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EP#129: Made For More Mindset & Writing Coaching with Lauren Richeson
Lauren Richeson, the visionary behind Made for More Mindset and Writing Coaching, joins us to inspire and empower. Her passion shines as she recounts her transformation from life coaching client to the architect of a program supporting women—especially mothers—in overcoming limiting beliefs and finding their divine purpose. Lauren opens up about her journey, revealing how it fueled her desire to help women self-publish children's books and dream beyond the ordinary. Through stories of faith and determination, she showcases the profound impact her coaching has had, paving the way for women to contribute positively to their communities.
In another engaging segment, we explore the profound shift from therapy to life coaching and the unique relational dynamics it offers. Unveiling personal growth through coaching, we talk about family joy, sports enthusiasm, and creative pursuits like writing. A heartfelt story emerges, touching on the strength found in overcoming the loss of a parent early in life. Through moments of surrender and discovery, we reflect on how embracing life's challenges can carve paths to strength and fulfillment, offering new opportunities for a purposeful journey. Tune in to be inspired by stories of empowerment and the pursuit of purpose.
is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Lisa Swiftney.
Speaker 2:Hi everyone and welcome to episode 130 of the Good Neighbor Podcast. Today I have with us Lauren Richson, and she is with Made for More Mindset and Writing Coaching. That's a long word.
Speaker 3:Good morning Lauren. How are you today? Good morning Lisa. I am doing well. I'm doing so good. Thank you so much for this opportunity. I'm so excited to be here.
Speaker 2:Great, we're excited to learn more about what you do. So, with that being said said, why don't we start off by telling us what is your business?
Speaker 3:yes, I am the founder ceo, I guess, of made for more mindset and writing growth coaching. So I know those are like two different ends of the spectrum there of coaching. But it literally has been such a dream and it has been fulfilling my passion and purpose since I officially launched my coaching business in May I'm sorry, april of 2024. And, yeah, I, I focus with mindset growth, with women and mothers especially, and helping them break free of the limiting beliefs that once has held them back and by helping up-level their mindset with different tools and techniques of growing the mindset to discover what their true divine purpose is for their life. This came to be when, about a year and a half after I was a client of life coaching, that I wanted to give back to women, just like I received for my coach and as a mother as well, and how my life completely changed in just six months of working with my coach, one-on-one, and I knew that there's other women, and especially mothers, who needed that as well. So that is where the mindset growth you know comes in, and I and I named myself a mindset growth coach because, yes, we're dealing in life with my clients, but the mindset is like a whole other realm. You have to have the pattern thoughts to get you to the next step or place personal life if you own a business, you know in marriage, in, you know as being a mom, like all these different areas, and to have a, you know, more of a growth mindset than a fixed mindset. It is a game changer. I also, within my mindset growth program, I focus on self-love. So that's another part of my coaching program, that with mindset and focusing self-love for yourself as a woman.
Speaker 3:My clientele is definitely, you know, women and mothers and it's just. It's been amazing the time that I've already launched my business working with two one-on-one clients currently working with clients. It's been great. And then writing the writing growth aspect of my coaching program is I went through, I actually I'm still my writing coach and which you know, her, olivia Parks May and you know I want to give that same you know growth back and helping women fulfill their dream of writing their first children's book. And I'm proud to say that I've had three amazing former clients who have gone live on self-publishing their children's books and their books are thriving and these women had held on to these stories for years and they had done nothing with them. They had not, you know, they just sat on their computer or sat in a fold if they handwritten. You know things like that, and I'm just so proud of each and every one of them for making that first step, investing in their dream and you know. And now they have self-published children's books.
Speaker 2:That is amazing, so tell our listeners about our journey. What motivated you to get started in this business?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so definitely my own personal journey motivated me to become a coach. It wasn't until August of 23, summer of 2023, where I was in conversation with my former coach, who's now one of my business partners with our women empowerment group, weriseco, and I was like I think I want to become a coach for women and, just you know, help them break free of what stopped them becoming their best version of them. And she's like I think you would be amazing coach, and so I sat on. You know that dream from August until December of 23,. You know fears, doubts, all the things that you feel right as something new. And then I just got gritty. I go, I'm literally wearing a shirt that says grit on it, cause I'm a huge lion and that was an incredible game last night. Oh my God.
Speaker 2:Oh, yes, it was.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh. And so I got gritty and I got bold and I was just like you know what I'm doing this and I follow God in what he put in my heart. I'm very faith-based and I just kept listening and I just went for it and I had an opportunity that came organically with my first former mindset growth coaching client and we worked together for six months after she she entrusted in me as her mindset coach, and where she started and where she ended was a complete transformation. And it's just, it's wild, and I just think like what, if I never would have believed in myself, this one woman would have been still stuck in a place that I felt two and a half years ago, where I felt very lost, I felt in the wilderness, I felt very trapped in a box that I didn't think I could get out from, and so I wanted to stop that feeling for women and mothers especially, which she was a mother, my current client is a mother and so I just wanted that to be that, those fears, those doubts, those limiting beliefs to be broken free.
