today's episode My parents share their take on hard-hitting topics like: 


What should Santa get paid and WHO pays him? 
Who their deepest self really is and why my Mom's has something to do with a hair brush 
Your most controversial Christmas Take 
How to handle having your child's significant other over for the holidays (and tips for the significant others out there, too) 
Their most creative Christmas Hacks/tips
The critique they'd like to give Santa 
What Christmas movie they would like to live in 
How it feels having me home 
What Christmas is like with an adult child vs. when I was little 
Mom Explains Movies- This time, It's A Wonderful Life!! 
A little insight into our Italian heritage and recent reconnection with our Sicilian relatives 
PLUS, an impromptu family songwriting session! 
That and more on this year's glorious Unleash Christmas! 



ENJOY! 



YOU CAN Vote for Unleash for the Signal Awards here: https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2022/shows/general/creativity-marketing 

^It's a huge award and I'm the only indie podcaster nominated! Please vote and support- it takes less than 20 seconds!



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Family patterns and generational trauma. It’s something I think about a lot. Do you ever? Do you ever wonder how much of your life and your issues are actually based on your own choices vs. how much you’re just playing out patterns that you witnessed and ingested from generations past and present? Through epigenetics, they have found that trauma can be passed through our DNA for up to 16 generations. Mind-blowing. Today’s guest is a family patterns expert who will teach you how to free yourself from ancestral trauma and patterns so you can be your full, truest self and unleash!

Today’s guest is Judy Wilkins-Smith. She’s a highly regarded organizational, individual and family patterns expert, systemic coach, motivational speaker and founder of System Dynamics for Individuals & Organizations. She’s also the author of Decoding Your Emotional Blueprint and more! She has 18 years of expertise in assisting high-performance individuals and Fortune 500 executives and their teams, to break limiting cycles and reframe challenges into lasting breakthroughs through an approach called constellations, or interactive mapping, which allows you to map out generational issues at play, feel them and heal them.

From our chat you’ll learn: the difference between closed-minded and closed-hearted, how to transform the meaning of ‘trauma’ into ‘possibility,’ how to align your heart and gut, how to identify generation patterns throughout your family, how to decode emotional blueprint so much more!



From this conversation you’ll learn:


What emotional DNA is and how to figure out yours
How to align your heart and gut 
How to identify and heal generational patterns & ancestral trauma 
How to reframe trauma into possibility 
How to do family constellations and systemic work (and how it can help you become your authentic self) 
Why your physical ailments could be manifesting from past generations' pain (and what to do about it) 
How to do the work to heal up and down the bloodline 
The danger of family secrets and why it's brave and healing for everyone to be the one who stops an unhealthy pattern
Why your nevous system might not *just* be your own 
And MORE! 



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