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Here’s what happens when people stop using filters, and start getting real. Each week, your host Lauren will be interviewing different influential people from around the internet and asking them about how they manage their relationship with social media. The conversations are candid and unedited. You’ll hear from bloggers, influencers, actresses, singers, directors, podcasters, entrepreneurs and more. No one has it all figured out. These conversations will cure your FOMO and encourage you to confidently pursue your own dreams, whatever they may be.

Perfcked Podcast Lauren Ellman

    • Health & Fitness
    • 5.0 • 29 Ratings

Here’s what happens when people stop using filters, and start getting real. Each week, your host Lauren will be interviewing different influential people from around the internet and asking them about how they manage their relationship with social media. The conversations are candid and unedited. You’ll hear from bloggers, influencers, actresses, singers, directors, podcasters, entrepreneurs and more. No one has it all figured out. These conversations will cure your FOMO and encourage you to confidently pursue your own dreams, whatever they may be.

    55. Getting Introspective with Comedian Mario Ramil

    55. Getting Introspective with Comedian Mario Ramil

    Welcome back to another episode of the Perfcked podcast! We are so excited to introduce you to today's guest, Miami-based comedian, Mario Ramil. Mario shares about how he got started with comedy and what it's like keeping up with it as a career. He shares so many insights into what it's like creating online content right now and building a career from it. Being funny on the internet isn't as easy as it looks, and we're so grateful Mario gave us the real talk on today's episode. Remember to subscribe to the show and share with anyone who may want to hear from our guests. See you next Friday! 

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    • 1 hr 17 min
    54. Dealing with Rejection and Enjoying the Process with Courtney Dlugos

    54. Dealing with Rejection and Enjoying the Process with Courtney Dlugos

    On today's episode of the Perfcked podcast, we are joined for a second time by one of our favorite people, Courtney Dlugos. 

    Courtney is an actor and Tiktoker who is as smart as she is funny. In today's conversation, she shares about how her experience as a working actress and social media personality and what it's like to balance all of that while maintaining a healthy mental state. 

    Also, during today's intro, our host Lauren shares a story about seeking help for her depression in the hopes of encouraging listeners to advocate for themselves. 

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    TALKING POINTS:

    + Rewiring our brains around rejection

    + Learning to enjoy the process

    + Managing our mental health and career pursuits

    + Staying true to ourselves

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    CONNECT WITH COURTNEY:

    TIK TOK

    INSTAGRAM

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    @laurenellman_

    laurenellman.com


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    • 1 hr 32 min
    53. The Digitization of the Human Psyche with Austin Archer

    53. The Digitization of the Human Psyche with Austin Archer

    Welcome back to season 6 of the Perfcked podcast! Thank you for your patience during our almost year-long hiatus. We are so happy to be back and kicking off this new season with one of our favorite creators, Austin Archer. 

    You may know him as @yourpal_austin on Tik Tok, where he writes and performs songs and skits for his over 1 million followers. He is a freelance artist for hire in Los Angeles, CA. With more than 20 years professional experience as an actor, singer-songwriter, director/choreographer, and script writer, Archer boasts a breadth of expertise in a wide variety of forms.

    In today's episode we cover all of our favorite topics: the omnipresence of social media, the current state of society's mental health and how to f*ck with trolls on the internet. 

    PS: We have a brand new theme song for the podcast! Guess who made it 👆🏼

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    TALKING POINTS:

    + Foreboding joy- what it means and how to avoid it

    + How to deal with trolls on the internet

    + Safeguarding our mental health against social media's pitfalls

    + Remembering there can be just as much good as there is bad online

    + The digitization of the human psyche

    + Dissecting the creative process of content creation

    + What "being in the biz" is really like

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    CONNECT WITH AUSTIN:

    @yourpal_austin

    austin-archer.com

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    CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

    ***Leave a review for BRB on Amazon***

    @laurenellman_

    laurenellman.com


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    • 1 hr 22 min
    52. Learning how to love your appearance from the inside out, with Helly Angel

    52. Learning how to love your appearance from the inside out, with Helly Angel

    When did you first realize you were in a toxic relationship with your own appearance? Have the images on social media made it worse? On today's episode we are unpacking all of that and more with content creator and podcast host, Helly Angel. 

    Helly has taken to Tik Tok to reveal the truth behind filter influencer photos, plastic surgery, stripping and more. She keeps it all the way real, which is just our style here at the Perfcked podcast. 

    TALKING POINTS:

    + Unpacking unrealistic beauty standards pushed by influencers

    + Revealing the truth behind plastic surgery

    + Fixing our toxic relationship with our bodies through self-love

    + What stripping is really like

    + Exploring the benefits of affirmations and manifestation

    + The power of social media to break these cycles 

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    CONNECT WITH HELLY:

    @hellysangel

    https://linktr.ee/hellysangel/

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    CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

    ***Leave a review for BRB on Amazon***

    @laurenellman_

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    • 51 min
    51. Unsubscribing from toxic productivity with Melina Charis

    51. Unsubscribing from toxic productivity with Melina Charis

    Do you ever feel shame or guilt around resting? Today's guest breaks down why that is and how we can unsubscribe from the cult of toxic productivity. Mental health is more important that productivity, we've just been conditioned to believe the reverse. Our guest, Melina Charis, unpacks this and so much more in today's episode. 

    Melina is an energetic coach who helps soul-centered creatives, dreamers, and entrepreneurs come home to their true selves and trust the magic within them. She uses a combination of energy work + coaching to help clients liberate themselves from limiting beliefs, connect to their higher selves and their infinite wisdom, and learn to consciously create a life and business that feels fully aligned and authentic to them. She believes that only YOU know how to live your life authentically - she just helps you peel back the conditioning so you can remember how.

    TALKING POINTS:

    + Prioritizing mental health

    + Examining toxic productivity

    + Healing through creativity and physicality

    + Embracing masculine and feminine energies

    + Owning our magic 

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    CONNECT WITH MELINA:

    MelinaCharis.com

    @MelinaCharis

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    CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

    ***Leave a review for BRB on Amazon***

    @laurenellman_

    laurenellman.com


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    • 1 hr 2 min
    50. Lifting the veil social media places over the wedding industry with co-founder of Bustld, Samie Roberts

    50. Lifting the veil social media places over the wedding industry with co-founder of Bustld, Samie Roberts

    Are you or someone you know currently planning a wedding? This is the conversation you need to hear! On today's episode we are speaking to Samie Roberts, co-founder of Bustld. Bustld is a wedding planning platform that helps connect vendors with brides + grooms. We are lifting the veil social media places over the wedding industry. Samie helps couples plan the wedding they want, not the one social media tells them they should have. 

    Samie provides the creative and industry insight alongside the operational expertise at Bustld. Her background at a top PR agency in New York City provided her the knowledge and know-how on how to properly design and execute large events. She used that knowledge to launch one of the top wedding planning companies in Charlotte seven years ago. She combines all this knowledge in her passion for bringing wedding inspiration and knowledge to couples at Bustld.

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    CONNECT WITH SAMIE:

    https://app.bustld.com/

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    CONNECT WITH LAUREN:

    ***Leave a review for BRB on Amazon***

    @laurenellman_

    laurenellman.com




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    • 52 min

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