Speaker 3:And then, as far as writing coaching, I knew that amazing feeling when I that dream came true and I saw my book was self-published and live on Amazon, kdp, and I was like this is real and what a surreal feeling. And now I've had three clients with those same feelings and they're going to schools, they're going to libraries, their books are going towards charity and foundations and, you know, raising money, and I'm just like, oh my gosh, how amazing. So I just I'm very, I feel very blessed.
Speaker 2:How amazing. So I just I'm very, I feel very blessed. That is amazing, Can?
Speaker 3:you tell our audience about any myths or misconceptions you hear about in your industry? Yes, so some and I've had this actually question asked me. You know, they say what is the difference between a coach life's coach, mindset, coach, writing, whatever it might be and like a therapist? As far as mindset, okay, we'll, we'll stick in that little area and I will be totally just honest. I I was working with a therapist the same time that I was working with my life coach and I got through a lot of things.
Speaker 3:I started with my therapist in 2019, right after I had my second son, and there was just a little bit of you know. You know, with having him and post-traumatic. I mean, it was just a little bit there but I needed something and so I had my therapist. She got me through a lot. But then the difference I feel, especially with my own personal journey because I was a client of coaching as well it's a relatable, more like someone who, like, had all the things that I went through happen with them and they overcame them. And I mean I worked with my coach on a one-on-one basis every day. We talked I mean I didn't even talk to like some of my best friends I grew up with, since you know, all of encouragement, all those things.
Speaker 3:It was different. And even with my former client and current client of Mindset they also have been with therapists and they say there is a difference with therapists. And they say there is a difference. There's like the relation back and forth, the connection the community of you and I, and that neutral ground. And there is a neutral ground between a therapist, you know, and the client patient, more connection with my coach and how my clients feel towards me, and so it's a different type of investment in yourself. But I will be another point of honesty here. I moved myself more going through life coaching than I did having my therapist. And that's just my personal journey. As far as, like you know, people compare or question everyone's different Everyone's journey, everyone's story is different. But for my personal story that is where I literally jumped to a happier place for myself.
Speaker 2:That is very interesting. So people do ask that what's the difference between a therapist and a coach? So thank you for clarifying that. Yeah, so when you're not working on your business, what do you like to do for fun?
Speaker 3:So I definitely love just spending time with my boys, my husband, the four of us as a family. We love to travel as a family and then me and my husband going on trips, you know ourselves, or with friends, things like that. I'm a huge sports girl. My husband got blessed there. I'm a sports wife, and you know I'm a huge sports girl. My husband got blessed there. I'm a sports wife and you know I'm a huge Tigers fan, a huge Lions fan, and you know you can catch me pacing the floors, going crazy at the games, like I mean, that's me. I love playing sports too.
Speaker 3:I love to write. I'm obviously a self-published children's book author myself, and you know, just having fun getting together with friends, going out for a nice date night, even family date nights, yeah. Having some alone time for me that's always great too. Yeah, I just and I love to laugh, my favorite thing and my husband always like jokes with me, but I mean I like to just sit on the couch when I get a chance. I need to start doing a little bit more of that to myself. I've been doing that for me, but my favorite show is watching friends and I just like to just watch that. I don't know how many times I've watched an episode, but that is my jam, just to like sit and take that in. Even my boys know, like, mommy, that's your favorite show, and they're eight and five, so they know.
Speaker 2:That is great. That is great. Yes. Can you describe one hardship or life challenge that you rose above and can now say because of that challenge that you're better for it and are stronger?
Speaker 3:There's well, there could be a few there. Lisa, you know, one of the when I've been asked this question before and one of the things that always pops in my head that and I know how I'm stronger now is I lost my mom when I was 19 to breast cancer and you know, I was a sophomore in college and I could have taken a much different road and I didn't. I decided to, you know, I mean, it was very, it was very hard. My mom passed away one year exactly from my high school graduation date and, you know, in May of, you know, 19 years, and I'm like, oh, my like, where did 19 years go? Right? And so years go right, and so, but I believe that I became a stronger person and a woman and a mother, now being knowing what she had gone through and where I am now and at my age and taking care of myself and healthy and trying to be as healthy as I can be, but moving my body and doing everything I can, and also the self-confidence, my self-worth. My mom, you know, wanted to become a children's book author herself and she never did. And so me, I guess, creating that dream for myself too and then fulfilling it and doing it in her honor. My book launch for my first book was last December 9th, which is which would have had which was her heavenly birthday my mom and she, you know it. Just it made me a stronger person Having that loss at such a younger age.
Speaker 3:And, you know, finishing college, getting my degree, you know, teaching for five years I taught kindergarten for five years in the classroom, prior to having kids and just all the things, all the dreams that I am doing, and I know she's just so proud I am doing, and I know she's just so proud, and so I just became stronger, knowing that I want to be here and doing all the things that I can for my boys that she didn't get a chance to do, and so that has been one of my hardest life hardships. And then the other, you know, is what I kind of mentioned before, like getting through my, you know, surrendering to God in summer of 2022 and questioning my worth and literally getting on my knees and saying, god, what am I made for? What is my purpose? Because I was having one thing that I thought was going to be my whole like life career, and I wasn't. It wasn't it. There was more to be done and that's how everything just got started.
