Forward-thinking Pastor Rod Echols is an advocate of being true to your inner calling. He believes in following all of your visions, and shares how by being open to others, of service to your community, and by doing the footwork in life, you’ll find fulfillment. Discover the way to connect more profoundly to yourself and others in order to strengthen your communities and your inner self right now. Pastor Rod has a way with words and a grace that makes you smile just listening to him. He joins Lauren from beautiful Laguna Beach, CA where he is the minister at Congregational Church, discussing the inclusion of other faiths and emphasizes justice in “collaborating to make a better world." Pastor Rod Echols practices a progressive heartwarming Christianity that's spiritual and rewarding.  Enjoy this expressive episode and feel uplifted immediately & ready to take in life's magic from the inside out.

Acupuncturist Teresa Wlasiuk joins Lauren today with her amazing aura ready to help you heal from the inside out. We all know people who can do everything, and that’s Teresa Wlasiuk. She’s amazing! She helps women with fertility issues. She’s been a doula. She has a doctorate in Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture. She’s helped Veterans with phantom limb pain. Teresa believes in whole body care, by helping patients unblock what’s preventing them from healing in order to reach their optimal state of health. And today she joins 52 Weeks of Hope to help you achieve your optimal health and well-being!

Join "The Queen of Candor," Laura Rittenhouse, for a candid love-filled conversation about surviving and thriving IN life through positive thinking and hope. Laura has built a powerhouse company, Rittenhouse Rankings, advising top executives at major CORPORATIONS how the power of words can establish trust. Her motto, “Our words create our future”, is something we can all live by, and actually, USE TO manifest! Discover why Warren Buffet says Laura “is still on the side of angels."Laura is currently finishing her 4th book, “The 5 Blessings of Cancer”, where she teaches us how to stay true to our intuitive sense, ask for help, let others in, and stay in gratitude. Discover in this episode how you can use your words to empower yourself and others.

Visionary Branding Strategist Tiffany Neuman was thriving in her corporate 9-5 world when she discovered she had a life-threatening illness. What kind of legacy did Tiffany want to leave? Re-examining what she really wanted to do, she decided to start her own company. After 15 years in the corporate world, she left to establish a revolutionary branding business that stays one step ahead of trends. Today Tiffany gets to help highly motivated entrepreneurs and influencers up-level their businesses. She specializes in legacy branding. Tiffany now works with clients across the globe to help them ACHIEVE 10x their sales, and more importantly, to shine even brighter... which you’ll get to do too after hearing Lauren’s conversation with Tiffany!

JOIN US FOR THIS WEEKS EPISODE AS WE HELP YOU FIND HOPE...IN LOVE! Lauren speaks with Evan Marc Katz, the well-known dating coach billed as a “personal trainer for smart, strong, successful women,”. Evan has been helping singles since 2003, having authored four books and been featured in hundreds of media outlets including Today, the New York Times, and CNN. Since 2015, Evan’s blog has over 30 million readers, his podcast has over 1 million downloads, and 12,000 women have graduated from his Love U course helping women understand men and find love. Listen in as Evan shares inspiration and information that teach us how and why it is possible for you to get the love you desire right now!

Want to learn a few tools to navigate those tough times in life when you've felt ignored, left out, or different? Lauren welcomes Bay-city based LGBTQ+ attorney and advocate for humanity, Krishna Desai. Krishna works tirelessly helping in conflict resolution, discrimination, and many other spheres through empathic practices. IIn this episode Krishna shares with us an arsenal of tools to get through conflicts that we sometimes don’t even realize we’re in. Krishna is so real, raw, and likable, that you can’t help but smile while listening to this episode.

Listen to celebrated reiki master, teacher and author April Pfender as she shares how to be true to your highest self in this empowering episode. April believes in following your visions and goals, and that through reiki and meditation we can listen to our inner knowing. Discover how to connect more profoundly to yourself and to one another so that you can direct the path of your life. April helps people heal and awaken their true passions to actualize their bold voyage of self-realization. She’s written 3 books including the new, "The Complete Guide to Chakras." She recently moved to Maui, Hawaii to serve a larger international community. She does retreats and workshops, and designs healing programs focused on awakening, transformation, and empowerment. You will awaken your best self in just this one episode!

Enjoy this week's episode with Rabbi Chasen, an outspoken advocate for social justice whose writings appear in publications across the world. Rabbi Chasen shares a plethora of tools to deal with sadness or hard times and to help you create community in your life. He has a way with words that's comforting - you'll feel better about yourself right away.  He’s here to share how you can stay balanced, spiritually connected, and connected to community so that you know you’re never alone. He is married to Allison Lee, the Chief Development Officer of TIME’S UP, and they are the parents of three children, who are all at home during Covid! He’s the Senior Rabbi of Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles and is a member of the adjunct faculty of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion, serves as National Co-Chair for T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, is an appointee to Mayor Eric Garcetti’s Interfaith Leadership Collective, and is a prominent Jewish composer whose works are regularly heard in synagogues and schools around the world.

We all like inspirational friendly voices, and Lauren Ravitz is certainly one of them in this uplifting podcast. Lauren shares how her routine 2nd mammogram visit resulted in a surprise cancer diagnosis and she kept all of this private until treatments completed. She continued working her real estate business and doing the mom thing all the while treating cancer. She “came out” with her cancer in order to help others in any way possible, and as a reminder to all women of the importance of mammograms in cancer detection. Lauren is dynamic, outgoing, successful and fun. She even sprinkles in some sound business advice as well! She knows everyone and if she doesn't - she wants to meet you! Tune in for this uplifting episode of 52 Weeks of Hope.

Join actress Amanda Payton as she discusses how she overcame negative self-talk and shut down the noise in order to become her most authentic self and show up everyday doing what she loves. Amanda has overcome depression, anxiety and addiction issues, and has such great suggestions for when you are feeling down.  They’re practical tools that you can use right now to feel better instantly (or at least get on the right track!)   Amanda chatted with Lauren live from London where she was working on the set of Code 404. Amanda can also be seen in Modern Family, Animal Kingdom, NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy and lots of other shows. Discover how to get through tough times and thrive in this easy to listen to episode.