Speaker 3:And from one yes of becoming the community leader for moms and business of Northern Macomb and Oakland area, it's been two years of so many other opportunities that have brought my way.
Speaker 3:That is how I met my life coach, stacey Crown. That is how I met our friend, cindy Spahr, who asked me to become a keynote speaker for one of her women's events, after meeting me for two hours for a coffee. And then from that event I met Olivia, who became my writing coach that I spoke at and from you know, from there to there to there, I mean I've met so many amazing women and how their business have flourished because I said yes to be a community role leader for a moms and business networking group. And I can just look back and if I know in my heart and my soul that if I never would have said yes to that opportunity, I don't think I would be where I am today because of all the people that I've met along the way. And so just breaking free of my own doubts and fears and my own limiting beliefs is how and why I'm here today and what I'm doing.
Speaker 2:That is an amazing journey that you have, that is, and a lot of people that have helped you along the way. So, yes, that is always. It's always good to have those people to help make you stronger and to help you push to your goals.
Speaker 3:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Absolutely so. What is one thing that you wish our listeners knew about your business?
Speaker 3:that trusting in what you're feeling is. Usually there's a reason. If there is something that you're feeling that there's more. Because there is. And I offer one-on-one coaching for both mindset and writing. And my mindset coaching is, you know, based upon you and I, the client, discovering what is your true divine purpose. What is the one thing, or maybe a couple of few things, that is going to bring you that joy and happiness and creating that best life that you want to live? If we are miserable, and what is happening, that's not a way to live, and I say we have one, you know, time around this earthly side of heaven, and what do you want to do with that? What do you want that to be? And so I just love working on that. I work within four, eight and 12 week goals, and what does that look like? Wouldn't it be cool if I did this?
Speaker 3:And there's so many different strategies the self-love journey, my clients who have experienced the self-love journey. It is an awakening for them that they are focusing on themselves and then their next other things their marriage, their partnership and then their kids. And I just say to my clients you have to be number one. It's not, especially as mothers, it is not a selfish phrase or a thought. We have to be number one or everyone else is going to falter. And so I really work with my clients just on that, that one-on-one basis again, that connection to have that I am opening. I'm working on something that for 2025, in the future, that might be some group coaching as well, and I'm just super excited on that. It's kind of like in the background, but I'm definitely throwing it out there because God has put it upon my heart to share that. And you know, I love the one-on-one and I continue to do one-on-one, but I'm like thinking, if there's more women that I can help at the same time, how amazing is that too?
Speaker 3:And so in mindset there and then writing coaching, I mean I've had clients who had stories and then clients who are future, for a client coming up in February, starting from scratch, and so at all levels, whether you have you don't know where to start to. I have a story, but I need someone to help guide me through the editing, the proofing, the flow of content, the self-publishing. How do I get my ISBNs? How do I find an illustrator? And we do all of that together with my one-on-one coaching services.
Speaker 3:So I'm very unique as far as a coach because I have mindset growth and then I'm a writing growth, help with self-publishing, you know, with authors. So it's exciting and I've also been, I've opened my toolbox to women who are interested to, you know, write a personal development or, you know, memoir book that's not a children's book and just having that accountability, someone to help them, you know, guide them through the flow of text and editing and grammar and proofreading, and you know how to, you know, do that self-publishing as well. And so one of my majors in college was language arts, with my elementary ed background, my elementary ed background. So I'm very confident in like that level of just helping someone edit, proof, self-publish and just make those dreams come true.
Speaker 2:So our listeners are now intrigued. They want to learn more. So how do they contact you and sign up for your services?
Speaker 3:Yeah, so best way to contact me. I'm on Instagram laurenricheson underscore. You'll find me there. You can enter into my email list or my flow desk right there in my bio. I'm on Facebook as well, lauren Ashley Richeson, and LinkedIn as well as Lauren Richeson. So a couple of different ways, but it's all Lauren Richeson and just making sure you got that spelling correct because I've had to spell my last name quite some time. But yeah, and I would be love, love, love to connect. I offer you know connection calls or meetups. If you are local, I will. I'm a, I'm a people person. I love connection, meeting you for coffee, whether you want to know more about you know mindset growth coaching and the services there. Or if you are someone who has been sitting on a dream to write your first children's book, or you know who has been sitting on a dream to write your first children's book, or you know a personal development memoir book, I'm here to chat with you and, you know, help that dream come true.
Speaker 2:Amazing. So thank you, Lauren, for your time today and being a member on our Good Neighbor podcast.
Speaker 3:Yes, I'm so, so grateful again, Lisa, for this opportunity and for all the listeners. Thank you for listening and I'm just very, very grateful.
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